[PDF] Mr President eBook

Author : Miguel Asturias
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1474614620

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The President tells the story of a ruthless dictator and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed country usually identified as Guatemala. Drawing on his experience as a journalist writing under repressive conditions, Miguel Angel Asturias provides a blazing indictment of totalitarian government and its damaging psychological effects on society - from the harvest of terror to cowardice, to sycophancy, to treachery and intrigue, and the total sacrifice of human values to lust for power. Written in a language of freedom and originality, full of extraordinary symbolism, biting satire, poetry and dream sequences, with an imagination that is both lyrical and ferocious, The President is a surrealist masterpiece and one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.

Author : Sam Donaldson
Publisher : Fawcett Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780449215203

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The outspoken White House correspondent for ABC News offers insights into the high-pressure complexities of national news reporting, discusses his colleagues and friends, and explains what it's like to provoke presidents

Author : Dwight Young
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 33,65 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426200205

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Selected letters to presidents with contextual commentary.

Author : Tina Cassidy
Publisher : 37 Ink
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 150117777X

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In this “heroic narrative” (The Wall Street Journal), discover the inspiring and timely account of the complex relationship between leading suffragist Alice Paul and President Woodrow Wilson in her fight for women’s equality. Woodrow Wilson lands in Washington, DC, in March of 1913, a day before he is set to take the presidential oath of office. He is surprised by the modest turnout. The crowds and reporters are blocks away from Union Station, watching a parade of eight thousand suffragists on Pennsylvania Avenue in a first-of-its-kind protest organized by a twenty-five-year-old activist named Alice Paul. The next day, The New York Times calls the procession “one of the most impressively beautiful spectacles ever staged in this country.” Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? weaves together two storylines: the trajectories of Alice Paul and Woodrow Wilson, two apparent opposites. Paul’s procession of suffragists resulted in her being granted a face-to-face meeting with President Wilson, one that would lead to many meetings and much discussion, but little progress for women. With no equality in sight and patience wearing thin, Paul organized the first group to ever picket in front of the White House lawn—night and day, through sweltering summer mornings and frigid fall nights. From solitary confinement, hunger strikes, and the psychiatric ward to ever more determined activism, Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? reveals the courageous, near-death journey it took, spearheaded in no small part by Alice Paul’s leadership, to grant women the right to vote in America. “A remarkable tale” (Kirkus Reviews) and a rousing portrait of a little-known feminist heroine, this is an eye-opening exploration of a crucial moment in American history one century before the Women’s March.

Author : Sarah McClendon
Publisher : Stoddart
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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The author recounts her life and career, and shares her impressions of presidents from Roosevelt to Clinton.

Author : Gabe Hudson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307425460

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Everybody’s Gulf War Syndrome is a little bit different. Or so believes Larry, who returns home from Desert Storm to find his hair gone and his bones rapidly disintegrating. Then there’s Lance Corporal James Laverne of the US Marines, who grows a third ear in Kuwait. And in the audaciously comic novella “Notes from a Bunker Along Highway 8,” a Green Beret deserts his team after seeing a vision of George Washington, only to find a new calling—administering aid to wounded Iraqi civilians; he’s hindered only by the furtive nature of his mission and an unruly band of chimpanzees. Together these narratives form a bracing amalgamation of devastating humor and brilliant cultural observation, in which Gabe Hudson fearlessly explores the darker implications of American military power.

Author : Kevin Mattson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1608192067

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An assessment of the events that led up to Jimmy Carter's infamous 1979 "malaise" speech places it against a backdrop of such events as the gas crisis and the Iran-hostage situation while explaining that the speech had far greater relevance than its reception reflected, in an account that also claims the speech inadvertently set a course for the conservative movement. Reprint.

Author : Sophie Siers
Publisher : Owlkids
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781771473910

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One boy's appeal for justice in the form of a dividing wall