Bøger af Jim Powell

Jim Powell is the founder of the Indiana Writers Center, a nonprofit organization that has supported Indiana writers for forty years. Among the characters you'll find in his collection of nineteen stories are a young woman who's under the thrall of a former Nazi, a man who's shepherding his elderly mother through Alzheimer's Disease, a child used as a pawn by his mother, and a writer who connects with an old friend who will never change. The settings range from Indianapolis to Vienna, Krakow, Puerto Vallarta, and beyond--but no matter its setting, each story is filtered through the lens of a writer who knows who he is and where he's from. Powell's stories are intense, even disturbing at times. But they are always true. Each one reflects the wisdom and generosity of a life lived, a witness to the vast complexity of the human condition.Jim Powell's book of stories, Only Witness, bears insightful and lyrical witness to the everyday comedy and tragedy of our time, with an admirably authentic Hoosier flavor. Powell joins the great tradition of Nicholson, Tarkington and Vonnegut. --Dan Wakefield, author of Going All the WayJim Powell has long served Indiana literature--both in his support of emerging writers and his knowledge and insight into the historical canon, which he has helped define. And now in this new collection of short fiction, he adds his own unique voice to the list of writers who bear witness to this particular place. Even when his characters leave the Midwest for Europe, Mexico, or California, in remarkable Chekhovian stories such as "Night Train to Vienna," "Klezmer Music" and "The Cardsellers," their Midwestern sensibilities travel with them, transforming and interrogating all they see. --Susan Neville, author of Sailing the Inland SeaThe stories in Only Witness reveal Jim Powell's finely-honed observational skills. He witnesses children, young people on the prowl, families, a woman married to a sex addict, the son of a woman with Alzheimer's, and more. I am charmed and moved by these stories. Some are tender-hearted and funny, some keenly honest and tough-minded. Buy this book and prepare to be entertained! --Patricia Henley, author of In the River Sweet and Other Heartbreaks

Before its civil war, America supplied 80 per cent of the raw material for Britain's largest industry, the cotton trade. During the war, this fell to almost zero. This book examines what happened to this trade and to the Liverpool cotton market, its beneficiaries and its victims, during the war.

"Admirers of FDR credit his New Deal with restoring the American economy after the disastrous contraction of 1929—33. Truth to tell-as Powell demonstrates without a shadow of a doubt-the New Deal hampered recovery from the contraction, prolonged and added to unemployment, and set the stage for ever more intrusive and costly government. Powell's analysis is thoroughly documented, relying on an impressive variety of popular and academic literature both contemporary and historical.”-Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate, Hoover Institution"There is a critical and often forgotten difference between disaster and tragedy. Disasters happen to us all, no matter what we do. Tragedies are brought upon ourselves by hubris. The Depression of the 1930s would have been a brief disaster if it hadn't been for the national tragedy of the New Deal. Jim Powell has proven this.”-P.J. O'Rourke, author of Parliament of Whores and Eat the Rich"The material laid out in this book desperately needs to be available to a much wider audience than the ranks of professional economists and economic historians, if policy confusion similar to the New Deal is to be avoided in the future.”-James M. Buchanan, Nobel Laureate, George Mason University"I found Jim Powell's book fascinating. I think he has written an important story, one that definitely needs telling.”-Thomas Fleming, author of The New Dealers' War"Jim Powell is one tough-minded historian, willing to let the chips fall where they may. That's a rare quality these days, hence more valuable than ever. He lets the history do the talking.”-David Landes, Professor of History Emeritus, Harvard University"Jim Powell draws together voluminous economic research on the effects of all of Roosevelt's major policies. Along the way, Powell gives fascinating thumbnail sketches of the major players. The result is a devastating indictment, compellingly told. Those who think that government intervention helped get the U.S. economy out of the depression should read this book.”-David R. Henderson, editor of The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics and author of The Joy of FreedomThe Great Depression and the New Deal. For generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depression's destructive effects and propping up the country on his New Deal platform. In fact, FDR has achieved mythical status in American history and is considered to be, along with Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, one of the greatest presidents of all time. But would the Great Depression have been so catastrophic had the New Deal never been implemented?In FDR's Folly, historian Jim Powell argues that it was in fact the New Deal itself, with its shortsighted programs, that deepened the Great Depression, swelled the federal government, and prevented the country from turning around quickly. You'll discover in alarming detail how FDR's federal programs hurt America more than helped it, with effects we still feel today, including:• How Social Security actually increased unemployment• How higher taxes undermined good businesses• How new labor laws threw people out of work• And much moreThis groundbreaking book pulls back the shroud of awe and the cloak of time enveloping FDR to prove convincingly how flawed his economic policies actually were, despite his good intentions and the astounding intellect of his circle of advisers. In today's turbulent domestic and global environment, eerily similar to that of the 1930s, it's more important than ever before to uncover and understand the truth of our history, lest we be doomed to repeat it.

The haunting new novel by the acclaimed author of The Breaking of Eggs and Trading Futures.

'With his gallows humour and observational wit, Jim Powell gives us a vivid portrait of a man in meltdown.' Daily MailWhen I was small, my mother showed me how to grow a carrot from a carrot. She filled a jam jar with water, cut the top off a carrot, ran a cocktail stick horizontally through the stub and suspended it over the jar, just touching the water. In time, roots sprouted, and when they were long enough and strong enough, the plant was translated to the garden and new carrots grew. This was one of the many exciting ways in which I was prepared for adult life.This is Matthew Oxenhay at sixty: a stranger to his wife, an embarrassment to his children, and failed former contender for the top job at his City firm. Seizing on his birthday party as an opportunity to deliver some rather crushing home truths to his assembled loved ones, it seems as though Matthew might have hit rock bottom. The truth, however, is that he has some way to go yet . . . With forensic precision and mordant wit, Matthew unpicks the threads that bind him: a comfortable home in the suburbs, a career spent trading futures and a life that bears little resemblance to the one he imagined for himself at twenty. When he unexpectedly bumps into Anna (the one who got away), the stage is set for an epic unravelling.Darkly funny, Trading Futures forces us to confront how change, like death, is an inevitable fact of life: feared by most, it can transform or overwhelm us. This is a brilliantly observed novel, for fans of works such as John Lanchester's Mr Phillips and On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan.It also featured as Radio 4's Book at Bedtime.

Sappho is celebrated as the supreme ancient Greek poet of love and of the personal lyric, and noted also for her vivid participation in a living paganism. Jim Powell's translation is recognized for its unique combination of poetic mastery and scholarly penetration of the original.

A panoramic debut about love and loss, THE BREAKING OF EGGS announces a major new talent.