Swing Vote (TV Movie 1. A highly insightful perspective on the judicial system and how it affects us all. Since the day I saw this movie several years ago, I have been trying to obtain a copy of it. That it has not received better reviews surprises me.

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The movie captured my interest on multiple levels……the insight one gains into the behind the scene politics of the judiciary, the fallible human element of judicial decisions, the ludicrousness and simultaneous pragmatism of the law and the influence of personal politics and values on judicial opinion were fascinating. The astounding reality of our times that could put a woman on trial for exerting control over her own body rightly or wrongly, and ultimately (and the clincher for me) the human face of judicial decisions…. Andy Garcia's brilliant closing argument are very moving. I highly recommend it.

Bill Bryson’s ‘One Summer: America, 1. Inanimate objects are sent up just as delightfully. We meet a railroad that “wandered confusedly around the upper Midwest, as if looking for a lost item,” while in a Chicago movie palace, “the marbled lobby was said to be an almost exact copy of the king’s chapel at Versailles except presumably for the smell of popcorn.”Photo. Credit. Viktor Koen This makes for a wonderful romp, though the hyperbole of the age frequently runs away with Bryson. Great as Babe Ruth was, he does not still hold the record for shutouts by a left- handed pitcher in a season, and he did not hit three home runs in his last game, or compile 2. The cartoonist Tad Dorgan did not invent the name “hot dog”; someone in Al Capone’s “camp” did not coin the phrase “Vote early and vote often”; and it was not true that Lindbergh “would no longer be anybody’s hero” by “the time America was ready to take to the air properly.” The advent of the talking picture in 1. Broadway, and Hoover did not win the presidency in 1.

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A little more seriously, Bryson makes the wild charge that Hoover “illegally bought chemicals from Germany” during World War I “as part of his business operations,” thus engaging in “an act that could have led to his being taken outside, stood against a wall and shot.” I’m unaware that Hoover was engaged in any business during the war beyond feeding starving Belgian and French citizens, and working as the United States Food Administrator. A few, histrionic accusations of this sort were flung at him by a disgruntled employee and a couple of political opponents — and thoroughly discredited by a British court of inquiry at the time. Bryson is best at deflating our nostalgia for the era, even as he upholds its importance. The America of the 1. Tea Party utopia. I find the period’s allure understandable. The country was rich and loaded with miraculous new things: the car, the radio, the refrigerator.

Every big city had its proud new skyscraper, and we had just pioneered the mall and the planned suburb. We added more phones every year than Britain had in toto, and Kansas had more automobiles than France. We held half the world’s gold and made almost half its goods, and seemed to churn out a similarly abundant supply of heroic young daredevils. We were, at the same time, a curiously dysfunctional nation, one where two- thirds of the murders went unsolved, and the average homicide rate was exponentially higher than it is now in much of the country. Showtime Full Aftershock Online Free there. We were barely able to build a road or a functional airfield, or to efficiently coordinate our extensive rail system.

When the Mississippi overflowed in the worst flood in its history — inundating 1. Bryson writes; the human tallies “weren’t more scrupulous because, alas, so many of the victims were poor and black”) and resulting in up to $1 billion in losses — Coolidge, anointed earlier this year in a biography by Amity Shlaes as the model of a modern right- wing president, refused to provide even an autographed picture to be auctioned off for flood relief.

Aid was provided largely by the private sector and charitable organizations, which managed all of $2. There may never have been another time in the nation’s history when more people disliked more other people from more directions and for less reason,” Bryson writes, referring to the era as “the Age of Loathing.” He has a point. Americans in the 1. Ku Klux Klan and rushed to embrace the new pseudoscience of eugenics. The Supreme Court backed these extremists, upholding the “right” of states to forcibly sterilize tens of thousands of supposed “imbeciles,” who were in fact often just poor, black or unmarried women.

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There seemed, every­where, to be an undercurrent of malicious madness that could be glimpsed in the hysteria surrounding celebrities and scandalous murder cases. Having created the modern mobster, we then refused to prosecute him, turning state power instead on dissidents and unions, while enforcing Prohibition by lacing alcohol with poisons.

There was even a school massacre in 1. Disappointed in the world, we had refused to join the League of Nations and slammed the golden door shut to immigrants. Nonetheless, we reached out despite ourselves, with our ideas and our culture, riding the air and the airwaves. Every time you turned around, it seemed, Americans were starting another magazine, newspaper or bold new publishing house, or developing a musical form. Watch Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Online Ibtimes. The capper was the moving picture. We produced 8. 0 percent of the world’s movies by 1. Bryson notes, not only American speech but “American thoughts, American attitudes, American humor and sensibilities.

Peacefully, by accident, and almost unnoticed, America had just taken over the world.”ONE SUMMERAmerica, 1. By Bill Bryson. Illustrated.

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