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Chasing Barrett’S Fifty

Author : Anthony W. Parran
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426947240
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Chasing Barrett’S Fifty written by Anthony W. Parran and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An air force general, his FBI agent wife, and a federal marshal celebrate in the courtroom as forty years of work to bring down a drug-smuggling ring culminates with the sentencing of former Inspector General Mathius Peterson. Little does the group know that a plot is being created to restore General Petersons name and, even more alarming, to seek revenge for the humiliating comeuppance served to General Peterson. A sniper team known for their accuracy is sent after General Richard Washingtoncall sign Hannibaland his wife Cynthia Ng. The snipers make a crucial mistake and murder two innocent bystanders, leaving two children orphaned. The victims are pals of Hannibals best friends, JT and Pamela Travis. As JT and Hannibal become the hunted, plans are drawn to lure them into a trap. Forced into drastic action to save their lives, the pair of them must learn how to use a weapon of terror. Unfortunately, sometimes plans fail. In this gripping thriller that takes unexpected twists and turns from Indiana to British Columbia to Massachusetts, a body is lost, and everyone must hang on to the simple belief of a child to ensure all hope for a peaceful future is not lost as well.

Hal Chase

Author : Martin Donell Kohout
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786450436
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Hal Chase written by Martin Donell Kohout and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hal Chase is considered by many to be one of the best first basemen ever to play the game of baseball. He was able to make the routine look spectacular, the spectacular look routine. But Chase will never have his plaque in Cooperstown because he has gone down in history as the biggest crook in baseball. Chase was repeatedly accused of throwing games, bribing players, betting against his own team, and various other crimes, yet with his relaxed nature he always managed to get off the hook for his misdeeds by working his charm. His major league career lasted from 1905 to 1919, and by the mid-1930s he was a destitute alcoholic living off friends. The last fifteen years of Chase's life saw him hospitalized repeatedly for a variety of ailments, living off a sister and brother-in-law who loathed him. This work traces the turbulent life and times of Hal Chase from his humble beginnings to his sad end.

Chasing Gideon

Author : Karen Houppert
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595588698
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Chasing Gideon written by Karen Houppert and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 18, 1963, in one of its most significant legal decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that all defendants facing significant jail time have the constitutional right to a free attorney if they cannot afford their own. Fifty years later, 80 percent of criminal defendants are served by public defenders. In a book that combines the sweep of history with the intimate details of individual lives and legal cases, veteran reporter Karen Houppert movingly chronicles the stories of people in all parts of the country who have relied on Gideon’s promise. There is the harrowing saga of a young man who is charged with involuntary vehicular homicide in Washington State, where overextended public defenders juggle impossible caseloads, forcing his defender to go to court to protect her own right to provide an adequate defense. In Florida, Houppert describes a public defender’s office, loaded with upward of seven hundred cases per attorney, and discovers the degree to which Clarence Earl Gideon’s promise is still unrealized. In New Orleans, she follows the case of a man imprisoned for twenty-seven years for a crime he didn’t commit, finding a public defense system already near collapse before Katrina and chronicling the harrowing months after the storm, during which overworked volunteers and students struggled to get the system working again. In Georgia, Houppert finds a mentally disabled man who is to be executed for murder, despite the best efforts of a dedicated but severely overworked and underfunded capital defender. Half a century after Anthony Lewis’s award-winning Gideon’s Trumpet brought us the story of the court case that changed the American justice system, Chasing Gideon is a crucial book that provides essential reckoning of our attempts to implement this fundamental constitutional right.

A Franchise on the Rise

Author : Dom Amore
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1613219482
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book A Franchise on the Rise written by Dom Amore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 marks 115 years since the inception of the New York Yankees--and what a 115-year period it's been! But how did the team that has since won a league-leading 27 world championships get started? In A Franchise on the Rise, veteran sportswriter Dom Amore takes readers back in time to the first twenty years of the team's existence, from 1903 to 1923, focusing on all the major players and events, including their first ten years as the Highlanders, their move to Yankee Stadium, and their subsequent first World Series in 1923. In doing so, Amore successfully finds the characters' own voices and thereby vividly reconstructs events of more than a century ago. He recounts the snowy night Honus Wagner was offered twenty crisp $1,000 bills to join the new franchise in New York; the story behind the holes punched in the outfield fence that facilitated the stealing of signs in 1909; and why the team thought it may have had the next big superstar in a college football end named George Halas. This is a tale about the business of baseball as it was done at the time and, in many ways, as it still must be done. There was no secret to building a winning organization. It took money and luck, but it also took a group of people working as a team, each allowed to do his job and each doing it superbly.

