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Dreaming of Cockaigne
Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.
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The Land of Cockaigne
THE STORIES: THE LAND OF COCKAIGNE. In THE LAND OF COCKAIGNE, three poignant scenes depict a small family birthday party in a Midwestern yard on a summer day. Each scene presents a different angle on the group, what they say and who they may be. Is
Dreaming of Cockaigne
Imagine a dreamland where roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and all people enjoy eternal youth. Such is Cockaigne. Portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this imaginary land became the most pervasive collective dream of medieval times-an earthly paradise that served to counter the suffering and frustration of daily existence and to allay anxieties about an increasingly elusive heavenly paradise. Illustrated with extraordinary artwork from the Middle Ages, He...
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Land of Cockaigne
A novel written as a sharp parable of American society, addressing love, purpose, discrimination, and poverty. In Jeffrey Lewis’s novel, the Land of Cockaigne, once an old medieval peasants’ vision of a sensual paradise on earth, is reimagined as a plot on the coast of Maine. In efforts to assuage their grief over their son’s death and to make meaning of his life, Walter Rath and Catherine Gray build what they hope will be a version of paradise for a group of young men from the Bronx. As Walter and Catherine work to reinvent this land, formerly a summer resort, the surrounding town of Sneeds Harbor proves resistant. The residents’ well-meaning doubts lead to well-hidden threats, and ...
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The Ballad of New Cockaigne
The Land of Cockaigne was a medieval hedonistic fantasy, explored in legend, oral history and art - a topsy-turvy land of limitless pleasure and constant sexual gratification, where rivers and lakes were filled with wine and beer. Catherine Smith explores a contemporary version of this pleasure paradise in a pamphlet ballad specially written for the series.
The Land of Cockaigne
Ed Ochester's poems have a colloquial immediacy and sparking wit that appeal to a wider readership than most mainstream verse. "Say Hello to the Ocean for Me" Tell her I remember her true name: Thalassa. Tell her how dessicated I am. Tell her I'm dreaming of squid and the rich bed of the pearly oyster. Tell her I'm goofy for her as I always have been, tell her again how mucha giant cigar smoking like a tiny Titanic. Tell her I remember the green abd blue silks of the Gulf Stream, and the iron waves off Rockaway whereeven now the aged and the infirm, Thalassa, walk through the whispering fans of foam to watch a freighter sail off the horizon and, Thalassa, they wade in deeper on their stilt l...
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