[PDF] Right Honourable Men eBook

Author : Michael Bliss
Publisher : Harpercollins Canada
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780006380627

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A Maclean's #1 bestseller and a unique blending of history and politics through ten provocative portraits of' our country's leaders, Right Honourable Men is a timely exploration of politics and personality, the powerful bonds of the past and the current demands of a nation tinder stress. From the visionary Macdonald, the reckless Laurier and the misunderstood King, to the flamboyant Trudeau and the vainglorious Mulroney, Right Honourable Men both defines and defies the essence of political leadership in Canada. Written with insight, wit and brilliance, Right Honourable Men is a compelling read for every Canadian; this new trade paper edition will hold special appeal for politics and history students. "...a joy to read: lively and entertaining, with penetrating insights..". -- The Globe and Mail "...rarely does one find a book that is both a one-sitting read and important work to which one knows one will return again and again..". -- Peter Foster, Canadian Business "Right Honourable Men is everything good history should be: readable, opinionated, maddening, surprising, audacious, well-researched". -- The Edmonton Journal

Author : William Egan Colby
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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The veteran intelligence agent and former CIA director recalls the events, developments, and people of his career, describes the CIA's organization, workings, and procedures, and profiles famous and hazy world figures.

Author : Paul Vidich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501110381

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"This gripping first novel in a spy thriller series, set in Washington D.C. at the height of the Red Scare, investigates a double agent in the CIA whose betrayals threaten to compromise the two lead investigators, the Agency, and the entire nation."--

Author : James Stewart Martin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1504034902

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A scathing attack on Wall Street’s illegal ties to Nazi Germany before WWII—and the postwar whitewashing of Nazi business leaders by the US government Prior to World War II, German industry was controlled by an elite group who had used their money and influence to help bring the Nazi Party to power. After the Allies had successfully occupied Germany and removed the Third Reich, the process of reconstructing the devastated nation’s economy began under supervision of the US government. James Stewart Martin, who had assisted the Allied forces in targeting key areas of German industry for aerial bombardment, returned to Germany as the director of the Division for Investigation of Cartels and External Assets in American Military Government, a position he held until 1947. Martin was to break up the industrial machine these cartels controlled and investigate their ties to Wall Street. What he discovered was shocking. Many American corporations had done business with German corporations who helped fund the Nazi Party, despite knowing what their money was supporting. Effectively, Wall Street’s greed had led them to aid Hitler and hinder the Allied effort. Martin’s efforts at decartelization were unsuccessful though, largely due to hindrance from his superior officer, an investment banker in peacetime. In conclusion, he said, “We had not been stopped in Germany by German business. We had been stopped in Germany by American business.” This exposé on economic warfare, Wall Street, and America’s military industrial complex includes a new introduction by Christopher Simpson, author of Blowback:America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy, and a new foreword from investigative journalist Hank Albarelli.

Author : Courtney Milan
Publisher : Courtney Milan
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1937248623

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Miss Catherine Hooks is one of the best governesses in all of England; her employer, the Right Honorable Edward Glennon, is one of the busiest men. The fact that they’ve fallen in love is immaterial. Honorable people in their situation do not mention such things. But Edward’s son is on the verge of leaving for school, and when Cat asks for the only thing she can demand under the circumstances—a reference and help finding a new position—she discovers that even a right honorable gentleman has his limits… A Right Honorable Gentleman is a short story of about 7,000 words long, and was previously available in the anthology “Premiere.”

Author : N. Amzalak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230316891

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Was France fascist in the interwar period? This comprehensive historical, political and sociological account follows the rise of engineers and political "non-conformists" in the first half of the twentieth century, examining the French technocracy's relationship with the rise of fascism in France and later the establishment of the Fourth Republic.

Author : Michael Dyne
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 1966
Category : English drama
ISBN : 9780822209515

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THE STORY: As John McClain describes, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GENTLEMAN is in fact a certain Sir Charles Dilke, a Liberal Member of Parliament in the Victorian era who, had he not got his beard caught in the wringer, might have become the successor t

Author : Jane Ashford
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1402276826

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The Only Thing Worse Than a Forced Marriage...is Falling in Love When Eliot Crenshaw agreed to drive Laura Lindley to her aunts in London, he didn't expect to end up stranded, unchaperoned—and married. He doesn't believe in love, but he does know his duty. What he doesn't know is how to behave when his marriage of necessity unexpectedly turns into a love match. Laura Lindley's dreams of her first London season are smashed by a forced marriage to avoid a devastating scandal. But she finds herself devastated instead by her husband's cool and distant behavior. How can she possibly compete with Eliot's dazzling—and vengeful—mistress? Desperate to win his love, the young bride begins a rebellion that had all the ton agog—and her husband forgetting about honor and listening instead to his heart. Praise for The Marriage Wager: "Exceptional characters and beautifully crafted historical details ensure a delightful read for Judith McNaught and Mary Balogh Fans."—Publishers Weekly "Lively, well-written Regency romance sparkles with wonderful dialogue, witty scenes, and just the right tough of humor, adventure, and repartee."—RT Book Reviews

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3849649741

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In 1790 came that "extraordinary outburst of passionate intelligence," Mary Wollstonecraft's reply to Edmund Burke's attack on the principles of the French Revolution entitled a "Vindication of the Rights of Men." In this pamphlet she held up to scorn Burke's defence of monarch and nobility, his merciless sentimentality. "It is one of the most dashing political polemics in the language," Mr. Taylor writes enthusiastically, "and has not had the attention it deserves. . . . For sheer virility and grip of her verbal instruments it is probably the finest of her works. Some of her sentences have the quality of a sword-edge, and they flash with the rapidity of a practised duellist. It was written at a white heat of indignation; yet it is altogether typical of the writer that, in the midst of the work, quite suddenly, she had one of her fits of callousness and morbid temper, and declared she would not go on. With great skill Johnson persuaded her to take it up again; and with equal suddenness her eagerness returned, and the book was finished and published before any one else could answer Burke."