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Author: Joe Delta Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1462024637 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 114
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There are so many phonied up, role playing accounts of American efforts in South East Asia that a man who was actually there in those war zones and experienced the tragedy of our country trying to hold on to ex French and ex U. S. colonial possesions is sickened by the stench of falsehood. I have written a brief and personal history of the history of those two war ravaged lands and present it without fanfare or xenophobic prejudice for your perusal.
Author: Joe Delta Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1462024637 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 114
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There are so many phonied up, role playing accounts of American efforts in South East Asia that a man who was actually there in those war zones and experienced the tragedy of our country trying to hold on to ex French and ex U. S. colonial possesions is sickened by the stench of falsehood. I have written a brief and personal history of the history of those two war ravaged lands and present it without fanfare or xenophobic prejudice for your perusal.
Author: William Philpott Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295804610 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 517
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Winner of the Western Writers of America 2014 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, Contemporary Mention the Colorado high country today and vacation imagery springs immediately to mind: mountain scenery, camping, hiking, skiing, and world-renowned resorts like Aspen and Vail. But not so long ago, the high country was isolated and little visited. Vacationland tells the story of the region's dramatic transformation in the decades after World War II, when a loose coalition of tourist boosters fashioned alluring images of nature in the high country and a multitude of local, state, and federal actors built the infrastructure for high-volume tourism: ski mountains, stocked trout streams, motels, resort villages, and highway improvements that culminated in an entirely new corridor through the Rockies, Interstate 70. Vacationland is more than just the tale of one tourist region. It is a case study of how the consumerism of the postwar years rearranged landscapes and revolutionized American environmental attitudes. Postwar tourists pioneered new ways of relating to nature, forging surprisingly strong personal connections to their landscapes of leisure and in many cases reinventing their lifestyles and identities to make vacationland their permanent home. They sparked not just a population boom in popular tourist destinations like Colorado but also a new kind of environmental politics, as they demanded protection for the aesthetic and recreational qualities of place that promoters had sold them. Those demands energized the American environmental movement-but also gave it blind spots that still plague it today. Peopled with colorful characters, richly evocative of the Rocky Mountain landscape, Vacationland forces us to consider how profoundly tourism changed Colorado and America and to grapple with both the potential and the problems of our familiar ways of relating to environment, nature, and place.
Author: Charlie McOuat Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1450267262 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 357
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This delighful book of memoirs, short stories, and poems describes some of the events of his life that leads him to say in his retirement years, This is one great trip and Im so grateful to all the saints and scoundrels that have made it so much fun. It is well written, loaded with charming characters, and a hopefully a model for readers in maintaining a positive attitude through challenges and chuckles. You will not forget how he got airsick in his first ever job interview, or when he was caught stretching the truth in front of a beer soaked audience,, or his survival with women through paralyzing shyness. These stories start with his birth into a middle class family, proud of its Scottish traditions, through the school years to a successful dental practice in a small Cape Cod village and his delight at some of the colorful characters along the way. He is still searching by volunteering in Haiti and Africa and trying to lend a helping hand to people in need. He has now retired to Hilton Head Island in South Carolina where he teaches English to immigrants, assists at the Boys and Girls Club, and tries to enjoy each moment. He especially looks forward to returning to Ghana and hugging the beautiful children at the orphanage school.
Author: John Hodgman Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 073522482X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 274
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“I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size.” —Jon Stewart Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them. Vacationland collects these real life wanderings, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god. Though wildly, Hodgmaniacally funny as usual, it is also a poignant and sincere account of one human facing his forties, those years when men in particular must stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser, weird dads that they are.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 116
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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 116
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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
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