Big Trouble

Big Trouble
Author: J. Anthony Lukas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 884
Release: 2012-07-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439128103

Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the politics and passions of an entire nation at century's turn. After Idaho's former governor is blown up by a bomb at his garden gate at Christmastime 1905, America's most celebrated detective, Pinkerton James McParland, takes over the investigation. His daringly executed plan to kidnap the radical union leader "Big Bill" Haywood from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho sets the stage for a memorable courtroom confrontation between the flamboyant prosecutor, progressive senator William Borah, and the young defender of the dispossessed, Clarence Darrow. Big Trouble captures the tumultuous first decade of the twentieth century, when capital and labor, particularly in the raw, acquisitive West, were pitted against each other in something close to class war. Lukas paints a vivid portrait of a time and place in which actress Ethel Barrymore, baseball phenom Walter Johnson, and editor William Allen White jostled with railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, socialist Eugene V. Debs, gunslinger Charlie Siringo, and Operative 21, the intrepid Pinkerton agent who infiltrated Darrow's defense team. This is a grand narrative of the United States as it charged, full of hope and trepidation, into the twentieth century.

The Struggle Is Everything

The Struggle Is Everything
Author: Casey Hennessy
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2006-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1463465513

When Darci and Walter Colten and their ten-year-old son, David, moved to their new home, they expected adjustments but becoming guardians for a troubled child was not one of them. As the ugly circumstances behind Randy’s behavior came to light, it was a test of Herculean wills, strategy and finely tuned manipulation to save Randy’s life. Walter Colten’s unusual team pieced together the boy’s escape. The long shot paid off but it was only a temporary fix. Ultimately, a little nun with the heart of a lion stood between Randy and his past as it raged forward to consume him. Only one of the combatants survived. Only her indomitable will, allowed Randy to become a member of the Colten family. The vast differences in the boys’ personalities lead them in different directions. Randy, having been the victim of the legal system, went into law with a vengeance. David’s years of hockey, hockey, and more hockey paid off with an NHL contract. But ultimately, their futures again became entwined as they realized that David had the makings of a brilliant politician and Randy, his brilliant strategist. Together, they set their sights on the governor’s house. The brothers’ philosophy was to represent the people, but their father strongly warned of the dangers of fighting the powers that be. The brash young men summarily dismissed these warnings. However, as their struggling campaign gathered the momentum of a freight train, the ugly predictions were coming true. The stakes were too high to let the brothers take control. It became more and more apparent that something had to be done about the Coltens. In the final minutes, would anyone hear Randy’s prayer?

The Struggle

The Struggle
Author: Daniel Sokoloff
Publisher: Daniel Sokoloff
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2022-12-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The angels that ruled the world are long dead, and tomorrow belongs to the demons. Splinter, a young, wingless demon aristocrat, has a choice: accept his place in the empire, inheriting a castle and a magic sword, or place his trust in his human girlfriend and their sorcery tutor, joining a terrorist plot that may spill more blood and bring more misery than the brutal wars of centuries past. "The Struggle" is the first book in the saga of Demon Land, the continent where the desperate Empire of Apollyon strives to invade, infest, and infect, the world of Erde.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: A Struggle for Truth

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: A Struggle for Truth
Author: Russell Sharrock
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2007-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 184753094X

Much in the Church is being touted as biblical spiritual warfare, even to changing it from being spiritual to be geographical. This book critics spiritual warfare teaching, comparing it to the Bible and offers a biblically reasoned discussion on spiritual warfare.

Framing the Struggle

Framing the Struggle
Author: Ahmed Bouzid
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 0595272150

If your knowledge about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is fed primarily from the mainstream media from your local newspaper, the Associated Press wire, or maybe the New York Times or the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, or FoxNews - chances are that you are sadly mislead and gravely misinformed about the Middle East crisis. The short essays in this book will open your eyes to some basic realities that have been safely kept away from you by a timid media unwilling to show you the harsh realities daily suffered by the Palestinian people and will illustrate through some startling examples how the media has repeatedly and systematically downplayed Palestinian suffering. The book will help you gain a better understanding of the subtle ways your opinions, feelings, and perceptions of the conflict are manipulated, and hopefully put you on guard next time you open your newspaper or turn on your radio or television.

Battle Cries in the Wilderness

Battle Cries in the Wilderness
Author: Bernd Horn
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2011-07-13
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1459700775

The savage struggle to take control of the North American wilderness during the epic Seven Years War (1756-63) between France and England is a gripping tale. As the two European powers battled each other for global economic, political and military supremacy in what some have called the first world war, the brutal conflict took on a unique North American character, particularly in the role Native allies played on both sides. Formal European tactics and military protocols were out of place in the harsh, unforgiving forests of the New World. Cavalry, mass infantry columns, and volley fire proved less effective in the heavily wooded terrain of North America than it did in Europe. What mattered in the colonial hinterland of New France and the British American colonies was an ability to navigate, travel, and survive in the uncharted wilderness. Equally important was the capacity to strike at the enemy with surprise, speed, and violence. After all, the reward for victory was substantial – mastery of North America.