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Villains and villainy : embodiments of evil in literature, popular culture and media
This collection of essays explores the representations, incarnations and manifestations of evil when it is embodied in a particular villain or in an evil presence. All the essays contribute to showing how omnipresent yet vastly under-studied the phenomena of the villain and evil are. Together they confirm the importance of the continued study of villains and villainy in order to understand the premises behind the representation of evil, its internal localized logic, its historical contingency, and its specific conditions.
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AN ATTACK ON THE FEDERAL TREASURY
ON my return to New York, circumstances occurred which called my special attention to the operations of the bounty-jumpers and substitute-brokers, and having no other schemes on hand, I was induced to interest myself in the business of reducing the strength of the Federal armies in the field, by preventing the re-enforcements demanded by the government from reaching the front.
The efficiency of the services rendered the Confederacy by these substitute-brokers and bounty-jumpers, cannot be over-estimated. Large armies existed on paper; but while the generals in command kept constantly and uninterruptedly calling for more men, they failed to receive them
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Drawn as Villains
It was perhaps inevitable that there would be a comic book character named the Surgeon General. Crime fighters with quasi-military and quasi-medical names were common sights in newsstand racks, including Captain Marvel and Doctor Strange. Some comic book writer was bound to create a Surgeon General, especially in the wake of the uniformed, larger-than-life C. Everett Koop.
In the spring of 1992, it happened. The Surgeon General debuted in Marvel Comics, showcased in a two-issue story line with two of Marvel’s most popular heroes—Spider-Man and Daredevil.
But for those who saw the real surgeon general as a heroic public
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