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Author : Alexander Cordell
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780297794851
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (948 download)
Download or read book Requiem for a Patriot written by Alexander Cordell and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1988 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David J. Oldman
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781980494515
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (945 download)
Download or read book Requiem For A Patriot written by David J. Oldman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: January 1947: the coldest winter in living memory. Harry Tennant has been recruited by SIS but is bored by the routine task he has been allotted of retrieving information from war-damaged files. So when he is asked to shadow Joseph Wolff, an Oxford academic, to the Suffolk coast he readily accepts the assignment. But Harry watches Wolff commit suicide and, unable to stop him, he then finds that no one at SIS is either surprised or curious as to why the man has killed himself. Back in London he is switched to a department investigating Zionist terrorism yet finds himself unable to forget Wolff. As Harry makes his own enquiries he begins to discover links between Wolff and a military operation the government would prefer to keep secret, links that - to his cost - lead back to the heart of SIS.
Author : Klaus Scholder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606081691
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A Requiem for Hitler written by Klaus Scholder and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Scholder's book is a major contribution to our understanding of Christianity under the Nazi regime, in some ways going beyond his definitive history of the German churches under the Third Reich. The volume paints a vivid picture of the problems of living under any kind of totalitarian regime, with a wealth of detailed evidence and insightful judgments. A few illustrations from the book:- After the news of Adolf Hitler's death, Cardinal Bertram of Breslau, the senior German prelate, drafted an order for a requiem mass to be said for Hitler throughout his churches. - Under the Hitler regime any resistance in both Protestant and Catholic churches came largely from individuals; officially the churches were interested above all in maintaining their status quo. - When Germany entered the Spanish Civil War, Hitler offered the churches support if they would join his battle against Bolshevism. Students, historians, and the general reader will be captivated by Scholder's perceptive and challenging interpretations of the churches in Western Europe prior to and during the Second World War, which still have relevance for us today.
Author : Timothy J. Minchin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 144222083X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Empty Mills written by Timothy J. Minchin and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-16 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the economy struggling, there has been much discussion about the effects of deindustrialization on American manufacturing. While the steel and auto industries have taken up most of the spotlight, the textile and apparel industries have been profoundly affected. In Empty Mills, Timothy Minchin provides the first book length study of how both industries have suffered since WWII and the unwavering efforts of industry supporters to prevent that decline. In 1985, the textile industry accounted for one in eight manufacturing jobs, and unlike the steel and auto industries, more than fifty percent of the workforce was women or minorities. In the last four decades over two million jobs have been lost in the textile and apparel industries alone as more and more of the manufacturing moves overseas. Impeccably well researched, providing information on both the history and current trends, Empty Mills will be of importance to anyone interested in economics, labor, the social historical, as well as the economic significance of the decline of one of America’s biggest industries.
Author : Jennifer Delton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691203342
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Industrialists written by Jennifer Delton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete history of US industry's most influential and controversial lobbyist Founded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers—NAM—helped make manufacturing the basis of the US economy and a major source of jobs in the twentieth century. The Industrialists traces the history of the advocacy group from its origins to today, examining its role in shaping modern capitalism, while also highlighting the many tensions and contradictions within the organization that sometimes hampered its mission. In this compelling book, Jennifer Delton argues that NAM—an organization best known for fighting unions, promoting "free enterprise," and defending corporate interests—was also surprisingly progressive. She shows how it encouraged companies to adopt innovations such as safety standards, workers' comp, and affirmative action, and worked with the US government and international organizations to promote the free exchange of goods and services across national borders. While NAM's modernizing and globalizing activities helped to make American industry the most profitable and productive in the world by midcentury, they also eventually led to deindustrialization, plant closings, and the decline of manufacturing jobs. Taking readers from the Progressive Era and the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution and the Trump presidency, The Industrialists is the story of a powerful organization that fought US manufacturing's political battles, created its economic infrastructure, and expanded its global markets—only to contribute to the widespread collapse of US manufacturing by the close of the twentieth century.
