Download or read book No Quitters Here written by Brenda M. Woodward and published by Dynamic Pub.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring account of high school football and the power of a dream. Players would not compromise their goal to play in the Pontiac Silverdome; a place where dreams come true and state championships are won. Their quest created a ten-year winning streak (1988-1998). Faithful fans watched them play on Friday nights, unaware of their serious challenges. You'll laugh with them, cry with them, and come to understand how their high school football experience impacted their lives, as well as their futures.

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Download or read book Rethinking Camelot written by Noam Chomsky and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores JFK’s role in US invasion of Vietnam and a reflects on the political culture that encouraged the Cold War.

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Download or read book The Useless Servants written by Rolando Hinojosa and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Useless Servants, award-winning author Rolando Hinojosa captures the obscenity and pointlessness of war in the pages of a Korean War journal written by his fictional everyman, Rafe Buenrostro. Drawing from his own experiences, Hinojosa probes the mind of this Texas country boy who suddenly finds himself in an unknown country fighting in an undeclared war for an unknown reason. Meeting and befriending an unending stream of people who are gone as suddenly as they appear, Rafe alternately fears for his life and is bored to death. Dehumanized by the horrors that surround him, Rafe latches onto the one thing that offers hope for survival: his diary. He records his observations laconically and without emotion in a routine geared to survival and to becoming more effective in the performance of his grisly duty as an artilleryman. Hinojosa is successful in building suspense and irony as much by what is unsaid, unrecorded in the diary, as by what is expressed. In The Useless Servants, Hinojosa departs from his usual genre, the generational novels that chronicle the human comedy in an imaginary region on the Texas-Mexico border. He sets aside the usual theme of inter-ethnic and interpersonal conflict to confront a painful chapter in his own life, placing Rafe Buenrostro, one of his alter egos, in a far more serious drama lived on the edge of sanity on the frontier between physical survival and spiritual destruction.

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Download or read book President Kennedy written by Richard Reeves and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994-11 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents John F. Kennedy's three years in the White House in a day-by-day, often minute-by-minute, Oval Office narrative of what it was, and is, like to be President of the United States.

Download or read book Choosing War written by Fredrik Logevall and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the most detailed and powerfully argued books published on American intervention in Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall examines the last great unanswered question on the war: Could the tragedy have been averted? His answer: a resounding yes. Challenging the prevailing myth that the outbreak of large-scale fighting in 1965 was essentially unavoidable, Choosing War argues that the Vietnam War was unnecessary, not merely in hindsight but in the context of its time. Why, then, did major war break out? Logevall shows it was partly because of the timidity of the key opponents of U.S. involvement, and partly because of the staunch opposition of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations to early negotiations. His superlative account shows that U.S. officials chose war over disengagement despite deep doubts about the war's prospects and about Vietnam's importance to U.S. security and over the opposition of important voices in the Congress, in the press, and in the world community. They did so because of concerns about credibility—not so much America's or the Democratic party's credibility, but their own personal credibility. Based on six years of painstaking research, this book is the first to place American policymaking on Vietnam in 1963-65 in its wider international context using multiarchival sources, many of them recently declassified. Here we see for the first time how the war played in the key world capitals—not merely in Washington, Saigon, and Hanoi, but also in Paris and London, in Tokyo and Ottawa, in Moscow and Beijing. Choosing War is a powerful and devastating account of fear, favor, and hypocrisy at the highest echelons of American government, a book that will change forever our understanding of the tragedy that was the Vietnam War.