Download or read book A Reluctant Patriot written by Robert Lawrence Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story that is true to American history. A refreshing novel that flies in the face of negativity found in the media today. Here is a young man handicapped by the loss of his right arm, triumphing over what might be considered impossible odds. A young man who risks all in the service of his adopted country.
Download or read book The Reluctant Patriot written by Susan Lohafer and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of the American Civil War, Harry thought it was just a quarrel among politicians -- until his young son ran away to join a guerrilla raid against the Confederates. Within weeks, Harry himself was falsely accused of sabotage, tried in a rigged courtroom, and sentenced to hang for treason. Based on true events and the real life of Harrison Self, this is a tale of eastern Tennessee, where loyalty to the Union survived long after the state had seceded. At times evoking the diaries, humorous tales, and adventure narratives of the period, it is the story of a man for whom love of country was not a given, but the result of decisions forged under pressure. In the course of his war, he will lose a son, plumb a daughter's love, and form a strange bond with the region's most controversial figure, W. G. Brownlow. Unremarked by history, Harry experienced, firsthand, the serial betrayals and surprising loyalties of a bloody war on his doorstep. How he survived -- and what he became -- is a suspenseful and moving tale of a soul's reformation.
Download or read book A Reluctant Patriot written by Robert Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reluctant Patriot Story written by Latrina Dycus and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provided an honest look at the life experiences that saw him go from adolescence to post-retirement. It struck me how the values, morals, and ethics he adopted thru his family, his education with the Jesuits, and his military training stayed with him. They prepared him for the variety of challenges and obstacles he faced thru the years. This is the fascinating story of the life journey of the author The author is a member of the passionate Boomer Generation. Raised in a typical Post WWII family in San Francisco, his education and family values directed him to always do the right thing no matter the circumstances.
Download or read book The Reluctant Patriot written by Edward Bernardi and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernardi's first effort, The Reluctant Patriot, is a richly woven history of a good people changed; a powerful cautionary story about the grand opera of politics where, throughout the ages, maestros are changed but the music remains the same ... always the same.Based upon his research of letters and extensive original conversations with family members and friends living in the United States and several small villages in the Italian Apennine Mountains, the author weaves a unique story of love, hope and patriotism of family members and friends who became casualties of Fascism, the German occupation, partisan raids and the reprisals carried out by both sides.
Download or read book The Reluctant Patriot written by Roger F. Duncan and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1775, just prior to the start of the American Revolution, the British schooner Halifax was wrecked off the Maine coast. The pilot of the vessel was a Colonial seaman who'd been impressed into the Royal Navy. Drawing on true events and real people, noted maritime author and historian Roger Duncan traces the fictional life of Halifax's pilot in this historical novel.
Download or read book Mission For A Reluctant Patriot written by Susana Paolini and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boomers are a generation that is often overlooked in the wrong assumption that they lack digital affinity. This, however, is far from the truth. Businesses thinking that Social Media is only for younger generations are missing out on great opportunities. The book is the fascinating story of the life journey of author Paul Baffico as a member of the passionate Boomer Generation. Raised in a typical Post WWII family in San Francisco, his education and family values directed him to always do the right thing no matter the circumstances. Through the Haight-Ashbury Summer of Love and the military obligation that sent him to Vietnam; a brilliant career with a Fortune 50 company including an envious early retirement; and finally, the recall of one horrific year of combat that haunted him daily, he eventually questioned if he had ever lived up to the values he was taught. Paul Baffico takes us through the crucial moments of the experience that defined his life and emotional state, but that eventually motivated him to be healed by a most unforeseen encounter with a buried and boiling past. The story is as timeless and relevant today for warriors and their families as it has been for the millennia that humankind has fought wars.
Download or read book Reluctant Patriots written by Marc Ajay Flacks and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Last Mission for a Reluctant Patriot written by Paul A. Baffico and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last Mission for a Reluctant Patriot is the fascinating story of the life journey of author Paul Baffico as a member of the passionate Boomer Generation. Raised in a typical Post WWII family in San Francisco, his education and family values directed him to always do the right thing no matter the circumstances. Through the Haight-Ashbury Summer of Love and his military obligation that sent him to Vietnam; a brilliant career with a Fortune 50 company including an envious early retirement; and finally, the recall of one horrific year of combat that haunted him daily, he eventually questioned if he had ever lived up to the values he was taught. Paul Baffico takes us through the crucial moments of the experience that defined his life and emotional state, but that eventually motivated him to be healed by a most unforeseen encounter with a buried and boiling past. The story is as timeless and relevant today for warriors and their families as it has been for the millennia that human kind has fought wars.Baffico is the Founder of the Lake County Veterans and Family Services Foundation. He was the 2012 Red Cross Military Hero of the Year for Greater Chicagoland. He is a U.S. Park Service Volunteer Docent at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.. And he is the former President of the Sears Automotive Group and the CEO of Western Auto Supply Company. He lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife Max Smith.
