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By Delphine Minoui
"Originally published in French in 2018 by âEditions du Seuil, France, as 'Les passeurs de livres de Daraya.' "
By Albert O Hirschman
In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man.
By Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera
"All the Devils Are Here" goes back several decades to weave the hidden history of the financial crisis in a way no previous book has done. It explores the motivations of everyone involved, delves into the powerful American mythology of homeownership, and proves that the crisis ultimately wasn't about finance--it was about human nature.
By Ellen Wayland-Smith
The postwar American advertising agency was an unusually powerful institution. Ads and the desires they articulated (or created) played outsized roles in shaping a new suburban order and the gender relations it embodied. Jean Wade Rindlaub, a pathbreaking and strong but perhaps alienated woman, made her name on ad campaigns for Chiquita and other companies that ironically encouraged other women to stay in the kitchen. Ellen Wayland-Smith will use Rindlaub's story as a framework for a cultural history of how women's desires were codified and packaged by the postwar advertising industry--and how they came to have unexpected geopolitical impact.
By Raymond Arsenault
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A "thoroughly captivating biography" ( The San Francisco Chronicle ) of American icon Arthur Ashe--the Jackie Robinson of men's tennis--a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual.
By Diana Lemberg
Barriers Down reveals the unexpected origins of freedom of information in political, economic, and cultural battles in the postwar period. Diana Lemberg traces how the United States shaped media around the world under the banner of the "free flow of information," showing how the push for global media access acted as a vehicle for American power.
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