T his book consists of eight short stories, three memoirs, and eleven essays written over a period of several years by the author. Some are excerpts from his other books, Hillbilly in the Real Estate Jungle, My Border Patrol Days, Forged in a Country Crucible, NRA, the Inside Story, and Amor in Appalachia. The oldest of seven children, Joe White grew up on a dirt-poor farm in Tennessee during the depression of the 1930s. He was an Army Air Corps pilot during World War II. Later he worked as a real estate salesman, broker, and investor. He was an officer in the US Immigration Service for 21 years, beginning as a GS-6 Trainee and retiring in grade GS-15. After retirement he worked for three and a half years in the executive suite of the National Rifle Association, the last two years as the Deputy Executive Vice President (CEO.) He has written four memoirs and one fi ctional romance novel.
What caused the revolution of 1977 in the NRA? What led to the shootout at Cincinnatti? What was the low-down on the NRA Outdoor center at Raton? Why did they rename it the NRA Whittington Center? Neal Knox: Hero vigilante or loose cannon? The Harlon Carter legacy. The present administration--political genius? Out of control spendthrifts?
In cooperation with Focus on the Family, Dare 2B Wise delivers 150 two-page devotionals that any parent can do with teenagers—or that teens and parents can enjoy on their own. Funny thing. Most parents would give their life for their child, but they have a hard time giving up ten minutes a day to do devotions with them. Why is that? Bestselling author Joe White and Kelli Stuart believe it is simply because they have not found the right tool. Well, here it is. In cooperation with Focus on the Family, Dare 2B Wise delivers 150 two-page devotionals that any parent can do with teenagers—or that teens and parents can enjoy on their own. Each devotional has four parts: a bite of Proverbs, a quick-read application (usually with a twist), a few discussion starters, and a Lifeline (a prayer point, a unique insight, or a personal challenge). This book is just what most committed parents are looking for.
It's an alarming moment when it dawns on parents that their child is in trouble. And if you aren't perceptive you may never know until you find a half-smoked marijuana joint in a jeans pocked on laundry day or a sexy love note left inadvertently on a dresser or a citation from the police. In times like these, when children are making adult decisions that are often devastatingly destructive, parents must examine the facts and learn how to be what their kids need them to be before it's too late.
Joe White is a retired small businessman who grew up on the outskirts of Chattanooga Tennessee. His life story is told with the backdrop of Christmas as the mile marker of experience in The Best Christmas Ever! Through his eyes, we see the simple story of Southern family life as well as the complex reality of relationships we grow to cherish throughout our lives. Joe is married to Linda Friel White and they have two children and six grandchildren. Joe and Linda are living their retirement years in Prosperity South Carolina, where the wide open spaces, the waters of Lake Murray and the forests that surround their home nurture the rich memories Joe has so eloquently yet simply given us in this book. Joe is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and he and Linda occasionally return there to enjoy the Great Smoky Mountains as well as the UT Volunteers. Always a dreamer, planner and provider, Joe believes that a willing mind and tender heart can accomplish "the impossible." He sets the goals high and celebrates his achievement of those goals. Joe doesn't rest on his laurels, however. Instead, Joe begins the next "adventure" as he enthusiastically embraces life. So, don't be surprised if this is only the first book of many Joe has up his sleeve, in his head, on his heart and written on those beloved yellow legal pads he keeps right beside his recliner.
This is the first in a series of Bible Commentaries by published author Dr. Joe T. White. It is a commentary that is good enough for the scholar, yet in the easy to read style that Dr. White is noted for. It is based on the King James Version with a comparison of all the versions.
For people confused by the contradictory messages they hear from secular science and church teaching, evolution can be intimidating. The truth is that Darwin's ideas are based upon faulty science, and that creationists have solid evidence to support their claims. Finally, a brilliant defense of Genesis and the Bible's teaching about origins is waiting for those who are soon to understand how Darwinism is fraudulent faith masquerading as science.Authors Joe White and Nicholas Comninellis have a passion for truth, and for sharing it with students and their parents. In Darwin's Demise,they succeed in showing why real science is burning down the House of Darwin.
There is so much confusion in the church about "gifts". Dr. Joe White takes a fresh look at this misunderstood area and sheds light on a difficult subject. It is written in his usual easy to read format, yet written in a scholarly format.
This is a memoir about my ninety-three years on this earth and the good luck I have had. It borrows from previous self-published memoirs about growing up on a farm during the depression of the 1930s, about real estate investments, and about a career in governmental service. That started with an entry grade of GS-6 trainee in the Border Patrol and ended with retirement twenty-one years later in grade GS-15. After retirement I was executive assistant to the CEO of the National Rifle Association, followed by two years as Deputy Executive Vice President (CEO) Good luck was a major factor in my success, but the luck was helped by the capacity for hard work developed on the farm as a teenager. Other factors in my successes were my natural ability for pistol marksmanship and my experience as an airplane pilot in World War II.
This is a novel about life and romance in the hills of East Tennessee. It features Brian and Rita Taylor, married in 1959, and their three children, Lonzo and Caleb, who are twin boys, and Becky, a daughter. Maureen Kelley, Becky's cousin, also has a romantic role with the star of the college basketball team. Backy has to contend with her college roommate, Hazel, who is a nymphomanic, and with her English professor who is a sexual predator.The time elapsed is more than forty years, beginning at Brian's high school graduation in 1955. Enjoy their romances, their happiness, and their successes, along with their sorrows and their problems, financial, physical, sexual, and political. Lonzo is the principal protagonist, and Jim Frazier is a regular customer at Patricia's Pleasure Palace, a bordello on the outskirts of Knoxville. He is Lonzo's political enemy and uses his favorite prostitute, Michelle, in an attempt to frame Lonzo with an attempted rape charge and steal his job and his beautiful wife, Cindy. This results in physical violence and an interesting conclusion.
White Party, White Government examines the centuries-old impact of systemic racism on the U.S. political system. The text assesses the development by elite and other whites of a racialized capitalistic system, grounded early in slavery and land theft, and its intertwining with a distinctive political system whose fundamentals were laid down in the founding decades. From these years through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to the 1920s, the 1930s Roosevelt era, the 1960s Johnson era, through to the Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Barack Obama presidencies, Feagin exploring the effects of ongoing demographic changes on the present and future of the U.S. political system.
The Agony of Education is about the life experience of African American students attending a historically white university. Based on seventy-seven interviews conducted with black students and parents concerning their experiences with one state university, as well as published and unpublished studies of the black experience at state universities at large, this study captures the painful choices and agonizing dilemmas at the heart of the decisions African Americans must make about higher education.
A timely book of encouragement, written by noted author Dr. Joe T. White. It is written in his usual easy to read style and is short and sweet so that you can easily read it in one short read.
This book examines the “who, what, when, where, and how” of elite-white-male dominance in U.S. and global society. In spite of their domination in the United States and globally that we document herein, elite white men have seldom been called out and analyzed as such. They have received little to no explicit attention with regard to systemic racism issues, as well as associated classism and sexism issues. Almost all public and scholarly discussions of U.S. racism fail to explicitly foreground elite white men or to focus specifically on how their interlocking racial, class, and gender statuses affect their globally powerful decisionmaking. Some of the power positions of these elite white men might seem obvious, but they are rarely analyzed for their extraordinary significance. While the principal focus of this book is on neglected research and policy questions about the elite-white-male role and dominance in the system of racial oppression in the United States and globally, because of their positioning at the top of several societal hierarchies the authors periodically address their role and dominance in other oppressive (e.g., class, gender) hierarchies.
Based on the revealing and provocative testimony of approximately one hundred powerful, upper-income white men, White Men on Race shows how white men see racial "others," how they see white America, how they view racial conflicts, and what they expect for the future of the country.
This book incorporates a range of new material on racist events and incidents across the United States. It includes a few new concepts and some of the original concepts about individual and institutionalized racism in the United States.
Volume Seven in this outstanding Commentary series on the New Testament, written by published author Dr. Joe T. White. Written in the easy reading, yet scholary manner. Loved by Bible Students as well as Scholars.
In this book Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame. Now four centuries-old, this white racial frame encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and racist ideology emphasized in other theories of "race," but also the visual images, array of emotions, sounds of accented language, interlinking interpretations and narratives, and inclinations to discriminate that are still central to the frame’s everyday operations. Deeply imbedded in American minds and institutions, this white racial frame has for centuries functioned as a broad worldview, one essential to the routine legitimation, scripting, and maintenance of systemic racism in the United States. Here Feagin examines how and why this white racial frame emerged in North America, how and why it has evolved socially over time, which racial groups are framed within it, how it has operated in the past and in the present for both white Americans and Americans of color, and how the latter have long responded with strategies of resistance that include enduring counter-frames. In this new edition, Feagin has included much new interview material and other data from recent research studies on framing issues related to white, black, Latino, and Asian Americans, and on society generally. The book also includes a new discussion of the impact of the white frame on popular culture, including on movies, video games, and television programs as well as a discussion of the white racial frame’s significant impacts on public policymaking, immigration, the environment, health care, and crime and imprisonment issues.
Irresistible Love will help you on your journey to draw closer to Jesus. It’s your invitation to hitchhike with an author who has spent decades counseling and encouraging millions of men, women, and students of all ages in their quest for intimacy, inner peace, purpose, and fulfillment. This book is full of fascinating stories of people finding the love of God and learning what it means to grow closer to God through hardship. Read this book. Watch your faith grow. And fall deeper in love with Jesus than you’ve ever dreamed possible.
Argues that premarital sex is harmful to young adults, drawing on the author's experience as a youth pastor and work with teenagers, and letters and comments from actual teens of peer pressure, date rape, long-term guilt, and unplanned pregnancies.
The “Blue Goose and Me” follows the early career of Joe D. White with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge System. Joe began his career with the National Wildlife Refuge System in 1961 as the assistant manager on Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge on the central gulf coast of Florida where for two years he was introduced to the science and art of habitat and wildlife management, work that produced incredible experiences that accrue to working with wildlife populations and individuals. The next seven years saw him continue to hone his wildlife management skills as assistant manager on Reelfoot Refuge in northwest Tennessee, White River Refuge in east central Arkansas, and Wapanocca Refuge in northeast Arkansas. As an assistant manager on these wildlands and wildlife havens, most of his duties were performed outdoors, a fortunate circumstance that provided him the opportunity to participate in wildlife/nature adventures that the average citizen would find hard to believe.
This is the second in the series of New Testament Commentaries by Dr. Joe T. White. It is written in the usual style of Dr. White, which is easy to read, yet scholastic. It is based on a comparison with the King James Version.
Another in the series of Bible Commentaries by noted author, Dr. Joe T. White that is both scholarly and easy reading at the same time. It can easily be used as a Bible Study and a serious resource for the Bible Student or Bible Scholar.
The first edition of this book offered one of the first social science analyses of Barack Obama’s historic electoral campaigns and early presidency. In this second edition the authors extend that analysis to Obama’s service in the presidency and to his second campaign to hold that presidency. Elaborating on the concept of the white racial frame, Harvey Wingfield and Feagin assess in detail the ways white racial framing was deployed by the principal characters in the electoral campaigns and during Obama’s presidency. With much relevant data, this book counters many commonsense assumptions about U.S. racial matters, politics, and institutions, particularly the notion that Obama’s presidency ushered in a major post-racial era. Readers will find this fully revised and updated book distinctively valuable because it relies on sound social science analysis to assess numerous events and aspects of this historic campaign.
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