Max Eastman

Author : Christoph Irmscher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300227758

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Max Eastman by Christoph Irmscher Pdf

The definitive biography of a radical activist and intellectual Max Eastman (1883–1969) was a prolific writer, radical, and public intellectual who helped shape the twentieth century. While researching this masterful work, acclaimed biographer Christoph Irmscher was granted unprecedented access to the Eastman family archive, allowing him to document little-known aspects of the famously handsome and charismatic radical. Considered one of the “hottest radicals” of his time, Eastman edited two of the most important modernist magazines, The Masses and The Liberator, and campaigned for women’s suffrage and world peace. A fierce critic of Joseph Stalin, Eastman befriended and translated Leon Trotsky and remained unafraid to express unpopular views, drawing criticism from both conservatives and the Left. Set against the backdrop of several decades of political and ideological turmoil, and interweaving Eastman’s singular life with stories of the fascinating people he knew and loved, this book will have broad interdisciplinary appeal in twentieth-century history and politics, intellectual history, and literary studies.

Author : Max Eastman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781351311700

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Enjoyment of Laughter by Max Eastman Pdf

Humor at its best is a somewhat fluid and transitory element, but most books about it are illustrated with hardened old jokes from the comic papers, or classic witticisms jerked out of their context. Max Eastman, in this work, avoids this catastrophe by quoting mainly from contemporary American humor. This is not an anthology in that selections have been made with a view to making a point rather than covering the field. The purpose of Eastman's fabled work is to make the reader laugh. Since his early school days, it has seemed to him that textbooks are wrongly written in that they are conducted in a way which ignores the natural operation of the mind. As a result, the opinion is universal, and under the circumstances a fact, that in order to learn anything you have to study. Since this introduction to humor is itself near to writing a textbook, Eastman uses the very text he constructs to illustrate the manner in which textbooks should be written. Examination and classification of the kinds of humorous experience upon the basis of a theory is a science. As such, this work offers a fair chance to illustrate a method of instruction. However, the distinction between a good joke and a bad one will not prevent the reader from making bad jokes nor enable one to make good ones. There is an artistic and playful element that simply cannot be taught. Enjoyment of Laughter presents a total view of the science of laughter and draws upon some of the great American humorists to do so.

Author : Max Eastman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000370362

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Marxism by Max Eastman Pdf

First published in 1941, Marxism: Is it Science? was written to present the author’s criticisms of Marxism and, in doing so, to further exemplify his ‘Method of Instruction’ first proposed in an earlier work. The book is divided into six parts to provide six complete presentations of Marxism and why the author considers it unscientific. The six different approaches, varying in focus and complexity, work together to give the reader a detailed overview of Marxism and the authors critique of it.

Author : William L. O'Neill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000679786

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The Last Romantic by William L. O'Neill Pdf

Poet and Journalist Max Eastman is perhaps the most famous example of an American intellectual who during his life moved across the entire political spectrum. This re-examination of his career and his place in history reveals the dynamics behind his several careers and political transformations, offering new insight into one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

Author : Cooper C. Graham,Christoph Irmscher
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253052964

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Love and Loss in Hollywood by Cooper C. Graham,Christoph Irmscher Pdf

In 1919, Florence Deshon—tall, radical, and charismatic—was well on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Embroiled in a clandestine affair with Charlie Chaplin, she continued to remain romantically involved with the well-known writer and socialist Max Eastman. By 1922, she was found dead in a New York apartment, rumored to have committed suicide. Love and Loss in Hollywood: Florence Deshon, Max Eastman, and Charlie Chaplin uses previously unpublished letters between Deshon and Eastman to reconstruct their relationship against the backdrop of the "golden age" of Hollywood. Deshon's tragic life and her abuse at the hands of powerful men—including Chaplin, Eastman, and Samuel Goldwyn—resonate with the concerns of today's MeToo movement. Above all, though, this is a book about an extraordinary woman unjustly forgotten: a brilliant writer and campaigner for women's rights, driven both by her ambition to succeed and a boundless desire for life. Rich in tantalizing detail, Love and Loss in Hollywood chronicles crucial years of American film history, overshadowed by the pervasive fear of Bolshevism after World War I, the Red Riots, and the emergence of the big studios in Hollywood. This beautiful edition features dozens of unpublished photographs, among them six mesmerizing full-length portraits of Deshon by Adolph de Meyer, Vogue's first fashion photographer.

