#larry tye

[im-still-dreaming-about]

[davidmann95]

What books of comics criticism and/or history are worth reading?

Not as familiar as you might think, but Morrison’s Supergods is of course the big one, and Larry Tye’s Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero is the best book of its sort on Superman I’ve read.

[bobbykennedy]

John Kennedy wasn’t just speaking Robert Kennedy’s words because he improvises at the end of the speech. Robert Kennedy got him to the plate, but it’s John Kennedy who hit the ball out of the park. | American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)

[rhartdepartment]

Book cover for Random House Trade Paperbacks  |  Art Director: Joe Perez  |  Designer: Victoria Allen  |  Photographer: Jim Romano  |  Published 2017

[asocialjusticeleague]

@amouria I don’t know Larry or much about him at all, and his other books are about like JFK and baseball, but we are friends and he is very important to me.

My impression is that there’s no good scholarship on the DCEU out there yet, but my search continues. Maybe the Lois Lane book mentions it in passing, but there’s woefully little written about the DCEU and I think that’s mostly because for whatever reason literary critics are not habitually hired to write about comics or comic book adaptations. My collection is majority history, which is useful to a degree but honestly falls super short when these historians try to interpret literary narratives and tropes. It’s just not their expertise.

If anyone turns anything better up, I’m always on the lookout!

[petiteclover]

This Bobby Kennedy book by Larry Tye is insightful and all but there is something about it that bothers me. In the beginning of the book he talks about how Bobby is the least like his father joe and backs it up with other people's comments that knew Bobby and agree. Jackie Kennedy for one said he was the least like his father and another friend said that the only thing they had in common was their eye color. But now as I get further into the book it's as if the author Tye changes his tune about the similarities between the father and son, saying that they had quite a few characteristics in common. Like that they were flirtatious and that Bobby was not much different than the other Kennedy men when it came to women and having affairs, although Bobby was less likely to have them. Or at least he was much more selective with who he had said affairs with. A number of people that worked with Bobby throughout his political career agree that he most likely was having affairs here and there. It just bothers me that the author painted Bobby has this devout catholic who was nervous around girls and didn't have the same ways with women has his male counterparts in the family did and then further along he switched his opinion of him and women. It just bothers me that I had this image in my mind of Bobby being this totally faithful husband and bucking the norms of the Kennedy men to cheat on their wives. Just to find out that he did pretty much the same thing as his brothers but to a lesser extent. Maybe it just breaks my heart a little bit that Bobby wasn't completely different than his brothers and father in that regard. Also, what was with women back then just excepting the fact that their husbands cheated on them? Why were they okay with it if they always came home to them and their children? I just don't get that mind set. I suppose Ethel loved bob so much that it really didn't matter to her in the end. I truly believe that Bobby loved his wife and children with all of his being, I just wish that he hadn't fallen into the typical Kennedy stereotype. I probably shouldn't let it bother me and that I should just concentrate on the amazing things that he accomplished and tried to accomplish while he was here. Overall, no one is a perfect person and that's what makes us human.

[bobbykennedy]

Evan Thomas: The United States was in a tense standoff against the Soviet Union. Jack Kennedy had always appreciated Bobby Kennedy – his brother’s willingness to do the dirty work. But during the Cuban Missile Crisis, they are completely bonded. | American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)

[craigfernandez]