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As in a real family, some characters struggle for ascendance, while one or two Prospero figures believe they can yank the others around.
Mixed, but mainly good, reviews for this lavish costume drama about the first Queen Elizabeth and her troubled ascendance to the throne.
After all, the '60s was the decade standing between the last hurrah of an industrial age (the '50s), and the ascendance of a service-centered economy in the '70s (with all the doubts that came along with it--like Japanese manufacturing eroding the foundation of the American economy; an assessment that reflected suspicion of an economy's ability to thrive on building services rather than things).
But this remains a piece of nonfiction, and it's a handy reference point for anyone who wants to argue that the recent ascendance of the memoir hasn't wiped out artful, ambitious writing.
… A piece considers what would have happened if the Confederacy had won the Civil War (the ascendance of Mexico).