![]() ![]() ![]() In An Autobiographical Study, originally published in 1925, Freud recounts that "My parents were Jews, and I have remained a Jew myself." Familiarity with Bible stories, from an age even before he learned to read, had "an enduring effect on the direction of my interest." In 1873, upon attending the University at Vienna, he first encountered antisemitism: "I found that I was expected to feel myself inferior and an alien because I was a Jew." Before his wedding, Freud desired to convert to Protestantism to avoid a Jewish ceremony but was ultimately persuaded not to. Freud considered God as a phantasy, based on the infantile need for a dominant father figure, with religion as a necessity in the development of early civilization to help restrain our violent impulses, that can now be discarded in favor of science and reason. Sigmund Freud's views on religion are described in several of his books and essays. ![]()
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![]() My original birth certificate indicates that my story is half missing. I felt like an outsider among my blood, a feeling that would stay with me until I was an adult. They were, from all appearances, the picture-perfect family. Later, I learned that my father not only had three other daughters, but a wife and a dog, as well. I didn’t have the words to express what I felt. I don’t remember saying anything in response. Instead, he pulled out his wallet and showed me photos of three girls before saying, “These are your sisters.” The oldest was eleven years my senior, the middle child was eight years my senior, and the last was just fifteen months my senior. He would regularly visit me at my mother’s home, bringing niceties along with his charisma and swagger. ![]() He pulled me to his side and said he had something to show me. ![]() I was seven years old when I learned that I wasn’t my father’s only daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She soon fully embraced the art form and then helped transform it. The “x” was a signifier of what was then known as “underground” comics and referred to the unfiltered treatment of humanity that censorious publishers, politicians and public figures had all but washed out of the art. So when an actual strong-legged Jewish cowgirl named Aline Kominsky walked into his life, it was love at first sight, and never wavered.Īline Kominsky-Crumb, who died Wednesday at 74 in France of pancreatic cancer, was late to the revolution her husband launched in comics a few years before they met, with his Zap Comix. JTA - Artist Robert Crumb put the “x” in comix by setting to paper his basest sexual longings, including strong-legged Jewish women who were cowgirls, one of whom went by the name Honeybunch Kaminski. ![]() ![]() There are sisters Anna and Corinne, brother Elliott (who becomes the father of Eleanor Roosevelt), and the lovely, tragic Alice Lee, TRs first love. The mother, Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, is a Southerner and a celebrated beauty, but also considerably more, which the book makes clear as never before. The father is the first Theodore Roosevelt, a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. Written by David McCullough, the author of Truman, this is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and almost fatal asthma attacks, and his struggle to manhood: an amazing metamorphosis seen in the context of the very uncommon household in which he was raised. Gable, Newsday), it is the winner of the Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography. ![]() Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. ![]() The National Book Awardwinning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written by Shea Fontana, this story is perfect for girls ages 6-12. But you know what they say about learning-experience is the best teacher! So when Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl, Bumblebee, Poison Ivy, Katana and Harley Quinn fight a cyclops, a witch and a bevy of sirens, they're sure to learn a thing or two about The Odyssey-if they survive their epic battle in the underworld! Welcome back to DC Super Hero High in this original graphic novel from the DC Super Hero Girls line! DC Super Hero Girls: Hits and Myths continues to develop the relationships forged in DC Super Hero Girls: Finals Crisis. "Intro to Epics" is one of Wonder Woman's favorite classes at DC Super Hero High, but balancing high school literature assignments with learning to be a superhero can be tough, even for an overachiever. ![]() ![]() ![]() Six migrations - precipitated in many cases by physical violence the gradual growth of an authoritarian system with elements of communistic living the most problem of plural marriage unsolved - and the way opened for the building of a new Zion - such is the story. Fawn’s research leading to her biography of Joseph Smith correlated with her father’s rise into the elite ranks of the Mormon Church. The tragic pattern of his leadership - tragic in its recurrent catastrophes - was offset by the fulfillment of his dream of leadership, which ended in martyrdom, leaving behind him a foundation on which Brigham Young built soberly. ![]() ![]() In presenting his early years, the biographer weighs the evidence, putting-in final analysis no credence in the actuality of divine vision, but showing how Joseph Smith, little by little, let his imagination, his gift of hypnotism, his innate brilliance build, from local superstition and legends of his times, a system that was bigger than he knew. ![]() Winner of the Knopf Literary Fellowship, Dawn Brodie has here told the story of Joseph Smith, Mormon leader, with an objective fairness, an appreciation of his magnetism, his potentialities, a recognition of his great gifts and great weaknesses and a full recognition of his achievement in establishing, not just another sect, but a way of life that has held his followers for over a century, much of the time against hate, misunderstanding, violent persecution. ![]() ![]() 1938 photograph of Liesl Joseph-Loeb from Gordan Thomas's 1974 book Voyage of the Damned. He is the author five Dear America books, two My Name Is America, and one in The Royal Diaries series.Īcknowledgements " The author would like to thank Amy Griffin for her sensitive editorial work, and Chris Kearin and his fellow "book people" for their help." Notes It was like when I'm on the Ferris wheel at the Prater and I look down even though I know I shouldn't because I'll be scared." Plot Characters Main article: List of One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping charactersīarry Denenberg (born in Brooklyn, New York City) is a nonfiction and historical fiction author, known for writing biographies. ![]() Although he sounded crude, there is something about the way he speaks that makes you listen. There must have been a lot of people because you could hear them all shouting SIEG HEIL, SIEG HEIL, when he arrived. He has an Austrian accent, which shouldn't surprise me since he was born here. It was the first time they've ever broadcast one of his speeches. Dedication " I'll never write a book good enough for Jean, so this will have to do." Book description " Sunday, February 20, 1938Īt one o'clock today, Radio Vienna broadcast Hitler's speech from Berlin. Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 by Barry Denenberg Book 24 of the Dear America Series On the heels of the much-anticipated movie 'Pearl Harbor', acclaimed author Barry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fin seems fearless-and his confidence could just be infectious.Īward-winning author Dean Atta crafts a beautifully nuanced and revelatory story in verse about the exquisite highs and lows of first love and self-discovery. Then Mack meets actor Finlay on set, and the world turns upside down again. It’s awful to be so far away from Karim, and it’s made worse by the fact that Karim can be so hard to read. Mack has had a crush on Karim for as long as he can remember and he can’t believe it when gorgeous, popular Karim seems into him too.īut when Mack’s father takes on a new directing project in Scotland, Mack has to move away, and soon discovers how painful long-distance relationships can be. ![]() The ideal next read for fans of Kacen Callender, Elizabeth Acevedo, and Becky Albertalli.įifteen-year-old Mack is a hopeless romantic-likely a hazard of growing up on film sets thanks to his father’s job. The ideal next read for fans of Kacen Callender, Elizabeth Acevedo, and Becky Albertalli. From the Stonewall Award–winning author of The Black Flamingo comes a romantic coming-of-age novel in verse about the beautiful-and sometimes painful-fallout of pursuing the love we deserve. Read a sample Read a sample Description Details Reviews From the Stonewall Award-winning author of The Black Flamingo comes a romantic coming-of-age novel in verse about pursuing the love we know we deserve. ![]() ![]() ![]() The success of democratic societies hinges on our ability to listen to-and in some cases learn from-the radical movements in our midst. Bartlett introduces us to some of the most influential movements today: techno-futurists questing for immortality, far-right groups seeking to close borders, militant environmentalists striving to save the planet by any means necessary, and psychedelic pioneers attempting to heal society with the help of powerful hallucinogens. In Radicals Chasing Utopia, Jamie Bartlett, one of the world's leading thinkers on radical politics and technology, takes readers inside the strange and exciting worlds of the innovators, disrupters, idealists, and extremists who think we can do better-and believe they know how. But all the things we now take for granted, all the modern wisdoms we hold to be self-evident, were once derided as dangerous or foolish radical thinking."- From the Prologue "It's the hubris of every generation to think that they have arrived at the best way of living. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. With so much attention on the flames," she argued, "everyone had ignored the kindling." National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerĪ New York Times Notable Book of the YearĪ Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the YearĪ Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016įrom the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.Īs Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as “black rage,” historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in The Washington Post suggesting that this was, instead, "white rage at work. ![]() |