Die Free

Die Free
Author: Cheryl Wills
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2011-01-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1935098403

When award-winning television news anchor Cheryl Wills discovers that her great-great-great grandfather, Sandy Wills, was a runaway slave who joined the historic fight for freedom in the American Civil War, she embarks on a gut-wrenching search to learn more. Cheryl¿s journey leads her to a courageous ancestor who demonstrated the same courage that she knew in her beloved father, an intrepid New York City firefighter, who died when she was thirteen. Her father never knew his family¿s notable legacy. Told with deep love and brow-raising honesty, "Die Free" stretches from Haywood County, Tennessee, in the 1860s to New York City in the twentieth century. Cheryl shares the unvarnished truth about the Wills¿ family roots, ever entwined in passion, music, and faith. Cheryl also exhumes the spirit of her great-great- great grandmother Emma Wills, an illiterate lionhearted widow, who was discriminated against as she fought to obtain her husband¿s Civil War pension and unwittingly dictated her historic life, from slavery to freedom, in sworn depositions to a lawyer. The century-old pension papers become the Holy Grail for the newscaster who nails a scoop that has forever changed her life and that of future generations. A lesson in the pruning of one¿s imagination, "Die Free" takes readers on a haunting yet exhilarating ride through the side door of American history.

Live Free Or Die

Live Free Or Die
Author: Sean Hannity
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 198214999X

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER America’s top-rated cable news host offers his first book in over ten years: a look at America’s fight against those who would reverse our tradition of freedom. America is great for a reason. Built on principles of freedom, rugged individualism, and self-sufficiency, no country has ever accumulated more power and wealth, abused it less, or used that power more to advance the human condition. And yet, as America blossomed, leftwing radicalism and resentment festered beneath the surface, threatening to undermine democracy in the form of social justice warriors, the deep state, and compromised institutions like academia and the mainstream media. With the Democratic victory in 2020, we are now at risk for a big step toward full-blown socialism along with the economic dysfunction and social strife that are its hallmarks. With radical Democrats demanding the Green New Deal, socialized medicine, abortion on demand, open borders, abolishing the Electoral College, packing the Supreme Court, and an end to free speech, our great nation will be fundamentally transformed beyond recognition. Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom is but one generation away from extinction,” and his words have never rung truer. In Live Free or Die, Sean demonstrates why now is an All Hands on Deck moment to save the Republic.

Free to Die for Their Country

Free to Die for Their Country
Author: Eric L. Muller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2003-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226548234

One of the Washington Post's Top Nonfiction Titles of 2001 In the spring of 1942, the federal government forced West Coast Japanese Americans into detainment camps on suspicion of disloyalty. Two years later, the government demanded even more, drafting them into the same military that had been guarding them as subversives. Most of these Americans complied, but Free to Die for Their Country is the first book to tell the powerful story of those who refused. Based on years of research and personal interviews, Eric L. Muller re-creates the emotions and events that followed the arrival of those draft notices, revealing a dark and complex chapter of America's history.

Write Hard, Die Free

Write Hard, Die Free
Author: Howard Weaver
Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781935347194

When he fell in love with newspapering at the Anchorage Daily News, Howard Weaver was an untested twenty-one-year-old cub reporter from a blue-collar neighborhood in America's farthest-north big city: His home state of Alaska was on the cusp of great change. By the time Weaver moved on twenty-three years later he'd led the paper to the most unlikely David and Goliath upset in the history of American newspaper competition and helped win two Pulitzer Prizes. He spent time with small-town hoodlums and big-time politicians and crossed swords with both Big Oil and Big Labor as he rose from foot soldier to field marshal in the Great Alaska Newspaper War. Weaver's journey encompassed the defining political struggles of the era-from oil development to Native sovereignty, from parkland designations to environmental activism. His newspaper pulled no punches then, and Weaver has pulled none in this definitive account of the fierce and sometimes funny fight to the finish against the long-dominant Anchorage Times. The Author: A former editor of the Anchorage Daily News and later vice president for news for the McClatchy Company's thirty-one daily newspapers, Howard Weaver lives with his wife Barbara Hodgin in the Sierra foothills of central California. Book jacket.

