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Among Others
In these stories of rebellion--gentle or not--extraordinarily ordinary people attempt to bend life to their own wants and needs. It is humorous, pathetic, heroic, stimulating, and engrossing.
De Facto Artistocracy -- Constitutional?
Do you believe that the Founding Fathers were shallow thinkers? When they forbade the use of honorific titles, demanded by royalty and other aristocracy, were those Founding Fathers forbidding only the title-words, or treating those words as short-hand for the entire system that they had just jettisoned; inherited wealth, privilege and political power? These and the author's other uncomfortable questions about unquestioned realities of American life today can trigger a list of workable, potential solutions. You might not agree with the thrust of this book's questions ... but will you be able to ignore the questions?
The Last Cavalier
Left for dead at the sack of Drogheda, Richard Talbot later ingratiated himself with the future James II by plotting to assassinate Oliver Cromwell. Using fresh primary sources The Last Cavalier: Richard Talbot (1631-91) traces how Talbot, though a gallant, gamester and 'cunning dissembling courtier', grew to be more than just another Restoration rake. He took on the cause of reconciling his countrymen's allegiance to London and to Rome and, under a Catholic king, clawing back their lost status and power. Talbot, now Earl of Tyrconnell and viceroy, almost succeeded but after the Boyne (where he led the Jacobite army in battle) he lost his grip. The Last Cavalier is the first full-scale biography of a great though not a good man.