Author : Augustin Buzura
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Requiem for Fools and Beasts written by Augustin Buzura and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English edition of this celebrated novel by world-renowned Romanian writer Augustin Buzura paints a psychological portrait of rulers and the ruled under communism (the eponymous "fools" and "beasts"). A psychiatrist by training, Buzura offers poignant insights into the realities of life under communist rule.
Author : Arthur Kinglake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Patriot and the Hero written by Arthur Kinglake and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction written by and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc.
Author : George Whitney Martin
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879101725
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Aspects of Verdi written by George Whitney Martin and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays ranges widely among the composer's interests and achievements: from his religious views to his skill as a cook, from the politics that galvanized him to the poetry that inspired him, from his earliest compositions to his final masterwork, Falstaff, completed at the age of 80. Drawing on original research and scholarship, this book also contains two of Verdi's early works, never before published in this form; a translated collection of his letters, also heretofore unpublished; the text of the Requiem with indications of Verdi's emphases; and a directory of his operas with sources, casts, theatres, and premiere dates.
Author : Larry Schweikart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101217782
Total Pages : 1350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book A Patriot's History of the United States written by Larry Schweikart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-12-29 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.
Author : John Ganz
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374605459
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)
Download or read book When the Clock Broke written by John Ganz and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Terrific . . . Vibrant . . . When the Clock Broke is one of those rarest of books: unflaggingly entertaining while never losing sight of its moral core." —Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times "When the Clock Broke is leagues more insightful on the subject of Trump’s ascent than most writing that purports to address the issue directly." —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post "Lively and kaleidoscopic." —Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker "John Ganz is the most important young political writer of his generation—just the one our dark moment needs." —Rick Perlstein A revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era—and their dark legacy today. With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a “kinder, gentler America.” Instead, it was a period of rising anger and domestic turmoil, anticipating the polarization and resurgent extremism we know today. In When the Clock Broke, the acclaimed political writer John Ganz tells the story of America’s late-century discontents. Ranging from upheavals in Crown Heights and Los Angeles to the advent of David Duke and the heartland survivalists, the broadcasts of Rush Limbaugh, and the bitter disputes between neoconservatives and the “paleo-con” right, Ganz immerses us in a time when what Philip Roth called the “indigenous American berserk” took new and ever-wilder forms. In the 1992 campaign, Pat Buchanan's and Ross Perot’s insurgent populist bids upended the political establishment, all while Americans struggled through recession, alarm about racial and social change, the specter of a new power in Asia, and the end of Cold War–era political norms. Conspiracy theories surged, and intellectuals and activists strove to understand the “Middle American Radicals” whose alienation fueled new causes. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton appeared to forge a new, vital center, though it would not hold for long. In a rollicking, eye-opening book, Ganz narrates the fall of the Reagan order and the rise of a new and more turbulent America.
