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Katharine Cover Sabin - ESP and Dream Analysis - Henry Regnery - 1974

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Book 076

Printing for Pleasure

John Ryder

Henry Regnery Company 1977

This small hardcover, a brief history and how-to guide to hand printing, is sadly missing its dust jacket, but it is, as you might expect, lovingly printed.

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"I was thinking, yesterday, though, of how strange it will seem to be free again: not to have to line up for everything one does, not to be ruled by whistles and shouted commands, and to be cast once again on one's own initiative. I can understand how fearful and reluctant to leave some men become after really long periods in prison. When one has had one's whole life completely ordered down to the minutest detail, it becomes a fearsome thing to face the prospect of freedom and responsibility again. This, of course, lies at the heart of the total inability of the prison to accomplish the thing it is supposed to do. For men who need, almost more than anything else, training in self-discipline, it provides a complete system of rigid discipline externally applied. The result, of course, is to make the man even less capable of coping with the problems and temptations that come to him than he was to begin with. And the men who "adjust" to this unreal kind of life—who, in other words, are able to submerge completely their individual personalities in order to fit the prison-envisaged stereotype—are assumed to be those most ready to return to society, and therefore most suitable for parole!"

- Alfred Hassler, Diary of a Self-Made Convict. Foreword by Harry Elmer Barnes. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1954 (written 1944-1945), p. 123-124.

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Birthdays 5.12

Beer Birthdays

Louis Hennepin (1626)

Frank J. Hahne, Jr. (1883)

Brit Antrim

Mirella Amato

Noah Regnery (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

George Carlin; comedian (1937)

Leslie Charteris; writer (1907)

Emilio Estevez; actor (1961)

Katharine Hepburn; actor (1907)

Tom Snyder; television talk show host (1936)

Famous Birthdays

Malin Akerman; actor (1978)

Mary Kay Ash; cosmetics entrepreneur (1915)

Burt Bacharach; songwriter (1929)

Stephen Baldwin; actor (1966)

Yogi Berra; baseball player, coach & manager (1925)

Jason Biggs; actor (1978)

Bruce Boxleitner; actor (1950)

Gabriel Byrne; actor (1950)

Kid Creole; rock musician (1951)

Ian Dury; English rock singer (1942)

Gabriel Faure; French composer (1845)

Kim Fields; actress (1969)

William Giauque; Canadian-American chemist (1895)

Kim Greist; actress (1958)

Tony Hawk; skateboarder (1968)

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin; chemist (1910)

Edward Lear; English writer, artist (1812)

Henry Cabot Lodge; politician (1850)

J. E. H. MacDonald; English-Canadian painter (1873)

Ian McLagan; English keyboard player & songwriter (1945)

Florence Nightingale; English nurse (1820)

Millie Perkins; actress (1938)

Ving Rhames; actor (1959)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti; English poet & artist (1828)

Homer Simpson (1956)

Howard K. Smith; television journalist (1914)

Billy Squier; pop musician (1950)

Frank Stella; artist (1936)

Tony Strobl; comics artist and animator (1915)

Joachim von Sandrart; German painter (1606)

Vanessa Williams; actress (1963)

Steve Winwood; pop singer (1948)

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A mentalidade conservadora

O livro A Mentalidade Conservadora, de Russell Kirk, é uma das maiores contribuições intelectuais ao conservadorismo no século XX, sendo considerado um clássico duradouro do pensamento político.

É uma obra brilhante em todos os aspectos, desde sua concepção até a escolha das figuras mais significativas que representam a evolução histórica do conservadorismo.

De Edmund Burke a T. S. Eliot, passando por outros importantes representantes dessa corrente doutrinária, é traçada uma análise que abrange quase dois séculos de tradição intelectual. A importância deste trabalho não se limita ao campo teórico, visto que lançou as bases do moderno movimento conservador nos Estados Unidos.

Além de manter o prefácio do editor norte-americano Henry Regnery, a luxuosa edição – com capa dura revestida em tecido –, inclui um estudo introdutório e um posfácio escritos por Alex Catharino.

