For teenagers, young adult, and adult readers alike,
Battle Cry 2 delivers as a second novel.
The
battle cry goes something like this: I don't know what the new economic plan is, so they have yet to put together a plan for economic recovery; however, are they hiding behind vague reports on plans for the economy and so we have no hope for economic recovery and our future is doomed.
Related to the novel's general optimism, however, is a fatal flaw from the standpoint of criticism:
Battle Cry is long, long on sentiment but short, short on insight.
McPherson,
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York, 1988), p.
Peter Thorne today sounded a Burnley
battle cry to his Cardiff City team mates.
The
battle cry, as William Goode so succinctly phrased it is, "Why do men resist?
As the laryngology-and-voice specialty evolved, precision became the focus and
battle cry of the laryngologist; we desired greater precision in both diagnosis and treatment.
Now it has been re-mixed with the help of SFX Boys' Choir to sound the
battle cry for England's quest for Euro glory - with a final edit from garage DJ turned Radio One presenter Spoony.
It's a
battle cry for women of a certain age and for the tired citizens who take on injustice.
The guerrilla
battle cry was "Viva las cadenas"--"Long live the chains.
Adapt or die-that was the Darwinian imperative, and the
battle cry of his favorite sport.
Two years later, under the
battle cry "Tilden and Reform," he had become the consensus presidential choice of his party.
Gladwell contrasts this with Revere's fellow revolutionary William Dawes' ride to the west on the same night, which was so ineffective in sounding the
battle cry that it has been left out of Revolutionary folklore.
Ironically, Albert Alexander, the British First Lord of the Admiralty, in a broadcast beamed to America, recalled that Jones' famous
battle cry expressed exactly what England felt while fighting the Nazis during the Battle for Britain.
The tired
battle cry of recent political campaigns, "It's the economy, stupid," has come full circle to confront local and national leaders as tuition at public institutions has risen by double digits due to declining revenue sources in the state coffers.
