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Author : Su Fang Ng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Family Ties, Political Fictions written by Su Fang Ng and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan Didion
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375718907
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Political Fictions written by Joan Didion and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In these coolly observant essays, the iconic bestselling writer looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one presidential impeachment, and an unforgettable sex scandal, Didion reveals the mechanics of American politics. She tells us the uncomfortable truth about the way we vote, the candidates we vote for, and the people who tell us to vote for them. These pieces build, one on the other, into a disturbing portrait of the American political landscape, providing essential reading on our democracy.
Author : David Smit
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000587894
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Authoritarianism and Class in American Political Fiction written by David Smit and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes what many critics consider to be the three best examples of modern American political fiction—Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, Edwin O’Connor’s The Last Hurrah, and Billy Lee Brammer’s The Gay Place—to address a specific problem in American governance: how the intense competition for power among elite factions often results in their ignoring major groups of their constituents, thereby providing political bosses with a rationale to seize authoritarian control of the government in the name of constituent groups who feel ignored or neglected, promising them more democratic rule, but in the process, excluding other groups, so that the bosses themselves become elitist, ruling only for the sake of some constituents and not others.
Author : Celia Buckmaster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Family Ties written by Celia Buckmaster and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gaiutra Bahadur
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 : 9780531225547
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Family Ties written by Gaiutra Bahadur and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Vivanco
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 1847603602
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction written by Laura Vivanco and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dominance of popular romance in the United States fiction market suggests that its trends and themes may reflect the politics of a significant proportion of the population. 'Pursuing Happiness' explores some of the choices, beliefs and assumptions which shape the politics of American Romance novels. In particular, it focuses on what romances reveal about American attitudes towards work, the West, race, gender, community cohesion, ancestral “roots” and a historical connection (or lack of it) to the land.
Author : Joan Didion
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525433821
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Insider Baseball written by Joan Didion and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vintage Shorts Selection • Almost three decades ago, iconic and incomparable American essayist Joan Didion’s now-classic report from the Dukakis campaign trail exposed, in no uncertain terms, the complete sham that is the modern American presidential run. Writing with bite and some humor too, Didion betrays “the process”—the way in which power is exchanged and the status quo is maintained. All insiders—politicians, journalists, spin doctors—participate in a political narrative that is “designed as it is to maintain the illusion of consensus by obscuring rather than addressing actual issues.” The optics of presidential campaigns have grown ever more farcical and remote from the needs and issues most relevant to Americans’ lives, and Didion’s elegant, shrewd, and prescient commentary has never been more urgent than it is right now. An ebook short.
Author : David Smit
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793615330
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book The Political Fiction of Ward Just written by David Smit and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Fiction of Ward Just: Class, Theories of Representation, and Imagining a Ruling Elite uses three theoretical frameworks of representation—literary, political, and diplomatic—to demonstrate how the upper-class status of the ruling elites in Ward Just’s political fiction influences the way they govern. He illustrates how Just’s ruling elites develop a coherent “upper class” form of consciousness that limits their ability as elected officials to adequately represent the interests of all the nation’s citizens domestically—especially the poor and working class—and their ability as diplomats to adequately represent the interests of the nation as a whole internationally. In his conclusion, the author offers suggestions for ways to make our ruling elites more representative of the interests of the working class and underprivileged groups at home and more sensitive to the cultures of the countries in which they serve abroad.
Author : Anindita Majumdar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040154379
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Kinship as Fiction written by Anindita Majumdar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-25 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together emerging ethnographies on kinship in South Asia, this book explores the idea of kinship as ‘fiction’ in intimate relationships. Fictions and fictive kinship within anthropology are contested ideas. Increasingly, research suggests the idea of intimate relationships has to extend beyond the biological assumption of kinship relations. The idea of fiction is also not free from the biological imagination or the persistent dichotomy of nature-culture/nurture-nature. This edited volume resurrects the idea of fiction and fictive-ness to understand how intimate relationships may use these particular labels, translate into practices, or create an experiential understanding around relationships. The chapters in this book reengage the idea of fiction by exploring the ambiguity within household relationships, the process of making and engaging with a craft and skill, and the intricacies of making children through IVF and third-party involvement. They challenge societal norms of marriage and being married by reframing shared substances and the relationality they carry and by remembering deceased ties through acts of resurrection. Through vivid illustrations of life and living in South Asia, each chapter contributes to an understanding of how fiction and reality are mutually creating each other. This book will be beneficial to students, academics and scholars of anthropology, particularly those interested in kinship and the sociology of the family. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Contemporary South Asia.
