Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Empire City
Author: Matt Gallagher
Publisher: Washington Square Press
ISBN: 150117780X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
From the author of Youngblood comes a “brilliant and daring” (Phil Klay, award-winning author of Redeployment) novel following a group of super-powered soldiers and civilians as they navigate an imperial America on the precipice of a major upheaval—for fans of The Fortress of Solitude and The Plot Against America. Thirty years after its great triumph in Vietnam, the United States has again become mired in an endless foreign war overseas. Stories of super soldiers known as the Volunteers tuck in little American boys and girls every night. Yet domestic politics are aflame—an ex-military watchdog group clashes with police while radical terrorists threaten to expose government experiments within the veteran rehabilitation colonies. Halfway between war and peace, the Volunteers find themselves waiting for orders in the vast American city-state, Empire City. There they encounter a small group of civilians who know the truth about their powers, including Sebastian Rios, a young bureaucrat wrestling with survivor guilt, and Mia Tucker, a wounded army pilot-turned-Wall Street banker. Meanwhile, Jean-Jacques Saint-Preux, a Haitian American Volunteer from the International Legion, decides he’ll do whatever it takes to return to the front lines. Through it all, a controversial retired general emerges as a frontrunner in the presidential campaign, promising to save the country from itself. Her election would mean unprecedented military control over the country, with promises of security and stability—but at what cost? “A passionate, scary, wise, and perhaps even prophetic novel” (Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried), Empire City is a rousing vision of an alternate—yet all too familiar—America on the brink written by a “preeminent voice in American writing” (Sara Novic, author of Girl at War).
Publisher: Washington Square Press
ISBN: 150117780X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
From the author of Youngblood comes a “brilliant and daring” (Phil Klay, award-winning author of Redeployment) novel following a group of super-powered soldiers and civilians as they navigate an imperial America on the precipice of a major upheaval—for fans of The Fortress of Solitude and The Plot Against America. Thirty years after its great triumph in Vietnam, the United States has again become mired in an endless foreign war overseas. Stories of super soldiers known as the Volunteers tuck in little American boys and girls every night. Yet domestic politics are aflame—an ex-military watchdog group clashes with police while radical terrorists threaten to expose government experiments within the veteran rehabilitation colonies. Halfway between war and peace, the Volunteers find themselves waiting for orders in the vast American city-state, Empire City. There they encounter a small group of civilians who know the truth about their powers, including Sebastian Rios, a young bureaucrat wrestling with survivor guilt, and Mia Tucker, a wounded army pilot-turned-Wall Street banker. Meanwhile, Jean-Jacques Saint-Preux, a Haitian American Volunteer from the International Legion, decides he’ll do whatever it takes to return to the front lines. Through it all, a controversial retired general emerges as a frontrunner in the presidential campaign, promising to save the country from itself. Her election would mean unprecedented military control over the country, with promises of security and stability—but at what cost? “A passionate, scary, wise, and perhaps even prophetic novel” (Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried), Empire City is a rousing vision of an alternate—yet all too familiar—America on the brink written by a “preeminent voice in American writing” (Sara Novic, author of Girl at War).
Empire City
Author: Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231109086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
This major anthology brings together the best literary writing about New York--from O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck to Paul Auster and James Baldwin.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231109086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
This major anthology brings together the best literary writing about New York--from O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck to Paul Auster and James Baldwin.
Federal Communications Commission Reports
Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Reports of Committees
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The Transactions of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis
Author: Academy of Science (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Transactions
Author: Academy of Science of St. Louis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Transactions of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis
Author: Academy of Science of St. Louis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
List of members in each volume, except v. 5.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
List of members in each volume, except v. 5.
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Yonkers in the Twentieth Century
Author: Marilyn E. Weigold
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438453949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Yonkers in the Twentieth Century chronicles the decline and rebirth of the fourth largest city in New York State, once known as "the Queen City of the Hudson" and "the City of Gracious Living." Previously an industrial powerhouse, the city's factories turned out essential items that helped the United States win two world wars. Following World War II, the industrial base of Yonkers eroded as companies moved away, contributing to an increase in poverty. To address the housing needs of its low-income residents, Yonkers built public housing, resulting in a nearly thirty-year court case that, for the first time in United States history, linked school and housing segregation. The case was finally settled in the early years of the twenty-first century, a time that also witnessed the continuation of the city's economic redevelopment efforts along the Hudson River and contiguous downtown area. Striving to once again become "the Queen City of the Hudson," Yonkers is being rebuilt beginning at its historic waterfront.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438453949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Yonkers in the Twentieth Century chronicles the decline and rebirth of the fourth largest city in New York State, once known as "the Queen City of the Hudson" and "the City of Gracious Living." Previously an industrial powerhouse, the city's factories turned out essential items that helped the United States win two world wars. Following World War II, the industrial base of Yonkers eroded as companies moved away, contributing to an increase in poverty. To address the housing needs of its low-income residents, Yonkers built public housing, resulting in a nearly thirty-year court case that, for the first time in United States history, linked school and housing segregation. The case was finally settled in the early years of the twenty-first century, a time that also witnessed the continuation of the city's economic redevelopment efforts along the Hudson River and contiguous downtown area. Striving to once again become "the Queen City of the Hudson," Yonkers is being rebuilt beginning at its historic waterfront.