An American Requiem

Author : James Carroll
Publisher : HMH
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547524542

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National Book Award winner: This story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam era is “a magnificent portrayal of two noble men who broke each other’s hearts” (Booklist). James Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His father, who had once dreamed of becoming a priest, instead began a career in J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming one of the most powerful men in the Pentagon, the founder of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Young Jim lived a privileged life, dating the daughter of a vice president and meeting the pope—all in the shadow of nuclear war, waiting for the red telephone to ring in his parents’ house. James fulfilled the goal his father had abandoned, becoming a priest himself. His feelings toward his father leaned toward worship as well—until the tumult of the 1960s came between them. Their disagreements, over Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement; turmoil in the Church; and finally, Vietnam—where the elder Carroll chose targets for US bombs—began to outweigh the bond between them. While one of James’s brothers fled to Canada, another was in law enforcement ferreting out draft dodgers. James, meanwhile, served as a chaplain at Boston University, protesting the war in the streets but ducking news cameras to avoid discovery. Their relationship would never be the same again. Only after Carroll left the priesthood to become a writer, and a husband with children of his own, did he begin to understand fully the struggles his father had faced. In An American Requiem, the New York Times bestselling author of Constantine’s Sword and Christ Actually offers a benediction, in “a moving memoir of the effect of the Vietnam War on his family that is at once personal and the story of a generation . . . at once heartbreaking and heroic, this is autobiography at its best” (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609807375

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Requiem for the American Dream by Noam Chomsky Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack the solidarity of the people, let special interests run the regulators, engineer election results, use fear and the power of the state to keep the rabble in line, manufacture consent, marginalize the population. In Requiem for the American Dream, Chomsky devotes a chapter to each of these ten principles, and adds readings from some of the core texts that have influenced his thinking to bolster his argument. To create Requiem for the American Dream, Chomsky and his editors, the filmmakers Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott, spent countless hours together over the course of five years, from 2011 to 2016. After the release of the film version, Chomsky and the editors returned to the many hours of tape and transcript and created a document that included three times as much text as was used in the film. The book that has resulted is nonetheless arguably the most succinct and tightly woven of Chomsky's long career, a beautiful vessel--including old-fashioned ligatures in the typeface--in which to carry Chomsky's bold and uncompromising vision, his perspective on the economic reality and its impact on our political and moral well-being as a nation. "During the Great Depression, which I'm old enough to remember, it was bad–much worse subjectively than today. But there was a sense that we'll get out of this somehow, an expectation that things were going to get better . . ." —from Requiem for the American Dream

Author : Walt Browning,Angery American
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1981792732

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Charlie's Requiem: Resistance by Walt Browning,Angery American Pdf

The city has become a warzone. Charlie and her companions must survive the gangs and corrupt government agents that are out to stake their claims on the nation's riches. Should she try and flee to the countryside, with each neighborhood a potential trap and every house a threat? Or should she stay and fight the building tyranny?Dwindling food supplies and the daily risks of capture are taking its toll. Mistakes are fatal, and the exhaustion that comes with living under constant danger is wearing them down.Betrayal, pain and death are the norm. Who can they turn to when everyone is the enemy? Charlie's world is about to change, and decisions that she and the other's make will lead to life or condemn them to a quick and merciless death.

Author : Hubert Selby
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453239698

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Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Pdf

A tale of four people trapped by their addictions, the basis for the acclaimed Darren Aronofsky film, by the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn. Sara Goldfarb is devastated by the death of her husband. She spends her days watching game shows and obsessing over appearing on television as a contestant—and her prescription diet pills only accelerate her mania. Her son, Harry, is living in the streets with his friend Tyrone and girlfriend Marion, where they spend their days selling drugs and dreaming of escape. When their heroin supply dries up, all three descend into an abyss of dependence and despair, their lives, like Sara’s, doomed by the destructive power of drugs. Tragic and captivating, Requiem for a Dream is one of Selby’s most powerful works, and an indelible portrait of the ravages of addiction. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Hubert Selby Jr. including rare photos from the author’s estate.

Author : James Carroll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:646586342

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Author : S Douglas Woodward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798689295855

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American Requiem by S Douglas Woodward Pdf

"How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!" (Jer. 50:23)The "Hammer of the Whole Earth," the "Hindermost of Nations," the "MightyBabylon" will be destroyed in the end times (Jeremiah 50:12-13, 23, 27). Is that thefuture that awaits America? Have the decisions made by our government and financialleaders established a devastating destiny for America? Has the deteriorating moralityof the nation sealed our fate? Will we decay from within or be destroyed fromwithout? There are many modern-day prophetic voices such as Jonathan Cahn, the lateDumitru Duduman, and the late David Wilkinson, that proclaim our fate is sealed...America lies at the edge of oblivion. Soon we will be a desert and a wasteland. In this book, S. Douglas Woodward, a leading authority on the intersection of Bibleprophecy and geopolitics, confirms the validity of the predictions. He speaks to whyAmerica is at the precipice, now ready to collapse, and will soon fulfill many OldTestament prophecies concerning the Daughter of Babylon."For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nationsfrom the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her" (Jer. 50:9)

Author : Clive Hamilton
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849710817

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Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton Pdf

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ha Jin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307743732

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Nanjing Requiem by Ha Jin Pdf

It’s 1937, and the Japanese are poised to invade Nanjing. Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women’s College, decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men and women who work there. She is painfully mistaken. In the aftermath of the invasion, the school becomes a refugee camp for more than ten thousand homeless women and children, and Vautrin must struggle, day after day, to intercede on the behalf of the hapless victims. Yet even when order and civility are restored, she remains deeply embattled, always haunted by the lives she could not save. At once a searing story that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century and an indelible portrait of a singular and brave woman, Nanjing Requiem is another tour de force from the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting.

Author : Horst Faas,Tim Page,Peter Arnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042030596

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Requiem by Horst Faas,Tim Page,Peter Arnett Pdf

Between the French Indochina war of the fifties and the fall of Phnom Penn and Saigon in 1975, 134 photographers from different nations were killed. Horst Faas, two-times Pullitzer Prize winner and Chief Photographer for The Associated Press in Saigon at the height of the war, and Tim Page, another veteran who had been badly wounded, have gathered many thousands of photos from the Western agencies and from archives in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. These have now been assembled to form both a monument to the dead and a record of the most terrifying war photography ever taken. Never again will the media have the kind of access to the war zone that was offered to the photographers in Vietnam. In many cases the photographers tried to get as close as possible, then paid the price.

Author : Andrea Davis Pinkney,Brian Pinkney
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545702546

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Martin Rising by Andrea Davis Pinkney,Brian Pinkney Pdf

“A powerful celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., set against the last few months of his life and written in verse” (School Library Journal). Martin Rising is a stunning, poetic presentation of the final months of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life—told in a rich embroidery of visions, color, musical cadence, deep emotion, and multiple layers of meaning. Against a backdrop of the sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, Tennessee, the book builds to its rousing crescendo as King delivers his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech—where his life’s commitment to peaceful activism and his dream of equality ascend to their highest peak. The Pinkneys’ powerful and spiritual look at King’s legacy celebrates the courage and moral conviction of a man who changed the course of history forever. And even in the face of searing tragedy, he continues to inspire, transform, and elevate all of us who share his dream. Praise for Martin Rising A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year “Unique and remarkable.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Each poem trembles under the weight of the story it tells . . . Martin Rising packs an emotional wallop and, in perfect homage, soars when read aloud.” —Booklist, starred review

Author : RJ Young
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640096165

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Requiem for the Massacre by RJ Young Pdf

NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work - Non-Fiction A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the tension in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one hundred years after the most infamous act of racial violence in American history More than one hundred years ago, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, perpetrated a massacre against its Black residents. For generations, the true story was ignored, covered up, and diminished by those in power and in a position to preserve the status quo. Blending memoir and immersive journalism, RJ Young shows how, today, Tulsa combats its racist past while remaining all too tolerant of racial injustice. Requiem for the Massacre is a cultural excavation of Tulsa one hundred years after one of the worst acts of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. Young focuses on unearthing the narrative surrounding previously all-Black Greenwood district while challenging an apocryphal narrative that includes so-called Black Wall Street, Booker T. Washington, and Black exceptionalism. Young provides a firsthand account of the centennial events commemorating Tulsa's darkest day as the city attempts to reckon with its self-image, commercialization of its atrocity, and the aftermath of the massacre that shows how things have changed and how they have stayed woefully the same. As Tulsa and the United States head into the next one hundred years, Young’s own reflections thread together the stories of a community and a nation trying to heal and trying to hope.

Author : WILLIAM FAULKNER.
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667626277

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REQUIEM FOR A NUN by WILLIAM FAULKNER. Pdf

This sequel to Faulkner’s SANCTUARY written 20 years later, takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in SANCTUARY.

Author : Matthew D. Tribbe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199313525

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No Requiem for the Space Age by Matthew D. Tribbe Pdf

'No Requiem for the Space Age' paints a portrait of a nation in the midst of questioning the very values that had guided it through the post-war years as it began to develop new conceptions of progress that had little to do with blasting ever more men to the moon. Here is a narrative of the 1960s and 1970s unlike any told before, with the story of Apollo as the story of America itself in a time of dramatic cultural change.

Author : Yoshida Mitsuru
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1988-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612512082

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The Battleship Yamato by Yoshida Mitsuru Pdf

This richly detailed tribute to the legendary Yamato is now back in print by popular demand. Equipped with the largest guns and heaviest armor and having the greatest displacement of any ship ever built, the Yamato proved to be a formidable opponent to the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War II. This classic in the Anatomy of the Ship series contains a full description of the design and construction of the battleship including wartime modifications, and a career history. This is followed by a substantial pictorial section with rare onboard views of Yamato and her sister ship, a comprehensive portfolio of more than 600 perspective and three-view drawings, and 30 photographs. Such a handsome and thorough work is guaranteed to impress modelmakers, ship enthusiasts, and naval historians.

Author : Frances Itani
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802194602

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Requiem by Frances Itani Pdf

A Washington Post Notable Book: A Japanese Canadian man is haunted by childhood memories of WWII internment camps in this “evocative and cinematic tale” (Maclean’s). In 1942, in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Canadian government removes young Bin Okuma and his family from their home at a British Columbia coastal fishing village and forces them into internment camps. Allowed to take only the possessions they can carry, Bin watches looters raid his home before the transport boats even undock. One hundred miles from the “Protected Zone,” abandoned by his father, Bin spends the next five years struggling to adapt in the makeshift shacks of the brutal mountain community. For Bin, it was never forgotten, nor forgiven. Fifty years later, after his wife’s death, Bin embarks on a road trip across Canada. Accompanied by his dog, his classical music tapes, and his memories, he intends to find his biological father whose fateful decision destroyed his family all those years ago. But Bin must ask himself: does he really want to confront the ghosts of the past, or is it time to finally let them go? A novel of grief, coming-of-age, and coming to terms with our own personal histories, “Requiem is a great work of literature from a determined author at the peak of her powers” (Ottawa Citizen).