Федералист : политические эссе Александра Гамильтона, Джеймса Мэдисона и Джона Джея
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9785010044954
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 590
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Andrew Munroe
Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Department of State
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 820
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: State Library of Ohio
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 158
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Department of State
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 860
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paulette Jiles
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0062409220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSoon to be a Major Motion Picture National Book Award Finalist—Fiction In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land. Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself.
Author: John Oddo
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781611861402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost American adults never saw Colin Powell's speech on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Instead, they learned about it from journalists--and to a large extent formed their opinions about war with Iraq based on news coverage of the address. Focusing on one day of pre- and post-speech news coverage, Oddo examines how journalists influenced Powell's presentation--precontextualizing and recontextualizing his speech, and prepositioning and repositioning audiences to respond to it
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bryan Burrough
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2022-06-07
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 198488011X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times bestseller! “Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review "Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal “Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston Chronicle Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head. Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively shows, owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten and twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos--Texans of Mexican origin, who fought alongside the Anglo rebels--scrubbed from the record, and the origin of the conflict over Mexico's push to abolish slavery papered over. Forget the Alamo provocatively explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence, then shows how the sausage of myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As uncomfortable as it may be to hear for some, celebrating the Alamo has long had an echo of celebrating whiteness. In the past forty-some years, waves of revisionists have come at this topic, and at times have made real progress toward a more nuanced and inclusive story that doesn't alienate anyone. But we are not living in one of those times; the fight over the Alamo's meaning has become more pitched than ever in the past few years, even violent, as Texas's future begins to look more and more different from its past. It's the perfect time for a wise and generous-spirited book that shines the bright light of the truth into a place that's gotten awfully dark.