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![]() ![]() ![]() He later was part of the movement against the Vietnam War, and, after several years as a daily newspaper reporter, worked as a writer and editor for the leftwing Ramparts magazine. Both were politically pivotal experiences about which he would later write in his book Finding the Trapdoor. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964. ![]() Today, hundreds of military cemeteries spread across the fields of northern France and Belgium contain the bodies of millions of men who died in the war to end all wars. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain's most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain's leading investigative journalist, a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and an editor who, behind bars, published a newspaper for his fellow inmates on toilet paper. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe it's the reminder that life really is sometimes this way: inexplicable, unyielding, and so savagely unfair. Maybe it's the almost abject proximity to the real world that disappears all hope of escape. There is something about the genre of contemporary novels An American Marriage belongs to in my mind that hurts so much to read. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward-with hope and pain-into the future. This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now that he's back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar-and maybe snag him as a prom date-even befriend Wes Bennet. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. ![]() Perfect for fans of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, this "sweet and funny" (Kerry Winfrey, author of Waiting for Tom Hanks) teen rom-com follows a hopelessly romantic teen girl and her cute yet obnoxious neighbor as they scheme to get her noticed by her untouchable crush. Now that he's back in town, Liz will do whatever it tak. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But if anyone can take on a divided city, a scheming guardian and the criticism of a world that once adored her, it’s the notorious Pagan Jones. The offer’s too good to be true, Berlin’s in turmoil and Devin Black knows way too much about her-there’s definitely something fishy going on. If Pagan’s going to do it, she has to decide fast-and she has to agree to a court-appointed “guardian,” the handsome yet infuriating Devin, who’s too young, too smooth, too sophisticated to be some studio flack. The shoot starts in West Berlin in just three days. Pagan will be released from juvenile detention if she accepts a juicy role in a comedy directed by award-winning director Bennie Wexler. Pagan’s old agent shows up with a mysterious studio executive, Devin Black, and an offer. Nine months later, she’s stuck in the Lighthouse Reformatory for Wayward Girls and tortured by her guilt-not to mention the sadistic Miss Edwards, who takes special delight in humiliating the once-great Pagan Jones.īut all of that is about to change. with cut text due to tight binding inherent from the source. ![]() Pagan Jones, once Americas sweetheart, is released from a reformatory in 1962 to star in a film in West Berlin, under the guardianship of mysterious Devin Black Notes. Pagan was behind the wheel and driving drunk. The notorious Pagan Jones by Berry, Nina (Writer), author. Pagan Jones went from America’s sweetheart to fallen angel in one fateful night in 1960: the night a car accident killed her whole family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Next thing Macon knows, he's living alone, and he can't summon the courage to grocery shop one more time, by himself. Macon and Sarah have been together for twenty years, and they've had their issues, as all couples do, but the pressure cooker of having their only child murdered blasts both of them out of their daily orbit.įrom this time on I can never be completely happy. Macon, the “picker of buttercups,” is abandoned by his wife, Sarah, when the depression of losing her only child sends her packing. This time I saw Macon Leary as one of the quirkiest, most sympathetic characters in all of American literature, and I was fascinated by him. Ten years later, I am no less concerned about something bad happening to one of my children, but I had a totally different response to this story, and I thought of this poem throughout this read. As a mother of an adolescent son and a toddler daughter at the time, I could only think of the nightmarish loss that Macon Leary and his wife, Sarah, suffer when a lone gunman kills their 12-year-old son, Ethan, in a restaurant. The first time I read this novel, about 10 years ago, I didn't think of this poem. ![]() ![]() There's an EE Cummings poem that goes like this: ![]() ![]() ![]() Pound for pound, it’s one of the most incisive works of political analysis of the 20th century. Yet The Paranoid Stylebecame a touchstone of midcentury liberal intellectualism, widely quoted by the left and pilloried by the right. It was disenfranchisement, he believed, that created the most fertile ground for conspiracy theories. (Sound familiar, Glenn Beck?) Hofstadter traced strains of the paranoid style from the anti-Masonic panic of the 18th century to the McCarthyite witch hunts of the 1950s, and emphasized that paranoia can breed anywhere on the political spectrum. Note the familiar descriptions of the modern conspiracy theorist’s signature plumage: his “careful, conscientious and seemingly coherent application to detail ” his belief in the omniscient, implacable evil of the conspiracy and the urgency of his own mission. In the age of the Tea Party and Birtherism, it’s easy to see historian Richard Hofstadter’s slim treatise on American fringe groups, first delivered as an Oxford lecture in 1963 and published, with other essays, in 1965, as prophetic. As a member of the avant-garde who is capable of perceiving the conspiracy before it is fully obvious to an as yet unaroused public, the paranoid is a militant leader. ![]() ![]() ![]() Much like Twilight’s New Moon, we are reminded of the whole Romeo and Juliet element to the current story. With the wraiths, I’m inwardly groaning right now, it starts as an interesting turn of events but then falls into only causing more drama and Bianca whining over ridiculous things. When Balthazar’s sister came into play, it felt like it was a waste of time considering his sister has become “evil” by getting involved with the wrong crowd, alerting Lucas’s vampire hunter squad. ![]() What I find terribly depressing about this story is the fact that the author presents this possibly fantastic new element to the story involving wraiths and Balthazar’s sister only to shove it to the back burner the majority of the time. Sum up: Bianca, (born vampire) and Lucas (vampire hunter) = “Star-Crossed Lovers”. We go back to complicated dramatic love story of Bianca and Lucas. While there may have been new twists added to the story, unfortunately, I still rolled my eyes more times than I can count. I finally picked it up again last week and finished it last weekend. ![]() I started this book back in June, but stopped to read other books on my list which called my attention. I began the Evernight series earlier this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() This transition, which they have termed "the fourth stage of human society," will liberate individuals as never before, irrevocably altering the power of government. ![]() In The Sovereign Individual, Davidson and Rees-Mogg explore the greatest economic and political transition in centuries - the shift from an industrial to an information-based society. In their ensuing bestsellar, The Great Reckoning, published just weeks before the coup attempt against Gorbachev, they analyzed the pending collapse of the Soviet Union and foretold the civil war in Yugoslavia and other events that have proved to be among the most searing developments of the past few years. Their bold prediction of disaster on Wall Street in Blood in the Streets was borne out by Black Tuesday. ![]() The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.įew observers of the late twentieth century have their fingers so presciently on the pulse of the global political and economic realignment ushering in the new millennium as do James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Stratemeyer Syndicate's devotion to the series over the years under the reins of Harriet Stratemeyer Adams helped to keep the series alive and on store shelves for each succeeding generation of girls and boys. It was her characterization that helped make Nancy an instant hit. ![]() Mildred wrote 23 of the original 30 Nancy Drew Mystery Stories®, including the first three. ![]() Wirt), who breathed such a feisty spirit into Nancy's character. Edna contributed 10 plot outlines before passing the reins to her sister Harriet. For Nancy Drew, the writers used the pseudonym Carolyn Keene to assure anonymity of the creator.Įdna and Harriet Stratemeyer inherited the company from their father Edward Stratemeyer. The company that was the creator of the Nancy Drew series, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, hired a variety of writers. Carolyn Keene is a writer pen name that was used by many different people- both men and women- over the years. ![]() |