Foster Hirsch is Associate Professor of English and Film at Brooklyn College. He has written numerous articles for the New York Times, the Nation, The New Republic and many other publications. He is also the author of several books on film and literature, including studies of Edward Albee, George Kelly, Laureuce Olivier, and the Epic Film.
George has a "grizzly old grunion of a Grandma" – a selfish old woman, who spends her days grouching, grumbling and griping about something or other. Grandma even things it's time eight-year-old George stopped growing! But when Grandma tells him how delicious slugs and beetles taste and that she has dark, magic powers, George decides he's got to do something. He sets about concoting a very special medicine to cure Grandma's nastiness for good. The results are explosive in this knockabout comic romp.
In this book the author
discusses the political story of the first decade of the reign of George III,
one of the most controversial figures in modern British history. George III has
often been blamed for the loss of Britain’s American colonies in an attempt to
restore royal power.
Peter D. G. Thomas confirms earlier findings that George III was not seeking to
advance royal power and throws light on the extent to which a system of party
politics existed at the time. Although the structure of British politics
provides the setting for this study, America, India, and Ireland are also
considered here as important issues of the time.
An intriguing look at ten knock-down, drag-out feuds that helped shape world history:
- Queen Elizabeth I versus Mary, Queen of Scots - English parliament versus King Charles I - Aaron Burr versus Alexander Hamilton - The Hatfields versus the McCoys - Joseph Stalin versus Leon Trotsky - Roald Amundsen versus Robert Scott - The Duchess of Windsor versus the Queen Mother - Bernard Law Montgomery versus George Patton - Lyndon B. Johnson versus Robert F. Kennedy - J. Edgar Hoover versus Martin Luther King Jr.
