Echoes Of Distant Thunder

Author : Edward Robb Ellis
Publisher : Kodansha Globe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of Distant Thunder written by Edward Robb Ellis and published by Kodansha Globe. This book was released on 1996 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author draws vigorous portraits of the era's leading figures, including Woodrow Wilson, the cerebral president; Teddy Roosevelt, the saber-rattling ex-president; Henry Cabot Lodge and Robert LaFollette, bitter Senate foes, the former favoring intervention, the latter never wavering from his conviction that the war was anathema; and many others. Ellis also focuses on working people and the growing labor movement that led to vicious confrontations such as the deadly massacre at John D. Rockefeller's Ludlow mine in Colorado.

Author : Thomas Maybin
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781468051469
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of Distant Thunder written by Thomas Maybin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ....in the spring of 1772, with an unjustified price on his head for a crime he unknowingly committed and a heart tortured by a crime he could not prevent, young Matthew Maybin flees Ireland aboard the ship The Pennsylvania Farmer. Hoping to escape English tyranny, he arrives in Charles Town, South Carolina only to discover that the heavy hand of King George has the same strangle hold on the colonies as he did on his homeland...... high in the Carolina mountains, among the Cherokee he seeks to forget the past, but it is not to be. As the Revolutionary war spreads, he will once again be drawn into a conflict that his heart will not let him avoid. By chance or by fate Mathew witnesses the abduction of a young Cherokee woman under very strange circumstances. He tries to convince himself that it is none of his business...and it might have succeeded if only he had not looked into those large brown doe-like eyes...eyes pleading for his help....

Author : Edward Robb Ellis
Publisher : Kodansha Globe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of Distant Thunder written by Edward Robb Ellis and published by Kodansha Globe. This book was released on 1996 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author draws vigorous portraits of the era's leading figures, including Woodrow Wilson, the cerebral president; Teddy Roosevelt, the saber-rattling ex-president; Henry Cabot Lodge and Robert LaFollette, bitter Senate foes, the former favoring intervention, the latter never wavering from his conviction that the war was anathema; and many others. Ellis also focuses on working people and the growing labor movement that led to vicious confrontations such as the deadly massacre at John D. Rockefeller's Ludlow mine in Colorado.

Author : Frank P. Slaughter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933926360
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of Distant Thunder written by Frank P. Slaughter and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-year old Michigan farm boy Will Castor finds his life changed forever as he is thrust into the harsh realities of nineteenth-century combat on the last day of the battle of Chickamauga. Wounded physically and mentally, Will escapes the battlefield aided by a war weary Confederate deserter, but can't escape the echoes of death and horror that will remain with him for the rest of his life. Returning to Michigan after the war, Will deals with guilt and recurring nightmares from his war experience, finding relief in the numbing effects of a bottle of whiskey and the bawdy houses of East Saginaw. He joins the rough and tumble world of Michigan's lumber boom as a land looker seeking the majestic white pine. Alone in the vast northern Michigan wilderness, he comes face to face with his demons and must make a life or death decision.

Author : Thomas J. Reed
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683931130
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America’s Two Constitutions written by Thomas J. Reed and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s Two Constitutions explores the history of the treatment of dissenters in time of war, beginning with the treatment of Tories during the Revolution, followed by description and analysis of the Lincoln administration’s treatment of disloyal persons during the Civil War, President Wilson’s organized plan to curb anti-war, anti-draft groups including the Socialist party during World War I, President Roosevelt’s handling of the Japanese internment program and trial of U.S. citizens by military commission during World War II, the cold war campaign against Communists in government and in the entertainment field, the FBI spying program COINTELL and other means to curb draft resisters and anti-war groups during the Viet Nam war followed by a chapter on the post 9-11 treatment of suspected terrorists including surreptitious interception of electronic traffic and trial of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals by military commission. The final chapter concludes that the United States has two constitutions: the written constitution in peacetime and a special unwritten constitution in time of war or national emergency.

Author : Edward Robb Ellis
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1402754485
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Diary of the Century written by Edward Robb Ellis and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It began with a teenager's scrawls in a loose-leaf notebook and then became a publishing phenomenon. Edward Robb Ellis' monumental diary has made news in Time magazine and on Good Morning America, the Today show, and NPR's Weekend Edition. Now in paper are the fascinating anecdotes, the firsthand encounters with celebrated men and women and the engaging self-portrait of a uniquely candid man. 35 photos.

Author : Michael S. Neiberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190464976
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Path to War written by Michael S. Neiberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914, it seemed, to observers in the United States, the height of madness. The Old World and its empires were tearing each other apart, and while most Americans blamed the Germans, pitied the Belgians, and felt kinship with the Allies, they wanted no part in the carnage. Two years into war President Woodrow Wilson won re-election by pledging to keep out of the conflict. Yet by the spring of 1917-by which point millions had been killed for little apparent gain or purpose-the fervor to head "Over There" swept the country. America wanted in. The Path to War shows us how that happened. Entry into the war resulted from lengthy debate and soul-searching about national identity, as so-called "hyphenated citizens" of Irish and German heritage wrestled with what it meant to be American. Many hoped to keep to the moral high ground, condemning German aggression while withholding from the Allies active support, offering to mediate between the belligerents while keeping clear. Others, including the immensely popular former president Theodore Roosevelt, were convinced that war offered the country the only way to assume its rightful place in world affairs. Neiberg follows American reaction to such events as the sinking of the Lusitania, German terrorism, and the incriminating Zimmermann telegram, shedding light on the dilemmas and crises the country faced as it moved from ambivalence to belligerence. As we approach the centenary of the war, the effects of the pivot from peace to war still resonate, as Michael Neiberg's compelling book makes clear. The war transformed the United States into a financial powerhouse and global player, despite the reassertion of isolationism in the years that followed. Examining the social, political, and financial forces at work as well as the role of public opinion and popular culture, The Path to War offers both a compelling narrative and the inescapable conclusion that World War One was no parenthetical exception in the American story but a moment of national self-determination.

Author : Margaret E. Wagner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620409836
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America and the Great War written by Margaret E. Wagner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year for 2017 "A uniquely colorful chronicle of this dramatic and convulsive chapter in American--and world--history. It's an epic tale, and here it is wondrously well told." --David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of FREEDOM FROM FEAR From August 1914 through March 1917, Americans were increasingly horrified at the unprecedented destruction of the First World War. While sending massive assistance to the conflict's victims, most Americans opposed direct involvement. Their country was immersed in its own internal struggles, including attempts to curb the power of business monopolies, reform labor practices, secure proper treatment for millions of recent immigrants, and expand American democracy. Yet from the first, the war deeply affected American emotions and the nation's commercial, financial, and political interests. The menace from German U-boats and failure of U.S. attempts at mediation finally led to a declaration of war, signed by President Wilson on April 6, 1917. America and the Great War commemorates the centennial of that turning point in American history. Chronicling the United States in neutrality and in conflict, it presents events and arguments, political and military battles, bitter tragedies and epic achievements that marked U.S. involvement in the first modern war. Drawing on the matchless resources of the Library of Congress, the book includes many eyewitness accounts and more than 250 color and black-and-white images, many never before published. With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David M. Kennedy, America and the Great War brings to life the tempestuous era from which the United States emerged as a major world power.

Author : Lenora Worth
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460363310
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of Danger written by Lenora Worth and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphaned and determined to make a life for herself and her vulnerable brother on the Kansas prairie, rancher Dana Barlow couldn't hide from the threats against her. Her enigmatic neighbor Caryn Roark led a powerful cult and would go to any lengths to get Dana's land. What could Dana do to safeguard herself and everything she loved? Mysterious Irish businessman "Bren" offered her a wealth of possibilities, protection and love. Was he the best of Good Samaritans…or a foe with dangerous secrets?

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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