Author: Larry Dane Brimner
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 1684371449
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book NEW FROM 2018 SIBERT MEDALIST LARRY DANE BRIMNER! Here is the story of 19 men from the film industry who were investigated for suspected communist ties during the Cold War, and the 10--known as the Hollywood Ten--who were blacklisted for standing up for their First Amendment rights and refusing to cooperate. World War II is over, but tensions between the communist Soviet Union and the US are at an all-time high. In America, communist threats are seen everywhere and a committee is formed in the nation's capital to investigate those threats. Larry Dane Brimner follows the story of 19 men--all from the film industry--who are summoned to appear before the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities. All 19 believe that the committee's investigations into their political views and personal associations are a violation of their First Amendment rights. When the first 10 of these men refuse to give the committee the simple answers it wants, they are cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted.
Author: Jay Crownover
Publisher: Forever
ISBN: 1538746395
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Marked Men series comes an irresistible and suspenseful romance between a doctor who plays by the rules and the outlaw who breaks them in order to protect her. Dr. Presley Baskin has always lived a quiet, calm life. Unfortunately, nothing about her life in Loveless, Texas -- especially not the wild, rowdy, and impossibly close-knit Lawton family who've claimed her -- is quiet or calm. Which is how loner Presley finds herself roped into patching up local bad boy Shot Caldwell against her better judgment. Presley wants nothing to do with the dangerous, brooding leader of the local outlaw motorcycle club. But when someone starts stalking her, Shot is the only person she trusts to help. Plus he owes her one . . . Palmer 'Shot' Caldwell has always known his life isn't made for relationships. At least until shy, secretive, Presley reluctantly pulled a bullet out of him. He's oddly protective of the pretty doctor, so when she comes to him for help, hard-hearted Shot suddenly realizes there's nothing he wouldn't do to keep her safe.
Author: M. Stanton Evans
Publisher: Forum Books
ISBN: 1400081068
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch hunts. But that conventional image is all wrong, as veteran journalist and author M. Stanton Evans reveals in this groundbreaking book. The long-awaited Blacklisted by History, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks working within the U.S. government. Evans’s revelations completely overturn our understanding of McCarthy, McCarthyism, and the Cold War. Drawing on primary sources—including never-before-published government records and FBI files, as well as recent research gleaned from Soviet archives and intercepted transmissions between Moscow spymasters and their agents in the United States—Evans presents irrefutable evidence of a relentless Communist drive to penetrate our government, influence its policies, and steal its secrets. Most shocking of all, he shows that U.S. officials supposedly guarding against this danger not only let it happen but actively covered up the penetration. All of this was precisely as Joe McCarthy contended.Blacklisted by History shows, for instance, that the FBI knew as early as 1942 that J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the atomic bomb project, had been identified by Communist leaders as a party member; that high-level U.S. officials were warned that Alger Hiss was a Soviet spy almost a decade before the Hiss case became a public scandal; that a cabal of White House, Justice Department, and State Department officials lied about and covered up the Amerasia spy case; and that the State Department had been heavily penetrated by Communists and Soviet agents before McCarthy came on the scene.Evans also shows that practically everything we’ve been told about McCarthy is false, including conventional treatment of the famous 1950 speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, that launched the McCarthy era (“I have here in my hand . . .”), the Senate hearings that casually dismissed his charges, the matter of leading McCarthy suspect Owen Lattimore, the Annie Lee Moss case, the Army-McCarthy hearings, and much more. In the end, Senator McCarthy was censured by his colleagues and condemned by the press and historians. But as Evans writes, “The real Joe McCarthy has vanished into the mists of fable and recycled error, so that it takes the equivalent of a dragnet search to find him.” Blacklisted by History provides the first accurate account of what McCarthy did and, more broadly, what happened to America during the Cold War. It is a revealing exposé of the forces that distorted our national policy in that conflict and our understanding of its history since.
Author: Dave Smith
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745333977
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Consulting Association scandal, which hit the papers in late 2012, revealed what has come to be seen as the worst human rights abuse of workers in the UK for 60 years. Since its foundation by construction company Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd in 1993, TCA has maintained an illicit database of unionised British construction workers who have been branded 'militant troublemakers' and includes intrusive details of their personal and family relationships, which have been largely used as a database of information against them. This book brings together, for the first time, the controversial story of the illegal strategies that multinational construction companies were willing to resort to in their attempt to keep union activists away from their places of work. This is a story where spying and collusion with the police and security services resulted in victimisation, violence and long-term unemployment which ultimately lead to the destruction of families and communities. Based on first-hand accounts of these workers, Blacklisted reveals how they were unlawfully victimised for their troubles and, ultimately, how they finally won justice for their years of pain. A story of ordinary working men taking on some of the most powerful multinational construction firms in the world: this is the tale of a modern-day David and Goliath.
