Download or read book The Formative Years of an African American Spy written by Odell Bennett Lee and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes his early life, growing up in a dysfunctional family, and how he ended up becoming a CIA case officer.
Download or read book Studies in Intelligence written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in Intelligence written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1992 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quiet Americans written by Scott Anderson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia—the gripping story of four CIA agents during the early days of the Cold War—and how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to permanently damage its moral standing in the world. “Enthralling … captivating reading.” —The New York Times Book Review At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear—to some—that the Soviet Union was already seeking to expand and foment revolution around the world, and the American government’s strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly formed CIA. Chronicling the fascinating lives of four agents, Scott Anderson follows the exploits of four spies: Michael Burke, who organized parachute commandos from an Italian villa; Frank Wisner, an ingenious spymaster who directed actions around the world; Peter Sichel, a German Jew who outwitted the ruthless KGB in Berlin; and Edward Lansdale, a mastermind of psychological warfare in the Far East. But despite their lofty ambitions, time and again their efforts went awry, thwarted by a combination of ham-fisted politicking and ideological rigidity at the highest levels of the government.
Download or read book Justice Through Espionage written by Cecelia R. Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Justice Through Espionage, Cecelia Brooks offers a thought provoking portrait of Melvin Jack Chisum, America's most notorious African American Spy. The book calls into question past historical interpretations. Using primary sources, many of which have never been unearthed until now, her understanding of Chisum is vastly different from the often-quoted caricature of him as an ugly, unprincipled, and lecherous spy. Brooks also had the intellectual curiosity to consult a never-before interviewed primary source, Melvin Chisum's son.
Download or read book The African American Encyclopedia written by Michael Warren Williams and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals extensively with the African American experience in the United States from the very beginning up to the present day with an in-depth examination of the history and contributions of a people who want to be recognized.
Download or read book Black America written by Kehinde Andrews and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From slavery through the election of Vice President Kamala Harris, here is the history of Black America told through striking photographs and compelling narrative that captures many of the key joys, struggles and milestones. Learn about the first Black Americans and the origins of slavery, including Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Frederick Douglas and the Civil War. Explore the long fight for freedom through Jim Crow, W.E. Dubois, the Tulsa Massacre and the rise of MLK, Malcolm X and the Black Panther Movement. Discover the joys of the Harlem Renaissance, Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock and the rise of Hip Hop. And find out the story behind Muhammad Ali’s Rumble in the Jungle, the desegregation of professional sports, and how black sports stars from Hank Aaron to Lebron James have fought to make their voices heard.
Download or read book African American Humor Irony and Satire written by Dana A. Williams and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Humor, Irony, and Satire: Ishmael Reed, Satirically Speaking includes select proceedings from the annual Heart’s Day Conference, sponsored by the Department of English at Howard University. Among the collection’s many strengths is the range of essays included here. Essays on Ishmael Reed center the collection, and satirists from George Schuyler to Aaron McGruder are examined as are popular culture comedians Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle. Thus, the collection adds broadly to the body of scholarship on traditional and non-traditional interpretations of humor, irony, and satire. What these essays also reveal is how the lens of humor, irony, and satire as a way of reading texts is especially useful in highlighting the complexity of African American life and culture. The essays also uncover crucial but no so obvious connections between African Americans and other world cultures.
Download or read book A Black Philadelphia Reader written by Louis J. Parascandola and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between the City of Brotherly Love and its Black residents has been complicated from the city’s founding through the present day. A Black Philadelphia Reader traces this complex history in the words of Black writers who were native to, lived in, or had significant connections to the city. Featuring the works of famous authors—including W. E. B. Du Bois, Harriet Jacobs, Sonia Sanchez and John Edgar Wideman—alongside lesser-known voices, this reader is an immersive and enriching composite portrait of the Black experience in Philadelphia. Through fiction and nonfiction, poetry and prose, readers witness episodes of racial prejudice and gender inequality in areas like public health, housing, education, policing, criminal justice, and public transportation. And yet amid these myriad challenges, the writers convey an enduring faith, a love of family and community, and a hope that Philadelphia will fulfill its promises to its Black citizens. Thoughtfully introduced and accompanied by notes that contextualize the works and aid readers’ comprehension, this book will appeal to a wide audience of Philadelphians and other readers interested in American, African American, and urban studies.
Download or read book The African American Encyclopedia written by R. Kent Rasmussen and published by Cavendish Square Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Widow Spy Der written by Friedrich O. Georg and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When writing a historical novel which reaches into the future, it is important to select a setting the reader can associate with and achieves a sense of reality. Now, is it possible for the United States of America following in the steps of decline as seen by other great Nations? One can ask how it could possibly happen here as well. Could a case be made even in our own history that the steps toward grandeur or decline are never far apart in reality? Pessimists express the fear we are in the final stages of the American Century and we may be close to such a self inflicted end if it came, it would have to be self inflicted. Much of our American history is the extended history of western civilizations. Yes, we can imagine ancient grandeurs of the Chinese Dynasties, India, Japan, Central America, Egypt or even some mystical societies in the deepest of Africa, yet our current cultural world was formed in little more than the past two thousand years. The most dramatic ones were roughly the last two hundred years. Once power shifted from Greece and the Roman Empire, World history was driven by Western Europe and the spread of Christianity. During the dark ages Islam emerged and reached its zenith during the Middle Ages, only to regress back to what many claim its founding ages. Islam must receive credit for much of the Greek and Indian derived knowledge it preserved for posterity, but we must also recognize it failed to build on this knowledge and it destroyed much of what it could not assimilate. Much bloody conquest was also undertaken in the name of Christianity and shall always be a reminder of where we have been. For roughly three centuries Europe suffered through untold hardships of Nationality driven wars and collectively committed unspeakable human disasters. Slavery existed through most of the recorded history and was ended in western societies less than two hundred years ago, while in some regions of the world it seems to be an accepted practice still even today. While in the earlier history of Nation or Tribal formation wars were total and aimed to destroy an adversary and taking survivors into bondage, the inhumanity of man toward man reached their lowest points during the past century with the deliberate destruction of untold human beings. The Soviet Unions revolution and the deliberate mass starvation of the Ukraine and the multi-million killings in Maos Cultural Revolution in China stand out. Yet the bottom was reached in cold blooded mass exterminations in Germany of Germans with a different Faith and this happened but years after Germany was perceived to be the most civilized of Nations. Yet during these three centuries of European strive, Western Europeans pioneers were the first to permanently colonize the North American Continent. In the drive toward establishing permanent settlements, the actions toward natives and the importation of the enslaved followed along the pattern established in the Old World, but in the time during this strive the concept of equality and freedom arose. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights ushered in a New World of Freedom unknown before. The achievement of these ideals was not instantaneously but evolved over time and in the face of often strenuous opposition. During now its well over two hundred year existence this great democracy was the beacon to untold millions rushing to its shore to build new lives in freedom and toward prosperity, while at times some also came to destroy this very same concept. This Nation demonstrated its stability through wars, famine, disasters, internal strife and direct terrorist attacks of unspeakable magnitude, but in its democratic principles never wavered. With no reasonable external thread that would cede the survivability of the adversary, is the vision bequeathed to us by our Founding Fathers strong enough to handle internal strives as well to ensure survival of their vision? This Nation was born in Revolution, survived its Civil War, the Great Depression, the 9/11 Terror attack, but could it lose its Freedom in a silent revolution through the overthrow of its elected Government? The danger is never far away and could come from least expected corners; as we shall read.
Download or read book Spy Runner written by Eugene Yelchin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spy Runner, a noir mystery middle grade novel from Newbery Honor author Eugene Yelchin, a boy stumbles upon a secret that jeopardizes American national security. It's 1953 and the Cold War is on. Communism threatens all that the United States stands for, and America needs every patriot to do their part. So when a Russian boarder moves into the home of twelve-year-old Jake McCauley, he's on high alert. What does the mysterious Mr. Shubin do with all that photography equipment? And why did he choose to live so close to the Air Force base? Jake’s mother says that Mr. Shubin knew Jake’s dad, who went missing in action during World War II. But Jake is skeptical; the facts just don’t add up. And he’s determined to discover the truth—no matter what he risks. Godwin Books
Download or read book Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities in Literature written by Elizabeth Jackson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates literary representations and self-representations of people with cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend categories of migrancy and diaspora.
Download or read book The Bulloch Belles written by Walter E. Wilson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bulloch women of Roswell, Georgia, were not typical antebellum Southern belles. Most were well educated world travelers skilled at navigating social circles far outside the insular aristocracy of the rural South. Their lives were filled with intrigue, espionage, scandal, adversity and perseverance. During the Civil War they eluded Union spies on land and blockaders at sea and afterwards they influenced the national debate on equal rights for women. The impact of their Southern ideals increased exponentially when they integrated into the Roosevelt family of New York. Drawing on primary sources, this book provides new insight into the private lives of the women closely linked with the Bulloch family. They include four first ladies, a Confederate spy, the mother of President Teddy Roosevelt and a number of his closest confidants. Nancy Jackson, the family's nursemaid slave, is among the less well known but equally fascinating Bulloch women.
Download or read book The Black Angels written by Maria Smilios and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage. In the pre-antibiotic days when tuberculosis stirred people’s darkest fears, killing one in seven, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting en masse. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island, yet again confronting racism and consigned to a woefully understaffed sanatorium, dubbed “the pest house,” where it was said that “no one left alive.” Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, this remarkable true story follows the intrepid young women known by their patients as the “Black Angels.” For twenty years, they risked their lives working under appalling conditions while caring for New York’s poorest residents, who languished in wards, waiting to die, or became guinea pigs for experimental surgeries and often deadly drugs. But despite their major role in desegregating the New York City hospital system—and their vital work in helping to find the cure for tuberculosis at Sea View—these nurses were completely erased from history. The Black Angels recovers the voices of these extraordinary women and puts them at the center of this riveting story, celebrating their legacy and spirit of survival.
Download or read book SUDAN written by Narayan Changder and published by CHANGDER OUTLINE. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is primarily designed for students preparing for various competitive exam- inations. It will also be helpful for those preparing for midterm exams in schools or universities. The aim of this book is twofold: first, to help the students preparing for competitive examinations, seeking admission to universities or schools, or prepare for job interviews. Second, it will also be helpful for those studying SUDAN. This book contains more than 81 questions from the core areas of SUDAN. The questions are grouped chapter-wise. There are total 1 chapters, 3 sections and 81+ MCQ with answers. This reference book provides a single source for multiple choice questions and answers in SUDAN. It is intended for students as well as for developers and researchers in the field. This book is highly useful for faculties and students. One can use this book as a study guide, knowledge test questions bank, practice test kit, quiz book, trivia questions . . . etc. The strategy used in this book is the same as that which mothers and grandmothers have been using for ages to induce kids in the family to sip more soup (or some other nutritious drink). The children are told that some cherries (their favourite noo- dles or cherries ) are hidden somewhere in the bowl, and that serves as an incentive for drinking the soup. In joint families, by the time the children are old enough to know the trick played by their grandma, there is usually another group of kids ready to fall for it! They excite the kids, but the real nutrition lies not in the noodles but in the soup. The problems given in this book are like those noodles/cherries while solving all these problems are nutritious soup. Now it is your choice to drink the nutritious soups or not!!!.
Download or read book Black Heroes of the American Revolution written by Burke Davis and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1992-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the African American soldiers, sailors, spies, scouts, guides, and wagoners who participated and sacrificed in the struggle for American independence
