Edison

Biographies & Memoirs

Josephson, Matthew

Professionals & Academics

McGraw-Hill Book Company

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The Robber Barons

Humor & Entertainment

Harper Paperbacks

Empire of the Air: Juan Trippe and the Struggle for World Airways

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Ayer Co. Pub

With splendid new translations, these four major works offer a superlative introduction to a great social philosopher whose ideas helped spark a revolution that has still not ended. Can individual freedom and social stability be reconciled? What is the function of government? What are the benefits and liabilities of civilization? What is the original nature of man, and how can he most fully realize his potential? These were the questions that Jean-Jacques Rousseau investigated in works that helped set the stage for the French Revolution and have since stood as eloquent expressions of revolutionary views, not only in politics but also in such areas as personal lifestyles and educational practices. Rousseau’s concepts of the natural goodness of man, the corrupting influence of social institutions, and the right and the power of the people to overthrow their oppressors and create new and more responsive forms of government and society are as richly relevant today as they were in eighteenth-century France. Includes: The Social Contract Discourse on Inequality Discourse on the Arts and Sciences “The Creed of a Savoyard Priest” (from Emile)

The Essential Rousseau

Rousseau, John-Jacques

Literature & Fiction

Plume

"Man is born free, and is everywhere in chains"Can individual freedom and social stability be reconciled?  What is the function of government?  What are the benefits and liabilities of civilization?  What is the original nature of man, and how can he most fully realize his potential?These were the questions that Jean-Jacques Rousseau investigated in works that helped set the stage for the French Revolution and have since stood as eloquent expressions of revolutionary views, not only in politics but also in such areas as personal life styles and educational practices.  Rousseau's concepts of the natural goodness of man, the corrupting influence of social institutions, an the right and the power of the people to overthrow their oppressors and create new and more responsive forms of government and society are as richly relevant today as they were in eighteenth-century France.The four major works selected and given splendid new translations by Lowell Bair offer a superlative introduction to a passionate thinker and brilliant writer whose ideas have helped shake and shape the world.

Politics & Social Sciences

Rousseau, Jean­Jacques

Philosophy

Regarded as the classic standard biography on Thomas Edison. It is the only biography written in the last 40 years to be recommended by the official voice of the caretakers of the Edison Laboratory National Monument in New Jersey which houses all of Edison's original records, sketches, notes, correspondence and memoranda. Depicts Edison as a pivotal figure in America's economic and industrial revolution success and at the same time as a human being, including his exploitative and, at times, crude qualities.

Edison: A Biography

wiley

“The study of human nature, ‘the observation of the human heart and its passions,’ was his constant preoccupation. But where could he study the passions better than in himself? Though he lived exuberantly, submitting himself to experience... he went on incessantly writing down everything that happened to him just as it happened… he even led to perform some remarkable experiments upon himself…He laid claim to having been a soldier, a man of fortune, a great lover, a society wit, a diplomat, a traveler, and even, sometimes, a revolutionary conspirator… “Fifty years after his death he becomes one of the demigods of the world’s letters, taking his place in the ranks of the great social writers who appeared toward the end of the last century… his manner of life itself has fascinated whole regiments of literary scholars in France, Italy and Germany in the last forty years.” —Matthew Josephson, From the Introduction (1946) “Stendhal is best known for his masterpieces The Red and the Black (1830) and The Chartreuse of Parma (1839), sharp and passionate chronicles of the intellectual and moral climate of France after Napoleon's defeat.”

Stendhal, or the Pursuit of Happiness

Arts & Literature

Russell&Russell Pub

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Robber Barons, 1861-1901

Business & Money

Finance

Amereon Limited

“The study of human nature, ‘the observation of the human heart and its passions,’ was his constant preoccupation. But where could he study the passions better than in himself? Though he lived exuberantly, submitting himself to experience... he went on incessantly writing down everything that happened to him just as it happened… he even led to perform some remarkable experiments upon himself…He laid claim to having been a soldier, a man of fortune, a great lover, a society wit, a diplomat, a traveler, and even, sometimes, a revolutionary conspirator… “Fifty years after his death he becomes one of the demigods of the world’s letters, taking his place in the ranks of the great social writers who appeared toward the end of the last century… his manner of life itself has fascinated whole regiments of literary scholars in France, Italy and Germany in the last forty years.” —Matthew Josephson, From the Introduction (1946) “Stendhal is best known for his masterpieces The Red and the Black (1830) and The Chartreuse of Parma (1839), sharp and passionate chronicles of the intellectual and moral climate of France after Napoleon's defeat.”

Stendhal or the Pursuit of Happiness

Jorge Pinto Books Inc.

With trenchant realism and profound understanding, Matthew Josephson presents in VICTOR HUGO the realistic biography of a great romantic who wrote Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Name, among others. Of tremendous sweep and scope, it is a penetrating analysis of a literary titan, who as a political pamphleteer, playwright, novelist, and romantic lover, dominated his time, influenced his peers, and moved the hearts of men. Matthew Josephson, whose Stendhal, Zola, The Robber Barons, and Rousseau defined him as a master of the art of biography, has given us in VICTOR HUGO a highly readable account of this vigorous, zestful, and fruitful career. VICTOR HUGO is the final and definitive work on "France's prince of poets and lord of language." EARLIER BOOK REVIEWS "Matthew Joseph's third full-blown biography of a great French writer.is the best. There is more color and drive in it .because the materials are so rich." New York Times Book Review (1942) "Victor Hugo's varied and colorful career offered Josephson a perfect opportunity to display again his gift for spirited narrative and keen characterization. He skillfully traces Hugo's conversion from literary great to political hero. Along the way he adds texture to his portrait by interweaving the fascinating components of Hugo's personal life -his marriage to Adèle Foucher, his fifty-year liaison with Juliette Drouet, and his friendship and betrayal by Sainte-Beuve.Victor Hugo's life was a success story without parallel, and it provided an apotheosis of Josephson's point about the duty of writers in times of social and political crisis. The critics again praised Josephson's talents as a biographer." - David E. Shi, Matthew Josephson: Bourgeois Bohemian, Yale University Press, 1981

Victor Hugo: A Realistic Biography of the Great Romantic

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