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The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats each allow
their members to participate in the selection of the party leader.
It also examines the consequences of all-member ballots in
leadership elections. It looks at how parties remove leaders,
showing that each of the major British parties sought to make it
harder to evict incumbents.
More than any other critic, George Jean Nathan was responsible for
the emergence of Eugene O'Neill to the forefront of the American
theatre. He blew the trumpets for him season after season, badgered
the Broadway producers to do him, shamed the Theatre Guild into
sponsoring him, and then watched the momentum of all these
campaigns culminate in the Pulitzer, and eventually, the Nobel
Prize. It was Nathan who discovered James Joyce's Dubliners and
published it in The Smart Set. F. Scott Fitzgerald was first
recognized by Nathan, who published Fitzgerald's first fiction in
The Smart Set. And when Fitzgerald needed a model for a lively
drama critic in his novel The Beautiful and the Damned, Nathan was
immediately and perfectly cast. Thomas Quinn Curtiss has reunited
Nathan with his cohort, H.L. Mencken, together with the rest of
their set: Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Edmund Wilson, Sean
O'Casey, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alfred Knopf, Jack London, Somerset
Maugham. The magnificent abandon of their enterprise and the hard
drinking Bohemian wisdom of their writing propelled them and fueled
generations of readers with their wit and philosophy. This is a
biography of an era of men whose stories could only be written by
an eyewitness.
The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats each allow
their members to participate in the selection of the party leader.
It also examines the consequences of all-member ballots in
leadership elections. It looks at how parties remove leaders,
showing that each of the major British parties sought to make it
harder to evict incumbents.
The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats each allow
their members to participate in the selection of the party leader.
It also examines the consequences of all-member ballots in
leadership elections. It looks at how parties remove leaders,
showing that each of the major British parties sought to make it
harder to evict incumbents.
Title: The white doe of Rylstone; or The fate of the Nortons. A
poem.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY &
DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised
by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of
literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian
verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and
poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage
and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Wordsworth, William;
Quinn, Michael Thomas; 1889. pp. xxi, 101. 22 cm. 11643.g.31.
"What Do You Do with a Chocolate Jesus?" is the funny and
skeptical, yet genuine exploration of the Christian history they
don't teach in Sunday school. It finds humor, irony, and occasional
insight amid the inconsistencies, absurdities, hypocrisies, and
flat out weirdness that too often passes for eternal truth. Like a
history of religion as done by The Daily Show, it humorously
explores the facts, the history, and the big ideas in an engaging
and entertaining story. Pitting actual Scripture against pious
propaganda, Thomas Quinn treks through chapter and verse of the New
Testament, explores the sordid saga of medieval beliefs (including
End-of-the-World panics and fights about what kind of stuff Jesus
was made of), and reveals some of the shocking attitudes of
America's founders toward religion. It isn't always pretty, but
it's usually good for a laugh. If war is too important to leave to
the generals, religion is too important to leave to the preachers.
Skeptics need evangelists, too.
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