From Publishers Weekly (starred review): “This highly entertaining, provocative lampooning of the Vietnam War is reminiscent of Catch-22 and David Mamet's Wag the Dog. Marine helicopter pilot Gerard Finnigan Gearheardt, in the Oval Office on CIA pizza delivery duty ("They don't let freckle-faced teenagers deliver pizza to the White House, you know"), overhears President Larry Bob Jones and the Joint Chiefs of Staff brainstorming the idea of escalating the American advisory presence in Vietnam into a full-fledged shooting war to enhance Larry Bob's image and beef up a flagging peacetime economy. To make sure the situation doesn't get out of hand, Larry Bob concocts a loony-tunes scheme to parachute Gearheardt and his buddy Lt. Jack Armstrong, along with antiwar movie sex kitten Barbonella, into Hanoi to meet with Ho Chi Minh and negotiate peace just in time to get Larry Bob reelected. The two hapless Marines rendezvous with Barbonella, but, thanks to the meddling of an American agent and a Cuban operative, the zany scheme goes haywire and Armstrong and Gearheardt wind up flying for the CIA in Laos. In this wonderfully irreverent novel, evocative of vintage Max Shulman, hearty belly laughs contrast with chilling insights into high level political machinations.
Remember when our alphabet agencies--CIA, DIA, NSA, FBI--were actually competent? Are you sure? Maybe they were just better at burying their mistakes...
Phil Jennings has been known for short science fiction since 1986, and has been published in Asimov's, Amazing Stories, F&SF, Aboriginal, Analog, Science Fiction Eye, and other magazines. His two books, Tower to the Sky and the Bug-Life Chronicles, won plaudits for their wealth of ideas. Phil lives in Minnesota and loves his church choir so much he'd attend religiously even were he an atheist. He and his wife divide on whether to have a cat or a dog, and so they've settled on good furniture instead.
Shatters culturally accepted myths of the Vietnam War as it reveals the truth about the battles, players, and policies of one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history.
When someone often speaks of the word "greatest" it is always compared to natural accomplishments that are accompanied by materialist items such as cars, expensive homes, and lavish living. My hope is to display what it really means to be viewed as "greatest" and that tangible items gives the proper definition of this word absolutely no value. When examining the life of many leaders in the Bible, it is greatly illuminated what it takes to wear a title of that caliber. Let's take the Apostle Paul for example, when Paul operated under the name of Saul he killed many people who served God. But one day, Paul's time as being a servant to sin expired and God called his name. The Bible lets us know that as Saul was traveling to Damascus a bright light surrounded him coming from Heaven. The Lord spoke directly to Saul - Acts 9:4 "... Saul, Saul, why persecutes thou me"? From that day forward, life for Saul, whose name was later changed to Paul, was never the same. He became a fearless man of God. Paul was considered as one that was born out of due season, but out of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament, Paul attributed to thirteen of them. To some, reading Paul's resume and learning all the harm he had done to God's people redemption would seem impossible. That's why we glorify God for grace and mercy because those factors see beyond the filth and zooms in on the gold. I, like Paul, did deplorable things as I dipped and dodged the calling that God had upon my life. As God began to do a transformation in my life, many couldn't see the good, for focusing on my past. But I am so glad that God doesn't look at what we come from, He looks at where He can take us. Through this book, I plan to use the lives of influential Biblical figures who were viewed as being the least, but God elevated to the greatest. I will also use various parts of my life as an illustration of how tough things can get in our way on this journey, but how it' imperative that we continue to strive faithfully in God, holding fast to one of my favorite sayings, "Pay Day is Coming After While".
Gas chromatography remains the world's most widely used analytical technique, yet the expertise of a large proportion of chromatographers lies in other fields. Many users have little real knowledge of the variablesin the chromatographic process, the interaction between those variables, how they are best controlled, how the quality of their analytical results could be improved, and how analysis times can be shortened to facilitate the generation of a greater numberof more reliable results on the same equipment. An analyst with a more comprehensive understanding of chromatographic principles and practice, however, can often improve the quality of the data generated, reduce the analytical time, and forestall the needto purchase an additional chromatograph or another mass spectrometer. The Second Edition of Analytical Gas Chromatography is extensively revised with selected areas expanded and many new explanations and figures. The section on sample injection has been updated to include newer concepts of split, splitless, hot and cold on-column, programmed temperature vaporization, and large volume injections. Coverage of stationary phases now includes discussion, applications, and rationale of the increased thermal and oxidative resistance of the newly designed silarylenepolysiloxane polymers. Conventional and"extended range"polyethylene glycol stationary phases are examined from the viewpoints of temperature range and retention index reliabilities, and the chapter on"Variables"has been completely rewritten. The ways in which carrier gas velocity influences chromatographic performance is considered in detail, and includes what may be the first rational explanation of the seemingly anomalous effects that temperature exercises on gas viscosity (and gas flow). The practical effects that these changes cause to the chromatography is examined in pressure-, flow-, and"EPC-"regulated systems."Column Selection, Installation, and Use"has been completely rewritten as well. The accuracy of theVan Deemter plots has been greatly enhanced; a new program corrects for the first time for the changes in gas density and diffusion that occur during the chromatographic process because of solute progression through the pressure drop of the column. A new section has also been added on meeting thespecial requirements of columns destined for mass spectral analysis. The chapter on"Special Applications"has been expanded to include considerations of"selectivity tuning,"of fast analysis, and the section of Applications has been thoroughly updated and expanded. Incorporates nearly 60% new material Covers the newest concepts and materials for sample injection and stationary phases Presents detailed consideration of the influence of carrier gas velocity on practical aspects of chromatographic performance Contains a chapter on "Special Analytical Techniques" which includes consideration of selectivity tuning and fast analysis Provides a new section addressing the special requirements of columns to be used in mass spectral analysis Includes an improved program that greatly enhances the accuracy of the Van Deemter plots by more accurately depicting localized chromatographic conditions at each point in the column
An insider’s account of a wrongful conviction and the fight to overturn it during the civil rights era This book is an insider’s account of the case of Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of two white gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963, and sentenced to death. Phillip Hubbart, a defense lawyer for Pitts and Lee for more than 10 years, examines the crime, the trial, and the appeals with both a keen legal perspective and an awareness of the endemic racism that pervaded the case and obstructed justice. Hubbart discusses how the case against Pitts and Lee was based entirely on confessions obtained from the defendants and an alleged “eyewitness” through prolonged, violent interrogations and how local authorities repeatedly rejected later evidence pointing to the real killer, a white man well known to the Port St. Joe police. The book follows the case’s tortuous route through the Florida courts to the defendants’ eventual exoneration in 1975 by the Florida governor and cabinet. From Death Row to Freedom is a thorough chronicle of deep prejudice in the courts and brutality at the hands of police during the civil rights era of the 1960s. Hubbart argues that the Pitts-Lee case is a piece of American history that must be remembered, along with other similar incidents, in order for the country to make any progress toward racial reconciliation today. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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