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Because Our Fathers Lied

Author : Craig McNamara
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316282448
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Because Our Fathers Lied written by Craig McNamara and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unforgettable father and son story confronts the legacy of the Vietnam War across two generations: “an important book that should be read by every American” (Ron Kovic, Vietnam Veteran and author of Born on the Fourth of July). Craig McNamara came of age in the political tumult and upheaval of the late 60s. While Craig McNamara would grow up to take part in anti-war demonstrations, his father, Robert McNamara, served as John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Defense and the architect of the Vietnam War. This searching and revealing memoir offers an intimate picture of one father and son at pivotal periods in American history. Because Our Fathers Lied is more than a family story—it is a story about America. Before Robert McNamara joined Kennedy's cabinet, he was an executive who helped turn around Ford Motor Company. Known for his tremendous competence and professionalism, McNamara came to symbolize "the best and the brightest." Craig, his youngest child and only son, struggled in his father's shadow. When he ultimately fails his draft board physical, Craig decides to travel by motorcycle across Central and South America, learning more about the art of agriculture and making what he defines as an honest living. By the book's conclusion, Craig McNamara is farming walnuts in Northern California and coming to terms with his father's legacy. Because Our Fathers Lied tells the story of the war from the perspective of a single, unforgettable American family.

Because Our Fathers Lied

Author : Paul Hendrickson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525562397
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Because Our Fathers Lied written by Paul Hendrickson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert S. McNamara was the official face of Vietnam, the technocrat with steel-rimmed glasses and an ironclad faith in numbers who kept insisting that the war was winnable long after he had ceased to believe it was. In his insightful, morally devastating book, The Living and the Dead, Paul Hendrickson juxtaposes Robert S. McNamara's story with those of a wounded Marine, an Army nurse, a Vietnamese refugee, a Quaker who burned himself to death to protest the war, and an enraged artist who tried to kill the man he saw as the war's architect. This is the brilliant, emotional coda where, in meticulous yet compassionate prose, Hendrickson captures his chase after the story of the man and the haunted years of McNamara’s life after Vietnam. A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.

Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945

Author : David G. Marr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520050819
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945 written by David G. Marr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984-02-03 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colonial setting -- Morality instruction -- Ethics and politics -- Language and literacy -- The questions of women -- Perceptions of the past -- Harmony and struggle -- Knowledge power -- Learning from experience -- Conclusion.

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Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Summary of Craig McNamara's Because Our Fathers Lied written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-02T22:59:00Z with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was 15 years old when I called my father from boarding school. He told me that he would have his secretary get on sending me antiwar material, but I never received it. I felt distant from my peers after that. #2 I had four and a half years of high school at Sidwell Friends School in Washington. It was a Quaker school, and the only organized religion that has ever made sense to me is the Quaker faith. At the end of eighth grade, one of my good friends disappeared and went to boarding school. #3 I was at St. Paul’s boarding school in 1964, and while I enjoyed the privileges of the school, I soon realized that they came with a price. #4 I had to go to therapy or be expelled from school. I was the son of Robert McNamara, who was considered one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. I suffered from test-taking anxiety, and the masters thought a shrink could cure it.

If

Author : Christopher Benfey
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735221448
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book If written by Christopher Benfey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming its youngest winner. His influence on major figures—including Freud and William James—was pervasive and profound. But in recent decades Kipling’s reputation has suffered a strange eclipse. Though his body of work still looms large, and his monumental poem “If—” is quoted and referenced by politicians, athletes, and ordinary readers alike, his unabashed imperialist views have come under increased scrutiny. In If, scholar Christopher Benfey brings this fascinating and complex writer to life and, for the first time, gives full attention to Kipling's intense engagement with the United States—a rarely discussed but critical piece of evidence in our understanding of this man and his enduring legacy. Benfey traces the writer’s deep involvement with America over one crucial decade, from 1889 to 1899, when he lived for four years in Brattleboro, Vermont, and sought deliberately to turn himself into a specifically American writer. It was his most prodigious and creative period, as well as his happiest, during which he wrote The Jungle Book and Captains Courageous. Had a family dispute not forced his departure, Kipling almost certainly would have stayed. Leaving was the hardest thing he ever had to do, Kipling said. “There are only two places in the world where I want to live,” he lamented, “Bombay and Brattleboro. And I can’t live in either.” In this fresh examination of Kipling, Benfey hangs a provocative “what if” over Kipling’s American years and maps the imprint Kipling left on his adopted country as well as the imprint the country left on him. If proves there is relevance and magnificence to be found in Kipling’s work.

When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds

Author : Peter Markus
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814348513
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds written by Peter Markus and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry.

Blundering Into Disaster

Author : Robert S. McNamara
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Blundering Into Disaster written by Robert S. McNamara and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT (copy 1): from the John Holmes Library collection.

First World War Poetry

Author : Jon Silkin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780141180090
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book First World War Poetry written by Jon Silkin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.

Nine and a Half Weeks

Author : Elizabeth McNeill
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062309994
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Nine and a Half Weeks written by Elizabeth McNeill and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic erotic memoir of an intense and haunting relationship that spawned the film. This is a love story so unusual, so passionate, and so extreme in its psychology and sexuality that it takes the reader’s breath away. Unlike The Story of O, Nine and a Half Weeks is not a novel or fantasy; it is a true account of an episode in the life of a real woman. Elizabeth McNeill was an executive for a large corporation when she began an affair with a man she met casually. From the beginning, their sexual excitement escalates through domination and humiliation. As the affair progresses, woman and man play out ever more dangerous and more elaborate sado-masochistic variations. By the end, she has relinquished all control over her body and mind. With a cool detachment that makes the experiences and sensations she describes all the more frightening in their intensity, Elizabeth McNeill beautifully unfolds her story and invites you to experience the mesmerizing, electrifying, and unforgettablly private world of Nine and a Half Weeks.

Their Fathers Lied

Author : James Thurbin
Publisher : Bright Pen
ISBN 13 : 9780755211975
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Their Fathers Lied written by James Thurbin and published by Bright Pen. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Do you remember Billy Mercer?' 'Now that is a name I have not heard in a long time. Yes, I remember Billy Mercer. There was a time when I thought of that man every single day.' He returned his gaze to his friend with a smile that held tenderness and a little regret. Billy Mercer, a man of indomitable spirit and character joins the Great War and witnesses the death of everyone he cares for, in battles of horrifying carnage, time and time again. Repeatedly promoted and decorated due to his fighting ability, Mercer finds more tragedy and approaches despair until the love of an attached woman almost saves him. Upon discovery he is sent back again to face his demons at the front line. Can his knack of surviving death hold out this final time? 'Their Fathers Lied' A novel on love and death during the Great War

Kipling's Choice

Author : Geert Spillebeen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618800352
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Kipling's Choice written by Geert Spillebeen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this moving historical novel examines the lost days of Rudyard Kipling's son, John who was killed in his first battle of World War I.

Clap When You Land

Author : Elizabeth Acevedo
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062882783
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Clap When You Land written by Elizabeth Acevedo and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives. Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people… In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other. Great for summer reading or anytime! Clap When You Land is a Today show pick for “25 children’s books your kids and teens won’t be able to put down this summer!" Plus don't miss Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X and With the Fire on High!

Renee's Poems with Wings Are Words in Flight

Author : Renee' Drummond-Brown
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490887938
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Renee's Poems with Wings Are Words in Flight written by Renee' Drummond-Brown and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renee’s Poems with Wings Are Words in Flight is a collection of poetic accounts designed to have colorblind justice, hear the truth, touch freedom, taste love, and smell the Rose of Sharon. This book is written with such conviction that it is sure to cleanse the soul, mend the broken heart, and ultimately transform one’s mind.

Family Man

Author : Scott Coltrane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195119096
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Family Man written by Scott Coltrane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More important, Coltrane suggests that as fathers participate more fully in raising their children and performing traditionally female household tasks, men will themselves be transformed by the experience in profoundly positive ways and American society as a whole will move closer to true gender equity.

Waging Peace in Vietnam

Author : Ron Carver
Publisher : New Village Press
ISBN 13 : 1613321082
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Waging Peace in Vietnam written by Ron Carver and published by New Village Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American soldiers opposed and resisted the war in Vietnam While mainstream narratives of the Vietnam War all but marginalize anti-war activity of soldiers, opposition and resistance from within the three branches of the military made a real difference to the course of America’s engagement in Vietnam. By 1968, every major peace march in the United States was led by active duty GIs and Vietnam War veterans. By 1970, thousands of active duty soldiers and marines were marching in protest in US cities. Hundreds of soldiers and marines in Vietnam were refusing to fight; tens of thousands were deserting to Canada, France and Sweden. Eventually the US Armed Forces were no longer able to sustain large-scale offensive operations and ceased to be effective. Yet this history is largely unknown and has been glossed over in much of the written and visual remembrances produced in recent years. Waging Peace in Vietnam shows how the GI movement unfolded, from the numerous anti-war coffee houses springing up outside military bases, to the hundreds of GI newspapers giving an independent voice to active soldiers, to the stockade revolts and the strikes and near-mutinies on naval vessels and in the air force. The book presents first-hand accounts, oral histories, and a wealth of underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photographs documenting the actions of GIs and veterans who took part in the resistance. In addition, the book features fourteen original essays by leading scholars and activists. Notable contributors include Vietnam War scholar and author, Christian Appy, and Mme Nguyen Thi Binh, who played a major role in the Paris Peace Accord. The book originates from the exhibition Waging Peace, which has been shown in Vietnam and the University of Notre Dame, and will be touring the eastern United States in conjunction with book launches in Boston, Amherst, and New York.

House of War

Author : James Carroll
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618872015
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book House of War written by James Carroll and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the Pentagon, the military, and their vast, frequently hidden influence on American life argues that the Pentagon has, since its inception, operated beyond the control of any force in government or society.

An East End Farewell

Author : Yvette Venables
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750541879
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book An East End Farewell written by Yvette Venables and published by . This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stan Cribb begins work aged just fourteen when, much to the reluctance of his father, he joins the family business as an apprentice undertaker. The young Stan is soon burying victims of London's Blitz. His fascinating and at times hilarious memoir describes the East End way of death during the Second World War and the years after, when horses worked in partnership with their owners and funeral rites hadn't changed much since Victorian times. Stan takes us through ups and downs of the trade, with all its quirks and characters, and gives us a tour that is both memorable and moving.