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The Generals

American Military Command from World War II to Today

By: Thomas E. Ricks

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The Generals

American Military Command from World War II to Today

By: Thomas E. Ricks

A New York Times bestseller! An epic history of the decline of American military leadership—from the bestselling author of Fiasco and Churchill and Orwell. While history has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—it has been less kind to the generals of the wars that followed, such as Koster, Franks, Sanchez, and Petraeus. In The Generals, Thomas E. Ricks sets out to explain why that is. In chronicling the widening gulf between performance and accountability among the top brass of the U.S. military, Ricks tells the stories of great leaders and suspect ones, generals who rose to the occasion and generals who failed themselves and their soldiers. In Ricks’s hands, this story resounds with larger meaning: about the transmission of values, about strategic thinking, and about the difference between an organization that learns and one that fails.

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578

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Penguin

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0143124099

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9780143124092

History of the town of Middleboro, Massachusetts

By: Thomas Weston

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History of the town of Middleboro, Massachusetts

By: Thomas Weston

Книга рассчитана на студентов, аспирантов, преподавателей высших и средних учебных заведений, всех интересующихся данной темой

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769

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Рипол Классик

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5878571595

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9785878571593

A Conservative Environmentalist

The Life and Career of Frank Masland Jr.

By: Thomas G. Smith

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A Conservative Environmentalist

The Life and Career of Frank Masland Jr.

By: Thomas G. Smith

A wealthy textile titan from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Frank Masland Jr. was an ardent political conservative and an equally fervent conservationist who was well known and highly respected in the mid-twentieth-century environmental preservation community. This eye-opening biography charts Masland’s life work, telling the story of how he and fellow Republicans worked with Democrats to expand the national park system, preserve wild country, and protect the environment. Though a conservative conservationist appears to be a contradiction in terms today, this was not necessarily the case when Masland and his compatriots held sway. Conservatives, Masland insisted, had a duty to be good stewards of the earth for present and future generations, and they worked closely with members of both parties in Congress and nonpolitical conservation groups to produce landmark achievements. When conservatives turned against environmentalism during the Reagan presidency, Masland refused to join what historians have termed the “Republican reversal.” During his long life of nearly a hundred years, Masland used his voice, influence, experiences with nature, and considerable wealth to champion environmental causes at the national, state, and local levels. Engaging, informative, and at times eyebrow-raising, this portrait of a passionately anti-statist nature-loving Republican environmentalist documents the history of the twentieth-century conservation movement and reminds us of a time when conservative Republicans could work with liberal Democrats to protect the environment.

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329

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Penn State Press

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0271098414

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9780271098418

One Small Candle: The Pilgrims’ First Year in America

By: Thomas Fleming

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One Small Candle: The Pilgrims’ First Year in America

By: Thomas Fleming

This vivid, deeply moving book begins in London in 1620 as Pilgrim representatives sign a contract to purchase the freighter Mayflower. We accompany them on their harrowing voyage across the Atlantic, through the rigors of the first New England winter and the threat of Indian attack as they desperately search for the home they eventually find at Plymouth. Once there, they must continue the struggle against brutal weather and disease. With masterly skill, New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming gives us life-size portraits of the Pilgrim leaders. The Pilgrims' unique achievements - the Mayflower Compact, their tolerance of other faiths, the strict separation of church and state - are discussed in the context of the first year's anxieties and crises. Fleming writes admiringly of the younger men who emerged in that year as the real leaders of the colony - William Bradford and Miles Standish. And he provides new insights into the humanity and tolerance of the Pilgrims' spiritual shepherd, Elder William Brewster. On the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims are already aware that they are the forerunners of a great nation. It is implicit in William Bradford's words, "As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light kindled here has shone unto many. . . .

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171

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New Word City

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1612301460

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9781612301464

Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre

The New York Reign of "Blood and Thunder” Melodramas

By: Thomas A. Bogar

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Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre

The New York Reign of "Blood and Thunder” Melodramas

By: Thomas A. Bogar

This book recounts the personal and professional life of Thomas Souness Hamblin (1800-1853), Shakespearean actor and Bowery Theatre manager. Primarily responsible for the popularity of “blood and thunder” melodramas with working class audiences in New York City, Hamblin discovered, trained and promoted many young actors and, especially, actresses who later became famous in their own right. He also epitomized the “sporting man” of mid-nineteenth century life, conducting a scandalous series of affairs and visits to Manhattan brothels, which cost him his marriage to Elizabeth Blanchard Hamblin (1799-1849) and made him the brunt of moralist, religious and journalistic crusades, notably that of James Gordon Bennett’s New York Herald. His machinations and perseverance through trying challenges, including several destructions of the Bowery Theatre by fire, extensive financial and legal complications, and the untimely deaths of several young protégées, earned him equal measures of admiration and opprobrium.

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302

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Springer

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331968406X

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9783319684062

Alaska in the Progressive Age

A Political History, 1896 to 1916

By: Thomas Alton

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Alaska in the Progressive Age

A Political History, 1896 to 1916

By: Thomas Alton

The growth of modern-day Alaska began with the Klondike gold discovery in 1896. Over the course of the next two decades, as prospectors, pioneers, and settlers rushed in, Alaska developed its agricultural and mineral resources, birthed a structure of highway and railroad transportation, and founded the Alaska cities we know today. All this activity occurred alongside the Progressive Age in American politics. It was a time of widespread reform, as Progressive politicians took on the powerful business trusts and enacted sweeping reforms to protect workers and consumers. Alaska in the Progressive Age looks at how this national movement affected the Alaska territory. Though the reigning view is that Alaska was neglected and even abused by the federal government, Alton argues that from 1896 to 1916 the territory benefitted richly in the age of Progressive Democracy. As the population of Alaska grew, Congress responded to the needs of the nation’s northern possession, giving the territory a delegate to Congress, a locally elected legislature, and ultimately in 1914, the federally funded Alaska Railroad. Much has been written about the development of modern-day Alaska, especially in terms of the Gold Rush and the origins of the Alaska Railroad. But this is the first history to put this era in the context of Progressive Age American politics. This unexplored look at how Progressivism reached the furthest corners of the United States is an especially timely book as the Progressive Movement shows signs of affecting Alaska again.

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297

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University of Alaska Press

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1602233853

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9781602233850

Old Gotham Theatricals

Selections from a Series "reminiscences of a Man about Town"

By: Thomas Picton

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Old Gotham Theatricals

Selections from a Series "reminiscences of a Man about Town"

By: Thomas Picton

These recollections of New York theatre life from the 1830s-1850s are selected from "Reminiscences of a Man About Town," a series of articles by Col. Tom Picton published in the New York Clipper between 1868-69. The impressions of the time are made vividly real from the actual experiences of the writer, who often mingled with the performers and directors. Complete with notes, index, and contemporaneous illustrations.

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Wildside Press LLC

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0893704628

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9780893704629

Book's by Thomas Cushman

The Generals

The Generals

History of the town of Middleboro, Massachusetts

History of the town of Middleboro, Massachusetts

A Conservative Environmentalist

A Conservative Environmentalist

One Small Candle: The Pilgrims’ First Year in America

One Small Candle: The Pilgrims’ First Year in America

Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre

Thomas Hamblin and the Bowery Theatre

Alaska in the Progressive Age

Alaska in the Progressive Age

Old Gotham Theatricals

Old Gotham Theatricals

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