Taking Back Our Lives in the Age of Corporate Dominance

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Never before have so many people felt the American Dream crashing down around them. The corporate framework -- which values competition and the bottom line above all else -- keeps people running after an elusive goal and impinges on their personal lives. The authors show how our advertising-driven culture causes material desires to grow with no corresponding increase in personal time or energy to pursue them. These artificially amped-up needs cause a pressure-cooker lifestyle that threatens health and happiness. This book teaches how to find balance by simplifying, paring down on material possessions, and reevaluating corporate careers.

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Typical Marxist Drivel.......2006-05-01

I bought this book at a yard sale, just out of curiosity. It's been a good long time since I've had an opportunity to read some Marxist propaganda. Doggone it, the Soviet Union crashed and all the fun stopped. The propaganda wars of the 80s were a hoot for while. Between Vladimir Posner and the ever-dwindling, drowning CPUSA, we got a glimpse of a kinder, gentler Marxism. This book reads like something out of People's Daily World. I gave the book two stars for nostalgia value.

I read the book in one sitting and wasn't surprised at the conclusions it drew, that it is all the fault of the nasty capitalists who want only to enslave the beleaguered working class. They bombard us with advertising and like mindless dolts we go out and get ourselves in debt and become slaves to the system. Ultimately, the book is condescending and juvenilizing. Shame on you, authors! Treat your readers as intellectual equals! Typical of hardcore Marxists, you treat your fellow working people as not very bright, needing your divine guidance. It's always strikes me funny how none of these people plan on working in the pencil factory after the revolution.

There are two approaches one can take when confronted with the reality that workplaces have become increasingly toxic. (I agree with that assessment.) We can look to the nasty old government to change its ways or we can look to ourselves to create a living on our own, independent of corporations. I choose the second. Freedom is always the best option.

I recommend Claire Wolfe's "How to Kill the Job Culture Before It Kills You." It addresses these issues in a clever and intelligent manner and proposes reasonable solutions to "wage slavery."

Okay overview, but inadequate and simplistic.......2005-10-19

Both of the authors are in the non-profit sector and focus on children issues, especially low-income. That is perhaps their starting point in recognizing the huge impact that corporations have on our society especially in areas of the media and entertainment, education, and the fragility and inadequacy of jobs. The book is a two-parter. In the first part, they give an overview that clearly shows that corporations are elephants stomping all over our society and molding it to their tastes; secondly, the authors urge people to somehow bypass this domination and recapture their lives.

Corporate domination is a result of resources that far exceed those of individual citizens, which have given corporations the ability to control the political process and system and sway the legal system. They control the various media, dishing out trivialities for news in lieu of thoughtful analysis and presenting nonsensical and violent entertainment, while bombarding the public with advertising that subtly creates artificial needs for dubious products. The corporate propaganda concerning family values has to be squared with the globalization movement secured through so-called trade agreements that are having devastating consequences for workers and families, as well as environmental impacts.

The authors are concerned with the passivity that people show towards this corporate onslaught. We watch their nonsense; we buy their image enhancing products; we vote for pro-corporate political candidates; we allow the corporate agenda to penetrate our schools; we shop at Wal-Mart despite its community killing effects, etc.

The authors' suggestions for countering corporate domination and taking back lives are really rather limited. They propose taking the initiative to turn off the TV, take on a development task, cut back on consumption, do volunteer work, find meaningful employment, shop locally, etc. They never say to whom their message is directed. It does seem simplistic and utterly unrealistic for most people, who are forced to conform to the status quo. There are tens of millions of so-called cultural creatives who already resist the corporate message but with little overall impact on corporate power.

