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Benson's House

A Novel

By: John Milner

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The 1864 art debut of Sarah Taggart Benson’s spurred wide acclaim among New York society. Many thought a woman artist would not be taken seriously, but her popularity grew, spawning an insurrection against rigid Victorian standards, and a following of counter-culturists known as the Urban Romantics. They congregated in the downstairs galley and in the basement tavern of the brownstone she shared with her husband in Greenwich Village. The rooms evolved in accord as a center of a new artistic universe known affectionately as Benson’s House. Then one day the balance became unbroken. Throughout five generations, her family kept hold of the reins of the chariot, cultivating art and music to restore the balance and speak for the common man against the oppressions of institutional authority. The culture grew with certain defiance, nurturing slave songs to speak boldly throughout Post Impressionism, Jazz, Flappers and Bootleg Whiskey, The New Masses, Folk Music, Beatniks, and disciples of Rock & Roll. This is their saga - an American love story accumulated over a hundred years - passed down through the generations by tavern discourse.

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348

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483654508

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9781483654508

The Sincerest Form of Parody

The Best 1950s MAD Inspired Satirical Comics

By: John Benson

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The Sincerest Form of Parody

The Best 1950s MAD Inspired Satirical Comics

By: John Benson

The best and funniest material from the bandwagon-jumping MAD imitators, with work by Jack Davis, Will Elder, Dick Ayers, Bill Everett, Jack Kirby and many more, plus expert commentary. Casual comics readers are probably familiar with the later satirical magazines that continued to be published in the '60s and '70s, such as Cracked and Sick, but the comics collected in this volume were imitations of the MAD comic book, not the magazine, and virtually unknown among all but the most die-hard collectors. For the first time, Fantagraphics is collecting the best of these comics in an unprecedented collection!

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193

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Fantagraphics Books

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1606995111

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9781606995112

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations

Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620. Volume eighteen, part 3

By: John D. Austin

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Mayflower Families Through Five Generations

Descendants of the Pilgrims who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620. Volume eighteen, part 3

By: John D. Austin

The tracing of the descendants of the Mayflower passengers.

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0930270304

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9780930270308

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