Voices from the Ages (eBook)

Michael Frank Miles (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
392 Seiten
Green Ivy (Verlag)
978-1-946043-40-5 (ISBN)

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Throughout the ages, many of the great minds and wits made clear that two simple tenets define life: Life is brief and finding happiness is the surest way to gain fulfillment and peace of mind. In one way or another, all people through the centuries, regardless of wealth or status, have all sought the same thing happiness some able to find it, others, not able to. Jean-Paul Sartre may have said it best: ';Everything has been figured out, except how to live.' ';Voices From The Ages' brings to the reader a timeline of historical thought by presenting profiles of nearly one hundred well-known names, some recognizable to modern-day readers and others obscured by history. Among those profiled are novelists and poets, revolutionaries and radicals, scientists and inventors, feminists, playwrights, historians, humorists, movie stars, and singers. It may come as a surprise how little you know of the life story of many of the people you're most familiar with.

Inhalt

Introduction

1.One Giant Leap Forward for Mankind
Isaac Newton
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Johnson
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Alan Turing
Hedy Lamarr
Steve Jobs
2.Philosophy: The Link Between Theology,
Science, and Mythology
Immanuel Kant
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William James
Sigmund Freud
Bertrand Russell
Reinhold Niebuhr
3.Creators of Hope and Dignity
John Muir
Julius Rosenwald
Mohandas Gandhi
Albert Schweitzer
Jackie Robinson
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
4.If History Were Taught in the Form of Stories,
It Would Never Be Forgotten
William Wells Brown
John Hope Franklin
Howard Zinn
Studs Terkel
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
5.The Rule Breakers, the Troublemakers, the Revolutionaries
Frederick Douglass
W.E.B. Du Bois
Emma Goldman
Malcolm X
Jack Kevorkian
Wendell Berry
James Meredith
6.Lady Radicals in Thought and Action
Margaret Fuller
Ida B. Wells
Margaret Sanger
Alice Paul
Dorothy Parker
Amelia Earhart
Anais Nin
Ella Baker
Gloria Steinem
Jean Seberg
Naomi Klein
7.European Writers With an Imprint on American Thought
Voltaire
Johann Goethe
Virginia Woolf
Franz Kafka
George Orwell
Albert Camus
Rebecca West
Doris Lessing
8.Writing the Great American Novel
Mark Twain
Henry Adams
Upton Sinclair
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Ralph Ellison
William S. Burroughs
Jack Kerouac
Harper Lee
9.Female Authors With Stories to Tell
Zora Neale Hurston
Pearl Buck
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Susan Sontag
Erica Jong
10.Verse: The American Way
Edgar Allen Poe
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Langston Hughes
Allen Ginsberg
Sylvia Plath
11.Amusements and Frivolities
Oscar Wilde
Will Rogers
H.L. Mencken
Coco Chanel
Josephine Baker
12.Icons of the Arts
Eugene O'Neill
Marian Anderson
Louis Kahn
Gordon Parks
Orson Welles
Gore Vidal
Marilyn Monroe
Andy Warhol
Woody Allen
August Wilson
13.A Passion Beyond the Arts
Paul Robeson
Lena Horne
Maya Angelou
Audrey Hepburn
Dick Gregory
Alice Walker

Epilogue

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Schlagworte: and singers • a timeline of historical thought • feminists • historians • humorists • Movie stars • novelists and poets • Playwrights • profiles of nearly one hundred well-known names • revolutionaries and radicals • scientists and inventors
• ISBN-10: 1-946043-40-0 / 1946043400
• ISBN-13: 978-1-946043-40-5 / 9781946043405