Some years ago, the BBC produced a 90-minute documentary on the parallel lives and careers of Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone titled Gladstone and Disraeli: Clash of the Titans. (You can watch it on YouTube, irritatingly divided into six 15-minute segments with the first here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4CHsWMV3Es) When it comes to 19th-century British politics, the title is • Read More »
Tags: Benjamin Disraeli, Carlo Pelligrini, Vanity Fair, William Gladstone
This newsletter was sent to all of the subscribers on Jim’s list (2,941) on Friday, January 11, 2019. The first full week of the New Year has been notable around here (East Tennessee) for what it wasn’t: It WAS NOT “a dark and stormy night.” For the first time since just about anyone • Read More »
Tags: Baseball Joe, Becky Sharp, Bryan Stevenson, caricatures, Desert Fox, Ed Stratemeyer, Erwin Rommel, John Dugdale, Kurt Vonnegut, Niall Barr, On the Media, Seeing Suffrage, Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray