![]() ![]() There are reams of audio news reports from that era against which contemporary pronunciations of those names can be checked - it's not as if this book were about life in the 1850s, after all. But like several other reviewers, I found this *edition* wanting because of the narrator's careless pronunciation - I counted at least a dozen relatively well-known folks (including Dean Acheson, Nguyen Cao Ky, and Tom Huston, infamous today for the "Huston Plan" that presaged Watergate) whose names he botched, along many place-names of Vietnam (e.g., Ton Son Nhut Air Base). But this book tells the story of this talented yet deeply flawed man against the vast canvas of his era, showing how easily history could have taken a different path. Richard Nixon is the main character, of course, in all his bottomless pathology - smart conniving petty crafty conflicted envious. ![]() And that minute detail is what, ultimately, explains why many folks who supported Kennedy in 1960 and Johnson in 1964 had come, by 1968 and, especially 1972, to vote for Nixon in droves. Charles Percy) are a kind of Rorschach of the politics in the 1960s. Though one can quibble about some of Perlstein's choices (relatively little space devoted to the 1960 election compared to, e.g., Nixon's role in the 1966 Republican midterm-election resurgence), the details about seemingly minor politics and politicians, many now largely historical footnotes (Calif. ![]()
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![]() In the early years of his career, Freud worked with Josef Breuer, a Viennese physician. However, Freud was the first to systematically study and theorize the workings of the unconscious mind in the manner that we associate with modern psychology. There was no such thing as a degree in psychology at the time that he received his education, which can help us understand some of the controversy over his theories today. When reading Freud’s theories, it is important to remember that he was a medical doctor, not a psychologist. Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) is probably the most controversial and misunderstood psychological theorist. ![]() Define and describe the psychosexual stages of personality development.Define and describe the defense mechanisms.Define and describe the nature and function of the id, ego, and superego.Describe the assumptions of the psychodynamic perspective on personality development.By the end of this section, you will be able to: ![]() ![]() ![]() And it is sometimes all of these things at once (xviii). It is sometimes autobiographical, sometimes historical, sometimes philosophical, and sometimes polemical. The subject of Begin Again is captured in its subtitle: “James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own.” In the introduction, Glaude calls the book “strange” due to its defiance of genre. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton, has achieved a rare feat: he has written an intellectually serious and challenging book that has gained the attention of many readers beyond the academy, with the book even climbing onto the New York Times bestseller list. The perils of white supremacy are always urgent for folks at the margins of our society, but this book arrives in a historical moment when it appears the broader zeitgeist is more attentive to these perils than usual. ![]() Review of Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.Įddie S. ![]() |