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An American Requiem
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Author : James Carroll
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 1997-04-01
An American Requiem written by James Carroll and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
National Book Award winner: This story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam era is “a magnificent portrayal of two noble men who broke each other’s hearts” (Booklist). James Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His father, who had once dreamed of becoming a priest, instead began a career in J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming one of the most powerful men in the Pentagon, the founder of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Young Jim lived a privileged life, dating the daughter of a vice president and meeting the pope—all in the shadow of nuclear war, waiting for the red telephone to ring in his parents’ house. James fulfilled the goal his father had abandoned, becoming a priest himself. His feelings toward his father leaned toward worship as well—until the tumult of the 1960s came between them. Their disagreements, over Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement; turmoil in the Church; and finally, Vietnam—where the elder Carroll chose targets for US bombs—began to outweigh the bond between them. While one of James’s brothers fled to Canada, another was in law enforcement ferreting out draft dodgers. James, meanwhile, served as a chaplain at Boston University, protesting the war in the streets but ducking news cameras to avoid discovery. Their relationship would never be the same again. Only after Carroll left the priesthood to become a writer, and a husband with children of his own, did he begin to understand fully the struggles his father had faced. In An American Requiem, the New York Times bestselling author of Constantine’s Sword and Christ Actually offers a benediction, in “a moving memoir of the effect of the Vietnam War on his family that is at once personal and the story of a generation . . . at once heartbreaking and heroic, this is autobiography at its best” (Publishers Weekly).
An American Requiem
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Author : James Carroll
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942
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An American Requiem
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Author : Kim Vaeth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
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American Requiem
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Author : Jean-Christophe Buchot
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-02
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The Grass Roots People
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1978
The Grass Roots People written by and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
In a study of rapidly vanishing lifestyles but the rugged, independent spirit that shaped the American wilderness, the author looks at the people of the rural plains, valleys, mountains, and mesas of the Rocky Mountain West.
American Requiem
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Author : Gordon Mustain
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2005-12
American Requiem written by Gordon Mustain and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12 with Fiction categories.
When Eduardo "Eddie" Encinas decides to run for Congress in a Southern Arizona district, he knows he can never match the fund raising operation of his opponent, six term incumbent Congresswoman Felicia Martin. But he has a lot of faith in "Eddie's Army", the coalition of young Native American and Hispanic activists which first came together to support him during his tenure as County Commissioner, and who now staff his campaign. With the Congressional race playing out against a backdrop of ancient Native American prophecy, Eddie discovers on election night undeniable evidence of nationwide vote counting fraud. Before he can decide what to do, he finds his "Army" putting down their brochures and signs and picking up weapons in an attempt to save not just his campaign, but seven hundred years of Democracy in America.
Requiem For The American Dream
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Author : Noam Chomsky
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2017-03-28
Requiem For The American Dream written by Noam Chomsky and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-28 with Political Science categories.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack the solidarity of the people, let special interests run the regulators, engineer election results, use fear and the power of the state to keep the rabble in line, manufacture consent, marginalize the population. In Requiem for the American Dream, Chomsky devotes a chapter to each of these ten principles, and adds readings from some of the core texts that have influenced his thinking to bolster his argument. To create Requiem for the American Dream, Chomsky and his editors, the filmmakers Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott, spent countless hours together over the course of five years, from 2011 to 2016. After the release of the film version, Chomsky and the editors returned to the many hours of tape and transcript and created a document that included three times as much text as was used in the film. The book that has resulted is nonetheless arguably the most succinct and tightly woven of Chomsky's long career, a beautiful vessel--including old-fashioned ligatures in the typeface--in which to carry Chomsky's bold and uncompromising vision, his perspective on the economic reality and its impact on our political and moral well-being as a nation. "During the Great Depression, which I'm old enough to remember, it was bad–much worse subjectively than today. But there was a sense that we'll get out of this somehow, an expectation that things were going to get better . . ." —from Requiem for the American Dream
American Requiem
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Author : S Douglas Woodward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-10
American Requiem written by S Douglas Woodward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-10 with categories.
"How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!" (Jer. 50:23)The "Hammer of the Whole Earth," the "Hindermost of Nations," the "MightyBabylon" will be destroyed in the end times (Jeremiah 50:12-13, 23, 27). Is that thefuture that awaits America? Have the decisions made by our government and financialleaders established a devastating destiny for America? Has the deteriorating moralityof the nation sealed our fate? Will we decay from within or be destroyed fromwithout? There are many modern-day prophetic voices such as Jonathan Cahn, the lateDumitru Duduman, and the late David Wilkinson, that proclaim our fate is sealed...America lies at the edge of oblivion. Soon we will be a desert and a wasteland. In this book, S. Douglas Woodward, a leading authority on the intersection of Bibleprophecy and geopolitics, confirms the validity of the predictions. He speaks to whyAmerica is at the precipice, now ready to collapse, and will soon fulfill many OldTestament prophecies concerning the Daughter of Babylon."For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nationsfrom the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her" (Jer. 50:9)
Nanjing Requiem
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Author : Ha Jin
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-10-18
Nanjing Requiem written by Ha Jin and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-18 with Fiction categories.
The award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century: the Rape of Nanjing. In 1937, with the Japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Minnie Vautrin—an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women’s College—decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men and women who work there. She is painfully mistaken. In the aftermath of the invasion, the school becomes a refugee camp for more than ten thousand homeless women and children, and Vautrin must struggle, day after day, to intercede on behalf of the hapless victims. Even when order and civility are eventually restored, Vautrin remains deeply embattled, and she is haunted by the lives she could not save. With extraordinarily evocative precision, Ha Jin re-creates the terror, the harrowing deprivations, and the menace of unexpected violence that defined life in Nanjing during the occupation. In Minnie Vautrin he has given us an indelible portrait of a woman whose convictions and bravery prove, in the end, to be no match for the maelstrom of history. At once epic and intimate, Nanjing Requiem is historical fiction at its most resonant.
Charlie S Requiem Resistance
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Author : Walt Browning
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-11-17
Charlie S Requiem Resistance written by Walt Browning and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-17 with categories.
The city has become a warzone. Charlie and her companions must survive the gangs and corrupt government agents that are out to stake their claims on the nation's riches. Should she try and flee to the countryside, with each neighborhood a potential trap and every house a threat? Or should she stay and fight the building tyranny?Dwindling food supplies and the daily risks of capture are taking its toll. Mistakes are fatal, and the exhaustion that comes with living under constant danger is wearing them down.Betrayal, pain and death are the norm. Who can they turn to when everyone is the enemy? Charlie's world is about to change, and decisions that she and the other's make will lead to life or condemn them to a quick and merciless death.