A trusted advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and one of America’s leading professors of economic history, W. W. Rostow has helped shape the intellectual debate and governmental ...policies on major economic, political, and military issues since World War II. In this thought-provoking memoir, he takes a retrospective look at eleven key policy problems with which he has been involved to show how ideas flow into concrete action and how actions taken or not taken in the short term actually determine the long run that we call the future. The issues that Rostow discusses are these: o The use of air power in Europe in the 1940s o Working toward a united Europe during the Cold War o The death of Joseph Stalin and early attempts to end the Cold War o Eisenhower’s Open Skies policy o The debate over foreign aid in the 1950s o The economic revival of Korea o Efforts to control inflation in the 1960s o Waiting for democracy in China o The Vietnam War and Southeast Asian policy o U.S. urban problems in disadvantaged neighborhoods o The challenges posed by declining population in the twenty-first century In discussing how he and others have worked to meet these challenges, Rostow builds a compelling case for including long-term forces in the making of current policy. He concludes his memoir with provocative reflections on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and on how individual actors shape history.
In his 1859 "Live Oak, with Moss," Walt Whitman's unpublished sheaf of twelve poems on manly passion, the poet dreams of a city where men who love men can live and love openly. The revised "Live Oak, ...with Moss" poems became "Calamus," Whitman's cluster of poems on "adhesive" and manly love, comradeship, and democracy, inLeaves of Grass. Commemorating both the first publication of the "Calamus" poems and the little-known manuscript of notebook poems out of which the "Calamus" cluster grew, Whitman scholar Betsy Erkkila brings together in a single edition for the first time the "Live Oak, with Moss" poems, the 1860 "Calamus" poems, and the final 1881 "Calamus" poems. In addition to honoring the sesquicentennial of the "Calamus" cluster, she celebrates the ongoing legacy of Whitman's songs of manly passion, sex, and love.
The volume begins with Whitman's elegantly handwritten manuscript of the "Live Oak, with Moss" poems, printed side by side with a typeset transcription and followed by a facsimile of the 1860 version of the "Calamus" poems. The concluding section reprints the final version of the "Calamus" poems from the 1881 edition ofLeaves of Grass. In an afterword, Erkkila discusses the radical nature of these poems in literary, sexual, and social history; the changes Whitman made in the "Live Oak" and "Calamus" poems in the post-Civil War and Reconstruction years; the literary, political, and other contests surrounding the poems; and the constitutive role the poems have played in the emergence of modern heterosexual and homosexual identity in the United States and worldwide. The volume closes with a selected bibliography of works that have contributed to the critical and interpretive struggles around Whitman's man-loving life.
One hundred and fifty years after Whitman's brave decision to speak publicly about a fully realized democracy, his country is still locked in a struggle over the rights of homosexuals. These public battles have been at the very center of controversies over the life, work, and legacy of Walt Whitman, America's (and the world's) major poet of democracy and its major singer of what he called "manly love" in all its moods. Together the poems in this omnibus volume affirm his creation of a radical new language designed to convey and affirm the poet's man love.
Long before he was a celebrated poet, Walt Whitman was a working journalist. By the time he published the first edition ofLeaves of Grassin 1855, Whitman had edited three newspapers and published ...thousands of reviews, editorials, and human-interest stories in newspapers in and around New York City. Yet for decades, much of his journalism has been difficult to access or even find. For the first time,Walt Whitman's Selected Journalismthematically and chronologically organizes a compelling selection of Whitman's journalism from the late 1830s to the Civil War. It includes writings from the poet's first immersion into the burgeoning democratic culture of antebellum America to the war that transformed both the poet and the nation.Walt Whitman's Selected Journalismcovers Whitman's early years as a part-time editorialist and ambivalent schoolteacher between 1838 and 1841. After 1841, it follows his work as a dedicated full-time newspaperman and editor, most prominently at theNew York Auroraand theBrooklyn Daily Eaglebetween 1842 and 1848. After 1848 and up to the Civil War, Whitman's journalism shows his slow transformation from daily newspaper editor to poet. This volume gathers journalism from throughout these early years in his career, focusing on reporting, reviews, and editorials on politics and democratic culture, the arts, and the social debates of his day. It also includes some of Whitman's best early reportage, in the form of the short, personal pieces he wrote that aimed to give his readers a sense of immediacy of experience as he guided them through various aspects of daily life in America's largest metropolis.Over time, journalism's limitations pushed Whitman to seek another medium to capture and describe the world and the experience of America with words. In this light, today's readers of Whitman are doubly indebted to his career in journalism. In presenting Whitman-the-journalist in his own words here, and with useful context and annotations by renowned scholars,Walt Whitman's Selected Journalismilluminates for readers the future poet's earliest attempts to speak on behalf of and to the entire American republic.
