By Bent Corydon
ISBN-10: 0818404442
ISBN-13: 9780818404443
An in-depth biography that tells the no holds barred tale of Hubbard the rip-off artist and his Church of Scientology.
By James Hudson Taylor
By Piers Anthony
ISBN-10: 0380708744
ISBN-13: 9780380708741
By Jeff Kisseloff
ISBN-10: 0813124166
ISBN-13: 9780813124162
ISBN-10: 0813171563
ISBN-13: 9780813171562
The political and cultural upheaval of the '60s has develop into a subject matter blighted through misconceptions and stereotypes. To many, it truly is synonymous with frequent drug abuse, failed social experiments, and common irresponsibility. regardless of sustained public curiosity, few do not forget that some of the freedoms and rights american citizens get pleasure from this present day are the direct results of those that defied the status quo in this tumultuous interval. It was once an period that challenged either mainstream and elite American notions of the way politics and society may still functionality. In iteration on hearth, Jeff Kisseloff's carrying on with paintings in oral heritage, witnesses discuss their reasons and activities through the Sixties in the course of the current. Kisseloff presents an eclectic and hugely own account of the political and social task of the last decade. between different issues, the ebook bargains firsthand bills of what it used to be prefer to face a mob's wrath within the segregated South and to outlive the jungles of Vietnam. It takes readers contained in the court of the Chicago 8 and right into a communal family in Vermont. From the degree at Woodstock to the taking part in fields of the NFL and at last to a fateful war of words at Kent nation, iteration on fireplace brings the '60s alive back. during this riveting selection of never-before released interviews, new release on hearth unapologetically contextualizes the area of the Nineteen Sixties, illuminating the ingrained social and cultural stumbling blocks dealing with these operating for swap in addition to the braveness and shortcomings of these who defied "acceptable" conventions and mores. occasionally tragic, occasionally hilarious, the tales during this quantity have a good time the eagerness, braveness, and autonomous pondering that led a iteration to think switch for the higher used to be attainable.
By Anthony Summers
Updated with the newest proof, Pulitzer Prize finalist Anthony Summers’s crucial, acclaimed account of President Kennedy’s assassination
“He used to be retaining out his hand . . . He seemed questioned . . . Then he slumped in my lap . . . I saved bending over him asserting, ‘Jack, Jack, are you able to listen me? i like you, Jack . . .’ The seat was once choked with blood and crimson roses . . . .” —Jacqueline Kennedy, recalling the deadly second in Dallas
Fifty years on, such a lot american citizens nonetheless consider they've got no longer been instructed the reality approximately President Kennedy’s loss of life. leader Justice Warren, who chaired the 1st inquiry, acknowledged “some issues” that “involve safety” may not be published in our lifetime. thousands of pages of assassination files have been eventually made public within the overdue Nineties. but the CIA is withholding greater than one thousand files below “national security”—until 2017.
Why? Why carry those files again if—as we have been advised part a century ago—Lee Harvey Oswald used to be a lone murderer? Anthony Summers got down to write a competent account of the homicide secret that haunts America.Not on your Lifetime, during this clean version, is among the best books written at the assassination.
By James U. Cross
ISBN-10: 0292717687
ISBN-13: 9780292717688
ISBN-10: 0292794649
ISBN-13: 9780292794641
When Lyndon Baines Johnson desired to cross someplace, there has been no preventing him. This dynamic president known as for Air strength One as others summon a taxi—at a moment's discover, regardless of the hour or the elements. And the fellow who made yes that LBJ obtained his journey was once basic James U. move, the president's hand-picked pilot, most sensible army assistant, and private confidante. one of many few Air strength One pilots to have a place, concurrently, within the White residence, basic pass is usually the one member of LBJ's internal circle who has no longer publicly provided his memories of the president. during this publication, he is going at the checklist, making a interesting, behind-the-scenes portrait of America's complicated, frequently contradictory, continually larger-than-life thirty-sixth president.
General go tells an engrossing tale. as well as piloting Air strength One all over the world, he served President Johnson in a number of capacities, together with directing the army workplace within the White residence; handling a mystery two-million-dollar presidential emergency fund; supervising the presidential retreat at Camp David, the president's complete transportation fleet, and the presidential bomb shelters; working the White residence Mess; hiring White condominium social aides, together with the president's destiny son-in-law, Charles Robb; and writing condolence letters to the households of squaddies killed in Vietnam. This wide-ranging, around-the-clock entry to President Johnson allowed pass to witness occasions and proportion moments that upload colour and intensity to our figuring out of America's arguably so much challenging and unpredictable president.
By William E. Leuchtenburg
ISBN-10: 0061836966
ISBN-13: 9780061836961
When the steadiness of yank lifestyles was once threatened by means of the good melancholy, the decisive and visionary coverage contained in FDR's New Deal provided the US a manner ahead. during this groundbreaking paintings, William E. Leuchtenburg lines the evolution of what was once either the main arguable and potent socioeconomic initiative ever undertaken within the United States—and explains how the social textile of yank existence was once eternally altered. It deals illuminating classes at the demanding situations of financial transformation—for our time and for all time.
By Robert B. Talisse
ISBN-10: 0534583695
ISBN-13: 9780534583699
This short textual content assists scholars in figuring out Rawls' philosophy and pondering to allow them to extra totally have interaction in beneficial, clever category discussion and increase their figuring out after all content material. a part of the Wadsworth Notes sequence, (which will ultimately encompass nearly a hundred titles, every one concentrating on a unmarried "thinker" from precedent days to the present), ON RAWLS is written by way of a thinker deeply versed within the philosophy of this key philosopher. Like different books within the sequence, this concise ebook bargains enough perception into the taking into account a amazing thinker, higher allowing scholars to interact in interpreting and to debate the cloth at school and on paper.
By Herbert O Yardley, Sam Sloan
ISBN-10: 0948353767
ISBN-13: 9780948353765
Out of 7 saloons which ran poker video games, Monty's position was once the single fresh one. The poker site itself used to be on the rear of the saloon and was once approximately twenty toes sq. with barred home windows excessive above the floor and an iron wooden range on the finish saved polished by way of the city fool, referred to as Dummy. The home windows had darkish, drawn curtains. The partitions have been unplastered brick, the woodwork painted white, and the ground scrubbed. within the centre was once a wide around desk coated with eco-friendly billiard textile and surrounded by way of seven cane chairs. Others, for loafers and kibitzers, have been scattered right here and there or have been grouped round the range whilst the elements was once chilly. The desk was once lighted through a unmarried bulb, prolonged to the centre by way of a twine from the ceiling and shaded opposed to the eyes of the gamers. together with every one chair used to be a spittoon; others have been at handy spots
By J Lee Thompson
ISBN-10: 1851968911
ISBN-13: 9781851968916
Whilst Alfred Milner (1854-1925) was once knighted, he took as his motto Communis Patria, 'patriotism for our universal country'. by means of this he intended the broader patriotism of the British Empire, the furthering of which he made his life's paintings. this can be the 1st examine of Milner to take his politics, or 'constructive' imperialism as its fundamental topic. His profession is tested as a complete, from the genesis of his imperial ideology at Oxford, via his time as excessive Commissioner in South Africa in the course of the Boer battle, to his days as Minister of warfare through the ultimate seven months of the 1st international warfare. Famously, Milner propagated his rules via his 'kindergarten', a gaggle of like-minded younger male acolytes. during this attention-grabbing publication, J Lee Thompson additionally discovers a gaggle of younger girl supporters of his imaginative and prescient. This e-book is predicated on large basic learn in records within the united kingdom, North the United States and South Africa.