The Bishop And The Butterfly

Author : Michael Wolraich
Publisher : Union Square Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1454948027

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The Bishop and the Butterfly by Michael Wolraich Pdf

Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks filled with hundreds of names--businessmen, socialites, gangsters, and bootleggers. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by the governor of New York, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury, the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes; many suspected that Vivian Gordon had been executed to bury her secrets. As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder, Judge Seabury doggedly pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham's powerful political machine--the infamous Tammany Hall. A final dramatic showdown between Seabury and playboy mayor Jimmy Walker precipitated Tammany's downfall and cleared the way for FDR's presidency.

Author : Michael Wolraich
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137438089

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Unreasonable Men by Michael Wolraich Pdf

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Republican Party stood at the brink of an internal civil war. After a devastating financial crisis, furious voters sent a new breed of politician to Washington. These young Republican firebrands, led by "Fighting Bob" La Follette of Wisconsin, vowed to overthrow the party leaders and purge Wall Street's corrupting influence from Washington. Their opponents called them "radicals," and "fanatics." They called themselves Progressives. President Theodore Roosevelt disapproved of La Follette's confrontational methods. Fearful of splitting the party, he compromised with the conservative House Speaker, "Uncle Joe" Cannon, to pass modest reforms. But as La Follette's crusade gathered momentum, the country polarized, and the middle ground melted away. Three years after the end of his presidency, Roosevelt embraced La Follette's militant tactics and went to war against the Republican establishment, bringing him face to face with his handpicked successor, William Taft. Their epic battle shattered the Republican Party and permanently realigned the electorate, dividing the country into two camps: Progressive and Conservative. Unreasonable Men takes us into the heart of the epic power struggle that created the progressive movement and defined modern American politics. Recounting the fateful clash between the pragmatic Roosevelt and the radical La Follette, Wolraich's riveting narrative reveals how a few Republican insurgents broke the conservative chokehold on Congress and initiated the greatest period of political change in America's history.

Author : Bridget Morris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199883196

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The Revelations of St. Birgitta of Sweden by Bridget Morris Pdf

St. Birgitta of Sweden (1303-1373, canonized 1391) was one of the most charismatic and influential female visionaries of the later Middle Ages. Altogether, she received some 700 revelations, dealing with subjects ranging from meditations on the human condition, domestic affairs in Sweden, and ecclesiastical matters in Rome, to revelations in praise of the Incarnation and devotion to the Virgin. Her Revelations, collected and ordered by her confessors, circulated widely throughout Europe and long after her death. Many eminent individuals, including Cardinal Juan Torquemada, Jean Gerson, and Martin Luther, read and commented on her writings, which influenced the spiritual lives of countless individuals. Birgitta was also the founder of a new monastic order, which still exists today. She is the patron saint of Sweden, and in 2000 was declared (with Catherine of Siena and Edith Stein) co-patroness of Europe. Birgitta's Revelations present her as a commanding and dauntless visionary who develops a contemplative mysticism that is always interwoven with social engagement and a commitment to the salvation of the world. Their varied style is dominated by frequent juxtapositions of memorable images and allegories that illustrate her fierce and fertile imagination, her sharp powers of observation and understanding, and her passionate and receptive storytelling powers. This is the first of four projected volumes offering the first complete translation of the Revelations into English since the Middle Ages. This volume, which covers Books I-III of the Revelations, contains some of her earliest visions, dating from the 1340s. Book I addresses some of the major themes of her spirituality, and Books II and III contain a sustained critique of the classes of knights and bishops. The editors provide an extensive introduction outlining the major characteristics of Birgitta's spirituality, her life and work, her style and use of sources, and the main features of her theology.

Author : Michael Wolraich
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780306819193

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Blowing Smoke by Michael Wolraich Pdf

In time for the fall elections, Wolraich pens a witty and penetrating political analysis of the wacky world of rightwing "persecution politics," mixing polemic, history, and strategy.

