The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429953527
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by : Stephen Kinzer

Download or read book The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War written by Stephen Kinzer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's world During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In this book, Stephen Kinzer places their extraordinary lives against the background of American culture and history. He uses the framework of biography to ask: Why does the United States behave as it does in the world? The Brothers explores hidden forces that shape the national psyche, from religious piety to Western movies—many of which are about a noble gunman who cleans up a lawless town by killing bad guys. This is how the Dulles brothers saw themselves, and how many Americans still see their country's role in the world. Propelled by a quintessentially American set of fears and delusions, the Dulles brothers launched violent campaigns against foreign leaders they saw as threats to the United States. These campaigns helped push countries from Guatemala to the Congo into long spirals of violence, led the United States into the Vietnam War, and laid the foundation for decades of hostility between the United States and countries from Cuba to Iran. The story of the Dulles brothers is the story of America. It illuminates and helps explain the modern history of the United States and the world. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013

We Were Brothers

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Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616204133
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Book Synopsis We Were Brothers by : Barry Moser

Download or read book We Were Brothers written by Barry Moser and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We Were Brothers, Barry Moser's beautiful--and beautifully illustrated--new book, tells the wrenching and redeeming story of brothers who take different paths and yet ultimately find their ways back to each other . . . Their careful reconciliation after decades of strife and avoidance is sad, moving, and joyful all at the same time." —Andrew Hudgins, author ofThe Joker Preeminent illustrator Barry Moser and his brother, Tommy, were born of the same parents, were raised in the same small Tennessee community, and were poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further and further apart. From attitudes about race, to food, politics, and money, the brothers began to think so differently that they could no longer find common ground, no longer knew how to talk to each other, and for years there was more strife between them than affection. When Barry was in his late fifties and Tommy in his early sixties, their fragile brotherhood reached a tipping point and blew apart. From that day forward they did not speak. But fortunately, their story does not end there. With the raw emotions that so often surface when we talk of our siblings, Barry recalls why and how they were finally able to traverse that great divide and reconcile their kinship before it was too late. Including fifteen of Moser's stunning drawings, this powerful true story captures the essence of sibling relationships--their complexities, contradictions, and mixed blessings.

Once We Were Brothers

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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466846704
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Once We Were Brothers by : Ronald H. Balson

Download or read book Once We Were Brothers written by Ronald H. Balson and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust. "A novel of survival, justice and redemption...riveting." —Chicago Tribune, on Once We Were Brothers Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, the Butcher of Zamosc. Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his accuser is convinced he is right and engages attorney Catherine Lockhart to bring Rosenzweig to justice. Solomon persuades attorney Catherine Lockhart to take his case, revealing that the true Piatek was abandoned as a child and raised by Solomon's own family only to betray them during the Nazi occupation. But has Solomon accused the right man? Once We Were Brothers is Ronald H. Balson's compelling tale of two boys and a family who struggle to survive in war-torn Poland, and a young love that struggles to endure the unspeakable cruelty of the Holocaust. Two lives, two worlds, and sixty years converge in an explosive race to redemption that makes for a moving and powerful tale of love, survival, and ultimately the triumph of the human spirit.

The Brothers

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594634009
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Book Synopsis The Brothers by : Masha Gessen

Download or read book The Brothers written by Masha Gessen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look out for Masha Gessen's new book, THE FUTURE IS HISTORY, coming October 2017 “A gripping narrative and a stunning piece of investigative journalism… [that] gives us the human side to the story of two young men who must be understood as more than monsters” (Christian Science Monitor) On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan Tsarnaev died, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was captured and brought to trial. Yet even after the guilty verdict and the death sentence, what we didn't know was why. Why did the American Dream go so wrong for two immigrants? How did such a nightmare come to pass? Acclaimed Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen is uniquely able to tell us. A teenage immigrant herself, she returned to Russia to cover firsthand the transformations that wracked the region from the 1990s on. It is there that she begins her astonishing account of the Tsarnaev brothers, descendants of ethnic Chechens deported to Central Asia in the Stalin era. Following the family in their futile attempts to make a life for themselves in one war-torn locale after another and then, as new émigrés, in an utterly disorienting new world, she reconstructs the brothers' struggle between assimilation and alienation, which incubated a deadly sense of mission. And she traces how such a split in identity can fuel the metamorphosis into a new breed of homegrown terrorist, with feet on American soil but sense of self elsewhere.

