Bücher von David Starkey

Inspired by Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the trees and plants that define California's Central Coast, Out of the Ground features more than fourty local poets.Carmen Alexander Lori AnayaSarah Blakely Gudrun BortmanSally Anderson Boström M. L. Brown Christopher Buckley Carolyn Chilton Casas Clayton Clark Fran Davis Marsha de la O Kurt Duran Ana Ellickson Kimbrough Ernest Mary Freericks Cie GumucioHannah Huff Kristin Kane Peggy Kelly Isabelle Kim-ShermanGabriella KleinPerie LongoJasmine Marshall Armstrong Juliane McAdam Anita McLaughlin Anne NeubauerEnid Osborn Melinda Palacio Scot Pipkin Susan Shields George HS SingerDavid Starkey Daniel ThomasEmma Trelles Jace Ryan Turner Isabelle Walker Joseph Warren Norma Wightman Paul Willis George Yatchisin Chryss Yost

No one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were daring and tumultuous, and made instant legends of six very different women. In this remarkable study, David Starkey argues that the king was not a depraved philanderer but someone seeking happiness -- and a son. Knowingly or not, he elevateda group of women to extraordinary heights and changed the way a nation was governed.Six Wives is a masterful work of history that intimately examines the rituals of diplomacy, marriage, pregnancy, and religion that were part of daily life for women at the Tudor Court. Weaving new facts and fresh interpretations into a spellbinding account of the emotional drama surrounding Henry's six marriages, David Starkey reveals the central role that the queens played in determining policy. With an equally keen eye for romantic and political intrigue, he brilliantly recaptures the story of Henry's wives and the England they ruled.

In What Just Happened: 210 Haiku Against the Trump Presidency (a Satire), David Starkey memorializes each week of Donald Trump's four years in office with a single haiku. While the poems sizzle with dismay and disbelief, they are often tempered by dark comedy as Starkey catalogues Trump's outrages in lines you won't soon forget."e;Here's a book of high-speed history for you, friends. It's easy to forget the Trump years, probably because we want to. But if we are to remember the past so as not to repeat it, David Starkey makes it easy and even pleasant to do so by wrapping each of the president's gaffes in that most durable of poetical forms, the haiku. "e;Literature is news that stays news,"e; says Pound, and Starkey proves his point with poems that are funny, maddening, and razor-sharp."e; David Kirby