Böcker av Andrew Hartman

The vital and untold story of Karl Marx's stamp on American life. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation, but Marx's ideas have inspired a wide range of people to formulate a more precise sense of the stakes of the American project. Historians have highlighted the imprint made on the United States by Enlightenment thinkers such as Adam Smith, John Locke, and Thomas Paine, but Marx is rarely considered alongside these figures. Yet his ideas are the most relevant today because of capitalism's centrality to American life. In Karl Marx in America, historian Andrew Hartman argues that even though Karl Marx never visited America, the country has been infused, shaped, and transformed by him. Since the beginning of the Civil War, Marx has been a specter in the American machine. During the Gilded Age, socialists read Marx as an antidote to the unchecked power of corporations. In the Great Depression, communists turned to Marx in hopes of transcending the destructive capitalist economy. The young activists of the 1960s were inspired by Marx as they gathered to protest an overseas war. Marx's influence today is evident, too, as Americans have become increasingly attuned to issues of inequality, labor, and power. After decades of being pushed to the far-left corner of intellectual thought, Marx's ideologies have crossed over into the mainstream and are more alive than ever. Working-class consciousness is on the rise, and, as Marx argued, the future of a capitalist society rests in the hands of the people who work at the point of production. A valuable resource for anyone interested in Marx's influence on American political discourse, Karl Marx in America is a thought-provoking account of the past, present, and future of his philosophies in American society.

Ember to Inferno pulls you into the unforgiving underworld of Los Angeles, where Detective Jacob Schitz and his LAPD team find themselves in a relentless battle against a ruthless mafia kingpin and a media bent on their destruction. As tensions explode and loyalties are tested, Jacob's pursuit of justice morphs into a high-stakes game of survival-one where every choice could lead to betrayal.With the city's shadowed alleys and neon-lit streets as their backdrop, Jacob and his team confront a web of corruption that threatens to unravel them from within. This is a noir thriller where justice is murky, and the cost of truth may be greater than anyone is willing to pay.Fans of The Penguin and The Black Dahlia will be riveted by Ember to Inferno-a story that dives deep into the gritty realities of law and order in a world where lines are blurred, and redemption may come at the ultimate price.

When a young man's world is turned upside down, some things become clear and others blurred. Jacob Schitz's plain life in Florida quickly erupts into a series of drastic events as he navigates young adulthood and a bleak future. When the biker gang, The Panteras, enters his life as a third obstacle, he will begin to truly understand himself and the violent world of underground crime as their paths become intertwined.