Shed No Tears For The Defeated
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Shed No Tears For The Defeated
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Author : William Hunt-Vincent
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Shed No Tears For The Defeated written by William Hunt-Vincent and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Barney Darling is a changed man. Once a drinker and hot-headed brawler, marriage to Pauline and the arrival of his three boys (especially his youngest, Robbie) have tempered him and he is now a proud and caring family man. At home and at the factory where he is shop steward, though, events are conspiring against him. With his wife's health at risk and the machinations of the factory management threatening to prevent working conditions from improving, Barney has to dig deep to stop the old urges from resurfacing. With his workmates looking to him to lead them and his loving and supportive wife behind him, he looks to be moving up in the world. But unions are made up of men and men are flawed. Idealism is a noble philosophy, but how will it match up to Barney's real life?
Shed No Tears
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language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
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Voice Of The Vanishing Minority
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Author : Robert Hill
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1999-04-20
Voice Of The Vanishing Minority written by Robert Hill 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 1999-04-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Widely regarded as the authentic voice of English-speaking farmers in Quebec, Robert Sellar, editor of the Huntingdon Gleaner, was the most-quoted rural newspaperman in Canada. Voice of the Vanishing Minority recounts Sellar's crusade against the tide of Frenchification that would displace English-speaking people from the townships they had pioneered. As a result of his outspokenness Sellar endured character assassination, physical violence, legal harassment, arson, clerical condemnation, disappointment, and the apathy of the dwindling communities he was defending. His provocative beliefs about Quebec's first "English exodus" - shared by the grass roots but dismissed by politically correct politicians, journalists, and academics as Anglo-Protestant bigotry - cut to the core of the unity crisis already developing in Canada. Book jacket.
The Savage Wars
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Author : Lawrence James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Savage Wars written by Lawrence James and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Africa categories.
The Last Hurrah
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Author : Edwin O'Connor
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-04-25
The Last Hurrah written by Edwin O'Connor and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-25 with Fiction categories.
A corrupt mayor runs his final campaign in this “remarkably intelligent, informed, well-conceived, and highly readable” classic novel (Chicago Tribune). “We’re living in a sensitive age, Cuke, and I’m not altogether sure you’re fully attuned to it.” So says Irish-American politician Frank Skeffington—a cynical, corrupt 1950s mayor, and also an old-school gentleman who looks after the constituents of his New England city and enjoys their unwavering loyalty in return. But in our age of dynasties, mercurial social sensitivities, and politicians making love to the camera, Skeffington might as well be talking to us. Not quite a roman á clef of notorious Boston mayor James Michael Curley, The Last Hurrah tells the story of Skeffington’s final campaign as witnessed through the eyes of his nephew, who learns a great deal about politics as he follows his uncle to fundraisers, wakes, and into smoke-filled rooms, ultimately coming—almost against his will—to admire the man. Adapted into a 1958 film starring Spencer Tracy and directed by John Ford (and which Curley tried to keep from being made), Edwin O’Connor’s opus reveals politics as it really is, and big cities as they really were. An expansive, humorous novel offering deep insight into the Irish-American experience and the ever-changing nature of the political machine, The Last Hurrah reveals political truths still true today: what the cameras capture is just the smiling face of the sometimes sordid business of giving the people what they want. Praise for The Last Hurrah “The best novel about American politics and the best novel about Irish-Americans I have ever read.” —New York Times “A splendid inside job on big city politics. It establishes O’Connor as one of our most gifted interpreters of American life.” —Chicago Tribune “In today’s soulless, prefabricated, follow-the-polling-data political environment, The Last Hurrah is a reminder of where we came from and how we got here. . . . O’Connor’s marking of the end of an era is still relevant, prescient in its gloomy foretelling of cultural change. . . . The Last Hurrah is the rich story of personality- and class-driven politics, now footnotes in contemporary culture.” —Boston Globe
Farnor
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Author : Roger Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Mushroom Publishing
Release Date : 2007-04
Farnor written by Roger Taylor and has been published by Mushroom Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04 with Fiction categories.
An independent novel set in the world of Hawklan. Life is good for Farnor Yarrance. It is good for everybody in the valley. And has been for generations. So much so, that few ever feel the need to travel beyond it -- over the hill. And no one ever bothers to enter it from beyond. Until one day, they do. Men come from the south, haunted and pursued. And something else comes, silent and awful, from the north. With their arrival, an ancient corruption, festering slowly in the midst of the community, blossoms into a menace that threatens not only the valley but the land beyond, and the lands beyond that. Only Farnor, scarcely a man yet, has the power to oppose this menace, though he is unaware of it, his own soul clouded with bitterness and anger at the terrible tragedy that events now inflict on him. Not until he is pursued into the Great Forest to the north does he gradually learn the extent of his own power. And the truly terrifying nature of the forces he must face...
The Greatest Day In History
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Author : Nicholas Best
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2009-10-13
The Greatest Day In History written by Nicholas Best and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with History categories.
World War I did not end neatly with the Germans' surrender. After a dramatic week of negotiations, military offensives, and the beginning of a Communist revolution, the German Imperial regime collapsed. The Allies eventually granted an armistice to a new German government, and at 11:00 on November 11, the guns officially ceased fire -- but only after 11,000 more casualties had been sustained. The London Daily Express proclaimed it "the greatest day in history." Nicholas Best tells the story in sweeping, cinematic style, following a set of key participants through the twists and turns of these climactic events, and sharing the impressions of eyewitnesses including Adolf Hitler, Charles de Gaulle, Harry S. Truman, Anthony Eden, and future famous generals MacArthur, Patton, and Montgomery.
The Drama Of John Marston
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Author : T. F. Wharton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000
The Drama Of John Marston written by T. F. Wharton 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 2000 with Drama categories.
This is an invaluable collection of critical essays on the work of dramatist John Marston.
Poisoned Chalice
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Author : David McLaughlin
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 1994-01-10
Poisoned Chalice written by David McLaughlin and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-10 with History categories.
Poisoned Chalice chronicles the fateful end of the feredral Progressive Conservative government in Ottawa. In a day-by-day account of an election campaign seemingly doomed to disaster Poisoned Chalice covers the strategy, tactics and political machinations that drove the Condervative campaign from the point of view of someone on the bus.
Maintenance Of A Lobby To Influence Legislation
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
Maintenance Of A Lobby To Influence Legislation written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with categories.
