The Immaculate Invasion

Author : Bob Shacochis
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780802196163

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The Immaculate Invasion by Bob Shacochis Pdf

“Every war brings forth one perfect book. . . . Now we have The Immaculate Invasion, the masterpiece of the 1994 US assault on and occupation of Haiti.” —Chicago Tribune Widely celebrated upon its original publication in 1999, National Book Award winning writer Bob Shacochis’s The Immaculate Invasion is a gritty, poetic, and revelatory look at the American intervention in Haiti. In 1994, the United States embarked on Operation Uphold Democracy, a response to the overthrow of the democratically elected Haitian government by a brutal military coup. As a reporter for Harper’s, Bob Shacochis traveled to Haiti and was embedded—long before the idea became popular in Iraq—with a team of Special Forces commandos for eighteen months. He came away with tremendous insight into Haiti, the character of American fighters, and what can happen when an intervention turns into a misadventure. In The Immaculate Invasion, Shacochis captures the exploits and frustrations, the inner lives and heroic deeds of young Americans as they struggle to bring democracy to a country ravaged by tyranny. The Immaculate Invasion is required reading for anyone who wants to understand what has happened in Haiti in the past, its current state, and its future path. “An extraordinary book about an extraordinary event . . . I felt transported to Haiti. I could hear it. I could smell it. At moments I felt moved almost to tears, only to find myself, a page or two later, laughing out loud.” —Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of a New Machine

Author : Bob Shacochis
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802193094

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The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis Pdf

Pulitzer Prize finalist: “A soaring literary epic about the forces that have driven us to the 9/11 age . . . relentlessly captivating” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post). When humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a beautiful photojournalist, he is confronted with a dangerous landscape riddled with poverty, corruption, and voodoo. It’s the late 1990s, a time of brutal guerrilla warfare and civilian kidnappings. The journalist, whom he knew years before as Jackie Scott, had a bigger investment in Haiti than it seemed. To make sense of her death, Tom must plunge back into his complicated ties to Jackie—and her mysterious past. Shacochis traces Jackie’s shadowy family history from the outlaw terrain of World War II Dubrovnik to 1980s Istanbul. Caught between her first love and her domineering father—an elite Cold War spy pressuring her to follow in his footsteps—seventeen-year-old Jackie hatches a desperate escape plan. But getting out also puts her on the path that turns her into the soulless woman Tom fears as much as desires. Set over fifty years and in four war-torn countries, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul is National Book Award winner Bob Shacochis’s masterpiece and a magnum opus. It brings to life an intricate portrait of catastrophic events that led up to the war on terror and the America we are today.

Author : Bob Shacochis
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802191779

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The Next New World by Bob Shacochis Pdf

The “chameleon-like” ABA–winning author of Easy in the Islands offers a new collection of eight “surprising [and] memorable” short stories (Publishers Weekly). The haunting stories in Shacochis’s second collection combine comic wit and carnal certainty with an aura of history. Each of the eight tales here feature outrageously original characters who, through Shacochis’s ability to inhabit a spectacular range of voices, become eerily familiar. Two elderly sisters share a phantom lover; a Virginia patriarch, haunted by ghosts of Confederate soldiers, is buried with their bones; a family celebrates the Fourth of July in the shadow of the father’s Alzheimer’s syndrome; and a musician’s thunderous love turns him into a cannibal. From renaissance England to Cape Hatteras to the Caribbean islands, readers will find themselves submerged in exquisitely crafted fictions “charged with wit and style . . . intelligent, engaging, and richly realized.” (The New York Times Book Review). “Shacochis is a master of voices. . . . In The Next New World he roams about through history and across the globe, tethering his wit to a sense of political conscience. . . . Sometimes more is more.” —The Miami Herald “If we are in the golden age of the short story, Bob Shacochis is one of the writers who got us here.” —Providence Journal

Author : Bob Shacochis
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781595341907

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Domesticity by Bob Shacochis Pdf

Bob Shacochis, author of the critically acclaimed novel The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, and National Book Award winning-author of such books as Swimming in the Volcano, Easy in the Islands, and The Next New World, hones his nonfiction skills in this tour de force romp through the worlds of eating and eroticism. Domesticity is an irreverent exploration of the sweet and sour evolution of the enduring romance between author and lover. In this relationship, Shacochis stays at home and cooks, all the while reflecting on the ups and downs of a romantic partnership, the connection between heart and stomach, and how the crazed lust of youth evolves into inevitably settling down and, well, simply making dinner. Shacochis's delectable musings on monogamy, emotional and physical separations, dogs, career changes, the stress of the holidays, the aesthetics of food, moving, sex and seafood, friendships, writings and the angst over who is going to do the dishes are deftly folded into seventy-five recipes, half of them of the author's own creation. Guilelessly hilarious, and ever entertaining, Domesticity is Shacochis's celebration of a life spent in proximity to the boiling point. Guilelessly hilarious, and ever entertaining, Domesticity is a celebration of a life spent in proximity to the boiling point, a "prose stew" of audacious candor, a culinary valentine for lovers of literature.

Author : Bob Shacochis
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802199317

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Swimming in the Volcano by Bob Shacochis Pdf

A vibrant portrait of love and politics in the tropics from the National Book Award–winning author: “the finest first novel I have read in many years” (William O’Rourke, Chicago Tribune). Winner of the National Book Award for First Fiction for Easy in the Islands, Bob Shacochis returns to the islands with Swimming in the Volcano, a “splendid first novel” that illuminates the beauty and life of the Caribbean (Library Journal). On the fictional island of St. Catherine, an American expatriate becomes unwittingly embroiled in an internecine war between rival factions of the government. Into this potentially explosive scene enters a woman he once loved and lost, but who remains a powerful temptation—one that proves impossible to resist. Both an enchanting love story and a sophisticated political novel about the fruits of imperialism in the twentieth century, Swimming in the Volcano is as brutal and seductive a novel as the world it evokes. “Scores of island people, from conspiring politicians to barbers on the beach, sprawl across the pages like oleander and hibiscus . . . each of [the book’s] scenes is expertly wrought.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : Bob Shacochis
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802199324

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Easy in the Islands by Bob Shacochis Pdf

Winner of the National Book Award for First Fiction: “Beguiling stories . . . about an uncommonly fascinating part of the hemisphere” (Time). Easy in the Islands is a “stunning” collection of stories by one of contemporary America’s foremost journalists and fiction writers. Infused with the rhythms of the Caribbean, these vivid tales of paradise sought and paradise lost are as lush, steamy, and invigorating as the islands themselves (The Washington Post). A calypso singer named Lord Short Shoe consorts with a vampish black singer to bilk an American out of his only companion—a monkey. An island bureaucracy confounds the attempts of a hotel owner to get his dead mother out of the freezer and into a real grave—until he resorts to a highly unusual form of burial. Two poor islanders stumble into a high-class dance party and find themselves caught in a violent encounter that just might escalate into revolution. And a young woman sails off into the romantic tropics with the man of her dreams, only to learn the hard way—as Eve did—that paradise is just another place to leave behind. From fishing fleets in remote atolls too small to appear on any map to the sprawling barrios and yacht filled marinas of Miami, Bob Shacochis charts a course across a Caribbean that no tourist will recognize.

Author : Calvin Gimpelevich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Gender identity
ISBN : 168219910X

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Invasions by Calvin Gimpelevich Pdf

"A body-swapping personal trainer and her trans girlfriend turn to a life of crime. A man mourning his dead lover becomes trapped in the mind of the leader of a bathhouse raid. A trans man, recovering from top surgery paid for with a stolen credit card, finds strange connection and condemnation among his fellow patients. The fifteen stories in this debut fiction collection from author Calvin Gimpelevich move in the borderlands between realism and surrealism, investigating gender, class, relationships, and the powers we still hold within spaces of powerlessness. They articulate the invasions we commit, the invitations we receive to cross over into another person's world."--

Author : Timothy J. Lynch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521199872

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In the Shadow of the Cold War by Timothy J. Lynch Pdf

Examines American engagement with the world from the fall of Soviet communism through the opening years of the Trump administration.

Author : William Perry
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804797146

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My Journey at the Nuclear Brink by William Perry Pdf

“Perry has long been one of the more strenuous advocates for confronting the dangers of the nuclear age, and his engaging memoir explains why.” —Foreign Affairs My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose. In a remarkable career, Perry has dealt firsthand with the changing nuclear threat. Decades of experience and special access to top-secret knowledge of strategic nuclear options have given Perry a unique, and chilling, vantage point from which to conclude that nuclear weapons endanger our security rather than securing it. This book traces his thought process as he journeys from the Cuban Missile Crisis, to crafting a defense strategy in the Carter Administration to offset the Soviets’ numeric superiority in conventional forces, to presiding over the dismantling of more than 8,000 nuclear weapons in the Clinton Administration, and to his creation in 2007, with George Shultz, Sam Nunn, and Henry Kissinger, of the Nuclear Security Project to articulate their vision of a world free from nuclear weapons and to lay out the urgent steps needed to reduce nuclear dangers. “Perry’s authoritative memoir. . . . is a clear, sobering and, for many, surprising warning that the danger of a nuclear catastrophe today is actually greater than it was during that era of U.S.-Soviet competition…a significant and insightful memoir and a necessary read.” —Mortimer B. Zuckerman, U.S. News & World Report

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754076463870

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Fortitudine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rev. Sylvester MALONE (F.R.I.A.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019253997

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Church History of Ireland; from the invasion of the English in 1169 to the beginning of the Reformation in 1532 by Rev. Sylvester MALONE (F.R.I.A.) Pdf

Author : Sylvester Malone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Ireland
ISBN : BSB:BSB10026038

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Church History of Ireland; from Its Invasion by the English in MCLXIX. to the Beginning of the Reformation in MDXXXII. by Sylvester Malone Pdf

Author : Walter E. Kretchik
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612347240

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Eyewitness to Chaos by Walter E. Kretchik Pdf

Haitian culture and military power -- Preventive diplomacy and military intervention -- Planning a military intervention -- Conducting a military intervention -- Intervention under the Blue Beret -- Aftermath -- Appendix: Oral history interviewees

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UCSB:31205023747866

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Military Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Walter C. Soderlund
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781565492615

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Humanitarian Crises and Intervention by Walter C. Soderlund Pdf

As the Cold War began to wind down in the early '90s, former colonies were besieged by a string of humanitarian crises that killed millions of people and forced many more to leave their homes and livelihoods. This book shows how the international community, led by the U.S., responded to ten humanitarian crises.