The Chase Chronicle

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Chase Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Guide to the Turf

Author : Ruff William
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Guide to the Turf written by Ruff William and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Salmon P. Chase

Author : John Niven
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195364384
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Salmon P. Chase written by John Niven and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-09 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end slavery, a brilliant administrator who as Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury provided crucial funding for a vastly expensive war, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the turmoil of Reconstruction, and the presiding officer of the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Yet he was also a complex figure. As John Niven reveals in this magisterial biography, Chase was a paradoxical blend of idealism and ambition. If he stood for the highest moral purposes--the freedom and equality of all mankind--these lofty ideas failed to mask a thirst for power so deeply ingrained in his character that it drove away many who shared his principles, but mistrusted his motives. Niven provides a vivid description of Chase's early years--his childhood in New Hampshire (where his father's failed business venture and early death left the family all but destitute) and in Ohio (where he was sent to live with his uncle Philander, an Episcopal bishop), his education at Dartmouth, and his early law career in Cincinnati. Niven shows how the plight of the slaves stirred this reticent young lawyer, and how Chase gradually moved to the forefront of the antislavery movement. At the same time, we see how he used his growing prominence in the antislavery movement to forward his political ambitions. Niven illuminates Chase's long tenure as a public man. Twice elected United States Senator, twice chosen governor of Ohio (then the third most populous state in the Union), Chase organized the widespread but diffuse anti-slavery movement into a workable political organization, the Free Soil party (whose slogan "Free Soil, Free Labor, Freemen" Chase coined himself). We read of Chase's work in Lincoln's war cabinet and his tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and we also follow his many political maneuvers, his attempts to undercut rivals, and his poorly run campaigns for presidential nominations. Niven also provides an intimate portrait of Chase's family life--his loss of three wives and four of his six children, and the unfortunate marriage of his beautiful daughter Kate to a rich but dissolute man--and a vivid picture of life at mid-century. What emerges is a portrait of a tragic figure, whose high qualities of heart and mind and whose many achievements were ultimately tarnished by an often unseemly quest for power. It is a striking look at an eminent statesman as well as a revealing glimpse into political life in 19th-century America, all set against a background of the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War, and the turmoil of Reconstruction.

Salmon P. Chase

Author : Frederick J. Blue
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873383400
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Salmon P. Chase written by Frederick J. Blue and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chase wanted so much to make a name for himself in American politics that early in his career he considered changing his 'fishy' appellation to the more important sounding Spencer Paynce Cheyce. That alteration never came about, but even without a fancy name, the New England-born, Ohio-bred attorney devoted his life to public service at many levels of government. Chase served as Free-Soil Senator from Ohio, as Governor of that pivotal Midwestern state, as Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln, and as Chief Justice of the United States, although he never realized his primary ambition--the presidency. Complex, overly ambitious, and deeply religious, Chase perhaps undermined his presidential hopes partly by his strong antislavery stance, but primarily by his failure to organize systematically his drive for national office. Chase worked hard for the rights of fugitive slaves and became prominent in the antislavery movement and in the establishment of the Liberty and Free-Soil parties, but he was often accused of being concerned only with his personal advancement. Frederick Blue has done extensive research among Chase's voluminous and often hard-to-read correspondence, and has incorporated pertinent collateral primary and secondary sources as well, to produce the first modern biography of this key Civil War era personality."--book jacket.

The New Age Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The New Age Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hunting the Jackal

Author : Billy Waugh
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062133578
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Hunting the Jackal written by Billy Waugh and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning more than five decades, here is a riveting true account of fighting America’s enemies around the world—told by the soldier/operative who was there I am not a hero. Billy Waugh has lurked in the shadows and on the periphery of many of the most significant events of the past half-century on active duty with U.S. Army Special Forces and the CIA fighting enemies of the United States. In Hunting the Jackal, this legendary warrior reveals the extraordinary events of his life and career, offering a point-by-point eyewitness account of the historical events in which he participated. Serving in Korea and Vietnam, Waugh was among the first Green Berets in 1963. He has helped train Libyan commandos in the Sahara Desert, while spying on Russian missile sites in Benghazi, and has worked against Caribbean drug runners. He was the first CIA operative to watch Osama Bin Laden in Khartoum “from a spot close enough to kill him had I been allowed,” and tracked him over the course of two years. In 1994 he found the notorious Carlos the Jackal in Sudan, and tailed him until he was captured—a story that until now has never been told. And, just last year, at age 72, Waugh was on the ground in Afghanistan with a joint SpecForces/CIA unit. This is his remarkable true story.

Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate, of the Legislative Assembly of Oregon

Author : Oregon. Legislative Assembly. Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate, of the Legislative Assembly of Oregon written by Oregon. Legislative Assembly. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of the Senate of the ... Regular Session, of the Legislative Assembly of Oregon

Author : Oregon. Legislative Assembly. Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Senate of the ... Regular Session, of the Legislative Assembly of Oregon written by Oregon. Legislative Assembly. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fortune, Fame, and Desire

Author : Sharon Hartman Strom
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144227266X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Fortune, Fame, and Desire written by Sharon Hartman Strom and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a widening set of opportunities in the public sphere opened up for ambitious men and women in the loosely structured stratum of “the middle class.” Much of the attention to the marketplace between 1820 and 1910 has described entrepreneurship and the beginnings of a more sophisticated economy, but not much has been paid to the commodification of the self. This book sets out to explore the promotion of the self in the rapidly growing economy and political flux of the nineteenth century. Its geography extends through New England, New York, the new states of the Midwest, and the great cities of the Mid-Atlantic, with an occasional trip to New Orleans, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The approach is biographical, using representative middle class figures to illuminate cultural and social history. Aided by more cheaply produced print and the clamor of the American public for entertainment both high and low brow, the figures described in this book strove for fame, sometimes achieved good fortune, and acted out desires for sexual pleasure, political success, and achieving the ideal in society. In doing so they questioned and rearranged the ideas of the early Republic. Poised between the dying class structure of the late eighteenth century and the rise of a more hierarchical one in the early twentieth, they took advantage of a society in flux to make their mark on American culture.

Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania

Author : John Woolf Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania written by John Woolf Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Allegheny River flows through the counties of Allegheny, Westmoreland, Armstrong, Clarion, Venango, Forest, and Warren.

Stone Ponies

Author : Ronald Paxton
Publisher : Rogue Phoenix Press
ISBN 13 : 162420371X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book Stone Ponies written by Ronald Paxton and published by Rogue Phoenix Press. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A threatening letter in the mail shatters the fragile tranquility of John Howard’s world. The note is unsigned, but the meaning is clear. Howdy Doody is out of prison and gunning for the man he blames for ruining his life. John was the one who caught Doody cheating at a major rodeo event and got him kicked off the national circuit. He was also the one who hired and then fired the disgraced cowboy when he caught him stealing from the Wild Pony Ranch cash box. Fifteen long years have passed, and now Doody was back. When a trusted employee is murdered John knows it’s time for him to find and stop the former rodeo cowboy or die trying.

Good-Bye Stacey, Good-Bye: Classic Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club #13)

Author : Ann M. Martin
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545533880
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Good-Bye Stacey, Good-Bye: Classic Edition (The Baby-Sitters Club #13) written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters! Oh no! Stacey McGill is moving back to New York! That means no more Stoneybrook Middle School, no more Charlotte Johanssen, and worst of all . . . no more Baby-sitters Club!Claudia is crushed that her best friend is moving away. How will the BSC cope without Stacey? What kind of going-away present is good enough for someone as special as she is? And now . . . who could fill her shoes as the next member of the Baby-sitters Club?The best friends you'll ever have--with classic BSC covers and a letter from Ann M. Martin!

The New York Intellectuals

Author : Hugh Wilford
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719039881
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The New York Intellectuals written by Hugh Wilford and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructs the history of a group of thinkers and activists including Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, and Lionel Trilling--collectively known as the New York Intellectuals--during the period of their greatest influence, the 1940s and 1950s. While defending the group against charges that they "sold out", the author analyzes the contradictions between their avant-garde principles and the institutional locations they came to occupy. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR