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Author : Don Dedera
Publisher : Northland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Little War of Our Own written by Don Dedera and published by Northland Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Arizona's most famous fued the Pleasant Valley War or Graham-Tewksbury Feud.
Author : Sylvia Dickey Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781633634220
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (342 download)
Download or read book A War of Her Own written by Sylvia Dickey Smith and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A War of Her Own is a compelling World War II historical novel, set in Orange, Texas, in 1943, about a Texas version of Rosie the Riveter in search of happiness. In the summer of 1943, Orange, Texas, is a sleepy little town overrun with tens of thousands of new workers. With jobs galore at the wartime shipyards, the workers are rich with cash and looking for a good time. Bea Meade, mother of an infant son, finds her life shattered when her philandering husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. To make ends meet, Bea takes a job at a shipyard as a riveter. Meanwhile, she searches for the love missing in her life. Life is good for everyone in Orange--except Bea, who has to fight her own battles against a no-good husband, the prejudice facing women in the workplace, and the mysteries of her own past. Bea's journey to discover who she really is, a vibrant woman of her times, serves up an entertaining story of the World War II homefront you'll remember long after the final pages.
Author : Paul M. Farber
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469655098
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book A Wall of Our Own written by Paul M. Farber and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Berlin Wall is arguably the most prominent symbol of the Cold War era. Its construction in 1961 and its dismantling in 1989 are broadly understood as pivotal moments in the history of the last century. In A Wall of Our Own, Paul M. Farber traces the Berlin Wall as a site of pilgrimage for American artists, writers, and activists. During the Cold War and in the shadow of the Wall, figures such as Leonard Freed, Angela Davis, Shinkichi Tajiri, and Audre Lorde weighed the possibilities and limits of American democracy. All were sparked by their first encounters with the Wall, incorporated their reflections in books and artworks directed toward the geopolitics of division in the United States, and considered divided Germany as a site of intersection between art and activism over the respective courses of their careers. Departing from the well-known stories of Americans seeking post–World War II Paris for their own self-imposed exile or traveling the open road of the domestic interstate highway system, Farber reveals the divided city of Berlin as another destination for Americans seeking a critical distance. By analyzing the experiences and cultural creations of "American Berliner" artists and activists, Farber offers a new way to view not only the Wall itself but also how the Cold War still structures our thinking about freedom, repression, and artistic resistance on a global scale.
Author : Brian D. Behnken
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807834785
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Fighting Their Own Battles written by Brian D. Behnken and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1940 and 1975, African Americans and Mexican Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism. Although both groups engaged in civil rights
Author : Jerry Buss
Publisher : Badger Books Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781878569523
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (695 download)
Download or read book A War of Their Own written by Jerry Buss and published by Badger Books Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was more than ironic that the Kruegerbrothers- Eniis, Frank, Leslie, and Louie-chose to defend their pascifist beliefs during WWI with guns blazing. The aftermath of a dramatic shootout in Withee, Wisconsin left two men dead and several wounded as well as an ugly legacy of government intervention gone awry.
Author : David Poyer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671047418
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)
Download or read book A Country of Our Own written by David Poyer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most fascinating episode in American history, the Civil War has also inspired some of its greatest fiction, from The Red Badge of Courage to Cold Mountain.
Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620975181
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Truth Has a Power of Its Own written by Howard Zinn and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American history told from the bottom up by Howard Zinn himself—and the perfect all-ages introduction to his eye-opening viewpoint, published on Zinn’s hundredth birthday Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of conversations with the late Howard Zinn and “an eloquently hopeful introduction for those who haven’t yet encountered Zinn’s work” (Booklist). Here is an unvarnished, yet ultimately optimistic, tour of American history—told by someone who was often an active participant in it. Viewed through the lens of Zinn’s own life as a soldier, historian, and activist and using his paradigm-shifting A People’s History of the United States as a point of departure, these conversations explore the American Revolution, the Civil War, the labor battles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, U.S. imperialism from the Indian Wars to the War on Terrorism, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and the fight for equality and immigrant rights—all from an unapologetically radical standpoint. Longtime admirers and a new generation of readers alike will be fascinated to learn about Zinn’s thought processes, rationale, motivations, and approach to his now-iconic historical work. Zinn’s humane (and often humorous) voice—along with his keen moral vision—shine through every one of these lively and thought-provoking conversations. Battles over the telling of our history still rage across the country, and there’s no better person to tell it than Howard Zinn.
Author : Annelise Orleck
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080700796X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Storming Caesars Palace REVISED & UPDATED written by Annelise Orleck and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the PBS documentary premiering March 2023 The story of the revolutionary Black women welfare organizers of Las Vegas who spearheaded an evergreen, radical revisioning of American economic justice This timely reissue tells the little-known story of a pioneering group of Black mothers who built one of this country's most successful antipoverty programs. In Storming Caesars Palace, Annelise Orleck brings into focus the hidden figures of a trailblazing movement who proved that poor mothers are the real experts on poverty, providing job training, libraries, medical access, daycare centers and housing to the poor in Las Vegas throughout the 1970s. Orleck introduces Ruby Duncan, a sharecropper turned White House advisor who led the charge on the long war on poverty waged against the poor Black mothers of Las Vegas. According to Ruby, “Poor women must dream their highest dreams and never stop,” and she, with the help of Mary Wesley and Alversa Beals, did exactly that. A vivid retelling of an overlooked American history, Orleck follows the Black women who went on to lead a revolutionary movement against welfare injustice. These women eventually founded Operation Life, one of the first women-led community organizations in the nation and one of the country’s most successful antipoverty programs. They went on to gain national traction and garnered the respect of key political figures such as Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter. With a new prologue and epilogue that explore the race and labor movements paramount to the political climate of 2021, Orleck masterfully blends together history, social analysis, and personal storytelling in a story that is as enraging as it is empowering.
Author : Patricia Fara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192514164
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book A Lab of One's Own written by Patricia Fara and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many extraordinary female scientists, doctors, and engineers tasted independence and responsibility for the first time during the First World War. How did this happen? Patricia Fara reveals how suffragists, such as Virginia Woolf's sister, Ray Strachey, had already aligned themselves with scientific and technological progress, and that during the dark years of war they mobilized women to enter conventionally male domains such as science and medicine. Fara tells the stories of women such as: mental health pioneer Isabel Emslie, chemist Martha Whiteley, a co-inventor of tear gas, and botanist Helen Gwynne Vaughan. Women were now carrying out vital research in many aspects of science, but could it last? Though suffragist Millicent Fawcett declared triumphantly that 'the war revolutionised the industrial position of women. It found them serfs, and left them free', the outcome was very different. Although women had helped the country to victory and won the vote for those over thirty, they had lost the battle for equality. Men returning from the Front reclaimed their jobs, and conventional hierarchies were re-established even though the nation now knew that women were fully capable of performing work traditionally reserved for men. Fara examines how the bravery of these pioneer women scientists, temporarily allowed into a closed world before the door clanged shut again, paved the way for today's women scientists. Yet, inherited prejudices continue to limit women's scientific opportunities.
Author : Captain Usaf Rodman, Matthew
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781478344483
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (444 download)
Download or read book A War of Their Own written by Captain Usaf Rodman, Matthew and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As shared by Jonathan D. George, Colonel, USAF with regard to Matthew K. Rodman's, book “A War on Their Own: Bombers over the Southwest Pacific.” “Capt. Matt Rodman's book is an intriguing study of a moment in history when combat airpower played a key role in achieving victory. He expertly recounts how Fifth Air Force quickly developed new tactics and procedures that “saved the day.” The perfection of low-altitude bombing, strafing, and skip bombing made differences that in hindsight are easy to recognize and quantify. Without them the Fifth would have found itself in a longer, costlier fight with an uncertain outcome. However, these new tactics hurt the enemy to the extent that the Allies eventually prevailed. The real value of Captain Rodman's study, however, lies not so much in his excellent retelling of significant developments in airpower as in his pushing the need for us to be flexible, adaptive, opportunistic, and entrepreneurial while safeguarding our core values and capitalizing on our core competencies. He therefore helps us take some of the uncertainty out of the largely unpredictable future by stressing the importance of “effective adaptability.” Obviously, many components determine success—preparation, resources, knowledge, and determination, to name just a few. None of these, however, have nearly the importance as the creative ability to adapt effectively in order to confront the threat and deliver victory. By telling us the story of Fifth Air Force in the Southwest Pacific, Captain Rodman schools us on our need to employ all of our resources creatively, no matter their limitations. Our future battles will be new and different, as will the actions we take, even though they derive from our past successes. In the mid-1980s, experts would have had difficulty forecasting the effectiveness of the precision and near-precision aerial strikes we executed in Iraq just a few years later. In the mid-1990s, almost no one could have envisioned allied and joint ground forces, some riding on horseback, communicating through satellites to a multitude of aircraft that produced effects leading to our triumph in Operation Enduring Freedom. Today we can only venture a guess—and probably not very accurately—at what we will confront in the coming years. But this much is certain: we will face challenges unlike those of the past, and victory will go to the team that can best adapt its resources to stop the enemy. Captain Rodman's great effort convinces us that it is our legacy to maintain and even enhance that ability.”
Author : Arlie Russell Hochschild
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620973987
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Strangers in Their Own Land written by Arlie Russell Hochschild and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump "A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book." —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, "Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild's 'strangers in their own land' and a new elite." Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called "humble and important" by David Brooks and "masterly" by Atul Gawande, Hochschild's book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others. The paperback edition features a new afterword by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, and also includes a readers' group guide at the back of the book.
Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375894780
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Civil War on Sunday written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Cannon fire! That's what Jack and Annie hear when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of the American Civil War. There they meet a famous nurse named Clara Barton and do their best to help wounded soldiers. It is their hardest journey in time yet—and the one that will make the most difference to their own lives! Did you know that there’s a Magic Tree House book for every kid? Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures
Author : Colin Hynson
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
ISBN 13 : 9780836859836
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (598 download)
Download or read book World War II written by Colin Hynson and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2006 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information includes time lines, maps, pictures, and primary source material on World War II.
Author : Jennifer Wallis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909394407
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (944 download)
Download or read book Fight Your Own War written by Jennifer Wallis and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book devoted to power electronics, written by artists, fans, and critics. Power electronics is a genre of industrial or 'noise' music that utilises feedback and synthesizers to produce an intense, loud, challenging sound. Fight Your Own War is the first ever English-language book primarily devoted to power electronics, bringing together essays and reviews that explore the current state of the genre, from early development through to live performance, listener experience, artist motivation, gender and subcultures, such as 'Japanoise'.
Author : Ian Lustick
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812239836
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Trapped in the War on Terror written by Ian Lustick and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2006-09-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ian Lustick has written a brave, forceful, and very valuable book. I wish that every politician promising to 'defend' America would read what he has to say. Failing that, the voters should."—James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly
Author : Ron Capps
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781466435025
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Writing War written by Ron Capps and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing War is the curriculum for seminars and workshops provided by the Veterans Writing Project. Written by a veteran for veterans, active and reserve service members, and military family members, Writing War details the elements of craft involved in fiction and non-fiction writing. Beginning with the basic questions "Why do we write?" and "What's different about writing the military experience?", the book includes chapters on scene, setting, dialogue, narrative structure, character motivation and development, beginnings and endings, point of view, revision, writing about trauma, and making time in a busy life for writing. Writing War includes detailed examples demonstrating each element of craft. All examples used in the book were written by writers who are also veterans. It is written to be accessible to beginning and more experienced writers.
Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book On War written by Carl von Clausewitz and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
