<p>Explores the history of property rights from ancient Greece through current times--examining the ideas of Plato, Adam Smith, and Marx on the topic, as well as the relationship of property rights to justice, liberty, prosperity, and civilization</p>

The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages

Business & Money

Bethell, Tom

Economics

St.Martin's Press

George Lewis: A Jazzman from New Orleans

Arts & Photography

Music

Univ. Of California Pr.

<p><div>George Lewis, one of the great traditional jazz clarinetists, was born in 1900 at about the same time that jazz itself first appeared in New Orleans. And by the time he died, on the last day of 1968, New Orleans jazz had pretty much run its course, too. By then a jazz museum stood on Bourbon Street, and a cultural center was under construction where Globe Hall had Stood.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Lewis's life thus paralleled that of New Orleans jazz, and in his later years hew as the best known standard bearer of his city's music. He came to the attention of the jazz world at the time of the so-called "New Orleans Revival" of the 1940's, when veteran trumpeter Bunk Johnson was recorded by a number of jazz enthusiasts, notably William Russell.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>In this new biography, Tom Bethell challenges a favorite myth of the history of jazz: that the music became moribund in New Orleans after the legal red light district, Storyville, was closed in 1917, resulting in most jazz musicians going "up the river." In fact, Bethell shows, many more jazzmen stayed in the city than left, and the musical style continued to develop and grow. Thus the jazz fans who arrived in the city in the early 1940's did not encounter a "revival" of an old style so much as an ongoing tradition, with clarinetists like Lewis having been influenced by Benny Goodman and the Swing Era in addition to Lorenzo Tio and the Creole School.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>After Bunk Johnson's death in 1949, at a time when many other social changes were beginning to be felt in the city, the New Orleans jazz tradition began to go into a decline. It became increasingly rigid and repetitive, and was often designed to please what one observer called "Dixieland fans yelling for their favorite members."</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The book is based on lengthy research in New Orleans, including interviews with George Lewis shortly before his death, and unpublished material from the diaries kept by William Russell on his visits to New Orleans between 1942 and 1949. It also includes a statement by Lewis on jazz and the best way to play it and a complete Lewis discography.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.</div></p>

University of California Press

Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher (Hoover Institution Press Publication) (Volume 616)

<p>Drawn from Eric Hoffer's private papers as well as interviews with those who knew him, this detailed biography paints a picture of a truly original American thinker and writer. Author Tom Bethell interviewed Hoffer in the years just before his death, and his meticulous accounts of those meetings offer new insights into the man known as the "Longshoreman Philosopher."</p>

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Hoover Institution Press

Professionals & Academics

Essays discuss the Kennedy assassination, Eric Hoffer, the Soviet Union, homosexuality, AIDS, the Jonestown tragedy, evolution, and American politics

The Electric Windmill: An Inadvertent Autobiography

History

Americas

Gateway Books

Television Evening News Covers Inflation, 1978-79: An Analysis

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Media Inst

<p>In this provocative history of contemporary debates over evolution, veteran journalist Tom Bethell depicts Darwin’s theory as a nineteenth-century idea past its prime, propped up by logical fallacies, bogus claims, and empirical evidence that is all but disintegrating under an onslaught of new scientific discoveries. Bethell presents a concise yet wide-ranging tour of the flash points of modern evolutionary theory, investigating controversies over common descent, natural selection, the fossil record, biogeography, information theory, evolutionary psychology, artificial intelligence, and the growing intelligent design movement. Bethell’s account is enriched by his own personal encounters with of some of our era’s leading scientists and thinkers, including Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin; British paleontologist Colin Patterson; and renowned philosopher of science Karl Popper.</p>

Darwin's House of Cards: A Journalist's Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates

Science & Math

Evolution

Discovery Institute

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