Resultaten voor 'richard skinner'

1. Richard Skinner

Invisible Sun

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The Partisan Presidency

This timely and engaging account of how the president relates to political parties helps us understand how contemporary presidents have polarized the electorate, helped drive a wedge between Republicans and Democrats in Congress, put a strong partisan imprint upon the executive branch, and seek to get their message out through partisan media outlets. Partisan presidents in the new era are far less interested in neutral competence and instead use the national party committees as tools of governance.

1. Richard , Skinner

The Partisan Presidency

This timely and engaging account of how the president relates to political parties helps us understand how contemporary presidents have polarized the electorate, helped drive a wedge between Republicans and Democrats in Congress, put a strong partisan imprint upon the executive branch, and seek to get their message out through partisan media outlets. Partisan presidents in the new era are far less interested in neutral competence and instead use the national party committees as tools of governance.

1. Richard Skinner

The Mirror

Erik Satie - composer, dandy, eccentric - is dead. When her world is shaken - first, literally, by an earthquake, and then, spiritually, by forces that threaten to change the convent for ever - she begins to ask questions about her faith and her future.

1. Keith Douglas

Alamein to Zem Zem

Keith Douglas was born in 1920. At school and at Oxford he was both a prolific poet and a committed member of the Officers Training Corps. When the Second World War broke out, he enlisted immediately, and was posted to Palestine in 1941. When his tank regiment began fighting in El Alamein in 1942, Douglas was instructed to stay behind as a staff officer. But he made his own way to the battlefield, an experience which he recounted in his prose memoir Alamein to Zem Zem (first published in 1946). He later took part in the Normandy invasion on 6 June 1944, and was killed three days later. His Collected Poems came out in 1951. Richard Skinner is a novelist, poet and critic. His most recent book, The Mirror, was described as 'beautifully written . . . immersive . . . captivating' by the Guardian. As Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy, he created the flagship 'Writing a Novel' six-month course in 2009 and since then has helped hundreds of writers find their voice.

1. Richard Skinner

Writing a Novel

A novel is a relationship, a place outside of time where both reader and writer are challenged and validated, stretched and rewarded. In Writing a Novel he offers up frameworks, strategies and stimuli to help you meet that duty, drawingon his deep experience as one of the UK's leading creative writing teachers.