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Picard felt strongly that one of the things lacking in modern life is the true encounter—people see and talk to each other but do not really encounter one another; the one gives nothing of himself to the other. To have met Max Picard was an encounter, and to meet him in his work is just as much so. He gave generously of himself; his heart is in his work, and if his reader meets him only part way, he will take with him something that will make him a more nearly complete and a better person.

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In 1947, Bill Regnery’s uncle, Henry, founded Regnery Publishing, which would grow into one of  the most influential right-wing media dynasties in America. In its early years, the company published prominent conservative thinkers, including William F. Buckley, a racist and segregationist, and Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society, the anti-communist conspiracist group.  

More recently it has published anti-Muslim bigots Robert Spencer and David Horowitz, and anti-immigrant crusaders Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin, as well as books from Republican senators and other politicians ― including Donald Trump’s 2015 “Time to Get Tough.”

When Henry Regnery died in 1996, The New York Times eulogized him as “the godfather of modern conservatism.”

The Regnery family’s influence extended beyond the publishing world. Bill Regnery’s cousin Alfred Regnery was an official at the Department of Justice under President Ronald Reagan before eventually taking over the family publishing company.

Bill Regnery started showing an interest in politics while a student in the early 1960s at the University of Pennsylvania, where he launched a conservative student magazine. He never graduated from Penn, however, telling BuzzFeed News in an extensive 2017 interview that he was “still a couple credits short of a degree.”

He said he left to work for the 1964 presidential campaign of Republican Barry Goldwater, the far-right senator from Arizona. As BuzzFeed News described, Regnery claimed to have hatched a bizarre scheme to suppress Democratic votes on Election Day that year:

His most memorable effort, he claimed, was a convoluted scheme called Operation Dewdrop, intended to suppress Democratic voters in Philadelphia. At the time, he explained, the theory was that Democrats voted less in the rain. So on election day, he said, he tried to seed rain clouds by using dry ice and a twin-engine airplane. It didn’t rain, he recalled, but he burned his fingers from the dry ice canisters, a detail that helps add a ring of authenticity. Goldwater lost to Lyndon Johnson in a landslide.

among the people who were being bankrolled by this guy were richard spencer, richard lynn, jared taylor, kevin macdonald, and samuel francis. good read about his life after the jump.

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111, from 347 Gravures, Pablo Picasso, 1968, Art Institute of Chicago: Prints and Drawings

Henry Regnery Fund, Print and Drawing Fund, and the Print and Drawing Club Fund Size: 215 x 327 mm (image); 232 x 330 mm (plate); 362 x 472 mm (sheet) Medium: Etching and aquatint on white wove paper

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111389/

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Michael Barone, The New Americans (Regnery, 2001), 42–44:

“The Irish brought to America a settled tradition of regarding the formal government as illegitimate, and the informal one as bearing the true impress of popular sovereignty,” observes Moynihan. They had reason to doubt the legitimacy of the rules of the larger society, and in America “the wild Irish”—the phrase goes back to King Henry II in the twelfth century—had high rates of crime and alcoholism, even while their affinity for hierarchy and politics meant that many of them became cops. As William V. Shannon writes, “The Irish on the eve of emigration lived in an atmosphere of violence. The old rural society long drained by exploitation at the top was shattering under the pounding blow of new economic demands. The coming catastrophe of the great famine was foreshadowed by brief famines in 1822, 1831, 1835, and 1837 and by a cholera epidemic in 1830. Tension reverberated through this sick society. Men got used to lawless ways and rough, direct methods. The Irishman picked up a blunt stick or a shortened pitchfork and ‘had at’ the head of his enemy with unnaturally reckless abandon. Here in the endemic violence of rural Ireland was the breeding ground for the tough ‘bhoys’ who in another decade would tear up paving stones and brandish sticks in election-day riots in New York and Philadelphia. Here also was born another Irish type: the fanatic. Men grown used to violence would became the nationalist zealot and the political gunman in his trench coat. In their most familiar guise they became the rebel union leaders in the coalfields of Pennsylvania, the copper mines of Butte, and the sandlots of San Francisco. This was a minority tradition compared to that of the hardworking, conservative farmer and the eloquent lawyer-politician, but it existed and was a long time in dying. An old lady summed it up: ‘Ten o’clock in the morning and not a blow shtruck yet!’”

Historian Roger Lane places the Irish experience with crime in perspective: “In terms of social problems in general and crime rates in particular, the Irish were the archetypical white ethnic group of the nineteenth century. No immigrants had a more difficult time than those who fled the famines of the ‘hungry forties.’ No city, until the full onset of industrialism, had jobs enough to absorb the waves of peasants who invaded them over the next several decades. All of the institutions of charity, sanitation, and education were strained by the effort to cope with Irish misery and desperation. So especially were the police. The problem of law and order, as seen by local authorities in many northeastern cities, was specifically an Irish problem throughout these decades, with the newcomers earning a reputation for hard-drinking, aggressive, riotous behavior wherever they settled.Reliable crime statistics are not much available for the nineteenth century, but it is plain that crime rates among Irish-Americans were well above the national average. Lane notes that the rate of indictment for murder in Philadelphia from 1860 to 1873 was 4.7 per 100,000 for those with Irish Catholic names, compared to the citywide average of 2.9, and that murder rates among Irish in the mid-nineteenth century were higher than among blacks. More than half of all arrests in New York in 1859 were of Irish—double their proportion of the population—and more than five times as many Irish immigrants as native-born Americans were convicted in court. By 1860 the Irish accounted for three-quarters of Boston’s arrestees and police detainees. The Chicago Tribune in 1898 asserted that there were twice as many Irish lawbreakers as from “almost any other inhabitable land on earth.” To some extent these figures may represent ethnic discrimination on the part of the still mostly non-Irish police, but the disproportions are so large that there can be no doubt that crime rates among the Irish were far above average.

Michael Barone wants to tie the Irish American experience to Irish traditions of resistance and rebellion, but they don’t really account for the story he’s trying to tell. There was something different about America. 

As Randolph Roth points out in American Homicide (Belknap, 2009), Irish Americans were much more violent than their brothers in Ireland. In the mid-nineteenth century, Irish American homicide rates were four or five times higher than homicide rates in Ireland. 

Michael Barone wants you to think that Ireland was a land of endemic violence, but it wasn’t. By the late nineteenth-century, it was an unusually safe place, with homicide rates a third lower than in England and Wales, which were unusually safe places themselves. On the eve of the First World War, the United Kingdom, still embracing the whole of Ireland, had a homicide rate of 1 per 100,000 adults, and less in Ireland. Even today, that is a remarkable homicide rate, and all the more remarkable given what we know about Irish Americans. 

Americans did not collect national homicide statistics until the 1920s, but we know a little about homicide rates across the country, and enough to estimate Irish American homicide rates. Randolph Roth writes that in cities New York and Philadelphia, whenever Antebellum Irish Americans were “numerous enough to threaten the jobs and the political power of Protestants, their homicide rate hovered around 12 per 100,000 adults per year—twice the rate for African Americans and three times the rate for non-Irish whites and for contemporary Ireland.” Eric Monkkonen found that in mid-nineteenth century New York, Irish-born men had a homicide rate of 37.5 per 100,000.

If Irish Americans had committed murder as often as the Irish in Ireland, they would have been the least violent ethnic group in the United States. Instead, they were one of the most. That was not about tradition or rural poverty or the legacies of imperial rule, or at least not alone. That was about America. 

Americans were always much more violent than Europeans, and America was always a violent place in a way that Europe was not. That wasn’t about the people, but about the country. America transformed the Irish. Every country transforms the people who come to it, but nineteenth-century America did something special: It took men and made them murderers. 

