Mormon Mayhem
Автор: Keaton Albertson
Год издания: 0000
Most Mormon children enjoy the homogenous lifestyle afforded to them by their years of systematic brainwashing. They take comfort in the fact that they have ready-made answers to all of lifea€™s big questions provided to them by their cultish church leaders and devoted families. Occasionally, some children challenge the premise of Joseph Smitha€™s gospel teachings and actively resist the stifling of individualism from the Mormon Church. Keaton Albertson was of this latter disposition. Mormon Mayhem is a non-fiction book of Keatona€™s personal narratives that detail his adventures of belligerence and inconsideration for his fellow man while growing up under the influence of Mormonism. Paralleling the storyline of Criminal Mischief, Keaton chronicles his experiences of being indoctrinated into the Mormon faith and narrates his devious deeds from his time spent with the Boy Scouts of America up until his departure from the church fold. The crowning event recorded in the writing is Keatona€™s attempt to reform his antisocial behaviors that were exhibited within his earlier work by embarking upon a proselytizing mission for the Mormon Church. While attempting to convert others into the hokey religion, Keaton soon finds that his recruiting mission reveals itself to be ripe with contradiction. His acts of debauchery and general assholishness promptly resume and he questions whether Joseph Smith was all that the self-proclaimed prophet was cracked up to be. The obnoxious annals of satire collected within this volume juxtaposes flagrantly immoral acts with a penetrating view into the life of an indoctrinated Mormon youth who struggles toward achieving a life of autonomy apart from the Church. In addition to offering readers a myriad of amusing anecdotes of discordant behavior, Mormon Mayhem exposes the sacred rites that take place within Mormon temples and offers iconoclastic accounts of secret ceremonies and intimate Bishop Interviews.
Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem
Автор: Tim Shipman
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The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa May’s battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War.By the bestselling author of All Out War, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2017.This is the unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa May’s battle for a Brexit deal – the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War.Fall Out tells of how a leader famed for her caution battled her bitterly divided cabinet at home while facing duplicitous Brussels bureaucrats abroad. Of how she then took the biggest gamble of her career to strengthen her position – and promptly blew it. It is also a tale of treachery where – in the hour of her greatest weakness – one by one, May’s colleagues began to plot against her.Inside this book you will find all the strategy, comedy, tragedy and farce of modern politics – where principle, passion and vaulting ambition collide in the corridors of power. It chronicles a civil war at the heart of the Conservative Party and a Labour Party back from the dead, led by Jeremy Corbyn, who defied the experts and the critics on his own side to mount an unlikely tilt at the top job.With access to all the key players, Tim Shipman has written a political history that reads like a thriller, exploring how and why the EU referendum result pitched Britain into a year of political mayhem.