The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land

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What ever happened to our inalienable rights?

The Constitution was once the bedrock of our country, an unpretentious parchment that boldly established the God-given rights and freedoms of America. Today that parchment has been shred to ribbons, explains Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, as the federal government trounces state and individual rights and expands its reach far beyond what the Framers intended.

An important follow-up to Judge Napolitano's best-selling Constitutional Chaos, this book shows with no-nonsense clarity how Congress has "purchased" regulations by bribing states and explains how the Supreme Court has devised historically inaccurate, logically inconsistent, and even laughable justifications to approve what Congress has done.

It's an exciting excursion into the dark corners of the law, showing how do-gooders, busybodies, and control freaks in government disregard the limitations imposed upon Congress by the Constitution and enact laws, illegal and unnatural, in virtually every area of human endeavor.

Advance Praise for The Constitution in Exile from Left, Right, and Center

"Does anyone understand the vision of America's founding fathers? The courts and Congress apparently don't have a clue. But Judge Andrew P. Napolitano does, and so will you, if you read The Constitution in Exile."- BILL O'REILLY

"Whatever happened to states rights, limited government, and natural law? Judge Napolitano, in his own inimitable style, takes us on a fascinating tour of the destruction of constitutional government. If you want to know how the federal government got so big and fat, read this book. Agree or disagree, this book will make you think."- SEAN HANNITY

"In all of the American media, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is the most persistent, uncompromising guardian of both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, very much including the Bill of Rights. Increasingly, our Constitution is in clear and present danger. Judge Napolitano-in The Constitution in Exile-has challenged all Americans across party lines to learn the extent of this constitutional crisis."- NAT HENTOFF

"Judge Napolitano engages here in what I do every day on my program-make you think. There's no question that potential Supreme Court nominees and what our Constitution says and doesn't say played a major role for many voters in our last couple of elections. What the judge does here is detail why the federal government claims it can regulate as well as tax everything in sight as it grows and grows. Agree or disagree with him-you need to read his latest book, think, and begin to arm yourself as you enter this important debate."

- RUSH LIMBAUGH

"At a time when we are, in Benjamin Franklin's words, sacrificing essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, here comes the judge with what should be mandatory reading for the executive branch cronies who are busy stealing power while they think we're not watching. Thank goodness the judge is watching and speaking truth to power. More than a book, this is an emergency call to philosophical arms, one we must heed before it's too late."

- ALAN COLMES

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The Constitution in Exile.......2007-10-13

The judge writes clearly and to the every educational level. He addresses such an important issue of our times. I fear this is a time where our civil rights are not in the minds of the general population, and The Judge addresses this also.

The Constitution in Exile.......2007-10-05

Could not finish the book. I think it was not only biased with too much of his personal feelings, but written in a way that was very uninteresting for the reader. Got the book based on his appearances on the Oreilly Factor but was very disappointed. If you are a moderate conservative like most Americans you probably will not like this nor his interpretation of the constitution.

Great for everyone who cares.......2007-08-27

If you do care about the constitution then read this book. People on the left and right are always accusing each other of manipulating it, well that just goes to show that perhaps both are a little guilty, and this book finally drives home some serious things. The best part is that it is factual and therefore informative and edcuations to all the emo-cons who are running around repeating the same dogma to everyone about what they think is the truth, which of course they get from CNN headlines and the NY Times not that I am naming names of news sources that suffer from extreme manipulation or anything.

Important Book.......2007-06-22

A great read explaining how the government has repeatedly gone beyond the law. The last section on the "Patriot" Act should be required reading for all Americans. Wake up before it is too late.

Grim reading ...........2007-05-07

The writing stays well inside the boundaries of "well-read layman's vocabaulary" and rarely descends into cant. I could wish for a more scholarly presentation, but the book does a good job with its intended purpose and for its intended audience. If you've ever said,"There ought to be a law ..." this book will give you a lot to think about.

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Frankenstein Unbound!
Rewriting History
Hillary Clinton's 'Living History' exposed.
All Too Human
Why does Dick Morris always pick on Hillary? I can't be objective, but ...

