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McCoy's Marines

Darkside to Baghdad

By: John Koopman

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San Francisco Chronicle reporter and marine veteran Koopman was embedded in the Third Battalion, Fourth Marines, during the most recent war in Iraq. He enjoyed a close working relationship with the CO, the battalion sergeant major, and several other members of the battalion. This didn't destroy his ability to distance himself from aspects of the military that he never liked, or from political judgments on the war. The combination of embedding and prior service did give him a rare perspective on the gritty (literally, when a sandstorm blew up) details of ground combat in Iraq and how the modern American marine relates to his buddies, his enemies, and his family back home. The conclusion of the book offers equally rare material on the nation-building efforts that continue, with sympathy for both the U.S. military and most shades of Iraqi opinion.—ALA Booklist

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319

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Zenith Press

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1616732768

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9781616732769

John W. McCoy, American Painter

By: Anna B. McCoy,Christopher Crosman,Andrew Wyeth,John W. McCoy,William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum

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John W. McCoy, American Painter

By: Anna B. McCoy,Christopher Crosman,Andrew Wyeth,John W. McCoy,William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum

Illustrated with the author's own superb pen-and-ink illustrations and spectacular close-up photographs of moths found in the eastern U.S., this book will be of interest not only to nature enthusiasts, but also to parents, birders, butterfly aficionados, and anyone interested in the outdoors.

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0892725273

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9780892725274

Days of Darkness

The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky

By: John Pearce

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Days of Darkness

The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky

By: John Pearce

Among the darkest corners of Kentucky’s past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce, Kentucky’s best known journalist, weaves engrossing accounts of six of the most notorior accounts to uncover what really happened and why. His story of those days of darkness brings to light new evidence, questions commonly held beliefs about the feuds, and us and long-running feuds—those in Breathitt, Clay Harlan, Perry, Pike, and Rowan counties. What caused the feuds that left Kentucky with its lingering reputation for violence? Who were the feudists, and what forces—social, political, financial—hurled them at each other? Did Big Jim Howard really kill Governor William Goebel? Did Joe Eversole die trying to protect small mountain landowners from ruthless Eastern mineral exploiters? Did the Hatfield-McCoy fight start over a hog? For years, Pearce has interviewed descendants of feuding families and examined skimpy court records and often fictional newspapeputs to rest some of the more popular legends.

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260

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813118743

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9780813118741

Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century

Colonial Legacies, Post-colonial Trajectories

By: Eva-Lotta E. Hedman,John Thayer Sidel

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Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century

Colonial Legacies, Post-colonial Trajectories

By: Eva-Lotta E. Hedman,John Thayer Sidel

This work addresses key topics which should be of interest to the academic and non-academic reader, such as the national level electoral politics, economic growth, the Philippine Chinese, law and order, opposition, the Left, and local and ethnic politics.

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Psychology Press

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0415147905

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9780415147903

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