The Snitch Jacket

Author : Christopher Goffard
Publisher : Overlook Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snitch Jacket written by Christopher Goffard and published by Overlook Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Adult. Making a living by informing on his underground friends, misfit barfly and former speed addict Benny Bunt finds himself drawn to a notorious Vietnam veteran and is subsequently accused of a double murder. A first novel.

Author : John Pennington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781701643192
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Snitch Jacket written by John Pennington and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seattle, 1970. America is a nation divided by the Vietnam War. Millions take to the streets in protest. Some want to "bring the war home" through acts of vandalism, clashes with police and even setting off bombs. The government spies on its own citizens. At a rowdy protest in March, David Page meets Anna Schroeder, a beautiful, idealistic radical and the founder of Seattle Students for Democratic Action. A few weeks later, after protestors from the University of Washington block the I-5 freeway, a bomb explodes at a farmhouse outside Seattle and David is forced to flee to Canada.Twenty years later, on Pender Island, near Vancouver, the past catches up with David when a mysterious visitor arrives and he learns the shocking truth about FBI dirty tricks, Soviet Russian deceit and corruption in Washington, D.C. Having sought an uneventful life on the island, he must now make a decision that could have tragic consequences.

Author : Len Bracken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780595375554
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snitch Jacket written by Len Bracken and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Washington during the 2000 election, Alex and other activists wage the Campaign for Nobody the year Nobody wins more convincingly than ever. A government agent sullies Alex's name by half-enlisting him to implicate immigrant women, but Alex survives the escalating protests and parties to reenact the telephone conversations between Bush and Gore on election night at a lavish inaugural ball. Len Bracken is the author of the first biography on French filmmaker Guy Debord; he also penned one of the first books published in the United States suggesting 9/11 was an inside job. Snitch Jacket is his fourth novel. "Bracken's first love is fiction, and there lies the rub. His novels are weird-some would say, intensely weird. Take the opening scene from his latest, Snitch Jacket. An anarchist activist makes passionate love to a glamorous TV anchor. On the floor of the Library of Congress. While they're both drunk on coca-infused wine. And a blaze they started begins to consume the national landmark. From such startling material, Bracken builds a bold fictional universe in which he mixes extreme politics, conspiracy theory, obscure cultural movements and - oh, yes - lots of explicit sex." Zach Dundas, Associated Press "By exposing and exploding the illusion of opposition between the world views of conspiracy theory and radical theory, a dangerous novel is created. Stylistically similar to pataphysics and informed by the Situationists and W. Reich, this is a fascinating read. Theory is woven seamlessly into the narrative in a way that does not interrupt the flow of the story. This work is important." Jason Rodgers Media Junky "Len Bracken continues his assault on the powers that be with his new novel, Snitch Jacket: an intriguing expose of the political underworld in Washington, D.C. If you want to catch the tenor of the times, from opiated subversive sects to hubristic national security forces, with a generous tempo of eros and rage, this is the book for you. Look out for Len Bracken." Allan Graubard, author of ROMA AMOR

Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317372522
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

Author : Robert T. Chase
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469653583
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Are Not Slaves written by Robert T. Chase and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hank Lacayo Best Labor Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards Best Book Award, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice, American Society of Criminology In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plantations. This system persisted until the 1940s when, led by Texas, southern states adopted northern prison design reforms. Texas presented the reforms to the public as modern, efficient, and disciplined. Inside prisons, however, the transition to penitentiary cells only made the endemic violence more secretive, intensifying the labor division that privileged some prisoners with the power to accelerate state-orchestrated brutality and the internal sex trade. Reformers' efforts had only made things worse--now it was up to the prisoners to fight for change. Drawing from three decades of legal documents compiled by prisoners, Robert T. Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within. Prisoners forged an alliance with the NAACP to contest the constitutionality of Texas prisons. Behind bars, a prisoner coalition of Chicano Movement and Black Power organizations publicized their deplorable conditions as "slaves of the state" and initiated a prison-made civil rights revolution and labor protest movement. These insurgents won epochal legal victories that declared conditions in many southern prisons to be cruel and unusual--but their movement was overwhelmed by the increasing militarization of the prison system and empowerment of white supremacist gangs that, together, declared war on prison organizers. Told from the vantage point of the prisoners themselves, this book weaves together untold but devastatingly important truths from the histories of labor, civil rights, and politics in the United States as it narrates the transition from prison plantations of the past to the mass incarceration of today.

Author : Roger Morris
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826310620
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Butcher Shop written by Roger Morris and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-researched account of the 1980 convict uprising at the New Mexico State Penitentiary at Santa Fe, tracing the prison system corruption, cronyism, and negligence that led to the riot.

Author : Jules Boykoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135518408
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Suppression of Dissent written by Jules Boykoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the United States, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained - although often subtle and difficult-to observe - suppression in this country. Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a wide range of twentieth century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the modern-day globalization movement.

Author : Bruce E. Johansen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440803188
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Indian Movement written by Bruce E. Johansen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid description of the people, events, and issues that forever changed the lives of Native Americans during the 1960s and 1970s—such as the occupation of Alcatraz, fishing-rights conflicts, and individuals such as Clyde Warrior. Rising out of more than a century of poverty and pervasive repression, stoked by the example of the movement against the Vietnam War and the upheaval among black and Chicano civil-rights activists, the American Indian Movement shifted the debate over "the Indian problem" to a new level. Many Native peoples also took a stand for fishing rights, land rights, and formed resistance to coal and uranium mining on tribal land. This work tells the story of that movement, and provides the first encyclopedic treatment of this subject. Providing a vital documentation of a controversial and often surprising period in American Indian history, Bruce E. Johansen, an accomplished scholar and authority on Native American history, provides more than descriptions of historic events and careful analysis; he also frames what occurred in the American Indian Movement personally and anecdotally, drawing from individual stories to illustrate larger trends—and to ensure that the material is appealing to high school students, university-level readers, and general readers alike.

Author : Mark Colvin
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791409299
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penitentiary in Crisis written by Mark Colvin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a case study of the violence and disorder that have become endemic in U. S. prisons. The 1980 riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico was one of the worst riots in prison history. Thirty-three inmates were killed and hundreds were injured. The author demonstrates how this riot, and the growing disorder that preceded it, reflect important shifts in the organizational structure and philosophy of prison management in the U. S. The Penitentiary in Crisis analyzes how shifts in prisoner control strategies disrupted important power relations between inmates and staff and created disorder. The author's experiences as a corrections counselor and planner in New Mexico corrections and his later role as principal researcher for the official investigation of the riot give him a unique perspective for understanding the riot and the prison's organization and history.

Author : Juanita Díaz-Cotto
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477305963
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice written by Juanita Díaz-Cotto and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive study of Chicanas encountering the U.S. criminal justice system is set within the context of the international war on drugs as witnessed at street level in Chicana/o barrios. Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice uses oral history to chronicle the lives of twenty-four Chicana pintas (prisoners/former prisoners) repeatedly arrested and incarcerated for non-violent, low-level economic and drug-related crimes. It also provides the first documentation of the thirty-four-year history of Sybil Brand Institute, Los Angeles' former women's jail. In a time and place where drug war policies target people of color and their communities, drug-addicted Chicanas are caught up in an endless cycle of police abuse, arrest, and incarceration. They feel the impact of mandatory sentencing laws, failing social services and endemic poverty, violence, racism, and gender discrimination. The women in this book frankly discuss not only their jail experiences, but also their family histories, involvement with gangs, addiction to drugs, encounters with the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems, and their successful and unsuccessful attempts to recover from addiction and reconstitute fractured families. The Chicanas' stories underscore the amazing resilience and determination that have allowed many of the women to break the cycle of abuse. Díaz-Cotto also makes policy recommendations for those who come in contact with Chicanas/Latinas caught in the criminal justice system.