Word: kingdom
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...Talese gave us the Kingdom and the Power: The Story of the Men Who Influence the Institution that Influences the World. Now Nan Robertson gives us the story of the women...
...Wild Kingdom. Several illustrations include furry/feathered voyeurs: seagulls. (With open beaks.) Horses, frequently white. Two white wolves. A polar bear. Even cows. But they don't watch the lovers. They chew their...
Every American family, scholars agree, originally came from somewhere else. No wonder that questing for one's origins, personal or ethnic, has become a booming subgenre of the book biz. This sprawling, elegantly written example of the type is by a previous chronicler of the New York Times (The Kingdom and the Power) and the sexual revolution (Thy Neighbor's Wife). Unto the Sons is only marginally autobiographical; in larger measure it is the story of the great wave of Italian immigration that began around the turn of the century, as filtered through one family's experience...
...with the legions of imperial Rome. The medieval German Emperor Frederick II, surrounded by a retinue that included his harem, passed by en route to the Sixth Crusade. And older men in Maida still recalled the day Garibaldi and his Redshirts rode through the village, vowing to free the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from lethargic Bourbon rule...
...January 1942 report -- part propaganda, part journalism -- the Soviet novelist Ilya Ehrenburg wrote of the winter battle: "The road is still long. From here to the extreme capes of Europe, to Finisterre, 'the end of the earth,' stretches the Kingdom of Death. It is a difficult road. But the Red Army continues its relentless march across the snow." By the time the spring thaw slowed the Russian counterattack, the Germans had been hurled entirely out of Moscow province. In the spring of 1942 they would still be close enough to threaten, but by then they had lost the battle...