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Book A Rope of Sand

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  • Author : Michael Kammen
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2012-10-03
  • ISBN : 0307827747
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book A Rope of Sand written by Michael Kammen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twenty years before the American Revolution, thirty-seven men acted as paid agent or lobbyists for the American colonies in England. The most famous among them were Benjamin Franklin, who represented four different colonies and served for seventeen years as agenet for Pennsylvania, and Edmund Burke, who accepted the position to further his own career. Yet the other thirty-five were also a colorful and heterogenous group. This detailed study, by a Pulitzer-prize-winning historian, of their activities and of the gradual breakdown of communications between the colonies and the mother country, until the link between the two become only "a rope of sand," is, in the words of the Richmond News Leader, "a new and invigorating approach to the American fight for independence." "Soundly documented, well organized and highly readable." - The New York Historical Society Quarterly "A challenging book about an important historical institution." - The Historian "A substantial contribution to our understanding of Anglo-American history during the eighteenth century." - The New England Quarterly "Both in concept and execution, A Rope of Sand is impressive." - The Journal of American History

Book Ropes of Sand

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  • Author : Wilbur Crane Eveland
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2018-07-17
  • ISBN : 1504050053
  • Pages : 545 pages

Download or read book Ropes of Sand written by Wilbur Crane Eveland and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “stinging indictment” of US foreign policy and covert operations in the Middle East from a former military attaché and CIA operative (The Christian Science Monitor). After the close of World War II, former army intelligence agent Wilbur Crane Eveland trained as a military attaché, specializing in the new focal point of global concern: the Middle East. In the decades that followed, he personally witnessed the evolution and many blunders of American Middle East policy from embassies of Arab states, inside the Pentagon and the White House, and as a principal CIA representative in the region. Finally, as a petroleum-engineering consultant, he lived with the results of America’s errors. In Ropes of Sand, Eveland delivers a richly detailed assessment of the mistakes, miscalculations, and outright failures he observed. The governments the United States armed to defend the Middle East against Russia ended in collapse. American support of the Shah of Iran led to disastrous results. Many of the major crises the US faced, from the energy shortage to the border issues of Israel, had been forecast decades earlier. Eveland explains the country’s failure to understand these problems and shows why every proposed solution, from the United Nations Partition Resolution for Palestine to the Camp David Accords, only added fuel to the fire. His insider critique is essential for understanding the Arab Spring, the threat of ISIS, and the ongoing conflicts we face in the region today. First released in 1980, this memoir was initially blocked from publication by the CIA for its revealing and critical discussion of numerous covert operations, some of which Eveland engaged in himself.

Book Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Download or read book Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."

Book Ropes of Sand

Download or read book Ropes of Sand written by Rose Lucile Ellerbe and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ropes of Sand

Download or read book Ropes of Sand written by Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Book of Sand

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  • Author : Jorge Luis Borges
  • Publisher : Dutton Books
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book The Book of Sand written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Dutton Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen new stories by the celebrated writer, including two which he considers his greatest achievements to date, artfully blend elements from many literary geares.

Book A Rope of Sand

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  • Author : Janette Bond
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2011-03-28
  • ISBN : 1456776541
  • Pages : 129 pages

Download or read book A Rope of Sand written by Janette Bond and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lake of Menteith is Scotland's only lake. Its environs include a wealth of historical and mythical evidence. When William Graham, Earl of Menteith, opens an old, red, leather book which he finds in the grounds of Inchtalla Castle, he has no idea of what he is about to unleash. Zander and his crew of goblins are desperate to work for the Earl but will their natural gift for mischief prevent them from retaining their freedom?

Book The Book of Sand

Download or read book The Book of Sand written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the stories The Congress, Undr, The Mirror and the Mask, August 25, 1983, Blue Tigers, The Rose of Paracelsus and Shakespeare's Memory.

Book Rope of Sand

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  • Author : C F Dunn
  • Publisher : Lion Fiction
  • Release : 2014-04-18
  • ISBN : 1782640886
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Rope of Sand written by C F Dunn and published by Lion Fiction. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘An addictive mix of suspense, romance, and the supernatural.’ Janey Fraser, Guilty. ‘A triumph of storytelling.’ Eric Delve, To Boldly Go In the third installment of The Secret of the Journal series, Christmas approaches and the relationship between British historian, Emma D'Eresby and American surgeon, Matthew Lynes deepens as she readies herself to meet his family in rural Maine. But tensions are simmering beneath the surface. What does sinister Maggie have against her, and what might she be prepared to do to keep Matthew and Emma apart? Emma has discovered Matthew's origins, but that is only the beginning; in order to prepare for the future, she must also understand his past.

Book Ropes of Sand

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  • Author : Lura Kelsey Clendening
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Ropes of Sand written by Lura Kelsey Clendening and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ropes of Sand

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  • Author : John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1869
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Ropes of Sand written by John Byrne Leicester Warren (Baron de Tabley) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inventing a Nation

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  • Author : Gore Vidal
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 0300127928
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Inventing a Nation written by Gore Vidal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestseller offers “an unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all” (New York Review of Books). In Inventing a Nation, National Book Award winner Gore Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidal’s splendid prose, in ways we have not up to now—their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Vidal brings them to life at the key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. He also illuminates the force and weight of the documents they wrote, the speeches they delivered, and the institutions of government by which we still live. More than two centuries later, America is still largely governed by the ideas championed by this triumvirate. The author of Burr and Lincoln, one of the master stylists of American literature and most acute observers of American life, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of these formidable men

Book Blood and Sand

Download or read book Blood and Sand written by C. V. Wyk and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Spartacus is recast as a fierce female warrior in this action-packed tale of a 17-year-old princess and a handsome gladiator who dared take on the Roman Republic.

Book Rope of Sand

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  • Author : John Laband
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 576 pages

Download or read book Rope of Sand written by John Laband and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kingdom forged by Shaka was once one of the most powerful and sophisticated black states in Africa. It took the British at the height of their imperial power six months and a full military campaign to bring the kingdom down. Thereafter, Zululand was broken up, consigned to bitter civil war, and eventually annexed piecemeal, its land given over to white farmers, in a saga of humiliation and loss. This book gives an account of the dramatic emergence and tragic decline of the Zulu kingdom in the 19th century, based on research fieldwork. It ranges from themes such as Zulu social and political organization, through analysis of the vivid personalities and complex political maneuvrings of leading Zulu and their colonial opponents, to descriptions of military campaigns and battles.

Book Ropes of Sand  a Novel

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  • Author : William P. Lancaster (M.A.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1869
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Ropes of Sand a Novel written by William P. Lancaster (M.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dead in Vineyard Sand

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  • Author : Philip R. Craig
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 0743270444
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Dead in Vineyard Sand written by Philip R. Craig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the body of a radical environmentalist is discovered in a golf course sandtrap, J. W. Jackson finds himself named a prime suspect and sets about identifying the killer from among a horde of developers, golfers, and other potential culprits.

Book A Rope of Sand

Download or read book A Rope of Sand written by Francis Bonnamy and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: