Download or read book Camelot s Court written by Robert Dallek and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls “Kennedy’s leading biographer,” delivers a riveting new portrait of this president and his inner circle of advisors—their rivalries, personality clashes, and political battles. In Camelot’s Court, Dallek analyzes the brain trust whose contributions to the successes and failures of Kennedy’s administration—including the Bay of Pigs, civil rights, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam—were indelible. Kennedy purposefully put together a dynamic team of advisors noted for their brilliance and acumen, including Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy, and trusted aides Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger. Yet the very traits these men shared also created sharp divisions. Far from being unified, this was an uneasy band of rivals whose ambitions and clashing beliefs ignited fiery internal debates. Robert Dallek illuminates a president deeply determined to surround himself with the best and the brightest, who often found himself disappointed with their recommendations. The result, Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House, is a striking portrait of a leader whose wise resistance to pressure and adherence to principle offers a cautionary tale for our own time.

Download or read book Exiled from Camelot written by Cherith Baldry and published by . This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The court of Camelot is unsettled by the arrival of Loholt, King Arthur?s illegitimate son. Driven by the need for an heir, the king embraces the stranger, though not everyone in Camelot so readily accepts the mysterious young man. Arthur?s seneschal and foster brother, the redoubtable Sir Kay, is especially wary of Loholt?s motives. And when Loholt is killed, Kay finds himself under suspicion of murder.Stripped of his knighthood, Kay forges an unwilling alliance with the renegade Briant and his lover, the enchantress Brisane, who seek to bring down the men closest to the king. If Sir Kay cannot redirect their plot or win back the court?s trust, nothing will save Camelot from the twin threats of war and evil sorcery.?One of the half-dozen best Arthurian novels I have yet read.? ?Phyllis Ann Karr, author of Idylls of the Queen and The Arthurian Companion.?An original novel of considerable merit.? ?Science Fiction Chronicle?A book you will not want to put down.? ?RPGnet

Download or read book Visions of Camelot written by Jeff A. Menges and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 148 color and black-and-white illustrations presents unique interpretations of the enduringly popular Arthurian legends by a variety of artists, including Wyeth, Beardsley, Flint, and Pyle.

Download or read book The Camelot Code Geeks and the Holy Grail written by Mari Mancusi and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie must embark on her first official mission as a companion in the action-packed sequel to The Camelot Code! In the second book in the Camelot Code series, Sophie is now tasked with protecting the spirit of King Arthur throughout the ages, so it's no surprise when she and Stu get sucked in to another Arthurian adventure: get the Holy Grail into King Arthur's hands so he can drink from it and recover from a deadly illness. It's not easy, especially since Merlin's apprentice, Emrys, has accidentally turned the Grail into a gassy, fire-breathing baby dragon. And Merlin is the only one who can change it back. But Merlin's on spring break in modern-day Las Vegas (at the Excalibur, of course). And Sophie's super-popular (not to mention super-annoying) future stepsister, Ashley, has invited herself along for the ride. From sneaking a baby dragon through airport security to the ultimate showdown with the sorceress Morgana, deep in the land of Faerie, this new Camelot Code adventure will test not only the two geeks' courage, but also their very friendship. Spring break just got epic!

Download or read book The New Camelot written by Robyn Schneider and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sayeth it ain't so! The finale to the epic Emry Merlin trilogy is here, with all the sorcery, snark, and high stakes that made The Other Merlin one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year! Everything is finally going right for Emry Merlin. Now that Arthur is the king and her wayward magic is under control, she’s enjoying life as Camelot’s official court wizard—and as Arthur’s girlfriend. But when an unexpected visitor arrives at court, Emry finds her hard-won position threatened. And Arthur is torn between listening to his advisors and following his heart. Even more troubling, war is on the horizon, with King Yurien’s access to dark magic ensuring Camelot’s doom. That is, unless Emry, Arthur, and Lance can find a way to defeat the evil sorceress Bellicent with magic from her own world. But undertaking a quest to Anwen is perilous business, and our young heroes will face many obstacles on their journey—from dangerous beasts to suspicious nobles to cursed maidens determined to find someone to marry. Can Emry and Arthur save their kingdom and fix their relationship, or will they have to choose between their future and Camelot’s?

Download or read book The Feasts of Camelot with the Tales that Were Told There written by Mrs. T. K. Hervey and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond Camelot written by Edward L. Rubin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-27 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that many of the basic concepts that we use to describe and analyze our governmental system are out of date. Developed in large part during the Middle Ages, they fail to confront the administrative character of modern government. These concepts, which include power, discretion, democracy, legitimacy, law, rights, and property, bear the indelible imprint of this bygone era's attitudes, and Arthurian fantasies, about governance. As a result, they fail to provide us with the tools we need to understand, critique, and improve the government we actually possess. Beyond Camelot explains the causes and character of this failure, and then proposes a new conceptual framework, drawn from management science and engineering, which describes our administrative government more accurately, and identifies its weaknesses instead of merely bemoaning its modernity. This book's proposed framework envisions government as a network of connected units that are authorized by superior units and that supervise subordinate ones. Instead of using inherited, emotion-laden concepts like democracy and legitimacy to describe the relationship between these units and private citizens, it directs attention to the particular interactions between these units and the citizenry, and to the mechanisms by which government obtains its citizens' compliance. Instead of speaking about law and legal rights, it proposes that we address the way that the modern state formulates policy and secures its implementation. Instead of perpetuating outdated ideas that we no longer really believe about the sanctity of private property, it suggests that we focus on the way that resources are allocated in order to establish markets as our means of regulation. Highly readable, Beyond Camelot offers an insightful and provocative discussion of how we must transform our understanding of government to keep pace with the transformation that government itself has undergone.

