A Complex Fate

Author : Ken Cuthbertson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773597242

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William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and ’30s, was a prominent member of what one contemporary observer described as an extraordinary band of American journalists, "some with the Midwest hayseed still in their hair," who gave their North American audiences a visceral sense of how Europe was spiralling into chaos and war. In 1937, Shirer left print journalism and became the first of the now legendary "Murrow boys," working as an on-air partner to the iconic CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow. With Shirer reporting from inside Nazi Germany and Murrow from blitz-ravaged London, the pair built CBS’s European news operation into the industry leader and, in the process, revolutionized broadcasting. But after the war ended, the Shirer-Murrow relationship shattered. Shirer lost his job and by 1950 found himself blacklisted as a supposed Communist sympathizer. After nearly a decade in the professional wilderness, he began work on The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Published in 1960, Shirer's magnum opus sold millions of copies and was hailed as the masterwork that would "ensure his reputation as long as humankind reads." Ken Cuthbertson's A Complex Fate is a thought-provoking, richly detailed biography of William Shirer. Written with the full cooperation of Shirer’s family, and generously illustrated with photographs, it introduces a new generation of readers to a supremely talented, complex writer, while placing into historical context some of the pivotal media developments of our time.

Author : Marius Bewley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4553741

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Author : Marius Bewley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:868764461

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Author : Marius Bewley
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014288959

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Marius Bewley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632712788

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Author : Ken Cuthbertson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773597235

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The first biography of one of the most provocative and influential American journalists and historians of the twentieth century.

Author : Barry Sanders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04-26
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : MINN:31951D01434518E

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A Complex Fate by Barry Sanders Pdf

A Complex Fate chronicles Stickley's life and career - a career marked by the same contradictions that characterized America's transition from a largely rural society to a modern, technological one. He regarded himself as a modern, yet espoused a philosophy that celebrated simplicity, community, and skilled manual work. His furniture itself, at first glance simple, stark, and hand-built, was nevertheless mass-produced and regarded as thoroughly modern by a public eager to buy it. In this, the first full-length profile of Stickley, we follow his rise to staggering wealth, wide popularity, and enormous influence on the design of furniture, pottery, metalwork, jewelry, bookbinding, leatherwork and architecture.

Author : Marius Bewley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0897600592

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Author : Marius Bewley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003790859

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Author : Marius Bewley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : American poetry
ISBN : LCCN:54008581

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Author : Susan Berfield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781635572476

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The Hour of Fate by Susan Berfield Pdf

A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue, and two of American history's most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality. It seemed like no force in the world could slow J. P. Morgan's drive to power. In the summer of 1901, the financier was assembling his next mega-deal: Northern Securities, an enterprise that would affirm his dominance in America's most important industry-the railroads. Then, a bullet from an anarchist's gun put an end to the business-friendly presidency of William McKinley. A new chief executive bounded into office: Theodore Roosevelt. He was convinced that as big business got bigger, the government had to check the influence of the wealthiest or the country would inch ever closer to collapse. By March 1902, battle lines were drawn: the government sued Northern Securities for antitrust violations. But as the case ramped up, the coal miners' union went on strike and the anthracite pits that fueled Morgan's trains and heated the homes of Roosevelt's citizens went silent. With millions of dollars on the line, winter bearing down, and revolution in the air, it was a crisis that neither man alone could solve. Richly detailed and propulsively told, The Hour of Fate is the gripping story of a banker and a president thrown together in the crucible of national emergency even as they fought in court. The outcome of the strike and the case would change the course of our history. Today, as the country again asks whether saving democracy means taming capital, the lessons of Roosevelt and Morgan's time are more urgent than ever. Winner of the 2021 Theodore Roosevelt Association Book Prize Finalist for the Presidential Leadership Book Award

Author : Margaret Visser
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780887846793

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Beyond Fate by Margaret Visser Pdf

Many people today are afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better. They feel helpless, constrained, caught ? in a word, fatalistic. Beyond Fate examines why. In her characteristically lively prose, Margaret Visser investigates what fate means to us, and where the propensity to believe in it and accept it comes from. She takes an ancient metaphor where time is "seen" and spoken of as though it were space and examines how this way of picturing reality can be a useful tool to think with - or, on the other hand, how it may lead people into disastrous misunderstandings. By observing how fatalism expresses itself in one's daily life, in everything from table manners to shopping to sport, the book proposes ways to limit its influence. Beyond Fate provides a timely and provocative perspective on modern life, both personal and social.

Author : Brad Meltzer
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759568421

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"Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming." So says Wes Holloway, a young presidential aide, about the day he put Ron Boyle, the chief executive's oldest friend, into the president's limousine. By the trip's end, a crazed assassin would permanently disfigure Wes and kill Boyle. Now, eight years later, Boyle has been spotted alive. Trying to figure out what really happened takes Wes back into disturbing secrets buried in Freemason history, a decade-old presidential crossword puzzle, and a two-hundred-year-old code invented by Thomas Jefferson that conceals secrets worth dying for.

Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292756564

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Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate by Elizabeth Hill Boone Pdf

In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life's activities. As the Spanish colonized Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century, they made a determined effort to destroy these books, in which the Aztec and neighboring peoples recorded their understanding of the invisible world of the sacred calendar and the cosmic forces and supernaturals that adhered to time. Today, only a few of these divinatory codices survive. Visually complex, esoteric, and strikingly beautiful, painted books such as the famous Codex Borgia and Codex Borbonicus still serve as portals into the ancient Mexican calendrical systems and the cycles of time and meaning they encode. In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers a masterful explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces and describes the organizing principles that structure the codices. She shows how they form almanacs that either offer general purpose guidance or focus topically on specific aspects of life, such as birth, marriage, agriculture and rain, travel, and the forces of the planet Venus. Boone also tackles two major areas of controversy—the great narrative passage in the Codex Borgia, which she freshly interprets as a cosmic narrative of creation, and the disputed origins of the codices, which, she argues, grew out of a single religious and divinatory system.

Author : Michael Conforti
Publisher : Fisher King Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781771690508

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Field, Form, and Fate by Michael Conforti Pdf

C.G. Jung emphasized the deep link to the physical world that exists for the collective unconscious and its archetypes. Our dreams and symbols, as well as the patterns of our behavior, are shaped by the fact that we are creatures of a material universe. Michael Conforti's research has been directed to understanding the nature of these links and patterns in the light of the new sciences-quantum theory, chaos theory, self-organization, and the new biology. Conforti's book successfully integrates this material to offer a new, exciting challenge to psychotherapy. It demonstrates that the study of consciousness cannot neglect the insights of the sciences and in doing so promises a unified view of mind and matter.