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Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republicby Joanne B. FreemanISBN 0300097557 (0-300-09755-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic'Book summary:The more things change, the more they remain the same. Modern American politics may often resemble a demented circus, but thus it has always been. So writes historian Joanne Freeman in this vigorous account of America's first national leaders, those entrusted with creating a nation unlike any other on Earth, one "egalitarian, democratic, representative, straightforward, and virtuous in spirit, public-minded in practice." The reality was less noble than all that; as Freeman writes, the first postrevolutionary Congress, convened in the spring of 1789, was marked by regional and private rivalries, mudslinging, acrimony, favor-seeking, and backroom bargaining, all of which produced far more discord than unity. In that climate, as John Adams and George Washington would often complain, these early politicians were more interested in "their interests, careers, reputations, and pocketbooks" than in matters of the public good. Yet, Freeman suggests, it could scarcely have been otherwise; an "emotional logic" governed the governors, involving a shared code of honor that drew no lines between the personal with the political, so that any disagreement over policy was liable to turn into a duel or campaign of slander; a day-to-day style of conduct in which panic, paranoia, and shrill accusations were the norm; a fortress mentality in which anyone who was not a sworn friend was a sworn enemy.
Amazingly, it sometimes seems, they made a nation. Freeman's well-crafted study makes a useful corrective to the view that contemporary politics represents a freefall from some golden age, and it adds much to our understanding of America's past. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Bastard Samuraiby Michael Oeming, Miles Gunter, Kelsey ShannonISBN 1582402833 (1-58240-283-3)
Softcover, Image Comics
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By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Championsby Richard CohenISBN 0812969669 (0-8129-6966-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions'Book summary:Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who would cross swords with Bess after school. Lincoln was a canny dueler. Ignatius Loyola challenged a man to a duel for denying Christs divinity (and won). Less successful, but no less enthusiastic, was Mussolini, who would tell his wife he was off to get spaghetti, their code to avoid alarming the children.
By the Sword is an epic history of sword fightinga science, an art and, for many, a religion that began at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt and has been an obsession for mankind ever since. With wit and insight, Richard Cohen gives us an engrossing alternative history of the world.
Sword fighting was an entertainment in ancient Rome, a sacred rite in medieval Japan, and throughout the ages a favorite way to settle scores. For centuries, dueling was the scourge of Europe, banned by popes on threat of excommunication, and by kings who then couldnt keep themselves from granting pardonsin the case of Louis XIV, in the thousands. Evidence of this passion is all around us: We shake hands to show that we are not reaching for our sword. A gentleman offers a lady his right arm because his sword was once attached to his left hip. Men button their jackets to the right to give them swifter access to their sword.
In his sweeping narrative, Cohen takes us from the training of gladiators to the tricks of the best Renaissance masters, from the exploits of musketeers to swashbuckling Hollywood by way of the great moments in Olympic fencing. A young George Patton competed in the 1912 Olympics. In 1936, a Jewish champion fenced for Hitler. Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone were ardent swordsmen. We meet their coaches and the man who staged the fight scenes in Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, and James Bonds Die Another Day.
Richard Cohen has the rare distinction of being both a compelling writer and a champion sabreur. He lets us see swordplay as graceful and brutal, balletic and deadly, technically beautiful and fiercely competitivethe most romantic of martial arts. By the Sword is a virtuoso performance that is sure to beguile history lovers, sports fans, military buffs, and anyone who ever dreamed of crossing swords with Darth Vader. [via]More editions of By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions:
- By the Sword : A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions: ISBN 0375504176 (0-375-50417-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions: ISBN 0812969669 (0-8129-6966-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- By the Sword : A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions: ISBN 0375504176 (0-375-50417-6)
Duel: A True Story of Death and Honourby James LandaleISBN 1841958220 (1-84195-822-0)
Softcover, Canongate
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Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of Americaby Thomas FlemingISBN 0465017371 (0-465-01737-1)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America'Book summary:To judge by many standard histories, the revolutionary founders of the United States came equipped with wings and haloes. They were anything but saintly, however; their behavior, public and private, was often scandalous. One of the most outrageous men of the day was Alexander Hamilton, the Federalist leader and architect of the American banking and judiciary systems, whose amorous exploits and political maneuverings alike were the stuff of legend. Tangled in a succession of failed business ventures and personal intrigues, and convinced that the might of the United States should not be hampered by such inconveniences as checks and balances, Hamilton fell afoul of just about everyone he encountered in his quest for influence and wealth.
