Author: Don E. Post
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 1611390494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Darren Hopkins, a young, naïve international businessman without government experiences is hired as a research analyst with the President’s National Security Committee and suddenly finds himself embroiled in a highly divisive struggle. He learns that so-called super patriots are acquiring weaponry from the Mid-East and that the CIA is trying to track the shipments. But the CIA fails and the potential volatility of a link between America’s domestic terrorists and international terrorists sends chilling shock waves throughout the nation. Secret deliberations of a newly formed Terrorism Task Force are constantly leaked to the domestic terrorists. It becomes impossible to trust anyone. Old friendships are torn asunder and families are ripped apart. The unbelievable turns believable as domestic terrorism erupts at all levels of American life and no citizen is left unscathed. Are the self-styled super patriots capable of doing what Nazi Germany and other nations have been unable to accomplish--bring the U.S. government to its knees? DON E. POST has an MA in sociology, MTh in theology, and a PhD in educational anthropology. A Professor and Dean for many years, he has worked extensively throughout the world as an international business consultant. He is the author of numerous books and articles.
A Patriotic Nightmare
Author: Don E. Post
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 1611390494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Darren Hopkins, a young, naïve international businessman without government experiences is hired as a research analyst with the President’s National Security Committee and suddenly finds himself embroiled in a highly divisive struggle. He learns that so-called super patriots are acquiring weaponry from the Mid-East and that the CIA is trying to track the shipments. But the CIA fails and the potential volatility of a link between America’s domestic terrorists and international terrorists sends chilling shock waves throughout the nation. Secret deliberations of a newly formed Terrorism Task Force are constantly leaked to the domestic terrorists. It becomes impossible to trust anyone. Old friendships are torn asunder and families are ripped apart. The unbelievable turns believable as domestic terrorism erupts at all levels of American life and no citizen is left unscathed. Are the self-styled super patriots capable of doing what Nazi Germany and other nations have been unable to accomplish--bring the U.S. government to its knees? DON E. POST has an MA in sociology, MTh in theology, and a PhD in educational anthropology. A Professor and Dean for many years, he has worked extensively throughout the world as an international business consultant. He is the author of numerous books and articles.
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 1611390494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Darren Hopkins, a young, naïve international businessman without government experiences is hired as a research analyst with the President’s National Security Committee and suddenly finds himself embroiled in a highly divisive struggle. He learns that so-called super patriots are acquiring weaponry from the Mid-East and that the CIA is trying to track the shipments. But the CIA fails and the potential volatility of a link between America’s domestic terrorists and international terrorists sends chilling shock waves throughout the nation. Secret deliberations of a newly formed Terrorism Task Force are constantly leaked to the domestic terrorists. It becomes impossible to trust anyone. Old friendships are torn asunder and families are ripped apart. The unbelievable turns believable as domestic terrorism erupts at all levels of American life and no citizen is left unscathed. Are the self-styled super patriots capable of doing what Nazi Germany and other nations have been unable to accomplish--bring the U.S. government to its knees? DON E. POST has an MA in sociology, MTh in theology, and a PhD in educational anthropology. A Professor and Dean for many years, he has worked extensively throughout the world as an international business consultant. He is the author of numerous books and articles.
Our Patriotic Nightmare
Author: Sgt. Nobody
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662486340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Our country was founded by the people, for the people, yet the people have no say so in how the country is run. We put our lives in the hands of complete strangers. We are more divided than ever. Someone has to try to unite everyone. Not just one type of person but all Americans that are here now and those to come. That is what this country is about, or at least supposed to be. We have lost our focus as a country when instead we should be focused on the people of this beautiful country. Nobody can control what family they are born into but you can control the person you become. Until we rise above the hate and stupidity, together, we are in trouble.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662486340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Our country was founded by the people, for the people, yet the people have no say so in how the country is run. We put our lives in the hands of complete strangers. We are more divided than ever. Someone has to try to unite everyone. Not just one type of person but all Americans that are here now and those to come. That is what this country is about, or at least supposed to be. We have lost our focus as a country when instead we should be focused on the people of this beautiful country. Nobody can control what family they are born into but you can control the person you become. Until we rise above the hate and stupidity, together, we are in trouble.
