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Author : John D. Erickson
Publisher : York, S.C. : French Literature Publications Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nommo written by John D. Erickson and published by York, S.C. : French Literature Publications Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743218302
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Mornings on Horseback written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough. Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as “a masterpiece” (John A. Gable, Newsday), it is the winner of the Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography. Written by David McCullough, the author of Truman, this is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and almost fatal asthma attacks, and his struggle to manhood: an amazing metamorphosis seen in the context of the very uncommon household in which he was raised. The father is the first Theodore Roosevelt, a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. The mother, Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, is a Southerner and a celebrated beauty, but also considerably more, which the book makes clear as never before. There are sisters Anna and Corinne, brother Elliott (who becomes the father of Eleanor Roosevelt), and the lovely, tragic Alice Lee, TR’s first love. All are brought to life to make “a beautifully told story, filled with fresh detail” (The New York Times Book Review). A book to be read on many levels, it is at once an enthralling story, a brilliant social history and a work of important scholarship which does away with several old myths and breaks entirely new ground. It is a book about life intensely lived, about family love and loyalty, about grief and courage, about “blessed” mornings on horseback beneath the wide blue skies of the Badlands.
Author : David A. Bell
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374207922
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Men on Horseback written by David A. Bell and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immersive examination of why the age of democratic revolutions was also a time of hero worship and strongmen In Men on Horseback, the Princeton University historian David A. Bell offers a dramatic new interpretation of modern politics, arguing that the history of democracy is inextricable from the history of charisma, its shadow self. Bell begins with Corsica’s Pasquale Paoli, an icon of republican virtue whose exploits were once renowned throughout the Atlantic World. Paoli would become a signal influence in both George Washington’s America and Napoleon Bonaparte’s France. In turn, Bonaparte would exalt Washington even as he fashioned an entirely different form of leadership. In the same period, Toussaint Louverture sought to make French Revolutionary ideals of freedom and equality a reality for the formerly enslaved people of what would become Haiti, only to be betrayed by Napoleon himself. Simon Bolivar witnessed the coronation of Napoleon and later sought refuge in newly independent Haiti as he fought to liberate Latin America from Spanish rule. Tracing these stories and their interconnections, Bell weaves a spellbinding tale of power and its ability to mesmerize. Ultimately, Bell tells the crucial and neglected story of how political leadership was reinvented for a revolutionary world that wanted to do without kings and queens. If leaders no longer rule by divine right, what underlies their authority? Military valor? The consent of the people? Their own Godlike qualities? Bell’s subjects all struggled with this question, learning from each other’s example as they did so. They were men on horseback who sought to be men of the people—as Bell shows, modern democracy, militarism, and the cult of the strongman all emerged together. Today, with democracy’s appeal and durability under threat around the world, Bell’s account of its dark twin is timely and revelatory. For all its dangers, charisma cannot be dispensed with; in the end, Bell offers a stirring injunction to reimagine it as an animating force for good in the politics of our time.
Author : Samuel Edward Finer
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Man On Horseback written by Samuel Edward Finer and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1988-04-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Finer (d.1993, he taught government at Manchester U. and Oxford U., UK) proposes a paradigm for the role of the military in politics that is based on the inherent weakness of the military in politics, on the one hand, and their potential for intervention, on the other. The book was first published by Pall Mall Press in 1962; this new edition contains an introduction by Jay Stanley (sociology, Towson U.), who is on the advisory council and editor for the journal of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Guy R. Odom
Publisher : Beaufort Books
ISBN 13 : 9780825305016
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book America's Man on Horseback written by Guy R. Odom and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inflammatory, politically incorrect book- humor to those who think, horror to those who feel. Guy Odom uses history to predict that social conditions such as drunk driving, education decline, illegal drug use, crime, corrupt politics, financial scams, inflation, race riots, and foreign terrorism will worsen ten times by 2013. This makes a dictator, a "man on horseback" to rein in an out-of-control nation, plausible and perhaps attractive- a historically sound proposition, but a first for America. Odom offers no suggestions to correct today's social ills. Instead, he applies his own brand of Machiavellian and Swiftian logic in writing to the future "man on horseback." He delineates the causes of America's decline, the offers America's "man on horseback" ideas to "clean up the mess" and build an American Empire. This book is sure to awaken dormant thoughts of unease brought about by the decadence and corruption narcotizing our nation and to offer a catharsis to those harmed by current conditions. Outrageous? Yes. Boring? No.
Author : Samuel Edward Finer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Man on Horseback written by Samuel Edward Finer and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Steidle
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586484745
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Devil Came on Horseback written by Brian Steidle and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report and call to action from the heart of violent Darfur, by a former Marine working in Africa.
