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Book Du Pont Dynasty

Download or read book Du Pont Dynasty written by Gerard Colby and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning journalist Gerard Colby takes readers behind the scenes of one of America’s most powerful and enduring corporations; now with a new introduction by the author Their name is everywhere. America’s wealthiest industrial family by far and a vast financial power, the Du Ponts, from their mansions in northern Delaware’s “Chateau Country,” have long been leaders in the relentless drive to turn the United States into a plutocracy. The Du Pont story in this country began in 1800. Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, official keeper of the gunpowder of corrupt King Louis XVI, fled from revolutionary France to America. Two years later he founded the gunpowder company that called itself “America’s armorer”—and that President Wilson’s secretary of war called a “species of outlaws” for war profiteering. Du Pont Dynasty introduces many colorful characters, including “General” Henry du Pont, who profited from the Civil War to build the Gunpowder Trust, one of the first corporate monopolies; Alfred I. du Pont, betrayed by his cousins and pushed out of the organization, landing in social exile as the powerful “Count of Florida”; the three brothers who expanded Du Pont’s control to General Motors, fought autoworkers’ right to unionize, and then launched a family tradition of waging campaigns to destroy FDR’s New Deal regulatory reforms; Governor Pete du Pont, who ran for president and backed Newt Gingrich’s 1994 Republican Revolution; and Irving S. Shapiro, the architect of Du Pont’s ongoing campaign to undermine effective environmental regulation. From plans to force President Roosevelt from office, to munitions sales to warlords and the rising Nazis, to Freon’s damage to the planet’s life-protecting ozone layer, to the manufacture of deadly gases and the covered-up poisoning of Du Pont workers, to the reputation the company earned for being the worst polluter of America’s air and water, the Du Pont reign has been dappled with scandal for centuries. Culled from years of painstaking research and interviews, this fully documented book unfolds like a novel. Laying bare the bitter feuds, power plays, smokescreens, and careless unaccountability that erupted in murder, Colby pulls back the curtain on a dynasty whose formidable influence continues to this day. Suppressed in myriad ways and the subject of the author’s landmark federal lawsuit, Du Pont Dynasty is an essential history of the United States.

Book Healing the Wounded Heart

Download or read book Healing the Wounded Heart written by Dan B. Allender and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989, Dan Allender's The Wounded Heart has helped hundreds of thousands of people come to terms with sexual abuse in their past. Now, more than twenty-five years later, Allender has written a brand-new book on the subject that takes into account recent discoveries about the lasting physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual ramifications of sexual abuse. With great compassion Allender offers hope for victims of rape, date rape, incest, molestation, sexting, sexual bullying, unwanted advances, pornography, and more, exposing the raw wounds that are left behind and clearing the path toward wholeness and healing. Never minimizing victims' pain or offering pat spiritual answers that don't truly address the problem, he instead calls evil evil and lights the way to renewed joy. Counselors, pastors, and friends of those who have suffered sexual harm will find in this book the deep spiritual guidance they need to effectively minister to the sexually broken around them. Victims themselves will find here a sympathetic friend to walk alongside them on the road to healing.

Book The Scotch Irish

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Augustus Hanna
  • Publisher : New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 656 pages

Download or read book The Scotch Irish written by Charles Augustus Hanna and published by New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 1902 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances

Download or read book Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jewelers  Circular and Horological Review

Download or read book The Jewelers Circular and Horological Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Car Safety Wars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael R. Lemov
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2015-03-19
  • ISBN : 1611477468
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Car Safety Wars written by Michael R. Lemov and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the “equivalent of war” by the Supreme Court, the battle involved the automobile industry, unsung and long-forgotten safety heroes, at least six US Presidents, a reluctant Congress, new auto technologies, and, most of all, the mindset of the American public: would they demand and be willing to pay for safer cars? The “Car Safety Wars” were at first won by consumers and safety advocates. The major victory was the enactment in 1966 of a ground breaking federal safety law. The safety act was pushed through Congress over the bitter objections of car manufacturers by a major scandal involving General Motors, its private detectives, Ralph Nader, and a gutty cigar-chomping old politician. The act is a success story for government safety regulation. It has cut highway death and injury rates by over seventy percent in the years since its enactment, saving more than two million lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. But the car safety wars have never ended. GM has recently been charged with covering up deadly defects resulting in multiple ignition switch shut offs. Toyota has been fined for not reporting fatal unintended acceleration in many models. Honda and other companies have—for years—sold cars incorporating defective air bags. These current events, suggesting a failure of safety regulation, may serve to warn us that safety laws and agencies created with good intentions can be corrupted and strangled over time. This book suggests ways to avoid this result, but shows that safer cars and highways are a hard road to travel. We are only part of the way home.

Book Clovis Revisited

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony T. Boldurian
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2013-11
  • ISBN : 1934536725
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Clovis Revisited written by Anthony T. Boldurian and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the early days of Paleoindian archaeology in this engaging retrospective of Edgar B. Howard's Southwest Early Man Project, 1929-1937, cosponsored by the University Museum and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. This book contains a detailed analysis of the world-famous Clovis artifacts, discovered among the bones of mammoths and extinct bison in the Dust Bowl of eastern New Mexico. Blending traditional and current ideas, the authors offer an extended reference to the lifeways of early humans in the Americas, accented by a series of unique insights on their origins and adaptations. Well appointed with photos, line illustrations, and schematics, Clovis Revisited is essential reading for professionals, students, and avocational enthusiasts.

Book Quartermaster 3

Download or read book Quartermaster 3 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Continental Drama of To day

Download or read book The Continental Drama of To day written by Barrett Harper Clark and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Grazing and Floods

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  • Author : Robert Van Reynolds
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Grazing and Floods written by Robert Van Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The California Debris Commission

Download or read book The California Debris Commission written by Joseph Jeremiah Hagwood (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book NOAA Strategic Plan for Deep Sea Coral and Sponge Ecosystems

Download or read book NOAA Strategic Plan for Deep Sea Coral and Sponge Ecosystems written by Commerce Dept., NOAA, Coral Reef Conservation Program and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOAA Technical Memorandum CRCP 11. Identifies goals, objectives, and approaches to guide NOAA's research, management, and international cooperation activities on deep-sea coral and sponge ecosystems for fiscal years 2010 through 2019. Integrates research and conservation needs and is intended to be a flexible, evolving document that allows NOAA and its partners to address new management challenges and priorities as appropriate. The primary goal of this Strategic Plan is to improve the understanding, conservation, and management of deep-sea coral and sponge ecosystems.

Book Fling Jeweled Pebbles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roberta Butterfield Goldstein
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book Fling Jeweled Pebbles written by Roberta Butterfield Goldstein and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Annenbergs

Download or read book The Annenbergs written by John E. Cooney and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1982 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.

Book Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development

Download or read book Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development written by George Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy efficiency is the process whereby the per unit consumption of electricity is greatly reduced. This book on energy efficiency and sustainable development discusses a variety of topics related to energy efficiency such as sustainable or green energy technology production, energy efficient building design and manufacture of efficient electric devices. The various studies that are constantly contributing towards advancing technologies and evolution of this field are examined in detail. This book includes some of the vital pieces work being conducted across the world, on various topics related to energy efficiency. It will prove to be immensely beneficial to students and researchers in this field.