The New Star Chamber, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from The New Star Chamber, and Other Essays Several of the essays in this book were published during the campaign of 1900, or within a short time after. Many of them relate to the imperial policy of the United States which grew out of the war with Spain. These essays preserve, to some extent, the thought which was current during a portion of the development of that policy; and may therefore have an historical value, even if they do not profoundly discuss the constitutional questions at issue. Others of these essays have never before been published; among which the one entitled Implied Powers and Imperialism was designed to go so thoroughly into the fallacy upon which imperialism rests that the essays upon the Philippine question might be constitutionally rounded out. If this book shall prove in any manner to be a contribution to the literature of liberty, I shall feel that the time and the labor of its composition were not wasted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Clarence Darrow


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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography The definitive biography of Clarence Darrow, the brilliant, idiosyncratic lawyer who defended John Scopes in the “Monkey Trial” and gave voice to the populist masses at the turn of the twentieth century, thus changing American law forever. Amidst the tumult of the industrial age and the progressive era, Clarence Darrow became America’s greatest defense attorney, successfully championing poor workers, blacks, and social and political outcasts, against big business, fundamentalist religion, Jim Crow, and the US government. His courtroom style—a mixture of passion, improvisation, charm, and tactical genius—won miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang. In Farrell’s hands, Darrow is a Byronic figure, a renegade whose commitment to liberty led him to heroic courtroom battles and legal trickery alike.




Walt Whitman's Multitudes


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In the fifteen years before the publication of Leaves of Grass (1855), Walt Whitman constructed three authoritative voices by which he engaged the upheavals endemic to the Industrial Revolution. Through these public personas, found mostly in his journalism, Whitman offered remedies for American artisans who had lost their economic autonomy and status. Instead of attacking broad forces beyond worker control, Whitman blamed artisans for oppressing themselves through the temptations of consumerism and affectation. Walt Whitman's Multitudes places the first edition of Leaves of Grass on par with Whitman's journalism and exposes a writer different from most poetry-directed analyses. In doing so, it traces Whitman's public voice as he wrestled intimately with the debates of his day: conspicuous consumption, nativism, slavery, and, through it all, labor and the status of the new working class.




Books In Print 2004-2005


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The New Star Chamber and Other Essays


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High quality reprint of The New Star Chamber and Other Essays by Edgar Lee Masters.




Modern American Poetry


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"Modern American Poetry" is a collection by the poet and historian Louis Untermeyer. In the book, Untermeyer presents a collection of poems from over 80 authors beginning with Walt Whitman and ending on Muriel Rukeyser. The poetry is presented in order of their lifetimes. Therefore, this collection reflects the evolution of moods, trends, and styles in the period between 1840-1942. This period includes varied poetry from the likes of Elinor Wylie, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Conrad Aiken, T.S. Eliot, Archibald MacLeish, Emily Dickinson.




Forthcoming Books


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Variation and Change in the Lexicon


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The present volume is a corpus-based study of the occurrence, variation, and change in the use of English adjective pairs in -ic and-ical over several centuries. The study involves the analysis of large, multi-million-word corpora representing the English language at various stages. This volume is of interest to language scholars in many fields, including corpus linguistics, diachronic linguistics, semantic change, lexicology, and word formation.




Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines


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American Library Association Index, (to 1900) A. L. A. I. Supplement, 1901-1910 A. L. A. Supp. Annual Literary Index (1892-1904) A. L. I. Continued as Annual Library Index, 1905-1910 A. L. I. Dramatic Index, 1909- D. I. Published with Annual Magazine Subject Index. Magazine Subject Index: Boston, 1908 M. S. I. Continued by Annual Magazine Subject Index, 1909- A. S. I. Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1881 Poole Supplements, 1882-1906; 1907-1908 Poole Supp. Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900- R. G. Supplement, 1907-1915, 1916-1919 R. G. Supp. Continued as International Index to Periodicals, 1921- I. I. P. Periodicals