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Because Our Fathers Lied
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Author : Craig McNamara
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-05-10
Because Our Fathers Lied written by Craig McNamara and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This unforgettable father and son story confronts the legacy of the Vietnam War across two generations: “an important book that should be read by every American” (Ron Kovic, Vietnam Veteran and author of Born on the Fourth of July). Craig McNamara came of age in the political tumult and upheaval of the late 60s. While Craig McNamara would grow up to take part in anti-war demonstrations, his father, Robert McNamara, served as John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Defense and the architect of the Vietnam War. This searching and revealing memoir offers an intimate picture of one father and son at pivotal periods in American history. Because Our Fathers Lied is more than a family story—it is a story about America. Before Robert McNamara joined Kennedy's cabinet, he was an executive who helped turn around Ford Motor Company. Known for his tremendous competence and professionalism, McNamara came to symbolize "the best and the brightest." Craig, his youngest child and only son, struggled in his father's shadow. When he ultimately fails his draft board physical, Craig decides to travel by motorcycle across Central and South America, learning more about the art of agriculture and making what he defines as an honest living. By the book's conclusion, Craig McNamara is farming walnuts in Northern California and coming to terms with his father's legacy. Because Our Fathers Lied tells the story of the war from the perspective of a single, unforgettable American family.
Because Our Fathers Lied
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Author : Paul Hendrickson
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2017-08-08
Because Our Fathers Lied written by Paul Hendrickson and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-08 with History categories.
Robert S. McNamara was the official face of Vietnam, the technocrat with steel-rimmed glasses and an ironclad faith in numbers who kept insisting that the war was winnable long after he had ceased to believe it was. In his insightful, morally devastating book, The Living and the Dead, Paul Hendrickson juxtaposes Robert S. McNamara's story with those of a wounded Marine, an Army nurse, a Vietnamese refugee, a Quaker who burned himself to death to protest the war, and an enraged artist who tried to kill the man he saw as the war's architect. This is the brilliant, emotional coda where, in meticulous yet compassionate prose, Hendrickson captures his chase after the story of the man and the haunted years of McNamara’s life after Vietnam. A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.
Summary Of Craig Mcnamara S Because Our Fathers Lied
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-07-02T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Craig Mcnamara S Because Our Fathers Lied written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-02T22:59:00Z with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was 15 years old when I called my father from boarding school. He told me that he would have his secretary get on sending me antiwar material, but I never received it. I felt distant from my peers after that. #2 I had four and a half years of high school at Sidwell Friends School in Washington. It was a Quaker school, and the only organized religion that has ever made sense to me is the Quaker faith. At the end of eighth grade, one of my good friends disappeared and went to boarding school. #3 I was at St. Paul’s boarding school in 1964, and while I enjoyed the privileges of the school, I soon realized that they came with a price. #4 I had to go to therapy or be expelled from school. I was the son of Robert McNamara, who was considered one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. I suffered from test-taking anxiety, and the masters thought a shrink could cure it.
Because Our Fathers Lied
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Author : J. Leahy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-06-10
Because Our Fathers Lied written by J. Leahy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-10 with categories.
Truth is the first casualty of war. Tom Carpentier knew this well. A WW-II destroyer commander, he had spent years as skipper of merchant vessels carrying war materials to Vietnam. But when his daughter, a Navy nurse, died under mysterious circumstances in Danang in December 1966, his attempt to learn what had happened was stonewalled at every turn. Becky Franks knew this too. Her father, George, was torpedoed aboard USS Reuben James (DD-245) on October 31,1941. Everything that she or her family learned was contained in a 46-word word telegram from the Navy Department. On July 4, 1968 fate united them. Tom's ship, the Rita E. Sykes was loading munitions in Philadelphia, while Becky, a pacifist, marched in an antiwar protest at Independence Hall. The non-violent protest was hijacked by radicals and rioting resulted. Becky and her friends ran toward the port and into the arms of angry, violent longshoremen where Becky was severely injured. In desperation, she sought refuge aboard the Rita E and cowered, semi-conscious, on the main deck until the ship sailed. She was later discovered, and Tom came to her aid. In casual conversation, they discovered that they shared a common hole in the heart. Tom offered his assistance in discovering the circumstances of her father's death, while investigating the death of his own daughter. Over the next weeks, with the assistance of Tom's old shipmate at the Naval Historical Center in Washington, both learned that much of what they knew about their loved ones deaths was false. Not only was the information incorrect, but in both cases it became obvious that dishonesty and deceit at the highest level of government was directly responsible for their deaths. This is a work of fiction, but it is based upon verifiable, documented evidence. Extensive references are presented in the text and appendices.
Because Our Fathers Lied
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Author : Paula Astridge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-02
Because Our Fathers Lied written by Paula Astridge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02 with categories.
There were many fine British officers in command during the Boer War and WW1, but this book is based on the ones who weren't. Those, arrogant and inept at modern warfare, who sent thousands of Australian soldiers to the slaughter, using them as cannon fodder in a bloodbath of mindless commands, blunders and butchery. With their host of medals ......
Sites Of Memory Sites Of Mourning
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Author : Jay Winter
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-15
Sites Of Memory Sites Of Mourning written by Jay Winter and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with History categories.
This 'collective remembrance' of the Great War reassesses one of the critical episodes in twentieth-century cultural history.
Melange
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Author : Thomas Birmingham
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Release Date : 2009-10
Melange written by Thomas Birmingham and has been published by Dorrance Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10 with Poetry categories.
The Dead Fathers Club
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Author : Matt Haig
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2018-01-04
The Dead Fathers Club written by Matt Haig and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-04 with Fiction categories.
FROM THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband's brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip's life crumble away when his father's ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him. Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard, Philip vows to carry out the ghost's relentless demands for revenge. But can the words of a ghost be trusted any more than the lies of the living?
Handbook Of British Literature And Culture Of The First World War
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Author : Ralf Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-09-20
Handbook Of British Literature And Culture Of The First World War written by Ralf Schneider and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today. The continuing interest in World War I highlights the interdependence of war experience, the imaginative re-creation of that experience in writing, and individual as well as collective memory. In the first part of the handbook, the major genres of war writing and film are addressed, including of course poetry and the novel, but also the short story; furthermore, it is shown how our conception of the Great War is broadened when looked at from the perspective of gender studies and post-colonial criticism. The chapters in the second part present close readings of important contributions to the literary and filmic representation of World War I in Great Britain. All in all, the contributions demonstrate how the opposing forces of focusing and canon-formation on the one hand, and broadening and revision of the canon on the other, have characterised British literature and culture of the First World War.
Their Fathers Lied
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Author : James Thurbin
language : en
Publisher: Bright Pen
Release Date : 2009-12
Their Fathers Lied written by James Thurbin and has been published by Bright Pen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12 with Fiction categories.
'Do you remember Billy Mercer?' 'Now that is a name I have not heard in a long time. Yes, I remember Billy Mercer. There was a time when I thought of that man every single day.' He returned his gaze to his friend with a smile that held tenderness and a little regret. Billy Mercer, a man of indomitable spirit and character joins the Great War and witnesses the death of everyone he cares for, in battles of horrifying carnage, time and time again. Repeatedly promoted and decorated due to his fighting ability, Mercer finds more tragedy and approaches despair until the love of an attached woman almost saves him. Upon discovery he is sent back again to face his demons at the front line. Can his knack of surviving death hold out this final time? 'Their Fathers Lied' A novel on love and death during the Great War