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Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers by Frank Bardacke
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Frank Bardacke [Bardacke, Frank]

Meanwhile, back on the farm, the UFW had a mixed record. In Salinas, InterHarvest–United Brands was under orders from its CEO, Eli Black, to cooperate with the union, and had ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
Kennedy & Nixon by Chris Matthews
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Matthews

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Coup de Grâce HAVING made the leap into the gubernatorial race, Nixon realized the depths of his misjudgment. For one thing, he saw from crowd reactions just how ...
( Category: Historical October 6,2017 )
The Trust Edge by David Horsager
epub |eng | | Author:David Horsager

Grateful vs. Thankless Good listener vs. Talker only Talks about ideas vs. Talks about people Sees the positive side vs. Constantly complaining Optimistic vs. Pessimistic Encouraging vs. Critical Honest/Real vs. ...
( Category: Management & Leadership October 6,2017 )
Frantz Fanon by David Macey
epub |eng | | Author:David Macey

9 ‘We Algerians’ Fanon’s clinical work at the Manouba, the reforms he instituted at Charles-Nicolle and his collaborative work with Lucien Lévy are indicative of his full professional commitment to ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 6,2017 )
Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in Their Own Words by Joseph Dorman
azw3 |eng | 2000-08-15 | Author:Joseph Dorman [Dorman, Joseph]

Nathan Glazer Even though we were Zionists, in Avukah we were against the Jewish state and for binationalism. In retrospect it was politically impossible. Hannah Arendt was writing long articles ...
( Category: Regional U.S October 6,2017 )
How to Fight Presidents by Daniel O'Brien
epub |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Daniel O'Brien [O’Brien, Daniel]

Amazingly, Garfield didn’t die. He was taken to a hospital, with one bullet still lodged in his body that the doctors couldn’t seem to find. In an effort to track ...
( Category: Americas October 6,2017 )
The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust by Noam Chayut
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Noam Chayut

CHAPTER 19 From Shoqet Junction I headed north towards the trail that follows the “green line” to the foothills of Mount Sansana, and from there I followed the orange-blue-white markings ...
( Category: World October 6,2017 )
Brothers by Talbot David
epub |eng | 2007-10-06 | Author:Talbot, David

5 DALLAS President Kennedy looked tired and somber as he stood at the lectern in the spacious State Department Auditorium on Halloween 1963. There were dark bags beneath his eyes ...
( Category: Americas October 6,2017 )
The Man Who Closed the Asylums by John Foot
epub |eng | | Author:John Foot

__________ 1Fulvio Marone, ‘La psichiatria alternativa italiana’, La psicoanalisi. Rivista del campo Freudiano 25, January–June 1999, p. 102. 2Marcello Flores and Alberto De Bernardi, Il Sessantotto, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2003, ...
( Category: Historical October 6,2017 )
How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq by Matthew Alexander & John Bruning
azw3 |eng | 2008-11-27 | Author:Matthew Alexander & John Bruning [Alexander, Matthew]

Twelve PREACHER OF HATE RANDY IS MORE agitated at the morning meeting than usual. The task force commander called earlier looking for an update and found his report wanting. We’re ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement by Jane Mcalevey & Bob Ostertag
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-20 | Author:Jane Mcalevey & Bob Ostertag [Mcalevey, Jane]

CHAPTER SEVEN Launching the 2006 Las Vegas Labor Offensive January brought our first big test of 2006: electing bargaining teams for all those contract negotiations. Electing a bargaining team is ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) by Jane McAlevey
epub |eng | | Author:Jane McAlevey

CHAPTER SEVEN Launching the 2006 Las Vegas Labor Offensive January brought our first big test of 2006: electing bargaining teams for all those contract negotiations. Electing a bargaining team is ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 6,2017 )
Abigail Adams by Woody Holton
epub |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Woody Holton

Abigail had not yet digested the news of all these domestic broils when she received distressing information of an altogether different order: the farmers of western Massachusetts had launched a ...
( Category: Historical October 6,2017 )
Outsider in the White House by Bernie Sanders & Huck Gutman
epub |eng | | Author:Bernie Sanders & Huck Gutman

© University of Chicago Library 2015 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) meeting (1962). I was a steering committee member, and here I’m standing beside George Beadle, University of Chicago president. ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 6,2017 )
Mrs Kennedy : missing history of the Kennedy years by Leaming Barbara
epub |eng | 2002-04-12 | Author:Leaming, Barbara [Leaming, Barbara]

Kennedy's meeting with Rusk and the others was the last on his schedule for Monday. He left the Oval Office at twenty past seven and headed upstairs for the night. ...
( Category: World October 6,2017 )

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