English | ASIN: B095XK9K8Y | 2021 | 14 hours and 12 minutes |MP3|M4B | 391 MB
In The Reason for the Darkness of the Night, John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe's obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. He remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era's most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues. Tresch shows that Poe lived, thought, and suffered surrounded by science - and that many of his most renowned and imaginative works can best be understood in its company. Pursuing extraordinary conjectures and a unique aesthetic vision, he remained a figure of explosive contradiction: He gleefully exposed the hoaxes of the era's scientific fraudsters even as he perpetrated hoaxes himself.

The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the World's Most Famous Scientist By Fred Jerome
2002 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0312288565 | PDF | 108 MB
From the moment of Einstein's arrival in the U.S. in 1933 until his death in l955, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, with help from several other federal agencies, busied itself collecting "derogatory information" in an effort to undermine Einstein's influence and destroy his prestige.For the first time Fred Jerome tells the story of this anti-Einstein campaign, as well as the reasons behind it--why and how the campaign originated, and thereby provides the first detailed picture of Einstein's little known political activism. Unlike the popular image of Einstein as an absent-minded, head-in-the-clouds genius, the man was in fact intensely politically active and felt it was his duty to use his world-wide fame shrewdly in the cause of social justice.A passionate pacifist, socialist, internationalist and outspoken critic of racism (Einstein considered racism America's "worst disease"), and personal friend of Paul Robeson and W.E.B. DuBois, Einstein used his immense prestige to denounce McCarthy at the height of his power, publicly urging witnesses to refuse to testify before HUAC. The story that emerges not only reveals a little known aspect of Einstein's character, but underscores the dangers that can arise, to threaten the American Republic and the rule of law, in times of obsession with national security.

The Director - My Years Assisting J Edgar Hoover
epub | 20.02 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B08LDWXVVM | Author: Paul Letersky | Year: 2021

English | ASIN: B08RP82G1D | 2021 | 10 hours and 55 minutes |kbps | 299 MB
The first book ever written about FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by a member of his personal staff - his former assistant Paul Letersky - The Director offers unprecedented insight into an American legend. The 1960s and 1970s were arguably among America's most turbulent post-Civil War decades. While the Vietnam War continued seemingly without end, protests and riots ravaged most cities, the Kennedys and MLK were assassinated, and corruption found its way to the highest levels of politics, culminating in Watergate. In 1965, at the beginning of the chaos, 22-year old Paul Letersky was assigned to assist the legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who'd just turned 70 and had, by then, led the Bureau for an incredible 41 years. Hoover was a rare and complex man who walked confidently among the most powerful. His personal privacy was more tightly guarded than the secret "files" he carefully collected - and that were so feared by politicians and celebrities.
Through Letersky's close working relationship with Hoover, and the trust and confidence he gained from Hoover's most loyal senior assistant, Helen Gandy, Paul became one of the few able to enter the director's secretive - and sometimes perilous - world. Since Hoover's death half a century ago, millions of words have been written about the man and hundreds of hours of TV dramas and A-list Hollywood films produced. But until now, there has been virtually no account from someone who, for a period of years, spent hours with the director on a daily basis. Balanced, honest, and keenly observed, The Director offers a unique inside look at one of the most powerful law-enforcement figures in American history.

The Director My Years Assisting J Edgar Hoover by Paul Letersky | 20.02 MB
English | 320 Pages

Title: The Director
Author: Paul Letersky
Year: 2021

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science by John Tresch | 57.37 MB
English | 518 Pages| ISBN: N/A

Title: The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
Author: John Tresch
Year: 2021

Edgar F Borgatta Rhonda J V Montgomery Encyclopedia of Sociology Volume 5
pdf | 5.44 MB | English | Isbn:978-0028648538 | Author: Edgar F. Borgatta | Year: 2000

Edgar F Borgatta Rhonda J V Montgomery Encyclopedia of sociology Volume 1
pdf | 5.99 MB | English | Isbn:978-0876590683 | Author: Kathy Charner | Year: 2008