Author : Samuel Finer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351479792
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Man on Horseback written by Samuel Finer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of the military in a society raises a number of issues: How much separation should there be between a civil government and its army? Should the military be totally subordinate to the polity? Or should the armed forces be allowed autonomy in order to provide national security? Recently, the dangers of military dictatorships-as have existed in countries like Panama, Chile, and Argentina-have become evident. However, developing countries often lack the administrative ability and societal unity to keep the state functioning in an orderly and economically feasible manner without military intervention.Societies, of course, have dealt with the realities of these problems throughout their histories, and the action they have taken at any particular point in time has depended on numerous factors. In the ""first world"" of democratic countries, the civil-military relationship has been thoroughly integrated, and indeed by most modern standards this is seen as essential. However, several influential Western thinkers have developed theories arguing for the separation of the military from any political or social role. Samuel Huntington, emphasized that professionalism would presuppose that the military should intervene as little as possible in the political sphere. Samuel E. Finer, in contrast, emphasizes that a government can be efficient enough way to keep the civil-military relationship in check, ensuring that the need for intervention by the armed forces in society would be minimal. At the time of the book's original publication, perhaps as a consequence of a post-World War II Cold War atmosphere, this was by no means a universally accepted position. Some considered the military to be a legitimate threat to a free society. Today's post-Cold War environment is an appropriate time to reconsider Finer's classic argument.The Man on Horseback continues to be an important contribution to the study of the military's role in the realm of politics, and will be of interest to stu
Author : John Egenes
Publisher : Delta Vee
ISBN 13 : 9780692930854
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Man and Horse written by John Egenes and published by Delta Vee. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974 a disenfranchised young man from a broken home set out to do the impossible. With a hundred dollars in his pocket, a beat up cavalry saddle, and a faraway look in his eye, John Egenes saddled his horse Gizmo and started down the trail on an adventure across the North American continent. Their seven month journey took them across 11 states from California to Virginia, ocean to ocean.. As they left the pressing confinement of the city behind them, the pair experienced the isolation and loneliness of the southwestern deserts, the vastness of the prairie, and the great landscapes that make up America. Across hundreds of miles of empty land they slept with coyotes and wild horses under the stars, and in urban areas they camped alone in graveyards and abandoned shacks. Along the way John and Gizmo were transformed from inexperienced horse and rider to veterans of the trail. With his young horse as his spiritual guide John slowly began to comprehend his own place in the world and to find peace within himself. Full of heart and humor, Egenes serves up a tale that's as big as the America he witnessed, an America that no longer exists. It was a journey that could only have been experienced step by step, mile by mile, from the view between a horse's ears.
Author : Achmed Abdullah
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Man on Horseback written by Achmed Abdullah and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1919 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A story of an American cowboy and the girl whom he loves. Too, it tells the story of a mine-- a mine which became his in payment of a poker debt and which turned out to be rich in gold-- and in an unknown chemical substance, possession and control of which makes for serious international complications. The cowboy and the girl he loves find themselves drawn into a vortex of intrigue, the action of the novel swinging to Berlin ... It is finally the hero's magnificent horsemanship which gets him and the girl he loves over the border back to freedom." --
Author : Alexander Bielakowski
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book From Horses to Horsepower written by Alexander Bielakowski and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following World War I, horse cavalry entered a period during which it fought for its very existence against mechanized vehicles. On the Western Front, the stalemate of trench warfare became the defining image of the war throughout the world. While horse cavalry remained idle in France, the invention of the tank and its potential for success led many non-cavalry officers to accept the notion that the era of horse cavalry had passed. During the interwar period, a struggle raged within the U.S. Cavalry regarding its future role, equipment, and organization. Some cavalry officers argued that mechanized vehicles supplanted horses as the primary means of combat mobility within the cavalry, while others believed that the horse continued to occupy that role. The response of prominent cavalry officers to this struggle influenced the form and function of the U.S. Cavalry during World War II.
Author : Peter Worsley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226907554
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Three Worlds written by Peter Worsley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984-09-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay on the various factors, especially the political ideologies, shaping the development of the Third World and the resulting social and economic conditions of the proletariat.
Author : Blanche Weitbrec
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Men on Horseback written by Blanche Weitbrec and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Edward Finer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Man on Horseback written by Samuel Edward Finer and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Horse and Man in Early Modern England written by Peter Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Continuum. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how, in pre-industrial England, horses were bred and trained, what they ate, how much they were worth, how long they lived, and what their owners thought of them. While they were named individually, and sometimes became favourites, many were worked hard and poorly treated, leading to their early deaths.
Author : Samuel E. Finer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book THE MAN ON HORSEBACK. THE ROLE OF THE MILITARY IN POLITICS. BY SAMUEL EDWARD FINER. written by Samuel E. Finer and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irving Stone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781404750968
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Sailor on Horseback written by Irving Stone and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
