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Shut Up, I'm Talking is a smart, hilarious insider take on Israeli politics that reads like the bastard child of Thomas Friedman and David Sedaris. Now a political writer for Salon, Gregory Levey stumbled into a job as speechwriter for the Israeli delegation to the United Nations at age twenty-five and suddenly found himself, like a latter-day Zelig, in the company of foreign ministers, U.S. senators, and heads of state. Much to his surprise, he was soon attending U.N. sessions and drafting official government statements. The situation got stranger still when he was transferred to Jerusalem to write speeches for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. more...

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A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697 and published in 1704. It is probably his most difficult satire, and possibly his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided into sections of "digression" and a "tale" of three brothers, each representing one of the main branches of Christianity. The "tale" presents a consistent satire of religious excess, while the digressions are a series of parodies of contemporary writing in literature, politics, theology, Biblical exegesis, and medicine. The overarching parody is of enthusiasm, pride, and credulity. At the time it was written, politics and religion were still linked very closely in England, and the religious and political aspects of the satire can often hardly be separated. The work was published anonymously, and Swift''s cousin Thomas later claimed to have written it. It was enormously popular, but Swift believed it damaged his prospect of advancement in the Church of England. — Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Intuitive navigation. . Text annotation and mark-up. . more...

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A witty compendium of the most salacious, outrageous, and quirky misdeeds in American history. Following on the heels of his national bestseller A Treasury of Royal Scandals, Michael Farquhar turns his attention to matters a little closer to home with A Treasury of Great American Scandals. From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have punctuated our history, we see our founding fathers and other American heroes in the course of their all-too-human events. Ineffectual presidents, lazy generals, traitors; treacherous fathers, nagging mothers, ungrateful children, embarrassing siblings; and stories about insanity, death, and disturbing postmortems are all here, as are disagreeable marriages, vile habits, and, of course, sex: good sex, bad sex, and good-bad sex too. We can take comfort in the fact that we are no worse and no better than our forebears. But we do have better media coverage. Bonus educational material:. *. A brief history of the United States, including scandals!. *. The American Hall of Shame!. *. A complete listing of presidential administrations!. more...

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"I'm not asking you to believe every conspiracy theory you'll find in this book. . . . I didn't write this book to give you all the answers. The Warren Commission did that, and the answers were all wrong. I wrote this book to inspire you to do what the powers that be wish you wouldn't:  to question authority . more...

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Table of Contents. List of Works by Genre. List of Works in Alphabetical Order. List of Works in Chronological Order. Ambrose Bierce Biography. Novels. Cobwebs From an Empty Skull. The Fiend''s Delight. Non Fiction. A Cynic Looks at Life. The Devil''s Dictionary. Write It Right. Anthologies. Fantastic Fables. Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (also known as In the Midst of Life). Collections. Ashes of the Beacon. Bits of Autobiography. Can Such Things Be?. The Fourth Estate. For the Ahkoond. John Smith, Liberator. The Land Beyond the Blow. Negligible Tales. The Ocean Wave. "On with the Dance!". The Parenticide Club. Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories. The Shadow on the Dial, and other essays. Short Stories and Essays. An Adventure at Brownville. The Affair at Coulter''s Notch. An Affair of Outposts. The American Sycophant. The Ancestral Bond. The Applicant. Arbitration. An Arrest. Ashes of the Beacon. At Old Man Eckert''s. A Baby Tramp. A Baffled Ambuscade. The Baptism of Dobsho. The Beating of the Blood. Beyond the Wall. The Boarded Window. A Bottomless Grave. Cairo Revisited. The City of the Gone Away. Civilization. Charity. Charles Ashmore''s Trail. Chickamauga. A Cold Greeting. Counsel for the Defense. Crime and Its Correctives. Curried Cow. The Damned Thing. The Death Penalty. A Diagnosis of Death. The Difficulty of Crossing a Field. A Dissertation on Dogs. Emancipated Woman. Enter a Troupe of Ancients, Dancing. The Eyes of the Panther. The Failure of Hope & Wandel. The Famous Gilson Bequest. For the Ahkoond. A Fruitless Assignment. The Game of Politics. George Thurston. The Gift O'' Gab . Haïta the Shepherd. The Haunted Valley. A Holy Terror. A Horseman in the Sky. Immortality. In the Bottom of the Crucible. Industrial Discontent. An Inhabitant of Carcosa. The Isle of Pines. Japan Wear and Bombay Ducks. John Bartine''s Watch. John Mortonson''s Funeral. John Smith, Liberator. more...

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