To his eventual misfortune, one of those he crossed was Thomas Jefferson's vice president, Aaron Burr. Many histories of their tangled relationship personalize their differences, and, to be sure, they disliked each other with splendid fervor. Thomas Fleming's contribution to the often-told tale is to ground the Hamilton-Burr rivalry in the politics of the day--a politics complicated by many contending ideological factions, powerful interest groups, and lobbyists. Writing with vigor and clarity, Fleming points to the clay feet on which Hamilton and Burr marched to their sad destiny, and he crafts an exceptionally interesting portrait of the early Republic. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Dueling in the Old South: Vignettes of Social Historyby Jack K. WilliamsISBN 089096193X (0-89096-193-X)
Softcover, Texas A & M Univ Pr
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A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burrby Arnold a RogowISBN 0809016214 (0-8090-1621-4)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Fencer's Start-Up : A Beginner's Guide to Traditional and Sport Fencingby Doug Werner, Tracks Publishing StaffISBN 1884654088 (1-884654-08-8)
Softcover, Tracks Publishing
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Fencing Masterby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 1860464556 (1-86046-455-6)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fencing Master'Book summary:In The Club Dumas, Arturo Pérez-Reverte explored the labyrinthine world of antiquarian book dealers, spicing his tale of mystery and murder with characters straight out of Paradise Lost and The Three Musketeers. Next came The Flanders Panel, a brilliant puzzle comprised of art, chess, and untimely death whose resolution lies in a painting by a Flemish master. In The Seville Communion, Pérez-Reverte turned his sights on the tangled politics of the Roman Catholic Church as an appropriate backdrop--for murder. In his fourth novel translated into English, the Spanish writer changes centuries (if not his focus on homicide), returning to the mid-1800s to follow the exploits of Don Jaime Astarloa, the eponymous fencing master.
The year is 1866 and revolution is brewing in Spain. The corrupt Bourbon queen, Isabella II, is slowly losing her grip on power as equally corrupt exiled politicians vie to be her successor in a new republic. Against this background of political upheaval, Don Jaime goes about his business, teaching a dying art to a dwindling number of students. This is a man who resists changing times; to a friend he explains, "I have spent my whole life trying to preserve a certain idea of myself, and that is all. You have to cling to a set of values that do not depreciate with time. Everything else is the fashion of the moment, fleeting, mutable. In a word, nonsense." But then Adela de Otero--a woman with a mysterious past and an amazing talent for swordplay--comes into his life, and Don Jaime's world is turned upside down. As always, Pérez-Reverte offers literary excellence, a thumping good mystery, and fascinating insight into an arcane practice, in this case, fencing. Though the 19th-century politics in the book may resonate more with a Spanish audience than with English readers, the moral at the heart of The Fencing Master is universal: "to be honest, or at least honorable--anything, indeed, that has its roots in the word honor." In this, Don Jaime and Arturo Pérez-Reverte both succeed. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Fencing Master: ISBN 1860464548 (1-86046-454-8)
Hardcover, Harvill Pr - Fencing Master: ISBN 0156029839 (0-15-602983-9)
Softcover, Harcourt - The Fencing Master: ISBN 0151001812 (0-15-100181-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Fencing Master: ISBN 0156006847 (0-15-600684-7)
Softcover, Harcourt - Fencing Master: ISBN 1860464556 (1-86046-455-6)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
- Fencing Master: ISBN 1860464548 (1-86046-454-8)
Gentlemen's Blood: A History Of Dueling from Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Duskby Barbara HollandISBN 158234440X (1-58234-440-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Gentlemen's Blood: A Thousand Years of Sword and Pistolby Barbara HollandISBN 1582343667 (1-58234-366-7)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gentlemen's Blood: A Thousand Years of Sword and Pistol'Book summary:Barbara Holland guides us lightheartedly through the touchy subject of honor-and how to defend it-in this compulsively readable history of dueling's first thousand years.[via]
The medieval justice of trial by combat evolved into the private duel by sword and pistol, with thousands of honorable men-and not-so-honorable women-giving lives and limbs to wipe out an insult or prove a point. Here are their stories, from Dumas's Three Musketeers to America's founding fathers, including the New Orleans doctors who settled their medical disagreements under The Oaks, the short-lived newspaper editors of America's South and West, and certain twenty-first-century Parisian politicians.
The duel was essential to private, public, and political life. Where it was technically illegal, those who followed the elaborate codes of procedure were seldom prosecuted and rarely convicted: they were obeying a grand old tradition. Gentlemen's Blood is the definitive guide to this courtly violence, from an author called "a witty curmudgeon" by George Will and "a national treasure" by the Philadelphia Inquirer, whose style, according to Kirkus Reviews, "fits somewhere between E.B. White and Andy Rooney."
