This book was first published in 1938, and it was regarded as a tract for the times—an impression which its title and its note of tension reinforced. In this new edition the author extends the analysis to the events of the intervening years.

This work brings together Max Lemer's extended and enduring essays on Aristotle, Niccolb Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, Thorstein Veblen, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Combining biography and interpretation, Lerner insightfully examines a cluster of thinkers who helped shape his own influential work in political theory and civilizational analysis. Viewed collectively, these essays show Turner's method and mind at their best.Like Lerner himself, the masters were toug...

“This is the story of a long and brilliant career in American education... [Johnson] writes with humor, modesty, and what seems to be total recall, a fascinating report of a useful life.” — Bruce Bliven, The New York Times“Alvin Johnson has written a first-rate life history, but by that fact he has also written a good deal more. For he has told his life in a way that shows how it holds in microcosm all the dominant themes of our American history and societ...

Over the course of more than six decades as an author, journalist, and professor, Max Lerner studied and assessed many presidents, yet Thomas Jefferson received his most sustained attention. To Lerner, Jefferson came closest in the American context to Plato's "philosopher-king," the ideal thinker and leader. Because of his keen sense of Jefferson's virtues and his unique place in United States history, Lerner began work on a book about Jefferson in 1957, rewriting it several times througho...

Ideas for the Ice Age is a companion volume to Max Lerner's classic work Ideas Are Weapons. Both were written mostly in the 1930s, as products of a period when the democratic idea was under heavy siege from totalitarian ideologies of the right and left., In its focus, Ideas for the Ice Age is a study of the task of democracy in a revolutionary era, an enterprise that has taken on new urgency in the post-Communist world. For Lerner this task comprises four aspects around which the book is o...

Ballet dancer Ava is excited to join the gymnastics team. But she gets nervous about doing flips, and some girls on the team aren’t very welcoming. Will Ava be able to stick the landing and help the team come together?

Xio can’t wait to try out for the traveling hockey team in her new city. However, the boys on the team don’t believe girls should play hockey. Xio knows she and her friends can prove them wrong, but will the girls and boys be able to work as a team?

Daredevil Mak doesn’t want an embarrassing injury to his wrist to get in the way of his soccer season. He tries his best to cover it up, but it’s still in pain. Will Mak listen to his teammate and accept that he needs to ask for help before things get worse?

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles are reproduced in their entirety to pres...

CJ has always been a natural athlete. So when she makes the rookie soccer squad instead of the traveling team, she's upset and doesn't want to make the effort to improve. Will CJ get a better attitude and give soccer her best shot?

Beatriz has always looked up to her basketball star older brother, Emilio. But when she decides to give basketball a shot, she’s surprised that he isn’t supportive. When he's named the new coach of her team, will Beatriz find a way to prove to Emilio that she has what it takes?

Max is excited for basketball season. But after being voted team captain, basketball begins to take up all his time. Will Max learn to balance basketball with his other priorities before he reaches his breaking point?