Author: Joseph Cummins File Type: epub The complete history of mudslinging, character assassination, and other election strategies You might think todays politicians play roughbut history reveals that dirty tricks are as American as apple pie. This revised and updated edition of Anything for a Vote covers 225-plus years of smear campaigns and bad behavior in U.S. presidential elections, from George Washington to Barack Obama. Let the name-calling begin! 1836 Congressman Davy Crockett accuses candidate Martin Van Buren of secretly wearing womens clothing He is laced up in corsets! 1864 Candidate George McClellan describes his opponent, Abraham Lincoln, as nothing more than a well-meaning baboon! 1960 Former president Harry Truman advises voters that if you vote for Richard Nixon, you ought to go to hell! Full of sleazy and shameless anecdotes from every presidential election in United States history, Anything for a Vote is a valuable reminder that history does repeat itself, lessons can be learned from the past (but usually arent), and our most famous presidents are not above reproach when it comes to the dirtiest game of allpolitical campaigning.**ReviewDirty tricks of the covert and the sleazy. ---New York Times Magazine About the AuthorJoseph Cummins is the author of numerous books, including A Bloody History of the World, which won the 2010 Our History Project Gold Medal Award and Ten Tea Parties Patriotic Protests That History Forgot. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his wife and daughter. An award-winning audio engineer for over forty years, Tom Perkins has expanded his skills to narrating and has more than sixty titles to his credit. He learned by working with the worlds best voice talent during his career, and he continues to engineer a variety of projects.

Author: Georges Bataille File Type: epub Batailles first novel, published under the pseudonym Lord Auch, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Batailles obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century. **

Author: Dagmar C G Lorenz File Type: pdf Stereotypical characters that promoted the Nazi worldview were repurposed by antifascist authors in Weimar Germany, argues Dagmar C.G. Lorenz. This is the first book to trace Nazi characters through the German and Austrian literature. Until the defeat of the Third Reich, pro-Nazi literature was widely distributed. However, after the war, Nazi publications were suppressed or even banned, and new writers began to dominate the market alongside exile and resistance authors. The fact that Nazi figures remained consistent suggests that, rather than representing real people, they functioned as ideological signifiers. Recent literature and films set in the Nazi era show that the Nazis, ambiguous characters with a sinister appeal, live on as an established trope in the cultural imagination.

Author: Silvia Federici File Type: pdf