The Last Days Of Innocence

Author : Meirion Harries,Susie Harries
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679743767

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The Last Days of Innocence by Meirion Harries,Susie Harries Pdf

In the Spring of 1917, America went to war with an innocent determination to re-make the world. When the smoke lifted in November 1918, the nation emerged with its sense of purpose shattered, its certainties shaken, and with a new and unwelcome self-knowledge. Seventy-five thousand American soldiers were dead, and back home a Pandora's box of suspicions and surveillance had been opened. The Last Days of Innocence reveals how the fight to preserve freedom abroad led to the erosion of freedom at home. Drawing on American, British, and French archival material, the authors reveal unplanned and uncoordinated field efforts, as well as the unsavory activities of anti-dissent groups, from the Committee for Public Information to the Anti-Yellow Dog League, including a posse of children organized to listen for antiwar talk among families and friends. Here is the story of the fifty-billion-dollar war that gave birth to the Selective Service Act, threatened labor rights, stoked the fires of racial and religious intolerance, and concentrated the nation's wealth into fewer hands than ever before. The Last Days of Innocence tells the untold story of the war that rudely thrust Americans into an uncertain future--a war whose effects remain with us today. "Well-crafted in every way...a vivid and authoritative history."--Cleveland Plain Dealer "A neatly plaited narrative...rich in detail. A splendid history."--Washington Times

Author : Mamie Till-Mobley,Christopher Benson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588363244

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Death of Innocence by Mamie Till-Mobley,Christopher Benson Pdf

The mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn of the civil rights movement—with a foreword by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old African American, Emmett Till, was visiting family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped from his bed in the middle of the night by two white men and brutally murdered. His crime: allegedly whistling at a white woman in a convenience store. The killers were eventually acquitted. What followed altered the course of this country’s history—and it was all set in motion by the sheer will, determination, and courage of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose actions galvanized the civil rights movement, leaving an indelible mark on our racial consciousness. Death of Innocence is an essential document in the annals of American civil rights history, and a painful yet beautiful account of a mother’s ability to transform tragedy into boundless courage and hope. Praise for Death of Innocence “A testament to the power of the indestructible human spirit [that] speaks as eloquently as the diary of Anne Frank.”—The Washington Post Book World “With this important book, [Mamie Till-Mobley] has helped ensure that the story of her son (and her own story) will not soon be forgotten. . . . A riveting account of a tragedy that upended her life and ultimately the Jim Crow system.”—Chicago Tribune “The book will . . . inform or remind people of what a courageous figure for justice [Mamie Till-Mobley] was and how important she and her son were to setting the stage for the modern-day civil rights movement.”—The Detroit News “Poignant . . . In his mother’s descriptions, Emmett becomes more than an icon; he becomes a living, breathing youngster—any mother’s child.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Powerful . . . [Mamie Till-Mobley’s] courage transformed her loss into a moral compass for a nation.”—Black Issues Book Review Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Special Recognition • BlackBoard Nonfiction Book of the Year

Author : T. Marie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798657518757

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Last Days of Innocence by T. Marie Pdf

The second installation in 'The Hour of Neglect' series find's our protagonist in a world of trouble. She has some serious decisions to make, but her world is turned upside down by a shocking decision by her God Father. As Desiree, struggles to find balance and purpose she deals with her demons and gets closer to her father's side of the family. Book 2 Introduces "Shake Kash" Desiree's alter-ego/sex demon that takes control during moments of extreme duress. When Desiree is weak and making bad decisions that put her in danger; Shake comes out to set things straight. Follow Desireee as she morphs into her devil double "Shake" and enters the world of adult entertainment. Will she be able to swim with the sharks or will she be sucked under for good?

Author : Jim Dwyer,Peter J. Neufeld,Barry Scheck
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780385493413

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Actual Innocence by Jim Dwyer,Peter J. Neufeld,Barry Scheck Pdf

Ten true tales of people falsely accused detail the flaws in the criminal justice system that landed these people in prison

Author : Charlotte Hardy
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 0749930756

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The Last Days of Innocence by Charlotte Hardy Pdf

A superb novel of love, intrigue and divided loyalty set in Ireland at the time of the Black & Tans.