Be Free Or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero

Be Free Or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
Author: Cate Lineberry
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2017-06-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250101867

It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a 23-year-old enslaved man named Robert Smalls boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children hidden on board, Smalls and a small crew ran a gauntlet of heavily armed fortifications in Charleston Harbour and delivered the valuable vessel and the massive guns it carried to nearby Union forces. Smalls' courageous and ingenious act freed him and his family from slavery and immediately made him a Union hero. It also challenged much of the country's view of what African Americans were willing to do for their freedom. In 'Be Free or Die, ' Cate Lineberry tells the remarkable story of Smalls' escape and his many accomplishments during the war, including becoming the first black captain of an Army vessel

Live Free or Die

Live Free or Die
Author: John Ringo
Publisher: Baen
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781982192709

Will the People of Earth Bow Down to Alien Overlords—or Will They Fight Back? First Contact Was Friendly When aliens trundled a gate to other worlds into the Solar System, the world reacted with awe, hope, and fear. The first aliens to come through, the Glatun, turned out to be peaceful traders, and the world breathed a sigh of relief. Who Controls the Orbitals, Controls the World When the Horvath came through, they announced their ownership of us by dropping rocks on three cities and gutting them. Since then, they've held Terra as their own personal fiefdom. With their control of the orbitals, there's no way to win and Earth's governments have accepted the status quo. Live Free or Die To free the world from the grip of the Horvath is going to take an unlikely hero. A hero unwilling to back down to alien or human governments, unwilling to live in slavery, and with enough hubris, if not stature, to think he can win. Fortunately, there's Tyler Vernon. And he has bigger plans than just getting rid of the Horvath. Troy Rising is a book in three parts—Live Free or Die being the first part—detailing the freeing of Earth from alien conquerors, the first steps into space using off-world technologies and the creation of Troy, a thousand-trillion-ton battle station designed to secure the Solar System.

I Will Die Free

I Will Die Free
Author: Noble Alexander
Publisher: Pacific PressPub Assn
Total Pages: 189
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780816310449

Live Free or Die

Live Free or Die
Author: Ernest Hebert
Publisher: University Press of New England
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 161168708X

"You stay in your hometown, you end up more of a stranger than if you'd started new someplace else." The struggle between the indigenous rural working class and the upper crust intensifies in this turning-point novel of the Darby Chronicles as Freddy Elman, son of the town trash collector, and Lilith Salmon, daughter of a prestigious family, embark on their ill-fated love affair. Seeing Darby through new eyes, Freddy comes to realize that "the kind of people who hunkered down among these tree-infested, rock-strewn hills" is "dying out, replaced by people with money, education, culture, people 'wise in the ways of the world.'" As that world increasingly intervenes, the lovers' attempt to bridge the chasm that divides their class-alienated families inevitably collapses. This is a book for anyone interested in local politics, privilege, and poverty, all embedded in a story of love and death in the woods and on the ledges of the Granite State.

Go Free or Die

Go Free or Die
Author: Jeri Ferris
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0822535459

For the first twenty-eight years of her life. Harriet Tubman lived as a slave on a southern plantation. Finally, with the help of a Quaker woman, she was able to escape to Philadelphia by way of the Underground Railroad. After her escape, Harriet began her quest to help free other slaves. Over a ten-year period she led more than three hundred people through the Underground Railroad. In Go Free or Die, young readers will learn about this courageous woman who refused to be a slave and who fought for freedom for everyone.

Live Free Or Die Hard

Live Free Or Die Hard
Author: Andrew Zee
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-06-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735530901

We are entering a time when education and hard work will no longer guarantee success for huge numbers of people. Humanity faces many threats, including the potential of future digital dictatorships pushing us into irrelevance. As employers adapt artificial intelligence, blue and white-collar jobs alike will evaporate. We must learn how to take advantage of technology now instead of being enslaved by it. The Corona Virus pandemic has been a wakeup call for everyone that cannot earn an income amidst the lockdown. How will you pay your rent, feed your family and survive?This book flips the script and attempts to give the individual the advantage by understanding life and creating meaning, by feeling, by thinking, by desiring, and by inventing.We cannot depend on the educational system to secure our future, it is our responsibility to self-educate and think critically. According to Jim Rohn, "formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." If you find yourself among the unhappy, stuck in traffic and depressed, profoundly disillusioned with your own past choices; pay close attention. I go deep into the fallacies that surround our daily beliefs.I wrote the book I wish I had in my hands twenty years ago. It applies to college students starting out and to those stuck in a "barcode" job.You'll learn how to:--Leverage your skills and turn it into a profit--Feel excited about working on a freedom project that matters to you not others--Create plans that will allow you more time in the endeavors that matter to you--Escape the prison of working for someone else--Learn why getting paid while you sleep can turn your life around--Treat your body better so that you can live a healthier life--Help build a life that you will not regretIf you find yourself in a dark place filled with chaos, "Live Free or Die Hard", will shine a light on the path to freedom and success.