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Praise for The Comedians:Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, National Post, and Splitsider&#147;Entertaining and carefully documented . . . I thought I knew a lot about the history of American comedy. But this book located gaps in my knowledge I never knew were there and filled them with jaw-dropping anecdotes that made my eyes spin in different directions . . . This book is a real treat.&#8221;&#151;Merrill Markoe, Wall Street Journal&#147;In the past decade, there have been several superb history books about comedy . . . but none will entertain comedy nerds as much as Kliph Nesteroff&#8217;s The Comedians . . . sprawling and savvy . . . comedy&#8217;s answer to Luc Sante&#8217;s Low Life.&#8221;&#151;New York Times Book Review&#147;An antic history of U.S. comedy . . . Nesteroff writes with insider perception . . . With his encyclopedic knowledge, a talent for vivid anecdotes and tireless gusto . . . [The Comedians is] an insightful overview of the most independent and subversive entertainment genre of the last century.&#8221;&#151;Washington Post&#147;[An] excellent book.&#8221;&#151;New York Times&#147;The Comedians . . . is right up there with I&#8217;m Dying Up Here, Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live and Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon, in terms of thoroughness, engagement and lasting significance.&#8221;&#151;L.A. Weekly (Best Local Comedy Author)&#147;An informative and engaging account . . . Nesteroff provides a clear through-line from vaudeville to the New Millennium. Yet it&#8217;s the anecdotes about personality and style that elevate the book beyond mere history.&#8221;&#151;USA Today&#147;The Comedians is everything it should be, including very funny. This historically rich history of comedians in America is fascinating . . . If you&#8217;re a comedy nerd you&#8217;ll love this book.&#8221;&#151;Pittsburgh Post-Gazette&#147;If you think you know a lot about stand-up comedy, this book will expose you as the fraud you secretly reckoned you were. Remember Frank Fay? Exactly.&#8221;&#151;Norm MacDonald&#147;Kliph Nesteroff and this book are devoted to what I truly love&#151;the art of comedy.&#8221;&#151;Mel Brooks&#147;Kliph Nesteroff is a &#145;comedy nerd&#8217; in the deepest sense of the word . . . He is the preeminent historian of modern comedy.&#8221;&#151;Marc Maron&#147;This is one of the best books I&#8217;ve ever read about show business . . . [Nesteroff] has amassed a dishy, informal, and knowledgeable history of comedy . . . This is straight talk about largely undocumented areas of show business and it is utterly fascinating. I feasted on this book and look forward to a possible sequel.&#8221;&#151;Leonard Maltin, Indiewire (Holiday Book Roundup)&#147;Comedy tends to disappear, either into the boozy corners of a night club, or onto countless lost videotapes of TV variety shows that may never even make it to Netflix. That's what makes The Comedians so essential. No one charts the connections between the Jewy-old-masters of the TV age of comedy to the gay woman telling jokes into your ear right now on a podcast quite like [Kliph Nesteroff].&#8221;&#151;John Hodgman, contributor to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart&#147;Beginning in the always smoky, often dilapidated vaudeville theaters of the early 20th century and spanning over a hundred years, Nesteroff meticulously details the lives and careers of forgotten and famous comics . . . Nesteroff&#8217;s exhaustive research is evident and historians will appreciate his thoroughness.&#8221;&#151;Associated Press&#147;A definitive volume. A lively, raucous, and immensely entertaining love letter to funny business.&#8221;&#151;Kirkus Reviews (starred review)&#147;Both pop culture enthusiasts and entertainment scholars will relish this important history of American comedy.&#8221;&#151;Library Journal (starred review)&#147;Indispensable.&#8221;&#151;Milwaukee Journal Sentinel&#147;So flipping entertaining.&#8221;&#151;Cleveland Plain Dealer&#147;A great book.&#8221;&#151;Splitsider&#147;The Comedians is as good as they come. Nesteroff hits all the highlights and lowlights of this constantly evolving art form.&#8221;&#151;Portland Mercury&#147;Comedy buffs will find a treasure chest of trivia . . . But Nesteroff&#8217;s aims are far more ambitious. He weaves comedians into the larger American story, from racism . . . and blacklisting to the counterculture and the anti-war movement . . . An interesting, satisfying read.&#8221;&#151;Dallas News&#147;Extraordinary . . . wildly, crazily revealing, and readable.&#8221;&#151;Buffalo News&#147;The definitive history of the comedy business . . . downright majestic.&#8221;&#151;Forward&#147;One of the most comprehensive and accessible accounts of the art form to date.&#8221;&#151;Flavorwire&#147;Immensely entertaining, a fast read that&#8217;s also a deep dive.&#8221;&#151;Ken Tucker, Yahoo TV&#147;A valuable book . . . a compulsively readable history of American comedy . . . The book provides terrific insights into how the comedy greats of cinema created their personae and their acts . . . The book is also, no surprise, funny . . . My only complaint about the book? It&#8217;s too short.&#8221;&#151;Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com&#147;Highly recommended.&#8221;&#151;Longform&#147;A rollicking history.&#8221;&#151;Macleans (Canada)

Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy

The Comedians

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'Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa has the feel of a publication designed to open, rather than resolve, a
scholarly debate. It outlines a new potential interpretation of the relationship between precolonial and postcolonial South Africa...It raises possibilities regarding indigeneity and rights that remain intensely controversial in South African politics and popular culture.
At first glance, the premise of Edward Cavanagh's slim monograph suggests a conference panel devised by harried organizers desperate to connect divergent papers. It is a testament to Cavanagh's vision and his writing that after reading the book this comparison seems not only entirely reasonable, but perhaps even essential to understanding the nature of land rights in contemporary South Africa...Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa: Possession and Dispossession on the Orange River makes new and insightful claims about the connections between pre-1867 Southern Africa and the postapartheid dispensation.' - Poppy Fry, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies

"This is a highly innovative study of substantial contemporary relevance. In a compelling analysis Cavanagh uses the prism of settler colonialism to compare the Griqua Philippolis and Afrikaner Orania polities, foregrounding issues of dispossession, land rights, sovereignty, indigeneity and restitution. Insightful and accessible, this is a book that will appeal to both academic and lay readers." - Mohamed Adhikari, University of Cape Town

"This book constitutes a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies. It does so in a very original and persuasive way: applying this paradigm to the analysis of past and present circumstances and to the investigation of developments affecting very different sociopolitical collectives in very different historical circumstances. Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa convincingly reintroduces settler colonialism to South African history." - Lorenzo Veracini, Swinburne Institute for Social Research

"Edward Cavanagh has written an intensely brilliant gem of a book, excavating a credible, pointed comparison from diamondiferous but hard to mine Orange River Valley community history. The conundrums and contradictions of land dispossession and restitution in South Africa are here presented both factually and analytically in a powerful argument for an, until now, politically submerged, subterranean view of land rights and group identity. This study will surely renew much needed institutional as well as scholarly debate in this field." - David B. Coplan, University of the Witwatersrand

Possession and Dispossession on the Orange River

Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa

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