The authors wrote in the late 1990s during an economic boom, where more seemed possible even though inequality was undergoing a huge upsurge. In late 2005, their message seems even more out-of-touch. The corporate agenda has an even greater lock on American society, if that is possible, in the Bush era. Oil companies have the ability to influence foreign policy and manipulate oil markets for outrageous profits at the expense of American families. The cynical manipulation of the religious right to gain voting power for the business right continues unabated. At this point, there are no countervailing forces in American society to corporate domination. Unions have been destroyed. There is no democratic (small "d") party. There is no means to even get a democratic message out. But there will have to be a democratic upsurge to counter corporate power. Political action must be taken because that is the basis of corporate power. Most legislation of the last twenty-five years needs to be rescinded and reissued with the needs of the public in mind. Developing one's self and volunteering may be admirable, but it is also mostly irrelevant against corporate power.

Yes, there are cracks in corporate power. Some can find those cracks - most cannot. They simply do not have the means or resources. These authors obviously do. One had $60,000 to run for Congress. In volume II they need to be advocating a real program for countering corporate power and recapturing our society for people, not monolithic entities with no soul.

A Solid Effort!.......2001-04-20

In the pages of their new book, Ellen Schwartz and Suzanne Stoddard relate this quote from Paul Hawken's, The Ecology of Commerce: "There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world." While Hawken was talking specifically about the physical Earth, Schwartz and Stoddard are not so limited in their condemnation. Business is destroying the world and everything in it: democracy, living wages, healthcare, the nutritional value of food and even our sanity. We'll put it simply: If you agree with that mindset, you'll love this book. If you have any doubts that corporations constitute an evil empire, you won't. Nevertheless, we [...] recommend that dedicated professionals read this double-barreled critique of the corporate world, just to know how the other side sees you.

A True Wake-Up Call.......2000-02-21

This easy to read book is for anyone who yearns to live a fuller more creative life and is wondering why they can't seem to be able to make any headway. It presents well documented, sometimes shocking, information you will never hear or read about in the media, interspersed with personal, relevent stories. It educates us as to how we are being manipulated by the media and by large transnational corporations and how this manipulation is affecting every area of our lives, from the emotional health of our children to the physical health of our bodies.

But the book doesn't leave you hanging, feeling helpless and depressed. It is filled with easy suggestions that we, as individuals, can do to turn back the tide and take back control. This book was a real eye-opener and I highly reommend it!

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Taking Back Our Lives in the Age of Corporate Dominance
Ellen; Stoddard, Suzanne Schwartz
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The Equity Culture: The Story of the Global Stock Market
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An Expert Chronicle of the Market’s Ever-Growing Role Worldwide

The modern stock market, B. Mark Smith’s new book makes clear, is only one component of a much broader “equity culture”—a lively and complex international market involving stocks, bonds, mutual funds; joint stock and limited liability corporations; and trading in grain, gold, diamonds, and currency.

The Equity Culture is the story of how that market came about—from shipping magnates banding together in eighteenth-century India to the railroad robber barons of nineteenth-century America to currency traders such as George Soros. Smith’s spirited and colorful telling makes two points especially clear: that the equity culture has always been international, with globalization as merely its current phase; and that the equity culture is often surprisingly self-adjusting, with “manias, panics, and crashes” making possible ever greater risk and innovation.

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Insightful!.......2004-10-14

This book provides a concise and highly readable introduction to the development of the market economy. Beginning with ancient Rome and continuing to the first years of the twenty-first century, author B. Mark Smith traces the ups and downs of financial markets. He shows how and why trading began, explains the great bubbles and panics, and connects the course of markets to the evolution of such economic institutions as central banks. You will learn about some of the more colorful characters, the rogues and geniuses behind great frauds and great rescues. The book moves quickly and cleanly through the dense thicket of market analysis. The author identifies the great market theorists, from Joseph de la Vega through Louis Bachelier to Harry Markowitz and beyond. Moreover, he considers markets on a global scale, paying attention now to Paris, now to Japan, now to Taipei. This is a great deal of material to treat in a single book and any one of the subjects undertaken could easily justify not just one but several volumes. Thus, consider this to be something like a stroll through a market museum with a good docent as your guide. Those who have already read extensively about markets and economics will appreciate the book's light touch and amusing anecdotes. Those new to the field will appreciate its accessibility. We recommend this highly to all readers with an interest in finance.

We're all owners now...............2004-01-12

B. Mark Smith has provided in The Equity Culture a readable account of the evolution of the global equity market. Emphasis on the word global. This is not the history of the U.S. stock market, or what he later refers to as the Anglo-American market, but an account of equity markets in Japan, Germany, Malaysia, and elsewhere, though invariably much of the focus is on Japan, the U.S., the U.K. and Germany. He is very good at weaving into his story the role of market theory from Markowitz on portfolio theory to more recent debates on the efficient market theory (the latter frankly I don't understand). Readers will also find here a more sophisticated treatments of so-called market "bubbles." In my view, he correctly limits the standard explanation of such events to stock markets that are sufficiently developed, or left un-regulated; hence, the so-called Japanese "bubble" is not a case of investors acting on emotion rather than reason because government policy had institutionalized high values.

This is an excellent overview, and he is to be commended for managing to avoid the temptation to stray too far from the main story line. After all any number of tributary topics he covers might well themselves provide the basis of another volume -- including, the role of central banks in crisis periods, the growing influx of pension dollars into equity markets, the co-variance of global markets and, of course, the recurring problem, most recently manifested by Enron and the Italian holding company, Parmalatt(?), of efforts to conceal losses through accounting machinations (see Japan's version in the discussion of Sanyo Special Steel (184-185). I think there is a small error regarding the U.S. crash and that is that "Black Tuesday" was October, not November 29th (see page 126), 1929. Not a big mistake when one bears in mind Galbraith's comment that the singular feature of the crash of 1929 was that the "worst continued to worsen." Overall, an excellent, very readable introduction to the global evolution of equity markets. Stay tuned, though, this history continues to evolve.....

making sense out of irrational human behavior.......2003-10-21

The Equity Culture: The Story of the Global Stock Market
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Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux; 1st edition, Hardcover (August 2003)

B. Mark Smith gives the reader a history and economics refresher in the Equity Culture: the Story of the Global Stock Market. The book, 352 pages, is not hard to read and provides an interesting historical overview of the equity markets. Smith, a former stock trader with FS/Boston and Goldman Sach, is also the author of Toward Rational Exuberance: the Evolution of the Modern Stock Market.

In the Equity Culture, Smith traces equity market activity from the Mississippi Company in the 18th Century to the more academic and sophisticated computer models of today. Through it all, Smith shows the reader that while times may change, human behavior around a rising equity market does not. The real thesis of Smith's book is that equity market bubbles and busts contain three consistent historical trends(1) a new product or development; (2) increased purchasing activity by professional investors in the company or companies selling or providing the new product or development followed by investment by an expanding pool of inexperienced investors; and, (3) easy credit. Each significant downturn in an equity market, from the Romans to the recent technology bust, are preceded by these market elements, according to Smith.

The Equity Culture provides an interesting and wide angle view of the seemingly senseless ups and downs of the equity markets. The book is no novel, but Smith makes what most would consider a pretty dry subject an interesting read. For market veterans, the book provides good perspective; for market rookies a good lessen: look out!!

A great history of stock markets from ancient Rome to Enron.......2003-10-07

I monitor stock prices daily as part of my job, and to fuel my personal investment decisions -- needless to say, I am far from being alone. Yet only decades ago, stocks were clearly not that important for the majority. What has happened? What is happening? This book traces the history of stock from as far as the Roman Empire to modern days through the Middle-Ages.
This book explains that although stocks have been around for a long time, only quite recently have they been so widely used, and only recently have stock prices had such an influence on every major country's economy around the world. A great, well-documented perspective on today's stock-centric economy, and a highly suggested read for anyone dealing with stocks in any way.

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In 1998, Mike Gray changed the political landscape with his book Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out. His book is credited with turning the staunch Republican Governor of New Mexico against the drug war. Now, with The Death Game, he is destined to transform the terrain of criminal justice.

Written with the power of a gritty novel, this documentary on the death penalty shows why justice and capital punishment don't mix. Zeroing in on issues of police brutality, pressures on prosecutors and judges seeking career advancement, and the frailty of eyewitness accounts, Gray puts you in the murder scene on page 1 and won't let you go until the final riveting paragraph.

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Bernadine Skillern screams through the windshield at the man with the gun-"Don't! Don't! Don't!"

Right in front of her under the glare of lights in the Safeway parking lot a white man with a bag of groceries is getting mugged. A black teenager has a gun to his head. In a flash of amazing courage Bernadine leans on her horn and screams at the kid. He glances at her for a heart-stopping second. Then he turns back to his victim. "POP!"

The white guy drops his groceries and collapses on the hood of a parked car as the shooter dashes for the street. At this point, everybody within range hits the deck. But not Bernadine Skillern. She drops into gear and peels out after him, almost cutting him off at the exit. Framed in her headlights, he looks directly at her again-probably wondering if he's run into the Lone Ranger.

After a distinguished career as a documentary filmmaker-American Revolution II, The Murder of Fred Hampton- Mike Gray drew on his engineering background to craft the original screenplay for the eerily prescient film, The China Syndrome. He continues to write for film and television, including several episodes of Star Trek.

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The discovery of the giant Chicxulub impact crater, buried off the coast of Mexico, unveiled the solution to one of Earth's greatest mysteries--what killed the dinosaurs. Scientists uncovered physical evidence to explain the mass extinction that rocked the Earth 65 million years ago. Step-by-step, The End of the Dinosaurs: Chicxulub Crater and Mass Extinctions tells this great scientific detective story. Charles Frankel recounts the birth of the cosmic hypothesis, which holds that the crash of a meteor on the Earth's surface killed two-thirds of life and all the dinosaurs. He first provides a dramatic account of the impact and its aftermath. Frankel then goes on to detail the controversy that preceded the acceptance of the cosmic hypothesis, the search for the crater, its discovery and ongoing exploration, and the effect of the giant impact on the biosphere. In addition, he reviews other mass extinctions in the fossil record and the threat of asteroids and comets to our planet today. More than 70 photographs and diagrams enhance and help illustrate the material. Filled with drama and interesting science, The End of the Dinosaurs will readily appeal to both the general reader fascinated with the subject and the specialist always searching for more clues to this great mystery. Charles Frankel has written a number of articles on the earth sciences in books and magazines. His many books include Volcanoes of the Solar System (Cambridge University Press 1996).

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An Excellent, Well-Written Thesis.......2007-07-11

Charles Frankel's book "The End of the Dinosaurs: Chicxulub Crater and Mass Extinctions" is a well-written, thoroughly researched thesis on the theory of a meteor impact that resulted in the mass extinctions of dinosaurs and other species 65 million years ago.

The author requires no prior knowledge of geology, astronomy, archeology, or paleontology. Instead, he carefully outlines all of the accumulated scientific evidence from these fields of science and presents a convincing argument in support of the impact theory as the cause of the mass extinctions documented in the fossil record. He also presents opposing theories and his arguments against them. The book is nicely illustrated with interesting photographs that supplement the salient points of each chapter.

The book is an easy read, especially for a scientific thesis, and is constructed concisely and intuitively, without the repetitiveness often suffered in similar non-fiction works. I enjoyed reading it on vacation in the Caribbean where I was delighted to be able to spot, in some exposed cliffs, the K-T geologic boundary the author describes so well!

I later shared the book with my 14 year old son, who used the book as his primary resource for a school paper on the subject of an important historical event. My son also found the book to be fascinating, lucid, and eminently readable.

I highly recommend this outstanding work of non-fiction.

Informative and Entertaining.......2005-05-23

This book is an entertaining and informative explanation of how scientists posed the theory that an asteriod had caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous, found evidence that supported the theory, searched for the crater, and eventually linked the Chicxulub Crater in the Yucatan Peninsula to the extinctions.

This book is also a wonderful illustration of how the scientific process works, what scientific controversy looks like, and how people from many different scientific disciplines can work together to advance knowledge. The author provides enough background information for the lay reader to understand the basic situation, but not so much that the reader gets bogged down in details. With a publication date of 1999, it is perhaps a bit dated, but it is well worth reading.

The End of the Dinosaurs.......2002-11-23

The End of the Dinosaurs: Chicxulub Crater and Mass Extinctions written by Charles Frankel is an account of the hunt for, finding, and the theory and controversy assoicited with the great mass extinction that rocked the Earth 65 million years ago.

This book encompasses some great detective work and recounts the birth of the cosmic hypothesis that the effects of a giant impact created on the eart's biosphere led to the exticntion of one very successful life forms on earth... dinosauria.

The descriptions of the crater geology is in terms that the layperson can understand and comprehend. This is ment to pique your interest into Earth sciences and there is and index and bibliography for further study if warrented.

What I found to be the greatest asset in reading this book is the detective work involve in finding the impact area on earth that coinsided with the correct time frame to prove that the impact of an extraterresstial source was one of the contributing factors that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.

There are photos within this book that show impacts throughout the earth, but the only one that can be linked to 65 millions years ago is Chicxulub in the Northern edge of the Yucatan in Mexico. It amazes me how the geologists work and came up with this site. Iridium was only one of the clues that the geologists used to track down the date of tthe impact, but closer to the impact site there were other telltale signs.

Around the Gulf of Mexico, unusual outcrops are found at the K-T boundary. K-T stands for Late Cretaceous-Tertiary begining. In El Penon, Mexico, a thick sandstone unit is interpreted to be a catastrophic tsunami deposit, laid down by the impact. Where it is capped by a fine clay displaying a wavy pattern, thought to mark the oscilation of the current as the tsunami wave sloshed back and forth across the continental platform. When you take a cross-section of the clay you can really see the the ripple marks, making testament to the current switching directions.

From Mexico, to Haiti and around the Gulf of Mexico you see this clay layer and sandstone around the K-T boundary denoting an impact, but what really piqued my interest here was the fine of the ejecta known as spherules and tektites. Tektites are spashes of the impact melt that take on aerodynamic shapes as they spin through the Earth's atmosphere.

On a different note... why are comet more dangerous to Earth than asteroid... because of the sublimation of the ices heated by sunlight. The jets of gas act as reactors and constantly modify the comet's trajectory. Thus, making comets less predictable than asteroids.

This book takes the reader on a journey into Earth Science and shows us what can happen... fascinating what asteroids, meteorites, bolides and comets can do to the rich complexity of the biosphere, not only then, but today as well.

Great Little Book.......2002-05-27

This great little book is far more than promised by the title -- although I must admit that I grabbed it because of the title, so I can hardly fault them for picking something dinosaur oriented.

Yes, we get a history of the scientific controversies leading to the widespread acceptance of a meteorite/comet strike as the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs. But there's more: the book reviews the evidence for associations between bolide strikes and all of the major mass extinctions in earth history. In prose that's clear, but not dry, Frankel reveals what we know -- and don't know -- about these events. Good illustrations and intelligent speculation round out a first-rate and quite up-to-date overview of a rapidly developing field.

One subtext of Frankel's work is how scientist adapt (and in some cases don't adapt) to new evidence. For example, the Siberian Tunguska explosion of 1908 is now widely acknowledged to have been a strike from a comet fragment, but only 20 or so years ago you could read about it primarily in UFO magazines and "mysteries of the unexplained" books. Because science lacked an explanation for it, the explosion was largely ignored.

I second the recommendation of "The Eternal Frontier."

End of the Dinosaurs........2000-04-11

So many theories of the KT extinctions have been forwarded by scientist and lay person alike that it is almost refreshing to have it come down to the confrontation between two, or a few, major theories, in this case the "impactist" and "volcanist" theories. Frankel does a fine job of presenting a balanced and fair account of the contenting theories, particularly Courtillot's Deccan Traps volcanism (for which see Evolutionary Catastrophies or my review of it) and their supporting data. He is, however, thoroughly in the impactist camp. He gives an excellent description of the astroid and of how scientists were able to work out its size, the size of its crater, and its subsequent atmospheric and environmental effects. This is probably the best of the three books (T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, Evolutionary Catastrophies, and End of the Dinosaurs) I've recently read on the subject, although all three are worth reading.

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A Lot of Meat In Spite of Poor Translation.......2003-12-12

I cut my teeth on this TRIZ book. At the time (1992) there were few TRIZ books in English. In spite of the poor translation, I was able to learn a great deal. I would not suggest this book for a TRIZ novice, but any serious TRIZ practitioner should someday read this book. I hope that it will be made available again!

TRIZ is excellent but this book is horrible reading........1997-10-28

Even though this book contains an abundance of TRIZ material, the literal translation of by Williams prevents even the most tenacious reader from capturing very much knowledge. It was a serious work by Altshuller, unfortunately novices to this methodology will have to extract information from this book one piece at a time. If first time readers of TRIZ material would like a good beginners book to start with let me recommend "And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared". This book is easy reading and illustrates many TRIZ principles. First time readers should stay at the shallow end of the pool and when they become more proficient go into the deep water with Ceativity as an Exact Science.

The terrible translation.......1997-02-13

I know the original of this book and believe that at the time of publication in Russian (1979) it was the best book about TRIZ, so I used the highest mark in my first pre-review. But I was totally frustrated by the English edition of the book. The translation is terrible: several words are written in Russian just by the Latin letters. At the moment (February 1997) there is NO good book about TRIZ in English. I'd recommend to read some review, e.g., The Industrial Physicist, December 1996, and to ask experts about availability of books about TRIZ at the time when you recognize this methodology. Semyon D. Savransky (triz_sds@hotmail.com)

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Creativity as an Exact Science
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He did not raise his hat in answer to my salute, but smiled most graciously and made as though he would extend his hand to me, mistaking me, I doubt not, for one of his friends. Forthwith, a member of his suite said something to him in an undertone, whereat he smiled again and took no further notice of me.

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Max Beerbohm: Collected Verse
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And Even Now
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These foreign fellows always are especially to be commended. By the mere mention of their names you evoke in reader or hearer a vague sense of your superiority and his. Thank heaven, we are no longer insular. I don't say we have no native talent. We have heaps of it, pyramids of it, all around. But where, for the genuine thrill, would England be but for her good fortune in being able to draw on a seemingly inexhaustible supply of anguished souls from the Continent.

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"I offer here some of the essays that I have written in the course of the past ten years. While I was collecting them and (quite patiently) reading them again, I found that a few of them were in direct reference to the moments at which they were severally composed. It was clear that these must have their dates affixed to them. And for sake of uniformity I have dated all the others, and, doing so, have thought I need not exclude all such topical remarks as in them too were uttered, nor throw into a past tense such of those remarks as I have retained."

A bibliography of the works of Max Beerbohm

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A bibliography of the works of Max Beerbohm
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Collected Works of Max Beerbohm
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Seven Men The Works of Max Beerbohm Yet Again A Christmas Garland

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The Early Works
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The Imaginary Reminiscences of Sir Max Beerbohm

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The Imaginary Reminiscences of Sir Max Beerbohm
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Max Beerbohm, or the Dandy Dante: Rereading with Mirrors

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An analytic look at Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm, or the Dandy Dante: Rereading with Mirrors
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An analytic look at Beerbohm.......2003-06-08

An exploration of Beerbohm, that puzzling writer, and the Dante he has become.
An interesting exploration of the dandy concept as personified by Beerbohm. Read this to understand how Beerbohm "concealed in his works of prose fantasy, elaborate and profound allegories of the state of man's soul during the palmy days of the bristish empire"

An interesting peek into Beerbohm, "the dandy, talker, caricaturist parodist, esayist and dramatic critic". Read to find more!

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Short Works
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Short excerpt: He flung back the wings of his cape with a gesture which, had not those wings been waterproof, might have seemed to hurl defiance at things in general. And he ordered an absinthe.

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