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The Ashes of Waco

An Investigation

By: Dick J. Reavis

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This is the story the daily press didn't give us. It may be the definitive book about what happened at Mt. Carmel, near Waco, Texas, examined from both sides—the Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the FBI on one hand, and David Koresh and his followers on the other. Dick J. Reavis contends that the government had little reason to investigate Koresh and even less to raid the compound at Mt. Carmel. The government lied to the public about most of what happened—about who fired the first shots, about drug allegations, about child abuse. The FBI was duplicitous and negligent in gassing Mt. Carmel-and that alone could have started the fire that killed seventy-six people. Drawing on interviews with survivors of Koresh's movement (which dates back to 1935), as well as from esoteric religious tracts and audiotapes, and previously undisclosed government documents, Reavis uncovers the real story of the burning at Waco, including the trial that followed. The author quotes from Koresh himself to create an extraordinary portrait of a movement, an assault, and an avoidable tragedy.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815605021

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9780815605027

The First 90 Days in Government

Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels

By: Peter H. Daly,Michael Watkins,Cate Reavis

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The First 90 Days in Government

Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels

By: Peter H. Daly,Michael Watkins,Cate Reavis

The authors address the crucial differences between the private and public sectors. This concise, practical book provides a roadmap to help new government leaders at all levels accelerate their transitions.

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Harvard Business Press

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1591399556

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9781591399551

The Life and Career of David Beckham

Football Legend, Cultural Icon

By: Tracey Savell Reavis

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The Life and Career of David Beckham

Football Legend, Cultural Icon

By: Tracey Savell Reavis

David Beckham is an English soccer player whose popularity extends beyond the field and into international celebrity. He has played for some of the best clubs in the world, including Manchester United, Real Madrid, and AC Milan, and is known worldwide for his free kick expertise and spectacular long-range shots. His singular dedication to becoming a renowned soccer player has been an inspiration to teammates and fans alike. In The Life and Career of David Beckham: Football Legend, Cultural Icon, Tracey Savell Reavis delivers an up-to-date and refreshing look at one of soccer’s most-recognized athletes. Drawing on extensive research and in-depth interviews, Reavis brings an outside perspective to Beckham’s life in order to reveal his profound impact on the sport in the United States and worldwide. From his birth in Leytonstone, London and his celebrated playing career to his role in bringing the 2012 Olympic Games to London and his retirement from soccer in 2013, Reavis examines the influences that shaped Beckham into the legend he is today. Featuring photographs and original interviews, this book illuminates Beckham’s status as a soccer star, husband, father, fashion icon, and cultural phenomenon. The first biography since his retirement, The Life and Career of David Beckham will not only appeal to soccer fans, but also to anyone who wants to know more about this international icon.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442229934

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9781442229938

Texas

By: Mary G. Ramos,Dick J. Reavis

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Texas

By: Mary G. Ramos,Dick J. Reavis

Created by local writers and photographers, Compass American Guides are the ultimate insider's guides, providing in-depth coverage of the history, culture and character of America's most spectacular destinations. Compass Texas covers everything there is to see and do -- plus gorgeous full-color photographs; a wealth of archival images; topical essays and literary extracts; detailed color maps; and capsule reviews of hotels and restaurants. These insider guides are perfect for new and longtime residents as well as vacationers who want a deep understanding of Texas.

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Compass America Guides

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0676905021

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9780676905021

If White Kids Die

By: Dick J. Reavis

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If White Kids Die

By: Dick J. Reavis

While he wasn't aware of Carmichael's strategy when he decided to join a 1965 summer voter registration program, Dick J. Reavis felt it instinctively when he told his resistant father the reason he was going. "Dad, if we live in a country where nobody pays attention when Negroes die, then I guess that's the way it has to be. Somebody has to pay the price." The price the white middle-class Texan paid when he spent a summer on the wrong side of the tracks in Demopolis, Alabama, was his innocence.".

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University of North Texas Press

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1574411292

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9781574411294

Texas Reporter, Texas Radical

The Writings of Journalist Dick J. Reavis

By: Dick J. Reavis

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Texas Reporter, Texas Radical

The Writings of Journalist Dick J. Reavis

By: Dick J. Reavis

Writing about Texas, Mexico, and Texan-Mexican relations for over four decades, Dick J. Reavis is one of the most poignant political voices of Texas—not as a politician, though his writings are infused with politics, but as a candid, unsentimental, probing, journalist. Reavis has worked as a reporter, features author, and staff writer (San Antonio Express-News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dallas Observer, San Antonio Light), as a Senior Editor of Texas Monthly, and as a professor of journalism (North Carolina State University). He has authored six books and translated two from Spanish. Throughout his award-winning career, he has returned consistently to investigate the lives of everyday Texans, insistently challenging prevailing political assumptions and mythologies. It was precisely this commitment that prompted him to investigate the federal government’s siege of the Branch Davidians in 1993 outside of Waco, TX, which led to his best-known work, The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation (1995), a book that challenged government accounts and mainstream media. This anthology demonstrates the range of his writings, which include investigations of Mexican guerillas and Texas biker-gangs, the struggles of urban day-laborers and of undocumented immigrants in rural areas, the politics of Texas radicals during the Civil Rights movement, and the activities of the Klan and other far right groups across the state, to identify but a few. This collection of Reavis’s writings brings into focus the voice and political commitments of this critical, contemporary, Texas writer.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1680032275

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9781680032277

Unraveled

By: Reavis Z. Wortham

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Unraveled

By: Reavis Z. Wortham

Not only does Wortham write exceptionally well, but he somehow manages to infuse Unraveled with a Southern gothic feel that would make even William Faulkner proud... A hidden gem of a book that reads like Craig Johnson's Longmire mysteries on steroids." —The Providence Journal Blending the racial topicality of the Sixties crime classic In the Heat of the Night with the coming-of-age poignancy of To Kill a Mockingbird, Unraveled presents a gripping investigation into the extremes of human nature—both at its most repulsive and at its redemptive best. It's 1968; a time of race riots across America, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis, and polarizing demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In the rural Northeast Texas community of Center Springs, a car lunges through the guard rails on Highway 271's tightest curve and flings its two occupants down the new Lake Lamar Dam. What stuns the town's residents isn't the tragic accident but the identities of the two victims: Mayor Frank Clay, a white man, and Maggie Mayfield, a black woman who worked in his office. Each of them married to other people. What were they doing in Frank's car together? Living with his grandparents, Ned and Miss Becky, in a little farmhouse near the Red River, fourteen-year-old Top Parker finds himself caught up in another adult situation. The war escalating between the Clays and the Mayfields is frightening in its intensity. More horrifying is a man calling himself the Wraith, who moves through the region at will, invading homes and watching the Parkers. The Wraith has his own deadly agenda. And it soon becomes clear to Top that, for some reason, he is part of it.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1464207127

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9781464207129

Hawke's Target

By: Reavis Z. Wortham

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Hawke's Target

By: Reavis Z. Wortham

“There’s a term we use in the west, the genuine article, and those words fit Reavis Wortham to a Texas T.” —Craig Johnson “If you look for authenticity in your books, you’ll swoon over Reavis Wortham. He’s Texas true.” —C. J. Box “Think: Elmore Leonard meets James Lee Burke.” —Jeffery Deaver Judge. Jury. Executioner. One man is taking the law into his own hands. His targets are criminals who slipped through the justice system. From California to Texas, this relentless avenger hunts down the unpunished and sentences them to death. But now he’s on Sonny Hawke’s turf. A Texas Ranger committed to his job, Hawke will not abide vigilante justice—especially when innocents are also in the line of fire. The trail of bodies stretches across the Lone Star State to the most savage clan East Texas has ever seen. And Hawke is the only one who can stop them . . . “Wortham knows how to ratchet tension with pitch-perfect West-Texas flavor.” —Lone Star Literary Life

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Pinnacle Books

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0786041811

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9780786041817

The Right Side of Wrong

By: Reavis Z. Wortham

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The Right Side of Wrong

By: Reavis Z. Wortham

A sleeper that deserves wider attention." —The New York Times As 1965 draws to a close, Constable Cody Parker of Center Springs, Texas, has a frightening sense of gathering storm clouds. His dreams prove accurate when he is ambushed and nearly killed on a lonely country road during an unusually heavy snowfall. The attack leads locals to worry that a terrifying killer known as "The Skinner" has returned. As his nephew, Cody, recovers, Constable Ned Parker struggles to connect a seemingly unrelated series of murders, and the people of northeast Texas wonder why their once peaceful community has suddenly become a dangerous place to live. Investigating, Ned, Cody, and deputy John Washington cross paths with many colorful characters: cranky old Judge O.C. Rains; the jittery little farmer Isaac Reader; the Wilson boys, Ty Cobb and Jimmy Foxx; and a mysterious old man named Tom Bell. Of course, Ned's preteen grandchildren, Top and Pepper, are underfoot at every turn. When Cody follows his main suspect across the Rio Grande into Mexico, Ned understands that to save his nephew, he will have to cross more than a river: he will have to cross over to the right side of wrong.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1615954546

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9781615954544

Saint Louis the Future Great City of the World

By: L. U. Reavis

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Saint Louis the Future Great City of the World

By: L. U. Reavis

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368188658

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9783368188658

HARRIGAN'S BRIDE

By: Cheryl Reavis

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HARRIGAN'S BRIDE

By: Cheryl Reavis

Abiah's Heart Waged A Battle Of Its Own Abiah Calder had always loved Thomas Harrigan. Always. But the war had contrived to make them enemies. Now that same war had bound them as man and wife. Yet did Thomas' heart's desire truly match her own? When Thomas Harrigan found Abby dying in an abandoned house, he risked everything to see her safe. No matter that he was a Yankee captain and she a loyal Rebel. She was all that had been good and true in his life—and he would claim her as his own; and damn the consequences.

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Harlequin

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1459261410

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9781459261419

Burrows

By: Reavis Z Wortham

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Burrows

By: Reavis Z Wortham

Lyndon B. Johnson is President, Beatlemania is in overdrive and gasoline costs 30 cents a gallon when Ned Parker retires as constable in Center Springs, Texas. But his plan to live a quiet life as a cotton farmer is torpedoed. A phone call leads Ned to a body in the Red River and into the urgent investigation headed by his nephew, the newly elected constable Cody Parker. Together they work to head off a multi-state killing spree that sets northeast Texas on fire. As the weeks pass, Ned's grandchildren, ten-year-old Top and his tomboy cousin Pepper, struggle with personal issues resulting from their traumatic experiences at the Rock Hole only months before. They now find themselves in the middle of a nightmare for which no one can prepare. Cody and Deputy John Washington, the law south of the tracks, follow a lead from their small community to the long abandoned Cotton Exchange warehouse in Chisum. Stunned, they find the Exchange packed full of the town's cast off garbage and riddled with booby-trapped passageways and dark burrows. Despite Ned's warnings, Cody enters the building and finds himself relying on his recent military experiences to save both himself and Big John. Unfortunately, the trail doesn't end there and the killing spree continues...

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Poisoned Pen Press Inc

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1615953949

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9781615953943

Texas

By: Dick J. Reavis

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Texas

By: Dick J. Reavis

Created by local writers and photographers, Compass American Guides are the ultimate insider's guides, providing in-depth coverage of the history, culture and character of America's most spectacular destinations. Covering everything there is to see and do as well as choice lodging and dining, these gorgeous full-color guides are perfect for new and longtime residents as well as vacationers who want a deep understanding of the region they're visiting.

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1878867989

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Native Artists of Africa

By: Reavis Moore

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Native Artists of Africa

By: Reavis Moore

Brief biographies of five talented African artists, including a Berber rug weaver, an Itshekiri painter, a Gurage dancer, a Mbukushu basket weaver, and a Basotho singer

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John Muir Publications

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1562612298

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9781562612290

Native Artists of North America

By: Reavis Moore

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Native Artists of North America

By: Reavis Moore

Brief biographies of five talented Native Americans, discussing their background and culture and their contributions to the world of art, music, and dance.

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Native Artists of Europe

By: Reavis Moore,Chris Brigman

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Native Artists of Europe

By: Reavis Moore,Chris Brigman

Brief biographies of five talented European artists, including an Irish songwriter, a Basque painter, a Swiss singer, a Hungarian ceramicist, and a carver from Sapmi

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1562611585

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The Ashes of Waco

The Ashes of Waco

The First 90 Days in Government

The First 90 Days in Government

The Life and Career of David Beckham

The Life and Career of David Beckham

Texas

Texas

If White Kids Die

If White Kids Die

Texas Reporter, Texas Radical

Texas Reporter, Texas Radical

Unraveled

Unraveled

Hawke's Target

Hawke's Target

The Right Side of Wrong

The Right Side of Wrong

Saint Louis the Future Great City of the World

Saint Louis the Future Great City of the World

HARRIGAN'S BRIDE

HARRIGAN'S BRIDE

Burrows

Burrows

Texas

Texas

Native Artists of Africa

Native Artists of Africa

Native Artists of North America

Native Artists of North America

Native Artists of Europe

Native Artists of Europe

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