Audiences and Intentions: A Book of Arguments

Quinn, Arthur

Bradbury, Nancy M.

Reference

New York, NY, U.S.A. : Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1994

Bradbury, Nancy Mason

Words, Language & Grammar

Macmillan Pub. Co.

The guiding principle behind this reader is that training in argument helps writers where they need it most: in focusing their sense of audience and purpose. This rich collection includes narrative as well as expository works, representing many different periods, cultures, and genres from Greek drama to American political speeches. With a balance of classic and contemporary selections, the readings clearly demonstrate the relevance of past arguments to present-day concerns. In organization, the text combines coherence with a high degree of flexibility. The first four chapters emphasize critical reading and writing. Each chapter introduces a fundamental concept for readers to consider as they react to the readings. The accompanying commentary and questions place an equal emphasis on critical analysis and the shaping of written arguments. In both cases, the authors focus on audience and intent. The final chapter brings together readings from many different periods and perspectives. For all professionals wishing to improve upon their writing skills.

Audiences and Intentions: A Book of Arguments (3rd Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Pearson

Tells the early history of North America through the points of view of John Smith, Samuel Champlain, William Bradford, John Winthrop, Peter Stuyvesant, and William Penn

A New World: An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec

History

Americas

Berkley Trade

"This is the story of two men-of how they achieved great power and how through their implacable rivalry they destroyed each other," writes Arthur Quinn. Anticipating California's admission to the union, both came to the state in 1849 seeking a seat in the U.S. Senate. William McKendree Gwin, an aristocratic Southerner, and David Broderick, a veteran of the bare-knuckle politics of New York, struggled for control of California's Democratic Party during the 1850s. Their feud, personal as well as political, ended in violent death for one and disgrace for the other. Arthur Quinn is the author of numerous books including Hell with the Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War.

The Rivals

Random House Value Publishing

The Rivals: William Gwin, David Broderick, and the Birth of California

A history of California from the 1849 Gold Rush to the Civil War focuses on the struggle between two bitter antagonists--William Gwin and New Yorker David Broderick--which culminated in a duel that left Broderick dead and Gwin disgraced. 15,000 first printing.

Crown

"I write of peoples and of a struggle." So begins A New World, an ambitious and extraordinary book that challenges conventional historical narrative by presenting episodes in North America's history through the eyes and voices of the Europeans who established the first colonial outposts here. Beginning with the swaggering John Smith at Jamestown and ending with the beleaguered Montcalm at Quebec, Arthur Quinn allows towering historical figures to emerge from an often beautiful, sometimes forbidding early American landscape and speak. An elderly William Bradford looks back with growing despair at the early promise of the Pilgrim colony at Plymouth. Governor John Winthrop tries to administer a dose of practicality to the Puritans of Massachusetts. Jesuit missionaries bring Christianity and disaster to the Huron Confederacy. A blustering Peter Stuyvesant watches Manhattan slip from Dutch grasp. William Penn's Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania goes increasingly awry. And, finally, the British and the French fight history's first world war for supremacy in the New World. Telling each story using the literary conventions of the day, Quinn casts North America's colonial beginnings as a multicultural epic, gripping the reader throughout with his uncanny eye and storytelling skill. The result is a history not just for scholars, but for all citizens of a nation whose birth came only through long struggle, and at a terrible cost to Europeans and Native Americans alike.

New World: An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec

Faber&Faber

Hell With the Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War

The Modoc War, pivotal in American history, pitted the peace policies of President Ulysses S. Grant and Quaker activist Lucretia Mott against William Tecumseh Sherman - the destroyer of Georgia - and his outspoken desire for the Modocs' "utter extermination." When it ended in 1873, with the execution of the tribal leaders and the relocation of the Modoc tribe to Oklahoma, the federal goverment's Peace Commission was in tatters. The way was paved toward the more famous, but no bloodier, battle at Little Bighorn and the battle at Wounded Knee, the last battle of the western Indian wars and the final closing of the frontier.

The newest book from the critically-acclaimed author of "A New World" and "The Rivals" brings to vivid life a violent and all-too-human chapter in the history of the American West. In 1869, Federal Indian Agent Alfred B. Meacham traveled to northern California to convince a band of Modoc Indians to return to the reservation. A bloody war ensued that lasted until 1873 and paved the way for more famous, but equally bloody, battles at Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee.

Born in the early years of the 20th century, in Lithuania, Czeslaw Milosz, a self-described "connoisseur of heavens and abysses" has produced a corpus of poems, essays, memoirs, and fiction of great depth and range. In "The Poet's Work", Leonard Nathan and Arthur Quinn follow Milosz's wanderings in exile from Poland to Paris to Berkeley as they chart the development of his art. They relate his life and his works to the unfolding of his thought. "The Poet's Work" is not only an introduction to Milosz; it is also a record of the poet's own interpretations of his work. As colleagues of Milosz at Berkeley, Nathan and Quinn had long, detailed discussions with the poet. Nathan and Quinn reveal why Milosz is a true visionary, a poet of ideas in history, and they show how the influence of Blake, Simone Weil, Dostoevsky, Lev Shestov, and Swedenborg, together with Henry Miller, Allen Ginsberg, and Robinson Jeffers, has enriched his vision. Milosz's lifelong experience of totalitarian regimes that exalt science and technology over individual needs and aspirations, his sense of alienation as an emigre, and his humanistic zeal and belief in the primacy of living have brought a prismatic quality to his poetry. "The Poet's Work" is an introduction to Milosz that should inform and engage both scholars and general readers.

The Poet's Work: An Introduction to Czeslaw Milosz

Nathan, Leonard

History & Criticism

Harvard University Press

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Audiences and Intentions: A Book of Arguments

Audiences and Intentions: A Book of Arguments

Audiences and Intentions: A Book of Arguments (3rd Edition)

A New World: An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec

The Rivals

The Rivals: William Gwin, David Broderick, and the Birth of California

New World: An Epic of Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec

Hell With the Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War

Hell With the Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War

The Poet's Work: An Introduction to Czeslaw Milosz