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Book Pemberton  Defender of Vicksburg

Download or read book Pemberton Defender of Vicksburg written by John Clifford Pemberton and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of the "Defender of Vicksburg," General John C. Pemberton. A Philadelphia native, Pemberton resigned from the United States Army in 1861 to fight on the side of the South, influenced by his Virginia-born wife and by his years of service in the Southern states before the Civil War. He was made a Lieutenant General in the Confederate Army and assigned to defend Vicksburg and the Mississippi River. Written by Pemberton's grandson and based on research in official records and family papers, this book brings to light long-neglected facts revealing the tragedy of errors that led to Vicksburg's fall. It is, in the words of historian Douglas Southall Freeman, "the fairest, as well as the fullest study of the tragedy from the viewpoint of the principal Confederate actor."

Book A Chance in the World

Download or read book A Chance in the World written by Stephen Pemberton and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pemberton’s beautifully told story is a rags to riches journey—beginning in a place and with a jarring set of experiences that could have destroyed his life. But Steve’s refusal to give in to those forces, and his resolve to create a better life, shows a courage and resilience that is an example for many of us to follow.” —Stedman Graham, author, educator Home is the place where our life stories begin. A Chance in the World is the astonishing true story of a boy destined to become a man of resilience determination and vision. Down in the dank basement, amidst my moldy, hoarded food and beloved worm-eaten books, I dreamed that my real home, the place where my story had begun, was out there somewhere, and one day I was going to find it. Taken from his mother at age three, Steve Klakowicz lives a terrifying existence. Caught in the clutches of a cruel foster family and subjected to constant abuse, Steve finds his only refuge in a box of books given to him by a kind stranger. In these books, he discovers new worlds he can only imagine and begins to hope that one day he might have a different life, that one day he will find his true home. A fair-complexioned boy with blue eyes, a curly Afro, and a Polish last name, he is determined to unravel the mystery of his origins and find his birth family. Armed with just a single clue, Steve embarks on an extraordinary quest for his identity, only to find that nothing is as it appears. Through it all, Steve’s story teaches us that no matter how broken our past, no matter how great our misfortunes, we have it in us to create a new beginning and to build a place where love awaits.

Book The Lighthouse Effect

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Pemberton
  • Publisher : Zondervan
  • Release : 2021-09-28
  • ISBN : 0310362334
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Lighthouse Effect written by Steve Pemberton and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stirring follow-up to his memoir, Steve Pemberton gives practical encouragement for how you can be a "human lighthouse" for others and through these inspiring stories will renew your hope for humanity. Our polarized, divisive culture seems to be without heroes and role models. We are adrift in a dark sea of disillusionment and distrust and we need "human lighthouses" to give us hope and direct us back to the goodness in each other and in our own hearts. Steve Pemberton found a lighthouse in an ordinary man named John Sykes, his former high school counselor. John gave Steve a safe harbor after Steve escaped an abusive foster home and together they navigated a new path that led to personal and professional success. Through stories of people like John and several others, you will identify how the hardships you have overcome equip you to be a "human lighthouse," inspiring those around you. The humble gestures of kindness that change the course of our lives can shift the course for America too. With a unique vision for building up individuals and communities and restoring trust, The Lighthouse Effect opens your eyes to those who are quietly heroic. You will reflect on the lighthouses in your own life and be reminded that the greatest heroes are alongside us--and within us.

Book Portrait of Murdock Pemberton

Download or read book Portrait of Murdock Pemberton written by Sally Pemberton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inside No  9  The Scripts Series 1 3

Download or read book Inside No 9 The Scripts Series 1 3 written by Steve Pemberton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The joy of these scripts is in being able to appreciate the craft and ambition involved in the sharpness of the dialogue, the cunning of the plotting, and the desire never to repeat themselves, as Pemberton and Shearsmith build each episode into a miniaturist treasure. A must for anyone who wants to write for television, or who just wants to see how the magic is done.' - NEIL GAIMAN Take a further peek behind the door marked 'number 9' as the scripts from series 1-3 are collected here for the first time. An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, read how each 30-minute self-contained story with new characters and new settings, sprang to life from the page. Each series is prefaced by a foreword from the show creators, giving readers and fans behind-the-scenes insight to this creative phenomenon. It is a beautifully written series, some stories comic, some tragic, all highly original and inventive. As well as Steve and Reece, it has featured guest appearances from a plethora well-known actors including Jack Whitehall, Peter Kay, Sheridan Smith, Gemma Arterton, Keeley Hawes, Alison Steadman, Conleth Hill, and David Morrissey. Relive the show's every enjoyable moment down to the stage directions with Inside No. 9: The Scripts: Series 1-3.

Book Pemberton

    Book Details:
  • Author : John C. Pemberton
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2002-05-01
  • ISBN : 9780807854433
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Pemberton written by John C. Pemberton and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of the "Defender of Vicksburg," General John C. Pemberton. A Philadelphia native, Pemberton resigned from the United States Army in 1861 to fight on the side of the South, influenced by his Virginia-born wife and by his years o

Book Hurting with God

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glenn Pemberton
  • Publisher : ACU Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9780891124009
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Hurting with God written by Glenn Pemberton and published by ACU Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A persuasive case for restoring the biblical language of lament in the church and in the lives of believers How do believers live out faith in prolonged seasons of pain and loss? How can we live with God when it hurts-and continues to hurt? Drawing from his own daily struggle with, chronic pain and years of reading and teaching the Psalms, Pemberton leads readers on a quest to recover a lost ancient resource for people of faith-the language of lament. This rich volume calls attention to the loss of lament in our churches, what this loss is costing us, and what might happen if we spoke and prayed the full spectrum of biblical faith languages. Book jacket.

