Talk:Henry Kamen

Latest comment: 6 years ago by Fishlandia in topic Indictment for child porn

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kamen ought to be capitalized as Kamen.-- ProudPapa5 (talk) 21:53, 16 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

No references whatsoever? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.61.36.179 (talk) 13:14, 30 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Selected reviews edit

Is this section appropriate to an encyclopedia? Move to talk. RJFJR (talk) 14:46, 10 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

  • On Philip of Spain, by M.N. Carlos Eire in Renaissance Quarterly, vol.52, 1999, "Kamen's Philip is a stunning achievement, not only because of its revisionist outlook and its use of sources, but also because of its style and structure. This is an exemplary piece of scholarship that reads very much like a good novel".
  • On Empire, in The Daily Telegraph, "A boldly conceived project that sustains its case with a pugnacious elan that carries the reader through to the final page": [1]

and in The Guardian, "brilliant ... lucid, scholarly and perceptive ... a revelation": [2]

  • On The Disinherited, in The Guardian, "Wonderfully accomplished, beautifully told": [3]

and in The Weekly Standard, Washington DC, "Henry Kamen is the finest historian of Spain presently writing in any language": [4]

  • On Imagining Spain, Eric Ormsby in The New York Sun, "Drawing on archival sources, unpublished manuscripts, and a vast body of scholarship in several languages, he takes a fresh look at Spanish notions of nationhood, monarchy, and empire. . . . Only someone who loves Spain deeply could have written this book.": [5]
  • On The Escorial: Art and Power in the Renaissance, Prof Patrick Williams, in Literary Review (London), June 2010: "Lively and contentious, informed by a profound understanding of the period, and, as always, elegantly written." [6]

Indictment for child porn edit

The following well-documented sentence, put in by me, was deleted by @Symmachus1 as “libelous”. According to U.S. law an indictment is by definition not libelous. Of course it’s not a conviction, but almost all of these cases (98% or so) end in a guilty plea as part of a plea bargain. deisenbe (talk) 14:49, 23 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

A notice of an indictment, published by the Justice Department, is not libelous. Fishlandia (talk) 20:47, 23 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

Child porn charge edit

In February of 2017, Kamen was indicted by a federal (U.S.) grand jury for possession of child pornography in 2014, when he was living in Athens, Georgia.[1][2]

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