Download or read book Good Americans written by Christopher M. Sterba and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the Americans who joined the ranks of the Doughboys fighting World War I were thousands of America's newest residents. Good Americans examines the contributions of Italian and Jewish immigrants, both on the homefront and overseas, in the Great War. While residing in strong, insular communities, both groups faced a barrage of demands to participate in a conflict that had been raging in their home countries for nearly three years. Italians and Jews "did their bit" in relief, recruitment, conservation, and war bond campaigns, while immigrants and second-generation ethnic soldiers fought on the Western front. Within a year of the Armistice, they found themselves redefined as foreigners and perceived as a major threat to American life, rather than remembered as participants in its defense. Wartime experiences, Christopher Sterba argues, served to deeply politicize first and second generation immigrants, greatly accelerating their transformation from relatively powerless newcomers to a major political force in the United States during the New Deal and beyond.

Download or read book The Devil s Paymaster written by Grant Stockbridge and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unseen weapon that drives men mad . . . A green gas which turns smiling faces into leering skulls . . . A master criminal who can assume at will any known identity . . . Add to these separate menaces three big-game hunters sworn to destroy the Spider -- and you have a situation in which the brilliance and courage of Dick Wentworth will thrill you as never before! At the merest whim of Crime's new overlord, citizens writhe in baffling, agonizing death! Wholesale threatened, officials threw up their hands in failure! Could the Spider, himself grievously wounded and trapped, remove the scarlet stigma attached to America's proud symbol of Freedom - The Statue of Liberty?

Download or read book Metapunctuation written by Lewis Burke Frumkes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-05-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DON'T STOP WITH THE PERIOD The richness of English comes from its enormous vocabularyupward of a million words. But how many punctuation marks are available to help communicate all the subtlety and nuances of the language? A piddling handful of tired, overworked dots, dashes, and devices that fall short when it comes to delivering the written word as the writer intended it. Metapunctuation, the product of the brilliant if somewhat askew mind of Lewis Burke Frumkes, adds the absent flair and precision, ends ambiguity, and makes manifest all of English's unspoken jabs, frowns, inflections, passions, and innuendos with marks such as: phobic brackets to enclose fear gone wildly out of control infatuation marks to indicate a frivolous kind of love ring of indignation to really let 'em have it pasion waves for prose ranging from purple to blue contempto-drips for utter disdain

Download or read book The Story teller Number I written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ashes of Waco written by Dick J. Reavis and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story the daily press didn't give us. It may be the definitive book about what happened at Mt. Carmel, near Waco, Texas, examined from both sides—the Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the FBI on one hand, and David Koresh and his followers on the other. Dick J. Reavis contends that the government had little reason to investigate Koresh and even less to raid the compound at Mt. Carmel. The government lied to the public about most of what happened—about who fired the first shots, about drug allegations, about child abuse. The FBI was duplicitous and negligent in gassing Mt. Carmel-and that alone could have started the fire that killed seventy-six people. Drawing on interviews with survivors of Koresh's movement (which dates back to 1935), as well as from esoteric religious tracts and audiotapes, and previously undisclosed government documents, Reavis uncovers the real story of the burning at Waco, including the trial that followed. The author quotes from Koresh himself to create an extraordinary portrait of a movement, an assault, and an avoidable tragedy.

Download or read book Choices written by Young Park and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summer in the life of a fixer. During that summer he is involved with springing a drug dealer from jail in Chicago, remodeling an ammunition plant in Hanoi, and proposing a resort/casino project in Vietnam. With the help of a close friend, he looks for the murderer of the Manchu lady in Harbin. Unknown to him, he is a target of a killer from North Korea. It was that kind of summer.

Download or read book BoardFree written by Dave Cornthwaite and published by Portico. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Featured in the Guinness Book of Records, this is the thrilling, inspiring story of Dave Cornthwaite's epic journey down-under by a most unusual form of transport. Tired of the nine-to-five, Dave decided one day that he needed a change – a big change. And so he jumped on his RollsRolls longboard (the Land Rover of skateboards) and broke a world record, skating the length of Great Britain. Not content with such glories, he decided to go one better and during the second half of 2006 skated from Perth to Brisbane, a distance of 4,500 miles - raising money for three childrens' charities in the process and earning a reputation as a mad pom. This is the story of Dave's motivation, his stamina, and his enduring good spirit in the face of a huge challenge. Grippingly written and with fantastic photos from Dave's collection, this is an unputdownable real-life adventure story.

Download or read book Seventy written by Eugene T. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wild Blue Ponders written by Max Blue and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forged in conflict, the United States of America has been at war in one form or another for over two hundred years, and at peace for just seventeen. Within seventy-eight mostly undeclared wars, over a million souls have sadly perished. In a historical anthology, novelist Max Blue shares forty-nine chapters from his twelve published novels set against the backdrop of Americas wars. Divided into six parts, Blues stories detail diverse battles that include World War I; the economic war of the Great Depression; World War II; the Civil Rights War, Korean War, and Cold War; academic wars; and the ongoing drug wars that still plague America today. His fascinating tales share a glimpse into a time when President Woodrow Wilson reluctantly led his country into a genocidal European war, thousands of World War I veterans desperately sought ways to survive and feed their families, ships were torpedoed in a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and North Korean troops crossed the thirty-eighth parallel to invade South Korea. Wild Blue Ponders shares a diverse collection of short tales extracted from the works of an American novelist that detail the effects and aftermath of war through the eyes of fictional characters.

