Author: Willis Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780941238014
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
An entertaining book about the controversial Jim Longley of Maine, who single-handedly upset both political parties to become the first Independent to be elected governor in modern times in the US.
The Year of the Longley
Author: Willis Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780941238014
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
An entertaining book about the controversial Jim Longley of Maine, who single-handedly upset both political parties to become the first Independent to be elected governor in modern times in the US.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780941238014
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
An entertaining book about the controversial Jim Longley of Maine, who single-handedly upset both political parties to become the first Independent to be elected governor in modern times in the US.
LBJ's 1968
Author: Kyle Longley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108140572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kyle Longley leads his readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the 'year of a continuous nightmare'. Longley explores how LBJ perceived the most significant events of 1968, including the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert Kennedy, and the violent Democratic National Convention in Chicago. His responses to the crises were sometimes effective but often tragic, and LBJ's refusal to seek re-election underscores his recognition of the challenges facing the country in 1968. As much a biography of a single year as it is of LBJ, LBJ's 1968 vividly captures the tumult that dominated the headlines on a local and global level.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108140572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kyle Longley leads his readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the 'year of a continuous nightmare'. Longley explores how LBJ perceived the most significant events of 1968, including the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert Kennedy, and the violent Democratic National Convention in Chicago. His responses to the crises were sometimes effective but often tragic, and LBJ's refusal to seek re-election underscores his recognition of the challenges facing the country in 1968. As much a biography of a single year as it is of LBJ, LBJ's 1968 vividly captures the tumult that dominated the headlines on a local and global level.
The Candlelight Master
Author: Michael Longley
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473572916
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
*AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR* 'I can't bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching way beyond comfort or certainty.' So wrote Maria Johnston, reviewing Longley's previous book Angel Hill. Yet The Candlelight Master does not only face into shadows. The title poem sums up the chiaroscuro of this collection, named after a mysterious Baroque painter. Other poems about painters - Matisse, Bonnard - imply that age makes the quest for artistic perfection all the more vital. A poem addressed to the eighth-century Japanese poet, Otomo Yakamochi, says: 'We gaze on our soul-landscapes / More intensely with every year.' The soul-landscape of The Candlelight Master is often a landscape of memory. But if Longley looks back over formative experiences, and over the forms he has given them, he channels memory into freshly fluid structures. His new poems about war and the Holocaust speak to our own dark times. Translation brings dead poets up to date too. The bawdy of Catullus becomes Scots 'Hochmagandy'. Yakamochi and the lyric poets of Ancient Greece find themselves at home in Longley's Carrigskeewaun.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473572916
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
*AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR* 'I can't bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching way beyond comfort or certainty.' So wrote Maria Johnston, reviewing Longley's previous book Angel Hill. Yet The Candlelight Master does not only face into shadows. The title poem sums up the chiaroscuro of this collection, named after a mysterious Baroque painter. Other poems about painters - Matisse, Bonnard - imply that age makes the quest for artistic perfection all the more vital. A poem addressed to the eighth-century Japanese poet, Otomo Yakamochi, says: 'We gaze on our soul-landscapes / More intensely with every year.' The soul-landscape of The Candlelight Master is often a landscape of memory. But if Longley looks back over formative experiences, and over the forms he has given them, he channels memory into freshly fluid structures. His new poems about war and the Holocaust speak to our own dark times. Translation brings dead poets up to date too. The bawdy of Catullus becomes Scots 'Hochmagandy'. Yakamochi and the lyric poets of Ancient Greece find themselves at home in Longley's Carrigskeewaun.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Year Book - Carnegie Institution of Washington
Author: Carnegie Institution of Washington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
The Weather in Japan
Author: Michael Longley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916390969
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The poems in this volume vary widely in length, subject, and setting (from Mayo, to Tuscany, to Japan). With a Zen-like grace, even the briefest poems hurdle logical gaps and sidestep reason to get to truths. The poet's acute vision is directed outward, and we know him only through the light he casts on the world's things as he holds them in loving, elegiac frames. Winner of the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry, 2001; Winner of the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, 2001; Winner of the Hawthornden Prize, 2000.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916390969
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The poems in this volume vary widely in length, subject, and setting (from Mayo, to Tuscany, to Japan). With a Zen-like grace, even the briefest poems hurdle logical gaps and sidestep reason to get to truths. The poet's acute vision is directed outward, and we know him only through the light he casts on the world's things as he holds them in loving, elegiac frames. Winner of the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry, 2001; Winner of the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, 2001; Winner of the Hawthornden Prize, 2000.
Stock Exchange Practices
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stock exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 1874
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stock exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 1874
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banking law
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banking law
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Stock Exchange Practices: Guardian Detroit union group. Dec. 19, 1933-Jan. 23, 1934. 2 v
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stock exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stock exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Literature of Ireland
Author: Terence Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139487809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
One of Ireland's foremost literary and cultural historians, Terence Brown's command of the intellectual and cultural currents running through the Irish literary canon is second to none, and he has been enormously influential in shaping the field of Irish studies. These essays reflect the key themes of Brown's distinguished career, most crucially his critical engagement with the post-colonial model of Irish cultural and literary history currently dominant in Irish Studies. With essays on major figures such as Yeats, MacNeice, Joyce and Beckett, as well as contemporary authors including Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon and Brian Friel, this volume is a major contribution to scholarship, directing scholars and students to new approaches to twentieth-century Irish cultural and literary history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139487809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
One of Ireland's foremost literary and cultural historians, Terence Brown's command of the intellectual and cultural currents running through the Irish literary canon is second to none, and he has been enormously influential in shaping the field of Irish studies. These essays reflect the key themes of Brown's distinguished career, most crucially his critical engagement with the post-colonial model of Irish cultural and literary history currently dominant in Irish Studies. With essays on major figures such as Yeats, MacNeice, Joyce and Beckett, as well as contemporary authors including Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon and Brian Friel, this volume is a major contribution to scholarship, directing scholars and students to new approaches to twentieth-century Irish cultural and literary history.