Every Book Its Reader - The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World

Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have ''made things happen'' in the world, works that have both nudged the course of history and fired the imagination of countless influential people. Basbanes also asks what we can know about such figures as John Milton, Edward Gibbon, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Adams, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Henry James, Thomas Edison, Helen Keller-even the notorious Marquis de Sade and Adolf Hitler-by knowing what they have read. He shows how books that many of these people have consulted, in some cases annotated with their marginal notes, can offer tantalizing clues to the evolution of their character and the development of their thought.

Info autore

Nicholas A. Basbanes has worked as an award-winning investigative reporter, a literary editor, and a nationally syndicated columnist. The author of five books, he also writes a regular column for Fine Books & Collections magazine and lectures widely on book-related issues. He and his wife, Constance, live in Massachusetts.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nicholas A Basbanes, Nicholas A. Basbanes, Basbanes Nicholas A.
• Editore: Harper Perennial USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.12.2006
• EAN: 9780060593247
• ISBN: 978-0-06-059324-7
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Popular Culture, Literacy, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Literary essays, Renaissance style, History of the Americas, Philosophy and theory of education, Literary reference works, Biography: writers, Literature: history and criticism, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY: General, HISTORY: Women, LITERARY CRITICISM: Books & Reading, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, COMPOSITION & WRITING: ON LANGUAGE, LITERARY CRITICISM: Jewish, LITERARY CRITICISM: Reference, Composition & Writing / On Language