Download or read book Power Wars written by Charlie Savage and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 1067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state. Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's "global war on terror" but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention to military commissions and targeted killings. Then Obama found himself bequeathing those authorities to Donald Trump. How did the United States get here? In Power Wars, Charlie Savage reveals high-level national security legal and policy deliberations in a way no one has done before. He tells inside stories of how Obama came to order the drone killing of an American citizen, preside over an unprecendented crackdown on leaks, and keep a then-secret program that logged every American's phone calls. Encompassing the first comprehensive history of NSA surveillance over the past forty years as well as new information about the Osama bin Laden raid, Power Wars equips readers to understand the legacy of Bush's and Obama's post-9/11 presidencies in the Trump era.
Download or read book The Savage Times written by Steve Harmon and published by Fastpencil Incorporated. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Harmon was part of he 60's music scene in the Midwest.Also was in Viet Nam for a year and half.Was a flooring contractor.Had a blog at Shirley Maclaines called the Universal Mind with 70,000 readers.Lives in California.
Download or read book 52 Heart Lifters for Difficult Times written by Diana Savage and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your heart burdened by loss, rejection, or even discouragement caused by other Christians or a church? If you wonder, How can I trust God with my hurts? Diana Savage invites you to renew your hope and start your emotional and spiritual healing in this year-long gathering of inspiring devotions and words of encouragement. Your hearts deepest questions are met with hope- and humor-filled meditations and life illustrations. How can I restore the joy of my faith when life is challenging? How do I heal and forgive if Ive been let down by believers? Is comfort in God possible when I feel distant from him? Whether you or someone in your life faces sadness, uncertainty, or discontentment52 Heart-Lifters for Difficult Times offers words of encouragement to help a heart in every season experience spiritual healing and feel safe in Jesus love and care once again.
Download or read book Savage Scene written by William Cochran McGaw and published by Hastings House Book Publishers. This book was released on 1972 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Persian Boy written by Mary Renault and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times–bestselling novel of the ancient king of Macedon and his lover by the author Hilary Mantel calls “a shining light.” The Persian Boy centers on the most tempestuous years of Alexander the Great’s life, as seen through the eyes of his lover and most faithful attendant, Bagoas. When Bagoas is very young, his father is murdered and he is sold as a slave to King Darius of Persia. Then, when Alexander conquers the land, he is given Bagoas as a gift, and the boy is besotted. This passion comes at a time when much is at stake—Alexander has two wives, conflicts are ablaze, and plots on the Macedon king’s life abound. The result is a riveting account of a great conqueror’s years of triumph and, ultimately, heartbreak. The Persian Boy is the second volume of the Novels of Alexander the Great trilogy, which also includes Fire from Heaven and Funeral Games. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary Renault including rare images of the author. “Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us.” —Hilary Mantel
Download or read book Savage Feast written by Boris Fishman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told recipe-filled memoir. A story of family, immigration, and love—and an epic meal—Savage Feast explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle. A revealing personal story and family memoir told through meals and recipes, Savage Feast begins with Boris’s childhood in Soviet Belarus, where good food was often worth more than money. He describes the unlikely dish that brought his parents together and how years of Holocaust hunger left his grandmother so obsessed with bread that she always kept five loaves on hand. She was the stove magician and Boris’ grandfather the master black marketer who supplied her, evading at least one firing squad on the way. These spoils kept Boris’ family—Jews who lived under threat of discrimination and violence—provided-for and protected. Despite its abundance, food becomes even more important in America, which Boris’ family reaches after an emigration through Vienna and Rome filled with marvel, despair, and bratwurst. How to remain connected to one’s roots while shedding their trauma? The ambrosial cooking of Oksana, Boris’s grandfather’s Ukrainian home aide, begins to show him the way. His quest takes him to a farm in the Hudson River Valley, the kitchen of a Russian restaurant on the Lower East Side, a Native American reservation in South Dakota, and back to Oksana’s kitchen in Brooklyn. His relationships with women—troubled, he realizes, for reasons that go back many generations—unfold concurrently, finally bringing him, after many misadventures, to an American soulmate. Savage Feast is Boris’ tribute to food, that secret passage to an intimate conversation about identity, belonging, family, displacement, and love.
