Author: Richard Folmar
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412028280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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In June of 1912 delegates to the Democratic national convention arrived in Baltimore to find an oppressive humidity and the best opportunity in sixteen long years to unseat the Republicans from the presidency. Two weeks before, the Republican convention in Chicago had come apart with the walk out of Teddy Roosevelt and his Bull Moose faction. It essentially would have two candidates, Roosevelt and President Taft. Major hopefuls for the Democratic nomination, were Champ Clark of Missouri, Judson Harmon, Ohio, Oscar Underwood, Mississippi and Woodrow Wilson, New Jersey. There were also, in the event of a deadlock, and no way to be described as a dark horse, the three times party nominee, William Jennings Bryan. Seth Cane, a small town Oklahoma lawyer and son of the late wealthy and powerful Texas rancher, Warren Cane, arrived in Baltimore as a member of the Oklahoma delegation. He was tired and irritable being a few days late because of his wife having just left him with hints of making it permanent. He found himself immediately involved with Bryan's strategy to throw the gauntlet in the face of Tammany Boss, Charles Murphy and his plans to spike Bryan's guns. The battle, for which Bryan told the press he was sending home for his fighting clothes to stop the "reactionary" Judge Alton B. Parker from being the temporary chairman and key note speaker, was the first shot that would escalate into fist fighting in the aisles, intemperate threats against Bryan's life, hints of a possible Bull Moose type of walk out and devastation in the view of all candidates of a deadlock allowing Bryan to again stampede the convention into his fourth nomination.
Author: Richard Folmar
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 141205401X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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President Woodrow Wilson on taking office is faced with rumors that his ambassador might have played a part in the overthrow and murder of the former Mexican president.
Author: Richard Folmar
Publisher: Trafford on Demand Pub
ISBN: 9781412201421
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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President Woodrow Wilson on taking office is faced with rumors that his ambassador might have played a part in the overthrow and murder of the former Mexican president.
Author: Richard Folmar
Publisher: Trafford on Demand Pub
ISBN: 9781425135393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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In 1913 Oklahoma lawyer Seth Cane, now a special assistant to Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, travels to the Arizona border to report back on yet another Mexican revolutionary army, this one headed by Carranza which, like Villa's and Zapata's forces, is also trying to overthrow Mexican President Huerta. Back in Washington, he works on Bryan's effort to obtain arbitration treaties among nations to avoid war. Japan, incensed at the passage of California's Alien Land Law, is threatening action in the Philippines. U.S. Naval action is threatened against the port of Vera Cruz. Annaliese Faver, Washington editor of the German language Brooklyn paper, has hired Seth's family friend Molly Langdon, daughter of a Texas Congressman. Both zealously promote woman suffrage. One is dating a German Embassy attaché, the other a British Embassy attaché. War breaks out in Europe. Bryan sends Seth to the border where Seth's brother, Texas rancher Zack Kane, is held hostage by Pancho Villa's army. The Lusitania sails for Europe with Seth's friends aboard. (A sequel to Call Down the Hawk - The Bryan Factor, and The Special AgentsTrafford Publishing, 2004)
Author: Jonah Keri
Publisher: Random House Canada
ISBN: 0307361373
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The definitive history of the Montreal Expos by the definitive Expos fan, the New York Times bestselling sportswriter and Grantland columnist Jonah Keri. 2014 is the 20th anniversary of the strike that killed baseball in Montreal, and the 10th anniversary of the team's move to Washington, DC. But the memories aren't dead--not by a long shot. The Expos pinwheel cap is still sported by Montrealers, former fans, and by many more in the US and Canada as a fashion item. Expos loyalists are still spotted at Blue Jays games and wherever the Washington Nationals play (often cheering against them). Every year there are rumours that Montreal--as North America's largest market without a baseball team--could host Major League Baseball again. There has never been a major English-language book on the entire franchise history. There also hasn't been a sportswriter as uniquely qualified to tell the whole story, and to make it appeal to baseball fans across Canada AND south of the border. Jonah Keri writes the chief baseball column for Grantland, and routinely makes appearances in Canadian media such as The Jeff Blair Show, Prime Time Sports and Off the Record. The author of the New York Times baseball bestseller The Extra 2% (Ballantine/ESPN Books), Keri is one of the new generation of high-profile sports writers equally facile with sabermetrics and traditional baseball reporting. He has interviewed everyone for this book (EVERYONE: including the ownership that allowed the team to be moved), and fans can expect to hear from just about every player and personality from the Expos' unforgettable 35 years in baseball. Up, Up, and Away is already one of the most anticipated sports books of next year.
Author: Julian Jaynes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527543
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
Author: Gina Azzi
Publisher: Gina Azzi
ISBN: 1734582588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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NHL hotshot Torsten Hansen is a lot of things. My husband shouldn’t be one of them. One emotional night slinging tequila shots and singing karaoke with the Hawks defenseman turns into more than I bargained for. A wicked hangover, an eviction notice, and a marriage proposal. If Torsten and I wed, he can fulfill a promise to his grandmother and the debt I’m drowning in will be paid by his trust fund. It’s a win-win, an easy and straightforward arrangement between friends. So what if my friend has piercing blue eyes, a sensual smirk, and a body that occupies my dreams? It shouldn’t matter that Torsten understands my past and makes me feel safe. Home. Except it does. Because if I give my heart to my husband, how will I survive our eventual divorce?
Author: Mark Bowden
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0552999652
Category : Mogadishu (Somalia)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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1993 nightmare operation in Mogadishu that left 18 US soldiers dead and led to the troop withdrawal from Somalia.
Author: Gina Azzi
Publisher: Three Cities Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1954470088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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I always knew I’d marry my first everything, Declan Yaeger, the Southern boy with Irish roots. That was before he became my first heartbreak, a NHL superstar with a playboy reputation I no longer recognize. The summer he left our small, Tennessee town, to pursue his hockey dream is the summer my life changed. That was seven years ago, before he became a defenseman for the Boston Hawks. Before I became a hardened, desperate woman, trying to survive. To protect my grandfather's legacy, I agree to marry my oldest childhood friend, Henry. But when I enter the Church on my wedding day, the grey eyes piercing mine aren’t my fiancé’s. They’re Declan’s, the last person I expect to show up with an offer of his own. One I can’t refuse even though my heart should know better than to accept. Will my marriage to Declan heal the broken between us? Or are we destined to repeat the mistakes of our past?