In May 1860, Walt Whitman published a third edition ofLeaves of Grass. His timing was compelling. Printed during a period of regional, ideological, and political divisions, written by a poet ...intimately concerned with the idea of a United States as "essentially the greatest poem," this new edition was Whitman's last best hope for national salvation. Now available in a facsimile edition,Leaves of Grass, 1860faithfully reproduces Whitman's attempt to create a "Great construction of the New Bible" to save the nation on the eve of civil war and, for the first time, frames the book in historical rather than literary terms.
In his third edition, Whitman added 146 new poems to the 32 that comprised the second edition, reorganized the book into a bible of American civic religion that could be cited chapter and verse, and included erotic poetry intended to bind the nation in organic harmony. This 150th anniversary edition includes a facsimile reproduction of the original 1860 volume, a thought-provoking introduction by antebellum historian and Whitman scholar Jason Stacy that situates Whitman in nineteenth-century America, and annotations that provide detailed historical context for Whitman's poems.
A profoundly rich product of a period when America faced its greatest peril, this third edition finds the poet transforming himself into a prophet of spiritual democracy and the Whitman we celebrate today-boisterous, barbaric, and benevolent. Reprinting it now continues the poet's goal of proclaiming for "the whole of America for each / individual, without exception . . . uncompromising liberty and equality."
Song of Myself Whitman, Walt; Folsom, Ed; Merrill, Christopher
10/2016
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This book offers the most comprehensive and detailed reading to date ofSong of Myself.One of the most distinguished critics in Whitman Studies, Ed Folsom, and one of the nation's most prominent ...writers and literary figures, Christopher Merrill, carry on a dialog with Whitman, and with each other, section by section, as they invite readers to enter into the conversation about how the poem develops, moves, improvises, and surprises. Instead of picking and choosing particular passages to support a reading of the poem, Folsom and Merrill take Whitman at his word and interact with "every atom" of his work. The book presents Whitman's final version of the poem, arranged in fifty-two sections; each section is followed by Folsom's detailed critical examination of the passage, and then Merrill offers a poet's perspective, suggesting broader contexts for thinking about both the passage in question and the entire poem.
This history of theories and theorists of economic growth elucidates in a unique way the economic theory, economic history, and public policy observations of the renowned scholar W.W. Rostow. Looking ...at the economic growth theories of the classic economists up to 1870, Rostow compares Hume and Adam Smith, Malthus and Ricardo, and J.S. Mill and Karl Marx. He then examines the periods 1870-1939 and its economic theorists, including Schumpeter, Colin Clark, Kuznets, and Harrod, and surveys the three forms of growth analysis in the postwar era: formal models, statistical morphology, and development theories.
"Perhaps it is no coincidence that the nineteenth century—the century when, it has been said, sexuality as such (and various taxonomized sexual identities) were invented—is the period when American ...short stories were invented, and when they were the queerest."—Christopher Looby, from the IntroductionA man in small-town America wears the clothing of his wife and sisters; satisfied at last that he has "a perfect suit of garments appropriate for my sex, " he commits suicide, asking only that he be buried dressed as a woman. A country maid has a passionate summer relationship with an heiress, the memory of which sustains her for the next forty years. A girl is carried by a strong wind to a place where she discovers that everything is made of candy, including the "queer people, " whom she licks and eats. If these are not the kinds of stories we expect to find in nineteenth-century American literature, it is perhaps because we have been looking in the wrong places.The stories gathered here are written by a diverse assortment of writers—women and men, obscure and famous: Herman Melville, Willa Cather, and Louisa May Alcott, among others. Exploring the vagaries of gender identity, erotic desire, and affectional attachments that do not map easily onto present categories of sex and gender, they celebrate, mourn, and question the different modes of embodiment and forgotten styles of pleasure of nineteenth-century America.
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