A Nation Seduced

Seduction is the silent, subtle force that lures the unwise into the quicksand of their own despair. What or who seduces you? Are you bold enough to confront these demons of destruction? All too often, our internal compasses are leading us in the opposite direction of our dreams. We simply need to STOP what were doing and behave differently! A Nation Seduced can help you confront the deceit in the world and assess the state of your soul, your behavior and the human condition. America is changing rapidly, and our Forefathers legacy of a nation under God is in danger. History has proven we are lost without God. This is YOUR wake-up call!

"A macabrely fascinating work?recommended."-Booklist

STOP! Seduction is the silent, subtle force that lures the unwise into the quick sand of their own despair. What or who seduces you? Are you bold enough to confront these demons of destruction? All too often, our internal compasses are leading us in the opposite direction of our dreams. We simply need to STOP what we're doing and behave differently. A Nation Seduced can help you confront deceit in the world and assess the state of your soul, your behavior, and the human condition. America is changing rapidly, and our forefathers' legacy of a nation under God is in danger. History has proven we are lost without God. This is YOUR wake-up call! Author Deidre Joy shows how history will keep repeating itself if we remain oblivious to the silent forces that entangle us in a web of conflict within ourselves and with each other. We are living life at the speed of self-destruction, and only thoughtful self-examination can show us how to clean up the mess we've created. It's time to bring an end to denial and finger pointing by awakening the truth inside us. It's about change for ourselves, our nation, and the next generation. Stop doing the things that don't work to produce peace, joy, harmony, love, good health, and prosperity in your life and in the world you touch. To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. - Luke 1:79 (KJV)

In the tradition of bestselling books like The Devil in the White City and The Man in the Rockefeller Suit, Empire of Deception combines investigative journalism and captivating storytelling to examine one of the greatest con men of the twentieth century It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it more mad than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination, Chicago's corrupt political leaders fraternized with gangsters and the frenzy of stock market gambling was rampant. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million—upwards of $400 million today—in phantom timberland and non-existent oil wells in Panama. When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923, he vanished, and the Chicago state's attorney, a man whose lust for power equalled Leo's own lust for money, began an international manhunt that lasted almost a year. When finally apprehended, Leo was living a life of luxury in Nova Scotia under the assumed identity of a book dealer and literary critic. His mysterious death in a Chicago prison topped anything in his almost-too-bizarre-to-believe life. Empire of Deception is not only an incredibly rich and detailed account of a man and an era; it is a fascinating look at the methods of swindlers throughout history. Leo Koretz was the Bernie Madoff of his day, and Dean Jobb shows us that the dream of easy wealth is a timeless commodity.

Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga has maintained a tight grip on the contemporary cultural imagination. This timely and critical work examines how the Twilight series offers addictively appealing messages about love, romance, sex, beauty and body image, and how these charged themes interact with cultural issues regarding race, class, gender and sexuality. Through a careful analysis of the texts, the fandom and the current socio-historical climate, this work argues that the success of the Twilight series stems chiefly from Meyer's negotiation of cultural mores.

The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction—its rules, its pleasures, its secrets France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre. But Elaine Sciolino, the longtime Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, has discovered that seduction is much more than a game to the French: it is the key to understanding France. Seduction plays a crucial role in how the French relate to one another—not just in romantic relationships but also in how they conduct business, enjoy food and drink, define style, engage in intellectual debate, elect politicians, and project power around the world. While sexual repartee and conquest remain at the heart of seduction, for the French seduction has become a philosophy of life, even an ideology, that can confuse outsiders. In La Seduction, Sciolino gives us an inside view of how seduction works in all areas, analyzing its limits as well as its power. She demystifies the French way of life in an entertaining and personal narrative that carries us from the neighborhood shops of Paris to the halls of government, from the gardens of Versailles to the agricultural heartland. La Seduction will charm you and encourage you to lower your defenses about the French. Pull up a chair and let Elaine Sciolino seduce you.

Art historian David Lubin examines the work of six nineteenth-century American artists to show how their paintings both embraced and resisted dominant social values. Lubin argues that artists such as George Bingham and Lily Martin Spencer were aware of the underlying social conflicts of their time and that their work reflected the nation's ambivalence toward domesticity, its conflicting ideas about child rearing, its racial disharmony, and many other issues central to the formation of modern America.--From publisher description.