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The Ballad of Roy Benavidez

Author : William Sturkey
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541600274
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Ballad of Roy Benavidez written by William Sturkey and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, a Mexican American Green Beret from a working-class family with deep roots in Texas, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history In May 1968, while serving in Vietnam, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez led the rescue of a reconnaissance team surrounded by hundreds of enemy soldiers. He saved the lives of at least eight of his comrades that day in a remarkable act of valor that left him permanently disabled. Awarded the Medal of Honor after a yearslong campaign, Benavidez became a highly sought-after public speaker, a living symbol of military heroism, and one of the country’s most prominent Latinos. Now, historian William Sturkey tells Benavidez’s life story in full for the first time. Growing up in Jim Crow–era Texas, Benavidez was scorned as “Mexican” despite his family’s deep roots in the state. He escaped poverty by enlisting in a desegregating military and was first deployed amid the global upheavals of the 1950s. Even after receiving the Medal of Honor, Benavidez was forced to fight for disability benefits amid Reagan-era cutbacks. An unwavering patriot alternately celebrated and snubbed by the country he loved, Benavidez embodied many of the contradictions inherent in twentieth-century Latino life. The Ballad of Roy Benavidez places that experience firmly at the heart of the American story.

Tango Mike Mike

Author : Yvette Benavidez Garcia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998911717
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Tango Mike Mike written by Yvette Benavidez Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This children's book is intentionally crafted to hold the attention of young students, with few pages and many photos. It's meant to introduce students to the concepts of integrity, honor, and selfless devotion to duty at a level they can understand.

Medal of Honor

Author : Roy P. Benavidez
Publisher : Potomac Books
ISBN 13 : 9781574882032
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Medal of Honor written by Roy P. Benavidez and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful story tells of one man's fight against bigotry, paralysis, and his war enemy that led to the Medal of Honor. From migrant farm-worker and middle school dropout to recipient of his country's highest award for bravery, Roy Benavidez demonstrated the courage and fortitude of an American hero. The half-Yaqui Indian, half-Mexican orphan fought his way out of the bigotry of South Texas to serve with the Army's elite - the Airborne and the Special Forces. In February 1981, President Reagan awarded him the Medal of Honor.

5-Minute Really True Stories for Bedtime

Author : Various
Publisher : Britannica Books
ISBN 13 : 9781912920648
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book 5-Minute Really True Stories for Bedtime written by Various and published by Britannica Books. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this compendium of 5-minute really true stories about bedtime, you can go on a journey of wonder and learning to find out the answers to all these questions, and many more! Travel to Ancient Egypt to explore the beds of Tutankhamun, jet off into space to see how astronauts get ready for bed, or even plunge underwater to learn how hibernating turtles breathe through their bottoms!"--Back cover.

Natalie’s Notorious National Anthem

Author : Susan Kendall Graham
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664183477
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Natalie’s Notorious National Anthem written by Susan Kendall Graham and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ms. Graham has been an elementary educator for over 30 years. She has a BA in Elementary Education and an MA in Elementary Reading and Literacy. She uses her personal childhood experiences and those of her own children as ideas for her stories.

Blood Brothers

Author : Randy Roberts
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 046509323X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Blood Brothers written by Randy Roberts and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world. But Malcolm X, the most famous minister in the Nation of Islam-a sect many white Americans deemed a hate cult-saw the potential in Clay, not just for boxing greatness, but as a means of spreading the Nation's message. The two became fast friends, keeping their interactions secret from the press for fear of jeopardizing Clay's career. Clay began living a double life-a patriotic "good Negro" in public, and a radical reformer behind the scenes. Soon, however, their friendship would sour, with disastrous and far-reaching consequences. Based on previously untapped sources, from Malcolm's personal papers to FBI records, Blood Brothers is the first book to offer an in-depth portrait of this complex bond. Acclaimed historians Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith reconstruct the worlds that shaped Malcolm and Clay, from the boxing arenas and mosques, to postwar New York and civil rights-era Miami. In an impressively detailed account, they reveal how Malcolm molded Cassius Clay into Muhammad Ali, helping him become an international symbol of black pride and black independence. Yet when Malcolm was barred from the Nation for criticizing the philandering of its leader, Elijah Muhammad, Ali turned his back on Malcolm-a choice that tragically contributed to the latter's assassination in February 1965. Malcolm's death marked the end of a critical phase of the civil rights movement, but the legacy of his friendship with Ali has endured. We inhabit a new era where the roles of entertainer and activist, of sports and politics, are more entwined than ever before. Blood Brothers is the story of how Ali redefined what it means to be a black athlete in America-after Malcolm first enlightened him. An extraordinary narrative of love and deep affection, as well as deceit, betrayal, and violence, this story is a window into the public and private lives of two of our greatest national icons, and the tumultuous period in American history that they helped to shape.

