{"title":"David Leeming","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Leeming's works invite readers into rich explorations of biography, mythology, and cultural history. With titles such as \u003cem\u003eJames Baldwin\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMedusa\u003c\/em\u003e, Leeming skillfully blends storytelling with scholarly insight, illuminating the lives and legends that shape human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis books often traverse the boundaries between religion, spirituality, and nature, offering thoughtful reflections that resonate with both curious minds and devoted readers of these themes. Expect profound narratives that deepen understanding of the stories behind history and belief.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"james-baldwin-by-david-leeming-9781628724387","title":"James Baldwin","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Baldwin\u003c\/i\u003e was one of the great writers of the last century. In works that have become part of the American canon—\u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on a Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGiovanni's Room\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Evidence of Things Not Seen\u003c\/i\u003e—he explored issues of race and racism in America, class distinction, and sexual difference. A gay, African American writer who was born in Harlem, he found the freedom to express himself living in exile in Paris. When he returned to America to cover the Civil Rights movement, he became an activist and controversial spokesman for the movement, writing books that became bestsellers and made him a celebrity, landing him on the cover of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this biography, which \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e called \"indispensable,\" David Leeming creates an intimate portrait of a complex, troubled, driven, and brilliant man. He plumbs every aspect of Baldwin's life: his relationships with the unknown and the famous, including painter Beauford Delaney, Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, and childhood friend Richard Avedon; his expatriate years in France and Turkey; his gift for compassion and love; the public pressures that overwhelmed his quest for happiness; and his passionate battle for black identity, racial justice, and to \"end the racial nightmare and achieve our country.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSkyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. 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After outlining theories of the origins of Native North Americans, David Leeming considers the creation myths of many tribes, emphasising four commonly occurring figures: the Great Spirit, the trickster, the goddess and the hero.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLeeming suggests that in addition to these figures, Native American mythologies have in common a deep reverence for the earth, and for community responsibility as opposed to individualism. These tenets stand in stark contrast to the concepts of exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny that characterise the United States, a nation that was built on ancient tribal land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854886883564,"sku":"9781789144994","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/47985119965035fc39257b6558dea9f5.jpg?v=1759263676"},{"product_id":"medusa-by-david-leeming-9781780230955","title":"Medusa","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMedusa\u003c\/em\u003e literally petrifies: her face turned the ancients to stone. For Perseus and his patriarchal culture, she was a dangerous female monster that had to be destroyed; for Dante, she was the erotic power that could destroy men. Freud saw in her hair a nest of terrifying penises signalling castration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet in our time, Medusa's reputation has improved: feminists see her as a noble victim of patriarchy, and the designer Versace celebrates the lure of her mysterious face in a logo that stares at us from his ads for men's underwear, haute couture, and exotic dinnerware. 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