Download or read book No Way Down written by Bill Bambrick and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the ultimate airliner thriller. Skeptical? Consider this: After losing two of its three engines, a jumbo jet attempts a forced landing in a severe storm. One passenger dies, but the crew and the rest of the passengers survive. There's jut one hitch: the place they chose for a landing is the snow-covered summit of a 14,000-foot mountain. They're in extreme peril of dying of exposure and lack of oxygen, and are perched over the edge of an abyss. A mountain climbing team, also stranded in the storm, makes it up to render assistance, but they, too, are stuck up there with no food, no medical supplies, and worst of all, NO WAY DOWN. Janet Gordon, sister of the downed aircraft's pilot, and chief operations officer of the airline, has to deal with a blackmail threat, vicious media attacks, and the airline's imminent bankruptcy, while trying to get help up to her brother and his doomed passengers. You may want to tape all your fingernails before reading this page-turner. Not for the faint-hearted!

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Download or read book Amiss written by S. C. Hayes and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All people have been born with good and bad within themselves. Most control both sides and live normal lives. Some fall prey to demented ideas that have been planted from years before. By definition the meaning of Amiss is mistaken, inappropriate, reprehensible, blameworthy, guilty, sinful, or unholy. Amiss is a story of someone that is by definition just as defined. As we pass through life we think we know the people around us. Usually we can find our way through without many disruptions or surprises. Amiss tells a story of a long lost secret that comes close to home. A secret that was planted and has grown without anyone seeing it blossom. Now grown and full of distorted meaning this seed has grown into an unholy menace. Finding and stopping this evil will prove to be an eye opening experience. This person and their secret can only be called Amiss

Download or read book Darkened Horizons Issue 4 written by Darkened HORIZONS and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEATURING:SHADOW MAN by Charlotte Emma GledsonTHE BOHEMIAN CLUB by Brittany A. MuscarellaMUSAME by John M. BishopREJECTION SLIPS THE MIND by Eric EnckHALF LIFE by Jennifer L. MillerWORKING STIFF by Brandon LayngTHE STAIN by Matthew Pierce MY BROTHER'S KEEPER by Kevin LuciaFOUNTAIN OF YOUTH by Jeremiah CoeBLOOD ON THE WALLS by Dave RexBOBBY AND SETH by D.E. HupeDEMON MERLOT by Bradley Roach WORK BITES by Jordan M. Bobé THE ERRAND by Alan Draven

Download or read book Congressional Record Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes history of bills and resolutions.

Download or read book Afraid of All the Things written by Scarlet Hiltibidal and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the gospel say about your fears? What does it say about the irrational ones, like sinkholes in the Target parking lot? How does it speak to the rational ones, like pet scan predictions? And does the gospel have a word for the fears you feel you'll have for life, like the possibility of losing the one you love most? Growing up in the green room of SNL, being born to a fire-eater and adopted by a SWAT cop, having internal organs explode, and adopting a deaf girl from China, Scarlet Hiltibidal has been given some strange life experiences—and lived in fear through most of them. But life changed for Scarlet when she learned to hold the gospel up to her fears. She realized that though she can't fix herself or protect herself, Jesus walked into this broken, sad, scary place to rescue, love, and cast out her—and your—fear. Seeing life in light of the cross will help you avoid fear, overcome fear when you can’t avoid it, and live beyond fear when you don’t overcome it. You don't have to be afraid of all the things.

Download or read book Echoes from Over There written by Craig Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Italian Summer written by Jennifer Probst and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations of women in the Ferrari family must heal the broken pieces of their lives on a trip of a lifetime through picturesque Italy from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst Workaholic, career-obsessed Francesca is fiercely independent and successful in all areas of her life except one: family. She struggles to make time for her relationship with her teenage daughter, Allegra, and the two have become practically strangers to each other. When Allegra hangs out with a new crowd and is arrested for drug possession, Francesca gives in to her mother's wish that they take one epic summer vacation to trace their family roots in Italy. She just never expected to face a choice that might change the course of her life. . . Allegra wants to make her grandmother happy, but she hates the idea of forced time with her mother and vows to fight every step of the ridiculous tour, until a young man on the verge of priesthood begins to show her the power of acceptance, healing, and the heartbreaking complications of love. Sophia knows her girls are in trouble. A summer filled with the possibility for change is what they all desperately need. Among the ruins of ancient Rome, the small churches of Assisi, and the rolling hills of Tuscany, Sophia hopes to show her girls that the bonds of family are everything, and to remind them that they can always lean on one another, before it's too late.