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November 1 1950 an unseasonably hot afternoon in sleepy Washington DC At 200 PM at his temporary residence in Blair House President Harry Truman takes a nap At 220 PM two Puerto Rican natives approach from different directions Oscar Collazo a respected metal polisher and family man and Griselio Torresola an unemployed salesman dont look dangerous not in their new suits and hats not in their calm purposeful demeanor not in their slow unexcited approach What the three White House policemen and one Secret Service agent guarding the president cannot guess is that under each mans coat is a 9mm German automatic pistol and in each head a dream of assassins glory
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A revisionist history of the Old West battle challenges popular depictions of such figures as the Earps and Doc Holliday tracing the influence of a love triangle renegade Apaches and the citizens of Tombstone US history By the Edgar Award finalist author of Go Down Together
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A digital copy of Indigenous Plots In Twentyfirst Century Latin American Cinema by Dargenio Download is immediately available upon purchase
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This is a dramatic story of intrigue manipulation high risk and great danger August 14th 1775 was a hot humid moonlit night The British Governor of Bermuda was sound asleep in his bed The Royal Gunpowder Magazine was unguarded It made a tempting target The American Rebels needed gunpowder The Bermudians needed provisions A secret deal was done A covert band of Bermudians carried out the theft a potentially treasonous crime against the British Crown But it worked It was a masterpiece of deception planning and execution To the British Governor it was a most heinous and attrocious crime and his worst nightmare To General Washington it was a gift from heaven
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Rethinking the significance of films including Pillow Talk Rear Window and The Seven Year Itch Pamela Robertson Wojcik examines the popularity of the apartment plot her term for stories in which the apartment functions as a central narrative device From the baby boom years into the 1970s the apartment plot was not only key to films it also surfaced in TV shows Broadway plays literature and comic strips from The Honeymooners and The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Subways are for Sleeping and Apartment 3G By identifying the apartment plot as a film genre Wojcik reveals affinities between movies generally viewed as belonging to such distinct genres as film noir romantic comedy and melodrama She analyzes the apartment plot as part of a midtwentiethcentury urban discourse showing how it offers a vision of home centered on values of community visibility contact mobility impermanence and porousness that contrasts with views of home as private stable and familybased Wojcik suggests that the apartment plot presents a philosophy of urbanism related to the theories of Jane Jacobs and Henri Lefebvre Urban apartments were important spaces for negotiating gender sexuality race and class in midtwentiethcentury America
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Book is in UsedVeryGood condition Pages and cover are clean and intact Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting 11
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This is a dramatic story of intrigue manipulation high risk and great danger August 14th 1775 was a hot humid moonlit night The British Governor of Bermuda was sound asleep in his bed The Royal Gunpowder Magazine was unguarded It made a tempting target The American Rebels needed gunpowder The Bermudians needed provisions A secret deal was done A covert band of Bermudians carried out the theft a potentially treasonous crime against the British Crown But it worked It was a masterpiece of deception planning and execution To the British Governor it was a most heinous and attrocious crime and his worst nightmare To General Washington it was a gift from heaven
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For almost forty years the facts behind the extraordinary true story of NaziAmerican wartime business relations have been buried in government files Until now Drawing on accounts that have been releases under the Freedom of Information Act gives us a full picture of the American businessmen who dealt with the Nazi through World War 11
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A lot can happen in 30 seconds In the case of the shootout at the OK Corral 30 seconds found three men dead left two men wounded and ultimately captured the imagination of generations of Americans Wyatt Earp an againstallodds hero who was literally the last man standing Doc Holliday Earps unlikely crony the tragic tale of the Earp familyall of these elements make the story of the OK Corral irresistible to a great many people Hollywood filmmakers were quick to recognize the legends attractionand its potential As early as 1939 with the production of Frontier Marshal moviemakers were recreating the gunfight at the OK Corral and its attendant happenings in Tombstone Arizona on October 26 1881 The following decades produced various renderings of the story some more historically accurate than others but all with the American flair for entertainment This volume examines eight movie renderings of the legendary gunfight Produced from 1939 to 1994 these movies each use Wyatt Earp and other reallife characters as their sources The work focuses on the filmmakers treatment of the history and the skill with which each balances fact with the necessity of entertainment The ways in which Wyatt Earp is presented in each film and this portrayals relationship to the period in which the film was made is also examined in detail Films discussed are Frontier Marshal 1939 Tombstone The Town Too Tough to Die 1942 My Darling Clementine 1946 Gunfight at the OK Corral 1957 Hour of the Gun 1967 Doc 1971 Tombstone 1993 and Wyatt Earp 1994 Period photographs are also included
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Discover the facts behind the romance of Old West gunfights Historian Bob Boze Bell has put together a terrific book on the reality of gunfights in the wild American West From infamous outlaws such as Billy the Kid and wellknown lawmen such as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp to brawling madams this book covers 24 gunfights that made a mark in western history Profusely illustrated with historic photographs maps and period illustrations youll have a front row seat for these shootouts Written in an engaging style these histories give a brief bio of the shooters involved usually a map or diagram of the location of the gunfight and the aftermath of the shooting Fascinating sidebars give added information on various topics A must read for those interested in the true history of the Old West
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How history becomes mythology On May 11 1880 at Henry Brewers homestead in the southern San Joaquin Valley district of Mussel Slough seven men lost their lives during one of the deadliest shootouts in the history of the American West With this statement of fact begins Terry Beers examination of how historycomplex incomplete and often contradictorybecomes mythology written and rewritten until its edges are polished into the extraordinarily powerful images that preserve our most cherished values those which we believeor want to believeshape our culture Gunfight at Mussel Slough collects excerpts from five novelsamong them Frank Norris masterpiece The Octopusand places them alongside historical documents including poems letters photographs maps flyers songs editorials and political cartoons each selection recording analyzing and interpreting a single event in ways that ultimately change how history will be remembered
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There is growing interest in therapeutic narratives and the relation between narrative and healing Cheryl Mattinglys ethnography of the practice of occupational therapy in a North American hospital investigates the complex interconnections between narrative and experience in clinical work Viewing the world of disability as a socially constructed experience it presents fascinatingly detailed case studies of clinical interactions between occupational therapists and patients many of them severely injured and disabled and illustrates the diverse ways in which an ordinary clinical interchange is transformed into a dramatic experience governed by a narrative plot Drawing on a wide range of sources including anthropological studies of narrative and ritual literary theory phenomenology and hermeneutics this book develops a narrative theory of social action and experience While most contemporary theories of narrative presume that narratives impose an artificial coherence upon lived experience Mattingly argues for a revision of the classic mimetic position If narrative offers a correspondence to lived experience she contends the dominant formal feature which connects the two is not narrative coherence but narrative drama Moving and sophisticated this book is an innovative contribution to the study of modern institutions and to anthropological theory
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A careful examination of the men and organizations that have written a new constitution for our nation This book carefully examines this new constitution explodes its falacies and exposes its robbery of the right and freedoms of all Americans It strips away from this carefully worded document its mask of high sounding phrases to reveal its ugly denial of our right to trial by jury our right to be innocent until proven guilty our right to a belief in God both in public and in privatethese and other startling revelations await the reader of this bookone of the most important books of our time In addition the diabolical plan of creating a national crisis in order to foster this counterfeit consitution on the people of America is thoroughly exposed and explored Referenced Robert L Preston noted lecturer and author of How to Prepare for the Coming Crash and Wake Up America
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In American history four US Presidents have been murdered at the hands of an assassin In each case the assassinations changed the course of American historyBut most historians have overlooked or downplayed the many threats modern presidents have faced and survived Author Mel Ayton sets the record straight in his new book Hunting the President Threats Plots and Assassination Attempts From FDR to Obama telling the sensational story of largely forgotten or neverbefore revealed malicious attempts to slay Americas leadersSupported by court records newspaper archives government reports FBI files and transcripts of interviews from presidential libraries Hunting the President reveals How an armed wouldbe assassin stalked President Roosevelt and spent ten days waiting across the street from the White House for his chance to shoot him How the Secret Service foiled a plot by a Cuban immigrant who told coworkers he was going to shoot LBJ from a window overlooking the presidents motorcade route How a deranged man broke into Reagans California home and attempted to strangle the former president before he was subdued by Secret Service agents In early 1992 a mentally deranged man stalking Bush turned up at the wrong presidential venue for his planned assassination attempt The relationships presidents held with their protectors and the effect it had on the Secret Services missionHunting the President opens the vault of stories about how many of our recent Presidents have come within a hairs breadth of assassination leaving Americas fate in the balance Most of these stories have remained buried until now Includes glossy photo signature of historic pictures and documents
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Who has coopted the American Dream The Right The Left It may not be who you think it isRepublican vs Democrat The Haves vs the Have Nots Left vs Right Us vs Them We believe these are the divisions that are threatening to tear America apart But what if the culprit isnt a political ideology or a class of people but a puppet master Hes been manipulating us for centuriesand now hes brought us to the brink of implosion It would take a special kind of sinister to hatch such a nefarious plot against our civilization Who or what would be capable of such a conspiracy All there is to go on is the cryptic message Youll never guess my name
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A careful examination of the men and organizations that have written a new constitution for our nation This book carefully examines this new constitution explodes its falacies and exposes its robbery of the right and freedoms of all Americans It strips away from this carefully worded document its mask of high sounding phrases to reveal its ugly denial of our right to trial by jury our right to be innocent until proven guilty our right to a belief in God both in public and in privatethese and other startling revelations await the reader of this bookone of the most important books of our time In addition the diabolical plan of creating a national crisis in order to foster this counterfeit consitution on the people of America is thoroughly exposed and explored Referenced Robert L Preston noted lecturer and author of How to Prepare for the Coming Crash and Wake Up America
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