Beschreibung:
Throughout the ages, many of the great minds and wits made clear that two simple tenets define life: Life is brief and finding happiness is the surest way to gain fulfillment and peace of mind. In one way or another, all people through the centuries, regardless of wealth or status, have all sought the same thing happiness some able to find it, others, not able to. Jean-Paul Sartre may have said it best: ';Everything has been figured out, except how to live.' ';Voices From The Ages' brings to the reader a timeline of historical thought by presenting profiles of nearly one hundred well-known names, some recognizable to modern-day readers and others obscured by history. Among those profiled are novelists and poets, revolutionaries and radicals, scientists and inventors, feminists, playwrights, historians, humorists, movie stars, and singers. It may come as a surprise how little you know of the life story of many of the people you're most familiar with.
Throughout the ages, many of the great minds and wits made clear that two simple tenets define life: Life is brief and finding happiness is the surest way to gain fulfillment and peace of mind. In one way or another, all people through the centuries, regardless of wealth or status, have all sought the same thing — happiness — some able to find it, others, not able to. Jean-Paul Sartre may have said it best: “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
“Voices From The Ages” brings to the reader a timeline of historical thought by presenting profiles of nearly one hundred well-known names, some recognizable to modern-day readers and others obscured by history. Among those profiled are novelists and poets, revolutionaries and radicals, scientists and inventors, feminists, playwrights, historians, humorists, movie stars, and singers. It may come as a surprise how little you know of the life story of many of the people you’re most familiar with.
Introduction1. One Giant Leap Forward for MankindIsaac NewtonBenjamin FranklinSamuel JohnsonCharles DarwinAlbert EinsteinAlan TuringHedy LamarrSteve Jobs2. Philosophy: The Link Between TheologyScience, and MythologyImmanuel KantRalph Waldo EmersonWilliam JamesSigmund FreudBertrand RussellReinhold Niebuhr3. Creators of Hope and DignityJohn MuirJulius RosenwaldMohandas GandhiAlbert SchweitzerJackie RobinsonElisabeth Kubler-Ross4. If History Were Taught in the Form of StoriesIt Would Never Be ForgottenWilliam Wells BrownJohn Hope FranklinHoward ZinnStuds TerkelHenry Louis Gates, Jr.5. The Rule Breakers, the Troublemakers, the RevolutionariesFrederick DouglassW.E.B. Du BoisEmma GoldmanMalcolm XJack KevorkianWendell BerryJames Meredith6. Lady Radicals in Thought and ActionMargaret FullerIda B. WellsMargaret SangerAlice PaulDorothy ParkerAmelia EarhartAnais NinElla BakerGloria SteinemJean SebergNaomi Klein7. European Writers With an Imprint on American ThoughtVoltaireJohann GoetheVirginia WoolfFranz KafkaGeorge OrwellAlbert CamusRebecca WestDoris Lessing8. Writing the Great American NovelMark TwainHenry AdamsUpton SinclairF. Scott FitzgeraldErnest HemingwayRalph EllisonWilliam S. BurroughsJack KerouacHarper Lee9. Female Authors With Stories to TellZora Neale HurstonPearl BuckAnne Morrow LindberghSusan SontagErica Jong10. Verse: The American WayEdgar Allen PoeWalt WhitmanEmily DickinsonLangston HughesAllen GinsbergSylvia Plath11. Amusements and FrivolitiesOscar WildeWill RogersH.L. MenckenCoco ChanelJosephine Baker12. Icons of the ArtsEugene O'NeillMarian AndersonLouis KahnGordon ParksOrson WellesGore VidalMarilyn MonroeAndy WarholWoody AllenAugust Wilson13. A Passion Beyond the ArtsPaul RobesonLena HorneMaya AngelouAudrey HepburnDick GregoryAlice WalkerEpilogue
