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Book Tricky Dick and His Pals

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Wortis
  • Publisher : Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Tricky Dick and His Pals written by Joseph Wortis and published by Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company. This book was released on 1975 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the adventures of a naughty boy and his pals.

Book The Ballad of Tricky Dick

Download or read book The Ballad of Tricky Dick written by William T. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Struwwelpeter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Heinrich Hoffmann
  • Publisher : Feral House
  • Release : 2012-03-01
  • ISBN : 1936239531
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Struwwelpeter written by Heinrich Hoffmann and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sadistic classic includes Sarita Vendetta's macabre illustrations to Heinrich Hoffmann's verse, and the entire original edition in color.

Book Struwwelpeter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Smith Chalou
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780739116647
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Struwwelpeter written by Barbara Smith Chalou and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recent upsurge in interest in Der Struwwelpeter, written by Heinrich Hoffman has initiated a new wave of spin-offs, parodies, and retellings of these immensely popular stories. Hoffman's style, which is instructive and moralistic, coupled with the sadistic content of his works lend a unique quality to the stories that we don't see in contemporary children's literature. Struwwelpeter: Humor or Horror? is a critical analysis of the now infamous Struwwelpeter stories. While Hoffman intended his depictions of amputated limbs and burning children to be humorous and to warn children against misbehavior, some find the punishments can be excessively vicious. Looking beyond the history of child rearing practices and children's literature, Barbara Smith Chalou considers the socio-historic context in which the book was written and makes comparisons to contemporary children's fare that is similarly violent, but intended to be humorous.

Book Leatherface vs  Tricky Dick

Download or read book Leatherface vs Tricky Dick written by Martin Harris and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Watergate scandal was a horror show. What better way to satirize it than with a horror movie? Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre premiered in October 1974, mere weeks after the resignation and pardon of Richard Nixon brought an uncertain end to the most corrupt and criminal presidency in American history. The film had been conceived, written, shot, edited, and produced precisely as Watergate was playing out, and those responsible for Chain Saw unhesitatingly spoke of the horrors of contemporary politics as having directly inspired the ones they created for the film. Leatherface vs. Tricky Dick presents a fascinating minute-by-minute exploration of the many uncanny connections between The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Watergate, as well as other ways the film comments on contemporary politics via satire and (very) dark humor. Read and discover Chain Saw’s response to the White House horrors, the Saturday Night Massacre, and more, as well as how Leatherface’s masks relate to all those Nixon masks worn throughout “our long national nightmare.”

Book Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady

Download or read book Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady written by Greg Mitchell and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recently discovered unpublished documents from Nixon's 1950 campaign for the Senate, this rousing narrative--featuring such luminaries as Earl Warren, Cecil B. DeMille, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan--exposes the Red-baiting strategy used against Nixon's opponent, Helen Gahagan Douglas, and shows what it was like to be a female politician long before the "Year of the Woman". of photos.

Book The Offensive Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leonard Freedman
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2008-11-30
  • ISBN : 0313356017
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book The Offensive Art written by Leonard Freedman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Offensive Art is an arch and sometimes caustic look at the art of political satire as practiced in democratic, monarchical, and authoritarian societies around the world over the past century-together with the efforts by governmental, religious, and corporate authorities to suppress it by censorship, intimidation, policy, and fatwa. Examples are drawn from the full spectrum of satiric genres, including novels, plays, verse, songs, essays, cartoons, cabarets and revues, movies, television, and the Internet. The multicultural and multimedia breadth and historical depth of Freedman's comparative approach frames his novel assessment of the role of political satire in today's post-9/11 world, and in particular the cross-cultural controversies it generates, such as the global protests against the Jyllands-Posten cartoons. In a tongue-in-cheek style peppered with the world's best one-liners from the last century, The Offensive Art recounts the acrimonious and often perilous cat-and-mouse games between political satirists and their censors and inhibitors through the last century in America (especially FDR, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush II and in wartime), Britain (especially Churchill, Thatcher, Blair and the Royals), Germany (Hitler to the present), Russia (Stalin to the present), China (Mao to the present), India (from the Raj on), and the Middle East (from 1920s Egypt to today). Freedman focuses on the role and transformation of satire during shifts from authoritarian to democratic systems in such places as South Africa, Argentina, and Eastern Europe. He surveys the state of satire throughout the world today, identifying the most dangerous countries for practitioners of the offensive art, and presents his findings as to the political efficacy of satire in provoking change.

Book The English Struwwelpeter

Download or read book The English Struwwelpeter written by Heinrich Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Unexploded Boer

Download or read book The Unexploded Boer written by Erich Rautenbach and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 1975, Erich Rautenbach’s life took a serious turn for the worse when he was bust for selling weed by gun-toting undercover cops. He’d been selling the dope to raise money to leave South Africa in a bid to escape his army call-up and resist having to shoot people in the name of apartheid. But instead he found himself in the infamous John Vorster Square, at the mercy of drug squad policemen who seemed convinced that he was part of some notorious drug ring. This wild memoir recreates the Cape Town of the 1960s and ’70s, where Erich hung out with people from District Six and the Bo-Kaap and jammed with fellow musicians at The Office on Long Street. He describes his travels around the country, to Durban, Johannesburg, the Zulu village where he bought Durban Poison, and all the places in between, and recounts his experiences at John Vorster Square, The Fort and Sterkfontein Sanatorium, where events quickly spiralled out of control. Written in an electric and hilarious style, The Unexploded Boer is destined to become a cult classic.

