![]() “Let’s put this amazing book in every school in America,” Trump posted on Truth Social when it came out. Its goal is something bigger: to become a literary hub for the wee and anti-woke, searing a conservative viewpoint - and, sometimes, conservative talking points - into the youngest minds.Īnd last spring, in its biggest splash so far, the company published former Donald Trump defense aide Kash Patel’s The Plot Against the King, a storybook about the Steele dossier. ![]() As a political allegory, the story leaves certain issues unaddressed: What happens if the hyenas get their paws on military-grade coconuts? Would background checks make it harder for hyenas to get cannons in the first place? But Brave Books, with its growing catalog of brightly-colored paperbacks, isn’t aiming for nuanced arguments. That’s the message, at least, in Paws Off My Cannon, a children’s book co-written by former National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch and published by a year-old Texas company called Brave Books. The best way to stop a bad cartoon animal with a gun is with a good cartoon animal with a gun. When the cannon-control advocates get pelted with coconuts in a hyena attack, Bongo pulls out his arsenal and shows them the error of their ways. ![]() To make matters worse, Bongo wants to shoot the invaders with his own coconut cannon, but some of his peacenik animal neighbors want to outlaw all cannons, instead. First, a group of hyenas armed with coconut cannons is invading his village and snatching the residents’ cupcakes. This title was originally published in 1992.Bongo the gorilla has a problem. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Indeed, it is a highly readable and engaging book for anyone interested in the cultural life of the New World. With its rich descriptions of the book trade in both Spain and America, Books of the Brave has much to offer historians as well as literary critics. Adorno situates Leonard's work at the threshold between older, triumphalist views of Spanish conquest history and more recent perspectives engendered by studies of native American peoples. Rolena Adorno's introduction reaffirms the lasting value of Books of the Brave and chronicles developments in cultural-historical studies that have shed light on the role of books in Spanish American colonial culture. Containing a wealth of information, these lists provide the documentary evidence for what is perhaps Leonard's greatest contribution: his demonstration that royal and inquisitorial prohibitions failed to control the circulation of books and ideas in colonial Spanish America. UC Press's 1992 edition combines Leonard's text with a selection of the documents that were his most valuable sources-nine lists of books destined for the Indies. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas and argues that popular texts influenced these men and shaped the way they thought and wrote about their experiences. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to the Spanish New World. Since its original appearance in 1949, Irving A.
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