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Noble Ambitions
Author | : Adrian Tinniswood |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2021-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781473569164 |
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From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend: a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with aristocratic values. 'Preposterously entertaining' Observer 'Brilliant' Daily Telegraph 'Rollicking' Sunday Times As the sun set slowly on the British Empire in the years after the Second World War, the nation's stately homes were in crisis. Tottering under the weight of rising taxes and a growing sense that they had no place in twentieth-century Britain, hundreds of ancestral piles were dismantled and demolished. Yet - perhaps surprisingly - many of these great houses survived, as dukes and duchesses clung desperately to their ancestral seats and tenants' balls gave way to rock concerts, safari parks and day trippers. From the Rolling Stones rocking Longleat to Christine Keeler rocking Cliveden, Noble Ambitions takes us on a lively tour of these crumbling halls of power. * A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year * * Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History *
Imperial Ambitions
Author | : Noam Chomsky,David Barsamian |
Publsiher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2024-02-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9798888901854 |
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In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy. Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing America's policies in an increasingly unstable world. With his famous insight, lucidity, and redoubtable grasp of history, Chomsky offers his views on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the doctrine of "preemptive" strikes against so-called rogue states, and the prospects of the second Bush administration, warning of the growing threat to international peace posed by the U.S. drive for domination. In his inimitable style, Chomsky also dissects the propaganda system that fabricates a mythic past and airbrushes inconvenient facts out of history. Barsamian, recipient of the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, has conducted more interviews and radio broadcasts with Chomsky than has any other journalist. Enriched by their unique rapport, Imperial Ambitions explores topics Chomsky has never before discussed, among them the 2004 presidential campaign and election, the future of Social Security, and the increasing threat, including devastating weather patterns, of global warming. The result is an illuminating dialogue with one of the leading thinkers of our time—and a startling picture of the turbulent times in which we live.
Case Study
Author | : Graeme Macrae Burnet |
Publsiher | : Biblioasis |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2022-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781771965217 |
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Shortlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize • Shortlisted for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards • Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize • Longlisted for the 2022 HWA Gold Crown Award The Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination. London, 1965. 'I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger,' writes an anonymous patient, a young woman investigating her sister's suicide. In the guise of a dynamic and troubled alter-ego named Rebecca Smyth, she makes an appointment with the notorious and roughly charismatic psychotherapist Collins Braithwaite, whom she believes is responsible for her sister's death. But in this world of beguilement and bamboozlement, neither she nor we can be certain of anything. Case Study is a novel as slippery as it is riveting, as playful as it is sinister, a meditation on truth, sanity, and the instability of identity by one of the most inventive novelists of our time.
Noble Ambitions
Author | : Adrian Tinniswood |
Publsiher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2021-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781541617995 |
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A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic values As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, its mansions fell and rose. Ancient families were reduced to demolishing the parts of their stately homes they could no longer afford, dukes and duchesses desperately clung to their ancestral seats, and a new class of homeowners bought their way into country life. A delicious romp, Noble Ambitions pulls us into these crumbling halls of power, leading us through the juiciest bits of postwar aristocratic history—from Mick Jagger dancing at deb balls to the scandals of Princess Margaret. Capturing the spirit of the age, historian Adrian Tinniswood proves that the country house is not only an iconic symbol, but a lens through which to understand the shifting fortunes of the British elite in an era of monumental social change.
Material Ambitions
Author | : Rebecca Richardson |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2021-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781421441962 |
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"The book traces the early history of the self-help genre and the literary depiction of ambition in Victorian British fiction. Stories of hardworking characters who bring themselves out of rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. In chapters featuring the works of novelists, the author demonstrates that Victorian fiction dramatized ambition and problematized it as well"--
A Noble Ambition
Author | : Karen Lahey,Elizabeth Albright |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : OCLC:1280870420 |
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Yankee spirit. Lord Carlton was quite simply the most arrogant man Susan Phillips had ever encountered. As a young American visiting her aunt and uncle in London, she was not accustomed to the rigid proprieties of English society--or the cutting remarks of its Corinthian lords. And Carleton was the worst of the lot, daring to tell her to her face she was nothing more than a scheming wanton!
A Noble Ambition
Author | : Karen Lahey |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0821720767 |
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Domestic Allegories of Political Desire
Author | : Claudia Tate |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780195108576 |
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"As a pioneering work, it is itself critical history."--Women's Review of Books. "Tate's book deserves an honored place in historical literature."--American Historical Review.