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It Wasn’T Like Nothing

One Marine’S Adventure in Vietnam

By: Thomas J. Hynes

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It Wasn’T Like Nothing

One Marine’S Adventure in Vietnam

By: Thomas J. Hynes

Marines who fought the North Vietnamese Army werent interested in God, country, and Moms apple pie: They were focused on fighting for a cause that was never fulfilled. Thomas Hynes, a Marine Corps second lieutenant who led the 2nd Platoon, Lima Company, Third Battalion, Fifth Marines, looks back at the challenges he faced undertaking his first command. He quickly learned that the North Vietnamese Army was far more capable to fight in the jungles and mountains. But that didnt stop young Marines from fighting for their country and each othereven though it resulted in fifty-eight thousand of them being killed. Seeing so many die was one of the reasons Hynes goal was simply to survive the war with his mennot win. While Hynes would put up his Marines against any other soldier or Marine who fought in Vietnam, he argues that soldiers barely out of high school were asked to fight a war in a country that was beyond hope. Despite the overwhelming odds, once they were there, they fought bravely for a cause they didnt understand. He looks back at all of it with honesty in It Wasnt Like Nothing.

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iUniverse

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149176578X

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9781491765784

Closing Chapters

Urban Change, Religious Reform, and the Decline of Youngstown's Catholic Elementary Schools, 1960-2006

By: Thomas G. Welsh

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Closing Chapters

Urban Change, Religious Reform, and the Decline of Youngstown's Catholic Elementary Schools, 1960-2006

By: Thomas G. Welsh

Closing Chapters attempts to explain the disintegration of urban parochial schools in Youngstown, Ohio, a onetime industrial center that lost all but one of its eighteen Catholic parochial elementary schools between 1960 and 2006. Through this examination of Youngstown, Welsh sheds light on a significant national phenomenon: the fragmentation of American Catholic identity.

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342

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Lexington Books

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0739165968

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9780739165966

Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration

Envisioning Language

By: Thomas Jay Lynn

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Chinua Achebe and the Politics of Narration

Envisioning Language

By: Thomas Jay Lynn

This book examines vital intersections of narration, linguistic innovation, and political insight that distinguish Chinua Achebe’s fiction as well as his non-fiction commentaries. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of these intersections: Achebe’s narrative response to Western authors who have written on Africa, his integration of Igbo folklore, the political implications of writing African literature in English, his use of Nigerian Pidgin, and the Nigerian Civil War. It also addresses the teaching of Achebe’s works. Achebe drew on diverse resources to offer searching psychological and political insights that contribute not only a decidedly African political viewpoint to the modern novel, but also a more inclusive narrative consciousness. Achebe’s adaptations of Igbo oral art are intrinsic to his writing’s political engagement because they assert the integrity and authority of the African voice in a global order defined by colonialism. This book reveals how his work has helped to restructure a global vision of Africa.

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185

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Springer

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3319513311

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9783319513317

Space

The Last Frontier : a Critical Analysis of the Question of Establishing the U.S. Policy for Space

By: Thomas J. Hynes

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The Last Frontier : a Critical Analysis of the Question of Establishing the U.S. Policy for Space

By: Thomas J. Hynes

On t.p.: A critical analysis of the question of establishing the U.S. policy for space.

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268

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0844256196

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9780844256191

Talented Miramichiers in the Gilded Age

Irish Miramichiers who Made a Difference at Home, New York, Leadville and Bathurst

By: Thomas W Creaghan

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Talented Miramichiers in the Gilded Age

Irish Miramichiers who Made a Difference at Home, New York, Leadville and Bathurst

By: Thomas W Creaghan

“The family which Samuel and Mary Ann (Daley) Adams raised at Miramichi, New Brunswick in the 19th. century was truly a remarkable one, as their great-grandson Tom Creaghan reveals in this work. ” — Willis D. Hamilton, author of the Dictionary of Miramichi Biography

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403

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FriesenPress

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1460273540

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9781460273548

Feeling Italian

The Art of Ethnicity in America

By: Thomas J. Ferraro

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Feeling Italian

The Art of Ethnicity in America

By: Thomas J. Ferraro

2006 American Book Award, presented by the Before Columbus Foundation Southern Italian emigration to the United States peaked a full century ago—;descendents are now fourth and fifth generation, dispersed from their old industrial neighborhoods, professionalized, and fully integrated into the “melting pot.” Surely the social historians are right: Italian Americans are fading into the twilight of their ethnicity. So, why is the American imagination enthralled by The Sopranos, and other portraits of Italian-ness? Italian American identity, now a mix of history and fantasy, flesh-and-bone people and all-too-familiar caricature, still has something to teach us, including why each of us, as citizens of the U.S. twentieth century and its persisting cultures, are to some extent already Italian. Contending that the media has become the primary vehicle of Italian sensibilities, Ferraro explores a series of books, movies, paintings, and records in ten dramatic vignettes. Featured cultural artifacts run the gamut, from the paintings of Joseph Stella and the music of Frank Sinatra to The Godfather’s enduring popularity and Madonna’s Italian background. In a prose style as vivid as his subjects, Ferraro fashions a sardonic love song to the art and iconography of Italian America.

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273

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NYU Press

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0814728391

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9780814728390

John C. O'Neill

The Irish Nationalist and U.S. Army Officer Who Invaded Canada

By: Thomas Fox

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John C. O'Neill

The Irish Nationalist and U.S. Army Officer Who Invaded Canada

By: Thomas Fox

In June 1866, an 800-man contingent of the Irish Fenian Brotherhood invaded Canada from Buffalo, New York, in an effort to free Ireland from British rule. The force was led by Irish-born John Charles O'Neill, a veteran of the Union Army's 5th Indiana Cavalry. The three-day invasion was a military success but a political failure, yet O'Neill was celebrated for his leadership and humanity. Elevated to the presidency of the Fenian Brotherhood, "General" O'Neill would again lead Irish nationalists against Canada in 1870. Jailed and later pardoned by President U.S. Grant, O'Neill left the Fenians and attempted a third, futile attack into Canada. O'Neill then became a colonizer, urging Irish Americans to abandon cities in the East to settle on the fertile plains of the West. O'Neill City, Nebraska, is named in his honor. This first full-length biography covers the rise, fall and resurgence of a remarkable figure in American and Irish history.

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241

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McFarland

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1476636753

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9781476636757

People, Poverty, and Politics

Pennsylvanians During the Great Depression

By: Thomas H. Coode,John F. Bauman

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People, Poverty, and Politics

Pennsylvanians During the Great Depression

By: Thomas H. Coode,John F. Bauman

This book examines the impact of the Great Depression on Pennsylvania, covering, in addition to politics, such topics as social and physical deprivation, black housing, labor conflict, relief, and the revival of the United Mine Workers of America. Illustrated.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838723209

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9780838723203

Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes

The Catholic Church's 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse

By: Thomas P. Doyle,A. W. Richard Sipe,Patrick J. Wall

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Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes

The Catholic Church's 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse

By: Thomas P. Doyle,A. W. Richard Sipe,Patrick J. Wall

Sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults by Catholic clergy is not a new phenomenon. Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes reveals in shocking detail a deep-seated problem that spans the Church's history.

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400

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Bonus Books, Inc.

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1566252652

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9781566252652

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