Author : Amanda Radley
Publisher : Echo Print
ISBN 13 : 9781912684120
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Family Ties written by Amanda Radley and published by Echo Print. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Stuart is a no-nonsense woman who finds herself plunged into the middle of a dark conspiracy. A war that rages on in a foreign country had seemed distant until the moment her close friend, a leading scientist, sends her a cryptic message that she can
Author : Tom Kemme
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879723743
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Political Fiction, the Spirit of the Age, and Allen Drury written by Tom Kemme and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The President of the United States, says the Constitution, cannot act in many specified instances without the "advice and consent" of Congress. But "advice" is not a strong word. And taking or not taking advice is a fairly nebulous situation . . . creating an instability, a fundamental ambiguity, at the very heart of power, between the Congress and the President. It is this instability, and this wide-openness, that allows the free play of the more intangible types of power that begin where the constitution breaks off: sex, personality, and character. Things which are left out of civics textbooks are what Allen Drury took as his subject in such novels as Advise and Consent, A Shade of Difference, and Capable of Honor.
Author : J. Traveler Pelton
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781792046698
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (466 download)
Download or read book The Importance of Family Ties: Book One of the Future Chronicles of the Family Oberllyn written by J. Traveler Pelton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveler is back with all the political intrigue, hard science fiction and adventure her fans have come to expect from her tales. In book 8 of the Future Generations of the Oberllyn Family Chronicles, Noel, Violet, Kai, Zyanya, Jasmine, Scott, Gabriel, Catriona and their families chase through the world, pitting their family, resources, intellect and espionage network against the Brotherhood;. They erect protective domes over all their safe houses and laboratories as they are labeled traitors and enemies of humanity. The military is sent to take them into custody all over the world. As the planet's plant life dies from the sickened water; the mutations spread throughout the animal kingdom. The Oberllyn's are made the scapegoats for all the world's problems. When Micah and Alexander are kidnapped, Noel has to call in help from all the worldwide family to bring them home . As the family worldwide retreat to the domes, they wonder if they will hold through military bombardment? Will the domes hold? Will the earth survive or has the destruction of the environment and the population plummet gone too far to recover? Will only the people of the domes make it to the next millennium?
Author : Julia Adams
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801474040
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Familial State written by Julia Adams and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17th century was called the Dutch 'Golden Age'. Over the course of 80 years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe's dominant power. In this book, Julia Adams explores the role that Holland's great families played in this dramatic history.
Author : Michael Wilding
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003853129
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Political Fictions written by Michael Wilding and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1980, Political Fictions is a work of literary criticism with emphasis on the specific handling of literary forms. The author examines the way in which writers exploring radical politics simultaneously explore radical literary possibilities and look at the various sorts of fictional modes they use-romance, utopian fable, discovered manuscript, imaginary book. He shows how all the writers under discussion experiment with non-realistic forms- sometimes in dialectical combination with realism as one of the poles of the novel’s structure, sometimes in rejection of realism. Wilding has selected six such writers and examines some of their work in detail: Mark Twain, William Morris, Jack London, D.H. Lawrence, Arthur Koestler, and George Orwell. He has chosen works which he believes have been misunderstood and ignored by Left as well as Right. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of English literature and critical theory.
Author : Charles Camic
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804747172
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Max Weber's Economy and Society written by Charles Camic and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an indispensable introduction to Weber's Economy and Society, and should be mandatory reading for social scientists who are interested in Weber. The various contributions to this volume, all written by important Weberian scholars, present the culmination of decades of debates about Weber's various concepts and theories. They are sure guides in the maze of conflicting interpretations, and draw out the implications of Weber's sociology for understanding social change in the 21st century. Gil Eyal, Columbia University Many will value this as the best collection of essays on Max Weber in the English language. It surpasses prior studies in using Weber and the world of his endeavors as entry points into the central issues of social science today. Richard Biernacki, University of California, San Diego"
Author : Hannah Crawforth
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137511443
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Family Politics in Early Modern Literature written by Hannah Crawforth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the ways that family relationships (parental, marital, sibling or other) mimic, and stand in for, political ones in the Early Modern period, and vice versa. Bringing together leading international scholars in literary-historical fields to produce scholarship informed by the perspective of contemporary politics, the volume examines the ways in which the family defines itself in transformative moments of potential crisis – birth and death, maturation, marriage – moments when the family is negotiating its position within and through broader cultural frameworks, and when, as a result, family ‘politics’ become most apparent.
Author : John Montgomery Buckley
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781476766843
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Family Politics written by John Montgomery Buckley and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The youngest of his family and pressured by sibling loyalty, Charles Daley agrees to help his conservative brother take on a Senate race against their liberal uncle currently holding the seat in this political family drama by John Buckley. Working as a rock music critic and political reporter for a popular magazine in Manhattan, Charles Daley has worked hard to get himself out of his family’s political history and into his dream job. But as Charles puts it, “it’s a problem when you want to be a reporter and your family’s the news.” Realizing he can’t run from his familial ties forever Charles gives into the pressures of sibling loyalty and agrees to help his brother in his campaign for Senate. The only issue is his brother is a strict conservative who happens to be running against their liberal uncle and foe currently holding the seat. As the campaign progresses, Charles is taken on a roller coaster ride as he balances keeping his job and handling the numerous threats towards his brother’s campaign, including family skeletons, attempted and actual murders, and angry cousins who aren’t scared to express their frustrations. “A wise, witty, wild, romp. A first-class piece of entertainment.” —Howard Blum, author of I Pledge Allegiance
