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The Edge of Glory

A Biography of General William S. Rosecrans, U.S.A.

By: William M. Lamers

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The Edge of Glory

A Biography of General William S. Rosecrans, U.S.A.

By: William M. Lamers

Major General William S. Rosecrans (1819–1898) was one of the most fascinating and tragic figures of the Civil War. In September 1863 President Lincoln and Congress considered him the most able general on the Union side, but only one month later “Old Rosy” was removed from his command and then quickly forgotten. With The Edge of Glory, William M. Lamers returns this imposing, colorful figure to his rightful place in history. Lamers examines Rosecrans’s experiences at Iuka and Corinth during the Mississippi campaign, the strategic brilliance that led to the withdrawal of Bragg’s men from Tullahoma and Shelbyville, and his role as commander of the Army of the Cumberland in the Tennessee battles of Stone’s River and the disastrous Chickamauga. Yet the demise of Rosecrans’s distinguished military career, Lamers illustrates, was not a result of his humiliating defeat at Chickamauga but of his difficult, uncompromising personality and the scorn he aroused in many of his superiors, including General Ulysses S. Grant and Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s secretary of war. Although Rosecrans fell short of greatness as a military commander, Lamers deftly shows that he did indeed reach “the edge of glory.”

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524

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LSU Press

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080712396X

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9780807123966

Son of a Coal Miner's Daughter

By: William Spencer Miller

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Son of a Coal Miner's Daughter

By: William Spencer Miller

William Bill Spencer Miller takes us on his journey of expansion and personal growth through his varied experiences as a farm boy in Brown County, Indiana to a Foreign Service Reserve Officer with the Peace Corps, a volunteer in Indonesia and Thailand, a Peace Corps director in the Kingdom of Tonga, and the Philippines. He went from attending a one-room school in Beanblossom, Indiana to Franklin College, to Eastern Illinois University where earned degrees in Biology, Kinesiology, and Sports, giving him a solid foundation to make his dreams come true. We learn about living in cultures different from our own as he shares his interactions living with and teaching the people of Indonesia and Thailand. Bill, always active, shares stories of playing basketball at the height of Hoosier Mania. His life-long love of running culminated in his participating in several triathlons, until a serious illness took him down, but not out of a productive life. He tells us of returning to the United States after ten years abroad and building a new life in Brown County with his wife and young family. We will learn about his new career paths and his work on the Deam Wilderness Project and his fight for landowners private property rights. Bill Millers experiences give voice to a life that has spanned (so far) a world that was still recovering from the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, the assassinations of prominent leaders in our country, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, to our present day struggles around the globe.

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473

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AuthorHouse

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1504961897

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9781504961899

The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 2

The Collected Letters

By: Andrew Gasson,Graham Law,William Baker

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The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 2

The Collected Letters

By: Andrew Gasson,Graham Law,William Baker

The editors have transcribed 2,500 of Wilkie Collins's letters, around 700 of them previously unidentified, and have given them all a full scholarly annotation and context. The letters shed light on the personal life and business activities of this creative Victorian personality.

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430

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Taylor & Francis

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1040251145

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9781040251140

The Place Of Dragons A Mystery

By: William Le Queux

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The Place Of Dragons A Mystery

By: William Le Queux

The Place of Dragons" is an interesting journey book written with the aid of the well-known British creator William Le Queux, who's recognised for his undercover agent and mystery books. It's an interesting blend of spying, mystery, and politics round the world. The tale is set the main individual, Richard Scarsmere, who gets stuck up in a complicated plan regarding espionage and political plots. In a time of political unrest and uncertainty in Europe, "The Unusual" takes readers on an interesting journey thru distinctive nations as Scarsmere uncovers a sinister plan concerning the enigmatic "Place of Dragons." Le Queux really knows loads about writing secret agent testimonies because he crafts a story complete of mystery agencies, political video games, and unexpected turns. The book continues readers on the edge of their seats with its issues of strength, lies, and the shadowy global of international politics. "The Place of Dragons" is proof that Le Queux ought to write interesting undercover agent stories. The book remains a tremendous example of flip-of-the-century journey fiction because it has a complex plot, well-drawn characters, and a feel of looming danger. It takes readers on an interesting ride through the secret global of spies and conspiracies.

