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Nov 14, 2014 · It's a risky film. Sometimes the risks pay off, sometimes they don't, but the feeling of risk infuses the film with chaos, humor, violence, beauty. "The Homesman" doesn't play things safe, and that's a welcome change. Mary Bee Cuddy ( Hilary Swank) is a middle-aged woman, born in upstate New York, who has bought land in the Nebraska territory.
Nov 15, 2014 · The Homesman Is an Unromantic Western. By Bilge Ebiri, a film critic for New York and Vulture. Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman is a halting, uncertain work by design. Set in the bleak,...
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Nov 14, 2014 · Set in a flat, unforgiving stretch of the American frontier in the decade before the Civil War, “The Homesman” is both a captivating western and a meticulous, devastating feminist critique of ...
- Tommy Lee Jones
The Homesman was first printed in 1988, and is highly worthy of its 2014 rerelease. Swarthout’s prose and plot flow like the swirling Missouri River, deceptively smooth but with dangerous undercurrents. His characters are heart-wrenchingly believable because they are drawn from true-life pioneer experiences. Mary Bee Cuddy is simultaneously ...
As noted above, the first six volumes of A Study of History have met with criticisms of various kinds from the side of professional historians, though they were more than once intermingled with feelings of admiration as well, in particular as regards the tremendous scope of the study and the extraordinary learning it exhibited. With the last ...
- Jan van der Dussen
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Apr 2, 2017 · 28,983. views. Image by nickestamp. This is an excerpt from Understanding Post-9/11 Afghanistan: A Critical Insight into Huntington’s Civilizational Approach . An E-IR Open Access Book by Deepshikha Shahi. Available now on Amazon ( UK, USA, Ca, Ger, Fra ), in all good book stores, and via a free PDF download .
A Study of History is a 12-volume universal history by the British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, published from 1934 to 1961. It received enormous popular attention but according to historian Richard J. Evans , "enjoyed only a brief vogue before disappearing into the obscurity in which it has languished."
