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Dan Monaco

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Enough of Your Yankee Bloodshed

Emily Dickinson’s Victory comes late— first appears in a letter (absent any contents but the poem) sent to Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican, in late 1861 or, at the latest, early 1862:

BY    Dan Monaco
October 18, 2023
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Yojimbo and Administration

“Everybody’s after easy money.  Gambling, throwing dice.  Can’t tell whose money is whose.  I hear the sake brewer’s become a silk trader.  Says he’ll pay more than the silk merchant.”

BY    Dan Monaco
October 13, 2023
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The Straddler Review: Barack Obama and the Culture of Consultancy in collaboration with James Comerford

I Heroic icons produced by the story of American history have often been put to use in the service of the office of the presidency, typically to harmonize as well as possible the President’s preexisting personality traits or image with a ready-made figure evocative of “the real America” or “what America is all about.“

BY    James Comerford and Dan Monaco