Rewriting History
Dick Morris
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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ASIN: 0060736690
Release Date: 2005-05-03

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It's one thing to review a book by pounding out a few hundred words of criticism but it's quite another to review a book by writing an entirely new book. That's what Dick Morris, former advisor to President Bill Clinton, has done in Rewriting History, an energetic response to Hillary Clinton's Living History. Mrs. Clinton, Morris warns, is on a direct path to the White House due to a lack of Democratic alternatives and a leftward trend in the nation; therefore America must evaluate who she really is and not just what her memoir says. Morris's book is actually remarkably similar to the slew of attack books published about recent presidents but with the crucial difference that Hillary is at the very least four years away from the Oval Office. So Morris's criticisms of her, though backed up by a 20-year relationship with the Clintons, are rarely more than speculative, worrying about what she might do and asking ominous questions that are inherently unanswerable. Hillary Clinton, in Morris's view, is a much more insecure, disingenuous, and calculating creature than "Hillary," the palatable political product that won election to the Senate in 2000 and she's also an inferior politician to her husband. But as a political operative who has worked for both conservatives and liberals, Morris's indictments of Clinton evolve into a grudging respect as he demonstrates her considerable political resolve. All the same, he refutes many passages in her book with his own accounts of what transpired and indicts her integrity and behavior dating back to Bill Clinton's early career in Arkansas. Going forward, he says, she must decide whether to rely on her behind-the-scenes political acumen or embrace actual convictions. Often, Morris puts Clinton in no-win situations. For instance, while First Lady, she decides to get a dog, a decision that Morris infers is entirely politically motivated despite Clinton saying that it was because daughter Chelsea had moved out. Thus, if she had "admitted" her motivation was political, it would be an admission of cynicism and manipulation, but if she protests that her motives were simpler, Morris would have us believe that she's just lying. Nowhere is it allowed that the woman may have just wanted a dog. Rewriting History, co-written by Morris's wife Eileen McGann, offers a pleasing blend of Washington (and some Little Rock) gossip along with its political strategizing and is more valuable as insider scoop than presidential road map. Fans of Hillary Clinton will find little to alter their view and those who oppose her will find plenty of talking points for all the years of future debates that Hillary Clinton will surely inspire. --John Moe

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A smart and scathing bestseller: former Clinton adviser and confidant Dick Morris offers a response to Hillary Clinton's biography – to expose the history of lies and obfuscations this very controversial politician has left in her wake...

In Rewriting History, Dick Morris had his biggest bestseller in years––and with its subject, Hillary Clinton, perennially in the spotlight, this smart and scathing rebuttal to Living History is sure to have a robust life in paperback as well.

A long–time adviser to both Clintons, in Rewriting History Dick Morris turns his sharp–eyed gaze on Hilary, the former first lady, current New York Senator, and bestselling author. For, as he argues, no politician in America today is better aligned to become president in 2008–and none would bring more baggage to the White house–than Mrs. Clinton. Drawing on his own long working relationship with the Clintons, as well as his trademark deep research and candid, non–partisan analysis, Morris pierces Hillary's mask to get at the truth behind the distortions and omissions of her memoir. Here we meet the real Hillary, both good and bad: the manager who makes the trains run on time, but also the paranoid who sees all those who disagree with her as personal enemies; the idealist, but also the "advice addict" easily misled by the guru of the moment. Morris describes Hillary's sense of entitlement, and warns that it may lead deep into financial scandal. And he demonstrates how Hillary dodges criticism by pretending that every attack is directed not just at her, but at every working woman in America.

Ultimately, Morris argues, Hillary Clinton faces a choice. Will she, like Bobby Kennedy, see the error of her ruthless ways, and embrace the sincere idealism she professes? Or, like Richard Nixon, will she allow the darker angels of her nature to overcome her, jeopardizing herself and the country in the process? As Rewriting History suggests, we can only hope that her past performance is no guarantee of future results.

o For political buffs.

o Dick Morris's credibility as an insider–from his years of experience as an advisor to politicians of every stripe, to his own extensive interactions with the Clintons in the years leading up to and during Clinton's presidency–makes Morris's book the most qualified analysis of, and answer to, Senator Clinton's bestselling memoir.

