I THINK I must have had some sort of hunch that this kind of book might appear. In the summer of 1930, in a small country bookshop in Essex, England, I picked up a copy of the famous old Barrow’s ...
Donald Trump is a combination of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and Charles Laughton. Bogart starred as Captain Queeg in “The Caine Mutiny.” Cagney played Captain Morton in “Mr. Roberts.” And Laughton ...
Everyone knows the story of the Mutiny on the Bounty - heroic rebels overthrowing a tyrant. But the truth is far stranger, darker, and far more tragic than the Hollywood versions ever show. Lieutenant ...
THE FLOATING REPUBLIC—G. E. Manwaring and Bonamy Dobree—Ear court, Brace ($3). Thanks to Authors Nordhoff & Hall’s Mutiny on the Bounty and Hollywood’s cinema-diversions on the same subject (TIME, Oct ...
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This Day in Pop Culture for November 8

On this day in pop culture history, there was "Mutiny on the Bounty", "All the King's Men" opened in theaters, and Fonzie got ...
In troubled times we often find some great book, or work of art, or film that helps put everything in context. And I’m a little worried that right now for Donald Trump it’s “Mutiny on the Bounty.” ...
Think of mutiny, and you might imagine events akin to those that occurred aboard the Royal Navy frigate Hermione on September 21, 1797, when seething crew members erupted to murder their tyrannical ...