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The Doctrine of Equity. A Commentary on the Law as Administered by the Court of Chancery

By: John Adams,Alfred I. Phillips,George Tucker Bispham,John MacMinn Collins,Henry Wharton,George Sharswood,James Reily Ludlow

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The Doctrine of Equity. A Commentary on the Law as Administered by the Court of Chancery

By: John Adams,Alfred I. Phillips,George Tucker Bispham,John MacMinn Collins,Henry Wharton,George Sharswood,James Reily Ludlow

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385469406

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Nightmare Envy and Other Stories

American Culture and European Reconstruction

By: George Blaustein

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Nightmare Envy and Other Stories

American Culture and European Reconstruction

By: George Blaustein

What has it meant to be an Americanist? What did it mean to be an Americanist through fascism, war, and occupation? Nightmare Envy and Other Stories is a study of Americanist writing and institutions in the 20th century. Four chapters trace four routes through the mid-twentieth century. The first chapter is the hidden history of American Studies in the United States, Europe and Japan. The second is the strange career of "national character" in anthropology. The third is a contest between military occupation and cultural diplomacy in Europe. The fourth is the emergence and fate of the "American Renaissance," as the scholar and literary critic F.O. Matthiessen carried a canon of radical literature across the Iron Curtain. Each chapter culminates in the postwar period, when the ruin of postwar Europe led writers and intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic to understand America in new ways. Many of our modern myths of the United States and Europe were formed in this moment. Some saw the United States assume the mantle of cultural redeemer. Others saw a stereotypical America, rich in civilization but poor in culture, overtake a stereotypical Europe, rich in culture and equally rich in disaster. Drawing on American and European archives, the book weaves cultural, intellectual, and diplomatic history, with portraits of Matthiessen, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, David Riesman, Alfred Kazin, and Ralph Ellison. It excavates the history of the Salzburg Seminar in American Civilization, where displaced persons, former Nazis, budding Communists, and glad-handing Americans met on the common ground of American culture. Others found keys to their own contexts in American books, reading Moby-Dick in the ruins. Nightmare Envy and Other Stories chronicles American encounters with European disaster, European encounters with American fiction, and the chasms over which culture had to reach.

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Oxford University Press

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0190209224

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9780190209223

Fifty Key Christian Thinkers

By: Peter McEnhill,George Newlands

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Fifty Key Christian Thinkers

By: Peter McEnhill,George Newlands

Fifty Key Christian Thinkers provides both valuable information and stimulating debate on the lives and work of fifty of the most important Christian theologians. This guide provides an overview of Christian theology from the emergence of the faith 2000 years ago to the present day. Among the figures profiled in this accessible guide are: * St Paul * Barth * Aquinas * Boethius * Niebuhr * Calvin * Luther * Feuerbach * Kierkegaard * Origen

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Routledge

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1134698356

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God's Salesman

Norman Vincent Peale and the Power of Positive Thinking

By: Carol V.R. George

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Norman Vincent Peale and the Power of Positive Thinking

By: Carol V.R. George

When Donald Trump was married to his first wife Ivana Ivana Zelnícková in 1977, the family minister who officiated the wedding was the preacher and author of The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale. Perhaps more than any other figure in American public life in the last decade, Donald Trump has been able to reimagine Peale's message of positive thinking to his political advantage. "I never think of the negative," he said after the opening of Trump Tower in 1983. Both Trump and Peale have appealed to people who, like themselves, have felt marginalized by an intellectual and cultural elite. Peale's 1952 book, which helped to drive the religious revival of the 1950s, remains a perennial bestseller, and has affected the lives of a vast public in the United States and around the world. In God's Salesman, Carol V. R. George used interviews with Peale himself as well as exclusive access to his manuscript collection to provide the first full-length scholarly account of Peale and his highly visible career. George explores the evolution of Peale's message of Practical Christianity, the belief that when positive thinking was combined with affirmative prayer, the technique of "imaging," and purposeful action, the result was a changed life. It was a message with special appeal for many in the post-War middle class struggling to rebuild their lives and have a voice in society. George examines the formative influences on Peale's thinking, especially his devout Methodist parents, his early exposure to and then enthusiastic acceptance of Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James, and his almost instinctive attraction to evangelicalism, particularly as it was manifested politically. Twenty-five years after its initial publication, and with a new foreword by Kate Bowler, God's Salesman remains a timely portrait of the man and his movement, and the vital role that both played in the rethinking and restructuring of American religious life over the last seventy years.

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Oxford University Press

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0190914785

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9780190914783

Clear It with Sid!

Sidney R. Yates and Fifty Years of Presidents, Pragmatism, and Public Service

By: Michael C. Dorf,George Van Dusen

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Sidney R. Yates and Fifty Years of Presidents, Pragmatism, and Public Service

By: Michael C. Dorf,George Van Dusen

The son of a Lithuanian blacksmith, Sidney R. Yates rose to the pinnacle of Washington power and influence. As chair of a House Appropriations Subcommittee, Yates was a preeminent national figure involved in issues that ranged from the environment and Native American rights to Israel and support for the arts. Speaker Tip O'Neill relied on the savvy Chicagoan in the trenches and advised anyone with controversial legislation to first "clear it with Sid!" Michael C. Dorf and George Van Dusen draw on scores of interviews and unprecedented access to private papers to illuminate the life of an Illinois political icon. Wise, energetic, charismatic, petty, stubborn--Sid Yates presented a complicated character to constituents and colleagues alike. Yet his get-it-done approach to legislation allowed him to bridge partisan divides in the often-polarized House of Representatives. Following Yates from the campaign trail to the negotiating table to the House floor, Dorf and Van Dusen offer a rich portrait of a dealmaker extraordinaire and tireless patriot on a fifty-year journey through postwar American politics.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252051289

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9780252051289

Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

By: George Henry Cornish,John Carroll

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Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

By: George Henry Cornish,John Carroll

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385421950

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The Doctrine of Equity. A Commentary on the Law as Administered by the Court of Chancery

The Doctrine of Equity. A Commentary on the Law as Administered by the Court of Chancery

Nightmare Envy and Other Stories

Nightmare Envy and Other Stories

Fifty Key Christian Thinkers

Fifty Key Christian Thinkers

God's Salesman

God's Salesman

Clear It with Sid!

Clear It with Sid!

Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

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