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Political consultant extraordinaire Dick Morris, former Clinton adviser and confidant, turns his sharp-eyed gaze on Hillary Clinton - whose appetite for power, he argues, has only increased since her husband's checkered presidency. Morris draws on his own extensive interactions with the Clintons, as well as his trademark deep research, to create a rebuttal to Hillary's bestselling autobiography, Living History. Focusing on Senator Clinton's attempts to remake her image in preparation for a future presidential race, Morris exposes Clinton's habitual attempts to pad her resume, amplify her accomplishments, and otherwise misrepresent her life story - in short, to lie - for political gain. Armed with years of political experience and insider credibility, Morris rises to challenge the Senator's memoir, lifting the mask to reveal the dark side of Hillary Clinton.

Now, for the first time, Fox News political analyst and former Clinton adviser Dick Morris turns his sharp-eyed gaze on Hillary, the longtime First Lady, current New York senator, and bestselling author. For,as he argues, no politician in America today is better aligned to become president in 2008 -- and none would bring more baggage to the White House -- than Mrs. Clinton. In Rewriting History, Morris draws on his own long working relationship with the Clintons, as well as his trademark deep research and candid, nonpartisan analysis, to create a rebuttal to Hillary's bestselling autobiography, Living History. Morris documents how Hillary hides her true self behind a ""HILLARY"" brand that is chatty, charming, giggly, and warm --but is far from her true personality.

In Rewriting History, Morris pierces the mask to get at the truth behind the distortions and omissions of Hillary's memoir.

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Frankenstein Unbound!.......2007-08-08

Face it, fellow Americans: if Hillary Clinton did not exist, it would be necessary for us to invent her.

With 'Rewriting History', former Clinton campaign heavy Dick Morris plows into what he saw while doing hard time at the Clinton Oval Office, and what he concludes about uber-pol Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't pretty, folks: She's into Power. Raw Power. Raw, unbridled, absolute Power.

From the time the Hellmouth spat her up as an infant on the rocky slabs of Golgotha (complete with molten magma caul)---or, if you prefer, from the time Mighty Poseidon raised her up from the waves, a virgo intacto in a half-shell!---Hilary has plotted, cajoled, lied, triangulated, and maneuvered with a restless, hungering glee that would have made a Borgia pope blush.

Well, Duh! Look: it has become almost stupefyingly boring to observe that politicians don't really care about their constituents. They want the perks of office: the long 5 martini lunches with bigwigs, Hottentots, and sultans, howler monkeys; the chauffeured limos; the many invitations to get all liquored up in the Green Room and go mano a mano with Hannity, Mathews, or O'Reilly. Wouldn't you? Sure you would.

With that in mind, let's worry less about ethics, character, and competence, and focus on the one trait in our 'Leaders' we should value most: sheer Entertainment Value!

In that regard, then, Ladies & Gentlemen, my fellow Americans, through the pages of Dick Morris's peerless little sordid potboiler---you know her! You love her! You can't live without her! The next President of the United States----HILLARY CLINTON!

Don't groan. I'm throwing my vote for Hillary come 2008 because---well, for deeply personal reasons. Chiefly because I have a fiendish plan. Mainly because we need an interregnum of such beastly political malfeasance, something so utterly hellacious, as to---well, but I'm tipping my hand. It's not that important.

Anyway, Hillary will be more entertaining than anyone else. As Morris observes in what amounts to a collection of bile-dripping epistles devoted to all things Clintoniana, Hillary is a Nixon character: furtive, incapable of bonding with human beings outside her phalanx of titanium-faced harpies (scarier than she is, actually, which is probably the point), willing to sell her grandma into white slavery just to see the look on her face, more than capable of having subordinates or even intimates whacked (I'm lookin' at you, Vince Foster), and very, very paranoid.

