Author: John Boertlein
Publisher: Clerisy Press
ISBN: 1578603625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Presidential Confidential serves up the behind-the-scenes stories that the schoolbooks left out -- deliciously juicy stories like secret (and sometimes sordid) affairs, dirty tricks, criminal acts, embarrassing moments, and much more. From George Washington stepping out on Martha to George Bush stepping on practically everyone, it delivers the sex, scandal, murder, and mayhem in the dishy style of a 1950s scandal mag. Author John Boertlein takes an irreverent, no-cow-is-too-sacred-to-be-spared approach, covering the mishaps of the great and not-so-great with equal relish: shady financial deals and shadier friends, famous drunks and infamous relatives, assassinations and assassination attempts. The stories range from in-depth treatments to short sidebars, making this an entertaining and informative read that can be sampled on the run or enjoyed at length. Loaded with pictures and fun facts, and featuring an attractive, stylized layout, Presidential Confidential is a riotous romp through the Oval Office.
Presidential Confidential
Author: John Boertlein
Publisher: Clerisy Press
ISBN: 1578603625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Presidential Confidential serves up the behind-the-scenes stories that the schoolbooks left out -- deliciously juicy stories like secret (and sometimes sordid) affairs, dirty tricks, criminal acts, embarrassing moments, and much more. From George Washington stepping out on Martha to George Bush stepping on practically everyone, it delivers the sex, scandal, murder, and mayhem in the dishy style of a 1950s scandal mag. Author John Boertlein takes an irreverent, no-cow-is-too-sacred-to-be-spared approach, covering the mishaps of the great and not-so-great with equal relish: shady financial deals and shadier friends, famous drunks and infamous relatives, assassinations and assassination attempts. The stories range from in-depth treatments to short sidebars, making this an entertaining and informative read that can be sampled on the run or enjoyed at length. Loaded with pictures and fun facts, and featuring an attractive, stylized layout, Presidential Confidential is a riotous romp through the Oval Office.
Publisher: Clerisy Press
ISBN: 1578603625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Presidential Confidential serves up the behind-the-scenes stories that the schoolbooks left out -- deliciously juicy stories like secret (and sometimes sordid) affairs, dirty tricks, criminal acts, embarrassing moments, and much more. From George Washington stepping out on Martha to George Bush stepping on practically everyone, it delivers the sex, scandal, murder, and mayhem in the dishy style of a 1950s scandal mag. Author John Boertlein takes an irreverent, no-cow-is-too-sacred-to-be-spared approach, covering the mishaps of the great and not-so-great with equal relish: shady financial deals and shadier friends, famous drunks and infamous relatives, assassinations and assassination attempts. The stories range from in-depth treatments to short sidebars, making this an entertaining and informative read that can be sampled on the run or enjoyed at length. Loaded with pictures and fun facts, and featuring an attractive, stylized layout, Presidential Confidential is a riotous romp through the Oval Office.
Office Mayhem
Author: Juliette Cezzar
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810993877
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Enjoy your day job with this shamelessly humourous companion to workplace hijinks which includes ideas such as spying, backstabbing, sabotage, and anything else to help you climb the corporate ladder ahead of your fellow professional slaves.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810993877
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Enjoy your day job with this shamelessly humourous companion to workplace hijinks which includes ideas such as spying, backstabbing, sabotage, and anything else to help you climb the corporate ladder ahead of your fellow professional slaves.
Complete Digest of All Lawyers Reports Annotated
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description
The Art of the Trade
Author: Jason Alan Jankovsky
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470447494
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The Art of the Trade is a searing portrait of the futures and options industry as seen through the eyes of someone who has participated in this arena for more than twenty years. On one level, it's a brutally honest, no-punches-pulled look at the individuals and institutions that comprise this unique community. On another level, The Art of the Trade is a personal story of the challenges author Alan Jankovsky faced as he battled the markets, the brokerage industry, and his own early penchant for self-destruction.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470447494
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The Art of the Trade is a searing portrait of the futures and options industry as seen through the eyes of someone who has participated in this arena for more than twenty years. On one level, it's a brutally honest, no-punches-pulled look at the individuals and institutions that comprise this unique community. On another level, The Art of the Trade is a personal story of the challenges author Alan Jankovsky faced as he battled the markets, the brokerage industry, and his own early penchant for self-destruction.
Making The Rules
Author: virdean virdean
Publisher: virdean
ISBN: 1479292478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
A couple, a crowded restaurant, and a terrible event... After a tour in Afghanistan, a soldier's discharge bliss is fractured, a bliss that was an adrenaline high, but then fizzles to vanish. During a celebration with his girl friend in a waterfront restaurant, she fights off a police officer's sexual advances by striking the offender. The pair, Sebastian Boyle and Sheila Comfort, escape the scene to find themselves the focus of a police man hunt and a media splurge. Bent on expanding readership, the local news spearheads front page coverage of this and further events as they unfold. The officer dies, which is followed by a second officer's assault and then a third. A cavernous hole develops in which Sebastian and Sheila find themselves entangled, trying to dodge the media, the police, and an unknown consortium stealing from military bases. Escaping an assassination attempt, Sebastian, through a kidnapping of Sheila, faces the fact that he and Sheila are helpless victims, trapped beyond their control by greater forces waiting to dismantle them. Without hesitation, Sebastian weaves his way into the maze laid by terrorists, the FBI, NSA and U.S. Marshals. In the end, however, he finds himself in another trap for life
Publisher: virdean
ISBN: 1479292478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
A couple, a crowded restaurant, and a terrible event... After a tour in Afghanistan, a soldier's discharge bliss is fractured, a bliss that was an adrenaline high, but then fizzles to vanish. During a celebration with his girl friend in a waterfront restaurant, she fights off a police officer's sexual advances by striking the offender. The pair, Sebastian Boyle and Sheila Comfort, escape the scene to find themselves the focus of a police man hunt and a media splurge. Bent on expanding readership, the local news spearheads front page coverage of this and further events as they unfold. The officer dies, which is followed by a second officer's assault and then a third. A cavernous hole develops in which Sebastian and Sheila find themselves entangled, trying to dodge the media, the police, and an unknown consortium stealing from military bases. Escaping an assassination attempt, Sebastian, through a kidnapping of Sheila, faces the fact that he and Sheila are helpless victims, trapped beyond their control by greater forces waiting to dismantle them. Without hesitation, Sebastian weaves his way into the maze laid by terrorists, the FBI, NSA and U.S. Marshals. In the end, however, he finds himself in another trap for life
Leave No Evidence
Author: M.H. Irick
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512739588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
This is a compelling novel that causes one to think about daily routines. Ironically, the main character, Doug Donovan, lands in unusual circumstances leaving everyone around him highly vulnerable. Quite curiously in the midst of unraveling scandalous events he finds himself next on the killers list, but why? Realizing he is caught up in a dangerous and twisted MURDER for MONEY scheme...it may be too late to escape villainous intents. At a pivotal point, Donovan is reminded of a Scottish adage his great uncle taught him, To ignore the danger is to deserve the disaster. This advice becomes his maxim to wisdom for using good since and logic. Yet, while holding devout to his faith within the crossroads of trouble, the situation begs for a holy intervention. The story evolved after a true preternatural event occurred. The author surprisingly heard about her cousin, Sarahs son, whod received a set of keys that had once fit the locks to an authentic U.K. castle. The keys from the family ancestor, Uncle Cecil, had become the boys treasured gift. Curiously, after his unexpected demise, one of the keys had been paranormally movedmore than once. This incident prompted Marilyn to compile a riveting narrative that fashioned her first novel, Leave No Evidence. In her debut novel, M. H. Irick tells an absorbing story that has the potential to become a sought-after summer page-turner. Leave No Evidence islike the fusing of a Maeve Binchy novel and a mystery by J.D. Robb. ForeWord Clarion Reviews
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512739588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
This is a compelling novel that causes one to think about daily routines. Ironically, the main character, Doug Donovan, lands in unusual circumstances leaving everyone around him highly vulnerable. Quite curiously in the midst of unraveling scandalous events he finds himself next on the killers list, but why? Realizing he is caught up in a dangerous and twisted MURDER for MONEY scheme...it may be too late to escape villainous intents. At a pivotal point, Donovan is reminded of a Scottish adage his great uncle taught him, To ignore the danger is to deserve the disaster. This advice becomes his maxim to wisdom for using good since and logic. Yet, while holding devout to his faith within the crossroads of trouble, the situation begs for a holy intervention. The story evolved after a true preternatural event occurred. The author surprisingly heard about her cousin, Sarahs son, whod received a set of keys that had once fit the locks to an authentic U.K. castle. The keys from the family ancestor, Uncle Cecil, had become the boys treasured gift. Curiously, after his unexpected demise, one of the keys had been paranormally movedmore than once. This incident prompted Marilyn to compile a riveting narrative that fashioned her first novel, Leave No Evidence. In her debut novel, M. H. Irick tells an absorbing story that has the potential to become a sought-after summer page-turner. Leave No Evidence islike the fusing of a Maeve Binchy novel and a mystery by J.D. Robb. ForeWord Clarion Reviews
The Hard Bargain
Author: David Tucker
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543478530
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Hard Bargain describes in vivid detail and elegant prose the clash of wills between a famous father and his hard-driving middle son. Richard Tucker, the American superstar tenor from the golden age of the Metropolitan Opera, demanded that his son become a surgeon. Rejecting his father’s wishes, David wanted to follow his father onto the opera stage. Their struggle over David’s future—by turns hilarious and humiliating, wise and loving—is played out in medical and musical venues around the world. The father and son strike a bargain, the hard bargain of the title, which permitted both dreams to flicker for a decade until one (the right one, it turns out) bursts into sustaining flame. This heartfelt memoir about a son’s struggle against the looming power of a magnetic father is conveyed in a moving narrative that one reviewer has called “the most dramatic exploration of the private life of a legendary singer in the annals of opera literature.”