The Maltby Brothers' Civil War

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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623490251
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Book Synopsis The Maltby Brothers' Civil War by : Norman C. Delaney

Download or read book The Maltby Brothers' Civil War written by Norman C. Delaney and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 11, 1863, a US brigadier general and a Confederate artillery captain met on board the packet steamer Diligent on the Mississippi River below Vicksburg. The Confederate officer had not come on board on official business; he was a paroled prisoner of war. The brigadier general was his older brother, who had learned of the younger man’s capture three weeks earlier at Confederate Fort Semmes, on the Texas coast, and had arranged to have him brought from New Orleans to Vicksburg to be given medical care at the Federal garrison. The American Civil War has rightly been called a war of brothers; Henry, Jasper, and William Maltby were three such brothers. The scene recounted above was between Jasper and William, who had not seen each other in several years since Jasper had left their birth home in Ohio, but who met frequently over the months following their reunion, their familial bond overriding their political allegiances. The three brothers’ lives cover the critical years of Civil War and Reconstruction, a time when Jasper devotedly served the Union cause, while Henry and William became outspoken secessionists, operating Confederate newspapers in Corpus Christi, Matamoros, and Brownsville, eventually as a thorn in the side of Reconstruction officials. Despite their own Southern sympathies, the two Confederates cherished their Yankee brother, whose bravery at Fort Donelson and Vicksburg took a heavy toll on his health and eventually cost him his life. Both Rebels named a son in honor of their hero brother. Combining detailed research in William Maltby’s personal papers with contemporary accounts, military and court records, and the editorials of the two who became newspapermen, veteran scholar and educator Norman Delaney has created a vibrant story of how war can affect a family and a community.

Confederate Veteran

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Veteran written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Boys Become Men Through the Eyes of War

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504984196
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Boys Become Men Through the Eyes of War written by J. Terry Hall and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys Become Men through the Eyes of War is a story of two young boys growing up in the mountains of Western North Carolina during the turbulent years surrounding the Civil War. Having become blood brothers following a Cherokee Indian tradition, they promised to always have each others back. Although following the declaration of war, each boy had to follow his own conscience and march to a different drummer, one going north, one going south.

Strife

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)

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Staging Memory, Staging Strife

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190275952
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Staging Memory, Staging Strife written by Lauren Donovan Ginsberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turbulent decade of the 60s CE brought Rome to the brink of collapse. It began with Nero's ruthless elimination of Julio-Claudian rivals and ended in his suicide and the civil wars that followed. Suddenly Rome was forced to confront an imperial future as bloody as its Republican past and a ruler from outside the house of Caesar. The anonymous historical drama Octavia is the earliest literary witness to this era of uncertainty and upheaval. In Staging Memory, Staging Strife, Lauren Donovan Ginsberg offers a new reading of how the play intervenes in the contests over memory after Nero's fall. Though Augustus and his heirs had claimed that the Principate solved Rome's curse of civil war, the play reimagines early imperial Rome as a landscape of civil strife with a ruling family waging war both on itself and on its people. In doing so, the Octavia shows how easily empire becomes a breeding ground for the passions of discord. In order to rewrite the history of Rome's first imperial dynasty, the Octavia engages with the literature of Julio-Claudian Rome, using the words of Rome's most celebrated authors to stage a new reading of that era and its ruling family. In doing so, the play opens a dialogue about literary versions of history and about the legitimacy of those historical accounts. Through an innovative combination of intertextual analysis and cultural memory theory, Ginsberg contextualizes the roles that literature and the literary manipulation of memory play in negotiating the transition between the Julio-Claudian and Flavian regimes. Her book claims for the Octavia a central role in current debates over both the ways in which Nero and his family were remembered as well as the politics of literary and cultural memory in the early Roman empire.

Post-bellum Campaigns of the Blue and Gray, 1881-1882 ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Gorboduc

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
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The Cambridge History of India: Turks and Afghans, edited by W. Haig

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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The Cambridge History of India

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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The Rebellion Record

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Total Pages : 830 pages
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Download or read book The Rebellion Record written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul by : George MacDonald

Download or read book A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801474965
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (749 download)

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Book Synopsis Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots by : Peter J. Arnade

Download or read book Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots written by Peter J. Arnade and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of the Dutch Revolt that shows how the act of rebellion forged a political identity through ritual, symbol, and public action.

Dark Age Heroes

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 144614092X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Dark Age Heroes written by Joseph Sale and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Let me tell you truthfully, there will be combat, and bloodshed, and feud and bitter death today'¦' Enter into the world of the great heroes of the Dark Age and follow Hagen of Troneck on his pathway through terrible deeds and up to his final heroic last stand at the head of the fearsome Nibelungs. This novel is an epic retelling of the original story of the Nibelungs written in a poetical prose that imitates the verse of the former text. Discover the untold legend and learn of the awful destiny of the knights of Worms.