Book Description
From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, a brilliant group biography of the six daughters of “Mad” King George III.
Fraser takes us into the heart of the British royal family during the tumultuous period of the American and French revolutions and beyond, illuminating the complicated lives of these exceptional women: Princess Royal, the eldest, constantly at odds with her mother; home-loving, family-minded Augusta; plump Elizabeth, a gifted amateur artist; Mary, the bland beauty of the family; Sophia, emotional and prone to take refuge in illness; and Amelia, “the most turbulent and tempestuous of all the Princesses.” Weaving together letters and historical accounts, Fraser re-creates their world in all its frustrations and excitements.
The six sisters, though handsome, accomplished and extremely well educated, were kept from marrying by George III, and Fraser describes how they remained subject to their father for many years, while he teetered on the brink of mental collapse. The King may have believed that his six daughters were happy to live celibately at Windsor, but secretly, as Fraser’s absorbing narrative of royal repression and sexual license shows, the sisters enjoyed startling freedom. Several of them, torn between love for their ailing father and longing for independence, forged their own scandalous and subversive lives within the castle walls. With a discerning eye for psychological detail and a keen feminist sensibility, Fraser delves into these clandestine love affairs, revealing the truth about Sophia’s illegitimate baby; examining Amelia's intimate correspondence with her soldier-lover; and investigating the eventual marriages of Princesses Royal, Elizabeth and Mary.
Never before has the historical searchlight been turned with such sympathy and acuity on George III and his family. With unparalleled access to royal and private family papers, Flora Fraser has created a revelatory portrait of six fascinating women and their place in history.
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Very Indept Biography.......2007-08-06
This was a very detailed and indept biography of the six daughters of George III. Charlotte, Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia, and Amelia they were not allowed to marry an unusual step at the time since most kings marry off their daughters for alliences George III decided not to marry his daughters off after witnessing one of his own sister's plight in marriage. Yet that didn't deter them from flirting, illegally marrying or in Sophia's case even giving birth to an illigmate child creating scandles of their own. It was interesting reading about their interests and charities and living with their parents through middle age. Two sisters did end up marrying after well into middle age. A very good bio.
Not bad but theres nothing really to tell..........2006-12-16
In my opinion this is one of those books that it is well researched,well organized and the story is pretty much well told.But at the end of the day i asked myself why i bought this book, because when i finished reading the book i realized that the lives of these ladies wasnt interesting at all.I mean the thing is that, basically, nothing happened to this ladies.They were completely separated from the outside world and they really didnt had that much to contribute or much to get involved with the world.The narrative is not bad because the author makes a great effort in trying to make the story interesting.The problem is that the story is boring and dull.The author also just takes too many pages to tell a story that doesnt need that many pages.I've could have done without a least 100 to a 150 pages.The only parts that were interesting were the ones that talked about the English etiquette in Court.I got to learn a lot about what's the etiquette when someone died and the proper order in which to enter a room or signed a document.Again good effort by the author but there's no story to tell
An interesting look at a much-neglected family.......2006-05-20
I have seen occasional references to the children of George III, apart from George IV and William IV, usually in biographies of Queen Victoria, but this is the first in-depth treatment that I have read of his daughters. They usually don't even rank a mention in the oft-told tale of the race to provide an heir to the throne after the death of Princess Charlotte (George IV's daughter) since, due to the rules of primogeniture and their father's reluctance to allow them to marry before middle age, they didn't even have a shot at it.
Continuing in the family tradition of writing absorbing biographies of figures in English history, Flora Fraser provides a sympathetic, if sometimes a bit too minutely detailed, picture of these six very different sisters: Charlotte, Princess Royal (known as Royal), always conscious of her rank and position, as she could hardly fail to be with such a nickname; Augusta, the family correspondent; Elizabeth, artistic and charitable; Mary, the beauty of the family, who survived all her siblings and lived well into Victoria's reign; Sophia, who "disgraced" herself by bearing an illegitimate son; and Amelia, the headstrong youngest child who was passionately in love with a man whom she could not marry. These are only thumbnail descriptions and do not do justice to Fraser's portrayal of the loving and occasionally acrimonious relationship that the princesses had with each other, their brothers, and their parents.
We often read about the political repercussions of George III's mental disability and the deterioration of the relationship between the Regent and his parents, but I found Fraser's description of the effect that it had on the Queen and their daughters to be particularly moving. However, three of them did find happiness in marriage, if not children, late in life, and with the others, were able to build satisfying lives around nieces and nephews, as well as artistic, intellectual and charitable pursuits. We can only speculate on what they might have done with their lives had more opportunities been open to them.
A Brilliant Job Bringing Together So Many Period Sources .......2006-03-17
After THE UNRULY QUEEN I was already an admirer of this author but now I am in awe of her. Knowing the mountain of original sources Fraser used I find her selections, editing and writing of the overall narrative simply wonderful. It is a very complicated landscape The Princesses lived in and yet the author has succeeded in not only turning up the volume on each Princess as an individual, but portrays the dynamics of that huge family within one of the most turbulent periods of modern history. Also, explanations of the manners and mores of the times are seamlessly interwoven, which in turn nicely contrasts public propriety with the daily private reality. I have a large George III library and this is a valuable addition to it.
Fascinating Social History of Royal Life.......2006-02-28
The six daughters of George III were well-educated and encouraged to pursue and develop their individual talents, thanks to their forward thinking mother, Queen Charlotte. This served them well because they led very sequestered lives within the royal family due to their father's social, emotional, and medical needs. It wasn't until middle age were they even allowed to consider marriage, and even then not all of them ever married. The story of these princesses - which involves illicit love, unrequited love, incest and abuse -is presented against the political and historical background of the times. The author writes with great detail and utilizes many of the surviving letters written by the sisters to illuminate a story not generally known.
The author writes with great detail and
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Kagan's End of the Peloponnesian War.......2006-11-14
The Peloponnesian War, along with the myriad feuds that latched on to the central conflict between Sparta and Athens in the latter half of the fifth century BCE, can be an exhausting subject. The civil and international politics involved in fostering and perpetuating the war rival even today's most complex conflicts.
In this, The fourth and final installment of Kagan's history of the Peloponnesian War. Kagan skillfully rounds out the set and the war itself. These books come in and out of circulation, so best to get ahold of them while they're available. Again, Kagan's work is superb
For the historian, or avid history buff (however you might self-identify), these works are a necessary addition to your library. The more casual reader might, however, consider purchasing Kagan's abridged work entitled simply "The Peloponnesian War." It includes the main thrust of the narrative, but with markedly less analysis of the political motivations included in these volumes.
Coup De Grace.......2002-08-04
Athens had already been bled white by the Archidamian war; it had lost its fleet and the flower of its youth in the Sicilian expedition. Here, Sparta rejoins the conflict as a full-blooded belligerent, and Persia weighs in as a sponsor. For all that, Athens still puts up a hell of a fight, scratching together a new fleet and defending its Aegean and Black Sea possessions with vitality and imagination. Yet, like Napoleon's armies after the Russian winter, a brilliant victory only defers the outcome, whereas it will only take one serious defeat for the whole war effort to collapse. At length, this defeat arrives when the Spartans get serious about naval tactics and recall Lysander to administer the decisive blow. Another great character in this saga, the Athenian exile Alcabiades, reappears, first as a Spartan advisor, then as a friend to the Persian King, then back to Athens as the prodigal son. Not until Talleyrand will one encounter such a serial turncoat.
Book Description
The papers collected in this volume present a systematic survey of the struggles of Athens, Sparta and Thebes to dominate Greece in the fourth century - only to be overwhelmed by the newly emerging Macedonian kingdom of Philip II. Additionally, the situation of Greeks in Sicily, Italy and Asia is portrayed, showing the geographical and political diffusion of the Greeks in a broader historical context.
