Offers a look at the 'golden age' of American philosophy. This volume focuses upon the activities of the American philosophical associations - the Western Philosophical Association and the American Philosophical Association - that were founded at the beginning of the twentieth century and that merged in to the APA in 1927.

James Baldwin was one of America's finest and influential writers. By the time he died, his books, such as The Fire Next Time , Go Tell It on the Mountain and Giovanni's Room , had become modern classics. Based on interviews with his friends and his correspondences, this title gives a comprehensive account of the life and work of this writer.

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs had all seen the inside of mental hospitals and prisons by the age of 30. This book charts the transformation of these experiences into a literary movement that spread across the globe in the decade and a half that followed World War II.

These essays make a case for how unified and well-governed Anglo-Saxon England was, and how numerous and wealthy its inhabitants were. By asking questions about the Anglo-Saxons, and by offering answers to people that question historical orthodoxy, this work demands the rethinking of assumptions.