[PDF] Friends In High Places eBook

Author : Webb Hubbell
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0825307082

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Before the nation came to know them as the President and First Lady, Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham were close friends of Webb Hubbell’s. Now Hubbell offers insight into how he and the Clintons climbed the political ranks from Arkansas to the White House. Included in this book are intricate tales of Hubbell’s support of Bill Clinton in his tensest moments; his friendship with Hillary Rodham Clinton; the tragic death of Vince Foster; details of involvement in Whitewater; an inside look at the Justice Department and partnership with Janet Reno; and insights into famous personalities such as Mac McLarty, Bernie Nussbaum, Bruce Lindsey, Mickey Kantor, and George Stephanopoulos. Hubbell’s story is told from the perspective of one who personally knows the President and First Lady. Their friendship began when Hubbell and Hilary Rodham Clinton were partners at Little Rock’s Rose Law Firm; and when Bill Clinton worked as Governor of Arkansas, Hubbell served with him as Mayor of Little Rock, and later as chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court. Hubbell joined the Clintons in the White House as associate attorney general, the third highest ranking member of the Justice Department. His political career ended, however, with the Whitewater scandal and incarceration in federal prison. Why Hubbell committed the crimes he assumes responsibility for are detailed; a conflicted soul struggling with the cynical maelstrom of power and politics. Hubbell comments on his resignation and prison sentence, and reflects on his old friends whom have since isolated him from the White House. The journey is Webb Hubbell’s, yet his recounting resonates with the humanity in us all: the love he shares with his wife and family, the grief over losing friends to death or circumstances, and humility when faced with calamity. In the end Hubbell faces the truth with a steadfastness seldom seen in Washington.

Author : Frank James Unger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2004-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1413464149

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Joe, Enzi and Mac are kindhearted, senior widowers who've known each other longer than they can remember. Bonded by love and longevity, they share common friends at a nearby refuge called, "Caruso's Bowling Lanes." From that societal headquarters, the three pals embark on an implausible odyssey that rattles the calm of their quiet neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago. Under duress, they agree to simultaneous surgeries and a series of twisting, turning adventures begins! FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES is a warm and humorous story of unconditional friendship, a characterization of three aging originals who are not grumpy old men.

Author : Thomas Shepherd
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : 0595325343

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In Friends in High Places, historical theologian Tom Shepherd takes you journeying through time to meet your long-lost relatives of the Western religious heritage. Mystics like Pseudo-Dionysius, John Scotus Erigena, Meister Eckhart and the first Quaker, George Fox. Deep thinkers like Philo Judaeus, Origen of Alexandria and pagan martyr Hypatia. Sunny optimists like Pelagius, who lost his argument with St. Augustine over the goodness of humanity only after the fall of Rome rattled the ancient world and made positive thinking seem positively naïve. Shepherd introduces an impressive entourage of mystics and metaphysical thinkers--to include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mary Baker Eddy, Emma Curtis Hopkins, Paul Tillich, and Teilhard de Chardin--and gives the reader a taste of their writings. Just a sampler, not a full course meal. You'll find such delight in these brief profiles, you'll come away refreshed and ready to tackle life in the modern world.

Author : Caro Peacock
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1780106602

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“A pleasurable read. The Victorian setting and international political intrigue, together with the murder mystery, add complexity to the plot.” —Historical Novel Society September, 1840. Novelist and patron of the arts Lady Blessington has hired private investigator Liberty Lane to escort a French gentleman to The Hague. For he has in his possession important papers that will assist in the forthcoming trial of Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the late emperor’s nephew who has failed in an attempt to seize power in France. Plans for the undercover expedition are disrupted however when a body is found hanging in the attic at Gore House, Lady Blessington’s Kensington mansion. Uncovering evidence that the murder was meticulously prepared for and planned well in advance, Liberty determines to track down the killer. But she is about to find herself plunged into a highly dangerous game involving blackmail, treachery, espionage—and cold-blooded murder. “A crackerjack plot and engaging characters make Peacock’s seventh Liberty Lane mystery her best yet.” —Publishers Weekly “Liberty is a strong character who draws her cases from high society but can work the underbelly to track down the information she needs.” —Booklist

