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Author : Teodoro A. Agoncillo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789715422758
Total Pages : 1006 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (227 download)
Download or read book The Fateful Years written by Teodoro A. Agoncillo and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : André François-Poncet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fateful Years written by André François-Poncet and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James R. Hagerty
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614236992
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Fateful History of Fannie Mae written by James R. Hagerty and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lucid and meticulously reported book by one of the Wall Street Journal’s ace reporters” (George Anders, Forbes contributor and author of The Rare Find). In 1938, the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt created a small agency called Fannie Mae. Intended to make home loans more accessible, the agency was born of the Great Depression and a government desperate to revive housing construction. It was a minor detail of the New Deal, barely recorded by the newspapers of the day. Over the next seventy years, Fannie Mae evolved into one of the largest financial companies in the world, owned by private shareholders but with its nearly $1 trillion of debt effectively guaranteed by the government. Almost from the beginning, critics repeatedly warned that Fannie was an accident waiting to happen. Then, in 2008, the housing market collapsed. Amid a wave of foreclosures, the company’s capital began to run out, and the US Treasury seized control. From the New Deal to President Obama’s administration, James R. Hagerty explains this fascinating but little-understood saga. Based on the author’s reporting for the Wall Street Journal, personal research, and interviews with executives, regulators, and congressional leaders, The Fateful History of Fannie Mae, he explains the politics, economics, and human frailties behind seven decades of missed opportunities to prevent a financial disaster.
Author : Mark Bostridge
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141962232
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Fateful Year written by Mark Bostridge and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art, schoolchildren going on strike in support of their teachers, and celebrity aviators thrilling spectators by looping the loop. A theatrical diva prepares to shock her audience, while an English poet in the making sets out on a midsummer railway journey that will result in the creation of a poem that remains loved and widely known to this day. With the coming of war, England is beset by rumour and foreboding. There is hysteria about German spies, fears of invasion, while patriotic women hand out white feathers to men who have failed to rush to their country's defence. In the book's final pages, a bomb falls from the air onto British soil for the first time, and people live in expectation of air raids. As 1914 fades out, England is preparing itself for the prospect of a war of long duration. Mark Bostridge won the Gladstone Memorial Prize at Oxford University. His first book Vera Brittain: A Life was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the NCR NonFiction Award, and the Fawcett Prize. His books also include the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation; Lives for Sale, a collection of biographers' tales; Because You Died, a selection of Vera Brittain's First World War poetry and prose; and Florence Nightingale: The Woman and her Legend, which was named as a Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2008 and awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. The Fateful Year was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2015.
Author : Gordon H. Chang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674426134
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Fateful Ties written by Gordon H. Chang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans look to China with fascination and fear, unsure whether the rising Asian power is friend or foe but certain it will play a crucial role in America’s future. This is nothing new, Gordon Chang says. For centuries, Americans have been convinced of China’s importance to their own national destiny. Fateful Ties draws on literature, art, biography, popular culture, and politics to trace America’s long and varied preoccupation with China. China has held a special place in the American imagination from colonial times, when Jamestown settlers pursued a passage to the Pacific and Asia. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Americans plied a profitable trade in Chinese wares, sought Chinese laborers to build the West, and prized China’s art and decor. China was revered for its ancient culture but also drew Christian missionaries intent on saving souls in a heathen land. Its vast markets beckoned expansionists, even as its migrants were seen as a “yellow peril” that prompted the earliest immigration restrictions. A staunch ally during World War II, China was a dangerous adversary in the Cold War that followed. In the post-Mao era, Americans again embraced China as a land of inexhaustible opportunity, playing a central role in its economic rise. Through portraits of entrepreneurs, missionaries, academics, artists, diplomats, and activists, Chang demonstrates how ideas about China have long been embedded in America’s conception of itself and its own fate. Fateful Ties provides valuable perspective on this complex international and intercultural relationship as America navigates an uncertain new era.
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781551641607
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Fateful Triangle written by Noam Chomsky and published by Black Rose Books Ltd.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its establishment to the present day, Israel has enjoyed a special position in the American roster of international friends. In Fateful Triangle Noam Chomsky explores the character and historical development of this special relationship as well as its impact on the fate of the Palestinian people. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141915048
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Fateful Choices written by Ian Kershaw and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940 the world was on a knife-edge. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined. In Fateful Choices Ian Kershaw re-creates the ten critical decisions taken between May 1940, when Britain chose not to surrender, and December 1941, when Hitler decided to destroy Europe’s Jews, showing how these choices would recast the entire course of history.
Author : Claudia Gray
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062049224
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Fateful written by Claudia Gray and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen-year-old maid Tess Davies is determined to escape the wealthy, troubled family she serves. It’s 1912, and Tess has been trapped in the employ of the Lisles for years, amid painful memories and twisted secrets. But now the Lisle family is headed to America, with Tess in tow. Once the ship they’re sailing on—the RMS Titanic—reaches its destination, Tess plans to strike out and create a new lifefor herself. Her single-minded focus shatters when she meets Alec, a handsome first-class passenger who captivates her instantly. But Alec has secrets of his own. He’s in a hurry to leave Europe, and whispers aboard the ship say it’s because of the tragic end of his last affair with the French actress who died so gruesomely and so mysteriously. . . . Soon Tess will learn just how dark Alec’s past truly is. The danger they face is no ordinary enemy: werewolves exist and are stalking him—and now her, too. Her growing love for Alec will put Tess in mortal peril, and fate will do the same before their journey on the Titanic is over. In Fateful, New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray delivers paranormal adventure, dark suspense, and alluring romance set against the opulent backdrop of the Titanic’s first—and last—voyage.
Author : Jaroslav Hašek
Publisher : Good Soldier Švejk
ISBN 13 : 1438916701
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)
Download or read book The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War, Book Two written by Jaroslav Hašek and published by Good Soldier Švejk. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picaresque series of tales about an ordinary man's successful quest to survive, and a funny but unrelentingly savage assault on the very idea of bureaucratic officialdom as a human enterprise conferring benefits on those who live under its control, and on the various justifications bureaucracies offer for their own existence.
Author : Serge Sazonov
Publisher : Ishi Press
ISBN 13 : 9780923891329
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (913 download)
Download or read book Fateful Years 1909-1916 (the Reminiscences of Serge Sazonov G. C. B. , G. C. V. O. Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs written by Serge Sazonov and published by Ishi Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the Memoirs of the man who is widely credited or blamed for starting World War I, a war he still felt, ten years after the conclusion of this horrific and pointless struggle, was necessary to preserve the "National Honor" of Russia. These memoirs of Russia's Minister for Foreign Affairs during the crucial period from 1909 through 1916 and the downfall of the Empire were completed shortly before Sazonov's death in December, 1927 Sazonov was called to St. Petersburg as under-Secretary of State in 1909 and made Foreign Minister in 1910, just at the time the Kaiser had given up the idea of drawing Russia into an alliance against France and Britain. He served Russia through her momentous war years and in January, 1917, was appointed Ambassador to England, but was recalled on the eve of his departure for London. The Czar was overthrown shortly afterward. Royalist to the core, Sazonov declined to recognize the Bolsheviki and became Foreign Minister of the counter-revolutionary Omsk government after the October revolution in 1917. SAZONOV'S reminiscences go back far enough to give in detail the whole puzzling and complex situation in the Near East and serve as a key to the intricate and involved Balkan policy of Austria-Hungary. A surprising amount of secret negotiations, diplomatic trickery and subterfuge leading to the great struggle, is here revealed in easily understandable terms, making one of the most readable volumes that have come out of the war. These memoirs of Russia's Minister for Foreign Affairs during the crucial period from 1909 through 1916 and the downfall of the Empire were completed shortly before Sazonov's death in December, 1927 Sazonov was called to St. Petersburgas under-Secretary of State in 1909 and made Foreign Minister in 1910, just at the time the Kaiser had given up the idea of drawing Russia into an alliance against France and Britain. He served Russia through her momentous war years and in January, 1917, was appointed Ambassador to England, but was recalled on the eve of his departure for London. The Czar was overthrown shortly afterward. Royalist to the core, Sazonov declined to recognize the Bolsheviki and became Foreign Minister of the counter-revolutionary Omsk government after the October revolution in 1917.
Author : Tanvi Madan
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815737726
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Fateful Triangle written by Tanvi Madan and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a long view of the three-party relationship, and its future prospects In this Asian century, scholars, officials and journalists are increasingly focused on the fate of the rivalry between China and India. They see the U.S. relationships with the two Asian giants as now intertwined, after having followed separate paths during the Cold War. In Fateful Triangle, Tanvi Madan argues that China's influence on the U.S.-India relationship is neither a recent nor a momentary phenomenon. Drawing on documents from India and the United States, she shows that American and Indian perceptions of and policy toward China significantly shaped U.S.-India relations in three crucial decades, from 1949 to 1979. Fateful Triangle updates our understanding of the diplomatic history of U.S.-India relations, highlighting China's central role in it, reassesses the origins and practice of Indian foreign policy and nonalignment, and provides historical context for the interactions between the three countries. Madan's assessment of this formative period in the triangular relationship is of more than historic interest. A key question today is whether the United States and India can, or should develop ever-closer ties as a way of countering China's desire to be the dominant power in the broader Asian region. Fateful Triangle argues that history shows such a partnership is neither inevitable nor impossible. A desire to offset China brought the two countries closer together in the past, and could do so again. A look to history, however, also shows that shared perceptions of an external threat from China are necessary, but insufficient, to bring India and the United States into a close and sustained alignment: that requires agreement on the nature and urgency of the threat, as well as how to approach the threat strategically, economically, and ideologically. With its long view, Fateful Triangle offers insights for both present and future policymakers as they tackle a fateful, and evolving, triangle that has regional and global implications.
Author : Sergeĭ Dmitrievich Sazonov
Publisher : London : Cape
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Fateful Years, 1909-1916 written by Sergeĭ Dmitrievich Sazonov and published by London : Cape. This book was released on 1928 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Ewing
Publisher : Bluejacket Books
ISBN 13 : 9781591142492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Fateful Rendezvous written by Steve Ewing and published by Bluejacket Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighter pilot Butch O'Hare became one of America's heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation. In fascinating detail the authors describe how O'Hare shot down five attacking Japanese bombers and severely damaged a sixth and other awe-inspiring feats of aerial combat that won him awards, including the Medal of Honor. They also explain his key role in developing tactics and night-fighting techniques that helped defeat the Japanese. In addition, the authors investigate events leading up to O'Hare's disappearance in 1943 while intercepting torpedo bombers headed for the Enterprise. First published in 1997, this biography utilizes O'Hare family papers and U.S. and Japanese war records as well as eyewitness interviews. It is essential reading for a true understanding of the development of the combat naval aviation and the talents of the universally admired and well-liked Butch O'Hare.
Author : Teodoro A. Agoncillo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Fateful Years written by Teodoro A. Agoncillo and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Bostridge
Publisher : Viking
ISBN 13 : 9780670919222
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (192 download)
Download or read book The Fateful Year written by Mark Bostridge and published by Viking. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a country and a year: England, 1914. One of the most momentous years in English history, it marked the point when a nation moved from an uneasy peace into full-blown war. Mark Bostridge chronicles events both ordinary and extraordinary, capturing the shifting mood of the country in towns and sleepy villages as well as on the world stage in the months before and after the guns began to boom.
Author : Serge Sazonov
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787203107
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Fateful Years, 1909-1916 written by Serge Sazonov and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE catastrophe which overwhelmed Europe in July, 1914, the effects of which made themselves felt more or less over the whole world, cannot yet be made the subject of scientific historical investigation. So immense a task is beyond the powers of those who witnessed and still more of those who were directly concerned in it. It must be left to the rising generation, in the hope that their remoteness from these events will ensure for their labours the necessary freedom from prejudice and that they will have access to historical material more complete than that already available, important as that is. Those who read these short recollections must not expect to I find in them a consecutive and full exposition of the course of the historic events of which I was a witness, or in which I participated, but only my personal estimate of them in the light of the information which I possessed. They will find these occurrences set out objectively in the official compilations of diplomatic documents published, both at the beginning of the European War and later by the Governments of the belligerent Powers, and also in the endless literature published in every language during recent years, and referring, not only to the actual war period, but also to the period that preceded it.
Author : Henry Thatcher Fowler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History and Literature of the New Testament written by Henry Thatcher Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
