Background
Shorris, Earl was born on June 25, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Samuel Robert and Betty Ruth (Mann) Shorris.
( This is a work of great scope, a powerful illumination ...)
This is a work of great scope, a powerful illumination of an enigmatic figure. Told from the point of view of an ancient shaman, this is the dark and mystical story of Mexico's greatest revolutionary general, Pancho Villa. Shedding the Hollywood mantle of the drunken, womanizing bandit-turned-hero, the Villa who comes to life in this extraordinary novel is part man and part myth, part visionary hoodlum and part brilliant general. A troubled childhood--marked by his father's early death in the fields and his sister's rape by a local landowner--and a prophetic dream propel young Villa through a period of lawlessness and drifting and into life as a military leader. The story moves convincingly through the events of Villa's life, showing him to be a man of fierce passions and moral conviction, a natural leader for the rebellion.
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(No one speaks for the Jews. .We are the people of the gre...)
No one speaks for the Jews. .We are the people of the great fraction; the whole of us must always be described as the number of Jews divided by the number of Jews. Even Moses was permitted no role greater than that of messenger. We are a nation by belief, by ethics, and by history. We are difficult to lead, impossible to collect, a tribe of individuals, a brotherhood of critics. From time to time in our history men and women have come forward, claiming to speak as Jews for Jews. The temptation to proclaim oneself king or prophet in a nation of equals before God is enormous, for God does not seem to answer many prayers. Jews are not likely to turn away the self-proclaimed king or prophet without a hearing, for the life of a Jew offers little ease: History holds little promise, heaven remains in dispute; we are not hostages to fortune but to ethics. As each new challenge to our ethical existence arises, a chorus of Jewish voices answers. The current challenge comes from within the ranks of Jews. A group of men and women, claiming to be both Jews and neoconservatives, now proposes that Jews accept a new ethical definition of themselves, a definition contrary to much, perhaps most, of what has defined us since our historical beginning in the desert after we were Sojourners in Egypt. This book seeks to answer that proposal.
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Shorris, Earl was born on June 25, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Samuel Robert and Betty Ruth (Mann) Shorris.
Student University of Chicago, 1950-1953.
Advertising executive Dailey & Associates, San Francisco, 1960—1970. Marketing executive Matson Navigation Company, 1970—1971. Executive Northwest Ayer Company, New York City, since 1971.
With United States Air Force, 1953-1955.
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( This is a work of great scope, a powerful illumination ...)
(No one speaks for the Jews. .We are the people of the gre...)
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He was critical of Western culture as "sliding towards plutocracy and materialism.".
Served with United States Air Force, 1953-1955. Member American Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association.
Married Sylvia Sasson, May 3, 1956. Children: Anthony Ernest, James Sasson.