The Clintons have sheer moxie, magic & unbridled audacity on their side. Why shouldn't they have Power as a kind of garnish?

Check it out, dawgs: Bizzle and Hizzle pretty much carried out rapine in the Ovum Office, turned the Lincoln Bedroom into a free-standing bordello, looted the White House of everything that wasn't nailed down, and stole the flotation devices & oxygen masks off Air Force 1---and all of this is just their final 2 hours in office alone---and yet still, despite it all, bazillions of registered American voters adore them! If that's a mandate for Divine Right monarchy, what is?

It's true that Morris, a man so feverishly ratty even his literary style sounds like Templeton Rat, has an axe to grind. Morris has a---well, *complicated* relationship with the Clintons. It's like a sort of perverted umbilical cord, and this one works two ways, only instead of feeding precious nutrients it spews out black bile and political poison. That's why "Rewriting History" is so much devilish fun.

Anyway, the point here is that Morris's little exegesis on the Arkansas Power Duet never fails to amuse: pound for pound, it's a truly wicked piece of political skull-duggery. The Portrayal of Lady Clinton is truly warts and all, though mostly warts. Big, nasty, blackish warts, with little scraggly hairs growing out, truth be told.

This might lead you to conclude, as Morris does, that 1) Hillary will do literally anything and everything to get elected Grand Poobah of the Republic; 2) given her brand name, she's likely to take the Prize---beware Obama, there can be only One!---and will, yet again, have those keys to the exhausted Lincoln Bedroom, where in the last Clinton Regime they were lining up overnight donors like 747s at O'Hare; 3) this will be a Great Tragedy for the Republic.

Not so! The Clintons, if not national treasures, are certainly national fixtures, like big, comfy, ratty barco-loungers. We want the Clintons because, unlike JFK, they're America as we see ourselves, not as we ought to be. For better or worse, they're our Ozzie & Harriet, our Augustine & Livia, Lucrezia & Cesare, Kermit & Miss Piggy, Big Bird and Snuffleupagus, Lord & Lady MacBeth.

And it can be said, as Morris someimes does, that Hillary is the supoerior in the political firepower arena: where Bill could tailor his views to every push poll or audience, the Hill can acually adjust her deeply held views (she's hawkish! she's dovish! she's right, left, cleaning up, flying right! she's the King of the Sea!)---better still, she she can also completely alter her dialect and voice! A human Transformer! Marvellous!

Plus, we'd have Bill back. Bill is the gift that keeps on giving: he could jam it up on the sax with Guy Ritchie and Madonna in the Lincoln Bedroom. You know you want it.

Anyway, Morris's book is, as usual, trenchant, nasty, caustic, bold, and deeply amusing. Election 2008, might yield us a national disaster (though it would be hard to imagine trumping the current White House denizen in that regard) but she'll be fun political theater.

As for Dick, though: if Hillary wins, he might find himself rewriting---well, if not history, at least his travel itinerary. Somewhere without extradition laws? Hell hath no fury, and all.

JSG

Rewriting History.......2007-06-16

This book will put chills on your spine. So scary! If this beast could be president our country will be destroyed. A must read before 2008. Lets face it there will be no chat or talk like she thinks-she is a calculating dictator and must be stopped. Thanks Dick Morris for letting giving us this side of Hilary. This is a must read for every American.

Hillary Clinton's 'Living History' exposed........2007-04-26

Dick Morris, political analyst and advisor under president Bill Clinton, offers a rebuttal to former first lady Hillary's Clinton's 'Living History'. Claiming the memoir is distorted and incomplete, Morris critically appraises the New York senator's potential for higher office. No better time to read it then now, as she is in the running for the Office of President.

Mr. Morris was someone who worked very close with Hillary Clinton on a daily basis for years. He reveals both some of her hidden strengths and weaknesses, so the book reads as if it is objective. The facts just keep coming in this book, and it seems dull at first, but keep reading. I would rate the book four-and-half stars. This book is worth reading but does have some strong language.