Download or read book Last Mission For A Reluctant Patriot Story written by Edwin Honeycott and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boomers are a generation that is often overlooked in the wrong assumption that they lack digital affinity. This, however, is far from the truth. Businesses thinking that Social Media is only for younger generations are missing out on great opportunities. The book is the fascinating story of the life journey of author Paul Baffico as a member of the passionate Boomer Generation. Raised in a typical Post WWII family in San Francisco, his education and family values directed him to always do the right thing no matter the circumstances. Through the Haight-Ashbury Summer of Love and the military obligation that sent him to Vietnam; a brilliant career with a Fortune 50 company including an envious early retirement; and finally, the recall of one horrific year of combat that haunted him daily, he eventually questioned if he had ever lived up to the values he was taught. Paul Baffico takes us through the crucial moments of the experience that defined his life and emotional state, but that eventually motivated him to be healed by a most unforeseen encounter with a buried and boiling past. The story is as timeless and relevant today for warriors and their families as it has been for the millennia that humankind has fought wars.
Download or read book A Patriot s History of the United States written by Larry Schweikart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-12-29 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.
Download or read book The Unexpected Patriot written by Lee Moran and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's all here, a story that reaches back for more than two hundred years to showcase the many historical events that are destined to impact future generations, even if vast oceans do provide a continental divide. A love story, a story of murder, suicide, a man's love for family, country, and his surrender of his two sons during WWII, but builds a reluctance to give up a third to another war. The story of heroes, patriots, and the cowards who used their political power to deceive the American people by trying to make them believe the worst in some of America's best. And a storyteller that lays the deeds of two past presidents side by side and lets the reader decide if there was complacency in one or a vision in the other. Lee Moran is a retired quality engineer from Lockheed Aircraft, and is currently enjoying the good life in Sarasota, Florida. Golf, bowling, beaching, and writing takes up most of his time today, but Lee has always been a busy guy. He's a former policeman, an elected Town Selectman, Civil Defense Director, a pipe fitter on the Alaskan pipeline, and is currently striving to be a remembered author.
Download or read book The Last Patriot The Life and Times of a Reluctant Hero Mistakenly Viewed as a Traitor written by Tom Scanlon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forced Founders written by Woody Holton and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule. The Virginia gentry's efforts to shape London's imperial policy were thwarted by British merchants and by a coalition of Indian nations. In 1774, elite Virginians suspended trade with Britain in order to pressure Parliament and, at the same time, to save restive Virginia debtors from a terrible recession. The boycott and the growing imperial conflict led to rebellions by enslaved Virginians, Indians, and tobacco farmers. By the spring of 1776 the gentry believed the only way to regain control of the common people was to take Virginia out of the British Empire. Forced Founders uses the new social history to shed light on a classic political question: why did the owners of vast plantations, viewed by many of their contemporaries as aristocrats, start a revolution? As Holton's fast-paced narrative unfolds, the old story of patriot versus loyalist becomes decidedly more complex.
Download or read book The True Patriot written by Eric Liu and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential read for both progressives and conservatives, this ‘little red book’ challenges modern patriotism, calling for a return to the ideals on which our democracy was founded Over the course of a generation, patriotism in America has been hijacked by the right and abandoned by the left. But the principles and values of true patriotism—country above self, contribution above consumption, stewardship over exploitation, freedom with responsibility, purpose through sacrifice and service, pragmatism, a fair shot for all—are inherently progressive. Written in the pamphleteering style of Thomas Paine (Common Sense), The True Patriot challenges progressives to reclaim patriotism and spells out just how to do it. This powerful and timely “little red book” combines a manifesto, a ten-principle plan, a model speech, and a moral code. Throughout, it weaves between the words of the authors and excerpts from foundational American texts and speeches, as well as a parade of iconic American images.
Download or read book 100 written by Upton Sinclair and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prolific author and political activist Upton Sinclair throws the upheaval of the early twentieth century into sharp relief in 100%: The Story of a Patriot. In a matter of instants, a bomb blast transmutes Peter Gudge's entire existence into chaos, and in the resulting pandemonium, he's forced to reexamine all of his values and beliefs.
Download or read book George Washington written by Janet Benge and published by YWAM Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Army and first president of the United States.
