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  1. Bite the hand that feeds you
    essays and provocations
    Author: Fairlie, Henry
    Published: c2009
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0300123833; 0300155522; 1282437550; 9780300123838; 9780300155525; 9781282437555
    Subjects: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; Political science; Politische Wissenschaft
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 355 p.)
    Notes:

    "A New republic book."

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Bite the hand that feeds you
    essays and provocations
    Published: c2009
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven

    A genius for conflict: the life of British politics. Sketches of MPs -- The BBC attitude to politics -- In defense of ordinariness -- On the comforts of anger -- Evolution of a term: The establishment -- Chips of memory -- A volcanic flash: Winston... more

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    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    A genius for conflict: the life of British politics. Sketches of MPs -- The BBC attitude to politics -- In defense of ordinariness -- On the comforts of anger -- Evolution of a term: The establishment -- Chips of memory -- A volcanic flash: Winston Churchill -- The last, best hope for mankind: American space and time. A cheer for American imperialism -- In defense of big government -- Let the convention be "a brawl" -- The importance of bathtubs: Fairlie at large -- Mencken's Booboisie in control of GOP: Fairlie at large -- The voice of hope: Franklin D. Roosevelt -- My America! -- If Pooh were president: a Tory's riposte to Reaganism -- Migration: Washington diarist -- Citizen Kennedy -- The idiocy of urban life -- Merry faxmas: Washington diarist -- Greedy geezers -- Brief whining moments: The collapse of oratory -- Pen ultimate -- Spurious George -- Perrier on the rocks -- An evening with Hooter -- The harlot's prerogative: Writers and the press. Necessary weapons -- Press against politics -- Magnates, mischief, and mass circulation -- How journalists get rich -- A radical and a patriot: Randolph Bourne -- Tory days: George F. Will -- When challenger fell from the sky. Henry Fairlie was one of the most colorful and trenchant journalists of the twentieth century. The British-born writer made his name on Fleet Street, where he coined the term "The Establishment," sparred in print with the likes of Kenneth Tynan, and caroused with Kingsley Amis, among many others. In America his writing found a home in the pages of the New Yorker and other top magazines and newspapers. When he died, he was remembered as "quite simply the best political journalist, writing in English, in the last fifty years."Remarkable for their prescience and relevance, Fairlie's essays celebrate Winston Churchill, old-fashioned bathtubs, and American empire; they ridicule Republicans who think they are conservatives and yuppies who want to live forever. Fairlie is caustic, controversial, and unwavering--especially when attacking his employers. With an introduction by Jeremy McCarter, Bite the Hand That Feeds You restores a compelling voice that, among its many virtues, helps Americans appreciate their country anew

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780300155525; 0300155522; 1282437550; 9781282437555
    Subjects: Politics and government; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Essays; LITERARY COLLECTIONS ; Essays
    Scope: Online Ressource (xi, 355 p.)
    Notes:

    "A New republic book. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record