This is a book that will provide the reader with a clearly drawn and vivid picture of the main events and leading personalities in this decisive period of Greek history.
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Nice book.......2002-12-29
This is a historical book and I don't see any relation between its contents and the political comments of the previous reviewers. It refers to ancient Macedonia i.e. the northern greek kingdom and NOT the modern slavic coutry (ancient Paeonia) that uses the same name since 1945. So, there is absolutely NO reason to start a debate here. If you are interested in politics please go rate a book about modern diplomacy etc.
This book is an excellent choice for its price if you are interested in greek history. This historical period is not so 'glorious' compared with the previous classic greek periods and hence not my favorite one. I have not read more than 10 books about the hellenistic age and thus I can not claim there are not better books. Yet, I found the book interesting, well documented, and well written.
It's sad to see that some people vote 1 or 2 for a good book just because it uses the name 'macedonia'. When it refers to ancient greece, slavs vote it with 1. When it refers to the modern slavic state, greeks vote it with 1.
This makes it really difficult for the rest of us to select a book! Please stop it now.
Macedonia is not Macedonia.......1999-11-08
The Macedonia of the ancient world is not the country known as "Macedonia" today. The people there have absolutely no connection with the people of the ancient land. They are of Turkish and Albanian blood. The closest one can get to the ancient Macedonia is the people from the area of Greece known as Macedonia. Very big difference.
GREECE ??? - FIRST USE IN HISTORY AFTER 1850 A.C........1999-07-14
WE MOST BE VERY CAREFULL. USING THIS WORD MEANS THAT GREECE IS VERY OLD STATE WHICH IS NOT. MACEDONIA STILL EXSIST FOR OPOSITE OF HELLENIC CITY-STATES . AND SO WE MUST MAKE A DIFFERENCE BEATWEAN THOSE NATIONS - MACEDOINAN AND HELENIC
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Outbreak of the Peloponesian War.......2002-05-06
This book is the first in a series of four covering the massive confrontation that destroyed the greek world. The subject matter is Thucydides Peloponesian War which Kagan manages to give many new insights into. With his thourough analysis he looks at the archealogical evidence as well as the literature in a way that gives pause to those judging Thucydides to be the first "unbiased" historian. Thucydides used the facts for his own purposes and left out important details about the epic conflict that would leave a blemish on his side of the story.
In the series Kagan wonders at some of the details of the Peloponesian War that remain unexplained, for example, how Pericles expected Sparta to wear itself out invading the Attic country side.
Some of these questions leave inexplicable holes in Thucydides narrative.
Overall an excellent comapnion to the Peloponesian War that throws a critical light on all that is said in that tomb.
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The book Amy Goodman hailed as "classic muckraking at its best."
When asked which single issue most affected their vote in the last presidential election, more than one in five Americans said "moral values"—and 78 percent of these voters chose to reelect President Bush. Indeed, Christian fundamentalists made up close to 40 percent of the president's electorate in 2004, and their turnout increased by some four million voters over 2000.
As Esther Kaplan shows in her richly detailed investigation, it's no wonder the Christian right voted for Bush in droves—their loyal support in 2000 produced fantastic results. While organizations that offer abortion counseling and services or help to prevent HIV see their funds cut, church groups receive millions in federal dollars to promote sexual abstinence and marriage (provided, of course, it is heterosexual). Bush has appointed a Christian right dream team to the federal courts, dedicated to tearing down what one such judge calls "the so-called separation of church and state." Religious zeal even shapes Bush's foreign policy, as Christian belief in the end times spurs the administration's support for hard-line policies in Israel.
A prescient study of the Christian right's growing political clout, With God on Their Side is essential reading for anyone concerned about America's direction.
Customer Reviews:
A good Start.......2007-05-12
There are many books on this subject and I have just about all of them. So far I like this one the best because it states clear and consise facts without an opinionated view. I recommend this as a first read on this subject to give yourself a good foundation on other books that are mostly interested in writing about the "effects" of this political power.
It is a very easy read, yet at times very hard to put down, Stacking the Courts is a very good chapter! Many parts of this book I have highlighted too.
My Conclusion : Religion should not be joined with politics! I am not against Christianity, but to me this is not Christian. The God I know does not work deceptively and is not codenming! I love this Country, but the only thing Christian about its foundings was the FREEDOMS it secured for us. I am sorry those freedoms have been taken advantage of and now its seems that the "Christian Right's" answer is to take them away from us, the government is all too willing to oblige!
A Great Book--Except For The Subtitle.......2006-06-21
This is not exactly a non-partisan book. Liberal Democrats will love it and conservative Republicans will be angry. I personally believe that Esther Kaplan has proven her case that the George W Bush administration is fundamentally incompatible with American traditions of democratic government. She is especially good when discussing exactly how a phony religiosity is being used as a cover for an elitist economic agenda and a foreign policy out of touch with the real world.
There are excellent chapters about the Republican romance with pseudo-science, the current administration's inept attempts to deal with the worldwide AIDS crisis, and GOP attempts to mix moralism and public health policy. But the best chapter is the one about stacking the courts. The author argues that an essential part of the Reagan-Bush agenda has been an attempt to remake the courts as a reactionary force for generations to come. And the net result is that average Americans have no legal protections against the corporate world, laws to protect disabled people are invalidated, and even Constitutional rights supposedly in force since the founding of the Nation are compromised.
The subtitle and numerous comments throughout the book assume that the "Christian Right" is somehow connected to the Christian Faith. However I do not believe that it is correct to blame those of us in the Christian Community for the fact that there are unbelievers, total phonies, and outrageous hypocrites within the ranks. The "Pseudo-Religious Right" would be more accurate terminology.
Contains much information crucial for understanding how the Right is hurting America.......2006-06-18
Let me preface this review by stating my own religious background, so that my comments here can be more accurately understood. I consider myself a devout Christian and an adherent to orthodox Christian beliefs as contained in most Christian creeds. I am not a fundamentalist, however. I was raised Southern Baptist, but no longer consider myself one because of the convention's continuing embrace of nutzoid right wing ideology. The main break for me came when the SBC proclaimed women to be properly subservient to men. Also, I have seen a increasing abandonment of traditional, defining Baptist beliefs such as the priesthood of the believers (THE central Baptist principle) and the separation of Church and State, which was pretty much a Baptist invention in the US. Politically I am of the far left, inspired almost entirely not by any political thinker but by repeated readings of the Sermon on the Mount. I am, of course, hardly the first Christian in history to have been so affected by these words of Christ.
My background therefore colors my reaction to this book. Like Kaplan I have grown increasingly dismayed by the role that right wing religion has come to play in American political life. Like Kaplan I believe that this influence has been uniformly awful. Like Kaplan, I think that everything possible must be undertaken to inform the public at large of the specific ways religious agendas are harming America. I think the book is not quite perfect, but it nonetheless contains a large amount of very useful information of which all voters need to be aware.
Let me point out two things that Kaplan does not raise, but that I believe at the heart of the matters at hand. First, one reason that the Founders wanted a sharp separation between Church and State (and despite the reinvented history of Pat Robertson and the Dominionists, there is absolutely no question of where they stood on the matter) was that they understood that if you introduced religion into politics, it essentially took on a party flavor. And the fortunes of specific parties waxed and waned. Madison understood this better than anyone. If you tie religion to specific political beliefs and stances, if the general public turns against those beliefs and stances, it turns against religion as well. We see this happening right now with my old Southern Baptist Convention, with poll numbers increasingly showing a broad negative perception of Southern Baptists because of their involvement in politics. I think these numbers are going to increase and I believe that the stagnant membership in the SBC churches will begin to decline. All of this could have been predicted twenty-five years ago when the denomination shifted sharply to the right.
The second thing that I want to point out that Kaplan neglects is a fact that a disturbingly small number seem to be aware of: most Christians in the United States do not support the far right. Most Christians are either moderates or liberals. Roman Catholics, for instance, tend to be anti-abortion and sympathetic to many so-called pro-family measures (though there is great diversity in the American Catholic church, since the vast majority of Catholics believe in birth control, despite the teachings of Rome, and many support a woman's right to choose whether to have an abortion as well), but on most other issues the Church is either moderate or left leaning. And while contemporary Protestantism is dominated in the public eye by Southern Baptists and the Pentecostal denominations, the large number of protestant denominations that are much further to the left are ignored. Even many Baptists, such as American Baptists and Swedish Baptists, are much further to the right than the SBC.
Still, none of this changes the importance of Kaplan's book. In a series of chapters she shows specifically how the religious right has penetrated American government and begun to dictate policy in increasingly disturbing ways. Several chapters of her book cover aspects of the relation of the religious right to the Bush administration and the Republican Party of which most people are already aware. In other words, that those on the religious right overwhelmingly support the GOP and provide them with funding. What most Americans are unaware of is the incredibly harmful influence that the religious right has had on public policy.
The damage that religious right beliefs have been doing comes in several key areas. For instance, the fear of Darwinian science has led to an assertion of non-scientific creationist ideas in weird and unexpected places. In our National Parks, for instance, books reflecting the almost universally and globally held scientific consensus have been replaced by equally universally and globally disdained books reflecting a creationist understanding of geology. In other words, books reflecting our foremost experts on geology have been replaced by writings by ideologues.
Understandings of the ultimate course of world history have led to an uncritical support for Israel and an utter disregard for the Palestinians. Granted, the Bush administration is hardly the first to take this position, but even in the Reagan administration there was unqualified criticism of Israel for the expansion of the settlements. Under Bush and his similarly minded religious right cohorts, we have seen the most hands-off approach towards Israel since the nation was created in 1948. What is truly scary is that the religious right in truth has no genuine concern for Israel or the Jews. Their only concern, as seen in the violently anti-Semitic LEFT BEHIND series (I say this because there as in much religious right ideology Jews are not taken as they are and wish to be, but for the role that the right presumes they are destined to play, i.e. mainly as cannon fodder in a series of unspeakably violent tragedies) is in making conditions right for Armageddon and a massive military conflict. There is absolutely no question that a dramatic escalation of military activities in Israel and Palestine would be greeted with great joy in the Religious Right, while an effective two-state solution guaranteeing the Palestinians a nation and recognition of their rights would be cause for consternation and regret. As Kaplan rightly points out, are these the kinds of people we want in charge of our foreign policy?
Beliefs in sexual morality have caused almost unprecedented problems in public policy. World bodies dealing with AIDS have become increasingly frustrated with the US in attempts to deal with AIDS (a frustration that has increased since the publication of Kaplan's book). While most organizations want to deal with the issue taking a multi-tiered approach, including condoms, the US representatives, a disturbing number of them without backgrounds in public health but instead chosen for their religious positions, insist on emphasizing abstinence above all others. Increasingly the US has come to be perceived as on the margins of this and other world health issues. If the US didn't have large amounts of cash and political clout, we would be completely ignored by the international community. We are largely irrelevant in terms of the ideas that we have to offer.
Abstinence has also inflicted damage on domestic policy. Increasingly sex education in the US has come to reflect only the beliefs of the religious right ideologues. Although it is too early to say for sure, but it appears that abstinence only education is considerably less effective in preventing pregnancy rates. In fact, pregnancy rates have gone up slightly among teens even while sexual activity has gone down.
These are only a few of the areas that Kaplan covers in her book. She writes extensively about how right wing religious ideology has harmed AIDS research, almost all public health research, environmental research and policy, and a host of other areas.
I do want to point out what I think is the book's most serious shortcoming: a minimal discussion of the Dominionist movement. There is a brief mention of this, but the small but very influential group of people who intentionally stay beneath the radar but who have as their agenda the recreation of America as a Christian Nation exert a huge amount of influence on the religious right. Even most on the Right are unaware of their true beliefs. The Dominionists bring forward only their least objectionable beliefs, such as the anti-historical claim that the US was created as a Christian nation and that we should be once again. But they keep many of their beliefs out of the public eye, such as the belief of the most ardent Dominionists that no women should be allowed to work and should stay home and be caretakers (though given the fact that there are more women than men in the population, I am not sure how that works out). Or their internal debates as to whether homosexuals should be stoned to death or burned, i.e., the most ardent Dominionists don't disagree over whether they should die, but only on the Biblically agreed method of execution. Luckily, other books similar to Kaplan's, such as Kevin Phillips AMERICAN THEOCRACY and Michele Goldberg's KINGDOM COMING address dominionism as great length. It is her failure to take up this incredibly important topic that keeps me from giving it five stars.
All of this leads to the question: what next? Books like this are a crucial first step. People like Sara Diamond and Frederick Clarkson have been warning us about the dangers of the far religious right for years. With polling showing that even most Republicans feel that the Religious Right has too much influence in American life, it is looking like the mood in the country is shifting against the religious ideologues. On a policy level, the success of the Religious Right has depended entirely on the general ignorance of the public. Not many Americans would support "abstinence only" as the primary approach to dealing with AIDS in Africa. Or refusing to fund any AIDS studies because it might be of benefit to gays (most Americans are opposed to Gay marriage, but support Civil unions and every other fundamental right available to US citizens). Information is the key. Books like Kaplan's, and those mentioned above by Phillips and Goldberg, or more specialized books such as Stephanie Hendricks's DIVINE DESTRUCTION: DOMINION THEOLOGY AND AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY are helping.
My recommendation for those coming to learn about these issues for the first time to read this and one other book. Kaplan is great in talking about the specific influences that the religious right is having on public polity. But she is somewhat weak on the ideology under girding the religious right. Michele Goldberg's KINGDOM COMING: THE RISE OF CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM is basically an updating of the work by Sara Diamond and Frederick Clarkson in the 1990s. Together, these two books can help expose the pernicious influence that the religious right has had on contemporary American politics. My hope is that gradually my fellow Christians will come to their senses and start moving back to a Biblically instead of politically mandated understanding of the role of Christians in society.
All you ever wanted to know about the Bush theocracy.......2006-06-06
This is as detailed a compendium of the Bush Administration and the Religious Right's activities in recent years as is available. Their reach is astounding, ranging from social programs to science to war and peace!
In almost every way one can think of, Kaplan documents the ways that the extreme right-wing Christian community, led by George W Bush, has used their anti-science, anti-intellectual and anti-reason point of view to shape policy, often to disastrous results.
Many will superficially see this book as "anti-religious." This is not necessarily so; this book is anti-irrationality, and then, if the shoe fits, wear it.
One could also write a book on the irrationality of some left-wing religious activists as well and that would be justifiable; but it is safe to say that at this moment in time, the Religious Right's embrace of a coming rapture, their belief in an inerrant bible and rejection of mainstream science in favor of Creationism and other pseudo science overwhelms the dangers posed by any other religious class in the US!
This book is a must for those blissfully unaware of the ways that the fundamentalist religious beliefs of others can some day profundly change their lives. For those who already know, this is a great compilation with all the facts neatly assembled in one book.
An informed, hard-hitting, no nonsense investigation into the collaboration of a power-hungry President and his supporters .......2006-05-05
With God On Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, And Democracy In George Bush's White House by Brooklyn-based radio and print journalist Esther Kaplan is an informed, hard-hitting, no nonsense investigation into the collaboration of a power-hungry President and his supporters of the fundamentalist Christian right. Delving deeply into the details of the covert conspiracies and overt deal-making for gaining political empowerment among fellow Christians in the first term of Bush's election, With God On Their Side comprehensively supports and documents the arguments presented while intricately mapping out the Bush Administration's attacks upon the democratic principle of separation of church and state. With God On Their Side is very highly recommended for students of political science, and contemporary social activists who support the continued separation between the powers of the government and the demands of the religious community.
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