Curmudgeing Through Paradise

Download or read book Curmudgeing Through Paradise written by Fred Reed and published by . This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fred Reed takes a jaundiced and highly irreverent view of all things sacred-- journalism, marriage, affirmative action, federal scams, governmental uselessness, women, men, fellow reporters, and popular culture. On the other hand, he has a kind word for drunks, bar girls, and children."--Back cover

Download or read book The Curmudgeon's Quests written by Allan Wooley and published by Book Venture Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After growing up in Maine and attending Bowdoin, the author earned a PhD in Classics at Princeton. He taught at Duke, before returning to Phillips Exeter Academy, where he taught for 36 years and was department chair and coordinator of academic computing. In the New England Classical Association he served as president and executive secretary.

Download or read book In Fool's Paradise written by H. B. Finlay Knight and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Big Buddha Bicycle Race written by Terence A. Harkin and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silver Medalist in Literary Fiction, 2020 Military Writers Society of America Awards Brendan Leary, assigned to an Air Force photo squadron an hour from L.A., thinks he has it made. But when the U.S. invades Cambodia and he joins his buddies who march in protest, he is shipped off to an obscure air base in upcountry Thailand. There, he finds himself flying at night over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in a secret war that turns the mountains of Laos into a napalm-scorched moonscape. As the emotional vise tightens, his moral fiber crumbles and he sinks ever deeper into a netherworld of drugs, sex, and booze. When a visit by Nixon looms, Brendan dreams up an all-squadron bicycle race to build morale, win hearts and minds in rural Thailand, and make him and his underpaid buddies a pile of money. The Big Buddha Bicycle Race is a last gasp of hope that turns into a unifying adventure—until the stakes turn out to be far higher than anyone imagined. The Big Buddha Bicycle Race is a new take on the Vietnam War. A caper on the surface, it is also a tribute to the complex culture and history of Southeast Asia and a sober remembrance of those groups who have been erased from American history—the brash active-duty soldiers who risked prison by taking part in the GI antiwar movement, the gutsy air commandos who risked death night after night flying over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and the people of Laos, whose lives and land were devastated in ways that have yet to be fully acknowledged in Western accounts of the war.

Download or read book The Campus Curmudgeon's Compendium written by Joseph M. Joeb and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If ever you have been frustrated by some bureaucratic regulation -- if you've ever muttered, "That's just plain stupid," about some silly rule -- this book's for you. The author takes a curmudgeonly look at society in general and the education community in particular and offers his crusty definitions and commentary. This book may provide a smile that will have everyone wondering what you're up to.

Download or read book The Curmudgeon's Tree written by David R. Branon and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The works of Isaac Disraeli (ed. by B. Disraeli). written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: