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![]() With his characteristic patrician sarcasm, Vidal casually scraps the enduring notion of American exceptionalism, the idea that our politics, unlike those of the corrupt Old World, are founded on ideals of democratic equality and public virtue. “Burr” delights in subverting everything we think we know about how the country was built. ![]() ![]() That line could serve as the epigraph to one of the most entertaining novels ever written about American politics, Gore Vidal’s “Burr.” Vidal, who died July 31 at the age of 86, published what many regard as his best novel in 1973, when Vietnam and Watergate were dealing Americans’ confidence in their government a series of blows from which it has yet to recover. A lot of folks wrassling round,” he scoffs. In “All the King’s Men,” however, Willie Stark learns to dismiss the idealized portraits of the Founding Fathers in American history textbooks: “I bet things were just like they are now. The Tea Party, named for the most famous anti-tax revolt in American history, was the clearest expression of this Revolutionary nostalgia, and for many voters this year, 2012 will be an election about returning to what they see as the values of 1787. ![]() under President Barack Obama was drifting from the principles of its founding leaders and documents. They were drawing on the widespread conservative sense that the U.S. ![]() After winning control of the House in 2010, Republicans opened the next session of Congress by reading the Constitution. ![]() ![]() Tom will have to learn how the Spook fights "the Dark", so that he may one day become a Spook as well. Tom's mother, referred to as Mam, sent a letter to the Spook shortly after Tom's birth alerting him to his status as a seventh son of a seventh and promising that Tom would be "the best apprentice also be last." The Spook travels the County fighting troublesome creatures such as boggarts, ghosts, ghasts, and witches for the people who need these things gone. Because he is the seventh son of a seventh son and thus has the ability to see ghosts and fight other supernatural beings, his parents have apprenticed him to the Spook, a cloaked man named John Gregory (because only seventh sons of seventh sons have the aforementioned abilities, all spooks are seventh sons of seventh sons). ![]() Tom Ward has lived his whole life in the County (loosely based on the English county of Lancashire). As Tom is the seventh son of a seventh son, he is able to see things others cannot, such as boggarts, ghasts, ghosts and others. The plot centres on a 13-year-old farm boy named Tom who lives in the countryside of the county, loosely based on the English county of Lancashire, where the author resides with his large family. ![]() The Spook's Apprentice (American title: The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch), written by Joseph Delaney, is the first story in The Wardstone Chronicles arc of the Spook's series. ![]() ![]() He has reported on a wide variety of subjects, including labor, public health, the environment, criminal justice, politics and international trade. In 2017, Hamby was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for his accounts of how multinational corporations use aggressive legal tactics to pressure governments around the world. ![]() The book builds on Hamby's 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning series of reports about how a resilient Appalachian mining community fought back against a resurgence of black lung disease, the indifference of coal industry executives, and the complicity of doctors at Baltmore's prestigious Johns Hopkins hospital. ![]() Now, a conversation with New York Times investigative reporter Chris Hambyabout his new book, Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia, just published by Hachette Books (Little Brown). ![]() ![]() ![]() Monsters is the legendary project Barry Windsor-Smith has been working on for over 35 years. As the titular monsters of the title multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, literal and ironic, the story reaches its emotional and moral reckoning. Bailey’s only ally and protector, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes, which sets off a chain of cascading events that spin out of everyone’s control. government experimental program, an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years earlier in the waning days of World War II. Close-mouthed, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, it turns out that Bailey is the perfect candidate for a secret U.S. Bobby Bailey doesn’t realize he is about to fulfill his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office to join up. ![]() 35 years in the making, the most anticipated graphic novel in recent comics history! ![]() ![]() Throughout his life, he was anti-sectarian and unreligious. ![]() Gombrich was born into an extremely sophisticated family in Vienna, originally Jewish but converted at the turn of the 20th century to a rather mystical protestantism in an ambience close to that of Gustav Mahler. The sheer scope of his reading, the way he coordinated his knowledge and the accuracy of his memory were - as another historian described it - "awesome". The Story of Art (1950, 16th edition 1995) has been the introduction to the visual arts for innumerable people for more than 50 years, while his major theoretical books, Art and Illusion (1960), the papers gathered in Meditations on a Hobby Horse (1963) and other volumes, have been pivotal for professional art historians. ![]() ![]() Sir Ernst Gombrich, who has died aged 92, was the most eminent art historian of the last half-century, both for specialist scholars and for a wider public. ![]() ![]() Each proposition is either a sentence or a short paragraph, none longer than two hundred words the book totals some nineteen thousand words. That contains an arrangement of 240 loosely-linked prose poems which Nelson refers to as "propositions". ![]() The title refers to the painting Bluets by the artist Joan Mitchell. The book is full of references to other writers, philosophers and artists. The book is a philosophical and personal meditation on the color blue, lost love, grief and existential solitude. ![]() ![]() The work hybridizes several prose and poetry styles as it documents Nelson's multifaceted experience with the color blue, and is often referred to as lyric essay or prose poetry. Book by American author Maggie Nelson published by Wave Books in 2009īluets is a book by American author Maggie Nelson, published by Wave Books in 2009. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh no! The house needs dusting, but you just can’t put down that book you’re reading! What book would you buy on audio just so you could continue the story while cleaning? I would take my own picture but I don’t currently have physical copies. Also, that is not my picture but I can’t find who it should be credited. But I dare anyone to come fight me on separating the duology. If I have to keep choosing just one book? This is going to get boring fast. Why just one book? I’ll have you know that the nightstand I don’t own can fit multiple books! If I can only pick one, you know which one it is going to be. How can I not include the Gateway Arch and how everything is starting to bloom, in a Spring Cleaning Book Tag? It’s time to make your bed, but you’re going to have some friends over later and want to pick the perfect book to place on your nightstand for them all to see that you’re “reading.” Which book do you choose? I’m not tagging anyone for this book tag, but it has been making the rounds, so I hope you’ll join in! This book tag was created by Page to Page. From beautiful weather to infamous mid-west thunderstorms, everything is starting to bloom! So, when I found this Spring Cleaning Book Tag There are a few versions of the Spring Cleaning Book Tag on Kristin Kraves Books, it was a no-brainer. Spring has finally has definitely sprung in St. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After a 14-year career working as a reporter at newspapers including The Savannah Morning News, The Mari in journalism from The University of Georgia. ![]() MARY KAY ANDREWS is the New York Times bestselling author of 30 novels (including The Homewreckers, The Santa Suit, The Newcomer Hello, Summer Sunset Beach The High Tide Club The Weekenders Beach Town Save the Date Ladies’ Night Christmas Bliss Spring Fever Summer Rental The Fixer Upper Deep Dish Blue Christmas Savannah Breeze Hissy Fit Little Bitty Lies and Savannah Blues), and one cookbook, The Beach House Cookbook. ![]() ![]() ![]() Childhood acts as a prism for varied emotions, encouraging readers to empathize with a weary mother who allows a well-behaved spirit to possess her unruly child “just for the summer” (“Summer”). ![]() In the title novella, a family under threat of divorce finds reunion through a boy’s ghost hunt, which exposes the historical tragedy splitting the Florida town in which they summer. Ghosts abound, bringing past and present into liberating contact. ![]() Sexual predators are recast as lake creatures (“The Lake”), and werewolves choose cosmetic treatment to disguise their monthly changes (“Aftermoon”) Due craftily employs these shape-shifters to explore how humans embrace transformations in ourselves and one another, even when the result is monstrous. In these extraordinary tales, American Book Award–winner Due ( My Soul to Take) uses a clear-eyed view of history to explain (but never excuse) the present. ![]() |