Sentences with phrase «american aristocracy»
«Among other things, Billions is a show about American aristocracy, of two men burnishing a legacy that will etch their families» names in the firmament for generations to come.»
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It's all very «English aristocracy meets American hillbilly,» with heavy doses of nature (rivers, mountains, meadows, snow), death, love and childhood.
The leaders in American culture are not like the tiny minority of landed aristocracy who were educated as gentlemen at Oxford or Cambridge so that they might enjoy their leisure and be ornaments of erudition.
We recognize no titles of nobility: this means not only that the American republic repudiates the notion of a titled aristocracy, but that it does not recognize any special category of rights belonging to a class of people.
Kevin Phillips, who published The Emerging Republican Majority in 1969, is the author, most recently, of American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush (Viking).
At a time when leading historians of the family were concentrating on the English and French aristocracy, Lasch focused on marriage and family life among ordinary Americans.
True, Frank Wolf did not spring from the intellectual and political aristocracy of the American Founding; nor did he serve as ambassador, senator, secretary of state, and president; nor is he a crusty curmudgeon like the Adams portrayed brilliantly by Anthony Hopkins in the film Amistad.
No just as the Slave owners of our first Civil War, who needed African slaves on their Plantations, to make them economically viable for the Southern Aristocracy to maintain their affluence, the Anti Gov forces of today seek a totally deregulated American economy.
Gore Vidal, born and raised as a member of the East Coast American political aristocracy, was a respected novelist, essayist, and outspoken liberal commentator who used his wit to provoke and satirize.
Foreman's descriptions of Georgiana's uncontrollable gambling, all - night drinking, drug taking, and love affairs with the leading politicians of the day give us fascinating insight into the lives of the British aristocracy in the era of the madness of King George III, the American and French revolutions, and the defeat of Napoleon.
American girls basically propped up the English aristocracy for a generation.
In LA Weekly, Doug Harvey tells the story of Mercedes Matter, who was born into the East Coast cultural aristocracy in 1913 to father Arthur B. Carles, a pioneer American abstract painter who studied with Matisse, showed at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery and exhibited work in the legendary Armory Show.
However, even the most democratic Americans, who rejected European monarchies and aristocracies, found it difficult to resist the multifaceted allure of European culture — including art, architecture, decorative arts, literature, music, and fashion.
Private law as suggested above is a return to feudal law in which the political and economic powerful «made» the law and it was by way of political revolutions this legal regime was defeated: English Revolution of the 17th century; American Revolution against the English monarchy and aristocracy; the French Revolution against the Monarchy and Aristocracy, and the Russian and the Chinese Revolutions were of the same rootaristocracy; the French Revolution against the Monarchy and Aristocracy, and the Russian and the Chinese Revolutions were of the same rootAristocracy, and the Russian and the Chinese Revolutions were of the same root cause (s).