Product Description: America's criminal justice system is broken. The United States punishes at a higher per capita rate than any other country in the world. In the last twenty years, incarceration rates have risen 500 percent. Sentences are harsh, prisons are overcrowded, life inside is dangerous, and rehabilitation programs are ineffective...read more

Product Description: Robert A. Ferguson investigates the nature of loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. The theme is a vital one because a greater percentage of people live alone today than at any other time in U...read more

Product Description: Reading the Early Republic focuses attention on the forgotten dynamism of thought in the founding era. In every case, the documents, novels, pamphlets, sermons, journals, and slave narratives of the early American nation are richer and more intricate than modern readers have perceived...read more

Product Description: This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This practical step-by-step guide to developing psychic abilities can enable anyone to tap into the hidden powers of the mind. In eight short weeks the readers can unlock their mental potential to live fuller lives.

Argues that after the American Revolution lawyers replaced clergy as the dominant intellectual force, and looks at how legal educations affected the aesthetics of early American writers

Product Description: Book by Ferguson, Robert A.