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543478530
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Hard Bargain describes in vivid detail and elegant prose the clash of wills between a famous father and his hard-driving middle son. Richard Tucker, the American superstar tenor from the golden age of the Metropolitan Opera, demanded that his son become a surgeon. Rejecting his father’s wishes, David wanted to follow his father onto the opera stage. Their struggle over David’s future—by turns hilarious and humiliating, wise and loving—is played out in medical and musical venues around the world. The father and son strike a bargain, the hard bargain of the title, which permitted both dreams to flicker for a decade until one (the right one, it turns out) bursts into sustaining flame. This heartfelt memoir about a son’s struggle against the looming power of a magnetic father is conveyed in a moving narrative that one reviewer has called “the most dramatic exploration of the private life of a legendary singer in the annals of opera literature.”
The Natural
Author: Joe Klein
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767914120
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Joe Klein, best-selling author of Primary Colors and one of our most brilliant political analysts, now tackles the subject he knows best: Bill Clinton. Astute, even-handed, and keenly intelligent, The Natural is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened–to the military, to the economy, to the American people, to the country–during Bill Clinton’s presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. Much has been written about Clinton, but The Natural is the first work to cut through the gossip, scandals, media hype, and emotional turbulence that Clinton always engendered, to step back and rationally analyze the eight years of his tenure, a period during which America rose to unprecedented levels of prosperity. Joe Klein puts that record into perspective, showing us what worked and what didn’t, exactly what was accomplished and why, and who was responsible for the successes and the failures. We see how the Clinton White House functioned on the inside, how it dealt with the maneuvers of Congress and the Gingrich revolution, and who held power and made the decisions during the endless crises that beset the administration. Klein’s access to the White House over the years as a journalist gave him a prime spot from which to view every crucial event–both political and personal–and he sets them forth in an insightful, readable, and completely engrossing manner. The Natural is stern in its criticism and convincing with its praise. It will cause endless debate amongst friends and foes of the Clinton administration. It is a book that anyone interested in contemporary politics, in American history, or in the functioning of our democracy, should read.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767914120
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Joe Klein, best-selling author of Primary Colors and one of our most brilliant political analysts, now tackles the subject he knows best: Bill Clinton. Astute, even-handed, and keenly intelligent, The Natural is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened–to the military, to the economy, to the American people, to the country–during Bill Clinton’s presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. Much has been written about Clinton, but The Natural is the first work to cut through the gossip, scandals, media hype, and emotional turbulence that Clinton always engendered, to step back and rationally analyze the eight years of his tenure, a period during which America rose to unprecedented levels of prosperity. Joe Klein puts that record into perspective, showing us what worked and what didn’t, exactly what was accomplished and why, and who was responsible for the successes and the failures. We see how the Clinton White House functioned on the inside, how it dealt with the maneuvers of Congress and the Gingrich revolution, and who held power and made the decisions during the endless crises that beset the administration. Klein’s access to the White House over the years as a journalist gave him a prime spot from which to view every crucial event–both political and personal–and he sets them forth in an insightful, readable, and completely engrossing manner. The Natural is stern in its criticism and convincing with its praise. It will cause endless debate amongst friends and foes of the Clinton administration. It is a book that anyone interested in contemporary politics, in American history, or in the functioning of our democracy, should read.
Movie Mayhem
Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442402601
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Hardy Boys need to protect movie star Anya Archer from attackers who want to blow up everyone at the Big Apple Awards.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442402601
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Hardy Boys need to protect movie star Anya Archer from attackers who want to blow up everyone at the Big Apple Awards.
Digital Fortress
Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429902302
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Before the multi-million, runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown set his razor-sharp research and storytelling skills on the most powerful intelligence organization on earth--the National Security Agency (NSA)--in this thrilling novel, Digital Fortress. When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage...not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves. From the underground hallways of power to the skyscrapers of Tokyo to the towering cathedrals of Spain, a desperate race unfolds. It is a battle for survival--a crucial bid to destroy a creation of inconceivable genius...an impregnable code-writing formula that threatens to obliterate the post-cold war balance of power. Forever.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429902302
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Before the multi-million, runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown set his razor-sharp research and storytelling skills on the most powerful intelligence organization on earth--the National Security Agency (NSA)--in this thrilling novel, Digital Fortress. When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage...not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves. From the underground hallways of power to the skyscrapers of Tokyo to the towering cathedrals of Spain, a desperate race unfolds. It is a battle for survival--a crucial bid to destroy a creation of inconceivable genius...an impregnable code-writing formula that threatens to obliterate the post-cold war balance of power. Forever.