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Honor Bright: Honor in Western Literatureby George F. JonesISBN 192949002X (1-929490-02-X)
Hardcover, Frederic C Beil
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Honor Bright: Honor in Western Literature'Book summary:Jones describes the Germanic code of honor and chronologically traces the gradual development of honor in the West. Subjects included in the work are shame culture, guilt culture, the courtly romances, honor dramas, woman's honor, the ridicule of false honor, Southern honor, military and national honor, the field of honor, deviant honor codes, and honor today. The author explores the Christian code of honor, then he examines the theories of the Greeks and Romans. The honor code of the age of chivalry is juxtaposed to the Christian stoic values of the period. [via]
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Horseman on the Roofby Jean GionoISBN 086547060X (0-86547-060-X)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Horseman on the Roof'Book summary:Angelo is an young Italian nobleman and soldier whose hot-headedness has forced him into a desperate exile in France. While making his way slowly back to Italy, he witnesses the intense ravages of a cholera epidemic in Provence, and his natural romanticism, heroism, and thirst for adventure take over and change the course of his travels. Jean Giono, known as a 20th-century master of French letters, also wrote the lyrical The Man Who Planted Trees. [via]
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Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern Franceby Robert A. NyeISBN 0520215109 (0-520-21510-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Revolutionary Girl Utena: To Budby Fred Burke, Chiho SaitoISBN 1591162068 (1-59116-206-8)
Softcover, Viz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revolutionary Girl Utena: To Bud'Book summary:Here is another exciting installment in the popular manga series. Through skill and cunning, Utena has defeated every duelist on campus except for Touga Kiryuu. During the duel, Touga reveals to Utena that he is in fact the prince she has been searching for all her life - is he for real or is this a ploy to throw Utena off? [via]
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Revolutionary Girl Utena: To Budby Chiho Saito, Be-PapasISBN 1569319642 (1-56931-964-2)
Softcover, Viz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revolutionary Girl Utena: To Till'Book summary:In the first adventure in the historic series, Utena faces a sword duel, an unwelcome engagement, and a mandate to revolutionize the world! [via]
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Revolutionary Girl Utena Vol. 1: To Tillby Chiho Saito, Be-PapasISBN 1569317135 (1-56931-713-5)
Softcover, Viz Media
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A Sundial In A Grave: 1610by Mary GentleISBN 0380820412 (0-380-82041-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Yvainby Chretien De TroyesISBN 0300038380 (0-300-03838-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yvain'Book summary:A twelfth-century poem by the creator of the Arthurian romance describes the courageous exploits and triumphs of a brave lord who tries to win back his deserted wife's love. [via]
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Yvain or the Knight with the Lionby Chrétien de TroyesISBN 141919545X (1-4191-9545-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yvain or the Knight with the Lion'Book summary:This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remarkably subtle work often considered to be the masterpiece of the twelfth-century French writer Chrétien de Troyes. The creator of the Arthurian romance as a genre, Chrétien is revealed in this work as a witty, versatile writer who mastered both the soaring flight of emotion and the devastating aside and was as skillful a debater of the finer points of love as he was a describer of battles.[via]More editions of Yvain or the Knight with the Lion:
Yvain: Or, the Knight With the Lionby Chretien, Ruth Harwood ClineISBN 0820303275 (0-8203-0327-5)
Hardcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Yvain: The Knight of the Lionby Chretien, Carleton W. Carroll, Frederick W. Locke, Chrestien De Troyes, Robert William AckermanISBN 0804460841 (0-8044-6084-1)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Ywain: The Knight of the Lionby Frederick W. Locke, Robert W. Ackerman, Chretien De Troyes, C CarrollISBN 0881337161 (0-88133-716-1)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ywain: The Knight of the Lion'Book summary:An affordable edition of one of the great romances! The twelfth century in France experienced an efflorescence of vernacular literature, especially troubadour poetry and the genre of narrative literature that encompasses the court epic of romance. Chretien de Troyes, a native of Champagne in Northern France, is considered one of the most talented writers of romance of this period. Achieving literary greatness not so much by plot innovation as by the shaping and refining of existing and perhaps widely known material to his own purposes, de Troyes's influence on the characteristic structure, tone, and theme of medieval romance is undeniable. This translation of Ywain from the original French version avoids both archaic-sounding English and the overly modern idiom in an effort to produce a smooth, accessible and accurate text. As with de Troyes's other Arthurian romances, the principal characters and episodes of this tale are Celtic in origin, and the marvelous adventures assigned to Ywain are apparently derivative of Celtic story lore. Readers will be charmed by the appropriately urbane expression of this fine narrative, imbued as it is with the ideals and sentiments of courtly knighthood. Title of related interest from Waveland Press: Garbaty, Medieval English Literature (ISBN 9780881339505). [via]
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El Maestro De Esgrimaby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 8495501554 (84-95501-55-4)
Softcover, Suma de Letras, S.L.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Maestro de Esgrima'Book summary:In 1866 Spain, Don Jaime is an old-fashioned fencing master, unaware of the political conspiracies around him. A mysterious and beautiful woman enters his life, asking to be instructed in this old gentlemen's art. Once he accepts, he is thrown into an entangled plot of intrigue and death. [via]
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El Maestro De Esgrimaby Arturo Reverte PerezISBN 8466301763 (84-663-0176-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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El Maestro De Esgrima/the Fencing Masterby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 8420441988 (84-204-4198-8)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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