Author: John Kobler
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: prohibition, rise, spirits, ardent
Number of Pages: 386
Published: 1993-03-22
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 030680512X
ISBN-13: 9780306805127

Ardent Spirit covers the full range of the temperance idea in America, beginning in the early seventeenth century and continuing through the prohibition years, 1919–1933. Using a wide variety of sources, Kobler quotes the amusing and often startling comments relating to the efforts of prohibitionists and lawmakers, so that the speakeasies, the rum-running, the bootleggers, and the gang wars all come vividly to life. Here too are portraits of eccentrics, instant millionaires, law enforcement officers, and murderers—all part of the Noble Experiment which proved to be one of the most tragicom

Author: Reynolds Price
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: coming, home, leaving, spirits, ardent
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-05-12
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0743291891
ISBN-13: 9780743291897

In his third volume of memoir, Reynolds Price explores six crucial years of his life -- his departure from home in 1955 to spend three years as a student at Oxford University; then his return to North Carolina to begin his long career as a university teacher.He gives often moving, and frequently comic, portraits of his great teachers in England -- such men as Lord David Cecil, Nevill Coghill, and W. H. Auden, who was the most distinguished English-language poet of those years. In London the poet and editor Stephen Spender becomes his first publisher and a generous friend who introduces him to

Author: Ardent Media Inc
Publisher: Edition Axel Menges
Keywords: opus, vol, hutte, volkinger, alte
Number of Pages: 71
Published: 1997-10-25
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 3930698285
ISBN-13: 9783930698288

The 19th century German industrial plant that was made into a cultural monument.

Author: Case Wagenvoord
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: letters, belacqua, jones, admirer, bush, george, open, ardent
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2005-09-28
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0595361978
ISBN-13: 9780595361977

Author Case Wagenvoord’s alter ego Belacqua Jones—a Karl Rove on meth—peppers the president with daily suggestions for policy initiatives designed to carry America to new heights of greatness. Looking at a world through a mind distorted by too many controlled substances, Jones shines his twisted light on the dark corners of America. With its original political satire, Open Letters to George W. Bush gives the reader a distorted view of political reality as Jones urges the president to: Save Social Security by making smoking mandatory for America’s schoolchildren Remember t