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The Lady and the Generals

Author : Peter Popham
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1846043719
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Lady and the Generals written by Peter Popham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was a heroine of our time, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Then, in 2010, Burma's generals opened the door a chink: Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest, and her country began to change. Suu Kyi's acclaimed biographer, Peter Popham, describes what happened next. Travelling across the country, meeting aristocrats, monks and politicians, freedom fighters, punks and rebels, he shows how hope has slowly returned to the lives of ordinary Burmese. He also examines the fate of the hill tribes, and how the world's politicians and businessmen are striving for influence. But with greater openness, long-suppressed prejudices have burst into the open: intolerant Buddhist preachers have whipped up the latent hostility of the Burmese against people of other races and beliefs, especially the Muslim Rohingya. When Aung San Suu Kyi was elected to parliament, she began to negotiate with the military. Yet she has declined to take a firm stand on minority rights - to the dismay of many in the West. The Lady and the Generals offers a trenchant and compelling portrait of this fascinating country and asks where Burma and Suu Kyi herself - with her bravery, her brilliance and her limitations - are heading next. Praise for The Lady and the Peacock: 'What a gift to our world and what a splendid telling of [Aung San Suu Kyi's life]. We are deeply indebted to Peter Popham for such a superb account' - Archbishop Desmond Tutu 'Sensitive and moving' - Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and compelling in every aspect' - Joanna Lumley 'Warm and objective...will not be bettered for a long time' - Independent on Sunday

The Lady and the Generals

Author : Peter Popham
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1846043727
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Lady and the Generals written by Peter Popham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was a heroine of our time, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Then, in 2010, Burma's generals opened the door a chink: Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest, and her country began to change. Suu Kyi's acclaimed biographer, Peter Popham, describes what happened next. Travelling across the country, meeting aristocrats, monks and politicians, freedom fighters, punks and rebels, he shows how hope has slowly returned to the lives of ordinary Burmese. He also examines the fate of the hill tribes, and how the world's politicians and businessmen are striving for influence. But with greater openness, long-suppressed prejudices have burst into the open: intolerant Buddhist preachers have whipped up the latent hostility of the Burmese against people of other races and beliefs, especially the Muslim Rohingya. When Aung San Suu Kyi was elected to parliament, she began to negotiate with the military. Yet she has declined to take a firm stand on minority rights - to the dismay of many in the West. The Lady and the Generals offers a trenchant and compelling portrait of this fascinating country and asks where Burma and Suu Kyi herself - with her bravery, her brilliance and her limitations - are heading next. Praise for The Lady and the Peacock: 'What a gift to our world and what a splendid telling of [Aung San Suu Kyi's life]. We are deeply indebted to Peter Popham for such a superb account' - Archbishop Desmond Tutu 'Sensitive and moving' - Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and compelling in every aspect' - Joanna Lumley 'Warm and objective...will not be bettered for a long time' - Independent on Sunday

Mamie Doud Eisenhower

Author : Marilyn Irvin Holt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mamie Doud Eisenhower written by Marilyn Irvin Holt and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Mamie Eisenhower, who accomplished many things that were overlooked by her contemporaries and used her popularity to the benefit of her husband while changing the role of first lady, and covers her experience as an army wife and how it prepared her for the White House during the McCarthy era.

The Lady and the Peacock

Author : Peter Popham
Publisher : The Experiment
ISBN 13 : 1615190813
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book The Lady and the Peacock written by Peter Popham and published by The Experiment. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi—known to the world as an icon for democracy and nonviolent dissent in oppressed Burma, and to her followers as simply “The Lady”—has recently returned to international headlines. Now, this major new biography offers essential reading at a moment when Burma, after decades of stagnation, is once again in flux. Suu Kyi’s remarkable life begins with that of her father, Aung San. The architect of Burma’s independence, he was assassinated when she was only two. Suu Kyi grew up in India (where her mother served as ambassador), studied at Oxford, and worked for three years at the UN in New York. In 1972, she married Michael Aris, a British scholar. They had two sons, and for several years she lived as a self-described “housewife”—but she never forgot that she was the daughter of Burma’s national hero. In April 1988, Suu Kyi returned to Burma to nurse her sick mother. Within six months, she was leading the largest popular revolt in the country’s history. She was put under house arrest by the regime, but her party won a landslide victory in the 1990 elections, which the regime refused to recognize. In 1991, still under arrest, she received the Nobel Peace Prize. Altogether, she has spent over fifteen years in detention and narrowly escaped assassination twice. Peter Popham distills five years of research—including covert trips to Burma, meetings with Suu Kyi and her friends and family, and extracts from the unpublished diaries of her co-campaigner and former confidante Ma Thanegi—into this vivid portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi, illuminating her public successes and private sorrows, her intellect and enduring sense of humor, her commitment to peaceful revolution, and the extreme price she has paid for it.

The General & The Lady

Author : J. Paul Hickey
Publisher : Page Publishing, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1647015383
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The General & The Lady written by J. Paul Hickey and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major General John Fulton Reynolds was destined to become one of the most famous officers of America's Civil War. He was greatly admired and respected by the men he commanded and by the men who commanded him. President Abraham Lincoln even wanted Reynolds to lead his vast Army of the Potomac. Fate, however, had different plans for the general. He was shot and killed on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, taking with him a secret so deep, not even his close family members knew about it. The secret was discovered only when his body was being prepared for burial. Mysterious objects were found hanging from small chains around his neck. It turns out General Reynolds, who was stern, aloof, and highly principled, had a hidden love affair with a woman much younger than him. Why they had kept their love so private is embroiled with the intrigue of an era driven by war and prejudice so intense, it split the country apart. Their story of true love found and tragically lost is the story of a nation trying to find purpose and meaning among unbridled hatred and bigotry. To listen to the author's interview with Steffan Tubbs on KNUS Radio, Denver click HERE! To view the author's personal website, click HERE!

General Bounce; Or, The Lady and the Locusts

Author : G. J. Whyte-Melville
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book General Bounce; Or, The Lady and the Locusts written by G. J. Whyte-Melville and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'General Bounce; Or, The Lady and the Locusts" by G. J. Whyte-Melville is a novel that begins on a bright summer day in England. Mrs. Kettering and her daughter Blanche struggle to "trim the boat" as they sail along with Mrs. Kettering's nephew, "Cousin Charlie," and the boat's owner, "Hairblower." Mrs. Kettering, a large and matronly woman, finds it hard to balance the boat with her much lighter daughter, who is delicate and fragile. Meanwhile, Charlie rows hard, and Hairblower guides the boat. And so begins the story of this odd group of individuals who will learn valuable lessons about life and love in "General Bounce"; a classic novel of adventure and romance.

General Bounce, or The Lady and the Locusts

Author : George J. Whyte-Melville
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book General Bounce, or The Lady and the Locusts written by George J. Whyte-Melville and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel tells the story of Mrs. Kettering. Mrs. Kettering had gone through her share of troubles in her youth. The late Mr. K. her husband was more respectable than romantic. For years they toiled and amassed, and old Kettering attended closely to business, though he never showed his books to his wife. Will he bequeath his properties, personal and otherwise, to his well-beloved wife?

General Bounce, Or, The Lady and the Locusts

Author : George John Whyte-Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book General Bounce, Or, The Lady and the Locusts written by George John Whyte-Melville and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God's Generals

Author : Roberts Liardon
Publisher : Whitaker House
ISBN 13 : 1603741712
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book God's Generals written by Roberts Liardon and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In God’s Generals, Roberts Liardon will help you recapture God’s glory with compelling spiritual biographies of some of the most powerful ministries to ever ignite the fires of revival. Liardon faithfully chronicles their lives in this work, along with their teachings, their spiritual discoveries, and many revealing photos. Four of God’s Generals who you will meet include: William J. Seymour, the son of ex-slave, who turned a tiny horse table on Azusa Street, Los Angeles, into an internationally famous center of revival Aimee Semple McPherson, the glamourous and flamboyant founder of the Foursquare Church and the nation’s first Christian radio station Smith Wigglesworth, the plumber who read no book but the Bible—and raised the dead! Kathryn Kuhlman, the beloved evangelist whose miracle-filled meetings drew millions of skeptics to faith

The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

Author : Thant Myint-U
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324003308
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century written by Thant Myint-U and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did one of the world’s "buzzy hotspots" (Fodor’s 2013) become one of the top ten places to avoid (Fodor’s 2018)? Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma’s population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. But when decades of military dictatorship finally ended and internationally beloved Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from long years of house arrest, hopes soared. World leaders such as Barack Obama ushered in waves of international support. Progress seemed inevitable. As historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U saw the cracks forming. In this insider’s diagnosis of a country at a breaking point, he dissects how a singularly predatory economic system, fast-rising inequality, disintegrating state institutions, the impact of new social media, the rise of China next door, climate change, and deep-seated feelings around race, religion, and national identity all came together to challenge the incipient democracy. Interracial violence soared and a horrific exodus of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fixed international attention. Myint-U explains how and why this happened, and details an unsettling prognosis for the future. Burma is today a fragile stage for nearly all the world’s problems. Are democracy and an economy that genuinely serves all its people possible in Burma? In clear and urgent prose, Myint-U explores this question—a concern not just for the Burmese but for the rest of the world—warning of the possible collapse of this nation of 55 million while suggesting a fresh agenda for change.

