Download or read book Conspiracy written by Ryan Holiday and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018! A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--the book the New York Times called "one helluva page-turner" and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as "riveting...an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic read." Pick up the book everyone is talking about. In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. Thiel's sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn't consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private. This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy and with Nick Denton, Gawker's CEO and founder, out of a job. Only later would the world learn that Gawker's demise was not incidental--it had been masterminded by Thiel. For years, Thiel had searched endlessly for a solution to what he'd come to call the "Gawker Problem." When an unmarked envelope delivered an illegally recorded sex tape of Hogan with his best friend's wife, Gawker had seen the chance for millions of pageviews and to say the things that others were afraid to say. Thiel saw their publication of the tape as the opportunity he was looking for. He would come to pit Hogan against Gawker in a multi-year proxy war through the Florida legal system, while Gawker remained confidently convinced they would prevail as they had over so many other lawsuit--until it was too late. The verdict would stun the world and so would Peter's ultimate unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. Why had he done this? How had no one discovered it? What would this mean--for the First Amendment? For privacy? For culture? In Holiday's masterful telling of this nearly unbelievable conspiracy, informed by interviews with all the key players, this case transcends the narrative of how one billionaire took down a media empire or the current state of the free press. It's a study in power, strategy, and one of the most wildly ambitious--and successful--secret plots in recent memory. Some will cheer Gawker's destruction and others will lament it, but after reading these pages--and seeing the access the author was given--no one will deny that there is something ruthless and brilliant about Peter Thiel's shocking attempt to shake up the world.
Download or read book Ben Hogan s Five Lessons written by Ben Hogan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can shoot in the 70's!Ben Hogan has long believed that any golfer with average coordination can learn to break 80 if he applies himself intelligently -- and here, with Herbert Warren Wind, and artist Anthony Ravielli, he tells you, step by step, just how to go about it.The greatest golfer of our generation has distilled his experience as teacher, player, and observer of golf into a series of richly illustrated "visual instructions" that not only can improve your game and lower your score, but also can help you get even more fun out of what many people already think is the most enjoyable game in the world.Each chapter, each tested "fundamental" is explained and demonstrated with amazing detail and clarity. It's as though the master himself were right there at your elbow, giving you a personal lesson with the same thought and care that has gone into his lifetime of golf.The Modern Fundamentals of Golfis no instant and easy shortcut. There is none. But with Ben Hogan as your pro,you can master these basic movements very quickly.And then you can go on to develop a correct, powerful swing that willrepeat.As Ben Hogan says, it's only then that you'll "discover golf for the first time."
Download or read book Ben Hogan s Magical Device written by Ted Hunt and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1954, Ben Hogan stated in the serialized lessons he wrote for Life magazine that he had “a secret.” He challenged the world to find it by stating "It is easy to see if I tell you where to look." He then wrote his legendary instructional book, Five Lessons, and created a remarkable golf swing puzzle, but somehow one important piece of information was missing. Golf expert after golf expert have attempted to define this secret over the years, serving to compile a rather lengthy list of what they think the secret is but never quite explaining how it's done. Enter Ben Hogan's Magical Device, a revealing book which intends to finally explain, in universally understandable terms, that long-lost secret to Hogan's swing. As a lifelong golfer with 50+ years of experience, two degrees in Physical Education and a Doctorate in History, author Ted Hunt became determined to track down Hogan’s secret himself. He reviewed most of the literature concerning Hogan and interviewed many professionals (including Jack Nicklaus) and the result of his research produced a clearer understanding of the source of the confusion concerning Hogan’s secret. An hypothesis was conceived and tested, and Hunt was pleased to discover that his analysis stood up to critical examination. But perhaps more importantly, his golf responded with more accuracy and lower scores, which included shooting his age (79) several times within weeks of embracing the secret. Complete with 100 photos, Ben Hogan's Magical Device gives an easy-to-follow explanation of Hogan’s secret, where it comes from, and the foundations which support its successful execution. Interspersed throughout the text are stories from professional acquaintances who spoke with Hunt about their times with Mr. Hogan.
Download or read book Ten Feet Tall written by Wayne D. Overholser and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories included: “The Woman from Cougar Creek”“The Price of Pride”“The Devil and Old Man Gillis”“Shooting for a Fall”“It’s Hell to Be a Hero”“The Tongue-Tied Cowboy”“From Hell to Leadville”“The Deputy with a Past”“Judge Peterson’s Colt Law”“The Breaking of Sam McKay”“Fugitive from the Boothill Brigade”“The Man Ten Feet Tall”
Download or read book I Remember Ben Hogan written by Mike Towle and published by Cumberland House Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Remember Ben Hogan"", by Mike Towle, is filled with personal recollections of golf's most famous legend by the people who knew him best. Dozens of Hogan's confidants, peers, partners, and apprentices candidly reveal their memories of and insights into ""the Hawk"". Included are more than one hundred original stories and observations. ""
Download or read book Keeping Secrets written by Kasey Kizil and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping Secrets unveils the struggle and survival of one of the worlds richest and most powerful corporate attorneys, Bonnie Marie Brown. Despite being a hard-nosed, undefeated attorney, Bonnie secretly suffers unbearable abuse at the hands of her husband, world-renowned rhythm and blues singer Gary Anderson. Because Bonnie is so publicly high-profile, she feels she has to please the public and keep her image afloat. In fact, no one, not even her adopted father, knows of the torment Bonnie endures with her charming celebrity husband. Keeping Secrets Volume I unveils the struggles of Bonnie M. Brown from the moment she is shipped from home to home, to her relationship with her mentor Roger Von Hogan, to her childhood romance with rhythm-and-blues singer Gary Anderson. Bonnies life is like no other. Journey with her as she travels a road paved with intrigue, murder, deceit and lies.
Download or read book Official Conduct of Judge Ferdinand A Geiger written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 2.
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Download or read book Cassidy written by Wayne D. Overholser and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THOSE EYES. THEY’D SEEN HIS FATHER TORTURED AND A DOZEN OTHER MEN DIE. NOW THEY WERE LOOKING TO KILL EVERY MAN WHO CALLED HIMSELF “RANCHER.” A BOY WHO SEES HIS PA DIE LIKE AN ANIMAL BECOMES A MAN WHO KILLS LIKE ONE. His father's "crime" was building a home in a green Oregon valley. His father's killers were ranchers who believed their greed and guns gave them a lease on every man's land—and every man's life. As Cassidy grew older, he grew quieter and meaner. He was learning the killing skills of a gunman and he was waiting. Waiting for the day he could kill enough ranchers to ease his hatred. But for a hatred as big as Cassidy’s, “enough” meant the whole rotten breed. Then he got his chance. Ranchers were hiring guns for a range war. They wanted every settler swinging from a tree. Cassidy knew if the settlers had one gun fast enough and a leader who hated enough, it wouldn't be the settlers hanging in the Wyoming wind. Three-time Winner of the Spur Award Wayne D. Overholser Author of "Law Man" and "The Violent Land."
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Lake written by David Auburn and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lakeside rental Veronica has managed to afford is a far cry from the idyllic getaway she and her children so desperately need. And the disheveled property owner, Hogan, has problems of his own—problems that Veronica is inevitably—and irrevocably—pulled into. An engrossing and revealing portrait of two strangers bound together by circumstance, LOST LAKE is a vivid play about the struggle for connection in an imperfect world.
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
