Category: Leaders Notable People

By The Editors of New Word City

ISBN-10: 1612305539

ISBN-13: 9781612305530

Nelson Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, but he as soon as encouraged the violent overthrow of South Africa's govt and helped create a guerrilla military to struggle apartheid. a baby of privilege born right into a royal kinfolk, he selected a lifestyles within the slums of Johannesburg. Mandela is greatly visible as an earthly saint and a guy of unbending integrity, yet he has proudly known as himself a political candidate - a pragmatist keen to compromise to accomplish his better targets. the following, during this short-form publication, is the tale of a guy who united a state and encouraged the realm.

By Dick Higgins

Development poetry--poetry from prior to 1900 that fuses literature and visible art--has existed because the occasions of historic Crete and Egypt. much less popular than sleek visible poetry, development poetry has been produced in so much eu and American literatures, and, as shut analogues, in lots of oriental literatures.
This ebook tells the background of trend poetry, documenting and classifying greater than 2,000 works. Illustrations of every significant style of trend poem are integrated. The ebook additionally explores comparable kinds, equivalent to picture song notations, formed prose, sound poetry, and poetic labyrinths, to call a couple of. A thesaurus, essays through global experts at the oriental analogues to the development poem, and the 1st complete bibliography on trend poetry entire the paintings. With this booklet, Dick Higgins has supplied an integral device for beginning up the world of development poetry to the coed and the lay reader alike, bringing order to what has been an vague and complicated quarter, and delighting the attention and brain by way of casting gentle on those forgotten treasures.

By Patrick J. Buchanan

ISBN-10: 0553418637

ISBN-13: 9780553418637

Patrick J. Buchanan, bestselling writer and senior consultant to Richard Nixon, tells the definitive tale of Nixon's resurrection from the political graveyard and his upward thrust to the presidency.

After affliction stinging defeats within the 1960 presidential election opposed to John F. Kennedy, and within the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's profession was once declared useless through Washington press and politicians alike. but on January 20, 1969, simply six years after he had acknowledged his political existence was once over, Nixon may stand taking the oath of workplace as thirty seventh President of the us. How did Richard Nixon resurrect a ruined profession and reunite a shattered and fractured Republican celebration to catch the White House?

In The maximum Comeback, Patrick J. Buchanan--who, starting in January 1966, served as one in every of employees participants to Nixon, and may turn into a senior consultant within the White condo after 1968--gives a firsthand account of these an important years during which Nixon reversed his political fortunes in the course of a decade marked through civil rights protests, social revolution, The Vietnam struggle, the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King, city riots, campus anarchy, and the increase of the hot Left. utilizing over 1,000 of his personal own memos to Nixon, with Nixon’s scribbled replies again, Buchanan provides readers an insider’s view as Nixon gathers the warring factions of the Republican party--from the conservative base of Barry Goldwater to the liberal wing of Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney, to the hot correct legions of an ascendant Ronald Reagan--into the effective coalition that gained him the White apartment. How Richard Nixon united the social gathering in the back of him may perhaps provide insights into how the Republican get together this present day can collect its warring factions.

The maximum Comeback is an intimate portrayal of the thirty seventh President and a desirable fly on-the-wall account of 1 of the main amazing American political tales of the 20 th century.

By Madge Thornall Roberts

ISBN-10: 1574410636

ISBN-13: 9781574410631

By Jeff Broadwater

ISBN-10: 0807830534

ISBN-13: 9780807830536

George Mason (1725-92) is frequently passed over from the small circle of founding fathers celebrated at the present time, yet in his carrier to the United States he used to be, within the phrases of Thomas Jefferson, ''of the 1st order of greatness.'' Jeff Broadwater presents a entire account of Mason's existence on the middle of the momentous occasions of eighteenth-century America.

Mason performed a key position within the Stamp Act trouble, the yank Revolution, and the drafting of Virginia's first country structure. he's possibly top often called writer of the Virginia assertion of Rights, frequently hailed because the version for the invoice of Rights.

As a Virginia delegate to the Constitutional conference in Philadelphia, Mason stimulated the rising structure on aspect after aspect. but whilst he used to be rebuffed in his efforts so as to add a invoice of rights and felt the record did too little to guard the pursuits of the South, he refused to signal the ultimate draft. Broadwater argues that Mason's recalcitrance was once now not the act of an remoted dissenter; quite, it emerged from the ideology of the yankee Revolution. Mason's issues concerning the abuse of political strength went to the essence of the yankee adventure

By John Saillant

ISBN-10: 0195157176

ISBN-13: 9780195157178

ISBN-10: 0195303547

ISBN-13: 9780195303544

Born in Connecticut, Lemuel Haynes was once first an indentured servant, then a soldier within the Continental military, and, in 1785, an ordained congregational minister. Haynes's writings represent the fullest checklist of a black man's faith, social suggestion, and competition to slavery within the late-18th and early-19th century. Drawing on either released and infrequent unpublished assets, John Saillant the following deals the 1st entire research of Haynes and his notion.

By Hal LaCroix

ISBN-10: 0275997448

ISBN-13: 9780275997441

Trip Out of Darkness is a poignant selection of pictures, in phrases and pictures, of nineteen former prisoners of conflict who bravely persevered captivity in Nazi Germany in global struggle II. via those males, you'll be able to study crucial truths in regards to the POW adventure in the course of that war—truths that counter many well known myths and misconceptions. the lads featured right here assemble a week in places of work of the Veterans management in Boston and Brockton, Mass. to speak about their studies and locate convenience in one another. of their eighties and nineties, they're certain people with detailed wartime reviews, but in addition consultant of the greater than 120,000 American POWs held in Nazi Germany. they're males who fought a double struggle, in strive against after which as POWs. utilizing either oral histories and pictures to inform their tales, LaCroix and Meyer humanize a terrifying element of struggle, redefining how we expect approximately those males as POWs, survivors, patriots, and contributors of the best Generation.Journey Out of Darkness is a poignant number of photos, in phrases and pictures, of nineteen former prisoners of warfare who bravely persevered captivity in Nazi Germany in the course of global conflict II. via those males, you can examine crucial truths in regards to the POW adventure in the course of that war—truths that counter many renowned myths and misconceptions.The 19 males featured the following assemble a week in workplaces of the Veterans management in Boston and Brockton, Mass., to speak about their stories and locate convenience in one another. of their eighties and nineties, they're targeted people with exact wartime reports, but additionally consultant of the greater than 120,000 American POWs held in Nazi Germany. they're males who fought a double warfare, in wrestle after which as POWs. jointly, their photographs and their tales transcend average first-person accounts.Until the boys during this publication all started assembly in VA aid teams, few had spoken in their POW stories. a few have been advised by way of the army to not speak; others have been coerced by way of army intelligence into signing non-disclosure papers known as protection certificate. With little exception, they obtained no reputation for enduring as POWs, while they struggled with anxious stories and disgrace for having been held captive, for wasting energy over their destiny, and for surviving wrestle whilst associates died. those pics additionally light up one other little-known tale: the plight of Jewish-American POWs. of the lads featured within the e-book have been Jews who hid their non secular identities from the SS.LaCroix and Meyer have crafted a strong exploration of the struggles of those courageous veterans. utilizing either oral histories and images, trip Out of Darkness humanizes a terrifying point of warfare, redefining how we predict approximately those males as POWs, survivors, patriots, and participants of the best iteration.

By Anthony Summers