Author : Bill Goodwin
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449750114

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Signposts of the Last Days by Bill Goodwin Pdf

SIGNPOSTS of The Last Days is not an attempt to sensationalize predicted events from prophecy implying they will happen in a particular manner. Remember that when Jesus came the first time, all but two people were looking for a different kind of Messiah than the One they got. Instead you will find the Biblical basis for twelve predicted events of the Last Days. This book is written to review some of the available passages concerning these events that will lead to the end of the Last Days and how they relate to each other. They are arranged in the order they are expected to happen. It also is designed to relate coming events to the past times in which God has presented Himself to the world using different people. This is your opportunity to separate the modern day scenarios seemingly written for Hollywood from what we might realistically expect should we be alive to see it all unfold. Please read them all with the understanding that there may be fewer than two individuals who get close to the actual truth this time around.

Author : Victor Brooks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781442209176

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Last Season of Innocence by Victor Brooks Pdf

Last Season of Innocence discusses the lives of the preteens and teenagers who were in junior high school, high school, and the first year of college in the 1960s. Brooks offers a unique account of this much-chronicled decade by examining the experiences of these often overlooked young people.

Author : Davi Patterson,Richard North Patterson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782064084

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Loss of Innocence by Davi Patterson,Richard North Patterson Pdf

June, 1968. America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane - spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Martha's Vineyard - life could not be safer, nor the future more certain. Educated at Wheaton, soon to be married, and the youngest daughter of the patrician Dane family, Whitney has everything she has ever wanted, and is everything her all-powerful and doting father, Charles Dane, wants her to be. But the Vineyard's still waters are disturbed by the appearance of Benjamin Blaine. An underprivileged, yet fiercely ambitious and charismatic young man, Blaine is a force of nature neither Whitney nor her family could have prepared for. As Ben's presence begins to awaken independence within Whitney, it also brings deep-rooted Dane tensions to a dangerous head. And soon Whitney's set-in-stone future becomes far from satisfactory, and her picture-perfect family far from pretty. A sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings, set during the most consequential summer of recent American history.

Author : Charlotte Hardy
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Country life
ISBN : 0749904275

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The Last Days of Innocence by Charlotte Hardy Pdf

A saga about an Englishwoman whose life in Ireland in the summer of 1920 is changed forever when she falls in love with an aloof Englishman who, it later appears, is responsible for an ambush which killed her brother and outlawed her oldest friend who were in favour of Irish independence.

Author : Sara Craven,Yu Kohaku
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596282897

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THE END OF HER INNOCENCE by Sara Craven,Yu Kohaku Pdf

Chloe was startled to see Darius in her hometown the day she returned after years away. Seven years ago, eighteen-year-old Chloe experienced her bitter first love with him?he’d taken her to his bedroom on the night of the ball, and the very next morning he’d eloped with someone else! Chloe promised herself never to get close to him again, but Darius kept showing up. Her feelings and her memories from that long-ago night just keep coming back…

Author : David S. Heidler,Jeanne T. Heidler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313088728

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Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America by David S. Heidler,Jeanne T. Heidler Pdf

In post-Civil War America, civilians were ordinarily far-removed from the actual fighting. War brought about tremendous and far-reaching changes to America's society, politics, and economy nonetheless. Readers are offered detailed glimpses into the lives of ordinary folk struggling with the privations, shortages, and anxieties brought on by U.S. entry into war. They are also shown how they strove to turn changing times to their advantage, especially civically and economically, as minorities pressed for political inclusion and traders profited from government contracts and women took on well-paying skilled jobs in large numbers for the first time. Susan Badger Doyle's chapter on the Indian Wars in the American West shows how for whites the migration westward was the path to a land of opportunity, for Native Americans migration it was a disastrous epoch that led to their near-extermination. Michael Neiberg's piece on World War I highlights how America's entry into the war on the Allied side was far from universally popular or supported because of large German and Irish immigrant communities, and how this tepid support led to the creation of some of the harshest censorship and curtailment of civil rights in U.S. history. Judy Litoff's chapter on the home front during World War II focuses on the exceptional changes brought on by total mobilization for the war effort, African-Americans' push for expanded civil rights, to women entering the workforce in large numbers, to the public's acceptance, even expectation, of centralized planning and government intervention in economic and social matters. Jon Timothy Kelly's essay on the Cold War provides a look at how the country quickly returned to a state of readiness when the end of World War II ushered in the Cold War and the immanent threat of nuclear annihilation, even as a booming economy brought undreamt of material prosperity to huge numbers of Americans. Finally, James Landers describes how American involvement in Vietnam, the first televised war, profoundly changed American attitudes about war even as this particular conflict touched few Americans, but divided them like few previous events have.

Author : Paul N. Herbert
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781438945132

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God Knows All Your Names by Paul N. Herbert Pdf

People with only a slight interest in history will enjoy these fascinating, short and easy to understand stories. Serious history buffs will like these lesser-known episodes, not the stories we've heard a million times. For example: try to find anyone who knows about the attempted slave insurrection in Fairfax County, Virginia. With Mary Lincoln's spending habits, who knew that Abraham Lincoln actually saved an enormous percentage of his presidential salary? A slave honored in Virginia with a monument; the history of Lee Highway which 'opened' with great fanfare in 1923 as a 3,000 mile road from Washington, DC to San Diego; a story about the Little River Turnpike, the second oldest turnpike in America, built partly by slaves and captured Hessian soldiers. You'll read about two Civil War ships that collided in the Potomac River. Victims included wounded soldiers' wives and one soldier's six-year-old son. You'll read a great account of the massive Civil War corruption. You'll learn about the disastrous condition of the treasury (sound familiar?) during the Revolutionary War. The government tried everything, including a lottery to get the country afloat in a sea of red ink. But the most fascinating story may be about the Revolutionary War soldier who faked his own desertion to defect to the enemy with the highly secretive mission of going behind enemy lines to capture and return for trial the worst traitor in American history: Benedict Arnold. Bet you never heard of this story. There are many other stories in this eclectic, heavily-researched manuscript. There's a story about the Christmas Truce in World War One, about long-forgotten holidays in Virginia, about the retrocession which sent an area of Washington back to Virginia in 1846, and about the impeachment of a Supreme Court justice (it happened only once). And more!

Author : Lyn MacDonald
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141961170

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1915 by Lyn MacDonald Pdf

Over two decades' research puts Lyn Macdonald among the greatest popular chroniclers of the First World War. In 1915: The Death of Innocence, from the poignant memories of participants, she has once again created an unforgettable slice of military history. By the end of 1914, the battered British forces were bogged down, yet hopeful that promised reinforcements and spring weather would soon lead to a victorious breakthrough. A year later, after appalling losses at Aubers Ridge, Loos, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres and faraway Gallipoli, fighting seemed set to go on for ever. Drawing on extensive interviews, letters and diaries, this book brilliantly evokes the soldiers' dogged heroism, sardonic humour and terrible loss of innocence through 'a year of cobbling together, of frustration, of indecision'. 'It is rare to find a history of the First World War which manages to convey the front-line soldiers' experiences and to describe what it was that enabled those who survived to get through it. Lyn Macdonald has done just that' Sunday Times Over the past twenty years Lyn Macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian of the First World War. Her books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the First World War. Most are published by Penguin.

Author : Jenny Torres Sanchez
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781524737764

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The Fall of Innocence by Jenny Torres Sanchez Pdf

The Lovely Bones meets Thirteen Reasons Why in this gorgeous, haunting, and tragic novel that examines the crippling--and far-reaching--effects of one person's trauma on her family, her community, and herself. For the past eight years, sixteen-year-old Emilia DeJesus has done her best to move on from the traumatic attack she suffered in the woods behind her elementary school. She's forced down the memories--the feeling of the twigs cracking beneath her, choking on her own blood, unable to scream. Most of all, she's tried to forget about Jeremy Lance, the boy responsible, the boy who caused her such pain. Emilia believes that the crows who watched over her that day, who helped her survive, are still on her side, encouraging her to live fully. And with the love and support of her mother, brother, and her caring boyfriend, Emilia is doing just that. But when a startling discovery about her attacker's identity comes to light, and the memories of that day break through the mental box in which she'd shut them away, Emilia is forced to confront her new reality and make sense of shifting truths about her past, her family, and herself. A compulsively-readable tragedy that reminds us of the fragility of human nature. Praise for The Fall of Innocence * "Sanchez deftly shows the long-lasting impact of the assault. . . . An intimate and tragic look at how traumatic incidents affect individuals, their families, and others around them." --Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW * "Sanchez writes with stunning detail, showcasing the beauty that can be found in small moments, in family interactions, in nature, and in seemingly everyday objects. . . and illustrates how a trauma like Emilia's has widespread effects." --School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW * "It is hard to imagine a more beautifully told, more moving, or more authentic story of one family’s journey through unbearable pain." --VOYA, STARRED REVIEW "Beautifully written but ineffably sad, Emilia's story is a case study of trauma and its aftermath." --BCCB "Emilia's inner world both captivates and devastates." --Publishers Weekly "Internal and contemplative, [this novel's] haunting quality lingers." --Booklist

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1789
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN : BSB:BSB00076234

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Songs of Innocence by William Blake Pdf