Download or read book Savage Appetites written by Rachel Monroe and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “necessary and brilliant” (NPR) exploration of our cultural fascination with true crime told through four “enthralling” (The New York Times Book Review) narratives of obsession. In Savage Appetites, Rachel Monroe links four criminal roles—Detective, Victim, Defender, and Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obsession. From a frustrated and brilliant heiress crafting crime-scene dollhouses to a young woman who became part of a Manson victim’s family, from a landscape architect in love with a convicted murderer to a Columbine fangirl who planned her own mass shooting, these women are alternately mesmerizing, horrifying, and sympathetic. A revealing study of women’s complicated relationship with true crime and the fear and desire it can inspire, together these stories provide a window into why many women are drawn to crime narratives—even as they also recoil from them. Monroe uses these four cases to trace the history of American crime through the growth of forensic science, the evolving role of victims, the Satanic Panic, the rise of online detectives, and the long shadow of the Columbine shooting. Combining personal narrative, reportage, and a sociological examination of violence and media in the 20th and 21st centuries, Savage Appetites is a “corrective to the genre it interrogates” (The New Statesman), scrupulously exploring empathy, justice, and the persistent appeal of crime.
Download or read book The Savage Detectives written by Roberto Bolaño and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an afterword by Natasha Wimmer. Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer’s translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times. New Year’s Eve 1975, Mexico City. Two hunted men leave town in a hurry, on the desert-bound trail of a vanished poet. Spanning two decades and crossing continents, theirs is a remarkable quest through a darkening universe – our own. It is a journey told and shared by a generation of lovers, rebels and readers, whose testimonies are woven together into one of the most dazzling Latin American novels of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Savage Times written by Geoff Johns and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Savage written by David Almond and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy tells about a story he wrote when dealing with his father's death about a savage kid living in a ruined chapel in the woods--and the tale about the savage kid coming to life in the real world.
Download or read book Savage Pageant written by Jessica Stark and published by Birds. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. California Studies. Film. SAVAGE PAGEANT recounts the history of the defunct zoo, Jungleland, which housed Hollywood's show animals up until its closure in 1969. In it, Stark explores the concept of US American spectacle and its historic ties to celebrity culture, the maternal body, racist taxonomies, the mistreatment of animals, and ecological violence. With a hybrid, documentary poetics, SAVAGE PAGEANT reveals how we attempt to narrate and control geographical space and how ghosts (remainders, the sketch, unfinished stories) collapse the tidy corners of our collective, accumulative histories.
Download or read book Phoenix Rising from a Savage Time written by Marc Jordan Ben-Meir and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work of fiction is the third and final work in the Savage Time Trilogy. It continues to follows the Fridmans, the Falcos, the Bermans, the Williams and the Frees as well as the rest of the scattered families into the new era of the 20th century after surviving the American Civil War, Reconstruction and World War I. We start with a commemoration celebration of the70th anniversary of the founding father of the Fridmans arrival in America. Sol Fridman, and remember his journey from Jembin, Russia to Hamburg, Germany where he took a ship to follow his dream: America. The story begins when the family gathers together to honor Sols memory and recap his adventures. The story line leads the family into the 1929 stock market crash and its effect on the remainder of the family. Join the Fridmans, the Falcos, the Bermans, the Frees, and the rest of the scattered cousins as they make their way into the brave new world rising like a phoenix from the cold, dead ashes of war. Join me and wander with me. Enjoy the story.
Download or read book The Expository Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Our Own Times written by Justin McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Savage Lies written by Bill Bowman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radio talk show host and author Michael Savage has for years been given free rein to distort facts, cherrypick information and just plain lie in supporting his radical conservative opinions. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the three books Savage considers his "legacy." But now, award-winning journalist Bill Bowman puts the truth to Savage's lies, revealing Savage's rampant egotism, sloppy research and willingness to spin "facts"out of whole cloth. This is not an attack on Savage's opinions. It is, however, a long-overdue fact checking of some of the bedrock arguments Savage uses to substantiate those opinions.
Download or read book San Francisco Daily Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Expository Times written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
