Author: Robert Leckie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Battles
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Highlights of eleven important battles in American history. The battles: Wolf and Montcalm at Quebec; Trenton; New Orleans; Mexico City; Chancellorsville; Appomatox; Santiago; Belleau Wood; Guadalcanal; Normandy; Pusan-Inchon.
Great American Battles
Author: Robert Leckie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Battles
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Highlights of eleven important battles in American history. The battles: Wolf and Montcalm at Quebec; Trenton; New Orleans; Mexico City; Chancellorsville; Appomatox; Santiago; Belleau Wood; Guadalcanal; Normandy; Pusan-Inchon.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Battles
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Highlights of eleven important battles in American history. The battles: Wolf and Montcalm at Quebec; Trenton; New Orleans; Mexico City; Chancellorsville; Appomatox; Santiago; Belleau Wood; Guadalcanal; Normandy; Pusan-Inchon.
A Question Of Intent
Author: David Kessler
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 9781586481216
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Former FDA commissioner David Kessler guides the reader through a legal thriller, telling the story of the FDA's fight with big tobacco.
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 9781586481216
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Former FDA commissioner David Kessler guides the reader through a legal thriller, telling the story of the FDA's fight with big tobacco.
Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation
Author: Rodney Clapp
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 066423657X
Category : Christianity and culture
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 066423657X
Category : Christianity and culture
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Great American Folklore
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780880299022
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780880299022
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
The Great American Cheese War
Author: Paul Flower
Publisher: Prelude Books
ISBN: 1788421566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Governor Bill Hoeksma of Michigan is a simple, gun-loving son of a billionaire who idolises George W. Bush. When a mysterious illness afflicts members of his inner circle, his conspiring advisors point to a rumoured viral weapons attack – via monkeypox-carrying prairie dogs – launched by the Wisconsin government. Governor Bill decides the Michigan militia should lead the military response, chaos ensues, and he falls unwittingly into a scheme of his powerful father’s making. That scheme begins with cheese research and a Hollywood movie star. How it will end all depends on two unlikely heroes: an aging lesbian state senator, and a high-school teacher born and raised in the Michigan militia. When the conspiracy runs out of road, and guns are drawn in a showdown outside a Cracker Barrel, will anyone emerge victorious from the Great American Cheese War? What readers are saying about The Great American Cheese War: "A rollicking riot of insanity and I mean that in the most wonderful sense! I laughed my way through this story." "Highly recommended!! This book was a lot of fun, I laughed out loud, and it's a clever satire book. It's well written, engrossing and entertaining." "Enjoy your summer, read this book!" "Satire at its finest. The whole book had me rolling on floor laughing!"
Publisher: Prelude Books
ISBN: 1788421566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Governor Bill Hoeksma of Michigan is a simple, gun-loving son of a billionaire who idolises George W. Bush. When a mysterious illness afflicts members of his inner circle, his conspiring advisors point to a rumoured viral weapons attack – via monkeypox-carrying prairie dogs – launched by the Wisconsin government. Governor Bill decides the Michigan militia should lead the military response, chaos ensues, and he falls unwittingly into a scheme of his powerful father’s making. That scheme begins with cheese research and a Hollywood movie star. How it will end all depends on two unlikely heroes: an aging lesbian state senator, and a high-school teacher born and raised in the Michigan militia. When the conspiracy runs out of road, and guns are drawn in a showdown outside a Cracker Barrel, will anyone emerge victorious from the Great American Cheese War? What readers are saying about The Great American Cheese War: "A rollicking riot of insanity and I mean that in the most wonderful sense! I laughed my way through this story." "Highly recommended!! This book was a lot of fun, I laughed out loud, and it's a clever satire book. It's well written, engrossing and entertaining." "Enjoy your summer, read this book!" "Satire at its finest. The whole book had me rolling on floor laughing!"
Land of Hope
Author: Wilfred M. McClay
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594039380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
For too long we’ve lacked a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that offers American readers a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their country. Such a fresh retelling of the American story is especially needed today, to shape and deepen young Americans’ sense of the land they inhabit, help them to understand its roots and share in its memories, all the while equipping them for the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in American society The existing texts simply fail to tell that story with energy and conviction. Too often they reflect a fragmented outlook that fails to convey to American readers the grand trajectory of their own history. This state of affairs cannot continue for long without producing serious consequences. A great nation needs and deserves a great and coherent narrative, as an expression of its own self-understanding and its aspirations; and it needs to be able to convey that narrative to its young effectively. Of course, it goes without saying that such a narrative cannot be a fairy tale of the past. It will not be convincing if it is not truthful. But as Land of Hope brilliantly shows, there is no contradiction between a truthful account of the American past and an inspiring one. Readers of Land of Hope will find both in its pages.
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594039380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
For too long we’ve lacked a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that offers American readers a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their country. Such a fresh retelling of the American story is especially needed today, to shape and deepen young Americans’ sense of the land they inhabit, help them to understand its roots and share in its memories, all the while equipping them for the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in American society The existing texts simply fail to tell that story with energy and conviction. Too often they reflect a fragmented outlook that fails to convey to American readers the grand trajectory of their own history. This state of affairs cannot continue for long without producing serious consequences. A great nation needs and deserves a great and coherent narrative, as an expression of its own self-understanding and its aspirations; and it needs to be able to convey that narrative to its young effectively. Of course, it goes without saying that such a narrative cannot be a fairy tale of the past. It will not be convincing if it is not truthful. But as Land of Hope brilliantly shows, there is no contradiction between a truthful account of the American past and an inspiring one. Readers of Land of Hope will find both in its pages.
The Enduring Civil War
Author: Gary W. Gallagher
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807174076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary W. Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute. He places contemporary understanding of the Civil War, both academic and general, in conversation with testimony from those in the Union and the Confederacy who experienced and described it, investigating how mid-nineteenth-century perceptions align with, or deviate from, current ideas regarding the origins, conduct, and aftermath of the war. The tension between history and memory forms a theme throughout the essays, underscoring how later perceptions about the war often took precedence over historical reality in the minds of many Americans. The array of topics Gallagher addresses is striking. He examines notable books and authors, both Union and Confederate, military and civilian, famous and lesser known. He discusses historians who, though their names have receded with time, produced works that remain pertinent in terms of analysis or information. He comments on conventional interpretations of events and personalities, challenging, among other things, commonly held notions about Gettysburg and Vicksburg as decisive turning points, Ulysses S. Grant as a general who profligately wasted Union manpower, the Gettysburg Address as a watershed that turned the war from a fight for Union into one for Union and emancipation, and Robert E. Lee as an old-fashioned general ill-suited to waging a modern mid-nineteenth-century war. Gallagher interrogates recent scholarly trends on the evolving nature of Civil War studies, addressing crucial questions about chronology, history, memory, and the new revisionist literature. The format of this provocative and timely collection lends itself to sampling, and readers might start in any of the subject groupings and go where their interests take them.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807174076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary W. Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute. He places contemporary understanding of the Civil War, both academic and general, in conversation with testimony from those in the Union and the Confederacy who experienced and described it, investigating how mid-nineteenth-century perceptions align with, or deviate from, current ideas regarding the origins, conduct, and aftermath of the war. The tension between history and memory forms a theme throughout the essays, underscoring how later perceptions about the war often took precedence over historical reality in the minds of many Americans. The array of topics Gallagher addresses is striking. He examines notable books and authors, both Union and Confederate, military and civilian, famous and lesser known. He discusses historians who, though their names have receded with time, produced works that remain pertinent in terms of analysis or information. He comments on conventional interpretations of events and personalities, challenging, among other things, commonly held notions about Gettysburg and Vicksburg as decisive turning points, Ulysses S. Grant as a general who profligately wasted Union manpower, the Gettysburg Address as a watershed that turned the war from a fight for Union into one for Union and emancipation, and Robert E. Lee as an old-fashioned general ill-suited to waging a modern mid-nineteenth-century war. Gallagher interrogates recent scholarly trends on the evolving nature of Civil War studies, addressing crucial questions about chronology, history, memory, and the new revisionist literature. The format of this provocative and timely collection lends itself to sampling, and readers might start in any of the subject groupings and go where their interests take them.
The Great American Battle
Author: Anna Ella Carroll
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375174381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375174381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
A Great American Dick Punch
Author: Cameron West
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662434979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
In one remote detonated explosive instant of murder, an act of National Service and family duty befalls the youngest sister of a killed-in-action soldier in the war in Iraq. Down the rabbit hole of post-traumatic stress disorder, the Gold Star Sister finds herself in the dark revelations of wars-classified blown-up human carnage, Army gross negligence, and Army dereliction of duty. The United States Army declares to the dead soldier’s family, “There’s nothing to see!” The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) declares, “No record exists on Corporal Christopher West!” All the family received is an empty Army uniform in a wooden casket, without being informed or guided on Corporal Christopher West’s congressionally mandated Army enlisted posthumous rights. The battle for justice and advocation commence with Godspeed.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662434979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
In one remote detonated explosive instant of murder, an act of National Service and family duty befalls the youngest sister of a killed-in-action soldier in the war in Iraq. Down the rabbit hole of post-traumatic stress disorder, the Gold Star Sister finds herself in the dark revelations of wars-classified blown-up human carnage, Army gross negligence, and Army dereliction of duty. The United States Army declares to the dead soldier’s family, “There’s nothing to see!” The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) declares, “No record exists on Corporal Christopher West!” All the family received is an empty Army uniform in a wooden casket, without being informed or guided on Corporal Christopher West’s congressionally mandated Army enlisted posthumous rights. The battle for justice and advocation commence with Godspeed.
Great American Fighter Pilots of World War II
Author: Robert D. Loomis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description