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220

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BoD – Books on Demand

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9360468061

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9789360468064

No Good Alternative

Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies

By: William T. Vollmann

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No Good Alternative

Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies

By: William T. Vollmann

“The most honest book about climate change yet.” —The Atlantic “The Infinite Jest of climate books.” —The Baffler An eye-opening look at the consequences of coal mining and oil and natural gas production—the second of a two volume work by award-winning author William T. Vollmann on the ideologies of energy production and the causes of climate change The second volume of William T. Vollmann's epic book about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming begins in the coal fields of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, where "America's best friend" is not merely a fuel, but a "heritage." Over the course of four years Vollmann finds hollowed out towns with coal-polluted streams and acidified drinking water; makes covert visits to mountaintop removal mines; and offers documented accounts of unpaid fines for federal health and safety violations and of miners who died because their bosses cut corners to make more money. To write about natural gas, Vollmann journeys to Greeley, Colorado, where he interviews anti-fracking activists, a city planner, and a homeowner with serious health issues from fracking. Turning to oil production, he speaks with, among others, the former CEO of Conoco and a vice president of the Bank of Oklahoma in charge of energy loans, and conducts furtive roadside interviews of guest workers performing oil-related contract labor in the United Arab Emirates. As with its predecessor, No Immediate Danger, this volume seeks to understand and listen, not to lay blame--except in a few corporate and political cases where outrage is clearly due. Vollmann is a carbon burner just like the rest of us; he describes and quantifies his own power use, then looks around him, trying to explain to the future why it was that we went against scientific consensus, continually increasing the demand for electric power and insisting that we had no good alternative.

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690

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Penguin

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0525558519

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9780525558514

Giblin's Platoon

The Trials and Triumph of the Economist in Australian Public Life

By: William Coleman,Selwyn Cornish,Alf Hagger

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Giblin's Platoon

The Trials and Triumph of the Economist in Australian Public Life

By: William Coleman,Selwyn Cornish,Alf Hagger

This book tells the story of four men - L.F.Giblin, J.B. Brigden, D.B.Copland, and Roland Wilson - who, in 1920s Tasmania, formed a personal and intellectual bond that was to prove a pivot of economic thought, policy-making and institution-building in mid-century Australia."--p. ix.

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ANU E Press

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1920942505

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9781920942502

Woman on the American Frontier

By: William W. Fowler

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Woman on the American Frontier

By: William W. Fowler

Mrs. Davies was accustomed to handle a gun and was a good shot, like many other women on the frontier. She contemplated as a last resort that, if not rescued in the course of the day, when night came and the Indians had fallen asleep, she would deliver herself and her children by killing as many of the Indians as she could, believing that in a night attack the rest would fly panic-stricken.-from "Chapter IX: Some Remarkable Women"Reading like the most rousing, rollicking fiction, this is, in the words of its author, "a valuable and authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the 'pioneer mothers of the republic.'" Drawing on firsthand sources, including the diaries of the women portrayed, and illustrated with gorgeous line drawings, this compulsively readable 1878 work documents the role of daring women in the settling of America, from Mrs. Hannah Nash and her daughter Deborah, who in the 17th-century rescued all their worldly possessions from a devastating flood, to Miss M., who in the 19th century established a schoolhouse on the Illinois prairie. Young women and old, mothers and daughters and wives and widows, outwitting wildlife, battling Indians, building homes and towns, enduring famine and ensuring bounty, the hundreds of women portrayed here are the "unnamed heroes" of American history.American writer WILLIAM WORTHINGTON FOWLER (1833-1881) enjoyed diverse careers as a lawyer, stockbroker, politician, and journalist. He also wrote Ten Years in Wall Street (1870).

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565

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Cosimo, Inc.

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1596056754

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9781596056756

Book's by William Benham

The Edge of Glory

The Edge of Glory

Son of a Coal Miner's Daughter

Son of a Coal Miner's Daughter

The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 2

The Public Face of Wilkie Collins Vol 2

The Place Of Dragons A Mystery

The Place Of Dragons A Mystery

No Good Alternative

No Good Alternative

Giblin's Platoon

Giblin's Platoon

Woman on the American Frontier

Woman on the American Frontier

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