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Nuff Said
Tyrus; Foreword by Dana Perino
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R453
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The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of
Just Tyrus returns in his inimitable style with deeper
reminiscences on the life that shaped him and how he views the
world we’re living in. "In this sequel, you'll delve into some of
Tyrus's extraordinary life experiences and see how they connect
with the most pressing issues of our time: immigration, crime,
bullying, athletics, politics, China, parenting, and respect (for
ourselves, each other, and the planet). It is Tyrus’s commentary
on all of these issues that has the power to silence a room. When
he talks, people listen. There's so much wisdom and common sense in
his takes that you’ll finish this book more informed and more
optimistic about the future—and we could all use that.” —Dana
Perino A rare voice of reason and authentic storyteller who never
holds back, Tyrus picks up where he left off in Just Tyrus,
delivering a series of gut-wrenching, heart-rending and redemptive
tales from his remarkable life and coupling them with no-nonsense
insights on the hottest issues being discussed around the country.
“Tyrus remains one of the most distinct, original voices in any
medium, if not one of the most brutally honest to enter the realm
of television since Charles Krauthammer. I mention them both
because they're not different—both deep thinkers who leave
inedible marks on those who are lucky enough to cross their paths.
It’s Tyrus's thinking that drives this book, and you'll get it
through his powerful words. Writers spend years trying to concoct a
voice. Tyrus makes it seem like it was always there.” —Greg
Gutfeld Whether he’s tackling the issues of race and activism in
America today or confronting his past with stories of family,
relationships, wrestling, and more, this is pure Tyrus at his
unbridled best. The parallels he draws between current culture and
his personal past are insightful, provocative, and profound. Nuff
Said is a powerful reflection on a complex life and a complicated
world.
New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Pro wrestler and
political commentator Tyrus goes deep into his wild but triumphant
life story, from his painfully dysfunctional upbringing to
bodyguarding for Snoop Dogg, to becoming a wrestling icon and one
of the most provocative on-air voices today. "The author relates
all of his adventures through a series of vividly memorable
anecdotes.... A revealing glimpse of a multifaceted entertainer who
defies easy labeling." -Kirkus "I loved Just Tyrus. I read it in
one day and cheered for him when I got to the end. Tyrus has
written a book that is at once raw, tender, intelligent, candid,
and hilarious. Tyrus took a very rough start to his life and used
perseverance, confident humility, and accountability to land firmly
on his feet. What a triumph!" -Dana Perino, former White House
Press Secretary to George W. Bush and Fox News anchor and host The
product of a 1970s mixed marriage, George Murdoch learned to fight
early in life, fending off both race-baiting bullies and the demons
of a dysfunctional home. Couch surfing all through high school and
most of college, the quick-witted, sharp-tongued giant played
football, ran drugs, and bounced at clubs to try to survive. After
a false start with the WWE, he eventually became Snoop Dogg's
bodyguard and traveled the world with the hip hop legend, biding
his time and honing his rap. When the WWE urged him to return,
George became "Brodus Clay" and, for the next several years,
reinvented himself numerous times under the watchful mentorship of
the legendary Dusty Rhodes, "the American Dream." He was eventually
christened "Tyrus," and shortly after, a chance social media
encounter with Greg Gutfeld at Fox News resulted in Tyrus finding a
new skill: sage social commentator. Ferociously funny, blunt, and
tenacious, Just Tyrus traces his unlikely and spectacular rise. As
always with Tyrus, it's in-your-face and offers no apologies.
"George aka Tyrus aka the realest most blunt human being on the
face of planet earth. Never had a problem telling you what was on
his mind or how he felt, good or bad. Tough exterior but a heart of
gold. Front liner, great friend, and excellent coach for my youth
football team. His work ethic is obvious, taking him from football
to bodyguard to pro wrestler to a superb personality on Fox News.
I've seen him climb the ladder of success, and I'm happy that I was
along for the journey." -Snoop Dogg
The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis offers fresh insight into
the fascinating and controversial works, both literary and visual,
of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957). Accessible to students and scholars
alike, this Companion illuminates key areas of Lewis's life and
career. Written by a team of leading experts, this book examines
Lewis's work in light of contemporary concerns with radical
politics, feminism and queer perspectives, and the effects of mass
media. Individual essays further illustrate the author's early
leadership of the British artistic avant-garde, his varying later
phases as a writer and painter, and his radical and changing
political views, in addition to his complex views on gender and
race, his relation to philosophy and theology, and his
idiosyncratic practice of cultural criticism.
The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis offers fresh insight into
the fascinating and controversial works, both literary and visual,
of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957). Accessible to students and scholars
alike, this Companion illuminates key areas of Lewis's life and
career. Written by a team of leading experts, this book examines
Lewis's work in light of contemporary concerns with radical
politics, feminism and queer perspectives, and the effects of mass
media. Individual essays further illustrate the author's early
leadership of the British artistic avant-garde, his varying later
phases as a writer and painter, and his radical and changing
political views, in addition to his complex views on gender and
race, his relation to philosophy and theology, and his
idiosyncratic practice of cultural criticism.
Provides a single-volume introduction to the important connection
of Frankfurt School thought and modernist culture Tyrus Miller's
book offers readers a focused introduction to the Frankfurt
School's important attempts to relate the social, political, and
philosophical conditions of modernity to innovations in
twentieth-century art, literature, and culture. The book pursues
this interaction of modernity and modernist aesthetics in a
two-sided, dialectical approach. Not only, Miller suggests, can the
Frankfurt School's penetrating critical analyses of the phenomena
of modernity help us develop more nuanced, historically informed
and contextually sensitive analyses of modernist culture; but also,
modernist culture provides a field of problems, examples, and
practices that intimately affected the formation of the Frankfurt
School's theoretical ideas. The individual chapters, which include
detailed discussions of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Herbert
Marcuse as well as a survey of later Frankfurt School influenced
thinkers, discuss the ideas of a given figure with an emphasis on
particular artistic media or contexts: Benjamin with lyric poetry
and architecture as urban art forms; Adorno with music; Marcuse
with the liberationist art performances and happenings of the
1960s. Key Features: Introduces well-studied major figures such as
Benjamin and Adorno in a new light, while connecting their ideas
with problems in modernist art and culture Offers a clear,
thorough, and relevant survey of major ideas and figures Provides a
revisionary view of the rigorous connection of Frankfurt School
theory and modernist culture
This book examines the heritage of critical theory from the
Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukacs through the early
Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and
democratisation. Interweaving discussion of art and literature,
utopian thought, and the dialectics of high art and mass culture,
it offers unique perspectives on an interconnected group of
left-wing intellectuals who sought to understand and resist their
society's systemic impoverishment of thought and experience.
Starting from Lukacs's reflections on art, utopia, and historical
action, it progresses to the Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor
W. Adorno's analyses of music, media, avant-garde and kitsch. It
concludes with discussions of erotic utopia, authoritarianism,
postsocialism, and organised deceit in show trials topics in which
the legacy of Lukacs and Frankfurt School critical theory continues
to be relevant today.
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