Download or read book The Cavalier Mr Thompson written by Rich Tommaso and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This graphic novel, set in a small oil town in 1920s Big Spring, Texas, follows the trials and tribulations of aspiring detective Sam Hill and family. One part crime and one part American history, in turns inspired by Jim Thompson's hardboiled fiction and Tommaso's history with his father, the book features a cast of characters made up of greedy oil barons, crooked lawmen, city-slick con men, broken-down detectives, drunken reprobates, and obsessive gamblers.
Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Practitioner written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death of a Generation written by Howard Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John F. Kennedy was shot, millions were left to wonder how America, and the world, would have been different had he lived to fulfill the enormous promise of his presidency. For many historians and political observers, what Kennedy would and would not have done in Vietnam has been a source of enduring controversy. Now, based on convincing new evidence--including a startling revelation about the Kennedy administration's involvement in the assassination of Premier Diem--Howard Jones argues that Kennedy intended to withdraw the great bulk of American soldiers and pursue a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Vietnam. Drawing upon recently declassified hearings by the Church Committee on the U.S. role in assassinations, newly released tapes of Kennedy White House discussions, and interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, and others from the president's inner circle, Jones shows that Kennedy firmly believed that the outcome of the war depended on the South Vietnamese. In the spring of 1962, he instructed Secretary of Defense McNamara to draft a withdrawal plan aimed at having all special military forces home by the end of 1965. The "Comprehensive Plan for South Vietnam" was ready for approval in early May 1963, but then the Buddhist revolt erupted and postponed the program. Convinced that the war was not winnable under Diem's leadership, President Kennedy made his most critical mistake--promoting a coup as a means for facilitating a U.S. withdrawal. In the cruelest of ironies, the coup resulted in Diem's death followed by a state of turmoil in Vietnam that further obstructed disengagement. Still, these events only confirmed Kennedy's view about South Vietnam's inability to win the war and therefore did not lessen his resolve to reduce the U.S. commitment. By the end of November, however, the president was dead and Lyndon Johnson began his campaign of escalation. Jones argues forcefully that if Kennedy had not been assassinated, his withdrawal plan would have spared the lives of 58,000 Americans and countless Vietnamese. Written with vivid immediacy, supported with authoritative research, Death of a Generation answers one of the most profoundly important questions left hanging in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy's death. Death of a Generation was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2003.
Download or read book Industrial Relations written by United States. Commission on Industrial Relations and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Artist written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World s Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of our time.
Download or read book Satchel Paige written by James Sturm and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1906 - 1982) changed the face of the game in a career that spanned five decades. Much has been written about this larger-than-life pitcher, but when it comes to Paige, fact does not easily separate from fiction. He made a point of writing his own history . . . and then re-writing it. A tall, lanky fireballer, he was arguably the Negro League's hardest thrower, most entertaining storyteller and greatest gate attraction. Now the Center for Cartoon Studies turns a graphic novelist's eye to Paige's story. Told from the point of view of a sharecropper, this compelling narrative follows Paige from game to game as he travels throughout the segregated South. In stark prose and powerful graphics, author and artist share the story of a sports hero, role model, consummate showman, and era-defining American.
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vanity Fair written by T.G. Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A periodical in part famous for the cartoon portraits of politicians and public figures. These were mainly by "Spy" (i.e. Sir Leslie Ward) and "Ape" (i.e. Carlo Pellegrini).
Download or read book The Comics of Joe Sacco written by Daniel Worden and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Notable Scholarly Publication of 2015 by the Comics Studies Society Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Lan Dong, Ann D'Orazio, Kevin C. Dunn, Alexander Dunst, Jared Gardner, Edward C. Holland, Isabel Macdonald, Brigid Maher, Ben Owen, Rebecca Scherr, Maureen Shay, Marc Singer, Richard Todd Stafford, and Øyvind Vågnes The Comics of Joe Sacco addresses the range of his award-winning work, from his early comics stories as well as his groundbreaking journalism Palestine (1993) and Safe Area to Goražde (2000), to Footnotes in Gaza (2009) and his most recent book The Great War (2013), a graphic history of World War I. First in the series, Critical Approaches to Comics Artists, this edited volume explores Sacco's comics journalism and features established and emerging scholars from comics studies, cultural studies, geography, literary studies, political science, and communication studies. Sacco's work has already found a place in some of the foundational scholarship in comics studies, and this book solidifies his role as one of the most important comics artists today. Sections focus on how Sacco's comics journalism critiques and employs the standard of objectivity in mainstream reporting, what aesthetic principles and approaches to lived experience can be found in his comics, how Sacco employs the space of the comics page to map history and war, and the ways that his comics function in the classroom and as human rights activism. The Comics of Joe Sacco offers definitive, exciting approaches to some of the most important--and necessary--comics today, by one of the most acclaimed journalist-artists of our time.
Download or read book Story of the Niger written by Robert Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rosewater Insurrection written by Tade Thompson and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rosewater Insurrection continues the award-winning science fiction trilogy by one of science fiction's most engaging voices. All is quiet in the city of Rosewater as it expands on the back of the gargantuan alien Wormwood. Those who know the truth of the invasion keep the secret. The government agent Aminat, the lover of the retired sensitive Kaaro, is at the forefront of the cold, silent conflict. She must capture a woman who is the key to the survival of the human race. But Aminat is stymied by the machinations of the Mayor of Rosewater and the emergence of an old enemy of Wormwood. Innovative and genre-bending, Tade Thompson's ambitious Afrofuturist series is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. K. Jemisin, and Ann Leckie. Praise for The Wormwood Trilogy: "Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!" —Ann Leckie, award winning-author of Ancillary Justice "Mesmerising. There are echoes of Neuromancer and Arrival in here, but this astonishing debut is beholden to no one." —M. R. Carey, bestselling author of The Girl with All the Gifts "A magnificent tour de force, skillfully written and full of original and disturbing ideas." —Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time The Wormwood Trilogy Rosewater The Rosewater Insurrection The Rosewater Redemption
Download or read book Live Stock Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flight written by Walter White and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scenes of Negro life in New Orleans, Georgia, and New York. The heroine, after passing as white, decides to return to her own people." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation
Download or read book Before He Harms A Mackenzie White Mystery Book 14 written by Blake Pierce and published by Blake Pierce. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Blake Pierce, bestselling author of ONCE GONE (a #1 bestseller with over 1,000 five star reviews), comes book #14 in the heart-pounding Mackenzie White mystery series. BEFORE HE HARMS is book #14 in the Mackenzie White mystery series, which begins with the #1 bestseller BEFORE HE KILLS (Book #1), a free download with over 600 five-star reviews. Young women are turning up dead in rural Utah, members of a commune of fundamentalist polygamists. Can Mackenzie White penetrate their closed ranks to find out who may be wanting them dead? And can she enter the mind of a killer and stop him before it’s too late? A dark psychological thriller filled with shocking twists and heart-pounding suspense, BEFORE HE HARMS is book #14 in a riveting new series—with a beloved new character—that will leave you turning pages late into the night.
