Excerpt from Wilshire Editorials The contents of this volume consist almost exclusively of my editorials published within the past six years either in Wilshire's Magazine or in The Challenge, its predecessor. The burden of my song, as the reader will quickly gather, is that an industrial cataclysm is about to appear in the United States as the result of over-production. I predict this notwithstanding that to-day as I write we are in the fever of a greater industrial expansion than the country has ever before experienced. It seems impossible to supply demand. Factories are over-burdened with orders. Our mines of copper, lead, zinc, silver and iron are being worked day and night under the stimulus of tremendously high prices, and yet are unable to supply demand. However, my endeavor is to show that all this activity is ephemeral and temporary, that the great demand comes far more largely from consumption by the capitalists of goods for new capital expenditure than from any demand by the workers for necessities of life. Shortly, the great demand is for pig-iron, not pig-meat. The essential difference between the two demands, speak ing economically, is that the one will cease as soon as the new machinery is built, and that the other, based on human hun ger, can never cease. I find in the Trust the sign that the industrial demand for new machinery is coming to a close; the Trust is manifestly a necessary device of the capitalist to subdue the ill effects of over-production in being or in prospect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Younger Son: His Recollections and Opinions in Middle Age This is not a war-book, but it has Sprung out of the war, many of its earlier scenes and experiences having been recalled and dwelt on in the course of some thousands Of miles of travel round the military fronts and munition bases, from 1916 to 1919. Often in the evenings, after an active day, I found myself trying to recall the life especially in the villages and woods and farms where my early years were spent; with its whimsical, affec tionate figures, which touched me like the faded vignettes in an old album. The deeper back I glanced the more excellent those figures and their environment appeared to me. That may have been somewhat an effect of reaction from the tremendous drama I had been moving in during the day. Still, I feel that some of the country things really were wholesomer in, say, the 'seventies and early 'eighties than in 1914 or in 1919. The social life was sounder, I think, then; more natural. There was not the same ignoble scramble for money and Show. Some of the old families were rather proud, and many of the villagers more dependent and poorer than to-day. Yet, there was something worth styling a social system in the countryside of that time. There were county families. There was a tradition. There was vigour. They were followed by week-enders; latterly, by the brazen traffic in land, with the poor who depend on it, as a mere personal chattel - by the evil spirit, too often, of It's mine, I shall jolly well do what I like with it. That was a deplorable falling off. Everything, during the last few years I have observed in war and working scenes, and thought over, tells me beyond doubt that there is to be a stark Change in the English social system all round, alike in country, and City, and industrial centre. It will overwhelm a great deal Of the selfish and narrow. I view that with entire satisfaction and hope. I feel we have a noble chance Of emerging from the ordeal a fresher and safer people than we were in 1914. But there are features, in the English country life at least, which I Should wish to save. I should like to conserve in the main what is left of the old family tradition, and of the sweetness and light of the two old Universities, Oxford and Cambridge. True, there is not much of the Old family tradition left. But it will be a pity if what still lingers bravely is swept away in the inundation. The tradition of the Wiltshire Longs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

On the occasion of Tennessee's Bicentennial, four distinguished authors offer new insights and a broader appreciation of the classical influences that have shaped the architectural, cultural, and educational history of its capital city. Nashville has been many things: frontier town, Civil War battleground, New South mecca, and Music City, U.S.A. It is headquarters for several religious denominations, and also the home of some of the largest insurance, healthcare, and publishing concerns in the country. Located culturally as well as geographically between North and South, East and West, Nashville is centered in a web of often-competing contradictions. One binding image of civic identity, however, has been consistent through all of Nashville's history: the classical Greek and Roman ideals of education, art, and community participation that early on led to the city's sobriquet, "Athens of the West," and eventually, with the settling of the territory beyond the Mississippi River, the "Athens of the South." Illustrated with nearly a hundred archival and contemporary photographs, Classical Nashville shows how Nashville earned that appellation through its adoption of classical metaphors in several areas: its educational and literary history, from the first academies through the establishment of the Fugitive movement at Vanderbilt; the classicism of the city's public architecture, including its Capitol and legislative buildings; the evolution of neoclassicism in homes and private buildings; and the history and current state of the Parthenon, the ultimate symbol of classical Nashville, replete with the awe-inspiring 42-foot statue of Athena by sculptor Alan LeQuire. Perhaps Nashville author John Egerton best captures the essence of this modern city with its solid roots in the past. He places Nashville "somewhere between the 'Athens of the West' and 'Music City, U.S.A.,' between the grime of a railroad town and the glitz of Opryland, between Robert Penn Warren and Robert Altman." Nashville's classical identifications have always been forward-looking, rather than antiquarian: ambitious, democratic, entrepreneurial, and culturally substantive. Classical Nashville celebrates the continuation of classical ideals in present-day Nashville, ideals that serve not as monuments to a lost past, but as sources of energy, creativity, and imagination for the future of a city.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In these coolly observant essays, the iconic bestselling writer looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one presidential impeachment, and an unforgettable sex scandal, Didion reveals the mechanics of American politics. She tells us the uncomfortable truth about the way we vote, the candidates we vote for, and the people who tell us to vote for them. These pieces build, one on the other, into a disturbing portrait of the American political landscape, providing essential reading on our democracy.

A biologist describes the different types of human intimacy, including both sexual and social situations, as well as the substitution of pets and inanimate objects

"Jong . . . filled a gap in the great tradition of the picaresque novel. . . . Linguistically, "Fanny" is a tower of strength. . . . Jong has gone farther than Joyce."--Anthony Burgess, "Saturday Review."

For nearly ninety years, Hollywood's brightest stars have favoured the Chateau Marmont as a home away from home. Filled with deep secrets but hidden in plain sight, its evolution parallels the growth of Hollywood itself. Perched above the Sunset Strip like a fairy-tale castle, the Chateau seems to come from another world entirely. An apartment-house-turned-hotel, it has been the backdrop for generations of gossip and folklore: 1930s bombshell Jean Harlow took lovers during her third honeymoon there; director Nicholas Ray slept with his sixteen-year-old Rebel Without a Cause star Natalie Wood; Anthony Perkins and Tab Hunter met poolside and began a secret affair; Jim Morrison swung from the balconies, once nearly falling to his death; John Belushi suffered a fatal overdose in a private bungalow; Lindsay Lohan got the boot after racking up nearly $50,000 in charges in less than two months. Much of what's happened inside the Chateau's walls has eluded the public eye - until now. With wit and prowess, Shawn Levy recounts the wild parties and scandalous liaisons, creative breakthroughs and marital breakdowns, births and untimely deaths that the Chateau Marmont has given rise to. Vivid, salacious and richly informed, the book is a glittering tribute to Hollywood as seen from the suites and bungalows of its most hallowed hotel.