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by 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

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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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  • 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: #2,801,598 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 13 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.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Breath of Fresh Air In the Slush Pile, January 14, 2001
By "fallows@yahoo.com" (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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Sound of One Hand Clapping, April 13, 2003
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!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fan Since 1997...Just Got The Book
Well I first found the site while researching a paper on Herman Melville, and I remember the first night I stayed up reading the poetry and prose communicating the bold new... Read more
Published on November 19, 2003 by Lorraine

1.0 out of 5 stars Verbal Vomit and the Man
I am very glad to be able to come to the aid of humanity by telling them to avoid this billious turkey and the website that inspired it. Read more
Published on November 12, 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book by Gen-x Authors
I was enthralled to find the website and then the book which is a compilation of essays from the jollyroger.com network, as well as quite a few extras. Read more
Published on September 1, 2003 by JJ NEWWAY

1.0 out of 5 stars Are these people for real?
Jollyroger.com is an unnavigable site that has never appeared to be updated regularly. It was one of the first sites I found when I came online three years ago, and I've... Read more
Published on December 20, 2002 by Oscar Wilde

3.0 out of 5 stars Found, Yet Lost Again
This is embarrassing.

As a longtime subscriber to JollyRoger, I find much of this work deeply disappointing. Read more

Published on July 15, 2001 by Hampton Stevens

5.0 out of 5 stars The America Dream: Past, Present, and Future
I have yet to witness anywhere in the popular culture where Emerson, Melville, Jefferson and Thoreau walk alongside G'n'R and Eminen, and where the classics are given their due as... Read more
Published on November 19, 2000 by jf

5.0 out of 5 stars The America Dream: Past, Present, and Future
I have yet to witness anywhere in the popular culture where Emerson, Melville, Jefferson and Thoreau walk alongside G'n'R and Eminen, and where the classics are given their due as... Read more
Published on November 19, 2000 by jf

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