In the Shadow of the Liberator

In the Shadow of the Liberator

Author: Richard Gott

Publisher: Verso

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781859847756

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In a first-hand report from Venezuela, veteran correspondent Richard Gott places the county's controversial president in historical perspective. Examining Chavez's plans and programmes and the support these attract, Gott argues that this unique experiment may prove a new way forward for Latin America.


B-24 Liberator Units of the Eighth Air Force

B-24 Liberator Units of the Eighth Air Force

Author: Robert F Dorr

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-12-20

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1782008330

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The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than any other US warplane, yet its combat crews live, even today, in the shadow of the less plentiful, but better-known, B-17. Accounts of the 'Mighty Eighth' in Europe, and indeed many of the books and films that emerged from the greatest air campaign in history, often overlook the B-24, even though it was in action for as long as the Flying Fortress, and participated in just as many perilous daylight bombing missions.


Hugo!

Hugo!

Author: Bart Jones

Publisher: Steerforth

Published: 2009-06-02

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 1586421697

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Ruling elites in Venezuela, the United States and Europe, and even Hugo Chávez himself though for different reasons, have been eager to have the world view him as the heir to Fidel Castro. But the truth about this increasingly influential world leader is more complex, and more interesting.. The Chávez that emerges from Bart Jones’ carefully researched and documented biography is neither a plaster saint nor a revolutionary tyrant. He has an undeniably autocratic streak, and yet has been freely and fairly re-elected to his nations presidency three times with astonishing margins of victory. He is a master politician and an inspired improviser, a Bolivarian nationalist and an unashamed socialist. His policies have brought him into conflict with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and major oil companies. They have also provided a model for new governments and social movements in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. When in September 2006 he declared at the United Nations that ‘the devil came here yesterday … the President of the United States’, it was clear that he was taking on challenging the most powerful nation on earth, in conscious imitation of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar. From the Trade Paperback edition.


Gated Grief

Gated Grief

Author: Leila Levinson

Publisher: Cable Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781934980545

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"After her father died, Leila Levinson discovered his haunting photos of the Nazi concentration camp where Captain Reuben Levinson had encountered hell. To understand war's horror, Leila sought out other veterans who had also witnessed the unimaginable. [This] is the story of war's trauma as it wreaks its hidden havoc over generations."--Publisher's description.


A History and Critical Analysis of Blake's 7, the 1978-1981 British Television Space Adventure

A History and Critical Analysis of Blake's 7, the 1978-1981 British Television Space Adventure

Author: John Kenneth Muir

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1476604932

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Blake's 7, Terry Nation's science fiction tale of cosmic freedom fighters, became a hit series in Great Britain when it premiered in 1978. Eight years later, the show quickly became a cult program in America. A dramatization of futuristic outlaw heroes who defend the innocent from both alien and human conquering forces, the series might better be said to be equal parts Robin Hood and The Magnificent Seven. The series defied traditional genre elements of science fiction television, and developed the concept of the continual "story arc" years before such shows as Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine. This book provides a critical history and episode guide for Blake's 7, including commentaries for all 52 episodes. Also included are analytical essays on the show, dealing with such topics as themes, imagery and story arc; a consideration of the series as a futuristic Robin Hood myth; cinematography and visual effects; and an overview of Blake's 7 in books, comics and videos. A detailed appendix lists the genre conventions found in the series. The author also includes information about Blake's 7 fan clubs and Internet sites.


Anthology of Magazine Verse

Anthology of Magazine Verse

Author: William Stanley Braithwaite

Publisher:

Published: 1923

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13:

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Volume for 1958 includes "Anthology of poems from the seventeen previously published Braithwaite anthologies."


Anarchist Modernism

Anarchist Modernism

Author: Allan Antliff

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2001-04-15

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780226021034

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Reveals that during the World War I era modernists participated in a wide-ranging anarchist movement that encompassed lifestyles, literature, and art, as well as politics.


Neither Fugitive Nor Free

Neither Fugitive Nor Free

Author: Edlie L. Wong

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2009-07

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0814794556

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Studies lawsuits to gain freedom for slaves on the grounds of their having traveled to free territory, starting with Somerset v. Stewart (England, 1772), Commonwealth v. Aves (Massachusetts, 1836), Dred Scott v. Sanford, and cases brought questioning the legitimacy of Negro Seamen Acts in the antebellum coastal South. These lawsuits and accounts of them are compared to fugitive slave narratives to shed light on both. The differing impact of freedom obtained from such suits for men and women (women could claim that their children were free, once they were judged free) is examined.