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
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1861976631
Pagini: 320
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.