All Too Human.......2007-02-18

This is basically a warmed version of Travelgate, Whitewater etc covered more memorably in Ann Coulter's first book High Crimes. What Morris doesn't get is what Republicans fear from a Hillary presidency is not really her odious all too human weaknesses outlined here - stealing more china from the White House, installing her cronies in positions of power and demeaning the office through the garage sale of favors. That's a given. It's what her potential loony leftism might do to certain quaint ideas such as the first and second Amendments of the constitution.......

Why does Dick Morris always pick on Hillary? I can't be objective, but ..........2006-11-10

I personally really like Dick Morris, and respect his thinking and product, overall. But, I think Hillary is absolutely perfect and beautiful, yet he just does not seem to like her. I can't understand that, but I still really like Morris, and I truly love Hillary, forever. The book is interesting, though I don't know how accurate and objective it is. Decide for yourself, but if it's about Hillary, it will always be an interesting read. I guarantee it!

Animation Writing and Development, : From Script Development to Pitch (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation)

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Animation writing and Development From script to development to pitch
Too much information
Typical "Mainstream" book.
Animation Writing and Development : From Script Development
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Animation Writing and Development, : From Script Development to Pitch (Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation)
Jean Ann Wright
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ASIN: 0240805496

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The art. The craft. The business. Animation Writing and Development takes students and animation professionals alike through the process of creating original characters, developing a television series, feature, or multimedia project, and writing professional premises, outlines and scripts. It covers the process of developing presentation bibles and pitching original projects as well as ideas for episodes of shows already on the air. Animation Writing and Development includes chapters on animation history, on child development (writing for kids), and on storyboarding. It gives advice on marketing and finding work in the industry. It provides exercises for students as well as checklists for professionals polishing their craft. This is a guide to becoming a good writer as well as a successful one.

* Filled with writing exercises that will challenge your writing limits
* Understand inspiration, idea gathering, and story development
* Tips on how to write for kids and why certain stories appeal to different ages
* The how and why of dialogue-what works, and what doesn't

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Animation writing and Development From script to development to pitch.......2007-08-23

An excellent book that covers all aspects of writing for animation, and I do mean ALL aspects. Nothing is left out. Jean Ann Wright really knows her stuff. And buying the book from Amazon was easy and painless. That's why I use them and why I will continue to use them.

Too much information.......2006-09-22

The book covers tons and tons of topics, which is good for a person with no background in animation writing. But the topics written about, from dialogue to outlining, come with no context, no examples to back up what the author is talking about. Wright writes "Keep your characters consistent. They must be true to their core traits and to what has made them who they are." An example from a current or classic cartoon is direly needed. This happens throughout the book. Under the subheading Conflict Can Reveal Information in the dialogue chapter, she writes "conflict in dialogue...is a good way to get information out and keep it interesting." How? Once again this book screams for examples.
The book trys to explain every thing and any thing about animation. A daunting task. But in the process, every thing seems trite. The chapter on writing features, aka movies, is skimmed, and after reading it, will not make your more apt at writing animation films. Scriptwriting for film is different, in many aspects, from tv animation, and in this book it's made to sound that it's the same.
Overall the book is informative, but for someone who grew up with Scooby Doo, He-Man, Thundercats and saw every Disney film and could write endless thesis on Scooby Doo's tremendous appetite, this book lacks substance.

Typical "Mainstream" book........2006-08-08

This book is abit of a bore and turnoff with all it tips and trixs to create scripts that will please the "buyer". It is colored with a tone of a moral panic that is typical for experts that clame to know what people want and don't want. I think it is safe to say that if the creators of "South Park" or "The Simpson" would have read this book and followed it, thoose series would have never been made - maybe not even Bambi with its horrid shooting of bambis mother?

It also deals with animation at its simplest blocks, it tries to show the steps to a finished product - poorly. It does contain a good hint here and there but as a hole it is a complete waist of time, and a poor candidate for a book to understand the teqnical aspects of animation. If you have some basic knowleadge of character, animation and storyboarding and want to learn how to write for animation, buy books about writing instead.
>RS

Animation Writing and Development : From Script Development .......2005-03-10

Jean Ann Wright's "Animation Writing and Development : From Script Development to Pitch", is a comprehensive and well written book, on the subject.

