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Propagate the Faith. Operating boss of the council is an Egyptian army major more familiar with infantry tactics than theology. Says rifle-spined Mohammed Eweida: "I consider myself a soldier carrying out orders." Son of a Nile delta landowner, Eweida was a pious child who fasted twice a week throughout the year, always carried a copy of the Koran in his pocket at prep school. Despite his religious leanings, Eweida entered Egypt's military academy rather than Cairo's ulama-run al-Azhar University, graduated at the top of his class and rose from subaltern to major...
...sublime death. In the 46 years of his reign he had extended his empire across all Europe. With a kind of ecumenical zeal, he had made Christians out of Saxons, Serbs and Slavs, and with paternal zeal, he had made kings out of both his sons-Louis the Pious in Aquitaine, Pippin in Italy. He died at 71, in 814. but his power was so immense that the full century that followed still bears his name...
...last hundred years of Charlemagne's empire are the subject of this meticulous study, drawn from diaries and church histories collected and translated by Medieval Scholar Duckett. With a treasure-trove of antique detail, she shows that just as life under Charles the Great had been purposeful and pious, life without him was chaos. Three generations of heirs let the empire dwindle away under the weight of weakness, jealousy and distrust. By midcentury, Europe was divided between Charles's three grandsons-Lothar, Charles the Bald and Louis the German. In one of the rare medieval verses that combines...
...Duckett's account, though marred by the errors of style that plague scholars who wish to entertain, is astonishingly rich in anecdote. Charlemagne was obsessed with his poor handwriting, constantly practiced it as he traveled over his lands in the royal coach. Charles's son, Louis the Pious, began his reign by banishing his three bastard sisters to a convent, later blinded his nephew, Italy's 18-year-old King Bernard, for plotting revolt. But afterwards Louis fell into a remorse from which he never fully recovered. His son, Charles the Bald, was the prisoner of fatal...
...those who came in late-anyone under 40-it should be explained that Upton Sinclair, now 84, has had his finger in every pious and progressive cause since 1900 and has published 90 books, most of this unimaginable wordage being in the promotion of beliefs that range from socialism and mental telepathy to vegetarianism and teetotalism, and against Mammon-variously embodied as Privilege, the Trusts, the House of Morgan, the Press, etc. As monument, the book is touchingly human. As autobiography, it is something less; success in that elusive art is achieved only by those whose quarrel has been with...