The Persian Letters (Hackett Publishing Co.)

Based on the 1758 edition, this translation strives for fidelity and retains Montesquieu's paragraphing. George R. Healy's Introduction discusses The Persian Letters as a kind of overture to the Enlightenment, a work of remarkable diversity designed more to explore a problem of great urgency for eighteenth century thought than to resolve it: that of discovering universals, or at least the pragmatic constants, amid the diversity of human culture and society, and of confronting the proposition that there are no values in human relationships except those imposed by force or agreed upon in self-interested conventions.

Literature & Fiction

Charles de Secondat

Baron De Montesquieu

George R. Healy

Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu

George Healy

Montesquieu, Baron de La Brede et de

Healy, George

Literary

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

In this candid autobiography, George W. Healy, one of the South's, and the nation's, finest and most distinguished journalists, recalls the people and events that, during his career, left an indelible imprint on the history of the nation and the world. Healy, a Mississippi native, was a reporter who covered several major events of a turbulent time in history, a trusted friend of American presidents from Herbert Hoover to Richard Nixon, and an outspoken editor with solid views on what constituted a responsible press. His coverage of the Mississippi River flood of 1927 gained him nationwide recognition and caused Healy to make more contacts on a national level. The event was a launching pad for his journalistic career. George Healy served as editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune for thirty-six years, directing it and its staff to a position of unquestioned excellence. He also served in the inner circles of government. In 1943, in the midst of World War II, Franklin Roosevelt asked him to serve as director of the domestic branch of the Office of War Information. By resisting political pressures, Healy bridged the gap between the need for military censorship and the publicï¿½s right to know. George W. Healy was a precedent-setter throughout his career. His autobiography gives a unique and up-front look into his life and career, and an interesting time in our nationï¿½s history. As Turner Catledge says in the book's foreword, "George Healy is a person of whom it can truly be said that he is a part of all heï¿½s met."

A Lifetime on a Deadline: Self-Portrait of a Southern Journalist

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Pelican Publishing Company

Sumner 200 is an unique treatment of a town history, using historical, anthropological, and photodocumentary approaches. The first part of the book has a historical essay by historian George Healy. It is accompanied by vintage photographs of the area and its people. The second part consists of eighty-five interviews with area residents. The interviews probe how people feel about living in a small , rural town in its transition from an agricultural community to a suburb of a small city. The interviews also touch on the lives of people who are as young as six years old to those who are in their late nineties, evoking everyday experiences as well as memories of the past. It is a fascinating an provocative portrait. People reading this book one hundred years hence will savor its frankness and breadth. The interviews are accompanied by black and white documentary photographs, sometimes of the people interviewed, sometimes of the whole groups representing organizations and families of the town. The photographs have been compared by reviewers to work of Walker Evans and Richard Avedon. This book would be of interest to historians, social scientists (anthropologists sociologists, oral historians, folklorists) and documentary photographers.

Sumner 200: Portrait of a Small Maine Town

Silber, Mark

Town of Sumner

Peacemakers

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

White House Historical Association

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