Parliament of Whores Open Mark

Parliament of Whores Open Mark
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
Publsiher: Vintage
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1992
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0679741313

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Called "an everyman's guide to Washington" ("The New York Times"), O'Rourke's savagely funny and national bestseller "Parliament of Whores" has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition includes an extensive Foreword by political writer Andrew Ferguson.

Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament House of Commons 3 November 19 December 1640

Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament  House of Commons  3 November 19 December 1640
Author: Maija Jansson
Publsiher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 742
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 1580460372

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The volumes of Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament present the records of proceedings in the House of Commons [5 volumes] and the House of Lords [3 volumes] beginning in November 1640. Volume 1 of theproceedings in the House of Commons is the first of two volumes leading up to the beginning of the impeachment trial of the Earl of Strafford for High Treason. For those interested in the causes of the breakdown that led to civil war and revolution in mid-seventeenth-century England, the volumes of Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament are a good place to begin. The debates in this session focus on the accumulated problems -- political, social, economic, and religious -- that were the legacy of Charles I's years of personal rule. During the almost seven months between the dissolution of the Short Parliament in April 1640 and the first session of what came to be called the Long Parliament in November 1640, the King, his advisors, and army commanders were absorbed with the financial and military problems of the Scottisharmy camped in the north of England. In the Irish parliament in Dublin, reaction against the King's close friend the Earl of Strafford, the Deputy Lieutenant of Ireland, was beginning to crystalize. Throughout the kingdom, religious unrest continued. All of these elements came to play in the Long Parliament. Volume 1 of the House of Commons debate covers the opening session from 3 November through 19 December 1640. This volume plus Volume 2 [December 21,1640 through March 20, 1641] provide the debates leading up to the beginning of the impeachment trial of the Earl of Strafford for High Treason.

Parliament of Whores

Parliament of Whores
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
Publsiher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781555847159

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A #1 New York Times bestseller: “An everyman’s guide to Washington” by the savagely funny political humorist and author of How the Hell Did This Happen? (The New York Times). P. J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political system. Originally written at the end of the Reagan era, this new edition includes an extensive foreword by renowned journalist Andrew Ferguson—showing us that although the names may change, the game stays the same . . . or, occasionally, gets worse. Parliament of Whores is a “gonzo civics book” that takes us through the ethical foibles, pork-barrel flimflam, and Beltway bureaucracy, leaving no sacred cow unskewered and no politically correct sensitivities unscorched (Chicago Tribune). “Insulting, inflammatory, profane, and absolutely great reading.” —The Washington Post Book World

Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament House of Commons 21 December 1640 20 March 1641

Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament  House of Commons  21 December 1640 20 March 1641
Author: Maija Jansson
Publsiher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 854
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 1580460747

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Presents the records of proceedings in the House of Commons (5 volumes) and the House of Lords (3 volumes) beginning in November 1640. This volume contains the debates that lead to the beginning of the impeachment trial of the Earl of Strafford for High Treason.

Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore

Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore
Author: Todd A. Comer,Joseph Michael Sommers
Publsiher: McFarland
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2012-02-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780786464531

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Alan Moore, the idiosyncratic, controversial and often shocking writer of such works as Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and V for Vendetta, remains a benchmark for readers of comics and graphic novels. This collection investigates the political, social, cultural, and sexual ideologies that emerge from his seminal work, Lost Girls, and demonstrates how these ideologies relate to his larger body of work. Framed by Moore's insistence upon deconstructing the myth of the superhero, each essay attends to the form and content of Moore's comics under the rubric of his pervasive metaphor of the "politics of sexuality/the sexing of politics."

Long Travail and Great Paynes

Long Travail and Great Paynes
Author: Vivienne Westbrook
Publsiher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2001-05-31
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0792369556

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Some of England's most fascinating Renaissance texts have been forgotten by historians, literary critics and theologians alike. The earliest printed Bibles in the English language provide an astonishingly rich resource for interdisciplinary studies in the 21st century. Long Travail and Great Paynes is a close textual analysis of seven texts that for a wide range of reasons, but no good ones, have been reduced to paratextual entries in general histories of the English Bible. Through extensive collations of her own, Westbrook uncovers the work of seven Renaissance Bible translator-revisers and argues forcefully for a new agenda to replace the outmoded and inappropriate one of evaluating Renaissance Bibles according to the extent of their influence on the 1611 King James Authorised Version. Every sixteenth-century text reflects something of the historical dynamic in which it was created, and English Renaissance Bibles, with their ever-changing text and paratext, have their own unique stories to tell.

Parliamentary Papers

Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1884
Genre: Bills, Legislative
ISBN: HARVARD:32044106504194

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Devil Land

Devil Land
Author: Clare Jackson
Publsiher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780141984582

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*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022* A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday Times A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis. As an unmarried heretic with no heir, Elizabeth I was regarded with horror by Catholic Europe, while her Stuart successors, James I and Charles I, were seen as impecunious and incompetent. The traumatic civil wars, regicide and a republican Commonwealth were followed by the floundering, foreign-leaning rule of Charles II and his brother, James II, before William of Orange invaded England with a Dutch army and a new order was imposed. Devil-Land reveals England as, in many ways, a 'failed state': endemically unstable and rocked by devastating events from the Gunpowder Plot to the Great Fire of London. Catastrophe nevertheless bred creativity, and Jackson makes brilliant use of eyewitness accounts - many penned by stupefied foreigners - to dramatize her great story. Starting on the eve of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and concluding with a not-so 'Glorious Revolution' a hundred years later, Devil-Land is a spectacular reinterpretation of England's vexed and enthralling past.