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The newest addition to my book collection. The Jungle is a Woman by adventuress and travel writer Jane Dolinger in almost pristine condition. First (and only) edition published by Henry Regnery, Chicago in 1955.

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"I am finding prison a curious combination of unrelenting tension and acute boredom. The boredom comes from the lack of stimulating things to do, of course; the tension rises out of the collective tension of more than a thousand convicts. On the surface, life here appears to run almost placidly, but one needs to go only a very little beneath the surface to find the whirlpools and eddies of anger and frustration. The muttering of discontent and rebellion goes on constantly: the sotto voce sneer whenever we pass an official or a guard, the glare carefully calculated to express contempt without arousing overt retaliation, the tempers that rise so swiftly to the breaking point.

The noise in H-2 is a measure of this tension. It goes on all the time, of course, as one might expect where almost half a hundred grown men are confined with no real outlet for their energies. But the relatively peaceful hum of a score of conversations and the more-or-less quiet expletives of a forbidden crap game are punctuated constantly by the explosive racket of a half-dozen simultaneous high-pitched arguments.

These latter occasionally erupt into fights, though not as frequently as the violence of their language would suggest. A fight means the "hole" for both parties regardless of the provocation, and a week in the hole is an experience most men avoid.

The arguments obviously provide the needed release for this prison-built tension, but the onlookers keep a wary eye on them while they are in progress. Knifings are not uncommon in here, in spite of the periodic shakedowns, and one can never be sure when a man's anger may overcome his fear of the hole."

- Alfred Hassler, Diary of a Self-Made Convict. Foreword by Harry Elmer Barnes. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1954 (written 1944-1945), p. 70-71.

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Birthdays 5.12

Beer Birthdays

Louis Hennepin (1626)

Frank J. Hahne, Jr. (1883)

Brit Antrim

Mirella Amato

Noah Regnery (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

George Carlin; comedian (1937)

Leslie Charters; writer (1907)

Emilio Estevez; actor (1961)

Katharine Hepburn; actor (1907)

Tom Snyder; television talk show host (1936)

Famous Birthdays

Malin Akerman; actor (1978)

Mary Kay Ash; cosmetics entrepreneur (1915)

Burt Bacharach; songwriter (1929)

Stephen Baldwin; actor (1966)

Yogi Berra; New York Yankees C (1925)

Jason Biggs; actor (1978)

Bruce Boxleitner; actor (1950)

Gabriel Byrne; actor (1950)

Kid Creole; rock musician (1951)

Ian Dury; English rock singer (1942)

Gabriel Faure; composer (1845)

Kim Fields; actor (1969)

Kim Greist; actor (1958)

Tony Hawk; skateboarder (1968)

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin; chemist (1910)

Edward Lear; writer, artist (1812)

Henry Cabot Lodge; politician (1850)

Florence Nightingale; English nurse (1820)

Ving Rhames; actor (1959)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti; poet, artist (1828)

Homer Simpson (1956)

Howard K. Smith; television journalist (1914)

Billy Squier; pop musician (1950)

Frank Stella; artist (1936)

Vanessa Williams; actor (1963)

Steve Winwood; pop singer (1948)

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2000 A.D.: Illustrations from the Golden Age of Science Fiction Jaques Sadoul, 1973 Henry Regnery Company, US, first English edition 1975 ex libris signature on first leaf: Michael R. Barrick binding glue dry, many loose pages but no missing pages

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In 'National Culture' and 'The Jefferson-Adams Letters' he developed more fully the idea of an elite, not as a privileged class leading an isolated and protected existence, but as a creative, responsible, and active group who by their standards of quality and behavior raise the level of society as a whole. He suggested that is a few hundred men who prefer good writing to bad would correspond with each other on a regular basis, maintain a periodical that correlated American thought with what is going on in other countries, insist on clear definitions of terms, and at least protest against the worst malpractices of the press and book trade and the more violent inaccuracies of the so-called books of reference, much could be accomplished in the way of raising standards.

Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher, Henry Regnery