When Bad Men Combine

Author : Shawn Francis Peters
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807179620
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Bad Men Combine written by Shawn Francis Peters and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Star Route scandal captured the nation’s attention for more than a decade, with newspapers throughout the United States characterizing it as an unprecedented case of Gilded Age graft. Shawn Francis Peters’s When Bad Men Combine provides a glimpse into this uniquely tumultuous period marked by brazen greed and duplicity. In the first book to offer a full recounting of the Star Route maelstrom, which roiled American politics during the 1870s and 1880s, Peters reveals how postal service corruption resulted in a remarkable legal case that featured jury bribery and document theft. When Bad Men Combine follows the saga to its culmination as two sensational criminal trials presented evidence implicating some of the most prominent men in America and, perhaps, led to the assassination of President James Garfield.

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents written by Edmund Burke and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents is a political essay written by Edmund Burke, an 18th-century political theorist, and philosopher. The essay is dedicated to the topic of nepotism of King George III and the influence of the Court on the House of Commons of Great Britain.

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extracts from Burke's earlier writings, with notes by C.E. Moberly written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Devon Price
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982140119
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laziness Does Not Exist written by Devon Price and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social psychologist uncovers the psychological basis of the "laziness lie," which originated with the Puritans and has ultimately created blurred boundaries between work and life with modern technologies and offers advice for not succumbing to societal pressure to "do more."

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections on the Revolution in France written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roman Dial
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062876627
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventurer's Son written by Roman Dial and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Destined to become an adventure classic." —Anchorage Daily News Hailed as "gripping" (New York Times) and "beautiful" (Washington Post), The Adventurer's Son is Roman Dial’s extraordinary and widely acclaimed account of his two-year quest to unravel the mystery of his son’s disappearance in the jungles of Costa Rica. In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, the twenty-seven-year-old son of preeminent Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial, walked alone into Corcovado National Park, an untracked rainforest along Costa Rica’s remote Pacific Coast that shelters miners, poachers, and drug smugglers. He carried a light backpack and machete. Before he left, Cody Roman Dial emailed his father: “I am not sure how long it will take me, but I’m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle and a day to walk out. I’ll be bounded by a trail to the west and the coast everywhere else, so it should be difficult to get lost forever.” They were the last words Dial received from his son. As soon as he realized Cody Roman’s return date had passed, Dial set off for Costa Rica. As he trekked through the dense jungle, interviewing locals and searching for clues—the authorities suspected murder—the desperate father was forced to confront the deepest questions about himself and his own role in the events. Roman had raised his son to be fearless, to be at home in earth’s wildest places, travelling together through rugged Alaska to remote Borneo and Bhutan. Was he responsible for his son’s fate? Or, as he hoped, was Cody Roman safe and using his wilderness skills on a solo adventure from which he would emerge at any moment? Part detective story set in the most beautiful yet dangerous reaches of the planet, The Adventurer’s Son emerges as a far deeper tale of discovery—a journey to understand the truth about those we love the most. The Adventurer’s Son includes fifty black-and-white photographs.

Author : Vardis Fisher
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870040436
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West written by Vardis Fisher and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Vardis Fisher and Opal Laurel Holmes bring together the stories of all of the remarkable men and women and all of the violent contrasts that made up one of the most entrhalling chapters in American history. Fisher, a respected scholar and versatile creative writer, devoted three years to the writing of this book.

Author : John Bartlett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Collection of Familiar Quotations written by John Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Bromwich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674416147
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke written by David Bromwich and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of statesman Edmund Burke (1729-1797), covering three decades, is the first to attend to the complexity of Burke's thought as it emerges in both the major writings and private correspondence. David Bromwich reads Burke's career as an imperfect attempt to organize an honorable life in the dense medium he knew politics to be.

Author : Richard Whately (Archbishop of Dublin.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cautions for the Times ... written by Richard Whately (Archbishop of Dublin.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: