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Please Don T Remain Calm Provocations And Commentaries
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Author : Michael Kinsley
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2008-04-17
Please Don T Remain Calm Provocations And Commentaries written by Michael Kinsley and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-17 with Political Science categories.
A lucid deconstruction of the politics and public figures shaping the social, financial, and military disasters of our times. This selection of Michael Kinsley's trenchant editorial writing in Slate (and elsewhere) since 1995 covers the end of the Clinton era (Monica, impeachment, etc.) and two terms of George W. Bush (9/11, the War on Terror, Iraq, etc.).During this time Kinsley left Washington for Seattle and founded Slate, was opinion editor of the Los Angeles Times, underwent brain surgery for Parkinson's disease, and had other adventures that are reflected here. Although mostly about politics, there are articles and essays about other things, such as the future of newspapers, the existence of God, and why power women love Law and Order.This is the work of a writer at the top of his form. Kinsley's wit is a weapon that any talk-show host or elected blowhard should envy and fear, and the reader will cherish his sense of humor, which enlivens even the toughest subject matter.
Please Don T Remain Calm
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Author : Michael E. Kinsley
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 2008
Please Don T Remain Calm written by Michael E. Kinsley and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Political Science categories.
Compiles selections of editorial commentary on topics such as the Clinton impeachment, war on terrorism, and why power women love "Law and Order."
Deadline Artists
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Author : John P. Avlon
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2011-09-21
Deadline Artists written by John P. Avlon and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-21 with History categories.
Now in its fifth hardcover printing, Deadline Artists celebrates the relevance of the newspaper column through the simple power of excellent writing. It is an inspiration for a new generation of writers— whether their medium is print or digital—looking to learn from the best of their predecessors. Contributors include: Jimmy Breslin, Ernie Pyle, Dorothy Thompson, Thomas L. Friedman, David Brooks, Ernest Hemingway, Will Rogers, Langston Hughes, Woody Guthrie, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, Art Buchwald, William F. Buckley, Dave Barry, Anna Quindlen, George Will, and Pete Hamill.
Culture War
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Author : Telly Davidson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-07-22
Culture War written by Telly Davidson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-22 with Social Science categories.
What didn’t you like about the 1990s—the peace or the prosperity? Setting aside nostalgia for the end of the 20th century, this book takes a candid look at the decade after the Cold War and before 9/11, when America’s culture war began with the election of a media-savvy, Baby Boomer president (and his liberal feminist wife). Bill Clinton’s postmodern administration betokened gay equality, an education-based labor force and a race and gender-diverse workplace and government, panicking conservatives and sparking the 1994 Republican Revolution. Meanwhile, with the advent of the 24-hour cable news cycle and the Internet, a media “punditocracy” arose. Parsing every event from the O.J. Simpson trial to the Monica Lewinsky scandal, commentators and talk show hosts spun news, politics and pop culture until they became one thing. Beginning with the “Red and Blue” partitioning of America that would nurture the Tea Party, and ending with the 9/11 attacks, this examination of the 1990s demonstrates how the decade shaped the world we live in today.
Snark
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Author : David Denby
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-01-13
Snark written by David Denby and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-13 with Social Science categories.
What is snark? You recognize it when you see it -- a tone of teasing, snide, undermining abuse, nasty and knowing, that is spreading like pinkeye through the media and threatening to take over how Americans converse with each other and what they can count on as true. Snark attempts to steal someone's mojo, erase her cool, annihilate her effectiveness. In this sharp and witty polemic, New Yorker critic and bestselling author David Denby takes on the snarkers, naming the nine principles of snark -- the standard techniques its practitioners use to poison their arrows. Snarkers like to think they are deploying wit, but mostly they are exposing the seethe and snarl of an unhappy country, releasing bad feeling but little laughter. In this highly entertaining essay, Denby traces the history of snark through the ages, starting with its invention as personal insult in the drinking clubs of ancient Athens, tracking its development all the way to the age of the Internet, where it has become the sole purpose and style of many media, political, and celebrity Web sites. Snark releases the anguish of the dispossessed, envious, and frightened; it flows when a dying class of the powerful struggles to keep the barbarians outside the gates, or, alternately, when those outsiders want to take over the halls of the powerful and expel the office-holders. Snark was behind the London-based magazine Private Eye, launched amid the dying embers of the British empire in 1961; it was also central to the career-hungry, New York-based magazine Spy. It has flourished over the years in the works of everyone from the startling Roman poet Juvenal to Alexander Pope to Tom Wolfe to a million commenters snarling at other people behind handles. Thanks to the grand dame of snark, it has a prominent place twice a week on the opinion page of the New York Times. Denby has fun snarking the snarkers, expelling the bums and promoting the true wits, but he is also making a serious point: the Internet has put snark on steroids. In politics, snark means the lowest, most insinuating and insulting side can win. For the young, a savage piece of gossip could ruin a reputation and possibly a future career. And for all of us, snark just sucks the humor out of life. Denby defends the right of any of us to be cruel, but shows us how the real pros pull it off. Snark, he says, is for the amateurs.
