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Fighting for the Cause

Author : Tim Horgan
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781175624
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for the Cause written by Tim Horgan and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold stories of some of the men and women of Co. Kerry who gave their all in Ireland's fight for independence.In Fighting for the Cause well-known Kerry historian Dr Tim Horgan tells the stories of some of the Kingdom's extraordinary men and women who fought for an Irish Republic. They include the Fenian Jerry O'Sullivan, who blew up a wall of Clerkenwell prison in 1867 in an attempt to free two prisoners; Bridget Gleeson and Nora Brosnan, who were both incarcerated for their Republican activities; John Cronin, whose attacks on the British forces in 1920 were so audacious that he was considered a maverick by his own brigade commanders; Pat Allman, who was hidden above the Gap of Dunloe to recover from bullet wounds sustained in a fight with Free State forces; Paddy Landers, who spent nine months in Limerick Gaol, from where he would attempt to broker peace during the Civil War; and David Fleming, whose sustained hunger strikes in the 1940s would destroy his health and lead to long-term psychological trauma.

A Cause Worth Fighting For

Author : Charles H. Stephens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935752332
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book A Cause Worth Fighting For written by Charles H. Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These memories and deeds document what ordinary American citizens went through to prepare for a not-so-ordinary challenge--saving the world from conquest and catastrophe. This is a book about war. There is little on these pages about heartwarming events, human interest, or the warm fuzzy problems of interpersonal relationships. Although, there is a love story buried in these pages that you will certainly recognize. This book is more about the gore and destruction that follows in the wake of conquering armies. There is nothing here about the moral lessons learned from winning or losing battles in a world war, nor about the preservation, revitalization, and reaffirmation of human dignity lost in a war but regained after hostilities are over. Instead, this story traces memories, events, and military units of the Third United States Army that defeated the Nazi forces of Adolph Hitler from D-Day in 1944 through the end of the Battle of the Bulge in 1945. This is a story about fine American leaders and war heroes who rose to the challenge of the times. A few of them, such as General George S. Patton Jr. were military visionaries. This is about those of us who served under General George S. Patton Jr. Please read these words and don't ever let this happen again.

Lincoln's Ethics

Author : Thomas L. Carson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107030145
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln's Ethics written by Thomas L. Carson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lincoln is generally regarded as a very morally virtuous person. Lincoln's Ethics addresses the question of whether Lincoln deserves this reputation.

The Cause

Author : Eric Alterman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143121642
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Cause written by Eric Alterman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major history of American liberalism and the key personalities behind the movement Why is it that nearly every liberal initiative since the end of the New Deal—whether busing, urban development, affirmative action, welfare, gun control, or Roe v. Wade—has fallen victim to its grand aspirations, often exacerbating the very problem it seeks to solve? In this groundbreaking work, the first full treatment of modern liberalism in the United States, bestselling journalist and historian Eric Alterman together with Kevin Mattson present a comprehensive history of this proud, yet frequently maligned tradition. In The Cause, we meet the politicians, preachers, intellectuals, artists, and activists—from Eleanor Roosevelt to Barack Obama, Adlai Stevenson to Hubert Humphrey, and Billie Holiday to Bruce Springsteen—who have battled for the heart and soul of the nation.

Ends of War

Author : Caroline E. Janney
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469663384
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Ends of War written by Caroline E. Janney and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands of wounded and exhausted men fell out of the ranks. When word spread that Lee planned to surrender, most remaining troops stacked their arms and accepted paroles allowing them to return home, even as they lamented the loss of their country and cause. But others broke south and west, hoping to continue the fight. Fearing a guerrilla war, Grant extended the generous Appomattox terms to every rebel who would surrender himself. Provost marshals fanned out across Virginia and beyond, seeking nearly 18,000 of Lee's men who had yet to surrender. But the shock of Lincoln's assassination led Northern authorities to see threats of new rebellion in every rail depot and harbor where Confederates gathered for transport, even among those already paroled. While Federal troops struggled to keep order and sustain a fragile peace, their newly surrendered adversaries seethed with anger and confusion at the sight of Union troops occupying their towns and former slaves celebrating freedom. In this dramatic new history of the weeks and months after Appomattox, Caroline E. Janney reveals that Lee's surrender was less an ending than the start of an interregnum marked by military and political uncertainty, legal and logistical confusion, and continued outbursts of violence. Janney takes readers from the deliberations of government and military authorities to the ground-level experiences of common soldiers. Ultimately, what unfolds is the messy birth narrative of the Lost Cause, laying the groundwork for the defiant resilience of rebellion in the years that followed.