I would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in writing for animation.

Wow!.......2005-03-07

Every industry has its own special requirements. This book "Animation Writing and Development" by Jean Ann Wright should be titled "A Manual for the Working World of Animation". There are not many books that give all the working aspects of a creative vocation. Wow! What to do, how to do it, and still nurture creative desires! Being a college art instructor, all my classes will know about the existence of this fine work. B. McInerney

The Israel/Palestine Question (Rewriting Histories)

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How low can you go

The Israel/Palestine Question (Rewriting Histories)
Ilan Pappe
Manufacturer: Routledge
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An explicitly revisionist collection that takes the ground away from pro-Israeli historians and suggests a far more nuanced view of the issue, The Israel/Palestine Question assimilates diverse interpretations of the origins of the Middle East conflict with emphasis on the fight for Palestine and its religious and political roots. Drawing largely on scholarly debates in Israel during the last two decades, which have become known as `historical revisionism,' the collection presents the most recent developments in the historiography of the Arab-Israeli conflict and a critical reassessment of Israel's past. The volume commences with an overview of Palestinian history and the origins of modern Palestine, and includes essays on the early Zionist movement, the 1948 war, international influences on the conflict and the Intifada.

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Au Contraire! .......2006-08-04

I strongly recommend this book for all who approach life with open mind and the heart of a student. I suspect the "Shalom Freedom" commentator does not fall under that category.

There is an old Middle-Eastern saying: "One can learn a lot about a person by looking at his enemies." If Ilan Pappe's work is attacked because it takes a far more nuanced view of the bloody conflict between Palestinians and Israel, then that reason by itself warrants the study of its content. After reading this book, I wonder if some Israelies would still be so dismissive of political equality for Palestinians if it was the Palestinians who had the guns and the military might that Israel enjoys today. Please read this book even if you have already made up your mind about what you think it proposes.

How low can you go.......2006-02-17

The editor of this volume Ilan Pappe has devoted his academic career to deligitimizing the state in which he lives and works. He has slandered Israel at every possible opportunity, always denying and covering up the basic truth that the source of the conflict between Israelis and Arabs has always been the refusal of the Arabs to live in peace with a Jewish state, even in a small part of the Holy Land. Pappe ignores the daily propaganda of the Palestinians, the hatefilled rhetoric that has accompanied the conflict from its outset. Even more importantly
all his retellings ignore the part the Palestinians, and the Arab states have played in initiating aggression against Israel.
Pappe is a low- grade propagandist and Benedict Arnold.
Who reads him reads misinformation only.

Rewriting the Women of Camelot: Arthurian Popular Fiction and Feminism (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)

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Rewriting the Women of Camelot: Arthurian Popular Fiction and Feminism (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
Ann F. Howey
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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ASIN: 031331604X

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Though firmly rooted in the Middle Ages, Arthurian legend has captivated readers since Caxton and Malory and continues to thrive today. By looking at contemporary reworkings of Arthuriana, this book explores the intersection of popular fiction and feminist discourses in Western society. It examines selected Arthurian novels and short stories by such women writers as Fay Sampson, Mary Stewart, Gillian Bradshaw, and Marion Zimmer Bradley to analyze the textual strategies that articulate feminist ideas. While these texts maintain continuity with established literary traditions through the replication of conventions, their reworking of women's roles encourages readers to engage liberal feminist ideology. The book first gives an overview of theories of popular fiction, feminism, and reading. It then surveys the medieval texts on which the Arthurian tradition is founded and which the contemporary texts rewrite. The chapters that follow discuss how popular contemporary women writers have reworked Arthurian legend through their narrative strategies and their representation of female character types, such as the royal woman and the magical woman.

From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms (Rewriting Histories)

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From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms (Rewriting Histories)
Thomas Noble
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ASIN: 0415327423

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In 300 C.E. the Roman Empire stretched from Britain to Mesopotamia, from the North Sea to the Sahara Desert. A mere three hundred years later the Roman imperial structure was gone, replaced by a series of barbarian kingdoms that became the basis of Europe's eventual medieval and modern states. In this anthology Thomas F.X. Noble presents a collection of key articles, written by leading scholars over the last twenty years, that examine how and why the dominance of the Roman Empire ended and how new forms of government and society were established.

Since the Renaissance, historians have tended to understand the events of the period in terms of a dramatic "decline and fall" of Rome. However, these revisionist essays provide an overview of how contemporary historians have furthered the debate, reassessing how abruptly the shift from Roman Empire to barbarian Europe occurred, and the origins and causes of the development of the Middle Ages and the new order. Rome played a key role in guiding this transformation and these essays also include a wealth of material on the characteristics and experiences of the barbarian tribes, the relationships they forged with the Romans and how far their new kingdoms were influenced by Rome.

With an accessible and informative introduction, and thorough editorial material accompanying each section, From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms is highly readable and informative compilation of current work and recent perspectives, making complex debates accessible to students and exposing them to the key debates surrounding the study of the era.

Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then (Rewriting Histories)

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Decolonization: Perspectives from Now and Then (Rewriting Histories)

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The process of decolonization which started after World War I utterly reshaped the world and extended the focus of historians to a global perspective. Rather than presenting a coherent event, decolonization varied from country to country in its shape and duration, and has been evaluated differently over time. But is decolonization complete? What replaces former colonial controls after independence? Are Western historical frameworks adequate to describe decolonization?

Decolonization brings together the most cutting edge thinking by major historians of decolonization, including previously unpublished essays, and writings by leaders of decolonizing countries, including Ho Chi-minh and Jawaharlal Nehru. The chapters in this volume present a move away from Western analysis of decolonization, towards the angle of vision of the former colonies. This is a groundbreaking study of a subject central to recent global history.

Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation (Jewish Literature & Culture)

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Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation (Jewish Literature & Culture)
James Edward Young
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The Origins of the Cold War: An International History (Rewriting Histories)

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The Origins of the Cold War: An International History (Rewriting Histories)
Melvyn Leffler
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The Cold War dominated the world political arena for forty-five years. Focusing on the international system and on events in all parts of the globe, Melvyn P. Leffler and David S. Painter have brought together a truly international collection of articles that provide a fresh and comprehensive analysis of the origins of the Cold War.
Moving beyond earlier controversies, this edited collection focuses on the interaction between geopolitics and threat perception, technology and strategy, ideology and social reconstruction, national economic reform and patterns of international trade, and decolonization and national liberation. The editors also consider how and why the Cold War spread from Europe to Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America and how groups, classes and elites used the Cold War to further their own interests.
This second edition brings the collection right up to date, including the newest research from the Communist side of the Cold War and the most recent debates on culture, race and intelligence. Also included is a completely new section dealing with the Cold War crises in Iran, Turkey and Greece and a guide to further reading.

Biofictions: The Rewriting of Romantic Lives in Contemporary Fiction and Drama (European Studies in American Literature and Culture)

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Biofictions: The Rewriting of Romantic Lives in Contemporary Fiction and Drama (European Studies in American Literature and Culture)

Manufacturer: Camden House
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Binding: Hardcover

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It appears that the lives of the British Romantics and the myths surrounding them have a special appeal for contemporary writers.The present volume sets out to explore this renewed interest in Romantic artist-figures in the context of the current renaissance of 'life-writing'. The essays collected here deal with Romantic 'biofictions' by such authors as Peter Ackroyd, Adrian Mitchell, Ann Jellicoe, Liz Lochhead, Judith Chernaik, Amanda Prantera, Robert Nye, Tom Stoppard, Howard Brenton, Edward Bond, and others. Thomas Chatterton, William Blake, James Hogg, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Polidori, John Clare, and -- most prominently -- Lord Byron feature as the 'biographical subjects' in the works discussed.

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