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"The Lotos Club New York Member's Blue Silk Tie" (SOLD)Sz: 55" x 3" *BB pink OCBD shirt sold separately* The Lotos Club is a private social club in New York City. Founded primarily by a young group of writers and critics in 1870 as a gentlemen's club, it has since begun accepting women as members. Mark Twain, an early member, called it the "Ace of Clubs". The Club took its name from the poem "The Lotos Eaters" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which was then very popular. Lotos was thought to convey an idea of

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The Lotos Club is a private social club in New York City. Founded primarily by a young group of writers and critics in 1870 as a gentlemen's club, it has since begun accepting women as members. Mark Twain, an early member, called it the "Ace of Clubs". The Club took its name from the poem "The Lotos-Eaters" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which was then very popular. Lotos was thought to convey an idea of rest and harmony. Two lines from the poem were selected for the Club motto:

In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon

The Lotos Club has always had a literary and artistic bent, with the result that it has accumulated a noted collection of American paintings. Its "State Dinners" (1893 menu at right below) are legendary fetes for scholars, artists and sculptors, collectors and connoisseurs, writers and journalists, and politicians and diplomats. Elaborate souvenir menus are produced for these dinners.

Notable members:

Brooke Astor

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Kathleen Battle

Andrew Carnegie

Walter P. Chrysler

Mary Higgins Clark

William A. Clark, whose portrait hangs in the club

Samuel Clemens

George M. Cohan

Hume Cronyn

Mario Cuomo

David Dinkins

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Renee Fleming

Gilbert and Sullivan

Alan Gilbert

Solomon R. Guggenheim

William Randolph Hearst

David M. Heyman

Marilyn Horne

Leslie Howard

Alleyne Ireland

Sir Henry Irving

Joseph Koch

Angela Lansbury

Leonard Liebling

Wynton Marsalis

Margaret Mead

Burgess Meredith

Peter O'Toole

William S. Paley

Christopher Plummer

Julian Rix

Charles M. Schwab

Cyrus Ingerson Scofield

Bobby Short

Beverly Sills

Stephen Sondheim

Isaac Stern

Elaine Stritch

Susan Stroman

Moses J. Stroock

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Jessica Tandy

J. Walter Thompson

Orson Welles

P. G. Wodehouse

Tom Wolfe

James Wolfensohn

Frank Winfield Woolworth

Andrew Wyeth

Yo-Yo Ma

James D. Watson

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Terry L.
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Tells the other side of the story you didn't get in U.S. History class. Good read.
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George Vargas
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Outstanding book on the general history of European barbarism.
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Howard
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By far, the best book of many I have read on this subject. Must read for anyone interested in this subject.
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Best book I have yet read on the subject, and I have read many in research for the writing of my second novel. It relentlessly examines specific cases of lynching over time, but it is not a mere narrative of specific lynchings. It is an excellent analysis of the social, historical and cultural forces behind this horrendous practice. The book's discussion of the movie, Birth of a Nation, would by itself make this a valuable book, but the book's central theme is even more important. Its central theme, the public's desire for spectacle as fuel for lynchings, particularly after the abolition of legal public executions, is even more revealing. Also a good look at the social and cultural forces that over time led to the gradual demise of lynching as a phenomenon. A page turner for history readers. Warning -- man's inhumanity to man will make you simultaneously angry and sad.
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AlanWarner
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★★★★★ 5
WHITE MOB JUSTICE
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More black men were hanged in America in the twentieth century than were hanged during slavery, the author of this book Miss Amy Louise Wood does an excellent job of revealing who and what group of Americans did this whole scale hanging of black men. Many white people who participated and witnessed these hangings were your everyday run of the mill American citizens as stated on page 80-81 "As visual extensions of the lynching itself, photographs could at times assuage crowds that had missed the opportunity to witness and participate in the violence. In 1934, the posse that captured Claude Neal, accused of raping and killing a young white woman named Lola Cannidy, chose to lynch him in the woods outside Marianna, Florida, rather than bringing him to the Cannidy home, where a large crowd had gathered in anticipation of the lynching. When the waiting crowd had discovered that the mob had lynched Neal privately, they were reportedly outraged. The mob finally arrived with Neal's body in tow, and the crowd, which included Cannidy's family, took out their vengeance on the corpse, kicking and shooting it, tearing it apart, and even driving their cars over it. Neal's mutilated, nude body was then hanged on the courthouse lawn in the center of the town, and hundreds of photographs were taken. he next day, as people congregated in the square to see the body, the photographs were sold to those purportedly still incensed that the posse who lynched Neal had denied them the satisfaction and pleasure of witnessing Neal's lynching. The images acted as visual replications of the actual spectacle, offering them vicarious access to the missed thrill of the lynching. The gratification local viewers derived from the images of Neal's lynched body was directly attached to their outrage over Cannidy's rape and murder, their fears of black criminality, and their desires to assert their racial power and superiority in the face of these threats." Another interesting aspect of these mobs is the role religion played in their actions as stated on pages 67 "The performance of a lynching thus created a symbolic representation of white supremacy-a spectacle of demonic and wicked black men against a united and pure white community. That those images coincided with evangelicals' impassioned exhortations against sin gave lynching sacred force and justification. Indeed, the imprint of Protestant language and tropes on lynching rituals and defenses imbued the violence with divine sanction and made it appear familiar and recognizable to a people immersed in Christian beliefs and values. Mobs could thus conspicuously flout the law and perpetrate what otherwise would be considered aberrant and grotesque acts of sadism while considering themselves to be righteous and moral citizens." In the twentieth century the hanging of black men was a major festive event for many on looking white people as can be seen in the pictures on page 32 and also on pages 78 and 79, on page 79 you can see a young white man smiling, on pages 95 and 102 there are more pictures of gleeful white spectators, on page 192 there is crowd participation in this picture of a hanging and burning black man I thank this author for writing this very much needed book.
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Carole T Emberton
Grantham, US
★★★★★ 5
A fresh take on lynching and its place in American culture.
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A path-breaking study of lynching as spectacle and the meanings such events produced for the masses who attended them as well as for those who saw the photos and postcards afterwards. Wood's visual analysis of these images is impressive and cogent. Her writing is clear and accessible to a wide audience. This is cultural history at its finest!
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