Creative Capitalism
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Author : Michael Kinsley
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-12-08
Creative Capitalism written by Michael Kinsley and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-08 with Business & Economics categories.
Bill Gates is more than the world's most successful capitalist; he's also the world's biggest philanthropist. Gates has approached philanthropy the same way he revolutionized computer software: with a fierce ambition to change the rules of the game. That's why at the 2008 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Gates advocated a creative capitalism in which big corporations, the distinguishing feature of the modern global economy, integrate doing good into their way of doing business. This controversial new idea is discussed and debated by the more than forty contributors to this book, among them three Nobel laureates and two former U.S. cabinet secretaries. Edited by author and columnist Michael Kinsley, Creative Capitalism started as a first-of-its-kind online conversation that brought together some of the world's best minds to engage Gates's challenge. From Warren Buffett, who seconds Gates's analysis, to Lawrence Summers, who worries about the consequences of multiple corporate objectives, the essays cover a broad spectrum of opinion. Judge Richard Posner dismisses Gates's proposal as trumped-up charity that will sap the strengths of the profit-maximizing corporation, while journalist Martin Wolf maintains that the maximization of profit is far from universally accepted, and rightly so. Chicago Nobel laureate Gary Becker wonders whether altruistic companies can survive in a competitive economy, while Columbia Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps argues that a little altruism might be the right prescription for a variety of market imperfections. Creative Capitalism is not just a book for philanthropists. It's a book that challenges the conventional wisdom about our economic system, a road map for the new global economy that is emerging as capitalism adapts itself once again to a changing world.
Book Review Digest
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Book Review Digest written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
The Comprehensive Guide For Da Wah In Mosques Masjids
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language : en
Publisher: Bassam Bokhowa
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The Comprehensive Guide For Da Wah In Mosques Masjids written by and has been published by Bassam Bokhowa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Devi And The Enchantress
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Author : Kakoli G
language : en
Publisher: Notion Press
Release Date : 2020-01-03
Devi And The Enchantress written by Kakoli G and has been published by Notion Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-03 with Fiction categories.
Three women from very diverse backgrounds and residing on the jinxed floor of a luxury condominium in Kolkata find themselves facing the wrath of the law of the land. The rich, conniving couple Vivek and Vimmi Kumar try their best to wriggle out of the lethal web they have spun. The greedy, selfish and pompous Mrs. Roy places money above everything else, until one day her life comes crashing down. The loyal and dutiful Mrs. Agarwal does her best to care of her family, until one mistake by her husband changes everything. Mrs. Roy, Mrs. Kumar and Mrs. Agarwal are engulfed in this swirling tornado. How will these three women weather the storm? Will their lives ever be the same?
Zen Under Fire A New Zealand Woman S Story Of Love War In Afghanistan
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Author : Marianne Elliott
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Release Date : 2012-02-22
Zen Under Fire A New Zealand Woman S Story Of Love War In Afghanistan written by Marianne Elliott and has been published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-22 with History categories.
I am about to be left in charge of the office. I'm not sure I am ready for the responsibility, so I double-check with my boss. He reassures me. 'You'll be fine, Marianne. As long as no one kills Amanullah Khan, you'll be fine.' By midday, Amanullah Khan is dead. In 2006 Marianne Elliott, a human rights lawyer from New Zealand, was stationed with the UN in Herat. Several months into her new role an important tribal leader is assassinated while she is in charge of the local UN office. She must try to defuse the situation before it leads to widespread bloodshed. And this is just the beginning of her story in Afghanistan. Zen Under Fire is a vivid account of Marianne's experience living and working in the world's most notorious battlefield. As well as sharing the incredible details of her UN role, Marianne tells the very personal story of the shattering effect that the high-stress environment had on her and her relationships, and asks what it really means to do good in a country that is under seige from within. This is an honest, moving and at times terrifying true story of a woman's time peacekeeping in one of the most dangerous places on earth. Also available as an eBook