Populating the Novel

Author : Emily Steinlight
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501710710
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Populating the Novel written by Emily Steinlight and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the teeming streets of Dickens's London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. In Populating the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply reflecting demographic growth, such pervasive literary crowding contributed to a seismic shift in British political thought. She shows how the nineteenth-century novel in particular claimed a new cultural role as it took on the task of narrating human aggregation at a moment when the Malthusian specter of surplus population suddenly and quite unexpectedly became a central premise of modern politics. In readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Mary Braddon, Thomas Hardy, and Joseph Conrad that link fiction and biopolitics, Steinlight brings the crowds that pervade nineteenth-century fiction into the foreground. In so doing, she transforms the subject and political stakes of the Victorian novel, dislodging the longstanding idea that its central category is the individual by demonstrating how fiction is altered by its emerging concern with population. By overpopulating narrative space and imagining the human species perpetually in excess of the existing social order, she shows, fiction made it necessary to radically reimagine life in the aggregate.

Música Típica

Author : Sean Bellaviti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190936495
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Música Típica written by Sean Bellaviti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Panama Canal is a world-famous site central to the global economy, but the social, cultural, and political history of the country along this waterway is little known outside its borders. In Música Típica, author Sean Bellaviti sheds light on a key element of Panamanian culture, namely the story of cumbia or, as Panamanians frequently call it, "música típica," a form of music that enjoys unparalleled popularity throughout Panama. Through extensive archival and ethnographic research, Bellaviti reconstructs a twentieth-century social history that illuminates the crucial role music has played in the formation of national identities in Latin America. Focusing, in particular, on the relationship between cumbia and the rise of populist Panamanian nationalism in the context of U.S. imperialism, Bellaviti argues that this hybrid musical form, which forges links between the urban and rural as well as the modern and traditional, has been essential to the development of a sense of nationhood among Panamanians. With their approaches to musical fusion and their carefully curated performance identities, cumbia musicians have straddled some of the most pronounced schisms in Panamanian society.

Deadly Greed

Author : Joe Sharkey
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504041747
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Deadly Greed written by Joe Sharkey and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Above Suspicion: The “riveting” true story of Charles Stuart, who murdered his pregnant wife and pinned the crime on a black man in 1980s Boston (Kirkus Reviews). On October 23, 1989, affluent businessman Charles Stuart made a frantic 911 call from his car to report that he and his seven-months-pregnant wife, Carol, a lawyer, had been robbed and shot by a black male in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. By the time police arrived, Carol was dead, and the baby was soon lost as well. The attack incited a furor during a time of heightened racial tension in the community. Even more appalling, while the injuries were real, Stuart’s story was a hoax: He was the true killer. But the tragedy would continue with the arrest of Willie Bennett, a young man Stuart identified in a line-up. Stuart’s deception would only be exposed after a shocking revelation from his brother and, finally, his suicide, when he jumped into the freezing waters of the Mystic River. As the story unraveled, police would put together the disturbing pieces of a puzzle that included Stuart’s distress over his wife’s pregnancy, his romantic interest in a coworker, and life insurance fraud. In an account that “builds and grips like a novel” (Kirkus Reviews), New York Times journalist Joe Sharkey delivers “a picture of a man consumed by naked ambition, unwilling to let anyone or anything get in his way” (Library Journal). Revised and updated, this ebook also includes photos and a new epilogue by the author.

Blind Man's Bluff: A Memoir

Author : James Tate Hill
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393867188
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book Blind Man's Bluff: A Memoir written by James Tate Hill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors' Choice A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite Book of 2021 A writer’s humorous and often-heartbreaking tale of losing his sight—and how he hid it from the world. At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. When high-school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for C’s in his classes, he tried to escape the stigma by pretending he could still see. In this unfailingly candid yet humorous memoir, Hill discloses the tricks he employed to pass for sighted, from displaying shelves of paperbacks he read on tape to arriving early on first dates so women would have to find him. He risked his life every time he crossed a street, doing his best to listen for approaching cars. A good memory and pop culture obsessions like Tom Cruise, Prince, and all things 1980s allowed him to steer conversations toward common experiences. For fifteen years, Hill hid his blindness from friends, colleagues, and lovers, even convincing himself that if he stared long enough, his blurry peripheral vision would bring the world into focus. At thirty, faced with a stalled writing career, a crumbling marriage, and a growing fear of leaving his apartment, he began to wonder if there was a better way.

The Three Wars of Roy Benavidez

Author : Roy P. Benavidez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780931722592
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book The Three Wars of Roy Benavidez written by Roy P. Benavidez and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medal of Honor

Author : Roy P. Benavidez
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597973963
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book Medal of Honor written by Roy P. Benavidez and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful story of one man's fight against bigotry, paralysis, and his war enemy that led to the Medal of Honor

Enemies

Author : Peter D’Abrosca
Publisher : Bombardier Books
ISBN 13 : 1642932000
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Enemies written by Peter D’Abrosca and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Donald J. Trump drives liberals and the mainstream press berserk by labeling them the enemy of the American people. While the testy talking heads and petulant penmen in D.C. might disagree, all relevant evidence supports Trump’s claim. Hilariously told, Enemies: The Press vs. The American People is a knee-slapping account of the follies of the corporate press freak show. It highlights the media’s fact-free and for-profit deception of unsuspecting Americans while delivering the press the proverbial beat down it so richly deserves.

Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century

Author : Lorene Cary
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635899
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century written by Lorene Cary and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorene Cary’s grandmother moves in, and everything changes: day-to-day life, family relationships, the Nana she knew—even their shared past. From cherished memories of weekends she spent as a child with her indulgent Nana to the reality of the year she spent “ladysitting” her now frail grandmother, Lorene Cary journeys through stories of their time together and five generations of their African American family. Brilliantly weaving a narrative of her complicated yet transformative relationship with Nana—a fierce, stubborn, and independent woman, who managed a business until she was 100—Cary looks at Nana’s impulse to control people and fate, from the early death of her mother and oppression in the Jim Crow South to living on her own in her New Jersey home. Cary knew there might be some reckonings to come. Nana was a force: Her obstinacy could come out in unanticipated ways—secretly getting a driver’s license to show up her husband, carrying on a longtime feud with Cary’s father. But Nana could also be devoted: to Nana’s father, to black causes, and—Cary had thought—to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Facing the inevitable end raises tensions, with Cary drawing on her spirituality and Nana consoling herself with late-night sweets and the loyalty of caregivers. When Nana doubts Cary’s dedication, Cary must go deeper into understanding this complicated woman. In Ladysitting, Cary captures the ruptures, love, and, perhaps, forgiveness that can occur in a family as she bears witness to her grandmother’s 101 vibrant years of life.

My Brother Eddie

Author : Hazel Higgins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976452232
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book My Brother Eddie written by Hazel Higgins and published by . This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Edward Higgins was born, his parents were devastated, hard-pressed to imagine what kind of a future lay ahead for their newborn son. But before he was one year old, it became apparent that Eddie would conquer all obstacles faced by a boy who was born without arms. This loving tribute by his older sister is an inspiring account of how her brother met life and the matter-of-fact way in which he overcame setbacks.

The Southern Rock Revival

Author : Jason T. Eastman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498531148
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Southern Rock Revival written by Jason T. Eastman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While some people find new opportunities in the postindustrial economy, many working-class men find their social and economic well-being collapse as blue-collar jobs are outsourced and offshored to the global labor market. Faced with limited options to earn a living-wage, many of these blue-collar workers are instead changing who they are, embracing a deviant, rebellious identity expressed by the contemporary southern rock revival musicians studied in this book. Although loosely based in the traditional culture and lifestyle of the southeastern United States, contemporary southerness has little to do with region but instead is a way to rebel from the very institutions blue-collar men traditionally used as the basis of their masculine pride: family, education, employment, military service, and religion. This contemporary form of southerness reflected in their music also involves deviance, as many of these men adorn themselves with the highly controversial confederate flag, binge drink alcohol, brawl with one another and use drugs. Combining interviews, participant observation and a lyrical analysis, this book explores these aspects of rebellious southerness through music as it exists in the ideal sense and as individual men try to live up to these subcultural ideals in their daily lives. The southern rock revival is a new social movement carving out a place for an alternative way to live while simultaneously perpetuating stereotypes about poor men, reinforcing social disadvantage and marginalization.

Heart for the Fight

Author : Brian Stann
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1616739894
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Heart for the Fight written by Brian Stann and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The champion former MMA fighter recounts his time on the Naval Academy football team, his service with the Marines in Iraq, and his career in the ring. Heart for the Fight is the story of Brian Stann, a kid from the wrong side of Scranton who made it to the Naval Academy, played linebacker for the Navy football team, became a Marine officer, graduated first in his infantry officer class, led his men in two intense combat tours in the Anbar Province of Iraq, received the Silver Star for gallantry, and emerged as one of the most interesting figures in the mixed martial arts (MMA) professional circuit. A former light-heavyweight champion in the WED (World Extreme Cagefighting), he also fought in the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), the “big leagues” of mixed martial arts. Praise for Heart for the Fight “Brian Stann has a remarkable story to tell and Heart for the Fight is a worthwhile read for those interested in the Iraq War or Stann’s MMA career.” —Los Angeles Times “After reading [Stann’s] book, Heart for the Fight, the only word that will come to your mind about Brian Stann is respect. This is an autobiography about a man who has been through and seen so much more than the average American citizen . . . When you finish reading this book, it becomes evident that ‘All-American’ is not just his MMA nickname, it’s exactly what he is.” —Bleacher Report “Reason to Read: Stann is a badass. There’s just no other way to describe him. If he never wins another fight in the Octagon, he’ll still be a badass. The man led his troops through two intense combat tours and received a Silver Star for gallantry. Now, he fights for the UFC and works as Executive Director of HireHeroes USA, a link to job opportunities for servicemen and women.” —FightMagazine