First Son

195 Pages·2012·13.26 MB·English

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Contents
General Interest 1
Special Interest 37
Paperbacks 89
The Open Door Bewilderment
One Hundred Poems, One Hundred New Poems and Translations
Distributed Books 113 Years of Poetry Magazine David Ferry
Edited by Don Share and ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24488-4
Christian Wiman Paper $18.00/£11.50
Author Index 188 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75070-5 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-24490-7
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Title Index 190
Subject Index 192
Ordering Information 193
The Last Walk A World in One
Reflections on Our Pets at the Cubic Foot
End of Their Lives
Portraits of Biodiversity
Jessica Pierce
David Liittschwager
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The Secrets of Alchemy Book Was There
Lawrence M. Principe Reading in Electronic Times
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Cover design by Alice Reimann
Catalog design by Alice Reimann and Mary Shanahan
Keith KoenemAn
First Son
The Biography of Richard M. Daley
“Mayor Richard M. Daley dropped the bomb at a routine news
conference at City Hall on Tuesday. With no prelude or fanfare,
Mr. Daley announced that he would not seek re-election when his
term expires next year. ‘Simply put, it’s time,’ he said.”—New York
Times, September 7, 2010
W
ith those four words, an era ended. After twenty-two years,
the longest-serving and most powerful mayor in the his-
tory of Chicago—and, arguably, America—stepped down,
leaving behind a city that was utterly transformed, and a complicated
legacy we are only beginning to evaluate. “Keith Koeneman captures the arc of Dal-
ey’s reign perfectly—its early successes
In First Son, Keith Koeneman chronicles the sometimes Shake-
and later failures, its mix of volatility and
spearean, sometimes Machiavellian life of an American political
insecurity, and the evolution of an insular
legend. Making deft use of unprecedented access to key players in the
Democratic-machine prince from Bridge-
Daley administration, as well as Chicago’s business and cultural lead-
port into a powerful leader who learned to
ers, Koeneman draws on more than one hundred interviews to tell an
coexist with intellectuals, culture buffs,
up-close, insider story of political triumph and personal evolution.
and titans of business to build a world-
With Koeneman as our guide, we follow young Daley from his
class city. . . . A must-read if you care
beginnings as an average Bridgeport kid thought to lack his father’s
about Chicago.”
talent and charisma to his unlikely transformation into an iron-fisted
—Andy Shaw,
leader. Daley not only escaped the giant shadow of his father but also retired political reporter and
executive director of the Better
transformed Chicago from a gritty, postindustrial Midwestern capital
Government Association
into a beautiful, sophisticated global city.
But in spite of his many accomplishments, Richard M. Daley’s
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cial stress, failing public housing, and dysfunctional schools. And it BIOGRAPHY AMERICAN HISTORY
reveals that in many ways Daley was unable to fully escape the machine
politics of his father.
A nuanced portrait of a complex man, First Son shows Daley to be
sensitive yet tough, impatient yet persistent, a street-smart fighter and
detail-driven policy expert who not only ran Chicago, but was Chicago.
Keith Koeneman is a third-generation Chicagoan. He holds advanced degrees
from Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern Univer-
sity and writes on Chicago politics, history, and culture for the Huffington Post.
general interest 1
thAne RoSenBAum
Payback
The Case for Revenge
W
e call it justice—the assassination of Osama bin Laden,
the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like
Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic
slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also
call it revenge? We are told that revenge is uncivilized and immoral, an
impulse that individuals and societies should actively repress and re-
place with the order and codes of courtroom justice. What, if anything,
distinguishes punishment at the hands of the government from a vic-
tim’s individual desire for retribution? Are vengeance and justice really
so very different? No, answers legal scholar and novelist Thane Rosen-
“Because it is often regarded as ‘un-Chris-
baum in Payback—revenge is, in fact, indistinguishable from justice.
tian,’ revenge has acquired a bad name. in
this incisive analysis, thane Rosenbaum Revenge, Rosenbaum argues, is not the problem. It is, in fact, a
argues that revenge is a hunger in most perfectly healthy emotion. Instead, the problem is the inadequacy of
injured hearts and the very fundament of lawful outlets through which to express it. He mounts a case for legal
our idea of justice. this is a compelling systems to punish the guilty commensurate with their crimes as part
and provocative book, immensely valu- of a societal moral duty to satisfy the needs of victims to feel avenged.
able both for its close reasoning and its Indeed, the legal system would better serve the public if it gave victims
honesty.” the sense that vengeance was being done on their behalf. Drawing on
—Scott turow a wide range of support, from recent studies in behavioral psychology
and neuroeconomics, to stories of vengeance and justice denied, to
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ther, and Braveheart—Rosenbaum demonstrates that vengeance needs
lAW CURRENT EVENTS
to be more openly and honestly discussed and lawfully practiced.
Fiercely argued and highly engaging, Payback is a provocative and
eye-opening cultural tour of revenge and its rewards—from Shake-
speare to The Sopranos. Rosenbaum liberates revenge from its social
stigma and proves that vengeance is indeed ours, a perfectly human
and acceptable response to moral injury.
thane Rosenbaum is the author of The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal
System Fails to Do What’s Right, as well as four novels. His articles, reviews, and
essays appear frequently in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street
Journal, Washington Post, and Huffington Post, among others. He is the John
Whelan Distinguished Lecturer in Law at Fordham Law School, and he
directs the Forum on Law, Culture, and Society.
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The Complete Greek Tragedies,
Third Edition
edited by DAviD GRene and RiChmonD LAttimoRe
Third Edition edited by Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most
S
ixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a
new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teach-
ers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of emi-
nent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accu-
racy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of
Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain
the standard translations. Today, Chicago is taking pains to ensure that our Greek trag-
edies remain the leading English-language versions throughout the twenty-first century.
In this highly anticipated third edition, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully
updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining the
vibrancy for which our English versions are famous. This edition also includes brand-new
translations of Euripides’s Medea, The Children of Heracles, Andromache, and Iphigenia among
the Taurians, fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles’s
satyr-drama The Trackers. New introductions for each play offer essential information about
its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. In addition, each volume
includes an introduction to the life and work of its tragedian, as well as notes addressing tex-
tual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays.
In addition to the new content, the volumes have been reorganized both within and
between volumes to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship on the order in which the plays
were originally written. The result is a set of handsome paperbacks destined to introduce
new generations of readers to these foundational works of Western drama, art, and life.
David Grene (1913–2002) taught classics for many years at the University of Chicago. Richmond Lattimore
(1906–1984) was a poet and translator best known for his translations of the Greek classics, especially
his versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey. mark Griffith is professor of classics and of theater, dance, and
performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Glenn W. most is professor of ancient
Greek at the Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa and a visiting member of the Committee on Social
Thought at the University of Chicago.
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T H E CoM Pl ET E
GR E Ek T R AGE DI E S,
T H I R D E DI T Ion
Aeschylus I Euripides II
The Persians, Seven Against Andromache, Hecuba,
Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, The Suppliant Women, Electra
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Euripides III
Aeschylus II
Heracles, The Trojan Women,
The Oresteia Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion
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Euripides I Euripides IV
Alcestis, Medea, The Children Helen, The Phoenician
of Heracles, Hippolytus Women, Orestes
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T H E CoM Pl ET E T H E CoM Pl ET E
GR E Ek T R AGE DI E S, GR E Ek T R AGE DI E S,
T H I R D E DI T Ion T H I R D E DI T Ion
Euripides V Greek Tragedies 1
Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, Aeschylus: Agamemnon,
The Cyclops, Rhesus Prometheus Bound; Sophocles:
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Sophocles I
Antigone, Oedipus the King,
Greek Tragedies 2
Oedipus at Colonus
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KAte L. tuRABiAn
A Manual for
Writers of Research
Papers, Theses,
and Dissertations
Chicago Style for Students and
Researchers
Eighth Edition
Revised by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb,
Joseph M. Williams, and the University of Chicago Press
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practical needs of diverse audiences. drafted a set of guidelines to help students understand how
there’s nothing like it.” to write, cite, and formally submit research writing. Seven
—Richard m. valelly, editions and more than nine million copies later, the name Turabian
Swarthmore College
has become synonymous with best practices in research writing and
style. Her Manual for Writers continues to be the gold standard for
Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing,
and Publishing generations of college and graduate students in virtually all academic
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practices with detailed information on the two main scholarly citation
styles (notes-bibliography and author-date), an array of source types
with contemporary examples, and detailed guidance on citing online
resources.
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♦ Authoritative guidance on all matters of style, updated to reflect
The Chicago Manual of Style, sixteenth edition
♦ Thorough coverage of scholarly citation: standard practices, an
expanded array of digital sources, and hundreds of new examples
♦ Comprehensive guidelines—vetted by dissertation officials nation-
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The final section treats all matters of editorial style, with advice on
punctuation, capitalization, spelling, abbreviations, table formatting,
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Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers. Wayne C. Booth (1921–2005) was the
Revised by Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M.
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Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. His many books Press Editorial Staff
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Seth LeReR
Prospero’s Son
Life, Books, Love, and Theater
T
his book is the record of a struggle between two tempera-
ments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs.” That’s
how Edmund Gosse opened Father and Son, the classic 1907
book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer’s Prospero’s Son
is, as fits our latter days, altogether more complicated, layered, and
multivalent, but at its heart is that same problem: the fraught relation-
ship between fathers and sons.
At the same time, Lerer’s memoir is about the power of books and
theater, the excitement of stories in a young man’s life, and the trans-
formative magic of words and performance. A flamboyantly performa-
“i couldn’t put this book down. ‘memoir’
tive father, a teacher and lifelong actor, comes to terms with his life
doesn’t begin to do it justice. Prospero’s
as a gay man. A bookish boy becomes a professor of literature and an
Son is a beautifully observed and often
acclaimed expert on the very children’s books that set him on his path
haunting reflection about how we get
in the first place. And when that boy grows up, he learns how hard it
here and what we leave behind.”
—James Shapiro, is to be a father and how much books can, and cannot, instruct him.
author of A Year in the
Throughout these intertwined accounts of changing selves, Lerer re-
Life of William Shakespeare
turns again and again to stories—the ways they teach us about discov-
ery, deliverance, forgetting, and remembering.
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With Prospero’s Son, Seth Lerer acknowledges the author of his story
while simultaneously reminding us that we all confront the blank page
of life on our own, as authors of our lives.
Seth Lerer is dean of arts and humanities at the University of California, San
Diego. He is the author of many books, including the National Book Critics
Circle Award–winning Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History, from Aesop to
Harry Potter.
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