The author shows that the desire to be famous is far from being just a twentieth-century obsession, tracing the history of fame and its pursuit from Alexander the Great to the idolatry of media figures today.
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The author shows that the desire to be famous is far from being just a twentieth-century obsession, tracing the history of fame and its pursuit from Alexander the Great to the idolatry of media figures today.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Very Good. Size: 6x0x10; [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. ] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light tanning to edges. Pages unmarked. "Analyzes the concept of fame throughout history. Includes chapters on Homer, Alexander the Great, Pompey, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Caligula, Nero, Jesus Christ, St. Augustine, Charlesmagne, St. Francis of Assisi, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Benjamin Franklin, John Keats, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Brady, and P.T. Barnum." "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation."-Johns Hopkins University.
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Very Good in very good jacket. Octavo, blue and biege cloth boards in dust jacket, book and jacket are in very good condition, jacket shows edgewear and toning, book shows edgewear/ discolorization and mild toning to the text block, 649pp.
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Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in wrappers. Has lightly bumped corners, writing on end page. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.