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Critical Essays. (Orwell) First edition (publ. Secker & Warburg) Critical Essays (1946) is a collection of wartime pieces by George Orwell. It covers a variety of topics in English literature, and also includes some pioneering studies of popular culture. It was acclaimed by critics, and Orwell himself thought it one of his most important books.
The American Library Association deemed it the most censored book from 1966 to 1975 and the tenth most challenged book from 1990 to 1999. [99] [100] The novel also appears as the second best and most classic novel of the 20th century based on a list developed by the Radcliffe Publishing Course .
The Paranoid Style in American Politics. First book edition published by Alfred A. Knopf. " The Paranoid Style in American Politics " is an essay by American historian Richard Hofstadter, first published in Harper's Magazine in November 1964. It was the title essay in a book by the author the following year. Published soon after Arizona senator ...
American statesman John C. Calhoun was one of the most prominent advocates of the "slavery as a positive good" viewpoint. Slavery as a positive good in the United States was the prevailing view of Southern politicians and intellectuals just before the American Civil War, as opposed to seeing it as a crime against humanity or a necessary evil.
The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism is a 1964 collection of essays by the philosopher Ayn Rand and the writer Nathaniel Branden. Most of the essays originally appeared in The Objectivist Newsletter. The book covers ethical issues from the perspective of Rand's Objectivist philosophy. Some of its themes include the identification ...
In Poland, pouring water on one another is an Easter tradition called Ĺmigus-dyngus, a.k.a. Wet Monday. People gather on Easter Monday to try and drench each other with buckets of water, squirt ...
An American Dilemma. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy is a 1944 study of race relations authored by Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal and funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The foundation chose Myrdal because it thought that as a non-American, he could offer a more unbiased opinion.
The Structure of Evil: An Essay on the Unification of the Science of Man. New York: George Braziller. 1969. Angel in Armor: A Post-Freudian Perspective on the Nature of Man. New York: George Braziller. This book is a collection of shorter essays, lectures, and reviews written between 1962 and 1968. 1971. The Lost Science of Man. New York ...