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  • On First Looking Into Homer’s Odyssey
    Arthur D. Kahn
    The author of On First Looking into Homer’s Odyssey reports of this work: My enthusiasm for the Homeric epics dates to 1933, when in Frank Durkee’s sophomore English class in Somerville (New Jersey) High School, I was introduced to the Odyssey in the Butcher & Lang prose translation. We students had already been exposed to Classical mythology in the elementary grades, and I h...
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  • The Education of a 20th Century Political Animal Part II-a
    Arthur D. Kahn
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    20,58 €

  • The Education of a 20th Century Political Animal Part II-b
    Arthur D. Kahn
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  • The Education of a 20th Century Political Animal IV
    Arthur D. Kahn
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  • The Education of a 20th Century Political Animal III
    Arthur D. Kahn
    In The Education of a 20th Century Political Animal III, Arthur Kahn recounts how after returning to New York from a nine-month sojourn in the People’s Democracies of Eastern Europe he found himself adrift. Under Truman’s loyalty oaths and blacklistings and McCarthyite Cold War repression, the left-wing community within which he had participated in activist struggle for mor...
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    19,12 €

  • The Education Of A 20th Century Political Animal, II
    Arthur D. Kahn
    BOOK TWO: Resisting foreign and domestic policies of the American Century champions (the Military-Industrial Complex) : Communist activist; Director of Nationalities, Henry Wallace's 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign; research director, the Peace Information Center, chaired by W.E.B. Du Bois organizing the Stockholm Peace Appeal petition campaign; 1951, six-month, t...
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  • Brownstone
    Arthur D. Kahn
    Brownstone, a proletarian, slice-of-life novel set during the McCarthy Era was described by a Negro journalist in a dispatch for circulation among Negro newspapers as 'a novel for readers weary of sensationalism, brutality and despair. The story discloses the drama in the lives of ordinary people thrown together in a brownstone-front rooming house on Manhattan’s Upper West Sid...
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  • Speak Out!
    Arthur D. Kahn
    During a six-month coast-to-coast tour of twenty-five states to mobilize attendance at a peace conference scheduled for Chicago on June 1, 1951, Arthur Kahn kept a diary, which he subsequently published under the title Speak Out! America Wants Peace. Since his sponsoring organization the American Peace Crusade could not afford to pay his expenses, he made his way by selling co...
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  • The Many Faces of Gay
    Arthur D. Kahn
    In the mid 1980s Arthur Kahn worked as a volunteer at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, an organization leading the fight against AIDS epidemic. He subsequently conducted interviews in several countries regarding AL-721, a medication greeted as a possible cure for the disease. The result was Aids, The Winter War: A Testing of America published in 1993. His next undertaking seemed t...
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    31,87 €

  • Writer and Critic
    Arthur D. Kahn
    In the fall of 1960, during a three-month visit to Hungary, Arthur Kahn unsuccessfully asked his hosts to arrange a meeting with Gyorgy Lukacs, a persona non grata to the Communist regime. Kahn arranged to meet Lukacs on his own and proposed translating some Lukacs essays never before appearing in English. During the three years Kahn worked on the translations, he and Lukacs e...
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    22,00 €

  • AIDS, the Winter War
    Arthur D. Kahn
    ’The most complete history of how AIDS treatment activism began - and an appalling look at the government AIDS mismanagement which continues today.'-John S. James, editor, AIDS Treatment News’In persuasive detail.Kahn demonstrates [that] the struggle against AIDS requires a continuous fight against vested interests that have little regard for alternative ideas and against egoti...
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  • And the Kid Didn’t Whimper...1920-1946
    Arthur D. Kahn / Arthur DKahn
    An account of the childhood and youth during the 1920s and the Great Depression of a psychologically troubled son of impoverished shopkeepers and graduate of a backwater teachers college who survived the emotional stress of a dysfunctional family and overcame obstacles of anti-Semitism to win acceptance at the age of 23 into the elite Army intelligence agency, the Office of ...
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    26,15 €

  • ON FIRST LOOKING INTO HOMER’S ILIAD
    ARTHUR D. KAHN / ARTHUR DKAHN
    'I enjoy Homer in his own language. I thank on my knees, him who directed my early education, for having put into my possession this rich source of delight, and I would not exchange it for anything which I could then have acquired, and have not since acquired.'-Thomas Jefferson It is an extraordinary phenomenon of Western literary history that European literature originates wit...
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    18,29 €

  • Byron’s Single Difference with Homer and Virgil
    Arthur D. Kahn / Arthur DKahn
    With the near disappearance of the study of the Classics, students of literature as well as general readers lack the background to share the pleasure of Byron’s contemporaries, steeped like him in the Classical literatures, in the constant interplay in his prose and poetry with the literatures of Greece and Rome. Byron underwent an intense drilling in Latin and Greek and in wo...
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  • The Education of Julius Caesar
    Arthur D. Kahn
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