Author: Susan Cragin
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
ISBN: 9780814400579
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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This book tells the remarkable but virtually unknown story of how the quiet, conservative residents of a small, poor Nebraska community refused to be seduced by the oratory of the people than run this country, or by the offer of $3 million a year for 40 years (despite the fact that the economy of the community was extremely depressed) - and tenaciously fought the powers-that-be (i.e., the state government, the federal government, and Bechtel) against locating a low-level nuclear waste dump site in its backyard. Boyd County's right-wing farmers rose up in revolt, and eventual victory. It took them a decade of bitter struggle, but it transformed a small group of farmers from isolationist rebels to ardent environmentalists, altered the scope of the U.S.'s nuclear waste policy, and moved a fly-over state to change from Republican to Democrat.; Well researched (as the author has worked from hundreds of source documents and 10,000 pages of transcribed interviews), this engaging, witty book will undoubtedly get publicity and will catch the imagination of a large cross-section of Americans today who are, once again, inclined to trust neither our government nor the powerful multinational corporations that, once again, may not have our people's best interests at heart.
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Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Author: Joe Boyd
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847652166
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Joe Boyd. More than any previous '60s music autobiography, Joe Boyd's White Bicycles offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. His greatest coup is bringing to life the famously elusive figure of Nick Drake - the first time he's been written about by anyone who knew him well. As well as the '60s heavy-hitters, this book also offers wonderfully vivid portraits of a whole host of other musicians: everyone from the great jazzman Coleman Hawkins to the folk diva Sandy Denny, Lonnie Johnson to Eric Clapton, The Incredible String Band to Fairport Convention.
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1804
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Category : Choice of transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
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Category : Educational law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
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Category : Educational law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education
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Languages : en
Pages : 2014
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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