![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I had no idea that "peeping Tom" came from the Lady Godiva legend: one man named Tom disobeyed the royal edict of not looking at Godiva as she rode through the town naked. "What makes this book really interesting are the little asides on things like where certain words come from, or how something (a building, for example, or even a code of law) still exists today. These issues are detailed in my review, now up on Curled Up With a Good Book (you didn't think I was going to give you the whole review here, did you? You'd never click the link!) There's one chapter that's on British names before William the Conqueror and after him.Īll in all, it's a great book with just a couple of minor issues. By this I meant that it's chronological, king by king (and leader by leader, if known, before kings came into effect), but the narrative alternates with chapters that are a bit more broad, detailing something about British society or norms, or maybe even culture. It's a fascinating book of British history, told in an alternating way. The subtitle for Peter Ackroyd's new book, Foundation, is "The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors." Sounds like quite the comprehensive book, doesn't it?Īnd it kind of is, in a kind of general way. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His inaugural lecture at Oxford University in 1990 was devoted to “Henry David Thoreau on the Duty of Civil Disobedience.” The present volume opens with an 1838 quotation from the English abolitionist and utopian, economic and social thinker, Harriet Martineau, 1 dedicated to the memory of John Quincy Adams-the abolitionist and New England Whig who served as Secretary of State under James Monroe, one term as President and was defeated by Andrew Jackson in the subsequent election of 1828. He published The Political Culture of the American Whigs in 1979 and The Making of the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln in 1997. His prior books are indicative of the focus in the present volume, which basically functions to revise long habitual conceptions of the Jacksonian era. ![]() American historian Daniel Walker Howe is emeritus Professor of History at both UCLA and Oxford. ![]() ![]() She attended Del Mar High School in San Jose, California. She has a sister, Jocelyn, and a half brother on her father's side, Robert Barbeau, who still resides in the Sacramento area. Her mother was of Armenian descent and her father's ancestry was French Canadian, Irish, and German. In the 2000s, she appeared on the HBO series Carnivàle (2003–2005) as Ruthie.īarbeau was born on June 11, 1945, in Sacramento, California, the daughter of Armene (née Nalbandian) and Joseph Barbeau, who was a public relations executive for Mobil Oil. ![]() During the 1990s, she became known for providing the voice of Catwoman on Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995), and subsequent animated series. In 1980, she began appearing in horror and science fiction films, including The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), Creepshow (1982), and Swamp Thing (1982). 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The Man Who Came Uptown wrestles with gentrification on every page, and as both a reader and a Washingtonian, so do I. I’m delighted by seeing my city on paper, of course. The hero, Michael Hudson, orders Elmore Leonard novels from Upshur Street Books, where I used to work. How could I be, when his newest novel, The Man Who Came Uptown, is set ten blocks from my apartment? Its characters eat at my favorite Sichuan restaurant and drink at the bar where my boyfriend plays darts. I’m not a neutral reader of George Pelecanos. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Can she refuse her duty to a woman who is suffering? Hannah’s choice entangles her in a treacherous family rivalry that endangers the child and threatens her voyage to Malta, where Isaac, believing her dead in the plague, is preparing to buy his passage to a new life. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but his payment is enough to ransom her husband Isaac, who has been captured at sea. Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers using her secret “birthing spoons.” When a count implores her to attend his dying wife and save their unborn son, she is torn. ![]() A “lavishly detailed” ( Elle Canada) debut that masterfully captures sixteenth-century Venice against a dramatic and poetic tale of suspense. Not since Anna Diamant’s The Red Tent or Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book has a novel transported readers so intimately into the complex lives of women centuries ago or so richly into a story of intrigue that transcends the boundaries of history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He said that in the world he's showing, and which, to his knowledge, existed, there are two kind of veterans of the Vietnam War. So he concludes that, by openly showing that he is/was a soldier, he is looking for confrontation of some kind.Įdit: I've read somewhere a talk with David Morell, author of the book First Blood is based on. Teasle is aware of the feelings people in his town might have toward the war and its participants, and he expects that this particular soldier is aware of it too. Rambo is not hiding that he is/was a soldier. ![]() Rambo: Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job parking cars! Trautman: You're the last of an elite group, don't end it like this. Rambo: For you! For me civilian life is nothing! In the field we had a code of honor, you watch my back, I watch yours. Trautman: It was a bad time for everyone, Rambo. ![]() Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me, huh? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about! Rambo: Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me, I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. John explains it when talking to Trautman: ![]() |