9780813940892-0813940893-Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy

Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy

ISBN-13: 9780813940892
ISBN-10: 0813940893
Author: Deborah Parker, Mark Parker
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Format: Hardcover 136 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780813940892
ISBN-10: 0813940893
Author: Deborah Parker, Mark Parker
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Format: Hardcover 136 pages

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Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy (ISBN-13: 9780813940892 and ISBN-10: 0813940893), written by authors Deborah Parker, Mark Parker, was published by University of Virginia Press in 2017. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.33.

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Suck-up. Ass-kisser. Brownnoser. Bootlicker. Lickspittle. Toadeater... Found in every walk of life, both real and imagined, sycophants surround us. But whether we grumble about sycophancy or grudgingly tolerate it as a price of getting along in a complex society, we rarely examine it closely. This book humorously considers that slavish art from the historical past to our current political environment, and particularly through the revealing lens of literature. Some of the grandest examples of yes-men appear in these pages--from Dante’s flatterers and Dickens’s Uriah Heep to Kellyanne Conway, who urged us to "go buy Ivanka’s stuff," and the obsequious soul who apologized to Vice President Cheney for being shot by him.More relevant now than ever, as sucking up becomes the master trope of the Trump era, this choice romp through the spectacular world of bowing and scraping will entertain and enlighten.

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