Author : Christoph Irmscher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300222562

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Max Eastman by Christoph Irmscher Pdf

The definitive biography of a radical activist and intellectual

Author : Max Eastman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000370737

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Artists in Uniform by Max Eastman Pdf

First published in 1934, Artists in Uniform confronts what the author describes as ‘two of the worst features of the Soviet experiment’ following Lenin’s death – bigotry and bureaucratism – and shows how they have functioned in the sphere of arts and letters. It is divided into three parts: The Artist’s International; A Literary Inquisition; and Art and the Marxian Philosophy.

Author : Max Eastman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000370560

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Stalin's Russia by Max Eastman Pdf

First published in 1940, Stalin’s Russia is a close study of the development of the Stalinist regime and the flaws in socialist doctrine that made it possible. The book examines the contrasts between the "free and equal" society heralded by the Marxist-Leninist programme and the totalitarian state that emerged in its place. It makes use of a wealth of material to cast light on the inner workings of Stalin’s regime. It explores the significance of the Stalin-Hitler pact, and argues that the word "socialism" itself became a liability to any genuine movement of liberation as a result.

Author : William L. O'Neill
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1412837561

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The Last Romantic by William L. O'Neill Pdf

Poet and Journalist, Max Eastman is perhaps the most famous example of an American intellectual who during his life moved across the entire political spectrum. This reexamination of his career and his place in history reveals the dynamics behind his several careers and political transformations, offering new insight into one of the most influential writers of this century. It is a model biography of a key intellectual of the twentieth century. It is also both a perspective social history of his times and a study in the history of ideas. The book will find a welcome place in history, literature, and political science courses, as well as in personal libraries.

Author : Max Eastman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39076005943647

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Reflections on the Failure of Socialism by Max Eastman Pdf

Author : Max Eastman
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1298830222

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Max Eastman Great Companions by Max Eastman Pdf

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Author : Max Eastman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351777841

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Marx, Lenin and the Science of Revolution by Max Eastman Pdf

The result of 10 years' worth of painstaking research, this volume, originally published in 1926 is a sympathetic critique of certain phases of revolutionary dictatorship in Russia. Among other things it focusses on the philosophy and psychology of Marxism, Marxian economics, Bolshevism, the philosophy of Lenin and his role as an engineer of revolution, the Mensheviks, and the anarchist contribution.

Author : Max Eastman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Biography
ISBN : UVA:X000477761

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Great Companions by Max Eastman Pdf

Author : Amy Aronson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190912857

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Crystal Eastman by Amy Aronson Pdf

In 1910, Crystal Eastman was one of the most conspicuous progressive reformers in America. By the 1920s, her ardent suffragism, insistent anti-militarism, gregarious internationalism, and uncompromising feminism branded her "the most dangerous woman in America" and led to her exile in England. Yet a century later, her legacy in shaping several defining movements of the modern era--labor, feminism, free speech, peace--is unquestioned. A founder of the ACLU and Woman's Peace Party, Eastman was a key player in a constellation of high-stakes public battles from the very beginning of her career. She first found employment investigating labor conditions--an endeavor that would produce her iconic publication, Work Accidents and the Law, a catalyst for the first workers' compensation law. She would go on to fight for the rights of women, penning the Equal Rights Amendment with Alice Paul. As a pacifist in the First World War era, she helped to found the Civil Liberties Bureau, which evolved into the ACLU. With her brother, the writer Max Eastman, she frequented the radical, socialist circles of Greenwich Village. She was also a radical of the politics of private life, bringing attention to cutting-edge issues such as reproductive rights, wages for housework, and single motherhood by choice. As the first biography of Eastman, this book gives renewed voice to a woman who spoke freely and passionately in debates still raging today -- gender equality and human rights, nationalism and globalization, political censorship and media control, worker benefits and family balance, and the monumental questions of war, sovereignty, and freedom.

Author : Max Eastman
Publisher : Das Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444665291

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The Sense of Humor by Max Eastman Pdf

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