Book No Kids Allowed

Download or read book No Kids Allowed written by Michelle Ann Abate and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's literature isn't just for children anymore. This original study explores the varied forms and roles of children's literature—when it's written for adults. What do Adam Mansbach's Go the F**k to Sleep and Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here! have in common? These large-format picture books are decidedly intended for parents rather than children. In No Kids Allowed, Michelle Ann Abate examines a constellation of books that form a paradoxical new genre: children's literature for adults. Distinguishing these books from YA and middle-grade fiction that appeals to adult readers, Abate argues that there is something unique about this phenomenon. Principally defined by its form and audience, children's literature, Abate demonstrates, engages with more than mere nostalgia when recast for grown-up readers. Abate examines how board books, coloring books, bedtime stories, and series detective fiction written and published specifically for adults question the boundaries of genre and challenge the assumption that adulthood and childhood are mutually exclusive.

Book Cargo d

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jack Terry
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2019-04-17
  • ISBN : 9781092845120
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Cargo d written by Jack Terry and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when, on a trip to discover yourself, you end up discovering a plot to destabilize a peaceful island population, hatched by the CIA, a renegade surfer, and a Bonobo?The only reason Jennifer has for agreeing to go on a graduation vacation with three almost-friends was to find out if that kiss her and her roommate shared a year and a half earlier meant anything. Instead, they meet a shady salesman in a shifty bar in Key West and end up on the island of Dondesta, a place so mysterious the conquistadors refused to put it on a map four hundred years earlier.There, among a native population almost completely untouched by modern civilization, she meets The Surfpirate, an enigmatic expatriate who seems to hold a revered spot in the island's culture. It is only as a hurricane threatens the island that Jennifer learns the secrets of the island, how it all began, and how much responsibility The Surfpirate has for what the future might hold.First introduced in book four of The Tricky Dick Key West Mystery series, "Red Skies At Midnight," The Surfpirate is seemingly a contract player for hire to the highest bidder, working throughout the Caribbean. "Cargo'd" is as much an origin story as it is an adventure through the world he has come to inhabit, and how he was in a position to become part of the Tricky Dick legend."Cargo'd" reads as both a comedic (and possibly romantic) romp through the tropics as well as holding up a fun-house shaped mirror to the world of American colonialism, the consumer culture, and white privilege.

Book Passing Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : W.D. Ehrhart
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2022-11-09
  • ISBN : 1476647933
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Passing Time written by W.D. Ehrhart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1969 to 1974 Ehrhart was just passing time. His reentry into the "world" began with his enrollment as a 21-year-old freshman (and token Vietnam vet) at Swarthmore College. At first simply trying to bury his past, Ehrhart slowly came to understand what happened to him, and why, in Vietnam. Interspersed are flashbacks to the war itself. It is the story of political--and personal--awakening. As the war dragged on, the United States' deceitful involvement and its perpetuation of fallacies and lies about the war's conduct forced Ehrhart to confront his own feelings about his government, country and self. Throughout, the reader shares with Ehrhart his odyssey through naivete, growing awareness, angry withdrawal and, finally, a measure of peace.

Book Murder by Madness 9 11

Download or read book Murder by Madness 9 11 written by Rachel Verdon and published by Rachel Verdon. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder By Madness 9/11 is not just the history of the most notorious attack upon American shores, it is a banking caper. Just who are the financiers of terrorism? As always, follow the money.

Book Studies on Aby Warburg  Fritz Saxl and Gertrud Bing

Download or read book Studies on Aby Warburg Fritz Saxl and Gertrud Bing written by Dorothea McEwan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in German, Italian and French these articles have been translated into English for the first time by the author, the former archivist of The Warburg Institute, London. Aby Warburg’s research and writings centred on images, their origins and metamorphoses, and their explanations and interpretations. The articles include discussions of Warburg’s academic work with colleagues such as James Loeb, the American Hellenist and philanthropist, and founder of the Loeb Classical Library, and with Josef Strzygowski, the Polish-Austrian art historian of the Vienna School of Art History. Further articles include notes on Warburg’s Serpent Ritual lecture of 1923; his politico-cultural initiative in 1914–1915; his work on caricature, in particular the Struwwelpeter topic; and discussions on the topic of Judaica. The Viennese art historian Fritz Saxl became his trusted friend and collaborator helping to gather Warburg’s large collection of books and photographs into the foundation of an academic institution in Hamburg in the 1920s, and then for a second time in London in the 1930s. The Warburg Institute has become one of the world’s leading centres of intellectual history. (CS 1109).

Book The Making of an Ink stained Wretch

Download or read book The Making of an Ink stained Wretch written by Jules Witcover and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wherever politics has been happening in the past half-century, Jules Witcover has been on the scene -- watching, interviewing, reporting." -- David S. Broder, The Washington Post

Book The Joy of Cataloging

Download or read book The Joy of Cataloging written by Sanford Berman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1981 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: