Hijacking History
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Violence In The Skies
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Author : Philip Baum
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-03-10
Violence In The Skies written by Philip Baum and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-10 with Political Science categories.
Aviation security expert Philip Baum delves into the archives to reveal the stories behind the most astonishing and shocking crimes in aviation history, calling on real-life testimonies from hijackers, crew members, passengers and politicians. The human stories behind the criminal attacks that have plagued aviation since 1911 are detailed in this authoritative and thrilling account of aviation security history, from the legendary hijacks by left-wing and Palestinian groups of the twentieth century, to the more recent suicide attacks carried out by fundamentalists and the psychologically disturbed.
Hijacking History
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Author : Kathleen Wellman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
Hijacking History written by Kathleen Wellman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Education categories.
"This book insists that history matters. What if current divisions in America rest, in part, on a fundamental divergence in the understanding of our history? The book proposes the three most prominent Christian curricula have played a role through the historical narrative promoted for almost fifty years, becoming more widespread in different forms of alternative schooling from Christian schools to voucher programs, and homeschooling. Their narrative has been significant in defining Americans' understanding of the world and its history and exposes the efficacy of the alliance between certain religious interests, conservative legislators and school boards, and various corporate interests in reshaping education in the United States. The campaign for a "Christian right history" is analogous to the successful advocacy for "intelligent design" in public school science curricula. Many conservative institutions support both the inclusion of politically conservative and Christian content into school curricula"--
Hijacking History
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Author : Liane Tanguay
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2013
Hijacking History written by Liane Tanguay and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
How Bush's war commandeered history and exploited the anxieties of post-industrial America.
My Hijacking
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Author : Martha Hodes
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2023-06-06
My Hijacking written by Martha Hodes and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-06 with History categories.
In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970. On September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha Hodes and her thirteen-year-old sister were flying unaccompanied back to New York City from Israel when their plane was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and forced to land in the Jordan desert. Too young to understand the sheer gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Martha coped by suppressing her fear and anxiety. Nearly a half-century later, her memories of those six days and nights as a hostage are hazy and scattered. Was it the passage of so much time, or that her family couldn’t endure the full story, or had trauma made her repress such an intense life-and-death experience? A professional historian, Martha wanted to find out. Drawing on deep archival research, childhood memories, and conversations with relatives, friends, and fellow hostages, Martha Hodes sets out to re-create what happened to her, and what it was like for those at home desperately hoping for her return. Thrown together inside a stifling jetliner, the hostages forged friendships, provoked conflicts, and dreamed up distractions. Learning about the lives and causes of their captors—some of them kind, some frightening—the sisters pondered a deadly divide that continues today. A thrilling tale of fear, denial, and empathy, My Hijacking sheds light on the hostage crisis that shocked the world, as the author comes to a deeper understanding of both what happened in the Jordan desert in 1970 and her own fractured family and childhood sorrows.
The Skies Belong To Us
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Author : Brendan I. Koerner
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2013-06-18
The Skies Belong To Us written by Brendan I. Koerner and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-18 with True Crime categories.
The true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history. In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when shattered Army veteran Roger Holder and mischievous party girl Cathy Kerkow managred to comandeer Western Airlines Flight 701 and flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom—a heist that remains the longest-distance hijacking in American history. More than just an enthralling story about a spectacular crime and its bittersweet, decades-long aftermath, The Skies Belong to Us is also a psychological portrait of America at its most turbulent and a testament to the madness that can grip a nation when politics fail.
Hijack
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Author : Anthony Bryant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Hijack written by Anthony Bryant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Transportation categories.
This is the story of a hijacking. History records it began just after midnight March 6th, 1969 when I forced National Airlines Flight 97 to Cuba. But the true hijacking really began many years before when I was a child working with my dad cleaning up bars in San Bernardino, California. It began the first time my father blocked a door and tried to wash off the word "nigger" without me seeing it. It began with the sexual assault on a young boy in San Francisco. And it continued with a needle in my arm and a gun in my hand. I lost my dreams, my hopes and my future on a journey that took me from the back alleys of West Coast America to the cellblocks of San Quentin, Folsom, Soledad and slave camps in Cuba. In the end I realized it was I who had been hijacked, deceived by those I most admired: Karl Marx, Angela Davis, Jesse Jackson, Fidel Castro, Gus Hall, Jane Fonda, Che Guevara and a whole planeload of others. - Prologue.
Diary Of A Hijacker
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Author : Richard Kavanaugh
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012-04
Diary Of A Hijacker written by Richard Kavanaugh and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04 with categories.
The hijacker who is known as D. B. Cooper remains a mystery more than forty years after he succeed in hijacking an airliner and getting away with $200,000 by parachuting into the woods of Southwest Washington. This book is the story of a fictional character, an intelligent young man who becomes bitter at society and unlucky in love. It follows him from a morning in 1968 when the idea of hijacking and demanding ransom first occur to him through all of his personal problems and his detailed planning to the morning after the successful completion of the crime. Along the way we get a brief history of the hijacking craze and the momentous events that occurred in those exciting years between the assassination of JFK and the resignation of Richard Nixon
Hijacking History
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Author : Liane Tanguay
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2013
Hijacking History written by Liane Tanguay and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
How Bush's war commandeered history and exploited the anxieties of post-industrial America.
Aerial Hijacking As An International Crime
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Author : Nancy Douglas Joyner
language : en
Publisher: Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Oceana Publications
Release Date : 1974
Aerial Hijacking As An International Crime written by Nancy Douglas Joyner and has been published by Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Oceana Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with History categories.
Hijacking The Agenda
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Author : Christopher Witko
language : en
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Release Date : 2021-05-25
Hijacking The Agenda written by Christopher Witko and has been published by Russell Sage Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-25 with Political Science categories.
Why are the economic interests and priorities of lower- and middle-class Americans so often ignored by the U.S. Congress, while the economic interests of the wealthiest are prioritized, often resulting in policies favorable to their interests? In Hijacking the Agenda, political scientists Christopher Witko, Jana Morgan, Nathan J. Kelly, and Peter K. Enns examine why Congress privileges the concerns of businesses and the wealthy over those of average Americans. They go beyond demonstrating that such economic bias exists to illuminate precisely how and why economic policy is so often skewed in favor of the rich. The authors analyze over 20 years of floor speeches by several hundred members of Congress to examine the influence of campaign contributions on how the national economic agenda is set in Congress. They find that legislators who received more money from business and professional associations were more likely to discuss the deficit and other upper-class priorities, while those who received more money from unions were more likely to discuss issues important to lower- and middle-class constituents, such as economic inequality and wages. This attention imbalance matters because issues discussed in Congress receive more direct legislative action, such as bill introductions and committee hearings. While unions use campaign contributions to push back against wealthy interests, spending by the wealthy dwarfs that of unions. The authors use case studies analyzing financial regulation and the minimum wage to demonstrate how the financial influence of the wealthy enables them to advance their economic agenda. In each case, the authors examine the balance of structural power, or the power that comes from a person or company’s position in the economy, and kinetic power, the power that comes from the ability to mobilize organizational and financial resources in the policy process. The authors show how big business uses its structural power and resources to effect policy change in Congress, as when the financial industry sought deregulation in the late 1990s, resulting in the passage of a bill eviscerating New Deal financial regulations. Likewise, when business interests want to preserve the policy status quo, it uses its power to keep issues off of the agenda, as when inflation eats into the minimum wage and its declining purchasing power leaves low-wage workers in poverty. Although groups representing lower- and middle-class interests, particularly unions, can use their resources to shape policy responses if conditions are right, they lack structural power and suffer significant resource disadvantages. As a result, wealthy interests have the upper hand in shaping the policy process, simply due to their pivotal position in the economy and the resulting perception that policies beneficial to business are beneficial for everyone. Hijacking the Agenda is an illuminating account of the way economic power operates through the congressional agenda and policy process to privilege the interests of the wealthy and marks a major step forward in our understanding of the politics of inequality.