Warren Hastings Life and the Nabobs in India
Michael Edwardes portrays Warren Hastings as a complex figure whose career with the East India Company shaped Bengal's governance after Plassey. The book traces his rise from 17 year old clerk to Governor General, his clashes with Sir John Clavering and Philip Francis, impeachment drama led by Edmund Burke, and his enduring impact on unified administration despite sparse honors.
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East India Company
Warren Hastings
Company
Robert Clive
Plassey
Hastings
Bengal
British East India Company
Hasting
Bengal Council
England
Madras
Marian von Amhoff
Mary
von Imhoff
Sir John Clavering
Philip Francis
Francis
London
Edmund Burke
Burke
William Pitt the Younger
Sensitive Brecht Poems Shaped by Turbulent Era
A review of Bertolt Brecht Poems edited by John Willett and Ralph Mannheim in three volumes, tracing Brecht through the Kaiser era Weimar period Hitler years and postwar Germany. Translators preserve the poet’s tone amid sharp political critique and lyric insight. A writers workshop at Campus Community Radio invites submissions each Saturday starting June 18.
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Bertour Brecht
Brecht
Germany
Weimar Republic
Bertolt Brecht
John Willett
Ralph Mannheim
Eyre Methuen
2XX
Campus Community Radio
Eserdit
Spm
John Paisley
The Crushing by Ronald McKie reviewed in the sugar town setting
The Crushing recreates 1920s Tarom a sugar town in North Queensland with detailed period prose and social foibles. It follows a parsimonious mill owner and social climber wife as they host an English visitor. The colonel and family turn out to be confidence tricksters who defraud the town and vanish.
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Patrick White
Happy Valley
Kylie Tennant
Dal Stivens
Vance Palmer
Randolph Stow
Donald McKie
Tarom
Queensland
McKie
Resistance Both Ways Until Thieves Fell Out
A critical look at European resistance in World War II argues Moscow directed and later exploited resistance efforts, with Polish groups aiding Allies by sharing the Enigma cipher and resisting German occupation. The piece praises resistance for moral impact despite limited military effect and notes Soviet influence on shaping early efforts.
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Europe
Germany
Soviet Union
Mr Foot
Kremlin
Moscow
Berlin
Communist Party
Hyeler
France
Warsaw
Foot
How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong review
Erica Jong uses a motherly, intimate voice in How to Save Your Own Life to fuse art and experience. Isadora Wing, reappearing from Fear of Flying, challenges sexual permissiveness and marriage norms while Jong’s prose and accompanying poems illuminate female desire and fear, making her bold yet readable.
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Erica Jong
Jong
Isadora Wing
Isadora
Wing
Secker and Warburg
Glenda Alexander
Jeannie Morton
Anne Sexton
Jeannie
Feudal Retreat in Tuscany Captured by Jebb's Tuscany Memoir
Marjorie Jebb surveys Il Trebbio Cafaggiolo in Tuscany through wartime and postwar years. The Scaretti family restored the Trebbio estate, linking Medici heritage to a modern revival. The book blends rural Tuscany memories with wartime Rome life and hints at the author’s elusive personal voice. Vernon Bartlett provides the introduction.
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Cafaggiola
Apennines
Michelozzi
Cosimo de Medici
Medicia
I Trebbio
Cafaggiolo
Enrico Scaretti
Gladwyn Jebb
Scaretti
Trebbio
Marjorie Jebb
Rome
Italy
Tuscany
South
Yorkshire
Dukeries
Il Tribbio
Vernon Bartlett
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