Fighting for Citizenship

Author : Brian Taylor
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469659786
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for Citizenship written by Brian Taylor and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War–era African Americans recognized the urgency of a core political concern: how best to use the opportunity presented by this conflict over slavery to win abolition and secure enduring black rights, goals that had eluded earlier generations of black veterans. Some, like Frederick Douglass, urged immediate enlistment to support the cause of emancipation, hoping that a Northern victory would bring about the end of slavery. But others counseled patience and negotiation, drawing on a historical memory of unfulfilled promises for black military service in previous American wars and encouraging black men to leverage their position to demand abolition and equal citizenship. In doing this, they also began redefining what it meant to be a black man who fights for the United States. These debates over African Americans' enlistment expose a formative moment in the development of American citizenship: black Northerners' key demand was that military service earn full American citizenship, a term that had no precise definition prior to the Fourteenth Amendment. In articulating this demand, Taylor argues, black Northerners participated in the remaking of American citizenship itself—unquestionably one of the war's most important results.

Still Fighting the Civil War

Author : David Goldfield
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080715217X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Still Fighting the Civil War written by David Goldfield and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a probing book about the hold of the past, experienced largely as heritage and memory and not as historical understanding, on a whole region and people. Goldfield treats the Lost Cause with unblinking directness.... its main strength: the stress on the weight of memory and its enduring links to white supremacy." -- David W. Blight, Southern Cultures "Drawing on a wide range of sources as well as contemporary reporting, this deftly written historical analysis takes on a difficult topic with passion, sensitivity, and integrity." -- Publishers Weekly In the updated edition of his sweeping narrative on southern history, David Goldfield brings this extensive study into the present with a timely assessment of the unresolved issues surrounding the Civil War's sesquicentennial commemoration. Traversing a hundred and fifty years of memory, Goldfield confronts the remnants of the American Civil War that survive in the hearts of many of the South's residents and in the national news headlines of battle flags, racial injustice, and religious conflicts. Goldfield candidly discusses how and why white southern men fashioned the myths of the Lost Cause and Redemption out of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and how they shaped a religion to canonize the heroes and deify the events of those fateful years. He also recounts how groups of blacks and white women eventually crafted a different, more inclusive version of southern history and how that new vision competed with more traditional perspectives. The battle for southern history, and for the South, continues -- in museums, public spaces, books, state legislatures, and the minds of southerners. Given the region's growing economic power and political influence, understanding this struggle takes on national significance. Through an analysis of ideas of history and memory, religion, race, and gender, Still Fighting the Civil War provides us with a better understanding of the South and one another.

Stop Fighting Cancer and Start Treating the Cause

Author : Kevin Conners
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Stop Fighting Cancer and Start Treating the Cause written by Kevin Conners and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3rd Edition - Twice the content as the original! An eye-opening exposé on modern vs. alternative cancer treatments. Dr. Kevin Conners of Conners Clinic approaches sickness from an integrative perspective, blending holistic and modern practices, to help people's bodies move towards health and healing, especially as it relates to cancer. Cancer is a very scary word; but it doesn't have to be. Conventional approaches are aimed at de-bulking a growing cancer, never addressing what drives it. Why do I have cancer? Is there a cause that needs to be addressed? This book will help answer these questions and give hope for those dealing with a cancer diagnosis, beyond standard medical approaches, using holistic, natural, alternative cancer practices. Dr. Kevin Conners does not treat cancer; he treats the cause. Focusing on what creates dis-ease in your body will allow you to empower your immune system to do what it was designed to do: kill! Cancer cells, bacteria, viruses, all these are constantly battling your immune system. Through proper detoxification you are able remove dangerous toxins from your body. However, if you have genetic defects on select detox pathways you have these biotoxins/chemotoxins/etc. creating a homestead in your cells. This is the beginning of sickness and disease. In this expanded edition you will get information on many non-toxic nutraceuticals (herbs, vitamins, supplements) such as Medicinal Mushrooms, Enzyme Therapy, Gerson Therapy and Coffee Enemas, Bloodroot products, Cannabis (CBD, THC), Turmeric and Curcumin, Essiac Tea, Laetrile, IP-6, Hoxsey, Protocel, Budwig Diet, Fenbendazole, and tons more!

