Bully Boy

Author : Jim Powell
Publisher : Forum Books
ISBN 13 : 0307347559
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bully Boy written by Jim Powell and published by Forum Books. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Hath TR Wrought? “I don’t think that any harm comes from the concentration of power in one man’s hands.” —Theodore Roosevelt The notion that Theodore Roosevelt was one of America’s greatest presidents is literally carved in stone—right up there on Mount Rushmore. But as historian Jim Powell shows in the refreshingly original Bully Boy, Roosevelt’s toothy grin, outsized personality, colossal energy, and fascinating life story have obscured what he actually did as president. And what Roosevelt did severely damaged the United States. Until now, no historian has thoroughly rebutted the adulation so widely accorded to TR. Powell digs beneath the surface to expose the harm Roosevelt did to the country in his own era. More important, he examines the lasting consequences of Roosevelt’s actions—the legacies of big government, expanded presidential power, and foreign interventionism that plague us today. Bully Boy reveals: • How Roosevelt, the celebrated “trust-buster,” actually promoted monopolies • How this self-proclaimed champion of conservation caused untold environmental destruction • How TR expanded presidential power and brought us big government • How he heralded in the era of government regulation, handicapping employers, destroying jobs, and harming consumers • How he established the dangerous precedent of pushing America into other people’s wars even when our own national interests aren’t at stake • How this crusader for “pure food” launched loony campaigns against margarine, corn syrup, and Coca-Cola • How Roosevelt inspired the campaign to enact a federal income tax that was supposedly a tax on the rich but became a people’s tax Bully Boy is both a groundbreaking look at a pivotal time in America’s history and a powerful explanation of how so many of our modern troubles began.

Author : Allen Kurzweil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whipping Boy written by Allen Kurzweil and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the acclaimed author of A CASE OF CURIOSITIES, Allen Kurzweil's stranger-than-fiction "investigative memoir", detailing his 40-year-search for his boarding school bully who tied him up at the age of twelve and whipped him to the soundtrack of Jesus Christ Superstar, and who went on to lead a mad-cap life of international crime and financial fraud"--

Author : Sandi Toksvig
Publisher : NHB Modern Plays
ISBN 13 : 9781848422964
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bully Boy written by Sandi Toksvig and published by NHB Modern Plays. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved comedian/author Sandi Toksvig's first play marks the opening of St. James, London's first new theatre complex in thirty years.

Author : Greg Pak
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506714536
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stranger Things: The Bully (Graphic Novel) written by Greg Pak and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bullies from season one of hit Netflix series try to uncover the mystery of Eleven's psychic powers in this scary all-ages comic! Troy has been having nightmares about El ever since she embarrassed him in front of the school and broke his arm in season one. Powerless and anxious, Troy is determined to prove that what happened between him and El is only some form of trickery. That is until he and James encounter demodogs! Written by best-selling author Greg Pak (Mech Cadet Yu, The Incredible Hulk, Star Wars: Age of Rebellion) and drawn by Valeria Favoccia (Assassin Creed: Reflections, Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor).

Author : Allen Kurzweil
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547350864
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Case of Curiosities written by Allen Kurzweil and published by HMH. This book was released on 2001-08-10 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tale of an ambitious inventor in France as the Revolution looms is “brilliantly playful . . . full of lore and lewdness” (Chicago Tribune). “A portrait of a young mechanical genius in 18th-century France, delivered along with a gallimaufry of odd and intriguing facts and a rich, lusty picture of society in that time and place.” —Publishers Weekly In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. Over the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, then apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude’s greatest device—a talking mechanical head—that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre. “Like a joint effort by Henry Fielding and John Barth” (Chicago Tribune), this “captivating novel” (San Francisco Chronicle) marked the debut of one of the finest literary artists of our time. “A Case of Curiosities . . . really is brilliant. Also witty, learned, ingenious, sly, and bawdy.” —Entertainment Weekly “What John Fowles did for the 19th century with The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Umberto Eco did for the 14th with The Name of the Rose . . . Kurzweil now does for the late 18th century.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Blake E. S. Taylor
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459624130
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adhd and Me written by Blake E. S. Taylor and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake Taylor's mother first suspected he had ADHD when he, at only three years of age, tried to push his infant sister in her carrier off the kitchen table. As time went by, Blake developed a reputation for being hyperactive and impulsive. He launched rockets (accidentally) into neighbor's swimming pools and set off alarms in museums. Blake was diagnosed formally with ADHD when he was five years old. In ADHD and Me, he tells about the next twelve years as he learns to live with both the good and bad sides of life with ADHD.

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143183842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bully Boys written by Eric Walters and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War of 1812 is raging: America has declared war on Britain, and American troops have invaded Canada. Tom Roberts, fourteen and too young for army service, wants nothing more than to be a part of the action - a wish that comes true when he stumbles upon some American soldiers attempting to rob the local store. His bravery in thwarting the robbery attracts the attention of Lieutenant James FitzGibbon, and Tom soon finds himself fighting for his country alongside FitzGibbon and his notorious band of soldiers... the Bully Boys.

Author : Shilo Kino
Publisher : Huia Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1775505006
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pōrangi Boy written by Shilo Kino and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Niko lives in Pohe Bay, a small, rural town with a sacred hot spring – and a taniwha named Taukere. The government wants to build a prison over the home of the taniwha, and Niko’s grandfather is busy protesting. People call him pōrangi, crazy, but when he dies, it’s up to Niko to convince his community that the taniwha is real and stop the prison from being built. With help from his friend Wai, Niko must unite his whānau, honour his grandfather and stand up to his childhood bully.

Author : Michael Byrne
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0763679968
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lottery Boy written by Michael Byrne and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a gripping thriller with a hint of Oliver Twist, a street kid and his dog are chasing an unlikely fortune — and dodging the thugs who would steal it. Twelve-year-old Bully has lost his mum and his old life. Living rough on the streets of London with his dog, Jack, he can’t imagine a future. But one day he finds, tucked inside his most cherished possession—the last birthday card his mother ever gave him—a lottery ticket he bought her. And it’s a winner. A big winner. Suddenly there’s hope, if only he can get to his prize on time! But just as Bully’s prospects open up, peril closes in. Now ruthless gangsters are in hot pursuit, and everyone wants a piece of him. Whom can he trust to help him retrieve what's his? And even if Bully does claim all that money, will he really be winning what he needs most? Michael Byrne's thrill-packed debut delivers the emotionally charged story of a boy whose luck has changed for the better, if only he can survive long enough to claim it.

Author : Allen Kurzweil
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 009943685X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grand Complication written by Allen Kurzweil and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed for his international bestseller, "A Case of Curiosities," Kurzweil presents "The Grand Complication"--a modern-day tale of literary intrigue, deviant passions, and delicious secrets.