Background
Jack Lawrence was born on December 18, 1941, in Detroit. He is the son of Arthur Luzkow (a builder) and Sally (her maiden name is Eagle) Farber.
Jack Lawrence Luzkow
1 N Grand Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63103
Jack received a Master's degree in 1975 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1981 at St. Louis University.
42 W Warren Ave, Detroit, MI 48202,
Jack studied at Wayne State University, where in 1966 he received a Bachelor's degree.
2015
Jack Luzkow joined “St. Louis on the Air” host Don Marsh to share details about his book “The Great Forgetting: The Past, Present and Future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State.”
2015
Jack Luzkow joined “St. Louis on the Air” host Don Marsh to share details about his book “The Great Forgetting: The Past, Present and Future of Social Democracy and the Welfare State.”
42 W Warren Ave, Detroit, MI 48202,
Jack studied at Wayne State University, where in 1966 he received a Bachelor's degree.
1 N Grand Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63103
Jack received a Master's degree in 1975 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1981 at St. Louis University.
(This interpretive essay was originally born as a response...)
This interpretive essay was originally born as a response to Francis Fukuyama's essay, "The End of History." It asserts that the major development of the 20th century was, and is, the World Revolution of Westernization. It asserts that many parts of the globe are successfully Westernizing (modernizing), but even more parts of the globe are saying ''modernization wherever possible, yes, but according to non-Western values such as Islam.'' The study is divided into three sections: Europe, Russia, and much of the developing world outside the West.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0773465022/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4
2004
(The writings of Karl Marx explored the tensions between t...)
The writings of Karl Marx explored the tensions between the laws of socialist science and a utopian longing for socialism; between the science of history and a prophetic hope based on moral and ethical ideals. His writings examined the history and argued for the necessity of communism to achieve the moral ideal of utopia. Although Marx was the last great utopian, his work has been adapted in Russia and China to rationalize and justify totalitarian regimes, but it has also inspired Western utopian writers like Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, and Ernst Bloch. What's Left? Marxism, Utopianism and the Revolt against History, explores what remains of the Marxist and Utopian Left after the death of totalitarian utopianism and authoritarian state socialism and how Marxism still provides a powerful critique of present-day globalization.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01182GYU8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2
2006
(Nadia opens as Max Klein, a brash loner and womanizer, ab...)
Nadia opens as Max Klein, a brash loner and womanizer, abandons his academic career to pursue and confront his parents, a mother who abandoned him when he was a toddler, and a father who has refused to acknowledge his existence. Derailed by a sexual misadventure with Iris Shelton, whom he abandons-and who secretly follows him-Max travels to California, where both parents live, and meets Nadia Varlova. She is Russian, young, intelligent, sexy, and a former (or current?) lover of Benjamin Farber, Max's father. The coincidence is irresistible (though puzzling). Max uses Nadia to get to Farber, even as Nadia-who is in league with Farber and Iris-plans to seduce and humiliate Max.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1937536300/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3
2012
(Today the US and the UK are at a crossroads. Millions are...)
Today the US and the UK are at a crossroads. Millions are out of work, millions (in the US) are still deprived of health care, millions have lost their homes, and we are collectively more unequal than we have been since the 1920s. Both countries will experience massive social upheavals if they don’t reduce social inequality, invest massively in education and infrastructure, commit themselves to securing jobs for all who want them, change tax structures that coddle the 1 percent, rein in the anarchy of big banks by reregulating (or nationalizing) them, and liberate the captive state from the financial institutions of Wall Street and the City of London. Social inequality is neither inevitable nor the result of globalization. It is the outcome of social and economic policies embraced by the 1 percent. This can be reversed by more social democracy, not less, by recovering the state for the 99 percent.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0719096391/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
2015
(This book is a work of contemporary economic history focu...)
This book is a work of contemporary economic history focusing primarily on the US and the UK. It shows that, historically, much of the wealth of the ultra-wealthy has been based on inheritance, tax evasion, political influence, or wage theft. Today, much of the wealth of the rentier class - the super-rich - is based on income from ownership or control of scarce assets, or assets artificially made scarce. As a result, the super-rich reaps much of their wealth from patents, monopolies, and subsidies. This book states in qualitative and quantitative terms how expensive the super-rich have become, why they are unsustainable for the rest of us, and what the way forward to greater economic equality may be. In sum, the super-rich is unaffordable.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3319939939/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
2018
Jack Lawrence was born on December 18, 1941, in Detroit. He is the son of Arthur Luzkow (a builder) and Sally (her maiden name is Eagle) Farber.
Jack studied at Wayne State University, where in 1966 he received a Bachelor's degree. He received a Master's degree in 1975 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1981 at St. Louis University.
Jack began his career as a bibliographic specialist at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale from 1979-1981. From 1981 to 1984, he worked as a professor of history at Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky. He also worked as a professor of history at Marycrest College, Davenport, Iowa from 1984-1990, and at Teikyo-Marycrest University, Davenport, Iowa, since 1990. He participated as a speaker in the Visiting Artists Series, Davenport in 1985. Jack has been vice president of Lonetree Enterprises, Davenport, since 1991 and vice president of the Marycrest Academy Senate, Davenport, 1990-1991. He currently works at Fontbonne University as a professor.
(Nadia opens as Max Klein, a brash loner and womanizer, ab...)
2012(The writings of Karl Marx explored the tensions between t...)
2006(This interpretive essay was originally born as a response...)
2004(This book is a work of contemporary economic history focu...)
2018(Today the US and the UK are at a crossroads. Millions are...)
2015Jack likes to put his characters in a labyrinth and then to let them seek the paths that may or may not lead them out. He likes to explore the role of chance in life, to test the thin lines between morality and immorality and certainty and doubt, to test the limits of knowledge and awareness by surrounding people with riddles that are just beyond their understanding, and then to let them grope toward self-understanding and knowledge of the interconnections between people and events. In the worlds Jack creates he wants everything to be tenuous and ill-defined, he wants boarders and barriers to constantly shift as they do in life, and he wants his characters to grope with these limits from the inside of themselves. Maybe the effect he is after is one of indigo, where his characters cannot quite get their balance in the world they seek to discover or to create.
Quotations:
“I don’t write because I think I have something to reveal or instruct. Writing for me is like a process of life, it is search and discovery, hope and frustration, the search for meaning against the tide of despair.”
“I also am interested in comic writing, in a way I think that human experience always has a comic side.”
Jack is a member of the American Historical Association, National Social Science Association and Popular Culture Association.
Jack married Virginia Ann Trigluff on May 15, 1976 (they divorced on May 1, 1998). He was also married to Elena Vardzigoulova since July 23, 1998. He is the father of two children: Catherine and Alexis.
Jack married Virginia Ann Trigluff on May 15, 1976 (they divorced on May 1, 1998).
Jack was married to Elena Vardzigoulova since July 23, 1998. She is Jack's greatest influence and inspiration. She reintroduced him to Russian literature, especially to Vladimir Nabokov. Then she introduced him to John Fowles. The former taught Jack to appreciate language and beauty.
Ali Arshad inspired Jack to write comic fiction when both of them were colleagues in academe and partners in discussions of the absurd.