Author : Ingeborg Bachmann
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810127547
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann written by Ingeborg Bachmann and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two fragments of novels, Ingeborg Bachmann's only untranslated works of fiction, were intended to follow the widely acclaimed Malina in a cycle to be entitled Todesarten, or Ways of Dying. Although Bachmann died before completing them, The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann stand on their own, continuing Bachmann's tradition of using language to confront the disease plaguing human relationships. Through the tales of two women in postwar Austria, Bachmann explores the ways of dying inflicted upon the living from outside and from within, through history, politics, religion, family, gender relations, and the self.Bachmann's allegiance to the twin muses of memory and history, as well as her perception of fascism as not being limited to the context of the war but also existing within the intimate relations of everyday life between husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, psychiatrists and patients' are supremely evident in The Book of Franza. Here, Bachmann follows a woman who escapes from a sanitorium and, after years of silence, sends her brother a cryptic telegram. Rightly suspecting that she has fled her sadistic husband -- a renowned Austrian psychiatrist whose intimate relations have merged with his studies of concentration camps -- her brother finds her in their childhood home. Together they travel to Egypt, where Franza slowly begins to regain her bearings. But Franza's desire to cleanse herself by journeying into the heart of the desert's void ends in tragedy, as she becomes the victim of a horrible act of violence.Unlike Franza, who attempts to flee her past but fails, the heroine of Requiem for Fanny Goldmann makes no attempt to escape her history. Thisnovel tells of the demise of a Viennese actress who is manipulated by a younger, ambitious playwright to advance his career. Deception follows disloyalty; the final treachery comes when the playwright portrays her in a novel, which secures his fame and, in Fanny's eyes, robs her of her future. Caught in a perpetual stasis, Fanny suffers in total obscurity, as her present is stolen from her as well.Whether analyzing the place where the self begins and the power of history ends or the ways in which women are forced to be complicit in their mistreatment at the hands of men, Bachmann's critical approach to the human psyche is unparalleled. Mesmerizing and profound, The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann constitute the final evidence that Ingeborg Bachmann is the most important female German-language writer of the postwar period.
Author : Warren Trest
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1603064028
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Requiem for a Flower Child written by Warren Trest and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dying blues singer is murdered and private detective Jake Falcon, introduced in author Warren Trest's Missing in Paradise, goes all out to track down the killer and find the victim’s daughter, who seems not to exist. The search leads to the dregs of a black-market adoption ring that once flourished within the shadows of the segregated South. An underworld syndicate of hardened criminals (drug smugglers, human traffickers, murderers, and militant white supremacists), led by vicious, one-eyed Willie Abraham, stands in Falcon’s way and leaves a trail of dead bodies to deter him. Crime-busting former Governor John Patterson brings a powerful ally to Falcon’s side when he joins the battle to bring down Abraham’s army of thugs and rescue Falcon to fight another day.
Author : Henry Roth
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312202057
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Requiem for Harlem written by Henry Roth and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-12-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the concluding book in this extraordinary, four-volume spiritual and literary odyssey, Roth tells the psychologically lacerating story of Ira Stigman, a senior at City College, who falls in love with Edith Welles, NYU professor and muse of modern poets.
Author : William Strabala
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875861520
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Prophets Without Honor written by William Strabala and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of political protest grounded in historical necessity. It is the story of a group of American men who happen to be priests - who happen to have served decades in American prisons. It is a story about America; a story told before only in b.
Author : Barry Eisler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780399154263
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (542 download)
Download or read book Requiem for an Assassin written by Barry Eisler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackmailed by a rogue CIA operative to carry out three assassinations or see his best friend murdered, reluctant killer-for-hire John Rain struggles with numerous moral dilemmas as well as his growing certainty that the operative is hiding a more sinister agenda. 125,000 first printing.
Author : Sarah Conley Clayton
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865546226
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Requiem for a Lost City written by Sarah Conley Clayton and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Requiem for a Lost City shows us the reality of Civil War Atlanta from the eve of secession to the memorials for the fallen, through the memories of a participant. Sallie Clayton would have been the same age as the fictional Scarlett O'Hara during the Civil War. Sallie Clayton's memoirs, however, are not a work of fiction but bittersweet reminiscences of growing up in a doomed city in the midst of losing a war. Although her memoirs provide invaluable detail on Civil War Atlanta, they also tell of her personal experiences on a plantation in Montgomery, Alabama, and in postwar Augusta and Athens. Sallie Clayton belonged to one of Georgia's wealthiest and most prominent families. Her memoirs are colored by the losses suffered by her family. Robert Davis's introduction to this work illustrates the background of the Claytons, Sallie's writings, and Civil War Atlanta, providing a balanced account of life at "the crossroads of the Confederacy." The introduction also provides a corrective to the popular, Gone With the Wind view of Civil War Atlanta.
