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...surprised itself in 1976 with the popularity of the mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man, and astonished itself a year ater with Roots. This Wednesday through Friday, the network tries to braid the formats and themes of those shows in a 19th century drama of Irish rebellion and emigration, The Manions of America. The Irish of the 1840s are presented (with some historical accuracy) as equivalent to the slaves in Roots-penniless, helpless, but more open and loving than their oppressors, more family oriented and especially more sexual. The English are schematically divided. The wicked are defined as those...
...specifically encouraged the audience to oppose Watt's program of exploiting public lands and preserves for economic development, part of what has been called the "sagebrush rebellion...
Browne describes himself as a "politician of convictions." That's why, he says, this year he led the largest rebellion by members of the governing party against the government in Britain in 25 years...
...then such expunging hardly seemed necessary. The convention had already challenged the party's monopoly of economic control and political power. Moreover, the meeting had raised the specter of "counterrevolutionary" contagion in the Soviet bloc, which Moscow and its allies have feared since Poland's labor rebellion first began to acquire cohesion...
Shaw examines the psychological imperatives that drove four specific patriots--James Otis, John Adams, Joseph Hawley and Josiah Quincy--to rebel against the king. For an historian seeking to identify the roots of rebellion, they are not a surprising group: inevitably, they all had problems with their fathers, or father-figures, early in life--the sure trigger to a Pavlovian response from a Freud-fancier. But Shaw pursues the issue with considerable sophistication. The patriots. Shaw believes, saw Hutchinson as the perverter of the king's wishes. By attributing the onus for contested British actions--particularly the Stamp Act. Townshend...