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The Boys from Dolores

Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile

By: Patrick Symmes

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The Boys from Dolores

Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile

By: Patrick Symmes

From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement and leadership. Instead, they were swept into war, revolution, and exile by two of their own number, Fidel and Raúl Castro. Trained by Jesuits for dialectical dexterity and the pursuit of absolutes, Fidel Castro swiftly destroyed the old Cuba they had come from, down to the hallways of Dolores itself. At once sweeping and intimate, this remarkable history by Patrick Symmes is a tour de force investigation of the world that gave birth to Fidel Castro – and the world his Cuban Revolution leaves behind.

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370

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Vintage

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1400076447

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9781400076444

Pathways to the Old Northwest

An Observance of the Bicentennial of the Northwest Ordinance

By: Paul Finkelman,William J. Eccles,Reginald Horsman,Patrick J. Furlong,Andrew R. L. Cayton,Malcolm J. Rohrbough

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Pathways to the Old Northwest

An Observance of the Bicentennial of the Northwest Ordinance

By: Paul Finkelman,William J. Eccles,Reginald Horsman,Patrick J. Furlong,Andrew R. L. Cayton,Malcolm J. Rohrbough

In 1987 Franklin College of Indiana hosted an observance of the bicentennial of the Northwest Ordinance. Professional and amateur historians, folklorists, scholars in the arts, teachers, and students gathered to examine the provisions of that historic document and the governmental structure it created for the frontier lands north of the Ohio River. Pathways to the Old Northwest: An Observance of the Bicentennial of the Northwest Ordinance presents six of the lectures delivered at the conference. These lectures represent current knowledge about the early history of the Ohio River-Great Lakes area, the circumstances surrounding passage of the Ordinance, the beginnings of government and society, and the ethnic diversity of the region's people.

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110

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Indiana Historical Society

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0871950111

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9780871950116

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Presidents

By: Patrick Sauer

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Presidents

By: Patrick Sauer

Details the career path, presidential policies, key events, trivial facts, and historical impact of each president from George Washington to Bill Clinton.

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454

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Penguin

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0028638212

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9780028638218

American Leviathan

Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier

By: Patrick Griffin

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American Leviathan

Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier

By: Patrick Griffin

The dark and bloody ground of the frontier during the years of the American Revolution created much that we associate with the idea of America. Between 1763 and 1795, westerners not only participated in a war of independence but also engaged in a revolution that ushered in fundamental changes in the relationship between individuals and society. In the West, the process was stripped down to its essence: uncertainty, competition, disorder, and frenzied and contradictory attempts to reestablish order. The violent nature of the contest to reconstitute sovereignty produced a revolutionary settlement, riddled with what we would regard as paradox, in which new notions of race went hand in hand with new definitions of citizenship. In the almost Hobbesian state of nature that the West had become, westerners created a liberating yet frightening vision of what society was to be. In vivid detail, Patrick Griffin recaptures a chaotic world of settlers, Indians, speculators, British regulars, and American and state officials vying with one another to remake the American West during its most formative period.

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388

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Macmillan

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0809024918

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9780809024919

Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism

By: Patrick Collinson

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Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism

By: Patrick Collinson

A major study of the Elizabethan Puritan movement, as seen through the eyes of its most determined opponent, Richard Bancroft.

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251

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Cambridge University Press

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1107023343

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9781107023345

Science Fiction

A Critical Guide

By: Patrick Parrinder

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Science Fiction

A Critical Guide

By: Patrick Parrinder

First published in 1979. This volume presents Science Fiction as a coherent system, not as a collection of facts or random sequence of individual voices. The contributors are concerned with less with surveying the bare facts of the genre than with interpretating their significance. They attempt to establish the common properties of Science Fiction writing whether in the treatment of a theme or in SF of a given period or nationality.

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Routledge

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1317872665

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9781317872665

The Day Fidel Died

Cuba in the Age of Raúl, Obama, and the Rolling Stones

By: Patrick Symmes

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The Day Fidel Died

Cuba in the Age of Raúl, Obama, and the Rolling Stones

By: Patrick Symmes

Cuba has loomed large in American memory and history. Throughout the last half-century, the island and its larger-than-life revolutionary leader have been key players in the Cold War and mythologized by Americans and American politicians. In 2016, relations thawed, and the country opened its doors to American. The Rolling Stones played in Havana. President Obama arrived too in March. He was the first President to visit the nation almost 100 years—since Coolidge in 1928. And then Fidel Castro passed away in November 2016, marking the end of the momentous era in Cuban history. In The Day Fidel Died, Patrick Symmes interweaves reporting from years spent traveling to the Cuban Island, a narrative history of the rise of Fidelismo and the last sixty-plus years of life there under Fidel. Symmes’ exploration of the Castros’ Cuba—how it came to be and what it’s becoming—paints a wondrous and striking portrait of the nation, its culture, politics and people for anyone first undertaking a trip or those still dreaming of doing so. A Vintage Shorts ebook original.

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Vintage

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0804172404

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9780804172400

Chasing Che

A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend

By: Patrick Symmes

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Chasing Che

A Motorcycle Journey in Search of the Guevara Legend

By: Patrick Symmes

Intrepid journalist Patrick Symmes sets off on his BMW R80 G/S in search of the people and places in Ernesto "Che" Guevara's classic Motorcycle Diaries, seeking out his own adventure as well as the legacy of the icon Che would become, Symmes retraces the future revolutionary's path. And on the way he runs out of gas in an Argentine desert, talks a Peruvian guerrilla out of taking him hostage, wipes out in the Andes, and, in Cuba, drinks himself blind with Che's travel partner, Alberto Granado. Here is the unforgettable story of a wanderer's quest for food, shelter, and wisdom. Here, too, is the portrait of a continent whose dreams of utopia give birth not only to freedom fighters, but also to tyrants whose methods include torture and mass killing. Masterfully detailed, insightful, unforgettable, Chasing Che transfixes us with the glory of the open road, where man and machine traverse the unknown in search of the spirit's keenest desires.

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363

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Vintage

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0307801217

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9780307801210

Book's by Patrick Symmes

The Boys from Dolores

The Boys from Dolores

Pathways to the Old Northwest

Pathways to the Old Northwest

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Presidents

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the American Presidents

American Leviathan

American Leviathan

Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism

Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism

Science Fiction

Science Fiction

The Day Fidel Died

The Day Fidel Died

Chasing Che

Chasing Che

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