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Author : Nick Carr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (164 download)
Download or read book America's Secret Service Ace written by Nick Carr and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nick Carr
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434490483
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)
Download or read book America's Secret Service Ace written by Nick Carr and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Carr provides a comprehensive look at this extraordinary, forty-eight-chapter pulp serial, complete with character guides, plot points, and front-cover reproductions.
Author : Henry Holden
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 9780760322932
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (229 download)
Download or read book To Be a U.S. Secret Service Agent written by Henry Holden and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Service was established after the Civil War by the Treasury Department, originally to protect American currency against counterfeiters. After the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901, Congress directed the Secret Service to protect the President of the United States. Protection remains the primary mission of the United States Secret Service. It takes a special type of individual to be a U.S. Secret Service agent, one willing to "take a bullet" to preserve the ideals on which the United States was founded. To Be a U.S. Secret Service Agent lifts the curtain for a look inside this secretive law enforcement agency, including the highly selective recruiting, the intense training, and the specialized weapons and equipment used to protect current and past Presidents, Vice Presidents, their families, and visiting heads of state.
Author : Gary J. Byrne
Publisher : Center Street
ISBN 13 : 1546082484
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Secrets of the Secret Service written by Gary J. Byrne and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller CRISIS OF CHARACTER comes an explosive new exposé of the Secret Service. The United States Secret Service is tasked with protecting our Presidents, their families, and the complex in which they live and work. Given this important mission, world stability rests upon the shoulders of its agents. In his new book, former Secret Service officer Gary Byrne takes readers behind the scenes to understand the agency's history and today's security failings that he believes put Americans at risk The American public knows the stories of Secret Service heroism, but they don't know about the hidden legacy of problems that have plagued the agency ever since its creation. Gary Byrne says that decades of catastrophic public failures, near misses, and bureaucratic and cultural rot threaten to erode this critical organization from the inside out. Today, as it works to protect President Trump, the Secret Service stands at a crossroads, and the time needed to choose the right course is running out. Agents and officers are leaving the Secret Service in droves, or they're being overworked to the point where they lose focus on the job. Management makes decisions based on politics, not the welfare of their employees. Byrne believes that this means danger for the men and women of the Secret Service, danger for the President they protect, and danger for the nation. In this book, he shares what he has witnessed and learned about the Secret Service with the hope that the problems of this most important agency can be fixed before it's too late.
Author : Ronald Kessler
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307461351
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book In the President's Secret Service written by Ronald Kessler and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes account of the experiences of Secret Service agents draws on interviews with more than 100 current and former agents who served during the administrations of such presidents as JFK, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
Author : Graham Andrews
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476673683
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book American Rivals of James Bond written by Graham Andrews and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a critical history of spy fiction, film and television in the United States, with a particular focus on the American fictional spies that rivaled (and were often influenced by) Ian Fleming's James Bond. James Fenimore Cooper's Harvey Birch, based on a real-life counterpart, appeared in his novel The Spy in 1821. While Harvey Birch's British rivals dominated spy fiction from the late 1800s until the mid-1930s, American spy fiction came of age shortly thereafter. The spy boom in novels and films during the 1960s, spearheaded by Bond, heavily influenced the espionage genre in the United States for years to come, including series like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Matt Helm. The author demonstrates that, while American authors currently dominate the international spy fiction market, James Bond has cast a very long shadow, for a very long time.
Author : Marilyn Nelson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698407903
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)
Download or read book American Ace written by Marilyn Nelson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting novel in verse, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Toni Morrison, explores American history and race through the eyes of a teenage boy embracing his newfound identity Connor’s grandmother leaves his dad a letter when she dies, and the letter’s confession shakes their tight-knit Italian-American family: The man who raised Dad is not his birth father. But the only clues to this birth father’s identity are a class ring and a pair of pilot’s wings. And so Connor takes it upon himself to investigate—a pursuit that becomes even more pressing when Dad is hospitalized after a stroke. What Connor discovers will lead him and his father to a new, richer understanding of race, identity, and each other.
Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147663257X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Age of Dimes and Pulps written by Jeremy Agnew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses. Cranking out formulaic stories of melodrama, crime and mild erotica--often by uncredited authors focused more on volume than quality--publishers realized high profits playing to low tastes. Estimates put pulp magazine circulation in the 1930s at 30 million monthly. This vast body of "disposable literature" has received little critical attention, in large part because much of it has been lost--the cheaply made books were either discarded after reading or soon disintegrated. Covering the history of pulp literature from 1850 through 1960, the author describes how sensational tales filled a public need and flowered during the evolving social conditions of the Industrial Revolution.
Author : Byron Preiss
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 : 1596876794
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Weird Heros #1, A New American Pulp! written by Byron Preiss and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird Heroes is a collective effort to do something new: to approach three popular heroic fantasy forms—science fiction, the pulps and the comics—from different and exciting directions. Each story in this book is experimental. There are revitalizations of classic fantasy themes such as time travel and jungle adventure. There is innovative use of some of the most dynamic graphic story talent in the world, from Philippino illustrator Alex Nino to American cartoonist Ralph Reese. There is a strong and conscious effort to encourage storytelling which does not rely on violence as a primary source of drama. Weird Heroes is a collective effort to give back to heroic fiction its thrilling sense of adventure and entertainment—the heartbeat of the old pulps. The pulps used heroes to bring fiction to a grand level of excitement—a level which incorporated the reader into the experience. Weird Heroes refreshes that concept of fiction as an adventure in itself, without relating to the new wave of violence and pornography in the production of exciting stories. Weird Heroes is a collection of memorable firsts. It represents the first major publication of prose stories by both science fiction and graphic story writers. Within volumes 1 and 2 you will find the first published appearances of famous pulp biographer Philip Jose Farmer’s epic pulp character, “Greatheart Silver.” You’ll be witness to the first major book publication of an interview with award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer, Fritz Leiber. You’ll experience the insanity of Superman author Elliot S. Maggin’s “Gonzo Storytelling” and discover the new hero by a literary descendant to Dashiell Hammett on Secret Agent X-9, Archie Goodwin. Weird Heroes contains the first American book illustration work by award-winning Spanish artist Esteban Maroto. Jim Steranko and Neal Adams, two titans of the modern graphic story field, appear for the first time under the same cover in Volume 2. Tom Sutton, an unsung hero of the comics with a comedic style that blends Kurtzman, Elder, and Eisner, also makes his book debut with five plates for “Showdown at Shootout.”
Author : Curtis Steele
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809511282
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Operator #5 written by Curtis Steele and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ZOMBIES MARCHED . . . soulless storm troops of a sinister madman's plot. Freedom was in mortal peril - as was Jimmy Christopher, Operator 5 of the nation's spy service, battling the bloody tide that swirled on land and sea. Into Death's Temple Jimmy rushed headlong . . . where the archfiend awaited, eager to sacrifice him on the bloody altar of tyranny . . . and resurrect him as a mindless recruit in . . . THE ARMY OF THE DEAD!
Author : R. Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809519003
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Xenograffiti written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new retrospective collection spanning almost forty years, Pilgrim Award- and Collector's Award-winning fantasy novelist, critic, and bibliographer Robert Reginald contributes forty-five essays on writers of fantastic literature, including such major and minor figures as: Piers Anthony, Edwin Lester Arnold, Margaret Atwood, John Kendrick Bangs, Leslie Barringer, John Bellairs, Arthur Byron Cover, Lindsey Davis, Alexander de Comeau, Daphne du Maurier, R. Lionel Fanthorpe, H. Rider Haggard, Charlotte Haldane, Edward Heron-Allen, Eleanor M. Ingram, Vernon Knowles, Katherine Kurtz, Andrew Lang, Fritz Leiber, Bruce McAllister, Ward Moore, Robert Nathan, Sir Henry Newbolt, William F. Nolan, John Norman, Keith Roberts, Michael Reaves, Brian Stableford, and George Zebrowski. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography and history of the publications of Starmont House, Inc., and FAX Collector's Editions, a selection of reviews and obituaries, a bibliography, and detailed index. This unique literary collection will prove of interest both to students and researchers alike. This second edition features fifteen new pieces, including the author's earliest published critique (1968), and a number of original autobiographical reflections on his life and career penned shortly after his heart attack in 2003.
Author : R. Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0941028763
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Author : Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879722388
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Hero in Transition written by Ray Broadus Browne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of society's heroes during any time period will reveal the personnel deemed worthy of being emulated at that particular time by that particular society. There will be many old and time-tested figures, sometimes with new faces and new profiles; there will also be a mix of new faces. Thus the hero--like history itself--is constantly in transition, and both the hero and the transition are fundamental to the study of a culture. These essays turn the pantheon of heroes around before our eyes and reveal the many complicated aspects of hero worship.
Author : Curtis Steele
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 143443060X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Operator #5 written by Curtis Steele and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Christopher leads a double life as Operative #5, a secret government agent authorized to act with impunity against the United States' enemies. In the first story in the series, Jimmy Christopher faces off against the Masked Empire, an organization that threatens the very existance of the United States with a super-weapon capable of plunging an entire region into total darkness -- with no ability to use electrical machinery!
Author : Vicki Anderson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786483024
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Dime Novel in Children's Literature written by Vicki Anderson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their rakish characters, sensationalist plots, improbable adventures and objectionable language (like swell and golly), dime novels in their heyday were widely considered a threat to the morals of impressionable youth. Roundly criticized by church leaders and educators of the time, these short, quick-moving, pocket-sized publications were also, inevitably, wildly popular with readers of all ages. This work looks at the evolution of the dime novel and at the authors, publishers, illustrators, and subject matter of the genre. Also discussed are related types of children's literature, such as story papers, chapbooks, broadsides, serial books, pulp magazines, comic books and today's paperback books. The author shows how these works reveal much about early American life and thought and how they reflect cultural nationalism through their ideological teachings in personal morality and ethics, humanitarian reform and political thought. Overall, this book is a thoughtful consideration of the dime novel's contribution to the genre of children's literature. Eight appendices provide a wealth of information, offering an annotated bibliography of dime novels and listing series books, story paper periodicals, characters, authors and their pseudonyms, and more. A reference section, index and illustrations are all included.
Author : Frank M. Robinson
Publisher : Collectors Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1888054123
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Pulp Culture written by Frank M. Robinson and published by Collectors Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulp fiction' s lurid adventures were vividly reflected on the magazines' eye-catching covers. Hard-boiled dames, bizarre monsters, dicks and ' tecs, sinister villains, and muscled warriors all appeared each month to tempt readers out of their hard-earned dimes. This gorgeous full-color compilation features hundreds of the genre' s most thrilling covers and includes an index. Taken collectively, they provide a dazzling panorama of some 60 years of illustration and social commentary.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349813664
Total Pages : 1585 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-25 with total page 1585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
