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Aberration in the Heartland of the Real

Author : Wendy S. Painting
Publisher : TrineDay
ISBN 13 : 1634240049
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Aberration in the Heartland of the Real written by Wendy S. Painting and published by TrineDay. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of the "All-American Terrorist," this book traces McVeigh's life from childhood to the Army, throughout the plot to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and the period after his 1995 arrest until his 2001 execution. McVeigh's life, as Dr. Wendy Painting describes it, offers a backdrop for her discussion of not only several intimate and previously unknown details about him, but a number of episodes and circumstances in American History as well. In Aberration in the Heartland, Painting explores Cold War popular culture, all-American apocalyptic fervor, organized racism, contentious politics, militarism, warfare, conspiracy theories, bioethical controversies, mind control, the media's construction of villains and demons, and institutional secrecy and cover-ups. All these stories are examined, compared, and tested in Aberration in the Heartland of the Real, making this book a much closer examination into the personality and life of Timothy McVeigh than has been provided by any other biographical work about him

Oklahoma City

Author : Andrew Gumbel
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062100920
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Oklahoma City written by Andrew Gumbel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh drove into downtown Oklahoma City in a rented Ryder truck containing a deadly fertilizer bomb that he and his army buddy Terry Nichols had made the previous day. He parked in a handicapped-parking zone, hopped out of the truck, and walked away into a series of alleys and streets. Shortly after 9:00 A.M., the bomb obliterated one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people, including 19 infants and toddlers. McVeigh claimed he'd worked only with Nichols, and at least officially, the government believed him. But McVeigh's was just one version of events. And much of it was wrong. In Oklahoma City, veteran investigative journalists Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles puncture the myth about what happened on that day—one that has persisted in the minds of the American public for nearly two decades. Working with unprecedented access to government documents, a voluminous correspondence with Terry Nichols, and more than 150 interviews with those immediately involved, Gumbel and Charles demonstrate how much was missed beyond the guilt of the two principal defendants: in particular, the dysfunction within the country's law enforcement agencies, which squandered opportunities to penetrate the radical right and prevent the bombing, and the unanswered question of who inspired the plot and who else might have been involved. To this day, the FBI heralds the Oklahoma City investigation as one of its great triumphs. In reality, though, its handling of the bombing foreshadowed many of the problems that made the country vulnerable to attack again on 9/11. Law enforcement agencies could not see past their own rivalries and underestimated the seriousness of the deadly rhetoric coming from the radical far right. In Oklahoma City, Gumbel and Charles give the fullest, most honest account to date of both the plot and the investigation, drawing a vivid portrait of the unfailingly compelling—driven, eccentric, fractious, funny, and wildly paranoid—characters involved.

One of Ours

Author : Richard A. Serrano
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393027433
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book One of Ours written by Richard A. Serrano and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1998 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Los Angeles Times reporter makes use of hundreds of interviews, including a detailed, exclusive interview with Timothy McVeigh, to explore McVeigh's motives--and the movement behind them--for bombing the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995.

Fortunate Son

Author : James Hatfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781901250756
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Fortunate Son written by James Hatfield and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides the truth about George W. Bush: how he dodged the draft,as a mediocre student at Yale, lost a lot of other people's money in boomimes in the Texas oil market, and was investigated by the SEC for insiderrading. It is a life of special favours, cut corners and blurry values.

Programmed to Kill

Author : David McGowan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780595326402
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Programmed to Kill written by David McGowan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The specter of the marauding serial killer has become a relatively common feature on the American landscape. Reactions to these modern-day monsters range from revulsion to morbid fascination--fascination that is either fed by, or a product of, the saturation coverage provided by print and broadcast media, along with a dizzying array of books, documentary films, websites, and "Movies of the Week". The prevalence in Western culture of images of serial killers (and mass murderers) has created in the public mind a consensus view of what a serial killer is. Most people are aware, to some degree, of the classic serial killer 'profile.' But what if there is a much different 'profile'--one that has not received much media attention? In Programmed to Kill, acclaimed and always controversial author David McGowan takes a fresh look at the lives of many of America's most notorious accused murderers, focusing on the largely hidden patterns that suggest that there may be more to the average serial killer story than meets the eye. Think you know everything there is to know about serial killers? Or is it possible that sometimes what everyone 'knows' to be true isn't really true at all?

Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon

Author : David McGowan
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1909394130
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon written by David McGowan and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia. Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place where a dizzying array of musical artists congregated to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack to those turbulent times. Members of bands like the Byrds, the Doors, Buffalo Springfield, the Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Turtles, the Eagles, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Steppenwolf, CSN, Three Dog Night and Love, along with such singer/songwriters as Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, James Taylor and Carole King, lived together and jammed together in the bucolic community nestled in the Hollywood Hills. But there was a dark side to that scene as well. Many didn’t make it out alive, and many of those deaths remain shrouded in mystery to this day. Far more integrated into the scene than most would like to admit was a guy by the name of Charles Manson, along with his murderous entourage. Also floating about the periphery were various political operatives, up-and-coming politicians and intelligence personnel – the same sort of people who gave birth to many of the rock stars populating the canyon. And all the canyon’s colorful characters – rock stars, hippies, murderers and politicos – happily coexisted alongside a covert military installation.

Madness in Cold War America

Author : Alexander Dunst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317360796
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Madness in Cold War America written by Alexander Dunst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of how madness came to play a prominent part in America’s political and cultural debates. It argues that metaphors of madness rise to unprecedented popularity amidst the domestic struggles of the early Cold War and become a pre-eminent way of understanding the relationship between politics and culture in the United States. In linking the individual psyche to society, psychopathology contributes to issues central to post-World War II society: a dramatic extension of state power, the fate of the individual in bureaucratic society, the political function of emotions, and the limits to admissible dissent. Such vocabulary may accuse opponents of being crazy. Yet at stake is a fundamental error of judgment, for which madness provides welcome metaphors across US diplomacy and psychiatry, social movements and criticism, literature and film. In the process, major parties and whole historical eras, literary movements and social groups are declared insane. Reacting against violence at home and war abroad, countercultural authors oppose a sane madness to irrational reason—romanticizing the wisdom of the schizophrenic and paranoia’s superior insight. As the Sixties give way to a plurality of lifestyles an alternative vision arrives: of a madness now become so widespread and ordinary that it may, finally, escape pathology.

Apocalypse Culture

Author : Adam Parfrey
Publisher : Feral House
ISBN 13 : 1936239566
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse Culture written by Adam Parfrey and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unorthodox sociological approach to contemporary apocalyptic thought.

Postmodern Sublime

Author : Joseph Tabbi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501717642
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Sublime written by Joseph Tabbi and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on works by Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph McElroy, and Don DeLillo, Joseph Tabbi finds that a simultaneous attraction to and repulsion from technology has produced a powerful new mode of modern writing—the technological sublime.

Riding Toward Everywhere

Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061847046
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Riding Toward Everywhere written by William T. Vollmann and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. He has investigated the causes and symptoms of humanity's obsession with violence (Rising Up and Rising Down), taken a personal look into the hearts and minds of the world's poorest inhabitants (Poor People), and now turns his attentions to America itself, to our romanticizing of "freedom" and the ways in which we restrict the very freedoms we profess to admire. For Riding Toward Everywhere, Vollmann himself takes to the rails. His main accomplice is Steve, a captivating fellow trainhopper who expertly accompanies him through the secretive waters of this particular way of life. Vollmann describes the thrill and terror of lying in a trainyard in the dark, avoiding the flickering flashlights of the railroad bulls; the shockingly, gorgeously wild scenery of the American West as seen from a grainer platform; the complicated considerations involved in trying to hop on and off a moving train. It's a dangerous, thrilling, evocative examination of this underground lifestyle, and it is, without a doubt, one of Vollmann's most hauntingly beautiful narratives. Questioning anything and everything, subjecting both our national romance and our skepticism about hobo life to his finely tuned, analytical eye and the reality of what he actually sees, Vollmann carries on in the tradition of Huckleberry Finn, providing a moving portrait of this strikingly modern vision of the American dream.

Drug Cartels Do Not Exist

Author : Oswaldo Zavala
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 082650468X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Drug Cartels Do Not Exist written by Oswaldo Zavala and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Zavala makes the case that the very terms we use to describe drug traffickers are a constructed subterfuge for the real narcos: politicians, corporations, and the military. Though Donald Trump's incendiary comments and monstrous policies on the border revealed the character of a deeply depraved leader, state violence on both sides of the border is nothing new. Immigration has endured as a prevailing news topic, but it is a fixture of modern society in the neoliberal era; the future will be one of exile brought on by state violence and the plundering of our natural resources to sate capitalist greed. Yet the realities of violence in Mexico and along the border are obscured by the books, films, and TV series we consume. In truth, works like Sicario, The Queen of the South, and Narcos hide Mexico's political realities. Alongside these examples, Zavala discusses Charles Bowden, 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and other important Latin American writers as examples of those who do capture the realities of the drug war. Translated into English by William Savinar, Drug Cartels Do Not Exist will be useful for journalists, political scientists, philosophers, and writers of any kind who wish to break down the constructed barriers—physical and mental—created by those in power around the reality of the Mexican drug trade.

History of the Great American Fortunes

Author : Gustavus Myers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book History of the Great American Fortunes written by Gustavus Myers and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Six

Author : Gloria Naylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Six written by Gloria Naylor and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a crotchety neighbor has a brother who is an official with the National Security Agency, the author finds a neighborly feud can become serious. This work has been described as a fictionalized memoir. There is an addendum of an essay and bibliography which provides the real life basis for the story's warning about government surveillance, mind control and electromagnetic weapons development. As the saying goes "You aren't paranoid, if they really are out to get you". Is this a conspiracy theory gone wild or the sighting of the tip of a real iceberg in our future.

The Avant-garde and American Postmodernity

Author :
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034909
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Avant-garde and American Postmodernity written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evaluation that tracks American culture's shift from modernism into postmodernism

Peripheralizing DeLillo

Author : Thomas Travers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501378422
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Peripheralizing DeLillo written by Thomas Travers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peripheralizing DeLillo tracks the historical arc of Don DeLillo's poetics as it recomposes itself across the genres of short fiction, romance, the historical novel, and the philosophical novel of time. Drawing on theories that capital, rather than the bourgeoisie, is the displaced subject of the novel, Thomas Travers investigates DeLillo's representation of fully commodified social worlds and re-evaluates Marxist accounts of the novel and its philosophy of history. Deploying an innovative re-periodisation, Travers considers the evolution of DeLillo's aesthetic forms as they register and encode one of the crises of contemporary historicity: the secular dynamics through which a society organised around waged work tends towards conditions of under- and unemployment. Situating DeLillo within global histories of uneven and combined development, Travers explores how DeLillo's treatment of capital and labour, affect and narration, reconfigures debates around realism and modernism. The DeLillo that emerges from this study is no longer an exemplary postmodern writer, but a composer of capitalist epics, a novelist drawn to peripheral zones of accumulation, zones of social death whose surplus populations his fiction strives to re-historicise, if not re-dialecticise as subjects of history.

Don DeLillo In Context

Author : Jesse Kavadlo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009027190
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Don DeLillo In Context written by Jesse Kavadlo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don DeLillo is one of the most important novelists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Yet despite DeLillo's prolific output and scholarly recognition, much of the attention has gone to his works individually, rather than collectively or thematically. This volume provides separate entries into the wide variety and categories of contexts that surround and help illuminate DeLillo's writings. Don DeLillo in Context examines how geography, biography, history, media studies, culture, philosophy, and the writing process provide critical frameworks and ways of reading and understanding DeLillo's prodigious body of work.

Subjects of Security

Author : R. Cameron
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137274360
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Subjects of Security written by R. Cameron and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the war on terror is a paradigmatic foreign policy that has had profound effects on domestic social order. Cameron develops an original framework which inverts the traditional analysis of foreign policy in order to interpret its impact upon subject formation through everyday practises of security and social regulation.