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Bite the hand that feeds you : essays and provocations /

Henry Fairlie was one of the most colorful and trenchant journalists of the twentieth century. The British-born writer made his name on Fleet Street, where he coined the term "The Establishment," sparred in print with the likes of Kenneth Tynan, and caroused with Kingsley Amis, among many...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fairlie, Henry, 1924-1990 (Autor)
Otros Autores: McCarter, Jeremy, 1976- (Editor ), Wieseltier, Leon (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • A genius for conflict: the life of British politics. Sketches of MPs
  • The BBC attitude to politics
  • In defense of ordinariness
  • On the comforts of anger
  • Evolution of a term: The establishment
  • Chips of memory
  • A volcanic flash: Winston Churchill
  • The last, best hope for mankind: American space and time. A cheer for American imperialism
  • In defense of big government
  • Let the convention be "a brawl"
  • The importance of bathtubs: Fairlie at large
  • Mencken's Booboisie in control of GOP: Fairlie at large
  • The voice of hope: Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • My America!
  • If Pooh were president: a Tory's riposte to Reaganism
  • Migration: Washington diarist
  • Citizen Kennedy
  • The idiocy of urban life
  • Merry faxmas: Washington diarist
  • Greedy geezers
  • Brief whining moments: The collapse of oratory
  • Pen ultimate
  • Spurious George
  • Perrier on the rocks
  • An evening with Hooter
  • The harlot's prerogative: Writers and the press. Necessary weapons
  • Press against politics
  • Magnates, mischief, and mass circulation
  • How journalists get rich
  • A radical and a patriot: Randolph Bourne
  • Tory days: George F. Will
  • When challenger fell from the sky.