Dying for the Cause: Kerry's Republican Dead

Author : Tim Horgan
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178117279X
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Dying for the Cause: Kerry's Republican Dead written by Tim Horgan and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the lives and deaths of 162 Kerrymen who died for the ideal of an independent Irish republic of 32 counties. Many were killed in action but others were executed or died while in captivity as a result of brutality or neglect. In telling their stories Tim Horgan has provided an intriguing social history of the county and a snapshot of life in Ireland. They range from the story of Thomas Ashe whose funeral was attended by over 100,000 people to that of seventeen year old Tom Moriarty who was buried secretly by his comrades. They include people like the First World War marksman, Con Healy, who though dying of tuberculosis went on to become a hero fighting for his own country and the contrasting stories of Patrick Lynch who was shot dead at his doorstep and of Tim O'Sullivan who was executed in faraway Donegal, though they were born in neighbouring parishes in South Kerry. This book will certainly be a collectors item and will make a wonderful gift for anyone with Kerry connections.

Fighting Their Own Battles

Author : Brian D. Behnken
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807834785
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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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

Freedom Fighters

Author : Anne Williams
Publisher : Canary Press eBooks
ISBN 13 : 1907795723
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Fighters written by Anne Williams and published by Canary Press eBooks. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the course of history, freedom fighters have been many and varied as have the motivations and the successes of the revolutions they attempted and inspired. Whether their beliefs were correct or misplaced, the courage to fight for the cause has always been the common denominator. They stood alone frequently in the face of enormous adversity and attempted to change the face of the world around them. Freedom Fighters is a record of inspirational, courageous, determined, and sometimes very dangerous people, and the places they secured for themselves in history. Contents: Ancient Freedom Fighters including Spartacus, Jesus, Boudicca Medieval Freedom Fighters including Robin Hood, William Tell, Joan of Arc Early Freedom Fighters including Martin Luther, Walter Raleigh, Simon Bolivar, Karl Marx Modern Freedom Fighters including The Suffragettes, Russian Revolution, Gandhi, Castro, Mandela

On War

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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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:

What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other

Author : Wen Stephenson
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807088412
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other written by Wen Stephenson and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent, on-the-ground look at some of the “new American radicals” who have laid everything on the line to build a stronger climate justice movement The science is clear: catastrophic climate change, by any humane definition, is upon us. At the same time, the fossil-fuel industry has doubled down, economically and politically, on business as usual. We face an unprecedented situation—a radical situation. As an individual of conscience, how will you respond? In 2010, journalist Wen Stephenson woke up to the true scale and urgency of the catastrophe bearing down on humanity, starting with the poorest and most vulnerable everywhere, and confronted what he calls “the spiritual crisis at the heart of the climate crisis.” Inspired by others who refused to retreat into various forms of denial and fatalism, he walked away from his career in mainstream media and became an activist, joining those working to build a transformative movement for climate justice in America. In What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other, Stephenson tells his own story and offers an up-close, on-the-ground look at some of the remarkable and courageous people—those he calls “new American radicals”—who have laid everything on the line to build and inspire this fast-growing movement: old-school environmentalists and young climate-justice organizers, frontline community leaders and Texas tar-sands blockaders, Quakers and college students, evangelicals and Occupiers. Most important, Stephenson pushes beyond easy labels to understand who these people really are, what drives them, and what they’re ultimately fighting for. He argues that the movement is less like environmentalism as we know it and more like the great human-rights and social-justice struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from abolitionism to civil rights. It’s a movement for human solidarity. This is a fiercely urgent and profoundly spiritual journey into the climate-justice movement at a critical moment—in search of what climate justice, at this late hour, might yet mean.

