The Real Stories Of Starr County
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The Real Stories Of Starr County
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Author : Jesus Correa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-11-30
The Real Stories Of Starr County written by Jesus Correa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-30 with categories.
Starr County Line
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Author : Chris Gilbreath
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-08-11
Starr County Line written by Chris Gilbreath and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-11 with Fiction categories.
1975. Rural south Texas. Deputy Roe Robinson arrives at the scene of a local man's murder and apprehends a Mexican national with a gun and ten grand in his pocket. In the dead man's attic: One hundred thousand dollars' worth of Mexican dope. When Sheriff JD McKinnon arrests the suspect and places him in the local jail, he unwittingly places himself between the citizens of Pinto, Texas and a bloody tidal wave of drug violence that threatens to wipe the impoverished little border town from the map. Taut and gritty, Starr County Line bares for the reader the once innocent soul of small town life and the burden of those lawmen sworn to protect it in a time of courage testing, heartbreaking drama along the Texas/Mexico border.
Spirits Of The Border Iii
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Author : Ken Hudnall
language : en
Publisher: Omega Press
Release Date : 2005
Spirits Of The Border Iii written by Ken Hudnall and has been published by Omega Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
This is the third in the Spirits of the Border Series, investigating the hauntings of Fabens, San Elizario, Socorro, Skull Canyon as well as more haunted locations in El Paso, Texas. The Southwest Untied States is one of the most unusual parts of the country and this series delves into the mystery.
The Real Making Of The President
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Author : W. J. Rorabaugh
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2009-03-05
The Real Making Of The President written by W. J. Rorabaugh and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-05 with Political Science categories.
When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victory-whether as an underdog's heroic triumph or a liberal crusader's overcoming special interests. Now W. J. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of this famous election to explain the nuts-and-bolts operations of the campaign and offer a corrective to Theodore White's flawed classic, The Making of the President. War hero, champion of labor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, JFK was long on charisma. Despite a less than liberal record, he assumed the image of liberal hero-thanks to White and other journalists who were shamelessly manipulated by the Kennedy campaign. Rorabaugh instead paints JFK as the ideological twin of Nixon and his equal as a bare-knuckled politician, showing that Kennedy's hard-won, razor-thin victory was attributable less to charisma than to an enormous amount of money, an effective campaign organization, and television image-making. The 1960 election, Rorabaugh argues, reflects the transition from the dominance of old-style boss and convention politics to the growing significance of primaries, race, and especially TV-without which Kennedy would have been neither nominated nor elected. He recounts how JFK cultivated delegates to the 1960 Democratic convention; quietly wooed the still-important party bosses; and used a large personal organization, polls, and TV advertising to win primaries. JFK's master stroke, however, was choosing as a running mate Lyndon Johnson, whose campaigning in the South carried enough southern states to win the election. On the other side, Rorabaugh draws on Nixon's often-ignored files to take a close look at his dysfunctional campaign, which reflected the oddities of a dark and brooding candidate trapped into defending the Eisenhower administration. Yet the widely detested Nixon won almost as many votes as the charismatic Kennedy, even though Democrats outnumberd Republicans by three to two. This leads Rorabaugh to reexamine the darker side of the election: the Republicans' charges of vote fraud in Illinois and Texas, the use of money to prod or intimidate, manipulation of the media, and the bulldozing of opponents. White and others helped shape persisting impressions of both candidates, influencing the way Nixon conducted subsequent campaigns and the Democrats nurtured the Kennedy legacy. The Real Making of the President gives us a more sobering look at all of that, fundamentally reshaping our understanding of one of the nation's most memorable elections.
Welfare Reform In Persistent Rural Poverty
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Author : Kathleen Ann Pickering
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11
Welfare Reform In Persistent Rural Poverty written by Kathleen Ann Pickering and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Political Science categories.
Since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was enacted, policy makers, agency administrators, community activists, and academics from a broad range of disciplines have debated and researched the implications of welfare reform in the United States. Most of the attention, however, has focused on urban rather than rural America. Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty examines welfare participants who live in chronically poor rural areas of the United States where there are few job opportunities and poor systems of education, transportation, and child care. Kathleen Pickering and her colleagues look at welfare reform as it has been experienced in four rural and impoverished regions of the United States: American Indian reservations in South Dakota, the Rio Grande region, Appalachian Kentucky, and the Mississippi Delta. Throughout these areas the rhetoric of reform created expectations of new opportunities to find decent work and receive education and training. In fact, these expectations have largely gone unfulfilled as welfare reform has failed to penetrate poor areas where low-income families remain isolated from the economic and social mainstream of American society. Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty sheds welcome light on the opportunities and challenges that welfare reform has imposed on low-income families situated in disadvantaged areas. Combining both qualitative and quantitative research, it will be an excellent guide for scholars and practitioners alike seeking to address the problem of poverty in rural America.
Stories Memories Thoughts
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Author : Loera Cavazos, Vela et al
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2001-03
Stories Memories Thoughts written by Loera Cavazos, Vela et al and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Stories, Memories, Thoughts is the second book in a series of narrative essay collections written by American Literature students at South Texas Community College, Starr County Campus. The narratives offer fresh and interesting views of life, family, friends, and culture in and around Starr County, Texas and Tamaulipas, Mexico. As with the previous book, Collection of Memories, all royalties from the sale of Stories, Memories, Thoughts are donated to Starr County Public Library.
Adios To The Brushlands
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Author : Arturo Longoria
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1997
Adios To The Brushlands written by Arturo Longoria and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
At once a celebration of a region's nature and a call to preserve the little bit of it still left today, Adios to the Brushlands is to South Texas what Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was to the nation's wetlands or John Graves's Goodbye to a River was to the Brazos River. A unique descriptive documentary of a disappearing natural treasure, it is a slice of the new natural history that weds the details of the physical world with their significance to the human heart.
Harbingers Of Books To Come
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Author : Dave Oliphant
language : en
Publisher: Wings Press
Release Date : 2009
Harbingers Of Books To Come written by Dave Oliphant and has been published by Wings Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Harbingers of Books to Come is more than a mere chronicle of achievements. It is also a love story. Dave Oliphant is one of those lucky poets who married his muse, Maria, whom he met in a library in Santiago, Chile, often led and occasionally pushed the poet into terra incognita, from which he returned with literary riches." --Book Jacket.
The Insurance Year Book
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
The Insurance Year Book written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Insurance categories.
Hearings
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with categories.