Distory by Robert Schnakenberg
Author:Robert Schnakenberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
The worst, most reactionary and vicious governor in Texas history … just nasty and vindictive.
—RALPH YARBOROUGH, U.S. SENATOR
I don’t like him and I don’t trust him.
—ROY WILKINS, U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER
A renegade, turncoat opportunist.
—JOHN CONNALLY, ON JACK COX, TEXAS GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE WHO SWITCHED POLITICAL PARTIES FROM DEMOCRAT TO REPUBLICAN IN 1962 (CONNALLY HIMSELF MADE THE SAME SWITCH IN 1973)
Chapter Two
BATTLES OF THE BRITONS
ROYAL RIDICULE
The concept of regicide haunts the British imagination like a peckish ghost at a Scotsman’s banquet table. Whether it be ambitious Macbeth snuffing out old King Duncan or the ritual sacrifice of the divine king that anchors Sir James George Frazer’s classic The Golden Bough, Britons have long dreamed of giving the ultimate what-for to their kings and queens. On one memorable occasion, they actually went through with it; for the most part, however, opponents of this or that royal personage have resorted to rhetorical assassination rather than outright violence …
A most intolerable ruffian, a disgrace to human nature, and a blot of blood and grease upon the history of England.
—CHARLES DICKENS, ON HENRY VIII
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