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Download or read book Dangerous Ambition written by Susan Hertog and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the 1890s on opposite sides of the Atlantic, friends for more than forty years, Dorothy Thompson and Rebecca West lived strikingly parallel lives that placed them at the center of the social and historical upheavals of the twentieth century. In Dangerous Ambition, Susan Hertog chronicles the separate but intertwined journeys of these two remarkable women writers, who achieved unprecedented fame and influence at tremendous personal cost. American Dorothy Thompson was the first female head of a European news bureau, a columnist and commentator with a tremendous following whom Time magazine once ranked alongside Eleanor Roosevelt as the most influential woman in America. Rebecca West, an Englishwoman at home wherever genius was spoken, blazed a trail for herself as a journalist, literary critic, novelist, and historian. In a prefeminist era when speaking truth to power could get anyone—of either gender—ostracized, blacklisted, or worse, these two smart, self-made women were among the first to warn the world about the dangers posed by fascism, communism, and appeasement. But there was a price to be paid, Hertog shows, for any woman aspiring to such greatness. As much as they sought voice and power in the public forum of opinion and ideas, and the independence of mind and money that came with them, Thompson and West craved the comforts of marriage and home. Torn between convention and the opportunities of the new postwar global world, they were drawn to men who were as ambitious and hungry for love as themselves: Thompson to the brilliant, volatile, and alcoholic Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis; West to her longtime lover H. G. Wells, the lusty literary eminence whose sexual and emotional demands doomed any chance they may have had at love. Tragically, both arrangements produced troubled sons, whose anger and jealousy at their mothers’ iconic fame eroded their sense of personal success. Brimming with fresh insights obtained from previously sealed archives, this penetrating dual biography is a story of twinned lives caught up in the crosscurrents of world events and affairs of the heart—and of the unique trans-Atlantic friendship forged by two of the most creative and complex women of their time.

Download or read book Ambition written by Eckart Goebel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We describe people who are “consumed” or “devoured” by ambition as if by a predator or an out-of-control inferno. Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often trepidation-as when the ancient Greek poet Hesiod proposed a differentiation between the good and the bad goddess Eris. Indeed, ambition as a longing for immortal fame seems to be one of the unique hallmarks of the human species. While philosophy has touched only occasionally on the problem of burning ambition, sociology, psychoanalysis, and world literature have provided rich and more revealing descriptions and examples of its shaping role in human history. Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, ranging from the works of Homer through Shakespeare, Freud, and Kafka and from the history of ancient Greece and Rome to the Italian Renaissance and up to the present day (to modernity and the current neoliberal era), Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition - that insatiable hunter in the mirror - and power.

Download or read book The Life and Poetical Works written by James Woodhouse and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Parented by the State written by Scotia and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes true life accounts making the comparison of one boy Scotia who was placed in care, then later in adult life grew up to be a social carer himself. It describes How the state system processes our most severe and vulnerable young people in 21st century Britain today . His working life unveiled a hidden society that beggers belief and asks the fundamental question whether there is any care in care The way care has now evolved into a huge business that hinders child development but maximizes profit for the many companies involved in looking after children for the state. The working conditions staff endure to maintain a career in being a part of a celebrated science that in reality has a dark sinister side. A compelling read for anyone who likes reading emotive true life stories.

Download or read book The poetical works of Richard Savage, with the life of the author, by doctor Johnson. Cooke's ed. Cooke's ed written by Richard Savage and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Samuel Daniel written by Samuel Daniel and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: