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| Brueske's second book is quite good. Usually a siege is a dull affair, but not here. The book is bolstered by good prose and research. The only real negative thing to note is the siege was not novel. Just ask the men who were at Yorktown in 1781 and ...more | |
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| Although marred a bit by an odd mix of purple prose and clunky language, this is a very good book. Research is excellent, and the financial aspect of slavery is not given small consideration and, indeed, was at the center of the traffic. For people c ...more | |
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| Brueske's second book is quite good. Usually a siege is a dull affair, but not here. The book is bolstered by good prose and research. The only real negative thing to note is the siege was not novel. Just ask the men who were at Yorktown in 1781 and ...more | |
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| The art was VERY hit and miss (drooling Megatron looks dumb), and the narrative was mostly about Optimus Prime, with almost everyone else falling into the background. It works well enough, if a bit rushed at the end. Regeneration One has its problems ...more | |
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| Tough collection to rate. Generation 2 starts off awkward, with some parts lacking connective tissue, leaving the reader confused by the rushed plotting. If they were not reading G.I. Joe, seeing Cobra Commander, Scarlett, Hawk, and Snake Eyes here w ...more | |
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| Tough book to rate. Martin's account is exhaustive and detailed. He makes most of his arguments well enough. The trouble lies in looking away from Bragg's personal deficiencies. They are noted but underplayed to blame his subordinates. They certainly ...more | |
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| Not quite a thorough examination of the topic, and like many, it cannot answer the questions brought up by misanthropy. Yet, there are good observations here, and, like misanthropy, they are not given to easy political identification. The parts on Ho ...more | |
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| A pretty good balance between great images, a discussion of the shows, and their origins. | |
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| A damn near perfect history book. It explains how these cartoons came about, why they were significant, and takes them on their own terms. Biographies are often hatchet jobs or hagiographies. The same is true with cultural histories, but this avoids ...more | |
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| Pretty good biography with an emphasis on politics. Not a rip roaring read, though, and fundamentally not saying anything Kiper did not say, but does further dispel slanders against McClernand. | |
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“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
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“It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose than all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago; or to anyone who ever sailed a skiff under a quilt sail, the moment in 1492 when somebody thought This is it: the absolute edge of no return, to turn back now and make home or sail irrevocably on and either find land or plunge over the world's roaring rim.”
― Intruder in the Dust
― Intruder in the Dust
“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”
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“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“Poetry is the mother tongue of the human race, as the garden is older than the ploughed field; painting, than writing; song, than declamation; parables, than logical deduction; barter, than commerce. A deeper sleep was the repose of our most distant ancestors, and their movement was a frenzied dance. Seven days they would sit in the silence of thought or wonder; -- and would open their mouths -- to winged sentences.”
― Writings on Philosophy and Language
― Writings on Philosophy and Language
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