Lincoln Steffens was truly a man of his season, and his life reflects his times: impetuous, vital, creative, striving. His book, Shame of the Cities, took on the corruption of local politics and his coverage of bad business practices on Wall Street helped lead to the creation of the Federal Reserve. As an editor at McClure’s magazine-along with Ida Tarbell he was one of the original muckrakers-he published articles that exposed the political and social corruption of the time. He was friends with everyone from Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson to Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce. Lincoln Steffens-eternally curious, a worldwide celebrity, and a man of magnetic charm-was a towering figure at the center of this world. It was a time of union busting, anarchism, and Tammany Hall. It was the era of Sinclair Lewis, Emma Goldman, William Randolph Hearst, and John Reed. Early 20th century America was a nation in the throes of becoming a great industrial power, a land dominated by big business and beset by social struggle and political corruption. She knows who killed her father…and she wants revenge.ĭescription : The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman brings alive the life and world of Lincoln Steffens, the original Muckraker and father of American investigative journalism. Some days it feels like the wild is out to destroy her, but she’s stronger than she ever imagined.
After: With only her father’s dog for company, Jess must forage and hunt for food, build shelter, and keep herself warm.
Just as Jess was beginning to get to know him, a secret from his past paid them a visit, leaving her father dead and Jess stranded. But after a car crash killed her mother and left her injured, she was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian wilderness. Before: Jess hadn’t seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. She knows if she doesn’t act fast, the cold will kill her before she has time to worry about food. just might be the highlight of your summer.”–The New York Times Cheryl Strayed's Wild meets The Revenant in this heart-pounding story of survival and revenge in the unforgiving wilderness. Students will especially benefit from seeing how the various authors grapple with this pressing issue and clarify why we need to bring about change.ĭescription : "This tense wire of a novel thrums with suspense. In the process, we are reminded that the concerns of the discipline of Philosophy encompasses issues with a wider scope. Analyzing Violence Against Women calls us to examine public policies and work for systemic change. The philosophical approaches to the topic give readers insight into the harms of interpersonal violence and its impact on the lives of its victims. Each of the four parts include essays which tackle these issues and provide us with tools for bringing about change. Topics range from sexual assault to media violence, prostitution and pornography, domestic violence, and sexual harassment. This text offers a philosophical analysis of the problem, with important insights from the various contributors. There are deeply entrenched values that need to be rooted out and laid bare. Its range is global and far reaching in terms of the number of victims. Based on a true story, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.ĭescription : This timely anthology brings into sharp relief the extent of violence against women. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge.
Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Hugh Glass is among the company’s finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. Description : NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life.
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