Author: Darline R. Root
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The character of Amanda O’Neal is back again with another captivating story. Some of the other characters from the first book are artfully included as well, which helps to link the events of the past with the present. Devastated by the death of her beloved husband, Shawn O’Neal, her emotions are numb as she leaves everyone and everything she cares about in Tampa Bay to attempt to heal the huge void and confusion she feels. A sabbatical at Huntington Hills College in upper North Carolina is where Amanda temporarily lands. Hopefully, teaching some Criminal Justice courses will rejuvenate her investigative and legal skills. Little does she know that this action-packed adventure will change her life in many ways forever. Huntington Hills College is an ancient institution with many secrets and happenings, sadly to say some criminal in nature, despite its incredible campus grounds of absolute beauty. Forest and rolling hills surround the grounds of wonderous historic buildings and ancient traditions, which have lured many a student for centuries. There, Amanda is reacquainted with an old college pal, Ryan McFarlan, a nationally renowned photographer, that brings back old memories and new feelings. With Ryan and Amanda, the quests of exciting and dangerous experiences begin and build throughout the story. Will they and their reputations be ‘blacklisted’ for life? Despite worldly resistance, they continue to assist in solving a chain of vicious crimes in Huntington Hills, North Carolina, travel to Ireland to find a child that has been kidnapped, and finally, return to Amanda’s farm in Florida, with healed hearts and greater understanding of their long-enduring Christian faith.
Author: Larry Ceplair
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813146828
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 717
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James Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. Refusing to answer questions about his prior involvement with the Communist Party, Trumbo sacrificed a successful career in Hollywood to stand up for his rights and defend political freedom. In Dalton Trumbo, authors Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo present their extensive research on the famed writer, detailing his work, his membership in the Communist Party, his long campaign against censorship during the domestic cold war, his ten-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress, and his thirteen-year struggle to break the blacklist. The blacklist ended for Trumbo in 1960, when he received screen credits for Exodus and Spartacus. Just before his death, he received a long-delayed Academy Award for The Brave One, and in 1993, he was posthumously given an Academy Award for Roman Holiday (1953). This comprehensive biography provides insights into the many notable people with whom Trumbo worked, including Stanley Kubrick, Otto Preminger, and Kirk Douglas, and offers a fascinating look at the life of one of Hollywood's most prominent screenwriters and his battle against persecution.
Author: Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666706825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Choosing ten films that were considered “suspicious,” “un-American,” or even “dangerous” by the conservative media, and especially the infamous “House Un-American Affairs Committee” (HUAC) between 1947–1953, each chapter briefly outlines how progressive Christians should have supported the message of the film rather than condemned it. Each chapter explains why the film was considered controversial, and then proposes a number of arguments drawing heavily on Scripture, arguing that Christians should have, and still should, consider these films about social justice issues to be deeply biblical, and not “un-American.” Intended for an adult education series, this book can serve as a kind of “handbook” for a church or parish “Film Series” that raises serious questions of social justice and Christian response.
Author: Michael Kennedy
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105997766
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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The Kennedy's the first act to be sent home in the third round of Britain's Got Talent 2009. In fact, the first act to be shown on film leaving the room of the grand staircase in Lancaster House. The Kennedy's the act; Michael, Emily, Joseph and Adam. We sang Panis Angelicus and were judged by Simon Cowell Piers Morgan Kelly Brook and Amanda Holden. This is an autobiographical account of his singing life up to press. winner of Wharfedale Music festival operatic solo class, Skipton Music festival tenor class has played many cameo roles in opera and shows. Ten times winner of the Queens Hotel talent competition in Blackpool. He has performed the tenor roles in the oratorios Messiah (Handel) the Crucifixion (Stainer) and Magnificat (Pergolesi). Michael has also gained popularity on the internet and many recorded examples exist on sites all over the cyber world. Notably he is also featured on the URDB website smashing all sorts of singing records.
Author: Lela Davidson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936214433
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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Blacklisted by the PTA is an irreverent look at motherhood and the modern family. From the high chair to a vinyl restaurant booth on date night, Lela Davidson has captured life on the cul-de-sac with a husband, two kids, and the occasional pet. Whether failing at cloth diaper origami or smug in knowledge that her children have never consumed a PopTart, Lela assures parents they are not alone, and that it's okay to laugh-at yourself, and at your kids. These are the stories of every parent--even if we don't always tell them out loud. Each of these 62 essays can be read in under five minutes for a quick laugh-either with or at the author. As a CPA on the mommy track, all Lela wanted to do was sit on the driveway and drink wine out of a box with the neighbors. Luckily, she started writing down her stories instead. Whether tackling PTA meetings, neighborhood politics, or inflation-by-Tooth Fairy, Lela exposes the humor in every awkward moment and maternal meltdown. From a trendy Seattle condo, to a tidy Arkansas subdivision, Lela shares the comic side of family life. She takes you to Mexican bars, the hockey rinks of St. Louis, ski slopes near Santa Fe, shopping in Dallas, and even introduces you to a few strippers--the novices on the playgrounds of New York City, and the pros in Vegas. Lela says what the rest of us are thinking. Her hilarious observations and subtle satire are always spot on. She's not afraid to reveal her screw-ups, along with fleeting delusional moments of wherein she honestly believes she is the best mom ever. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lela Davidson is the Managing Editor of ParentingSquad.com and the Associate Editor of Peekaboo magazine. Her writing is featured regularly in family and parenting magazines throughout the country, and in Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms. Lela is also a popular teacher of online writing and promotion strategies.
Author: Andrew Solomon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743236726
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so.
