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Out of the Dog House

By: Dick Portillo,Don Yaeger

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In 1963, Dick Portillo built a 6' x 12' trailer with no running water or bathroom and opened a simple hot dog stand in Villa Park, Illinois. He called it "The Dog House." More than 50 years and 50 locations later, his namesake Portillo's restaurants are a Windy City institution, famous for perfect, Chicago-style dogs. In Out of the Dog House, Portillo tells the incredible story of his life, sharing the ingenuity and hard-earned wisdom that went into building a beloved restaurant chain. From a modest childhood as the son of Greek and Mexican immigrants, to the core principles that became essential in growing a national business, this is a singular, at times surprising, tale of how one man crafted his own American dream, one hot dog at a time.

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1641252472

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Out of the Dog House

By: Dick Portillo,Don Yaeger

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Modern British Prime Ministers from Balfour to Johnson

Volume 2

By: Dick Leonard

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Modern British Prime Ministers from Balfour to Johnson

Volume 2

By: Dick Leonard

Dick Leonard’s Modern British Prime Ministers from Balfour to Johnson surveys the lives and careers of all the 24 Prime Ministers from Arthur Balfour to Boris Johnson in succinct, informative and entertaining chapters. Bringing to life the political achievements and personal idiosyncrasies of Britain's rulers over the 20th and 21st centuries, the author recounts the circumstances which took them to the pinnacle of British political life, probes their political and personal strengths and weaknesses, assesses their performance in office and asks what lasting influence they have had. Along the way Leonard entertains and informs, revealing little-known facts about the private lives of each of the Prime Ministers, for example, which two Premiers, one Tory, one Labour were taught by the same governess as a child? Who was thrashed at his public school for writing pornography and later donated one-fifth of his wealth to the nation? Who was awarded a fourth-class degree at Oxford and went on to father eight children? Who was described by his son as ‘probably the greatest natural Don Juan in the history of British politics'? This book can also form part of a two-volume set published by Routledge including the companion volume British Prime Ministers from Walpole to Salisbury: The 18th and 19th Centuries. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and readers of British political history, the Executive, government, and British politics.

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100047268X

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9781000472684

The Real RFK Jr.

Trials of a Truth Warrior

By: Dick Russell

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The Real RFK Jr.

Trials of a Truth Warrior

By: Dick Russell

An epic biography filled with drama, conflict, and surmounted challenges. The Real RFK Jr. is an intimate biographical portrait examining the controversial activist's journey from anguish and addiction to becoming the country's leading environmental champion fighting government corruption, corporate greed, and a captured media. Written by his longtime colleague Dick Russell, the biography also exposes the misconceptions and explains the rationale behind Kennedy's campaign to protect public health. Provided exclusive source material, including access to Kennedy’s unpublished writings and personal journals, the author conducted dozens of interviews with him as well as numerous friends and associates. Russell delves into everything from Kennedy’s sometimes death-defying river rafting adventures to his pioneering legal cases against polluters such as Smithfield Foods and Monsanto, while founding the world’s largest water protection group. The Real RFK Jr. also examines Kennedy’s pursuit of the truth about the assassinations of his father and uncle, the wrongful murder conviction of his cousin, and the false narratives around the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510776109

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9781510776104

Texas Reporter, Texas Radical

The Writings of Journalist Dick J. Reavis

By: Dick J. Reavis

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Texas Reporter, Texas Radical

The Writings of Journalist Dick J. Reavis

By: Dick J. Reavis

Writing about Texas, Mexico, and Texan-Mexican relations for over four decades, Dick J. Reavis is one of the most poignant political voices of Texas—not as a politician, though his writings are infused with politics, but as a candid, unsentimental, probing, journalist. Reavis has worked as a reporter, features author, and staff writer (San Antonio Express-News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dallas Observer, San Antonio Light), as a Senior Editor of Texas Monthly, and as a professor of journalism (North Carolina State University). He has authored six books and translated two from Spanish. Throughout his award-winning career, he has returned consistently to investigate the lives of everyday Texans, insistently challenging prevailing political assumptions and mythologies. It was precisely this commitment that prompted him to investigate the federal government’s siege of the Branch Davidians in 1993 outside of Waco, TX, which led to his best-known work, The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation (1995), a book that challenged government accounts and mainstream media. This anthology demonstrates the range of his writings, which include investigations of Mexican guerillas and Texas biker-gangs, the struggles of urban day-laborers and of undocumented immigrants in rural areas, the politics of Texas radicals during the Civil Rights movement, and the activities of the Klan and other far right groups across the state, to identify but a few. This collection of Reavis’s writings brings into focus the voice and political commitments of this critical, contemporary, Texas writer.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1680032275

