Public Triumph, Private Tragedy

Public Triumph, Private Tragedy
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Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105123145760
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Book Synopsis Public Triumph, Private Tragedy by : Steve Paikin

Download or read book Public Triumph, Private Tragedy written by Steve Paikin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Promised Land

My Promised Land
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 482
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ISBN-10 : 9780812984644
ISBN-13 : 0812984641
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Book Synopsis My Promised Land by : Ari Shavit

Download or read book My Promised Land written by Ari Shavit and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A deeply reported, deeply personal history of Zionism and Israel that does something few books even attempt: It balances the strength and weakness, the idealism and the brutality, the hope and the horror, that has always been at Zionism’s heart.”—Ezra Klein, The New York Times Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Ari Shavit’s riveting work, now updated with new material, draws on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family’s story, to create a narrative larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and of profound historical dimension. As he examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, Shavit asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can it survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. Shavit’s analysis of Israeli history provides a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today’s global political landscape.

Brody

Brody
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Publisher : ECW Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 9781554902859
ISBN-13 : 1554902851
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Book Synopsis Brody by : Larry Matysik

Download or read book Brody written by Larry Matysik and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of the legendary Bruiser Brody - a wrestler who dominated the pro scene despite his refusal to accept scripted defeats, until he was savagely murdered in 1988, allegedly by another wrestler.

Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah

Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah
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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages : 1672
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ISBN-10 : 9781467453967
ISBN-13 : 146745396X
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Book Synopsis Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah by : David Gunn

Download or read book Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah written by David Gunn and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 1672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extract from the Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible provides Gunn, Rogerson, and Gelston's introduction to and concise commentary on Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephania. The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary complements succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers. Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching biblical story. Commentators focus on the genre of each text—parable, prophetic oracle, legal code, and so on—interpreting within the historical and literary context. The volumes also address major issues within each biblical book—including the range of possible interpretations—and refer readers to the best resources for further discussions.

Actium and Augustus

Actium and Augustus
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 0472084895
ISBN-13 : 9780472084890
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Actium and Augustus by : Robert Alan Gurval

Download or read book Actium and Augustus written by Robert Alan Gurval and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it feel like when brother fights brother?

The Triumph of Ignorance and Bliss

The Triumph of Ignorance and Bliss
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Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 1551643146
ISBN-13 : 9781551643144
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Book Synopsis The Triumph of Ignorance and Bliss by : James Polk

Download or read book The Triumph of Ignorance and Bliss written by James Polk and published by Black Rose Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Polk explores the mundane symbols, interests, and power structures that increasingly permeate and define American society.

Mark Twain And The South

Mark Twain And The South
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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9780813182766
ISBN-13 : 081318276X
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Book Synopsis Mark Twain And The South by : Arthur G. Pettit

Download or read book Mark Twain And The South written by Arthur G. Pettit and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South while a young man, seldom to return, it remained for him always a haunting presence, alternately loved and loathed. Mark Twain and the South was the first book on this major yet largely ignored aspect of the private life of Samuel Clemens and one of the major themes in his writing from 1863 until his death. Arthur G. Pettit clearly demonstrates that Mark Twain's feelings on race and region moved in an intelligible direction from the white Southern point of view he was exposed to in his youth to self-censorship, disillusionment, and, ultimately, a deeply pessimistic and sardonic outlook in which the dream of racial brotherhood was forever dead. Approaching his subject as a historian with a deep appreciation for literature, he bases his study on a wide variety of Mark Twain's published and unpublished works, including his notebooks, scrapbooks, and letters. An interesting feature of this illuminating work is an examination of Clemens's relations with the only two black men he knew well in his adult years.