Download or read book Eugene McCarthy written by Dominic Sandbrook and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene McCarthy was one of the most fascinating political figures of the postwar era: a committed liberal anti-Communist who broke with his party’s leadership over Vietnam and ultimately helped take down the political giant Lyndon B. Johnson. His presidential candidacy in 1968 seized the hearts and fired the imaginations of countless young liberals; it also presaged the declining fortunes of liberalism and the rise of conservatism over the past three decades. Dominic Sandbrook traces Eugene McCarthy’s rise to prominence and his subsequent failures, and makes clear how his story embodies the larger history of American liberalism over the last half century. We see McCarthy elected from Minnesota to the House and then to the Senate, part of a new liberal movement that combined New Deal domestic policies and fierce Cold War hawkishness, a consensus that produced huge electoral victories until it was shattered by the war in Vietnam. As the situation in Vietnam escalated, many liberals, like McCarthy, found themselves increasingly estranged from the anti-Communism that they had supported for nearly two decades. Sandbrook recounts McCarthy’s growing opposition to President Johnson and his policies, which culminated in McCarthy’s stunning near-victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary and Johnson’s subsequent withdrawal from the race. McCarthy went on to lose the nomination to Hubert Humphrey at the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which secured his downfall and led to Richard Nixon’s election, but he had pulled off one of the greatest electoral upsets in American history, one that helped shape the political landscape for decades. These were tumultuous times in American politics, and Sandbrook vividly captures the drama and historical significance of the period through his intimate portrait of a singularly interesting man at the center of it all.
Download or read book Fight written by Eugene S. Robinson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crushing your enemies, driving them before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women? It doesn't get any better than this." –Eugene Robinson, ripping off John Milius That's the sentiment that surges just below the surface of Eugene Robinson's Fight – an engrossing, intimate look into the all–absorbing world of fighting. Robinson – a former body–builder, one–time bouncer, and lifelong fight connoisseur – takes readers on a no–holds–barred plunge into what fighting is all about, and what fighters live for. If George Plimpton had muscles and had been choked out one too many times––this is the book he could have written. When Robinson and his fellow fighters mix it up, they live completely for the moment: absorbed in the feel of muscles slippery with sweat; the metallic tang of blood mingling with saliva in the mouth; the sweet, firm thud of taped knuckles impacting flesh. They fight because it feels good. They fight because they want to win. And even if they get their asses kicked, they fight because they love fighting. Fight is part encyclopedia, part panegyric to fighting in all its forms and glory. Robinson's narrative – told in his trademark tough–guy, stream–of–consciousness noir voice – punctuates this explanatory compendium of the fighting world. From wrestling, jiu–jitsu, boxing and muay thai to bar fighting, hand–to–hand combat, prison fighting and hockey fights, from the greatest movie fight scenes to how to throw the perfect left hook, Fight is a scene–by–scene tour of the bloody but beautiful underworld that is the art of fighting. With his aficionado's enthusiasm and fast–paced, addictive voice, Robinson's Fight combines compelling text with beautiful photographs to create an illustrated book as edgy and interesting as it is gorgeous.
Download or read book Search History written by Eugene Lim and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Search History oscillates between a wild cyberdog chase and lunch-date monologues as Eugene Lim deconstructs grieving and storytelling with uncanny juxtapositions and subversive satire. Frank Exit is dead—or is he? While eavesdropping on two women discussing a dog-sitting gig over lunch, a bereft friend comes to a shocking realization: Frank has been reincarnated as a dog! This epiphany launches a series of adventures—interlaced with digressions about AI-generated fiction, virtual reality, Asian American identity in the arts, and lost parents—as an unlikely cast of accomplices and enemies pursues the mysterious canine. In elliptical, propulsive prose, Search History plumbs the depths of personal and collective consciousness, questioning what we consume, how we grieve, and the stories we tell ourselves.
Download or read book A Long Slow Screw written by Eugene S. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixing equal parts Mickey Spillane and Quentin Tarantino, A Long Slow Screw, set during a week in the late 1970's New York City is a mean streets meander through a jewel heist gone from bad to worse, as sometimes crook Jake Paternostra tries to make a buck the hard way: one bullet at a time.
Download or read book Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk written by Eugene Cho and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Eugene Cho, Christians should never profess blind loyalty to a party. Any party. But they should engage with politics, because politics inform policies which impact people. In Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk: A Christian’s Guide to Engaging Politics, Cho encourages readers to remember that hope arrived—not in a politician, system, or great nation—but in the person of Jesus Christ. With determination and heart, Cho urges readers to stop vilifying those they disagree with—especially the vulnerable—and asks Christians to follow Jesus and reflect His teachings. In this book that integrates the pastoral, prophetic, practical, and personal, readers will be inspired to stay engaged, have integrity, listen to the hurting, and vote their convictions. “When we stay in the Scriptures, pray for wisdom, and advocate for the vulnerable, our love for politics, ideology, philosophy, or even theology, stop superseding our love for God and neighbor.”
Download or read book Eugene s Falls written by A. Frances Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene von Guerard, colonial painter, failed goldminer, procrastinator. His birth coincides with Napoleon's demise and the invention of the waltz. He has two left feet, just like his father, as well as his father's gift for forensic detail with a paintbrush. He embarks on a low-budget grand tour as Vienna waltzes away the terrors of collaboration. Seeking fame and fortune, he boards a creaky immigrant ark for the Antipodean goldfields. Can Louisa, with her fear of water and poor English, partner Eugene across worlds? What of the forcibly indentured girl, Laven-Dah, who ruins his painting sightlines with her attention-seeking acrobatics? And what is the mystery of Queen Parrot Falls, a place where love and loss dismantle the painter's dream of a perfect waterfall? Eugene's Falls melds novel with art history and non- fiction in the manner of Peter Robb's M or Susan Sontag's Volcano Lover. This compelling portrait of the artist as a young man dissects the melancholy at the heart of colonial progress, imbuing the waltz of memory with the power and inevitability of falling water.
Download or read book The American Home Missionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why They Do It written by Eugene Soltes and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial fraud in the United States costs nearly $400 billion annually. The executives responsible for this corporate duplicity usually earn excellent salaries. So why do they become criminals? Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes shares his findings after years of extensive research. His numerous case histories make for fascinating reading. He speaks almost exclusively about men so don't look for gender-neutral pronouns. As Soltes explains, "Women are conspicuously absent from the ranks of prominent white-collar criminals." getAbstract recommends his compelling study to business students and professors, executives, business pundits, financial law enforcement officials and anyone who handles the money.
Download or read book History and Genealogy of the Eastman Family of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A conference betwixt a modern Atheist Erastus and his friend Eugenes By the methodizer of the Second Spira written by Richard Sault and published by . This book was released on 1693 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minutes written by United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America written by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Register written by Disciples of Christ and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States written by Presbyterian Church in the U.S. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Harvard University Catalogue written by Harvard University and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by American Bar Association and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers 1st-95th (29th-30th each in 2 v.) annual meetings held 1878-1972.
Download or read book Report of the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association written by American Bar Association and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