Book Six Stops on the National Security Tour

Download or read book Six Stops on the National Security Tour written by Miriam Pemberton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. military economy incorporates hundreds of American communities. This is the first book to connect our national security apparatus to the local level via deeply reported portraits of six carefully selected locations, including military Meccas and out-of-the-way places. They are woven into the warfare economy by bases, nuclear weapons labs, and production sites. The book includes an invaluable overview of how the military is structured, how its budget is made, and what it costs. It also shows how the military economy perpetuates itself. In on-the-ground reporting, Pemberton traces the lines of connection between the tour stops presented here and our country’s foreign policy, industrial policy, and budget priorities. She examines the meaning of national security in the current moment, as climate change becomes what the military itself calls "an urgent and growing threat." And she dramatically demonstrates how redirecting our militarized foreign and industrial policy toward climate security can help these communities become part of the solution. For students, scholars, public servants, and all concerned citizens, this book is essential reading.

Book Pemberton  The General Who Lost Vicksburg

Download or read book Pemberton The General Who Lost Vicksburg written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Pemberton  Coca Cola Developer

Download or read book John Pemberton Coca Cola Developer written by Sheila Griffin Llanas and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this title, unwrap the life of talented Coca-Cola Inventor John Pemberton! Readers will enjoy getting the scoop on this Food Dude, beginning with his childhood in Georgia. Students can follow Pemberton's success story from his early days in the Confederate Army to his work in medicine after the Civil War and his invention of Coca-Cola. Pemberton's family life and the sale of his secret recipe are also highlighted. Engaging text familiarizes readers with topics of interest, including the state of Coca-Cola in the world today. An entertaining sidebar, a helpful timeline, a glossary, and an index supplement the historical and color photos showcased in this inspiring biography. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Book Serena

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ron Rash
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2008-10-07
  • ISBN : 0061470856
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book Serena written by Ron Rash and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penned by an award-winning writer, this Gothic tale of greed, corruption, and revenge is set against the backdrop of the 1930s wilderness and America's burgeoning environmental movement.

Book More Than a Game

Download or read book More Than a Game written by Cynthia Lee A. Pemberton and published by Upne. This book was released on 2002 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the crusade for gender equity in sport and for compliance with Title IX at a small, liberal arts college in northwest Oregon.

Book Murder in Winnetka

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sharee Cravero Pemberton
  • Publisher : Sterlinghouse Publisher
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9781563152511
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Murder in Winnetka written by Sharee Cravero Pemberton and published by Sterlinghouse Publisher. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When notorious mob boss, Anthony Romano turns up dead, Detective Charles O'Brien is assigned the case. O'Brien soon discovers that the mobster's murder is connected to the disappearance of two children. O'Brien's job is further complicated by the interference of a Congressman and the FBI.

Book Israel Pemberton

    Book Details:
  • Author : Theodore Thayer
  • Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Release : 2018-12-02
  • ISBN : 1789127157
  • Pages : 483 pages

Download or read book Israel Pemberton written by Theodore Thayer and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS careful biographical monograph gives Pennsylvania’s Quaker ‘king’ of the middle 18th century the attention which has long been his due. Here is Israel Pemberton (1715-1779) as merchant, politician, friend of the Indians, Quaker leader, philanthropist, and proponent of peace. This Israel Pemberton, son of Israel, the merchant, and grandson of Phineas, one of the colony’s Quaker founders, was born to lead. Energetic, conscientious, gifted, and shrewd, he typified the practical, political side of Quakerism in all its strength and weakness. Economic success as merchant-shipper-trader came early to Pemberton, but did not satisfy him for long, and from about 1750 to the Revolution he devoted most of his energy to trying to maintain Quaker principles in Pennsylvania. He led the Friends in and out of the Assembly in their opposition to the aggressive Indian policy of the proprietors and the frontiersmen, hoping to keep peace with the Indians and to preserve the liberties as well as the power with which William Penn had endowed the first generation of Pennsylvania Friends. The effort failed, but Pemberton’s bold attempt, played for high stakes against all and sundry, is here told for the first time in the rich detail which the great collection of Pemberton Papers in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania makes possible.—Thomas Drake, The American Historical Review

Book Reevaluation Of Pemberton At Vicksburg

Download or read book Reevaluation Of Pemberton At Vicksburg written by Major Malcolm G. Haynes and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have largely agreed that Pemberton should shoulder the blame for the poor Confederate performance during the Vicksburg campaign. General consensus exists among American Civil War historians that Pemberton proved a confused, indecisive, and incompetent commander and his poor leadership led to the Confederate defeat. However, an examination of the Vicksburg campaign conducted at the operational level of war shows that throughout the campaign, Pemberton led a capable and competent defense not just of Vicksburg, but of the Mississippi Department he commanded. He relied on an operational approach that involved fighting from prepared defensive positions in favorable terrain deep in his own territory and anchored by natural obstacles. To attack such a position, Pemberton knew an opponent would need a large force operating over an extended line of communications (LOC). Pemberton intended to interdict his opponent’s LOC using a strong cavalry force, thus preventing the enemy from achieving the offensive momentum necessary to break through Vicksburg’s defenses. This was a sound operational approach. However, it failed because of an ineffective Confederate command structure that, among other failures, denied Pemberton the resources, particularly adequate cavalry forces, required to implement his operational approach.

Book Early New England People  Some Account of the Ellis  Pemberton  Willard  Prescott  Titcomb  Sewall and Long Fellow and Allied Families

Download or read book Early New England People Some Account of the Ellis Pemberton Willard Prescott Titcomb Sewall and Long Fellow and Allied Families written by Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Book The Miser  Or Interesting Memoirs of Harry Pemberton  Esq  A True Story

Download or read book The Miser Or Interesting Memoirs of Harry Pemberton Esq A True Story written by Lucy Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: