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Wolf's Head Bay

The Journey Home

By: Jeffery Allen Boyd

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On the eve of eighteen-year-old Jeremy Hodak's departure for college, a violent August storm sweeps across northern Lake Michigan. In it's path lay the town of Wolf's Head Bay. The following day, christened in bright sunshine, Jeremy and his nine-year-old brother, Travis, set sail for South Manitou Island, aboard their single mast sloop, the Lady Caroline. Slicing through whitecaps, approaching the island, the Lady Caroline is rocked by a shuddering impact. Jeremy tumbles from the cockpit and into the cabin where he lay unconscious. When he awakens, he makes a horrifying discovery; Travis was thrown overboard Following the accident, Jeremy agonizes; did he hit Devil's Point, a dangerous reef off the southern tip of the island? Travis' twin, Matthew, wonders too, blaming Jeremy for the death of their brother. The following December when Jeremy comes home for Christmas, Matthew makes a startling announcement --Travis is alive and wants to come home Jeremy's search for answers leads him to the Lady Caroline. In the cold shadows of the storage shed, he finds it within her cabin, convincing him to believe Matthew. Determined to unravel the mysterious fate of their missing brother, Jeremy will make an unusual journey.

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0595322301

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9780595322305

Fighting for the Speakership

The House and the Rise of Party Government

By: Jeffery A. Jenkins,Charles Stewart

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Fighting for the Speakership

The House and the Rise of Party Government

By: Jeffery A. Jenkins,Charles Stewart

The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of the speakership a routine matter, is far from straightforward. Fighting for the Speakership provides a comprehensive history of how Speakers have been elected in the U.S. House since 1789, arguing that the organizational politics of these elections were critical to the construction of mass political parties in America and laid the groundwork for the role they play in setting the agenda of Congress today. Jeffery Jenkins and Charles Stewart show how the speakership began as a relatively weak office, and how votes for Speaker prior to the Civil War often favored regional interests over party loyalty. While struggle, contention, and deadlock over House organization were common in the antebellum era, such instability vanished with the outbreak of war, as the majority party became an "organizational cartel" capable of controlling with certainty the selection of the Speaker and other key House officers. This organizational cartel has survived Gilded Age partisan strife, Progressive Era challenge, and conservative coalition politics to guide speakership elections through the present day. Fighting for the Speakership reveals how struggles over House organization prior to the Civil War were among the most consequential turning points in American political history.

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Princeton University Press

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0691156441

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9780691156446

A Bird's-Eye View

My Mostly Wonderful, Always Unforgettable Half-Century with the Philadelphia Eagles

By: Leo Carlin,Paul Domowitch,Jeffery Lurie,Rich Gannon

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A Bird's-Eye View

My Mostly Wonderful, Always Unforgettable Half-Century with the Philadelphia Eagles

By: Leo Carlin,Paul Domowitch,Jeffery Lurie,Rich Gannon

Day in, day out, Leo Carlin was a constant presence with the Philadelphia Eagles for over five decades. The longtime ticket director and front office mainstay has dedicated most of his life to creating memorable experiences for Eagles fans. He's played countless roles and has countless stories to tell as a result. A Bird's-Eye View is a fascinating, frank, in-the-room look at nearly 60 years of Eagles' history, spanning five different ownerships, 14 head coaches, so many stars, and, of course, a Super Bowl. From getting his start as a part-timer in 1960—when professional football in Philadelphia ranked a distant third in popularity to baseball and college football—to riding down Broad Street with his fellow Eagles hall of famers in the championship parade, Carlin opens up about the highlights, lowlights, and neverending hijinks that come with the territory.

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Triumph Books

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1641255056

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9781641255059

Eberstadt and Forrestal

A National Security Partnership, 1909-1949

By: Jeffery M. Dorwart

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Eberstadt and Forrestal

A National Security Partnership, 1909-1949

By: Jeffery M. Dorwart

On the heels of New Deal administrators, an army of business executives arrived in Washington in 1940 to prepare the nation for war. Among this contingent were two wealthy investment bankers and longtime friends: Ferdinand Eberstadt and James Forrestal. Together they played integral roles in the massive war mobilization program and, later, in the formation of institutions for postwar national security. Jeffery M. Dorwart's research and analysis provide a fresh look at the friendships, connections, and mindsets that steered the growing federal government in the first half of the twentieth century. The result of these relationships was a system of corporatist management for wartime mobilization and for Cold War national security. Eberstadt, a key figure on numerous policy committees, and Forrestal, secretary of the navy during the 1940s and the first secretary of the new Department of Defense, shared a common background all the way to their college days at Princeton. Over the years, their friendship and their ties to a group of like-minded executives, whom Eberstadt termed the "Good Men," substantially shaped government policy. Dorwart's research on Eberstadt's role is especially enlightening, for it reveals how Eberstadt, an outside consultant and not a government employee or elected official, affected policy direction through his design of the National Security Act of 1947. "This is a significant contribution to American military and defense history. The author's use of the `Good Man' idea effectively . . . illustrates how non-military ideas and influences have been fundamental in shaping national security policy."--Jerry Cooper, University of Missouri-St. Louis (formerly of the Command and General Staff College)

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Texas A&M University Press

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0890964696

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9780890964699

Clapp's Mill: The Battle on Foust's Plantation

By: Stewart Dunaway,Jeffery Bright

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Clapp's Mill: The Battle on Foust's Plantation

By: Stewart Dunaway,Jeffery Bright

Commonly known as the Battle at Clapp's Mill, this book provides the most comprehensive review of this battle in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution. This book will review three possible battle-sites, and resolve the dispute over which is the correct location. We believe this battle occurred on Foust's plantation, thereby answering numerous questions and solving many mysteries. Regardless of location, this book provides the most accurate review of the battle, as well as the events leading up to it, and the second skirmish afterwards (prior to Weitzel's Mill). Using primary references, these authors have uncovered new information, neatly presented to the reader, illustrated with many maps, drawings, images, charts, etc. This is the single best book on this battle, ever published to date.

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Lulu.com

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1300242132

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9781300242130

Wolf's Head Bay

The Journey Home

By: Jeffery Allen Boyd

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The Journey Home

By: Jeffery Allen Boyd

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