Jollyroger.com: Navigating an American Renaissance (Paperback)

~ Elliot McGucken (Author), Becket Knottingham (Author), Drake Raft (Author)

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It is simply unprecedented...KillDevilHill.Com and two related sites--Western Canon University and The Jolly Roger, two avowed pro-Western canon communities. -- The New York Times

Its mission--to plunder, attack, reason, beckon, mock, lampoon, and otherwise fire well-stocked cannonades...over an entire generation. -- Creekwalker Magazine

McGucken considers himself a bit of a rebel...quitting academia and loving literature despite his scientific background...Hence Jollyroger.com's pirate theme. -- Book Magazine

Product Description

INTRODUCTION
post tenebras lux He saw the townlands
And learned the minds of many distant men
And weathered many bitter nights and days
In his deep heart at sea, while he fought only
To save his life, to bring his shipmates home.
—Book I, The Odyssey

Ahoy there mate! Contained herein are the captain’s logs of The Jolly Roger, flagship of Classicals & jollyroger.com LLC. The words were set down during a five year voyage of fantastic romance, peril, and adventure, as the Good Ship sailed the WWW on towards an American Renaissance. Beyond the fogs of cynicism we’ve navigated, and at the breaking edge of postmodern liberalism, we’ve sighted the dawning of a classical conservative revival that shall be known by the rising generation, as well as by all who count themselves members of the community of eternal souls.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Classicals & Jollyroger.com LLC (October 31, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1930151047
• ISBN-13: 978-1930151048
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,202,975 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing Treatment of Westrn Culture, October 11, 2001

By	Katie McBride (Originally from Colorado) - See all my reviews

I really liked jumping around in this book, from the poetry, to the prose, to the political essays. I especially enjoyed A NANUCKET GHOST STORY, tehir Declaration of Independence, and the story about selling poems on Wilmington Beach. I think the crew did a great job in explaining a lot of Western Traditions which haven't gotten quite so much attention at colleges these days, as they have been displaced by postmodern variants. They bring the concepts to life in a language aimed at our generation. They have created quite an empire at jollyroger.com, and this book is a great tribute to what they have built. It's their greatest hits in a sense, and I highly recommend it for anyone who has ever picked up and read a Great Book. If all the modern grunge/ironists bore you, then you'd enjoy this. I hope they wite out more.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Breath of Fresh Air In the Slush Pile, January 14, 2001

By	"[e-mail]" (Corporate Publishing House) - See all my reviews

As an industry insider, I must say that this book is ahead of its years. What really hit home were the apt characterizions of the incestuous corporate publishing house that is known as New York, which, as the book suggests, is dominated by little middlemen who are not authors, nor humble editors, but who are merely MFA's who're most interested in hanging with the MTV crowd at Simon & Schuster parties. As this book so definitively illustrates, most contemporary books have the same general liberal themes of decline and debauchery, whether you're reading Eminem's "Angry Blonde" or Joyce Carol Oates's "Blondie." There has always been a market for making dull-witted pessimists feel like they're smart, and sad to say, that's the market that most houses seek to serve, whether with insta-hipsters like Eggers or with Wallace's "Infinite Crap." Somewhere along the way they substiuted the word "ironic" for "moronic," about the same time they substituted publicity departments for plots.

So why am I working in publishing? Because "In the Beginning there was the Word, and the Word was God." Because of books like Jollyroger.com: Navigating an American Renaissance, which now and then grace the slushpile. And of course all the lock-step marching chicks in the corporate/editoral management at my house passed on the book last year, but there's no greater crime than being ahead of your time in this industry.

I hope to found my own house in the future, as I think there's a huge market for an intelligent conservative message which is aimed at gen-x and gen-y, and I wish the crew Godspeed in taking us beyond the circular whirlpool of liberal editors, publishers, marketers, and CEOs who are quite frankly boring the rising generation to death. In a way, such a transition must be an outside job, as no conservative would be given a job in the mail room of any of the major houses.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Sound of One Hand Clapping, April 12, 2003

By	Jason Diffident - See all my reviews

Well, the jollyroger.com boys are doing their job. I enjoyed the diversity of literary styles within this epic, from poetry, to philosophy, to cultural commentary, to short stories. They're doing their job, but where are the contemporary scholars, editors, critics, and hypesters? Somewhere in the sixties literature was transformed into a fashion, and the classics were thrown out along with decent manners, deep humour, and the basic common sense which all classics pay homage to. On with the renaissance--may common sense, exalted beauty, and classical themes prevail once again in our contemporary literature!