Download or read book Airman written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Helluva Ride written by Liz Clarke and published by Villard. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its raw beginnings on Southern dirt tracks, NASCAR smacked of a slightly depraved spectacle, as if nothing but trouble could come from the unbridled locomotion of a V8 engine. By the time NASCAR roared into the twenty-first century, it had grown into a billion-dollar sports and marketing colossus, its races attended by hundreds of thousands of fans on any given weekend from mid-February through mid-November, watched on television by the second-largest viewing audience in sports, and bankrolled by the marketing largesse of the Fortune 500’s elite. One Helluva Ride, a full-throttle account of the rise and reign of NASCAR nation, is award-winning motorsports reporter Liz Clarke’s chronicle of how stock car racing exploded from regional obsession to national phenomenon. In covering the sport for more than fifteen years, Clarke has developed a strong rapport with NASCAR’s drivers, team owners, and hard-core fans. Through her reporting and analysis, we get to know the public and private sides of NASCAR’s most iconic figures, including seven-time champion Richard Petty, who set the standard for treating fans with respect, and the late Dale Earnhardt, whose brazen, bullying tactics wreaked havoc on the track, but whose heart was as big as Daytona’s infield. The sports world stopped in its tracks the day Earnhardt was killed on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. Some feared that NASCAR’s soul would die with him. But it has raced on, steered by visionary promoters, the all-controlling France family (who founded the sport), and, above all, the next generation of drivers to stir fans’ passions: Dale Earnhardt, Jr., son of the NASCAR legend and now, like his father before him, the circuit’s most popular driver; Jeff Gordon, the beloved but oft-maligned outsider, bred from the cradle to be NASCAR’s winningest modern champion; and Kasey Kahne, a reluctant heartthrob whose confidence derives entirely from an accelerator pedal. Clarke also brings us inside NASCAR’s most triumphant and tragic dynasties: the Pettys, the Earnhardts, and the Allisons–and reveals how faith, family, and a deep-seated love of their sport helps them cope with grief and loss. Clarke shows NASCAR to be at a crossroads. In pursuit of a broader audience, NASCAR has severed its sponsorship ties to Big Tobacco, abandoned racetracks in small markets in favor of speedways near glitzy major cities, and welcomed Japan’s Toyota into a sport traditionally restricted to American-made sedans. As NASCAR races toward mass appeal, some suggest it is leaving its roots behind. To others, it is boldly extending its reach from the Southern workingman to every man, woman, and child in the world. Whether you’re one of the die-hard NASCAR faithful or just a casual follower, nobody brings you closer to the sport and business of big-time stock car racing than Liz Clarke. This book, like the phenomenon it profiles, really is One Helluva Ride.
Download or read book One Helluva Roar written by Tadd Sholtis and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study explores how the United States Air Force negotiates the problem of publicly communicating on behalf of its own interests while subordinating its communication to national objectives during military operations. The author proposes a theory of military public communication that links the act of persuasion to a military service's core function, the application or threat of coercive force. The theory predicts that, as the level of coercive airpower exerted or implied in a conflict increases, the character of Air Force communication becomes more domestically focused, more reliant on needs-based appeals, and more concerned with ensuring information security and controlling information flows through censorship or propaganda. When national priorities clearly align with the coercive force that airpower provides, service communication generally coheres with stated policy. As lower levels of violence become the intent of policy, airpower may seem contradictory. This disparity encourages higher authorities to control Air Force communication in the interest of policy coherence. Nevertheless, national or Air Force preferences for information control will be frustrated by the need for organizational advocacy within the policy process as well as trends favoring public transparency in cyberspace."--Abstract.
