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Pine Nuts: The maturing of patriotism and its struggle against nationalism
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[North Lake Tahoe Bonanza] - Back in 1775, Dr. Samuel Johnson cautioned us, “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” A century later Ambrose Bierce would protest, “I beg to submit, sir, it is the first.” Of course Mark Twain would get his shovel in there too, “Patriotism
Google News: Puente sobre aguas turbulentas
[Página 12] y revolver entre las imágenes del corto One of the Missing, su verdadero debut como director, en 1969, adaptación de un cuento de Ambrose Bierce sobre un soldado de la guerra civil norteamericana atrapado bajo escombros y con los minutos contados
Occupy Railroads
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[Daily Beast] - Dennis Drabelle, in The Great American Railroad War, spots a good historical precedent to today's times. But he takes the strange step of arguing that two Gilded Age writers, Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris, managed to bring Central Pacific down. He
“The Great American Railroad War: How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris Took ...
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[Washington Post] - William Randolph Hearst, yellow journalist nonpareil, got scent of it and dispatched his ace of the poison pen, Ambrose Bierce, to the East to employ his sourest invective to defeat the scheme. Independently, the ambitious young novelist Frank Norris
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