"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally"  is an interpretive reading by Amazon Turk workers of a tweet found on @realDonaldTrump. Workers were asked to write at least 100 words that explain the surface meaning and subtext of the tweet that forms the title of this book. The worker identification number is included with each reading.

Volume 2 in the Reading @realDonaldTrump series

 Just watched @NBCNightlyNews - So biased, inaccurate and bad, point after point. Just can't get much worse, although @CNN is right up there! is a reading by Amazon Turk workers of a December 11, 2016, @realDonaldTrump tweet. Workers were asked, for $1, to write at least 100 words that explain the surface meaning and subtext of the tweet. The worker identification number is included with each reading.

Volume 4 in the Reading @realDonaldTrump series

 I have always had a good relationship with Chuck Schumer. He is far smarter than Harry R and has the ability to get things done. Good news! is an interpretive reading by Amazon Turk workers of a tweet found on @realDonaldTrump. Workers were asked to write at least 100 words that explain the surface meaning and subtext of a tweet that appears on @realDonaldTrump: "I have always had a good relationship with Chuck Schumer. He is far smarter than Harry R and has the ability to get things done. Good news!" The worker identification number is included with each reading.

This book deals with the intricate connection between the political structure of the East German government and cultural politics. Specifically, it focuses on the relationship between the government agencies and three authors. It explores the difficulties the writers encountered in the 1960s with the government of East Germany and how their works did or did not conform to the cultural policy established by the GDR regime in 1951. The government believed that it was imperative for authors and artists to adhere to the literary policy of social realism prescribed by the East German Ministry of Culture. An author's works were expected to conform to the political ideology of Marxism. The Ministry of Culture expected writers to depict the society through the glorification of Marxism. The East German cultural functionaries evaluated a piece of literature more for the author's devotion to the political doctrine than the aesthetic quality of the work. If works did not conform, the government agencies such as the Ministry of Culture could apply pressure to the authors in many forms: censorship, silencing, fines, prosecution, surveillance and, for extreme cases, expatriation. This study assesses three prominent writers of the former East Germany: Wolf Biermann, a lyricist; Christa Wolf, a novelist; and Heiner Muller, a dramatist. The analysis is based on the political content of the authors' works and how the West German and East German critics evaluated them. Government documents from German State Archives revealed the sensitive nature of the political and writer conferences of the GDR. The study analyzes how the writers' interpretation of socialism increasingly deviated from that of the East German regime. Over time, the writers chose to express themselves in a different manner and thus, encountered problems and conflicts with the Ministry of Culture."

"Satire's real purpose as a literary genre is to criticize through humor, irony, caricature, and parody, and ultimately to defy the status quo. In African American Satire, Darryl Dickson-Carr provides the first book-length study of African-American satire and the vital role it has played. In the process he investigates African American literature, American literature, and the history of satire." --Book Jacket.

This unique and perceptive history unravels geopolitical intrigues and reveals how they have influenced the authors who fashioned one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the literate world the spy novel. Espionage fiction is one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the literate world and, since its widespread acceptance in the early twentieth century, it has sought to pursue the secret politics of Western social order. Drawn from reality, exposing what is generally concealed, it provides a unique glimpse into the darker, more conspiratorial affairs of state through the use of fictional covert actions, double agents, treason, and international intrigues. It is a carefully crafted, clandestine venue wherein the situations are circumscribed, the moods are forever gray, and the heroes if indeed there are heroes generally emerge as ordinary individuals who believe that virtues such as truth and loyalty are simply matters of convenience. People who are, in fact, not that much different from those whom they oppose. The concept of neutral ground the term adapted from Sir Walter Scott s early nineteenth century Waverly novels originally spoke to the geographic region between two warring armies, a place controlled by neither but marked by fluid jurisdictions drawn by the ebb and flow of strategic influences or battle lines. But with the passage of time, and the refinement of espionage fiction, the definition of neutral ground witnessed a transition, emerging as both metaphor and cautionary note for the thematic conflicts and doubts that flourish in the absence of clear political authority. An intellectual nether region reminiscent perhaps of Cold War Berlin that affords conflicting parties unrestricted rights of passage and where political ideology and literary fiction can and do seamlessly intersect. Yet, in the grander historical sense, the evolution of espionage fiction also reflects the history of a culture for, as the genre evolved, so too did Western society. To explore these historical relationships Neutral Ground: A Political History of Espionage Fiction takes the reader behind the fiction and explores the real-world political, military, and diplomatic events that have consistently and significantly threaded their way through the fabric of the genre. Against this historical timeline, it examines how numerous authors including Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and John le Carra(r) have engaged reality in order to write the espionage novels that have become literary classics and, in selected cases, have also served to alter the course of government policy."

 Just watched @NBCNightlyNews - So biased, inaccurate and bad, point after point. Just can't get much worse, although @CNN is right up there! is a reading by Amazon Turk workers of a December 11, 2016, @realDonaldTrump tweet. Workers were asked, for $1, to write at least 100 words that explain the surface meaning and subtext of the tweet. The worker identification number is included with each reading.

Volume 4 in the Reading @realDonaldTrump series

"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally"  is an interpretive reading by Amazon Turk workers of a tweet found on @realDonaldTrump. Workers were asked to write at least 100 words that explain the surface meaning and subtext of the tweet that forms the title of this book. The worker identification number is included with each reading.

Volume 2 in the Reading @realDonaldTrump series

 I have always had a good relationship with Chuck Schumer. He is far smarter than Harry R and has the ability to get things done. Good news! is an interpretive reading by Amazon Turk workers of a tweet found on @realDonaldTrump. Workers were asked to write at least 100 words that explain the surface meaning and subtext of a tweet that appears on @realDonaldTrump: "I have always had a good relationship with Chuck Schumer. He is far smarter than Harry R and has the ability to get things done. Good news!" The worker identification number is included with each reading.