The Curiosity: or, the Gentleman and lady's general library

Author : CURIOSITY.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Curiosity: or, the Gentleman and lady's general library written by CURIOSITY. and published by . This book was released on 1739 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The General was a Lady

Author : Margaret Troutt
Publisher : Nashville : A. J. Holman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The General was a Lady written by Margaret Troutt and published by Nashville : A. J. Holman. This book was released on 1980 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lady

Author : Barbara Victor
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466825286
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Lady written by Barbara Victor and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2002-11-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in eBook, the first full account of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's role in the struggle against Burma's military junta. Included is a new afterword by the author, which covers events from the time of the original publication in 1998 to Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest in May 2002.

Recollections of General Grant

Author : George William Childs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recollections of General Grant written by George William Childs and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal recollections of the author's interactions with Ulysses S. Grant, plus a history of the presentation of several portraits of U.S. Civil War generals to the West Point Military Academy.

What We Owe Each Other

Author : Minouche Shafik
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069120764X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book What We Owe Each Other written by Minouche Shafik and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, aging, and the perils of climate change. Minouche Shafik takes us through stages of life we all experience—raising children, getting educated, falling ill, working, growing old—and shows how a reordering of our societies is possible. Drawing on evidence and examples from around the world, she shows how every country can provide citizens with the basics to have a decent life and be able to contribute to society. But we owe each other more than this. A more generous and inclusive society would also share more risks collectively and ask everyone to contribute for as long as they can so that everyone can fulfill their potential. What We Owe Each Other identifies the key elements of a better social contract that recognizes our interdependencies, supports and invests more in each other, and expects more of individuals in return. Powerful, hopeful, and thought-provoking, What We Owe Each Other provides practical solutions to current challenges and demonstrates how we can build a better society—together.

Bibliotheca Somersetensis: Bath books. General introduction

Author : Emanuel Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Bibliotheca Somersetensis: Bath books. General introduction written by Emanuel Green and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lady of Sing Sing

Author : Idanna Pucci
Publisher : Tiller Press
ISBN 13 : 1982139315
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Lady of Sing Sing written by Idanna Pucci and published by Tiller Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “gripping social history” (Publishers Weekly), with all the passion and pathos of a classic opera, chronicles the riveting first campaign against the death penalty waged in 1895 by American pioneer activist, Cora Slocomb, Countess of Brazzà, to save the life of a twenty-year-old illiterate Italian immigrant, Maria Barbella, who killed the man who had abused her. Previously published as The Trials of Maria Barbella. In 1895, a twenty-two-year-old Italian seamstress named Maria Barbella was accused of murdering her lover, Domenico Cataldo, after he seduced her and broke his promise to marry her. Following a sensational trial filled with inept lawyers, dishonest reporters and editors, and a crooked judge repaying political favors, the illiterate immigrant became the first woman sentenced to the newly invented electric chair at Sing Sing, where she is also the first female prisoner. Behind the scenes, a corporate war raged for the monopoly of electricity pitting two giants, Edison and Westinghouse with Nikola Tesla at his side, against each other. Enter Cora Slocomb, an American-born Italian aristocrat and activist, who launched the first campaign against the death penalty to save Maria. Rallying the New York press, Cora reached out across the social divide—from the mansions of Fifth Avenue to the tenements of Little Italy. Maria’s “crime of honor” quickly becomes a cause celebre, seizing the nation’s attention. Idanna Pucci, Cora’s great-granddaughter, masterfully recounts this astonishing story by drawing on original research and documents from the US and Italy. This dramatic page-turner, interwoven with twists and unexpected turns, grapples with the tragedy of immigration, capital punishment, ethnic prejudice, criminal justice, corporate greed, violence against women, and a woman’s right to reject the role of victim. Over a century later, this story is as urgent as ever.