Last Call for Liberty

Last Call for Liberty
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Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9780830873371
ISBN-13 : 0830873376
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Last Call for Liberty by : Os Guinness

Download or read book Last Call for Liberty written by Os Guinness and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Will conflicts, hostility, and incivility tear the country apart? Os Guinness provides a careful observation of the American experiment, offering a stirring vision for faithful citizenship and renewed responsibility for not only the nation but also the watching world.

Last Call

Last Call
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 506
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ISBN-10 : 9781439171691
ISBN-13 : 1439171696
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Last Call by : Daniel Okrent

Download or read book Last Call written by Daniel Okrent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing. Yet we did, and Last Call is Daniel Okrent’s dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever. Writing with both wit and historical acuity, Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces: the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement, which allied itself with the antiliquor campaign; the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities; the anti-German sentiment stoked by World War I; and a variety of other unlikely factors, ranging from the rise of the automobile to the advent of the income tax. Through it all, Americans kept drinking, going to remarkably creative lengths to smuggle, sell, conceal, and convivially (and sometimes fatally) imbibe their favorite intoxicants. Last Call is peopled with vivid characters of an astonishing variety: Susan B. Anthony and Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan and bootlegger Sam Bronfman, Pierre S. du Pont and H. L. Mencken, Meyer Lansky and the incredible—if long-forgotten—federal official Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who throughout the twenties was the most powerful woman in the country. (Perhaps most surprising of all is Okrent’s account of Joseph P. Kennedy’s legendary, and long-misunderstood, role in the liquor business.) It’s a book rich with stories from nearly all parts of the country. Okrent’s narrative runs through smoky Manhattan speakeasies, where relations between the sexes were changed forever; California vineyards busily producing “sacramental” wine; New England fishing communities that gave up fishing for the more lucrative rum-running business; and in Washington, the halls of Congress itself, where politicians who had voted for Prohibition drank openly and without apology. Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent’s rank as a major American writer.

A Free People's Suicide

A Free People's Suicide
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Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9780830866823
ISBN-13 : 0830866825
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Free People's Suicide by : Os Guinness

Download or read book A Free People's Suicide written by Os Guinness and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural observer Os Guinness argues that the American experiment in freedom is at risk. Guinness calls us to cultivate the essential civic character needed for ordered liberty and sustainable freedom. True freedom requires virtue, which in turn requires faith. Only within the framework of what is true, right and good can freedom be found.

The Last Call

The Last Call
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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages : 82
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ISBN-10 : 9783752390902
ISBN-13 : 3752390905
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Last Call by : Richard Dowling

Download or read book The Last Call written by Richard Dowling and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Last Call by Richard Dowling

The Life I Now Live

The Life I Now Live
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Publisher : Rich S. Brown III
Total Pages : 298
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Download or read book The Life I Now Live written by Rich S. Brown III and published by Rich S. Brown III. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life I Now Live recounts the life and ministry of J. Gresham Machen, the founder of Westminster Theological Seminary (1929), the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (1936), and the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (1933). This book takes you on a journey back to the early twentieth century when historic, Evangelical Christianity was met with intense opposition by the Theological Liberals known as Modernists. The Presbyterian Church (USA) in the North split over the "Fundamentalist-Modernist divide," and the leading institutions of the day did the same, including Princeton Theological Seminary. Many key leaders in the Protestant Church theologically criticized the person and redeeming work of Jesus Christ and the Bible, which is the inerrant, inspired, and authoritative word of God. J. Gresham Machen led the Evangelical Church amidst much turmoil, confusion, and deconstruction with absolute integrity and a steadfast spirit. Though he was well known and beloved within the Evangelical Church in his own day, the story of how he defended the historic Christian Faith has been largely forgotten a century later. The Life I Now Live explores Machen's defense of the gospel, his teaching and preaching ministry, and his evangelistic zeal. It is also written in commemoration of his classic work Christianity and Liberalism (1923). But it is so much more than just a biography! This book encourages "ordinary" Christians to see themselves as those who can indeed defend the Truth in today's age of Postliberalism (Postmodernism), unbiblical Gender Ideology, Critical Race Theory, and Deconstructionism. The Evangelical Church is now in a moment of crisis in which we must choose today whom we will serve. Will you serve the Lord God? And if so, how will you defend the Faith in today's culture? Read this book to find out how!

This is that

This is that
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 778
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015078584714
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Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Book Synopsis This is that by : Aimee Semple McPherson

Download or read book This is that written by Aimee Semple McPherson and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Call: A Romance (Vol. 3 of 3)

The Last Call: A Romance (Vol. 3 of 3)
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Publisher : Litres
Total Pages : 123
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ISBN-10 : 9785040478514
ISBN-13 : 5040478518
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

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Download or read book The Last Call: A Romance (Vol. 3 of 3) written by Richard Dowling and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: