Born In America In Four Letter Words

Author : John De Woolf Sr.
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781628384956

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Born in America in Four Letter Words by John De Woolf Sr. Pdf

It’s always been said that when the going gets tough, the tough gets going. Perseverance, patience, hard work, and love for life. The readers can discover these meaningful virtues made real in John De Woolf’s enthused narratives in Born in America under Four-letter Words. Born to parents who had difficult lives of their own, Mr. De Woolf’s life journey will bring the readers to his eventful childhood made wild by his always-eager brother and devious friends, to his exciting years of finding love and supporting a growing family while acquiring adeptness in painting, and to his tussle against life’s misgivings and pranks, in which blurting the four-letter words was a great relief. Yes, in this wonderful world, four-letter word happens. And yet, it’s not the end of the world. So join this good-natured toughie and enjoy the story he has to tell, because nothing is as satisfying as being able to survive it all and write a book about it.

Author : Fred P. Hochberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781982127381

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Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word by Fred P. Hochberg Pdf

“A sprightly and clear-eyed testimonial to the value of globalization” (The Wall Street Journal) as seenthrough six surprising everyday goods—the taco salad, the Honda Odyssey, the banana, the iPhone, the college degree, and the blockbuster HBO series Game of Thrones. Trade allows us to sell what we produce at home and purchase what we don’t. It lowers prices and gives us greater variety and innovation. Yet understanding our place in the global trade network is rarely simple. Trade has become an easy excuse for struggling economies, a scapegoat for our failures to adapt to a changing world, and—for many Americans on both the right and the left—nothing short of a four-letter word. But as Fred P. Hochberg reminds us, trade is easier to understand than we commonly think. In Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word, you’ll learn how NAFTA became a populist punching bag on both sides of the aisle. You’ll learn how Americans can avoid the grim specter of the $10 banana. And you’ll finally discover the truth about whether or not, as President Trump has famously tweeted, “trade wars are good and easy to win.” (Spoiler alert—they aren’t.) Hochberg debunks common trade myths by pulling back the curtain on six everyday products, each with a surprising story to tell: the taco salad, the Honda Odyssey, the banana, the iPhone, the college degree, and the smash hit HBO series Game of Thrones. Behind these six examples are stories that help explain not only how trade has shaped our lives so far but also how we can use trade to build a better future for our own families, for America, and for the world. Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word is the antidote to today’s acronym-laden trade jargon pitched to voters with simple promises that rarely play out so one-dimensionally. Packed with colorful examples and highly digestible explanations, Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word is “an accessible, necessary book that will increase our understanding of trade and economic policies and the ways in which they impact our daily lives” (Library Journal, starred review).

Author : Joshua Knelman,Rosalind Porter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416569732

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Four Letter Word by Joshua Knelman,Rosalind Porter Pdf

An original compilation of short fiction created in the form of a series of love letters by forty celebrated writers includes contributions from Jonathan Lethem, A.L. Kennedy, Jan Morris, Douglas Coupland, Margaret Atwood, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

Author : Philip M. Rosoff
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780262320771

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Rationing Is Not a Four-Letter Word by Philip M. Rosoff Pdf

A provocative argument that the best way to deliver high-quality healthcare to Americans is to institute a comprehensive and fair system of rationing. Most people would agree that the healthcare system in the United States is a mess. Healthcare accounts for a larger percentage of gross domestic product in the United States than in any other industrialized nation, but health outcomes do not reflect this enormous investment. In this book, Philip Rosoff offers a provocative proposal for providing quality healthcare to all Americans and controlling the out-of-control costs that threaten the economy. He argues that rationing—often associated in the public's mind with such negatives as unplugging ventilators, death panels, and socialized medicine—is not a dirty word. A comprehensive, centralized, and fair system of rationing is the best way to distribute the benefits of modern medicine equitably while achieving significant cost savings. Rosoff points out that certain forms of rationing already exist when resources are scarce and demand high: the organ transplant system, for example, and the distribution of drugs during a shortage. He argues that if we incorporate certain key features from these systems, healthcare rationing would be fair—and acceptable politically. Rosoff considers such topics as fairness, decisions about which benefits should be subject to rationing, and whether to compensate those who are denied scarce resources. Finally, he offers a detailed discussion of what an effective and equitable healthcare rationing system would look like.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1344 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116494188

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : M.J. Akbar
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789351940470

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Byline by M.J. Akbar Pdf

Byline anthologises M.J. Akbar's finest writings over the last decade, bringing together essays that reflect the author's versatility and range. The book is divided into five seamless sections, each with its own identity, woven together by M.J. Akbar's delectably informal prose. 'Travel' is the first section in which the author shares his passion for history and the occasional fable, the obscure detail, the glorious and the ludicrous. This is followed by 'Politics and History' in which the reader is provided a view of some events and people in the recent past with all the quirks and whims that characterise the great as well as the mundane. The reader then moves on to 'Sidelines' (those delightfully off-centre pieces). M.J. Akbar says in an essay in this section: "The train of thought has moved. But that is the way with trains. They must travel." 'Memories' is the most personal and autobiographical part of the entire selection, mixing regret, nostalgia and deeply felt sorrow for the friends and times gone forever. Byline ends with a short section entitled 'On a Personal Note' in which James Bond must live to die another day, The Telegraph has to learn to live beyond the age of twenty and Dev Anand remains young forever.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Activities of Regulatory Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Radio broadcasting
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119642572

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The Allocation of Radio Frequency and Its Effect on Small Business by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Activities of Regulatory Agencies Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2218 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104243789

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3611860

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Select Committee on Small Business by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business Pdf

Author : Cynthia Lee Katona
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810854341

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Book Savvy by Cynthia Lee Katona Pdf

In teaching how to read literature and enjoy it, Katona gives 11 good reasons to make reading a part of regular life and includes a list of tried and true page-turners with their movie counterparts. Teachers of reading, students, general readers of literature, and those just developing an interest in reading will find this guide appealing.

Author : Norman Abjorensen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538102152

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Historical Dictionary of Popular Music by Norman Abjorensen Pdf

This book seeks to trace the rise of popular music, identify its key figures and track the origins and development of its multiple genres and styles, all the while seeking to establish historical context. It is, fundamentally, a ready reference guide to the broad field of popular music over the past two centuries. It has become a truism that popular music, so pervasive in the modern world, constitutes a soundtrack to our lives – a constant though changing presence as we cross thresholds and grow from children to teenagers to adults. But it has become more than a soundtrack; it has become a narrative. Not just an accompaniment to our daily lives but incorporating our lives, our sense of identity, our lived experiences, into it. We have become part of the music just as the music has become part of us. The Historical Dictionary of Popular Music contains a chronology, an introduction, an appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on major figures across genres, definitions of genres, technical innovations and surveys of countries and regions. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about popular music.

Author : Greil Marcus,Werner Sollors
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1129 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674064102

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A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus,Werner Sollors Pdf

America is a nation making itself up as it goes alongÑa story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred original essays, A New Literary History of America brings together the nationÕs many voices. From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop, the book gives us a new, kaleidoscopic view of what ÒMade in AmericaÓ means. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoricÑcultural creations of every kind appear in relation to each other, and to the time and place that give them shape. The meeting of minds is extraordinary as T. J. Clark writes on Jackson Pollock, Paul Muldoon on Carl Sandburg, Camille Paglia on Tennessee Williams, Sarah Vowell on Grant WoodÕs American Gothic, Walter Mosley on hard-boiled detective fiction, Jonathan Lethem on Thomas Edison, Gerald Early on Tarzan, Bharati Mukherjee on The Scarlet Letter, Gish Jen on Catcher in the Rye, and Ishmael Reed on Huckleberry Finn. From Anne Bradstreet and John Winthrop to Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, from Alexander Graham Bell and Stephen Foster to Alcoholics Anonymous, Life, Chuck Berry, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ronald Reagan, this is America singing, celebrating itself, and becoming something altogether different, plural, singular, new. Please visit www.newliteraryhistory.com for more information.

Author : Gene Sosin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271038636

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Sparks of Liberty by Gene Sosin Pdf

Author : Mark Strecker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786484775

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Smedley D. Butler, USMC by Mark Strecker Pdf

The practice of big business promoting war to profit materially was firmly in place by the time Major General Smedley D. Butler wrote about it in his anti-corporate pamphlets. This historical biography explores the life of Butler, a little-known American Marine who exposed an alleged fascist coup to remove President Franklin D. Roosevelt from office. This text is an exploration of the political issues of the first half of the twentieth century and an examination of a complicated, valiant man who shifted from Republican ideals to anti-corporate, left-wing populism.

Author : Dr. Frank Luntz
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781401326043

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The What Americans Really Want...Really: Revised Edition by Dr. Frank Luntz Pdf

No one in America has done more observing of more people than Dr. Frank I. Luntz. From Bill O'Reilly to Bill Maher, America's leading pundits, prognosticators, and CEOs turn to Luntz to explain the present and to predict the future. With all the upheavals of recent events, the plans and priorities of the American people have undergone a seismic shift. Businesses everywhere are trying to market products and services during this turbulent time, but only one man really understands the needs and desires of the New America. From restaurant booths to voting booths, Luntz has watched and assessed our private habits, our public interests, and our hopes and fears. What are the five things Americans want the most? What do they really want in their daily lives? In their jobs? From their government? For their families? And how does understanding what Americans want allow businesses to thrive? Luntz disassembles the preconceived notions we have about one another and lays all the pieces of the American condition out in front of us, openly and honestly, then puts the pieces back together in a way that reflects the society in which we live. What Americans Really Want...Really is a real, if sometimes scary, discussion of Americans' secret hopes, fears, wants, and needs. The research in this book represents a decade of face-to-face interviews with twenty-five thousand people and telephone polls with one million more, as well as the exclusive, first-ever "What Americans Really Want" survey. What Luntz offers is a glimpse into the American psyche, along with analysis that will rock assumptions and right business judgment. He proves that success in virtually any profession demands that we either understand what Americans really want, or suffer the consequences. Praise for Frank Luntz: "When Frank Luntz invites you to talk to his focus group, you talk to his focus group." --President Barack Obama, spoken on June 28, 2007, to a PBS-sponsored focus group following the Democratic presidential debate at Howard University "Frank Luntz understands the American people better than anyone I know." --Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House "The Nostradamus of pollsters." --Sir David Frost "America's top companies listen to Frank Luntz because he understands what customers want and what employees think. He has a keen sense of the American psyche and an outstanding command of language that empowers and persuades." --Thomas J. Donohue, President & CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce