The Unknown Knowns — its title is a reference to a quote from former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld — is a brilliant send-up of the insidious language and sometimes tragically comic focus of our country’s Homeland Security Department. Combining the social satire of Kurt Vonnegut with the paranoid delusions of Thomas Pynchon, Rotter takes everyday domestic fixations and turns them into a hilarious assessment of the human condition. Fresh, imaginative, and deft, The Unknown Knowns marks the arrival of a unique new voice in literary fiction.
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The Economist - 05th March-11th March 2011 *PDF*
The Economist is a global weekly magazine written for those who share an uncommon interest in being well and broadly informed. Each issue explores the close links between domestic and international issues, business, politics, finance, current affairs, science, technology and the arts.
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Busy Hands: Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort
Focusing on middle-class women’s contributions to the northern Civil War effort, Patricia Richard shows how women utilized their power as moral agents to shape the way men survived the ravages of war. Busy Hands investigates the ways in which white and African American women used images of family and domestic life in their relief efforts to counter the effects of prostitution, gambling, profanity, and drinking, threatening men’s postwar civilian fitness.
The Travels of the King Charles II in Germany and Flanders 1654 - 1660
In a former volume I have dealt with the first eight yearsof Charles II's exile ; in the present one I have sought to follow his career from the time of his departure from France in July 1654 to that of his return to England in May 1660. The story of these six years is a somewhat depressing record of ever-growing misery, despondency, and want, of domestic dissension and moral decadence ; but if this period is less exciting than the earlier one it is also less well known and by no means devoid of incident.
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The Economist - 22nd January-28th January 2011
The Economist is a global weekly magazine written for those who share an uncommon interest in being well and broadly informed. Each issue explores the close links between domestic and international issues, business, politics, finance, current affairs, science, technology and the arts.
