Dans ce roman de Jean Bradley publié en 1953, Mac Allister et Frenchie, son copain, sont blessés côte à côte en Corée. Frenchie meurt. Mac Allister va désespérément chercher son ombre dans le monde fou où il a erré...
Leading thinkers and activists discuss the intersection of race and poverty. The essays are organized around seven key topics including: affirmative action; the permanence of racism thesis; the use and utility of racial and ethnic categories; multiculturalism; and the underclass debate.
A story about a young woman whose life take her from a farm in rural Georgia to the remote villages of Nepal. From the heights of romance to the depths of an unspeakable act of betrayal and violence. But most of all, it is a story of an indomitable spirit sure to inspire you and touch your heart.
The novel begins a few hours before the rapture of the saints and ends thrity-six hours later. During this time, millions disappear, and the reader knows from the beginning what has happened, even getting a glimpse into heaven itself. But the major character, Cleveland Addison, and those around him haven't a clue as to what has happened because they grabbed hold of every false doctrine circulating on the planet. Less than a year ago, they embraced Hadrey Leaset Matini, a dictator who rules the earth with a iron-fist. Quickly, he bans all religions and religious literature except for his New Order of Ecclestical Reform and his recently written Mesopotamia Concordance, penned by his twelfth apostle, Daniel Smart. No mention of former religions is allowed under penalty of death. The plot moves swiftly allowing for the creation of vivid scenes describing the desperation felt by everyone left behind and their intense need to find an answer to the strange happenings of November 4. Among these occurences are the disappearances of unborn babies from their mothers' wombs, the dead in funeral homes disappearing, a partial resurrection of the dead, and employees disappear never to be seen again as their co-workers watch in horror. Bedlam reigns throughout the planet as all goodness is suddenly snatched away. Complications arise when Matini sees his perfect society crumbling around his feet so he prepares a gathering of experts in his new religious center in Babylon to give explanations. Among these experts are numerologiest, astrologers, tarot readers, physics, mediums, a millionaire expounding his middle earth theory, but it Daniel Smart who Matini chooses to reveal the cause of the sudden purge of the planet. To read two sample chapters of TRUMPET CALL, I invite you to visit my web site at: http://www.jeanburrbradley.novelcity.com E-mail me at: magnoliablossom@earthlink.net.
Just Patty is the prequel to When Patty Went to College, which was Webster's first novel. We see the same lovable prankster at school, causing just as much havoc as ever and delighting her fellow students with her scornful disregard for rules and etiquette.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Magisterial.”—The New York Times In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America’s thirty-fourth president. Here is Eisenhower the young dreamer, charting a course from Abilene, Kansas, to West Point and beyond. Drawing on a wealth of untapped primary sources, Smith provides new insight into Ike’s maddening apprenticeship under Douglas MacArthur. Then the whole panorama of World War II unfolds, with Eisenhower’s superlative generalship forging the Allied path to victory. Smith also gives us an intriguing examination of Ike’s finances, details his wartime affair with Kay Summersby, and reveals the inside story of the 1952 Republican convention that catapulted him to the White House. Smith’s chronicle of Eisenhower’s presidential years is as compelling as it is comprehensive. Derided by his detractors as a somnambulant caretaker, Eisenhower emerges in Smith’s perceptive retelling as both a canny politician and a skillful, decisive leader. He managed not only to keep the peace, but also to enhance America’s prestige in the Middle East and throughout the world. Unmatched in insight, Eisenhower in War and Peace at last gives us an Eisenhower for our time—and for the ages. NATIONAL BESTSELLER Praise for Eisenhower in War and Peace “[A] fine new biography . . . [Eisenhower’s] White House years need a more thorough exploration than many previous biographers have given them. Smith, whose long, distinguished career includes superb one-volume biographies of Grant and Franklin Roosevelt, provides just that.”—The Washington Post “Highly readable . . . [Smith] shows us that [Eisenhower’s] ascent to the highest levels of the military establishment had much more to do with his easy mastery of politics than with any great strategic or tactical achievements.”—The Wall Street Journal “Always engrossing . . . Smith portrays a genuinely admirable Eisenhower: smart, congenial, unpretentious, and no ideologue. Despite competing biographies from Ambrose, Perret, and D’Este, this is the best.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “No one has written so heroic a biography [on Eisenhower] as this year’s Eisenhower in War and Peace [by] Jean Edward Smith.”—The National Interest “Dwight Eisenhower, who was more cunning than he allowed his adversaries to know, understood the advantage of being underestimated. Jean Edward Smith demonstrates precisely how successful this stratagem was. Smith, America’s greatest living biographer, shows why, now more than ever, Americans should like Ike.”—George F. Will
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