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9781680032277

Elections in Britain Today

A Guide for Voters and Students

By: Dick Leonard

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Elections in Britain Today

A Guide for Voters and Students

By: Dick Leonard

This is a lively and authoritative account by a leading political journalist and former MP of how the British electoral system works. It is addressed primarily to intelligent voters, but also to students of political science, government and British Constitution at universities, colleges and schools. It answers central questions such as: When are elections held? Who can vote? What happens on polling day? And how does one become an MP? It explains clearly how and why constituency boundaries have to be altered, how the parties are organized, how campaigns are conducted, the role of the media, how reliable opinion polls are and what happens at by-elections. This completely revised and up-dated edition deals also with local elections, referenda and elections to the European Parliament and describes clearly the main features of other electoral systems, including the main variations of proportional representation. The annexes contain a mass of electoral statistics and a thorough bibliography.

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Springer

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1349251127

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9781349251124

LESSONS FROM THE CAVE and others after leaving the cave

By: Dick Dorworth

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LESSONS FROM THE CAVE and others after leaving the cave

By: Dick Dorworth

Lessons From The Cave is an autobiographical book of essays and a poem written over several years about the author's life as a skier, climber, writer and wanderer through the mountains of the world. It was published when the author was 83 years old and reflects those life experiences through lenses of gratitude, regret, pain, joy, fear, disappointment, determination (and lapses of will), lessons learned and not learned, loneliness and love. ---------------- The author intends the book to be a dharma lesson for the reader, as his life itself and the experience of writing and publishing the book have been to him.

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BookLocker.com, Inc.

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9798885312936

Goodbye Trust

Incompetence and conceit – NOT woke – are destroying our institutions.

By: Dick Stroud

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Goodbye Trust

Incompetence and conceit – NOT woke – are destroying our institutions.

By: Dick Stroud

A healthy and prosperous society needs efficient and trusted institutions. Yet the West is experiencing plummeting levels of trust in academia, the media, politics, business, the justice system and financial regulators. Unhappiness and mental health problems are skyrocketing, especially among the young. What the hell is going on? Everybody has their pet theory – it’s because of the pandemic – social media is addling our minds – it’s all Donald Trump’s fault. Or, as Elon Musk believes, it’s the woke mind virus. You know what – I think it might be a bit more complicated. I wasn’t satisfied with these superficial explanations. After lots of research and questioning, I now understand what’s happening. Much of what I discovered is disturbing, some is scary and a few details are even amusing. These nine essays present my findings. Six focus on the institutions and additional essays explore language manipulation and the new moral and political divides. The final essay examines those common afflictions destroying our institutions to make sense of it all. This haemorrhaging of trust has disturbing consequences and the ‘woke’ explanation for what’s happening doesn’t begin to address the complexity of the situation. Sadly, good old-fashioned incompetence, deceit and vanity are to blame.

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Dick Stroud Ventures

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0995657742

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9780995657748

Conversations with Moctezuma

The Soul of Modern Mexico

By: Dick J. Reavis

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Conversations with Moctezuma

The Soul of Modern Mexico

By: Dick J. Reavis

Author Dick Reavis immersed himself in the life of Mexico for a year. What emerged from this year is a haunting sympathy for the alien culture that is the essense of its past, and a glimpse of its troubled future--a future with inevitable consequences for our own country.

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0688107389

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Out of the Dog House

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The Real RFK Jr.

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Texas Reporter, Texas Radical

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Elections in Britain Today

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Goodbye Trust

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