Bøger af Henry Berry

"CHILDREN'S LIBRARIAN, STALKER, CORPSE - Susan Ei, the FBI, and the Pequot Library in Southport, Connecticut" is a true-crime story about how a popular children's librarian at the historic Pequot Library in Southport, Connecticut (a section of Fairfield) became caught up in the FBI targeting of author Henry Berry for his investigative writing activities and social-media postings exposing crimes and corruption of individuals and organizations the FBI had affinities with in Connecticut in an effort to intimate the author and employ Susan Ei and others in a wide-ranging cover-up. The FBI's involvement of Susan Ei was an abusive and reckless exploitation which eventuated in Susan's untimely, suspicious death in 2017. In focusing on FBI extensive activities and affinities in Connecticut, "Children's Librarian, Stalker, Corpse" relates a picture of the FBI's subversion of civil society, threats to individuals, and the means and thrust of its totalitarian ambitions.

A CLICKING IN THE AIR is the story of crime and corruption throughout the public and private sectors of the Connecticut legal system. In a first-person narrative in the manner of creative nonfiction, author/whistleblower lifelong Connecticut resident Henry Berry relates his encounters with the various manifestations of the crime and corruption not readily or easily apparent to persons outside the legal system, but nevertheless chronic and systematic within it. The author relates his growing awareness of this crime and corruption, the way it metastasizes as he pursues redress and exposure of those involved in it, and the serious threats directed against him. The story the author writes of his own encounters with crime and corruption in Connecticut reaching into the highest levels of the legal system with tentacles into the political system and effects on the media as well is not only a story of an individual and one state, but the story of the situation in which the large majority of citizens and other inhabitants of America are in and a reflection of the grip and treachery of the security state.

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A PASSION FOR INNOCENCE: SEX AND SEXUALITY IN THE PAINTINGS OF JOHN CURRIN explores how paintings of the leading contemporary American artist John Currin (b. 1962) from about 1990 to 2010 divulge and represent anxieties over and changes in concepts and imagery of sex and sexuality in American culture. The paintings are divided into two groups. The first group of paintings of the 1990s portray in varied ways the deep and unsettling, yet furtive anxieties over sex and sexuality bound into identity, social and personal relationships, and public life. The second group of paintings during the first decade of the 21st century portray resolutions to these anxieties as these resolutions have come about in homosexuality, including lesbianism, individuals' comfort with and display of their own sex and sexuality, and prevalent public imagery entailing sex and sexuality. Over this period of roughly two decades, Currin's paintings reflect the supplanting of a traditional, Puritanistic regard of sex and sexuality with one originating in the Biblical tale of the Garden of Eden.

Henry Berry lives about 20 miles south of Newtown in Fairfield County. A lifelong resident of Connecticut, like many others across the country, he was shocked, alarmed, and confused by the scale and savagery of the shootings of more than 20 children and adults in Newtown on December 14, 2012. His book "Massacre in Newtown - Adam Lanza's Dark Passage to Madness" is an effort to try to gain a grasp of this horrible event for whatever consolation and peace this may offer. "Massacre in Newtown" analyzes and evaluates many details of actions and decisions Adam Lanza is known to have made leading up to the moment when he burst into Sandy Hook Elementary School heavily armed to murder so many helpless, trapped individuals. Published before the completion and release of the unofficial Connecticut report on the massacre, in taking up widely-reported, confirmed facts of the event and its timeline, this early study is germane and insightful. Drawing on his lifelong pursuits of psychology, literary studies, art criticism, philosophy, and cultural studies for "Massacre in Newtown - Adam Lanza's Dark Passage to Madness," Henry Berry uncovers sources and follows the process eventuating in an unspeakable, unimaginable episode of madness.

A cultural study of the sources and nature of Internet religion arising in the early part of the 21st century

A series of brief essays ranging from a couple of paragraphs to a few pages cast a light on the origins and effects of the place surfaces have assumed in contemporary, postmodern, culture. Fashion, celebrity, movies, lifestyles, and the other major phenomena of postmodern culture all demonstrate the predominating place and role of surfaces in the culture. These essays by an author with a background in philosophy and literature bring to light the essence of postmodernism by weighing its most salient, apparent, features-namely, the surfaces which both enchant and enclose.

Semper Fi, Mac brings to life the Marines of World War II -- the tough, battle-trained troops who stormed the beaches of Bougainville, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa -- in some of the bitterest and bloodiest fighting of the war. Compilied from over seventy-five interviews with surviving officers and enlisted men, these powerful firsthand accounts give us a soldier's-eye portrait of the Marine Pacific war experience -- the camaraderie, the women, the loneliness, the fear -- and the profound emotional as well as spiritual rewards that resulted. Former machine gunners, riflemen, mortarmen, and engineers share the horrifying and humorous stories that defined their days in the Pacific. Through this filter of recollection, one truism is reflected time and again: "there is no such thing as an ex-Marine." A tour-de-force that pays tribute to the spirit of the nation's premier fighting force, Semper Fi, Mac is a multifaceted portrayl of men, war, bravery, honor -- and, as "The Marines' Hymn" so proudly proclaims, fidelity to the military tradition that inspired them.