Author : Laton McCartney
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 1989-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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“Riveting . . . exemplifies how business works by exploiting personal connections.”—Businessweek The Bechtel Group is a private company that shuns the limelight, yet it is one of the prime movers-and-shakers in the global economic arena. Founded by self-made millionaire Warren A. Bechtel as a risk-taking construction and engineering firm, the multibillion-dollar, multinational conglomerate is responsible for constructing the Hoover Dam, laying the Alaskan oil pipeline, and building half of the world’s nuclear power plants, for starters. But Bechtel did not complete these ambitious projects on its own; it did so with the help of such “friends” as Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Dwight Eisenhower, and former employees George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger. Bechtel’s access to high-ranking government officials is unparalleled in the private sector. And with that access comes the temptation to accept favors and influence policy. Business journalist Laton McCartney combines painstaking research and powerful reporting to tell here, for the first time, the explosive inside story of what really goes on at the company that changed the face of the globe. “McCartney has made an important contribution to understanding a powerful U.S. corporation and American business history.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

Author : Sally Denton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2016-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476706468

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The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic American business story. It begins with Warren A. 'Dad' Bechtel, who led a consortium that constructed the Hoover Dam. From that auspicious start, the family and its eponymous company would go on to 'build the world,' from the construction of airports in Hong Kong and Doha, to pipelines and tunnels in Alaska and Europe, to mining and energy operations around the globe. Today Bechtel is one of the largest privately held corporations in the world, enriched and empowered by a long history of government contracts and the privatization of public works, made possible by an unprecedented revolving door between its San Francisco headquarters and Washingto

Author : Kimberly Palmer-Washington
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2009-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1607914166

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Oh! What power And matchless Love Christ has Bestowed on His child My baby sister Kimberly. "Somebody Prayed for Me" is a unique, close and personal testimony of Kim's life. As you begin to read, you find yourself sitting up with Kim in the midnight hour; sitting at her bed side at the hospital as the doctors talk to her; and you even find yourself walking down the corridor as Kim is being wheeled into surgery. At times, you will laugh and at times you will cry. You will pray like you have never prayed before. As you read, you see and feel the wonder of Jesus throughout the pages. Kim clings to the only true and Faithful One's hand and that is Jesus. Life can hit us with some unexpected blows. Sickness is one of those unexpected blows that may hit you, a family member, or a close friend. "Somebody Prayed for Me" helps you take your petitions to Him who sits on high, whose ear is always intoned to His children's cries. Psalm 40:1 says, "I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry." He did it for Kim; He will do it for you. May God richly bless you as read "Somebody Prayed for Me." Beverly Palmer-Hill is a second- grade teacher from Columbus, Ohio. She is a published writer of poetry, a mother of two David V. Hill, III and Leslie Maxine Hill and the grandmother of Christopher and Alana Green. Kimberly Palmer-Washington is an International Singing Evangelist and the Publishing Director of ACOF News Ministry. She lives in Englewood, New Jersey. She is a mother of one adult daughter LoisJessica Carol Chappell Washington.

Author : Vincent Hirschi
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532693982

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James's epistle is usually remembered for being very practical and for inviting its readers to acts of mercy and compassion. And yet, the same letter also claims that it is not possible to love God and to love “the world.” In other words, James encourages his readers to develop two seemingly opposite attitudes at the same time: to reject the world and to be involved in it. Vincent Hirschi shows that James contains crucial insights on how the church can be at the same time a positive social force and a prophetic voice challenging the society she serves. Through careful exegesis and attention to details, he explores the relationships between the personal and communal dimensions of faith, on the interplay between development of character and social action, and proposes a detailed analysis of the role of the church in James's letter.

Author : Jeremy Paxman
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
ISBN :

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The author decided to take a new journey, a journey within Britain, to see how the country was governed and where power really lies. In his journey to Westminster and Eton, to the city and to Whitehall, he draws his own conclusions as to where power has shifted to in 1990s Britain.