Great Feuds in History: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever ebook

by Colin Evans

Colin Evans Historical Study and Educational Resources English

Publishers Weekly In Great Feuds in History, Colin Evans puts us in the middle of ten of history’s most significant struggles–high-stakes personal conflicts that had a lasting impact on the societies around them and on generations that followed. Spanning five hundred years of political rivalry, spiritual conflict, and ancestral discord, here are ten fascinating true tales of ambition, greed, jealousy, passion, and fear that are as gripping and meaningful today as they were in their own turbulent times.

Great Feuds in History. Colin Evans has written many books on various subjects. This book picked ten feuds from the last five centuries. There is not much here that is new, but it can be interesting for somebody who would like to more about them. Some of these feuds are more slander and ping pong verbal aggression than actual mayhem, There isn't much blood flowing. It is the author's choice of course, to select the ten feuds he wants to write about.

Great Feuds in History book. In Great Feuds in History, Colin Evans puts us in the middle of ten of history's most significant s personal conflicts that had a lasting impact on the societies around them and on generations that followed.

In Great Feuds in History, Colin Evans puts us in the middle of ten of history's most significant s personal conflicts that had a lasting impact on the societies around them and on generations that followed.

Top. American Libraries Canadian Libraries Universal Library Community Texts Project Gutenberg Biodiversity Heritage Library Children's Library. An accomplished science writer narrates the dramatic stories of science's ten greatest controversies, sometimes lasting centuries and the discoveries they inspired, and shows how such clashes of ideas and personalities propel science forward.

Praise for Great Feuds in HistoryEveryone loves a good fight, especially on the world stage, and Evans calls these contests .

Praise for Great Feuds in HistoryEveryone loves a good fight, especially on the world stage, and Evans calls these contests with skill and flair. Features stories of ten high-stakes feuds that changed history forever, from Elizabeth I's lengthy spat with royal pain Mary, Queen of Scots, to Aaron Burr's bloody battle with Alexander Hamilton, to Stalin and Trotsky's ferocious, intercontinental set-to.

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History and human nature collide as revenge is taken to the extreme between strangers and within families. Amundsen and Scott race to the South Pole. Even though the outcomes of the notorious feuds Evans explores are common knowledge, he skillfully maintains suspense by teasing readers with some of the little-known facts and mysteries that surround them. What stands out in each fascinating case is how hate clouds common sense, how losers sometimes win and winners often lose and, as Evans observes, "history isn't always written by the winners.

Frostdefender

I haven't read it yet, but am looking forward to it. Highly recommended by a friend. Was interested to see other Great Feuds book. I am sure that I will be buying more.

Qumen

I LOVED THIS BOOK.

Simple

everything fine

Bev

Great Feuds in History

Colin Evans has written many books on various subjects. This book picked ten feuds from the last five centuries. Were there others that were more important? Are these in the Top Ten List? The ‘Bibliography’ lists relevant books for each chapter in this 2001 book. There are ‘Notes’ and an ‘Index’ for references. Each feud is like a magazine article that entertains as it educates. These are not in-depth articles. I wonder what Evans would have picked at the next ten great feuds? What was his criteria in selections? Here is the list.

01) Elizabeth I versus Mary Queen of Scots.
Political control of England.
02) Parliament versus King Charles I.
Political control of England.
03) Aaron Burr versus Alexander Hamilton.
Political rivalry to control America.
04) The Hatfields versus The McCoys.
Control over valuable lands.
05) Stalin versus Trotsky.
Political control of the Soviet Union.
06) Roald Amundsen versus Robert F. Scott.
The race to the South Pole and World Fame.
07) Duchess of Windsor versus Queen Mother.
Political control of Britain.
08) Montgomery versus Patton.
Control of the Allied Armies and World Fame.
09) Lyndon Baines Johnson versus Robert Francis Kennedy.
Control of the Democratic Party and the Presidency.
10) J. Edgar Hoover versus Martin Luther King.
Control over Civil Rights in America.

In Chapter 9 Evans claims Sirhan shot RFK in the back of his head. Eyewitnesses said Sirhan was six feet in front of RFK when he fired; he could not have shot RFK in the back! Are there other mistakes in this book? LBJ’s “Great Society” passed: Medicare, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Federal Aid to primary and secondary schools, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development. These were all part of the War on Poverty. So too liberalized unemployment compensation, expanded food stamp program, and opportunities for youth employment. Vietnam goes back to Eisenhower and JFK, LBJ continued and expanded their policies.

Popular opinion favored anyone who fought criminals and organized crime (Chapter 10). Hoover benefitted from Congress’ dislike of the Secret Service after their detectives sent a Senator and Congressman to jail in the Teapot Dome Scandal. They retaliated by cutting the Secret Service’s budget and switching their duties to the new Bureau of Investigation. The Secret Service was in charge of counter-intelligence since it was formed during the Civil War. Hoover knew to stay in power he had to know about the scandals of Congressmen in self-defense. I think Hoover ignored Organized Crime because of its influence in Congressional Districts. Some said they fed him tips on horse races. Evans doesn’t tell about Hoover’s expense accounts.

Manarius

This is a nice easy read. Each feud is roughly twenty pages long and makes for some nice light reading. Some I wouldn't rate as world changing, but they are interesting. I did not know much about any one one dispute--except perhaps Montgomery and Patton. The McCoy-Hatfield feud was also very interesting and I can't remember that much written about that from other sources. This is an interesting bit of history, and perhaps there are some other feuds that may rate higher than what the author selected (Shah versus Khomeni).

This book is a nice weekend or beach read. The reader will be amazed at the hatred these feuds generated. Evans does a nice job of detailing these pointed conflicts in this book.

Kardana

The author chose ten feuds of history and describes them in condensed but well researched detail. There is not much here that is new, but it can be interesting for somebody who would like to more about them. Some of these feuds are more slander and ping pong verbal aggression than actual mayhem, There isn't much blood flowing.
It is the author's choice of course, to select the ten feuds he wants to write about. But I wish he had selected more truly drag-out fights like Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII at Canossa. Or, in modern times, Harry Truman going after General MacArthur.

Jube

Not a bad book, you could be reading something completely devoid of content. However, I am very concerned about not only the content in this book ("Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy"???) but also the way is presented. At various points throughout my reading, I felt as if my intelligence were being insulted. Perhaps this book is aimed more at a non-history lover kind of audience and is written in a "verbal-candy" kind of way. At any rate, if you can't get the middle name of one of your main subjects right (it's Robert FRANCIS Kennedy for anyone not in the loop), then what about all of the other details? I am left wondering how much of the content was historically accurate and how much is there purely for entertainment. If books were newspapers, this one would be somewhere between the New York Post and Star (the tabloid).