Download or read book American Challenge written by Robert C. Etheredge and published by MiraVista Press. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 eLitAwards Gold Medal for Best History BookWinner of the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal for Best Adult Non-Fiction EbookWinner of the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Best EbookFinalist for the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the Historical Non-Fiction category Winner of the 2012 National Indie Excellence Book Award for Best History BookFinalist for the Dan Poynter’s Ebook Award for Best Multimedia Ebook Offering a complete review of American history, civics, and culture, this unique collection provides both current and future citizens with the basics of the United States’ common traditions and values in order to properly exercise their duties and obligations to vote responsibly. Amply illustrated and containing material not found in other sources, this book features a complete historical timeline of the United States; details of each presidential election, including vote totals and short profiles of each president; color flags of all states; history and care of the United States flag; maps showing statehood dates, Native American tribe locations, major cities, and time zones; text of the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Northwest Ordinance, and the United States Constitution, including all amendments; and explanations of the three branches of government, the electoral college, the federal budget, and presidential succession. Americana, such as important figures, popular cooking, national disasters, and colorful sayings, and the official United States Citizenship Test, with cross references to relevant material, are also featured.
Download or read book Airman written by United States. Air Force and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Hero written by Howard Bryant and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive biography of Henry (Hank) Aaron—one of baseball's immortal figures—is a revelatory portrait of a complicated, private man who through sports became an enduring American icon. “Beautifully written and culturally important.” —The Washington Post “The epic baseball tale of the second half of the 20th century.” —Atlanta Journal Constitution After his retirement in 1976, Aaron’s reputation only grew in magnitude. But his influence extended beyond statistics. Based on meticulous research and extensive interviews The Last Hero reveals how Aaron navigated the upheavals of his time—fighting against racism while at the same time benefiting from racial progress—and how he achieved his goal of continuing Jackie Robinson’s mission to obtain full equality for African Americans, both in baseball and society, while he lived uncomfortably in the public eye.
Download or read book Polio War written by Juliette Haines Mofford and published by TouchPoint Press. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1940s. World War II is raging. Facing what seems to be insurmountable odds, a nine-year must draw upon weapons of inner strength to win her own war. The Second World War is raging overseas when nine-year old Carey Lindsay, has her own war to win. It was a time when children proudly participated in the War Effort and the fear of polio gripped every American community. References to American popular culture during the 1940s bring back a bygone era. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt provided courage and inspiration for Carey and her new friends. Like young people today, coping with isolation during Covid-19, Carey must draw upon weapons of inner strength. Carey's story will resonate with young readers and adults experiencing medical challenges and readers whose families have been impacted by war. This poignant story does not shy away from sadness and death but is also filled with the love of family and joys of friendship, along with personal victory. "For any young reader faced with illness, either their own or that of a family member or friend, this is an important story. It is also a memorable and heartwarming book for those of us who remember the fear of polio during the epidemics of the 1940s and early 'fifties and the courage of an American President, who crippled by the disease himself, inspired other victims." —Reader Review (First Edition)
Download or read book Uncommon Duties in the United States Air Force written by Col. (Ret.) Marty Z. Khan EdD and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***The Department of Defense cleared this book for publication*** Service in the United States Air Force is an honorable profession. Each member of the US Air Force accomplishes incredible tasks in a very broad variety of functional areas in defense of the nation. This is an enormous responsibility, even for very junior airmen. Col. (Ret.) Marty Z. Khan, EdD, an intelligence officer, was one of those airmen who represented the United States in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, The Republic of Georgia, Germany, Greece, Korea, India, Pakistan, Qatar, and Turkey. Working side-by-side with marines, soldiers, sailors, coastguardsmen, US diplomats, and international officers, Marty worked on geopolitical issues, security cooperation, and intelligence sharing programs. For air force officers, working on geopolitical issues to implement the President’s National Security Objectives in various parts of the world is an incredible opportunity to see how US policy is made and implemented. Colonel Khan’s experiences and his vignettes show what it took to succeed in such a dynamic organization and in dealing with international officers. This book will benefit those who are currently serving in the military and those who have a keen interest in leadership issues military officers face.
Download or read book Newsmen in Khaki written by Herbert Mitgang and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newsmen in Khaki is a personal memoir about The Stars and Stripes, the heroic armed forces newspaper, told through the eyes of the author, who was an Army correspondent and managing editor for editions in North Africa and Sicily during World War II. It is told in the form of human tales, including encounters with the men, women, and children in Casablanca, Algiers, Palermo, Rome, Pisa, Florence, Corsica, and Greece. In addition to his own pieces, Mitgang includes articles by other famous authors in uniform (Irwin Shaw, Klaus Mann, Bill Brinkley, etc.), as well as the voices of many American GIs. The epilogue covers the author's post-war career, most notably his long-running stint at the New York Times (where he served as an editor, columnist, book critic, editorial writer and founder of the Op-Ed page.)
Download or read book Forecast for D day written by John Ross and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weather story of D-Day in which the invasion's success hinged on the correct gauge of the weather for the crossing of the British Channel; the story of the man Eisenhower trusted with choosing the best day to invade, despite contrary opionions from more senior weather experts.
Download or read book Wild Blue Yonder written by Jack B. Rochester and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 650 Vietnam War novels have been published, mostly dark tales from the war zone. In Wild Blue Yonder, Airman Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers goes not to Vietnam but Germany, straight into a military Catch-22. His assignment: writing stories for the Stars and Stripes newspaper that will never see print. Nate's adventure deepens as he and his fellow troops try to understand why they're there, the military mindset, and the massive social disruption roiling 1960's America. Existential, psychedelic, funny, and laced with rock 'n' roll, Wild Blue Yonder is the story of Nate's quest for personal and spiritual values while trying to learn the meaning of family, friendship, and the love of the girl he left behind.
Download or read book We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against written by Nicholas von Hoffman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books about the sixties have proliferated in recent years, but none has surpassed Nicholas von Hoffman's classic account of the 1960s counter-culture in San Francisco. “In the summer of 1967,” he writes, “youth drew attention to itself by clustering in large numbers in most major American cities, where they broke the narcotics laws proudly, publicly, and defiantly. At the same time, they enunciated a different social philosophy and a new politics, and perhaps even mothered into life a subculture that was new to America. This book tries to explain what happened in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco. For it was in the Haight that whatever happened, happened most vividly and so intensely that it drew international attention to itself.” “An impressively serious treatment.”—New York Times. “A rare example of journalism that approaches art in one direction and the best of social science in another.”—Newsweek.
Download or read book Horizons of Heroes The Next Twenty Years written by Cameron Price and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After returning from the Vietnam War, Cameron finds the United States has changed in ways he could not have imagined. He struggles to find his path through challenges in relationships, school, and employment. As an African American in the early 1970s, Cameron learns he must persevere a great deal more than the average person in order to achieve his goals and dreams. As one of the former highest ranking spies in the military, Cameron dares to share his view on how women know if it is “real love.” Horizons of Heroes: The Next Twenty Years is an amazing non-fiction book and an excellent read.
Download or read book The Postie and The Priest written by Ron Burrows and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priest, a postie, a parish, a suburb, a city, a diocese, an unusual and deep friendship, a struggle to get a book published The Postie and the Priest is part biography, part philosophy, part social commentary, part theological reflection. Here is a fl y-on-the-wall account of the daily life of an iconic Melbourne priest who has a deep passion for the battlers of his city, written by his postman who began by delivering his letters and ended up recording his life story. The stories from Fr Bob Maguire's life recall family events, life in the seminary, time as an army chaplain, work in various parishes, media connections and above all, his passion for the organisations he founded -Open Family and the Fr Bob Maguire Foundation - that give voice to his concern for the underprivileged and the homeless of Melbourne. The postie admires the priest and tells his story but this is as much the postie's story, giving us a unique insight into the history, characters and streets of South Melbourne that have shaped the lives of both men.
Download or read book Leadership Laboratory written by Edsel O. Chalker and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Life as a WAC written by Margaret A. Smith and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 14, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the legislation establishing the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps. This book tells the true story in her own words about Margaret, an inquisitive young black woman, and her experience in the Armed Services, along with dealing with the prejudice of being not only a black woman but a woman (period) in the Armed Services. It tells the story of her eventually being accepted into the WAAC, and after her first three and a half weeks into joining the WAC, she was considered AWOL because she was not aware that she could not leave the city without reporting to the induction center. It tells of her basic training and eventually, with her determination, being accepted in administration and Officer Candidate School and becoming a first lieutenant.