Author : Jay Williams
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Life in the Middle Ages by Jay Williams Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555005814

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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany by Anonim Pdf

Author : E. Scott Tapscott
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781463470722

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Brushed by the Butterfly's Wings by E. Scott Tapscott Pdf

Depicting the painful start-and-stop process, which is an inevitable part of humankind’s quest for a more enlightened world, BRUSHED by the BUTTERFLY’S WINGS presents the first three decades of the Twentieth Century as a complex period in which a visionary few are beginning to see the errancy of an unjust society and its retentive belief systems. Set in the Southern-most foothills of the Appalachians, it is a fictional account of those few, of the circumstances that propelled them and the resistance that they met; a story of human courage, which pits family member against family member and an idealistic minority against a complacent majority who can see neither a reason for nor the irreversibility of a restlessness that seethes beneath a facade of false civility on the part of some and painful acquiescence on the part of others. A must-read for anyone interested in the deterrent effects of a world more comfortable with the supposed wisdom of traditionalism than with new conceptual realities and the changing paradigms that accompany them.

Author : Anne Parrish,Dillwyn Parrish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN : UCAL:$B302188

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Lustres by Anne Parrish,Dillwyn Parrish Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens,William Harrison Ainsworth,Albert Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433081673711

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Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens,William Harrison Ainsworth,Albert Smith Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10618096

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Bentley's miscellany by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Nye
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Agincourt, Battle of, 1415
ISBN : 1559705914

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Falstaff by Robert Nye Pdf

In this raucous, rollicking romp, the most beloved comic figure in English literature tells his own unbuttoned story to set the record straight.

Author : Mr. Roscoe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752371796

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The Peacock "At Home", the Butterfly's Ball, Etc by Mr. Roscoe Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Peacock "At Home", the Butterfly's Ball, Etc by Mr. Roscoe

Author : Yoko Kawaguchi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300169461

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Butterfly's Sisters by Yoko Kawaguchi Pdf

In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Yoko Kawaguchi explores the Western portrayal of Japanese women—and geishas in particular—from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. She argues that in the West, Japanese women have come to embody certain ideas about feminine sexuality, and she analyzes how these ideas have been expressed in diverse art forms, ranging from fiction and opera to the visual arts and music videos. Among the many works Kawaguchi discusses are the art criticism of Baudelaire and Huysmans, the opera Madama Butterfly, the sculptures of Rodin, the Broadway play Teahouse of the August Moon, and the international best seller Memoirs of a Geisha. Butterfly’s Sisters also examines the impact on early twentieth-century theatre, drama, and dance theory of the performance styles of the actresses Madame Hanako and Sadayakko, both formerly geishas.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : English drama
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090285172

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Miller's Modern Acting Drama: The butterfly's ball. The king incog. The son of the sun. The revolt of the workhouse. A good looking fellow. The wandering minstrel. Pay for peeping. Force of nature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dana De Young
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450288774

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The Butterfly and the Flame by Dana De Young Pdf

"There's something you need to know about Emily..." In the year 2404, America is no more. In a land ruled by the oppressive theocracy known as the Dominion of Divinity, being gay is a capital offense, adultery is punished with the lash, women are forbidden to work, and forced marriages are common. Fifteen-year-old Emily La Rouche faces an impossible choice. On her sixteenth birthday, she will be forced to marry Jonathan Marsh, the son of her landlord. If she refuses, her family will lose everything. If she takes his hand, it is certain that her life will end by a hangman's noose in front of an angry mob. All because Emily has been hiding an enormous secret for years-she was born a boy. As the wedding approaches, Emily's parents realize the only way that she will be safe is if she is to escape the Dominion. With her brother Aaron at her side, Emily flees across post-apocalyptic America in search for a new home. With vile bounty hunters on her trail, only time will tell if Emily will ever find a place where she can live and breathe free as the person she was always meant to be.