MICHAEL RICHARDS

Se suele creer que conocemos bien lo que sucedió en la Transición a la democracia, pero este libro demuestra que no es así. Javier Tusell y Genoveva G. Queipo de LLano han llevado a cabo un riguroso trabajo para reconstruir los dos años y medio en que Carlos Arias Navarro estuvo al frente del ultimo gobierno de Franco y del primero de Rey u ofrecernos las claves fundamentales del proceso politico que se llevo a cabo durante aquellos meses turbulentos y confusos. Combinando el testimonio oral de los principales protagonistas de la Transicion con documentos hasta ahora desconocidos, como los papeles privados de Arias Navarro, los autores nos revelan acontecimientos que deconociamos, como los proyectos de Arias para que Franco abandonara el poder en vida o la conspiracion militar involucionista de marzo de 1976, y nos muestran otros muchos bajo una una nueva luz que barre buena parte de los topicos al uso. Este libro se convierte, asi, en el punto de partida para una nueva historia critica de la Transicion española.

Michael Richards, es profesor de Historia Europea en la University of the West of England.

Michael Richards es un prestigioso hispanista (en la línea de Paul Preston o Ian Gibson). Autor de Un tiempo de silencio. Este libro representa una suerte de "Historia social de España" donde se puede comprobar como la manipulacion historica de la dictadura se infiltro en muy diversos aspectos de la vida cotidiana de los españoles. Es tambien un reflejo de como se vivia en los años de la postguerra y de los cambios sociales que se produjeron en la reconstruccion fisica, economica y psicologica de un pais devastado por la Guerra Civil.

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs seen on The Today Show,The View, and Jesse WattersThe man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved television characters ever invented, Kramer, shares the extraordinary life of a comedy geniusthe way he came into himself as an artist, the ups and downs as a human being, the road he has traveled in search of understanding.The hair, so essential, symbolizes the irrational that was and is and always will be the underlying feature not only of Kramer but of comedy itself. This seemingly senseless spirit has been coursing through me since childhood. Ive been under its almighty influence since the day I came into this world. I felt it all within myself, especially the physical comedy, the body movements, so freakish and undignified, where I bumped into things, knocked stuff down, messed up situations, and often ended up on my ass. This book is a hymn to the irrational, the senseless spirit that breaks the whole into pieces, a reflection on the seemingly absurd difficulties that intrude upon us all. Its Harpo Marx turning us about, shaking up my plans, throwing me for a loop. Upset and turmoil is with us all the time. Its at the basis of comedy. Its the pratfall we all take. Its the unavoidable mistake we didnt expect. Its everywhere I go. Its in the way that I am, both light and dark, good and not-so-good. Its my life. Michael Richards, from Entrances and Exits

A unique collection of quotes and photos revealing a new side of Mark Twains humor and wit.A highly entertaining collection of timeless quotations from Mark Twain. The 19th-centurey American writer, humorist, public speaker, and publisher wrote hundreds of short stories, and his best-known novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, still read more than 130 years later. Born with the visit of Halleys Comet in 1835, he died when the comet returned to the solar system in 1910. He remains one of the most quoted and quotable American writers of all time. It includes more than 100 glorious images of this most famous son of Hannibal, Missouri.

España fragmentada analiza la cultura y las ideas que rodearon la catastrófica guerra civil en la que estuvo sumida España entre 1936 y 1939. Contiene artículos de destacados historiadores españoles, britanicos y estadounidenses, en los que se examina la compleja interaccion de los factores nacionales y locales que contribuyeron a la conformacion y al desarrollo de la guerra. Como demuestran los trabajos contenidos en este volumen, la guerra civil fue resultado de multitud de fisuras culturales presentes en la sociedad española de los años treinta, que se vieron acentuadas y potenciadas por el estallido de la contienda. Asi, al contrario de como se ha venido haciendo hasta ahora, el presente volumen no concibe la guerra civil como un gran conflicto bipolar entre dos grupos de ideas, de clases sociales y formas de vida facilmente identificables. La tragedia española, en la esfera de la vida cotidiana, contuvo multitud de tensiones y fracturas tanto en el terreno de la politica como en el de las percepciones que los españoles tuvieron de la sociedad en crisis que los rodeaba.