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Book Remembering Pearl Harbor

Download or read book Remembering Pearl Harbor written by Michael Slackman and published by Sunrise Publishing (CA). This book was released on 1990 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The USS Arizona

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  • Author : Joy Waldron Jasper
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2003-11-17
  • ISBN : 9780312993511
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The USS Arizona written by Joy Waldron Jasper and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-11-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid account of the events of December 7, 1941, details what occurred on the ship that suffered the loss of 1,177 men and how it was transformed into a potent symbol of American grit and resolve. photos. Martin's Press.

Book Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial

Download or read book Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial written by Richard A. Wisniewski and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the elements of the attack on Pearl Harbor as well as a broader, pictorial perspective of Pearl Harbor and the Arizona whose end results were this memorial.

Book Submerged Cultural Resources Study

Download or read book Submerged Cultural Resources Study written by Daniel Lenihan and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Summoning Pearl Harbor

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  • Author : Alexander Nemerov
  • Publisher : David Zwirner Books
  • Release : 2017-11-21
  • ISBN : 1941701655
  • Pages : 81 pages

Download or read book Summoning Pearl Harbor written by Alexander Nemerov and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summoning Pearl Harbor is a mesmerizing display of linguistic force that redefines remembering. How do words make the past appear? In what way does the historian summon bygone events? What is this kind of remembering, and for whom do we recall the dead, or the past? In this highly original meditation on the past, renowned art historian Alexander Nemerov delves into what it means to recall a significant event—Pearl Harbor—and how descriptions of images can summon it back to life. Beginning with the photo album of a former Japanese kamikaze pilot, which is reproduced in this volume, Nemerov transports the reader into a different world through his engagement with the photographs and the construction of a narrative around them. Through its lyrical prose, Summoning Pearl Harbor expands what we traditionally associate with ekphrastic writing. The kind of writing that can enliven a work of art is also the kind of writing that makes the past appear in vivid color and deep feeling. In the end, this timely piece of writing opens onto fundamental questions about how we communicate with each other, and how the past continues to live in our collective consciousness, not merely as facts but as stories that shape us. Here, Nemerov’s constant awareness of the power of language to make an experience—seen or remembered—become real reminds us that great ekphrastic writing is at the heart of every effective description.

Book A Very Stable Genius

Download or read book A Very Stable Genius written by Philip Rucker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant #1 bestseller. “This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, provide the definitive insider narrative of Donald Trump’s presidency “I alone can fix it.” So proclaimed Donald J. Trump on July 21, 2016, accepting the Republican presidential nomination and promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation. Yet as he undertook the actual work of the commander in chief, it became nearly impossible to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal, investigation, and constant bluster. In fact, there were patterns to his behavior and that of his associates. The universal value of the Trump administration was loyalty—not to the country, but to the president himself—and Trump’s North Star was always the perpetuation of his own power. With deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington, D.C., Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker reveal the forty-fifth president up close. Here, for the first time, certain officials who felt honor-bound not to divulge what they witnessed in positions of trust tell the truth for the benefit of history. A peerless and gripping narrative, A Very Stable Genius not only reveals President Trump at his most unvarnished but shows how he tested the strength of America’s democracy and its common heart as a nation.

Book Remembering Pearl Harbor

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  • Author : Michael Slackman
  • Publisher : Arizona Memorial Museum Assn
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781880352298
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Remembering Pearl Harbor written by Michael Slackman and published by Arizona Memorial Museum Assn. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The USS Arizona Memorial was dedicated in the warm sunshine of Memorial Day 1962. As the waters of Pearl Harbor lapped gently against the rusted hulk of the sunken battleship, reflected sunlight played over the freshly painted, white surfaces of the recently constructed Memorial. White Navy uniforms dominated the dress of the 200 guests invited to the Memorial & those on nearby Ford Island. A public address system carried the speeches of Naval officials & other dignitaries as they recalled the attack on Pearl Harbor, the men who lost their lives there, & expressed their hopes for future peace. A prayer form the chaplain & a band rendition of the Navy Hymn was followed by the haunting notes taps. A volley of rifle fire by the Marine honor guard provided the final punctuation.

Book Pearl Harbor

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  • Author : Dan Martin
  • Publisher : Bess Press
  • Release : 2004-05-15
  • ISBN : 9781573062008
  • Pages : 16 pages

Download or read book Pearl Harbor written by Dan Martin and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2004-05-15 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful guide includes maps, photos, history, profiles, and statistics that bring to life the events and people surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor. Sections about the USS Arizona Memorial, the USS Missouri Memorial, and the USS Bowfin include hours of operation and fees.

Book Pearl Harbor and USS Arizona Memorial

Download or read book Pearl Harbor and USS Arizona Memorial written by Emmett Marion Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Providing for a U S S   Arizona  Memorial at Pearl Harbor  T H

Download or read book Providing for a U S S Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor T H written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pearl Harbor Attack

Download or read book Pearl Harbor Attack written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Providing for a U S S   Arizona  Memorial at Pearl Harbor  T H

Download or read book Providing for a U S S Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor T H written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memorializing Pearl Harbor

Download or read book Memorializing Pearl Harbor written by Geoffrey M. White and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorializing Pearl Harbor examines the challenge of representing history at the site of the attack that brought America into World War II. Analyzing moments in which history is re-presented—in commemorative events, documentary films, museum design, and educational programming—Geoffrey M. White shows that the memorial to the Pearl Harbor bombing is not a fixed or singular institution. Rather, it has become a site in which many histories are performed, validated, and challenged. In addition to valorizing military service and sacrifice, the memorial has become a place where Japanese veterans have come to seek recognition and reconciliation, where Japanese Americans have sought to correct narratives of racial mistrust, and where Native Hawaiians have challenged their ongoing erasure from their own land. Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork, White maps these struggles onto larger controversies about public history, museum practices, and national memory.

Book All the Gallant Men

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  • Author : Donald Stratton
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2016-11-22
  • ISBN : 0062645374
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book All the Gallant Men written by Donald Stratton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl Harbor “An unforgettable story of unfathomable courage.” —Reader’s Digest In this, the first memoir by a USS Arizona sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight. At 8:10 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely fifteen minutes into Japan’s surprise attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor. Near death and burned across two thirds of his body, Don, a nineteen-year-old Nebraskan who had been steeled by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, summoned the will to haul himself hand over hand across a rope tethered to a neighboring vessel. Forty-five feet below, the harbor’s flaming, oil-slick water boiled with enemy bullets; all around him the world tore itself apart. In this extraordinary, never-before-told eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack—the only memoir ever written by a survivor of the USS Arizona—ninety-four-year-old veteran Donald Stratton finally shares his unforgettable personal tale of bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing recovery, and his inspiring determination to return to the fight. Don and four other sailors made it safely across the same line that morning, a small miracle on a day that claimed the lives of 1,177 of their Arizona shipmates—approximately half the American fatalaties at Pearl Harbor. Sent to military hospitals for a year, Don refused doctors’ advice to amputate his limbs and battled to relearn how to walk. The U.S. Navy gave him a medical discharge, believing he would never again be fit for service, but Don had unfinished business. In June 1944, he sailed back into the teeth of the Pacific War on a destroyer, destined for combat in the crucial battles of Leyte Gulf, Luzon, and Okinawa, thus earning the distinction of having been present for the opening shots and the final major battle of America’s Second World War. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack approaches, Don, a great-grandfather of five and one of six living survivors of the Arizona, offers an unprecedentedly intimate reflection on the tragedy that drew America into the greatest armed conflict in history. All the Gallant Men is a book for the ages, one of the most remarkable—and remarkably inspiring—memoirs of any kind to appear in recent years. *Library Journal

Book Pearl Harbor

Download or read book Pearl Harbor written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Date Which Will Live

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  • Author : Emily S. Rosenberg
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2003-08-25
  • ISBN : 9780822332060
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book A Date Which Will Live written by Emily S. Rosenberg and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Pearl Harbor has been written about, thought of, and manipulated in American culture.

Book Beyond Pearl Harbor

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  • Author : Beth Bailey
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2019-07-24
  • ISBN : 0700628134
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Beyond Pearl Harbor written by Beth Bailey and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, December 7, 1941, may live in infamy, in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s phrase, but for most Americans the date’s significance begins and ends with the attack on Pearl Harbor. On December 8 (December 7 on the other side of the International Date Line) Japanese military forces hit eight major targets, all but one on western colonial possessions and military outposts in the Pacific: Kota Bharu on the northeast coast of Malaya (now Malaysia); Thailand, the one site not claimed by a western power; Pearl Harbor, O’ahu; Singapore, key to the defense of Britain’s Asian empire; Guam, the only island in the Mariana chain not controlled by Japan; Wake Island; Hong Kong; and the Philippines. Told from multiple perspectives, the stories of these attacks reveal the arc of imperialism, colonialism, and burgeoning nationalism in the Pacific world. In Beyond Pearl Harbor renowned scholars hailing from four continents and representing six nations reinterpret the meaning of the coordinated, and devastating, attacks of December 7/8, 1941. Working from a variety of angles, they revise and expand, to an unprecedented extent, what we understand about these events—in particular, how Japan’s overwhelming, if short-lived, victories contributed to emerging solidarities and nationalist identities within and across Pacific societies. In their essays we see how various elite actors incorporated the attacks into new regimes of knowledge and expertise that challenged and displaced existing hierarchies. Extending far beyond Pearl Harbor, the events of December 1941, as we see in this volume, are part of a story of clashing empires and anti-colonial visions—a story whose outcome, even now, remains to be seen.