Fighting for Status

Author : Jonathan Renshon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400885345
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for Status written by Jonathan Renshon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is widespread agreement that status or standing in the international system is a critical element in world politics. The desire for status is recognized as a key factor in nuclear proliferation, the rise of China, and other contemporary foreign policy issues, and has long been implicated in foundational theories of international relations and foreign policy. Despite the consensus that status matters, we lack a basic understanding of status dynamics in international politics. The first book to comprehensively examine this subject, Fighting for Status presents a theory of status dissatisfaction that delves into the nature of prestige in international conflicts and specifies why states want status and how they get it. What actions do status concerns trigger, and what strategies do states use to maximize or salvage their standing? When does status matter, and under what circumstances do concerns over relative position overshadow the myriad other concerns that leaders face? In examining these questions, Jonathan Renshon moves beyond a focus on major powers and shows how different states construct status communities of peer competitors that shift over time as states move up or down, or out, of various groups. Combining innovative network-based statistical analysis, historical case studies, and a lab experiment that uses a sample of real-world political and military leaders, Fighting for Status provides a compelling look at the causes and consequences of status on the global stage.

Fighting Means Killing

Author : Jonathan M. Steplyk
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700631860
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Fighting Means Killing written by Jonathan M. Steplyk and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “War means fighting, and fighting means killing,” Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest famously declared. The Civil War was fundamentally a matter of Americans killing Americans. This undeniable reality is what Jonathan Steplyk explores in Fighting Means Killing, the first book-length study of Union and Confederate soldiers’ attitudes toward, and experiences of, killing in the Civil War. Drawing upon letters, diaries, and postwar reminiscences, Steplyk examines what soldiers and veterans thought about killing before, during, and after the war. How did these soldiers view sharpshooters? How about hand-to-hand combat? What language did they use to describe killing in combat? What cultural and societal factors influenced their attitudes? And what was the impact of race in battlefield atrocities and bitter clashes between white Confederates and black Federals? These are the questions that Steplyk seeks to answer in Fighting Means Killing, a work that bridges the gap between military and social history—and that shifts the focus on the tragedy of the Civil War from fighting and dying for cause and country to fighting and killing.

Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction

Author : Eban S. Goodstein
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656579
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction written by Eban S. Goodstein and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call for political action to save the natural world

Fighting Words

Author : Hector Avalos
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615921958
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Fighting Words written by Hector Avalos and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is religion inherently violent? If not, what provokes violence in the name of religion? Do we mischaracterize religion by focusing too much on its violent side?In this intriguing, original study of religious violence, Prof. Hector Avalos offers a new theory for the role of religion in violent conflicts. Starting with the premise that most violence is the result of real or perceived scare resources, Avalos persuasively argues that religion creates new scarcities on the basis of unverifiable or illusory criteria. Through a careful analysis of the fundamental texts of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism, Dr. Avalos explains how four scarce resources have figured repeatedly in creating religious violence: sacred space (e.g., the perception by three world religions that Jerusalem is sacred); the creation of holy scriptures (believed to be privileged revelations of God's will); group privilege (stemming from such beliefs as a chosen people or predestination, which also creates a group of outsiders); and salvation (by which concept some are accepted and others rejected). Thus, Avalos shows, religious violence is often the most unnecessary violence of all since the scarce resources over which religious conflicts ensue are not actually scare or need not be scarce.Comparing violence in religious and nonreligious contexts, Avalos makes the compelling argument that if we condemn violence caused by scarce resources as morally objectionable, then we must consider even more objectionable violence provoked by alleged scarcities that cannot be proven to exist. He also examines the Nazi Holocaust and the Stalinist Terror, which have been attributed to the pernicious effects of atheism or secular humanism. By contrast, Avalos pinpoints underlying religious factors as the cause of these horrific instances of genocidal violence.This serious philosophical examination of the roots of religious violence adds much to our understanding of a perennial source of widespread human suffering.Hector Avalos (Ames, IA) is associate professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University, the author of five books on biblical studies and religion, the former editor of the Journal for the Critical Study of Religion, and executive director of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion.