A History Maker
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Alasdair Gray. A History Maker
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
PUBLIC EYE
PRIVATE HOUSES
WARRIOR WORK
PUDDOCK PLOT
THE HENWIFE
NOTES
NOTES ON THE PROLOGUE
CHAPTER TWO — PRIVATE HOUSES
CHAPTER THREE — WARRIOR WORK
CHAPTER FOUR — PUDDOCK PLOT
CHAPTER FIVE — THE HENWIFE
POSTSCRIPT
About the Author. A HISTORY MAKER
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“Economics: Old Greek word for the art of keeping a home weatherproof and supplied with what the householders need. For at least three centuries this word was used by British rulers and their advisers to mean political housekeeping — the art of keeping their bankers, brokers and rich supporters well supplied with money, often by impoverishing other householders. They used the Greek instead of the English word because it mystified folk who had not been taught at wealthy schools. The rhetoric of plutocratic bosses needed economics as the sermons of religious ones needed The Will of God.”
— from The Intelligence Archive of
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“You’re a waster, Dad,” said Wat glumly, “An arrogant feckless blood-crazy waster. But I cannae live alone among the women.”
“So I have reason on my side after all!” shouts Craig Douglas with a laugh. Everyone but Wat echoes it. Even Shafto and the herald are laughing.
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