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| Author | : T. R. Reid |
| Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
| Total Pages | : 159 |
| Release | : 1980-03-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1466834846 |
Washington Post reporter T.R. Reid takes a candid look at Washington personalities and politics, revealing the motives and strategies, the cooperation and rivalry, the honesty and the deceit behind a seemingly minor piece of legislation. He traces the course of S.790--the Inland Waterways Bill--from its inception to its eventual passage, a process with as many twists and subplots as a novel, and with characters just as vivid. In Congressional Odyssey: The Saga of a Senate Bill you will discover: - a cast of main characters including Jimmy Carter, Edward Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Hamilton Jordan, Howard Baker, Tip O'Neill, Russel Long, and other key political figures - a covert alliance between the railroad lobby and environmentalists, masked by a money-laundering scheme - the White House in-fighting triggered by the bill, leading to the ouster of Brock Adams during President Carter's cabinet shakeup - Carter's problems with the Congressional leadership, exacerbated by his support of the Inland Waterways Bill authored by Republican Senator Pete Domenici - "know-who" lawyers, who get things done through their connections rather than their legal abilities - the Alton, Illinois, Lock and Dam 26 project that earned Senator Proxmire's first "Golden Fleece Award" for wasting tax dollars - the thoughts and feelings of the dozens of central personalities who talked with surprising frankness to T.R. Reid Congressional Odyssey: The Saga of a Senate Bill makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in the people and the power struggles in the public eye, and behind closed doors, on Capitol Hill and in the White House.
| Author | : Marcy Kaptur |
| Publisher | : CQ-Roll Call Group Books |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Traces the history of women legislators in Congress, providing an overview of the achievements and progress of women in the House and Senate during three separate periods in history, and including the personal stories of congresswomen who served in each different era.
| Author | : Homer |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2016-10-20 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0191646504 |
'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are vying to claim Odysseus' wife Penelope, and his young son Telemachus is powerless to stop them. Meanwhile, Odysseus is driven beyond the limits of the known world, encountering countless divine and earthly challenges. But Odysseus is 'of many wiles' and his cunning and bravery eventually lead him home, to reclaim both his family and his kingdom. The Odyssey rivals the Iliad as the greatest poem of Western culture and is perhaps the most influential text of classical literature. This elegant and compelling new translation is accompanied by a full introduction and notes that guide the reader in understanding the poem and the many different contexts in which it was performed and read.
| Author | : Thomas Sowell |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2001-02-28 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0743215087 |
This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place. The vignettes of the people and places that made an impression on Thomas Sowell at various stages of his life range from the poor and the powerless to the mighty and the wealthy, from a home for homeless boys to the White House, as well as ranging across the United States and around the world. It also includes Sowell's startling discovery of his own origins during his teenage years. If the child is father to the man, this memoir shows the characteristics that have become familiar in the public figure known as Thomas Sowell already present in an obscure little boy born in poverty in the Jim Crow South during the Great Depression and growing up in Harlem. His marching to his own drummer, his disregard of what others say or think, even his battles with editors who attempt to change what he has written, are all there in childhood. More than a story of the life of Sowell himself, this is also a story of the people who gave him their help, their support, and their loyalty, as well as those who demonized him and knifed him in the back. It is a story not just of one life, but of life in general, with all its exhilaration and pain.
| Author | : Geoffrey Cain |
| Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2021-06-29 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1541757017 |
A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment—the definitive police state—and the global technology giants that made it possible Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien police force: Xinjiang’s Uyghur population has become cursed, oppressed, outcast. Most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend. Social trust has been destroyed systematically. Friends betray each other, bosses snitch on employees, teachers expose their students, and children turn on their parents. Everyone is dependent on a government that nonetheless treats them with suspicion and contempt. Welcome to the Perfect Police State. Using the haunting story of one young woman’s attempt to escape the vicious technological dystopia, his own reporting from Xinjiang, and extensive firsthand testimony from exiles, Geoffrey Cain reveals the extraordinary intrusiveness and power of the tech surveillance giants and the chilling implications for all our futures.
| Author | : Mark Hertsgaard |
| Publisher | : Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0767900596 |
Based on his extensive investigation of the global environmental crisis, in which he explored five continents, "Earth Odyssey" recounts Hertsgaard's search for the answer to the essential question of our time: Is the future of the human species at risk?
| Author | : Mary Pope Osborne |
| Publisher | : Disney-Hyperion |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2010-05-04 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781423128649 |
Giants and Cannibals! Wonders and Witches! One Amazing Hero. Brave Odysseus is far from home, tossed by stormy seas, and cursed by an angry one-eyed giant. If he ever wants to see his family again, he will have to face hungry cannibals, outwit a beautiful witch, and sail past a six-headed serpent. His journey is the ultimate test of endurance and courage. In this exciting series, best-selling author Mary Pope Osborne retells Homer's Odyssey, one of the most thrilling adventure stories of all time. This volume includes: Book One: The One-Eyed Giant Book Two: The Land of the Dead Book Three: Sirens and Sea Monsters
| Author | : Carlos A. Schwantes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
On May 1, 1894, Jacob S. Coxey led an army of tattered, hungry, unemployed people from western and mid-western states to Washington, D.C., to persuade Congress and President Cleveland to create public works and increase the money supply to stimulate the economy. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
| Author | : Homer |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2012-09-04 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 1608194868 |
The Push Pins Studio founding partner and graphic-novel artist of such adaptations as The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales presents a visual interpretation of Homer's classic that utilizes a black, white and blue interior design infused with Chwast's sly humor.
| Author | : Carl Fleischhauer |
| Publisher | : Music in American Life |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780252074004 |
This is a portrayal of the breadth and depth of bluegrass, from its fans and followers to its performers - including Bill Monroe, 'the father of Bluegrass music' - in a readable and panoramic photo-documentary of an American form of popular music.
