John the Painter: The First Modern Terrorist
Autor Dr Jessica Warneren Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 feb 2005
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781861976635
ISBN-10: 1861976631
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 143 x 206 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1861976631
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 143 x 206 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Jessica Warner is the author of Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason. Born and raised in Washington DC, she is a graduate of Princeton and Yale. She is an assistant professor at Toronto University.
Recenzii
Jessica Warner's John the Painter shows you just how good history can get: a tour de force of original thinking; deep immersion in a lost world (or in this case, underworld); prodigious empathy with its hapless anti-hero and exhilarating, knife-sharp writing that concedes nothing to fiction writers at the top of their game. Don't be fooled by its modest size and ostensibly eccentric subject; this is rich, ambitious history, executed in literary fireworks: a small glory and a joy to read.
This is a fascinating tale of a bizarre incident of the American Revolution. George the Third's England, it seems, was as susceptible to terror panic as George Bush's twenty-first-century America. Jessica Warner writes history carefully and well.
As an historian Jessica Warner has rare gifts - she makes the past come alive without the condescension of hindsight, and she writes beautifully. Her excavation of John the Painter from eighteenth-century documents shows that she also has an eye for a good story.
A fascinating story, and Warner's telling of it is informative and stimulating.
An invaluable narrative . . . One of the pleasures of this book lies in the revelation of an almost forgotten world of landladies, spies, dockyard workers, tavern owners and the rest of the then mundane world. It is a panorama of hidden 18th-century life, as fresh and as vivid as if it occurred yesterday.
Admirably researched and written in an engagingly wry style.
Jessica Warner's sharply sketched study of John the Painter, a political arsonist who tried to burn down the royal dockyards during the American revolutionary war, is a wonderful study in haplessness, by turns grim and comical, complete with all the mire and madness of the age as a backdrop to the crime.
This is a fascinating tale of a bizarre incident of the American Revolution. George the Third's England, it seems, was as susceptible to terror panic as George Bush's twenty-first-century America. Jessica Warner writes history carefully and well.
As an historian Jessica Warner has rare gifts - she makes the past come alive without the condescension of hindsight, and she writes beautifully. Her excavation of John the Painter from eighteenth-century documents shows that she also has an eye for a good story.
A fascinating story, and Warner's telling of it is informative and stimulating.
An invaluable narrative . . . One of the pleasures of this book lies in the revelation of an almost forgotten world of landladies, spies, dockyard workers, tavern owners and the rest of the then mundane world. It is a panorama of hidden 18th-century life, as fresh and as vivid as if it occurred yesterday.
Admirably researched and written in an engagingly wry style.
Jessica Warner's sharply sketched study of John the Painter, a political arsonist who tried to burn down the royal dockyards during the American revolutionary war, is a wonderful study in haplessness, by turns grim and comical, complete with all the mire and madness of the age as a backdrop to the crime.