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What We Did While We Made More Guns

Author : Dorothy Barresi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822983281
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book What We Did While We Made More Guns written by Dorothy Barresi and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in What We Did While We Made More Guns investigate the place where economic failure meets a widening acculturation of violence—a kind of Great Acceleration of soul extinction set in this spectacularly uneasy moment in American history. Cutting, comic, sorrowful, at times terrified, at times resolute, the poems tilt along the high cliff’s edge of identity anxiety and American moral uncertainty, where each of us plays our part in the business of dispossession or resistance. Building themselves out of jazzed-up verbal velocities and wounded (in)sincerity, the poems counsel resilience against all forms of battery, mortal, spiritual, financial. They are pattern-makers in the dark. They talk back to God. They take into themselves what cannot be taken back: the news that forty-six million Americans have “slipped” below the poverty line; that guns discharge monstrously banal virility; that a black woman pulled over for a routine traffic violation dies by strangulation in her jail cell; that we buy and sell the myth of the American Dream as though our lives depended on it.

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

Author : Charles E Cobb Jr.
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465080952
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed written by Charles E Cobb Jr. and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self defense," King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors remembered the reverend's Montgomery, Alabama home as "an arsenal." Like King, many ostensibly "nonviolent" civil rights activists embraced their constitutional right to selfprotection -- yet this crucial dimension of the Afro-American freedom struggle has been long ignored by history. In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb Jr. describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival and liberation of black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s. In the Deep South, blacks often safeguarded themselves and their loved ones from white supremacist violence by bearing -- and, when necessary, using -- firearms. In much the same way, Cobb shows, nonviolent civil rights workers received critical support from black gun owners in the regions where they worked. Whether patrolling their neighborhoods, garrisoning their homes, or firing back at attackers, these courageous men and women and the weapons they carried were crucial to the movement's success. Giving voice to the World War II veterans, rural activists, volunteer security guards, and self-defense groups who took up arms to defend their lives and liberties, This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed lays bare the paradoxical relationship between the nonviolent civil rights struggle and the Second Amendment. Drawing on his firsthand experiences in the civil rights movement and interviews with fellow participants, Cobb provides a controversial examination of the crucial place of firearms in the fight for American freedom.

"Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People"

Author : Dennis A. Henigan
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807088846
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book "Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People" written by Dennis A. Henigan and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A must-read for every American who longs to bring sanity to our nation’s gun laws,” this book debunks the lethal logic behind the myths that have framed the gun control debate (Ariana Huffington, co-founder of HuffingtonPost) The gun lobby’s remarkable success in using engaging slogans to frame the gun control debate has allowed it to block lifesaving gun legislation for decades. But is there any truth to this bumper-sticker logic? Dennis Henigan exposes the mythology and misguided thinking at the core of these pro-gun catchphrases, which continue to have an outsized influence on public attitudes toward guns and gun control. He counters the gun lobby’s messages by weaving together the most compelling current research and insights drawn from the grim reality of deadly gunfire in our homes and communities. Henigan charts a new path toward ending the American nightmare of gun violence. Pro-Gun Myths Include: “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.” “An armed society is a polite society.” “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” “Gun control doesn’t work because criminals don’t follow the law.” “Gun manufacturers shouldn’t be responsible for gun crime, any more than Budweiser is responsible for drunk driving.” “We don’t need new gun laws. We just need to enforce the ones we have.” “Gun control is a slippery slope to complete gun bans.”

Unholy Heart

Author : Grace Bauer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149622650X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Unholy Heart written by Grace Bauer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nebraska Book Award, Poetry Honor Unholy Heart includes generous selections from each of Grace Bauer's previous books of poetry, plus a sampling of new poems. Bauer has long been known for the wide range of both her subject matter and poetic styles, from the biblical persona poems of The Women at the Well, to the explorations of visual art in Beholding Eye, to the intersections of personal history and pop culture in Retreats and Recognitions and Nowhere All At Once, and to the postmodern fragmentations in MEAN/TIME. Along with these selections, Bauer incorporates her most elegiac work yet.

1914

Author : Dr Peter Liddle
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848847777
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book 1914 written by Dr Peter Liddle and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening battles on the Western Front marked a watershed in military history. A dramatic, almost Napoleonic war of movement quickly gave way to static, attritional warfare in which modern weaponry had forced the combatants to take to the earth. Some of the last cavalry charges took place in the same theatre in which armoured cars, motorcycles and aeroplanes were beginning to make their presence felt.??These dramatic developments were recorded in graphic detail by soldiers who were eyewitnesses to them. There is a freshness and immediacy to their accounts which Matthew Richardson exploits in this thoroughgoing reassessment of the 1914 campaign. ??His vivid narrative emphasises the perspective of the private soldiers and the junior officers of the British Army, the men at the sharp end of the fighting.??This title has full colour plates containing over 100 illustrations.??Britain At War Magazine Book of the Month February 2014

Reports of Committees

Author : United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Reports of Committees written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Boy's Miscellany

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Boy's Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

TALES OF THE SEA – Premium Collection: 12 Maritime Adventure Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026866665
Total Pages : 5098 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book TALES OF THE SEA – Premium Collection: 12 Maritime Adventure Novels in One Volume (Illustrated) written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 5098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "TALES OF THE SEA – Premium Collection: 12 Maritime Adventure Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels: The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea The Red Rover: A Tale The Water-Witch: The Skimmer of the Seas Homeward Bound: The Chase (A Tale of the Sea) Home as Found: Sequel to Homeward Bound Mercedes of Castile: The Voyage to Cathay The Two Admirals The Wing-and-Wing: Le Feu-Follet (Jack o Lantern) Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale Miles Wallingford: Sequel to Afloat and Ashore Jack Tier: The Florida Reefs The Sea Lions: The Lost Sealers Biography: Ned Myers: A Life before the Mast James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Before embarking on his career as a writer, Cooper served in the U.S. Navy as a Midshipman, which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about counterespionage set during the Revolutionary War. He also wrote numerous sea stories, and his best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period known as the Leatherstocking Tales. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.

Ned Myers, Or, A Life Before the Mast

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Ned Myers, Or, A Life Before the Mast written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cooper's Novels

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Cooper's Novels written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Works

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Works written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Over By Christmas

Author : Frank Tayell
Publisher : Frank Tayell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over By Christmas written by Frank Tayell and published by Frank Tayell. This book was released on with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two deaths could be an accident. Three must be murder. 2039, twenty years after the AIs went to war, plague and famine has reduced the global population to a hundred million. Most of the planet is a wasteland, with only a handful of enclave-nations preserving a dim shadow of civilisation. Technology has regressed to the era of steam trains, telegrams, and sailing boats, but democracy survived and is again under threat. Three terrorist insurgencies have swept across Europe, pillaging farms, burning villages, destroying two decades of fragile recovery. Those refugees who escaped the massacres fled to the coast. Like a century before, Calais and Dunkirk have become the front line. On the home front, rationing continues, and another ice-age winter has begun. Christmas is only days away, but Constable Ruth Deering’s mood is anything but festive. In the walled city of Dover, a lonely chef is discovered dead, poisoned. What first appeared to be an accident is soon suspected to be the work of a serial killer who is certain to strike again. On the front line, Henry Mitchell doesn’t view this as war, just another crime against humanity during the twenty-year-long battle for survival. As hastily built bastions are fortified by a conscript-militia, Mitchell ventures deep behind the lines, hunting for the mastermind responsible for this latest assault. In the new British capital of Twynham, a peace treaty with the separatist kingdom of Leicester is in peril. Until it’s signed, the soldiers laying siege to the royalist redoubt can’t be redeployed to the front. As rusting tanks are recovered for repair, as new regiments are raised, and spies are sent east, the nation prepares for a war that certainly won’t be over by Christmas.

The Universal spy; or, The London weekly magazine. (By Timothy Truepenny).

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Universal spy; or, The London weekly magazine. (By Timothy Truepenny). written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Riverace... Cold Warrior

Author : Thomas J. Highstreet
Publisher : Harry
ISBN 13 : 9781418447106
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Riverace... Cold Warrior written by Thomas J. Highstreet and published by Harry. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They called him Chief. After almost seventeen years in the United States Navy, the United States Army wanted him for duty in Vietnam. A lifetime of an association with boats from Chris Craft in his home town in Michigan, to years at sea and ashore with the Navy, he was now about to jump to the Officer level in the Army from a non-commissioned petty officer rank in the Navy. But boats would continue to be the major factor in his life as he also moved from Cold Warrior to Hot Warrior in an advisory role fro the South Vietnamese, and along the rivers and marshes and jungle of an Asian country at war. There would be live ammunition and dead soldiers, but Thomas J. Highstreet, Warrant Officer 1, wasn't going to waste his energy as a newly appointed warrant officer on matters not within his control. He had only a few years left in his military career and had no intention of allowing them to slip by without a total commitment to the duty he had accepted. He fully believed he would not die trying, he would live doing. He was ready, and, he would survive. He was a warrior.

The Art and Science of Military Deception

Author : Hy Rothstein
Publisher : Artech House
ISBN 13 : 1608075516
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Art and Science of Military Deception written by Hy Rothstein and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that deception among people in a civilized society is something to be loathed even though it seems to be part of human nature; but deception in war is a virtue. Properly designed and executed, stratagems reduce the horrific costs of war. This book is a comprehensive collection of classic articles on deception, hand-picked and expertly introduced by well-known experts on military deception. The purpose of this book is to set in motion a renaissance for using deception as an instrument of statecraft. The various sections are designed to cumulatively provide sufficient breadth and depth on the subject to satisfy both the novice as well as the expert. Packed with expert commentary, interesting background information, and original readings, this book provides the reader with sufficient knowledge to pursue General Eisenhower’s vision for the proper role of deception in support of the national interest.

War Expenditures

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1334 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Expenditures written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Department and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Battle for Skyline Ridge

Author : James E. Parker
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504060156
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Battle for Skyline Ridge written by James E. Parker and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An incredibly powerful account of a little-known chapter in the Vietnam War saga” written by a CIA veteran who fought in the Secret War (Booklist, starred review). In the 1960s and ’70s, the Laotian Civil War became a covert theater for the conflict in Vietnam, with the US paramilitary backing the Royal Lao government in what came to be known among the CIA as the Secret War. In late 1971, the North Vietnamese Army launched Campaign Z, invading northern Laos on a mission to defeat the Royal Lao Army. General Giap had specifically ordered the NVA troops to kill the CIA army and occupy its field headquarters in the Long Tieng valley. The NVA faced the small rag-tag army of Vang Pao, mostly Thai irregulars recruited to fight for the CIA. But thousands more were quickly recruited, trained, and rushed into position in Laos to defend against the impending NVA invasion. Despite overwhelming odds in the NVA’s favor, the battle raged for more than one hundred days—the longest battle in the Vietnam War. In the end, it all came down to Skyline Ridge. Whoever won Skyline, won Laos. Historian James E. Parker Jr. served as a CIA paramilitary officer in Laos. In this authoritative and personal account, Parker draws from his own firsthand experience as well as extensive research into CIA files and North Vietnamese after-action reports in order to tell the full story of the battle of Skyline Ridge.