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It’s not just that it’s fun and funny and charming–and it is all those things–but it also represents queerness in a way that I think is enormously important. “I’ve been a huge fan of Lumberjanes since precisely ApI know because that’s when I started tweeting about how great it is. ![]() ![]() ![]() I literally could smell America that's close he brought me to it. (There are around 3 million travellers in the largest group of American nomads, roaming the country in motorhomes and UVR's) Grant himself spent many years travelling across 6000 miles of America, and it shows. ![]() It provides us with an insight into American communities and cultures that are often absent from the Hollywood and television networks presentation of America. Grant's book is a truly mind expanding experience. The book lifts the lid on the stereotypes and humanises these people that the mainstream media often demonise. We meet travellers, hitchhikers, cowboys, trainhoppers, mountain men and hobos. It focuses on those Americans who have rejected the conventional way of living, they have renounced mortgages and offices jobs to become free spirits. The book explores all the sub-cultures that exist in the South of the United States of America. ![]() (Author of Ghost Riders: Travels With American Nomads and documentary maker Richard Grant) That summer was a particularly bad one for me and this book provided a source of escape from the hell of it all. However, it wasn't until the summer of 2005 that I eventually got round to reading it. It featured one of those iconic American Silver Bullet caravans pitched in a vast desert expanse. The front cover grabbed my attention immediately. In 2003 I purchased a book called Ghost Riders: Travels With American Nomads, authored by Richard Grant. ![]() Genghis khan series books5/18/2023 ![]() When his brother, Temuge, tries to intervene, he is forced to his knees. He is helped by the young Tsubodai, who is rewarded later in the book. 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Capitol on January 6, 2021, was a terrible day for American democracy, but many people dared to hope that at least it would break the fever that had overcome the Republican Party and banish Trump's relentless lies about the stealing of the 2020 election. That is not what happened. Instead, “the big steal” has become dogma among an ever-higher percentage of American Republicans. What happened to the Republican Party, and America, during the Trump presidency is a story we more or less think we know. What has happened to the party since, it turns out, is even more disquieting. The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new breed of Republicans-led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn-far from moving on from Trump, have taken the politics of hysteria to even greater extremes and brought American democracy to the edge ![]() One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2022 ![]() On tyranny by timothy snyder5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s format seems designed to connect with readers habituated to skimming social media feeds and to ease them into engaging with serious issues. Where it falls short is mainly in its advice on opposing tyranny. Its strength is in highlighting important features and mechanisms of the move toward dictatorship. ![]() But no matter what you think of Trump, you can learn much from Snyder’s book. Clearly Snyder, a historian at Yale, was impelled to write the book in the wake of Trump’s rise to power, a development he views as alarming. This short book is very much a product of the moment. Timothy Snyder’s incisive book, On Tyranny, aims to distill enduring lessons from the twentieth century on the rise and functioning of tyranny - and to help us preserve our freedom. Would you recognize the signs of an incipient tyranny? Would you know how to oppose it? By Timothy Snyder (New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2017). On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. ![]() |