**A witty and wide-ranging investigation of the central problem of our time: how to save ourselves from what we want.**

" This elegantly written and useful book . . . describes how, for millennia, human beings have struggled to rein in desire." -USA Today At a time when the fallo

Discusses the role of Oliver Hazard Perry as commander of the American fleet that defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813.

The adventures of Pogo Possum and his animal friends. Although it is mostly a "slap-stick" comic strip with an invented "southern fried" dialect, towards the 19

Walt Kelly blended nonsense language, poetry, and political and social satire to make Pogo an essential contribution to American “intellectual” comics. As t