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Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, smuggled wine up
the Thames with the help of the Navy. Tony Blair confessed that a
stiff drink and half a bottle of wine a night had become a helpful
crutch while in office. Joseph Stalin flushed out traitors with
vodka. The disintegration of Richard Nixon and Boris Yeltsin was
largely down to drink. Winston Churchill was famous for his
drinking, often taking a whisky and soda first thing in the morning
and champagne ritually with dinner. But why did these politicians
drink and what was their tipple of choice? How did drinking shape
the decisions they made? Ben Wright, political correspondent for
the BBC, explores the history of alcohol within politics, from the
debauched drinking practices of eighteenth-century ministers to
today, often based on his own experiences supping with politicians
in Westminster bars. With exclusive interviews and in-depth
research, Order, Order! uses alcohol as a lens through which to
meet a remarkable cast of politicians, to understand their times
and discover what drove them to drink. A story of boozy bon viveurs
- but with many casualties too - and the complexity of the human
condition and the pull of the bottle.
"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my
barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song
of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online,
collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300
historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their
own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the
best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off
point for discussions in the U.S. history classroom and beyond.
Long before Whitman and long after, Americans have sung something
collectively amid the deafening roar of their many individual
voices. The Yawp highlights the dynamism and conflict inherent in
the history of the United States, while also looking for the common
threads that help us make sense of the past. Without losing sight
of politics and power, The American Yawp incorporates transnational
perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of
resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation.
It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets,
congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between
maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. The fully
peer-reviewed edition of The American Yawp will be available in two
print volumes designed for the U.S. history survey. Volume II opens
in the Gilded Age, before moving through the twentieth century as
the country reckoned with economic crises, world wars, and social,
cultural, and political upheaval at home. Bringing the narrative up
to the present,The American Yawp enables students to ask their own
questions about how the past informs the problems and opportunities
we confront today.
"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my
barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song
of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online,
collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300
historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their
own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the
best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off
point for discussions in the U.S. history classroom and beyond.
Long before Whitman and long after, Americans have sung something
collectively amid the deafening roar of their many individual
voices. The Yawp highlights the dynamism and conflict inherent in
the history of the United States, while also looking for the common
threads that help us make sense of the past. Without losing sight
of politics and power, The American Yawp incorporates transnational
perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of
resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation.
It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets,
congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between
maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. The fully
peer-reviewed edition of The American Yawp will be available in two
print volumes designed for the U.S. history survey. Volume I begins
with the indigenous people who called the Americas home before
chronicling the collision of Native Americans, Europeans, and
Africans.The American Yawp traces the development of colonial
society in the context of the larger Atlantic World and
investigates the origins and ruptures of slavery, the American
Revolution, and the new nation's development and rebirth through
the Civil War and Reconstruction. Rather than asserting a fixed
narrative of American progress, The American Yawp gives students a
starting point for asking their own questions about how the past
informs the problems and opportunities that we confront today.
Under the leadership of Nehemiah, the Children of Israel rebuilt
the walls of Jerusalem. They restored the honor and traditions of a
once great city. God wants to build spiritual walls around our
lives. He wants to be our refuge. If God can help restore a wall in
52 days, imagine what He can do with you.
Born with a silver knife in his back, Ben Wright's exploits and
ordeals in his rites of passage toward self-discovery, range from
the extreme to the bizarre. His adventures were enhanced and
refined by extraordinary encounters with such Twentieth Century
luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Admiral
Ruthven Libby, Jonas Salk, G. Gordon Liddy, Ray Charles, Paul
Robeson, Colonel Robbie Reisner, Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis,
Eldridge Cleaver, "Free-Wheeling" Frank Reynolds, Jim Morrison,
Richard Brautigan, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Graves,
Juan Goytisolo, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Claribellle Alegria, and
cunning Charlie Bludorn. To escape upper-middle class mind-numbing
conformity and ennui, Ben joined the U.S. Navy after graduating
with honors from an Ivy League university. He served his country as
a commissioned line combat naval officer, was involved with the
first SEAL team, and became a court martial, Intelligence officer
in the Viet Nam era. Following military service, and after failing
as an Episcopalian priest, Ben became a blue-water sailor, survived
a North Sea mine-field Force 12, and also engaged in working as an
archeologist/mythographer. He worked as an actor in American
feature films, radio broadcaster and producer, but was redeemed to
near bodhisattvahood in Tibetan Buddhism. He also served in prisons
for forty-eight years as an alcohol and drug counselor (himself a
recovered alcoholic of thirty-one years sobriety), founding Clarion
Call, a foundation to end recidivism through education. So indulge
yourself within these pages, savoring these true life adventures of
this Twenty-first Century Renaissance Man, and you will be asking
for more. Reserve the second volume, Authenticity: Inimitable
Quintessential.
Ben Wright's Bonds of Salvation demonstrates how religion
structured the possibilities and limitations of American
abolitionism during the early years of the republic. From the
American Revolution through the eruption of schisms in the three
largest Protestant denominations in the 1840s, this comprehensive
work lays bare the social and religious divides that culminated in
secession and civil war. Historians often emphasize status
anxieties, market changes, biracial cooperation, and political
maneuvering as primary forces in the evolution of slavery in the
United States. Wright instead foregrounds the pivotal role religion
played in shaping the ideological contours of the early
abolitionist movement. Wright first examines the ideological
distinctions between religious conversion and purification in the
aftermath of the Revolution, when a small number of white
Christians contended that the nation must purify itself from
slavery before it could fulfill its religious destiny. Most white
Christians disagreed, focusing on visions of spiritual salvation
over the practical goal of emancipation. To expand salvation to
all, they created new denominations equipped to carry the gospel
across the American continent and eventually all over the globe.
These denominations established numerous reform organizations,
collectively known as the ""benevolent empire,"" to reckon with the
problem of slavery. One affiliated group, the American Colonization
Society (ACS), worked to end slavery and secure white supremacy by
promising salvation for Africa and redemption for the United
States. Yet the ACS and its efforts drew strong objections.
Proslavery prophets transformed expectations of expanded salvation
into a formidable antiabolitionist weapon, framing the ACS's
proponents as enemies of national unity. Abolitionist assertions
that enslavers could not serve as agents of salvation sapped the
most potent force in American nationalism Christianity and led to
schisms within the Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist churches.
These divides exacerbated sectional hostilities and sent the nation
farther down the path to secession and war. Wright's provocative
analysis reveals that visions of salvation both created and almost
destroyed the American nation.
One of golf's preeminent commentators with more than fifty years of
experience, Ben Wright relates the wealth of experiences he's
gained from writing and broadcasting about the world's greatest
golfers and courses, and his take on the infamous interview that
cost him his twenty-three-year career as a golf announcer with CBS
Sports. In "Good Bounces and Bad Lies", Wright brings the reader
into the world of professional golf--and professional golf
broadcasting--depicting in equal measure the game's grace and
tradition as well as its often raucous behind-the-scenes character.
Wright tells of the ups and downs of his expansive career, relating
dozens of funny and outrageous anecdotes along the way. Having
known such greats as Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Seve
Ballesteros, Tom Watson, and many other prominent figures in the
world of golf, Wright gives the true insider's perspective.
Although controversial, Wright is an entertaining and engaging
figure who personifies the elegance and audacity of the game of
golf. This Bison Books edition features a new afterword by the
author.
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