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The Lonely Crowd is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. Its now-classic analysis of the "new middle class" in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political, and economic problems that confront the individual in contemporary American society. The 1969 abridged and revised edition of the book is now reissued with a new foreword by Todd Gitlin that explains why the book is still relevant to our own era. "As accessible as it is acute, The Lonely Crowd is indis...

Plot The Known World has no real plot; rather, it glides back and forth in time, zooming in on the lives of its characters. Set in fictional Manchester County, Virginia, the story begins with the premature death of Henry Townsend. A former slave whose freedom is bought by his father Augustus, Townsend comes to own thirty-three slaves. In one scene, he admits to making his first purchase, and his parents are horrified. (Augustus, a carpenter and walking-stick carver, once used a boxed shipment of his sticks to smuggle a runaway slave to freedom, a vignette that echoes the true story of Henry B...

By What a glorious time it is to be an American woman novelist! Oprah Winfrey has only to say a writer’s name—so far, most of her book-club choices have been novels by women—and hundreds of thousands stampede the bookstores in search of the lucky author’s work. Most books are bought by women, who tend to read novels by female authors. One of our two living Nobel laureate novelists is an African-American woman. Women edit major magazines— The New Yorker, The Nation, The New York Review of Books—aimed at readers of both s...

Font Size Throughout his spectacularly successful career, Rush Limbaugh revolutionized talk radio and energized many millions of conservative listeners all across America. His contributions were so important, Republicans even made him an honorary member of the Class of ’94 — the first Republican-controlled House of Representatives in more than 40 years — because he was so indispensable to their success. Yet because of his many achievements, the disgusting hatred now being spewed by lefties at Rush Limbaugh — even in the wake of his passing — is nothing new. He was alw...

Some love for north carolina. nothing gives me greater pride than to have attended the university of north carolina. what an incredible institution. just think of those who edited the student newspaper there. "the daily tar heel." thomas wolf. author of "look homeward angel" and "you can't go home again." or jonathan daniel of "the new york times" or edwin yoder or jonathan yardley of the "washington post." or other chapel hill greats like charlie rose of public television. think of the people who made north carolina the center of learning that it is today. the research triangle of duke and nc...