Bringing Down The Colonel
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Bringing Down The Colonel
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Author : Patricia Miller
language : en
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Release Date : 2018-11-13
Bringing Down The Colonel written by Patricia Miller and has been published by Sarah Crichton Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-13 with History categories.
“I’ll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.” In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women’s rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined,” Pollard brought the man—and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality—to trial. And, surprisingly, she won. Pollard and the married Colonel Breckinridge began their decade-long affair when she was just a teenager. After the death of his wife, Breckinridge asked for Pollard’s hand—and then broke off the engagement to marry another woman. But Pollard struck back, suing Breckinridge for breach of promise in a shockingly public trial. With premarital sex considered irredeemably ruinous for a woman, Pollard was asserting the unthinkable: that the sexual morality of men and women should be judged equally. Nearly 125 years after the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal, America is still obsessed with women’s sexual morality. And in the age of Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein, we’ve witnessed fraught public reckonings with a type of sexual exploitation unnervingly similar to that experienced by Pollard. Using newspaper articles, personal journals, previously unpublished autobiographies, and letters, Bringing Down the Colonel tells the story of one of the earliest women to publicly fight back.
The Colonel
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Author : Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
language : en
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Release Date : 2015-08-15
The Colonel written by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi and has been published by Haus Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-15 with Fiction categories.
A pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the past, all of them assassinated or executed. Memories of his children, who had joined the different factions of the 1979 revolution. There is a knock on the door. Two young policemen have come to summon the Colonel to collect the tortured body of his youngest daughter and bury her before sunrise. The Islamic Revolution, like every other revolution in history, is devouring its own children. And whose fault is that? This shocking diatribe against the failures of the Iranian left over the last fifty years does not leave one taboo unbroken.
George Washington
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Author : Sterling North
language : en
Publisher: Young Voyageur
Release Date : 2016-10-15
George Washington written by Sterling North and has been published by Young Voyageur this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Be amazed by the early life of George Washington you've never heard before with this new, illustrated edition of the classic biography by Sterling North.
Tree Of Smoke
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Author : Denis Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2007-09-04
Tree Of Smoke written by Denis Johnson and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-04 with Fiction categories.
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That's me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson's first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
Colonel Sanders And The American Dream
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Author : Josh Ozersky
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2012-04-15
Colonel Sanders And The American Dream written by Josh Ozersky and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Attempts to biographize corporate mascot and real human being Harland Sanders better known as Colonel Sanders, the man who started what would become the restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Against All Enemies
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Author : Tom Clancy
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-06-14
Against All Enemies written by Tom Clancy and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-14 with Fiction categories.
Racing from the remote, war-scarred landscapes of the Middle East to the blood-soaked chaos of the U.S.-Mexico border, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy delivers a heart-stopping thriller that is frighteningly close to reality. Working behind the scenes for the CIA, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive and barely escapes with his life. Undaunted, Moore is relentless in his quest to find the terrorist cell responsible, but what he discovers leads him to a much darker conspiracy in an unexpected part of the globe... After years of planning, the Taliban have come to terms with a vicious Mexican drug cartel and agreed to supply them with opium. For the cartel, the deal means money, power, and ultimate control of the drug trade. But for the Taliban, it is a long awaited opportunity: to exploit the cartels and bring the fire of the jihad to the hearts of the infidels, striking against the very heart of America.
The Colonel S Lady
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Author : Laura Frantz
language : en
Publisher: Revell
Release Date : 2011-08
The Colonel S Lady written by Laura Frantz and has been published by Revell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08 with Fiction categories.
In 1779, a search for her officer-father brings Roxanna Rowan to the Kentucky frontier--but she discovers instead the young Colonel Cassius McLinn, a dark secret and a compelling reason to stay. Original.
Exit The Colonel
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Author : Ethan Chorin
language : en
Publisher: Public Affairs
Release Date : 2012-10-23
Exit The Colonel written by Ethan Chorin and has been published by Public Affairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-23 with History categories.
The inside story of the decades-long unravelling of the Gaddafi regime, and of the West's role in both empowering his dictatorship and seeding revolution.
Renegade Colonel
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Author : Bill Murray
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009-11
Renegade Colonel written by Bill Murray and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
To say Bill Murray's entire life has been unconventional would be an understatement! After all, how many people have lived in Canada, England, Spain and traveled the world; burned down a barn and two houses, graduated from the Air Force Academy (1975), and while there burned up a dorm room; played collegiate football, wresting, and lacrosse; flown supersonic fighters, got booted out of the Air Force over a wet rug, only to be reinstated a few years later; crashed an aerobatic plane and survived, had cancer and survived, had children and survived? You get the idea! In Renegade Colonel, Murray recounts his experiences from childhood through his Air Force career. From his early years an F-111 WSO to his later years in leadership positions as a senior director in the Air Force, Bill has had the experiences of a lifetime. He wrote this book because in years to come, he wants his family and friends to be able to share in the memories and travel back in time, if only for a few chapters. Renegade Colonel is a book of unbelievable lifetime experiences experiences anyone could enjoy vicariously and learn from!
The Colonel S Wife
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Author : Rosa Liksom
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2019-11-05
The Colonel S Wife written by Rosa Liksom and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with Fiction categories.
A bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who “conjures beauty from the ugliest of things” (The Wall Street Journal) In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel’s Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political movements, the narrator describes her childhood as the daughter of a member of the right-wing Finnish Whites before World War II, and the way she became involved with and eventually married the Colonel, who was thirty years her senior. During the war, he came and went as they fraternized with the Nazi elite and retreated together into the deepest northern wilds. As both the marriage and the war turn increasingly dark and destructive, Rosa Liksom renders a complex and unsavory character in a prose style that is striking in its paradoxical beauty. Based on a true story, The Colonel’s Wife is both a brilliant portrayal of an individual psychology and a stark warning about the perils of nationalism.