From The Palace To The Prison

Author : Will Bardenwerper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501117858
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prisoner in His Palace written by Will Bardenwerper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, this haunting, insightful, and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein provides “a brief, but powerful, meditation on the meaning of evil and power” (USA TODAY). The “captivating” (Military Times) The Prisoner in His Palace invites us to take a journey with twelve young American soldiers in the summer of 2006. Shortly after being deployed to Iraq, they learn their assignment: guarding Saddam Hussein in the months before his execution. Living alongside, and caring for, their “high value detainee and regularly transporting him to his raucous trial, many of the men begin questioning some of their most basic assumptions—about the judicial process, Saddam’s character, and the morality of modern war. Although the young soldiers’ increasingly intimate conversations with the once-feared dictator never lead them to doubt his responsibility for unspeakable crimes, the men do discover surprising new layers to his psyche that run counter to the media’s portrayal of him. Woven from firsthand accounts provided by many of the American guards, government officials, interrogators, scholars, spies, lawyers, family members, and victims, The Prisoner in His Palace shows two Saddams coexisting in one person: the defiant tyrant who uses torture and murder as tools, and a shrewd but contemplative prisoner who exhibits surprising affection, dignity, and courage in the face of looming death. In this thought-provoking narrative, Saddam, known as the “man without a conscience,” gets many of those around him to examine theirs. “A singular study exhibiting both military duty and human compassion” (Kirkus Reviews), The Prisoner in His Palace grants us “a behind-the-scenes look at history that’s nearly impossible to put down…a mesmerizing glimpse into the final moments of a brutal tyrant’s life” (BookPage).

Author : Fidel M. Donaldson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982771006
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Pit to the Prison to the Palace written by Fidel M. Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pit to the Prison to the Palace is a book of hope. It describes the benefits of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving. When the author's wife told him that one day he would be preaching the gospel, he laughed. Today, not only is he preaching the gospel but he is also the author of several life changing books, like this one.

Author : Michaela MacColl
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452119589
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners in the Palace written by Michaela MacColl and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Liza becomes a lady's maid to Princess Victoria and finds that the gossipy world of the palace servants gives her the chance to determine her own fate and help Victoria become queen.

Author : Iḥsān Narāqī
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Palace to Prison written by Iḥsān Narāqī and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusual and illuminating account of the Iranian revolution of 1979, based upon the author's long conversations with the Shah in the weeks before his downfall, and upon his own 33-month experience in prison the first testimony to come from a survivor of the Islamic republic's jails.

Author : Gary Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780947852849
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Palace to Prison written by Gary Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Alarid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780736106122
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Prison Became a Palace written by John Alarid and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sherman D. Manning
Publisher : American Dream Online Books
ISBN 13 : 097432602X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Palace to the Prison written by Sherman D. Manning and published by American Dream Online Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cat Williams
Publisher : Global Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1925282759
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Prison to Palace written by Cat Williams and published by Global Publishing Group. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International author, police officer and consultant Cat Williams was, in her younger days, voted most likely to end up in prison. After her expulsion from an exclusive girls' boarding school, Cat was angry and borderline neurotic. She veered off the rails and when arrested by the local police, she joked that she would make a better copper than the officers who had locked her up. This is a humorous true story of triumph over adversity and follows the author on her journey from a junior police officer in London to working as a royalty protection officer at Buckingham Palace. You will learn:- How to overcome adversity without losing your sense of humour- Strategies to persevere in the face of considerable odds- Ways to overcome your fear of failure- How to turn your vulnerability into strength- Why it's important to take responsibility for the direction of your life- The secrets to stop procrastinating and take action- Tips to finding your true passion in life Find your passion and take control of your life today! 20% of the profits of this book will be donated to The Harry Perkins Institute for Cancer Research.

Author : Giacomo Casanova
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781495284359
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of My Escape written by Giacomo Casanova and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe's greatest adventurer. Thrown into an escape-proof prison for a crime he probably committed. The question is, which crime? In 1755, the infamous Giacomo Casanova was locked up without trial in Venice's notorious Leads prison. Over 15 months he battled disease, madness, boredom, grotesque gaolers, bad books and fellow prisoners, before attempting the most audacious and typically flamboyant escape in history. This is Casanova's own account of the escape bid that made him a celebrity across Europe, full of his unique wit and philosophy, translated into English in full for the first time.

Author : Shane Bauer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735223580
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Prison written by Shane Bauer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism * Winner of the 2019 RFK Book and Journalism Award * A New York Times Notable Book A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt end. But he had seen enough, and in short order he wrote an exposé about his experiences that won a National Magazine Award and became the most-read feature in the history of the magazine Mother Jones. Still, there was much more that he needed to say. In American Prison, Bauer weaves a much deeper reckoning with his experiences together with a thoroughly researched history of for-profit prisons in America from their origins in the decades before the Civil War. For, as he soon realized, we can't understand the cruelty of our current system and its place in the larger story of mass incarceration without understanding where it came from. Private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery, and the echoes of these shameful origins are with us still. The private prison system is deliberately unaccountable to public scrutiny. Private prisons are not incentivized to tend to the health of their inmates, or to feed them well, or to attract and retain a highly-trained prison staff. Though Bauer befriends some of his colleagues and sympathizes with their plight, the chronic dysfunction of their lives only adds to the prison's sense of chaos. To his horror, Bauer finds himself becoming crueler and more aggressive the longer he works in the prison, and he is far from alone. A blistering indictment of the private prison system, and the powerful forces that drive it, American Prison is a necessary human document about the true face of justice in America.