Download or read book Camelot Vine written by Petrea Burchard and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A failing Hollywood actress falls through a gap in time, lands in a Dark Ages war camp and saves King Arthur's life. There's no toilet paper in 500 AD and she can't get her migraine prescription filled. But Casey learns to value friends and love, even as she learns to value her own life.

Download or read book An Unfinished Life written by Robert Dallek and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 2003 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the life of John F Kennedy.

Download or read book Camelot Cosmos Player s Guide written by Daniel Jupp and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Camelot Cosmos Players Guide offers a new roleplaying setting and a user-friendly version of the FATE RPG system. The Players Book contains everything you need to know in order to create characters and select from hundreds of options. The setting combines Arthurian and post-apocalyptic elements as players take sides in an epic conflict between the forces of King Gawain and the dreaded Queen Morgan le Fay. AI, combat cyborgs, and VR meet mages, knights and holy relics in a game that breaks all the old genre barriers. The Players Guide is packed with info including: - A streamlined version of the FATE system. Quicker, deadlier, easier than other FATE versions. - 13 described Realms in an extensive Gazetteer of the setting. - A Players version of the History of the setting. - Scores of new playable Races with unique characteristics. - Over 200 fully described Aspects and 100 Skills. - Simple character creation and combat rules ensure that you can be playing within 20 minutes.

Download or read book Women of Camelot written by Mary Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of the tales surrounding Britain's legendary King Arthur, told from the perspective of eight women. Determined and resourceful, they drive the Camelot story through love, hate, intrigue, enchantment and tragedy as, one by one, their voices come swirling out of the mists of time.

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Download or read book Camelot Cosmos GM s Guide written by Daniel Jupp and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Camelot Cosmos GMs Guide offers even more information on the genre-busting Camelot Cosmos setting. The GMs book contains tons of information ensuring that GMs can fully describe this exciting setting and all the politics and places within it. In this book you will find a huge number of plot seeds and secrets designed to make campaign creation easier. The setting is fully described and GMs can: - Learn the true history behind the Days of Gedd and the destruction of the First Empire. - Discover the secrets of the Key NPCs of the setting. - Learn the aims and plots of 20 powerful Organisations. - Use the Relic Creation Tables to create new magic items. - Reward players with Quest-linked special powers as they advance through various factions. - Use the Name, Patron, Villain, Quest and Location Tables of the Adventure Creation System to create endless and varied adventures. - Read full descriptions of 50 existing Artefacts including the legendary Moon Grail and Excalibar.

Download or read book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight A New Verse Translation written by and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).

Download or read book Under Camelot s Banner written by Sarah Zettel and published by Luna Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This follow-up to "In Camelot's Shadow" finds the kingdom of Camliard threatened by war. While her older sister Laurel remains a hostage, Lynet must bring back the last heir to Camliard's ancient royal house--the High Queen Guinevere. Original.

Download or read book By Camelot s Blood written by Sarah Zettel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative and highly engaging romantic fantasy set in the evocative time of King Arthur. Laurel Carnbrea, Queen of Cambryn, arrives at Camelot to marry a man she has never met - Sir Agravain, the brother of the renowned Sir Gawain. Laurel has heard that Agravain is a reserved and cold man, but marriage to King Arthur's nephew will give vital protection to her own lands. However, before the marriage can be consummated, Laurel's new huband receives news that his father, King Lot, is dying, and he must return to his homeland of Gododdin in the north. King Lot has been mad for many years - tormented by the sorceress Morgaine, Arthur's half-sister and deadliest enemy. Agravain and Laurel arrived to find the land of Gododdin in disarray and under threat of invasion from the Picts - led by Morgaine. Laurel has powers of her own, inherited from her grandmother, the Sea, and is prepared to use them to save the land of the new husband she is learning to love. By pitting herself against Morgaine she will face the gravest danger; and Agravain risks losing the woman who has finally managed to reach his heart!

Download or read book The Guinevere Deception written by Kiersten White and published by Ember. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White comes a new fantasy series reimagining the Arthurian legend, set in the magical world of Camelot . . . . There was nothing in the world as magical and terrifying as a girl. Princess Guinevere has come to Camelot to wed a stranger: the charismatic King Arthur. With magic clawing at the kingdom's borders, the great wizard Merlin conjured a solution--send in Guinevere to be Arthur's wife . . . and his protector from those who want to see the young king's idyllic city fail. The catch? Guinevere's real name--and her true identity--is a secret. She is a changeling, a girl who has given up everything to protect Camelot. To keep Arthur safe, Guinevere must navigate a court in which the old--including Arthur's own family--demand things continue as they have been, and the new--those drawn by the dream of Camelot--fight for a better way to live. And always, in the green hearts of forests and the black depths of lakes, magic lies in wait to reclaim the land. Deadly jousts, duplicitous knights, and forbidden romances are nothing compared to the greatest threat of all: the girl with the long black hair, riding on horseback through the dark woods toward Arthur. Because when your whole existence is a lie, how can you trust even yourself? *THE FIRST BOOK IN THE CAMELOT RISING TRILOGY*