Hijacking History

Author : Kathleen Wellman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019757923X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hijacking History written by Kathleen Wellman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book insists that history matters. What if current divisions in America rest, in part, on a fundamental divergence in the understanding of our history? The book proposes the three most prominent Christian curricula have played a role through the historical narrative promoted for almost fifty years, becoming more widespread in different forms of alternative schooling from Christian schools to voucher programs, and homeschooling. Their narrative has been significant in defining Americans' understanding of the world and its history and exposes the efficacy of the alliance between certain religious interests, conservative legislators and school boards, and various corporate interests in reshaping education in the United States. The campaign for a "Christian right history" is analogous to the successful advocacy for "intelligent design" in public school science curricula. Many conservative institutions support both the inclusion of politically conservative and Christian content into school curricula"--

Author : Brendan I. Koerner
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307886115
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skies Belong to Us written by Brendan I. Koerner and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history. In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when shattered Army veteran Roger Holder and mischievous party girl Cathy Kerkow managred to comandeer Western Airlines Flight 701 and flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom—a heist that remains the longest-distance hijacking in American history. More than just an enthralling story about a spectacular crime and its bittersweet, decades-long aftermath, The Skies Belong to Us is also a psychological portrait of America at its most turbulent and a testament to the madness that can grip a nation when politics fail.

Author : Philip Baum
Publisher : Summersdale
ISBN 13 : 9781849538381
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence in the Skies written by Philip Baum and published by Summersdale. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aviation security expert Philip Baum delves into the archives to reveal the stories behind the most astonishing and shocking crimes in aviation history, calling on real-life testimonies from hijackers, crew members, passengers and politicians. The human stories behind the criminal attacks that have plagued aviation since 1911 are detailed in this authoritative and thrilling account of aviation security history, from the legendary hijacks by left-wing and Palestinian groups of the twentieth century, to the more recent suicide attacks carried out by fundamentalists and the psychologically disturbed.

Author : Liane Tanguay
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773540733
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hijacking History written by Liane Tanguay and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Bush's war commandeered history and exploited the anxieties of post-industrial America.

Author : Dave Hirschman
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062850385
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hijacked written by Dave Hirschman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unbelievable true story of three pilots flying a routine Federal Express flight who must call on their inner courage, strength, and ability to stop a bitter, suicidal hijacker from killing them, and thousands of people below. David Sanders, Jim Tucker, and Andy Peterson had taken off on a regular “out-and-back,” delivering and picking up packages for FedEx’s next-day service. They had one jumpseat passenger, an off-duty colleague who they assumed was simply taking advantage of the FedEx perk allowing virtually all employees to ride the company jets for free. The shock came twenty minutes later. Before the plane had reached its normal cruising altitude, the lone passenger attacked the pilots with hammers and a spear gun. He’d had his diabolical plan in the works for months: by crashing the plane into the Federal Express Memphis hub, he’d ruin the company, which he felt had treated him unfairly. With superhuman strength fueled by sheer fury, the attacker struck the pilots again and again. What he didn’t count on was the skill and intelligence of the pilots. While Sanders and Peterson tried to stop the relentless battering, copilot Tucker swung the aircraft into dangerous flight maneuvers in an attempt to literally knock the man off his feet. In Hijacked, Dave Hirschman vividly re-creates this hair-raising battle of wills, giving each pilot’s point of view and drawing on his own experiences as a pilot to take us inside that fateful day.

Author : Christopher Witko
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610449053
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hijacking the Agenda written by Christopher Witko and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are the economic interests and priorities of lower- and middle-class Americans so often ignored by the U.S. Congress, while the economic interests of the wealthiest are prioritized, often resulting in policies favorable to their interests? In Hijacking the Agenda, political scientists Christopher Witko, Jana Morgan, Nathan J. Kelly, and Peter K. Enns examine why Congress privileges the concerns of businesses and the wealthy over those of average Americans. They go beyond demonstrating that such economic bias exists to illuminate precisely how and why economic policy is so often skewed in favor of the rich. The authors analyze over 20 years of floor speeches by several hundred members of Congress to examine the influence of campaign contributions on how the national economic agenda is set in Congress. They find that legislators who received more money from business and professional associations were more likely to discuss the deficit and other upper-class priorities, while those who received more money from unions were more likely to discuss issues important to lower- and middle-class constituents, such as economic inequality and wages. This attention imbalance matters because issues discussed in Congress receive more direct legislative action, such as bill introductions and committee hearings. While unions use campaign contributions to push back against wealthy interests, spending by the wealthy dwarfs that of unions. The authors use case studies analyzing financial regulation and the minimum wage to demonstrate how the financial influence of the wealthy enables them to advance their economic agenda. In each case, the authors examine the balance of structural power, or the power that comes from a person or company’s position in the economy, and kinetic power, the power that comes from the ability to mobilize organizational and financial resources in the policy process. The authors show how big business uses its structural power and resources to effect policy change in Congress, as when the financial industry sought deregulation in the late 1990s, resulting in the passage of a bill eviscerating New Deal financial regulations. Likewise, when business interests want to preserve the policy status quo, it uses its power to keep issues off of the agenda, as when inflation eats into the minimum wage and its declining purchasing power leaves low-wage workers in poverty. Although groups representing lower- and middle-class interests, particularly unions, can use their resources to shape policy responses if conditions are right, they lack structural power and suffer significant resource disadvantages. As a result, wealthy interests have the upper hand in shaping the policy process, simply due to their pivotal position in the economy and the resulting perception that policies beneficial to business are beneficial for everyone. Hijacking the Agenda is an illuminating account of the way economic power operates through the congressional agenda and policy process to privilege the interests of the wealthy and marks a major step forward in our understanding of the politics of inequality.

Author : Jackie Nink Pflug
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1592859593
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miles To Go Before I Sleep written by Jackie Nink Pflug and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackie Nink Pflug's gripping true story of her experience during the terrorist hijacking, and how she recuperated from this devastating trauma. " ... her memoir is an inspirational chronicle of personal tragedy surmounted by raw courage" - Publishers Weekly Jackie Nink Pflug's gripping true story of courage and inspiration, told from a survivor's perspective, with a new preface written by the author. Ms. Pflug, who was shot and thrown onto the tarmac during the hijacking of EgyptAir Flight 648, tells her story and the lessons learned as she recuperated from this devastating trauma.

Author : Liane Tanguay
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773540741
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hijacking History written by Liane Tanguay and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Bush's war commandeered history and exploited the anxieties of post-industrial America.

Author : Phil Fernandes
Publisher : Createspace Indie Pub Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781478212522
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hijacking the Historical Jesus written by Phil Fernandes and published by Createspace Indie Pub Platform. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Jesus really claim to be God, or is he just another version of pagan myth? Does the Bible record the true Jesus of History? Even if it does, how can the Bible be trusted? "Hijacking the Historical Jesus" answers these questions and many, many more.

Author : GP SUMMARY
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 375544870X
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of My Hijacking by Martha Hodes :A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering written by GP SUMMARY and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2023-08-05 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DISCLAIMER This book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book. Summary of My Hijacking by Martha Hodes :A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering IN THIS SUMMARIZED BOOK, YOU WILL GET: - Chapter astute outline of the main contents. - Fast & simple understanding of the content analysis. - Exceptionally summarized content that you may skip in the original book Martha Hodes, a historian, recounts her experience as a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970. She and her sister were flying back to New York City from Israel when their plane was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Despite being too young to understand the gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Martha suppressed her fear and anxiety. Nearly a half-century later, her memories of the six days and nights as a hostage are hazy and scattered. Through archival research, childhood memories, and conversations with relatives, friends, and fellow hostages, Martha aims to re-create what happened to her and those at home. The story sheds light on the hostage crisis and her own fractured family and childhood sorrows.