The American Dream?
Author: Shing Yin Khor
Publisher: Zest Books
ISBN: 1942186371
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
As a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what “America” meant. The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people and sunlight and freeways. The second looked more like The Grapes of Wrath - a nightmare landscape filled with impoverished people, broken-down cars, barren landscapes, and broken dreams. Those contrasting ideas have stuck with Shing ever since, even now that she lives and works in LA. The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 is Shing’s attempt to find what she can of both of these Americas on a solo journey (small adventure-dog included) across the entire expanse of that iconic road, beginning in Santa Monica and ending up Chicago. And what begins as a road trip ends up as something more like a pilgrimage in search of an American landscape that seems forever shifting, forever out of place.
Publisher: Zest Books
ISBN: 1942186371
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
As a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what “America” meant. The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people and sunlight and freeways. The second looked more like The Grapes of Wrath - a nightmare landscape filled with impoverished people, broken-down cars, barren landscapes, and broken dreams. Those contrasting ideas have stuck with Shing ever since, even now that she lives and works in LA. The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 is Shing’s attempt to find what she can of both of these Americas on a solo journey (small adventure-dog included) across the entire expanse of that iconic road, beginning in Santa Monica and ending up Chicago. And what begins as a road trip ends up as something more like a pilgrimage in search of an American landscape that seems forever shifting, forever out of place.
American Multiculturalism After 9/11
Author: Derek Rubin
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9089641440
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This provocative and rich volume charts the post-9/11 debates and practice of multiculturalism, pinpointing their political and cultural implications in the United States and Europe.
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9089641440
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This provocative and rich volume charts the post-9/11 debates and practice of multiculturalism, pinpointing their political and cultural implications in the United States and Europe.
Nightmare Along Pennsylvania Avenue
Author: Perry F. Stone
Publisher: Charisma Media
ISBN: 1599798603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Stone begins with the founding of the nation and continues to the American Revolution and the Civil War to modern time to show that America's prophetic destiny is found in parallel end-times stories, Hebrew patterns, and prophetic dates.
Publisher: Charisma Media
ISBN: 1599798603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Stone begins with the founding of the nation and continues to the American Revolution and the Civil War to modern time to show that America's prophetic destiny is found in parallel end-times stories, Hebrew patterns, and prophetic dates.
The Fall of the American Dream
Author: Sidney Mack
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467843660
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Beginning around 2005, this book grew out of frustration and necessity as I observed the slow crumbling away of our so-called American Way. As a teacher, patriot, mother, sister, and troubled soul, I literally began piecing together thiswriting whetherI liked it or not. I kept trying to stop the flow of words, but couldn't. Stream of consciousnessstabbed atme like a dagger,yet Ideclared to myself thatthenegative thrusts of violence, selfishness, and willfulness on the part of societal beings was temporary, not the tip of a disastrous iceberg beginning to crush civility in natureall around me, all around all of us. The tip of collapsehas deepenedin spite of looking the other way or putting my words in a drawer whereI couldn't see them. My language is strongcoupled with a bit of levity, but we must act collectively to make theincreasingly sparce specks of hope materialize into action and perseverance if we are tothrive and survive as a free nation.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467843660
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Beginning around 2005, this book grew out of frustration and necessity as I observed the slow crumbling away of our so-called American Way. As a teacher, patriot, mother, sister, and troubled soul, I literally began piecing together thiswriting whetherI liked it or not. I kept trying to stop the flow of words, but couldn't. Stream of consciousnessstabbed atme like a dagger,yet Ideclared to myself thatthenegative thrusts of violence, selfishness, and willfulness on the part of societal beings was temporary, not the tip of a disastrous iceberg beginning to crush civility in natureall around me, all around all of us. The tip of collapsehas deepenedin spite of looking the other way or putting my words in a drawer whereI couldn't see them. My language is strongcoupled with a bit of levity, but we must act collectively to make theincreasingly sparce specks of hope materialize into action and perseverance if we are tothrive and survive as a free nation.
Captain America
Author:
Publisher: Marvel
ISBN: 9780785150848
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Where's Doctor Strange when you need him? When the evil lord of dreams, Nightmare, threatens the world with nuclear devastation, only Captain America and Sharon Carter stand against him! But the threats don't stop there as Cap faces the Rhino, M.O.D.O.K., Mentallo and the Kree! Guest-starring Iron Man, Ms. Marvel and USAgent!
Publisher: Marvel
ISBN: 9780785150848
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Where's Doctor Strange when you need him? When the evil lord of dreams, Nightmare, threatens the world with nuclear devastation, only Captain America and Sharon Carter stand against him! But the threats don't stop there as Cap faces the Rhino, M.O.D.O.K., Mentallo and the Kree! Guest-starring Iron Man, Ms. Marvel and USAgent!
Nightmare Alley
Author: Mark Osteen
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421408325
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Classic film noir offers more than pesky private eyes and beautiful bad girls—it explores the quest for the not-so-attainable American dream. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Desperate young lovers on the lam (They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist (Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress (No Man of Her Own), a wounded veteran who has forgotten his own name (Somewhere in the Night)—this gallery of film noir characters challenges the stereotypes of the wise-cracking detective and the alluring femme fatale. Despite their differences, they all have something in common: a belief in self-reinvention. Nightmare Alley is a thorough examination of how film noir disputes this notion at the heart of the American Dream. Central to many of these films, Mark Osteen argues, is the story of an individual trying, by dint of hard work or, more often, illicit enterprises, to overcome his or her origins and achieve material success. In the wake of World War II, the noir genre tested the dream of upward mobility and the ideas of individualism, liberty, equality, and free enterprise that accompany it. Employing an impressive array of theoretical perspectives (including psychoanalysis, art history, feminism, and music theory) and combining close reading with original primary source research, Nightmare Alley proves both the diversity of classic noir and its potency. This provocative and wide-ranging study revises and refreshes our understanding of noir's characters, themes, and cultural significance.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421408325
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Classic film noir offers more than pesky private eyes and beautiful bad girls—it explores the quest for the not-so-attainable American dream. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Desperate young lovers on the lam (They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist (Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress (No Man of Her Own), a wounded veteran who has forgotten his own name (Somewhere in the Night)—this gallery of film noir characters challenges the stereotypes of the wise-cracking detective and the alluring femme fatale. Despite their differences, they all have something in common: a belief in self-reinvention. Nightmare Alley is a thorough examination of how film noir disputes this notion at the heart of the American Dream. Central to many of these films, Mark Osteen argues, is the story of an individual trying, by dint of hard work or, more often, illicit enterprises, to overcome his or her origins and achieve material success. In the wake of World War II, the noir genre tested the dream of upward mobility and the ideas of individualism, liberty, equality, and free enterprise that accompany it. Employing an impressive array of theoretical perspectives (including psychoanalysis, art history, feminism, and music theory) and combining close reading with original primary source research, Nightmare Alley proves both the diversity of classic noir and its potency. This provocative and wide-ranging study revises and refreshes our understanding of noir's characters, themes, and cultural significance.
American Nightmare
Author: Henry A. Giroux
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 087286779X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Are we in the beginning of a new fascist era? As white supremacy, ultra-nationalism, rabid misogyny and anti-immigrant fervor coalesce, a new and uniquely American form of fascism looms. Could our current moment actually bring about the end of democracy in the United States? Are Americans willing to surrender their freedom and dignity, along with their ongoing struggle for equality, justice and mutual respect in the face of the rising tide of political and ideological extremism? In this provocative collection of essays, Henry Giroux warns of the consequences of doing too little as Trump and the so-called alt-right relentlessly attack critics, journalists, and target the hard-earned civil rights of women, people of color, immigrants, the working class, and low-income Americans. As we face down the frightening reality of living under a system that serves only the interests of the wealthy few, Giroux makes a passionate call for ordinary citizens to organize, educate, and resist by all available means. Praise for American Nightmare: "In this current era of corporate media misdirection and misinformation . . . Henry Giroux is one of the few great political voices of today, with powerful insight into the truth. Dr. Giroux is defiantly explaining, against the grain, what's REALLY going on right now, and doing so quite undeniably. Simply put, the ideas he brings forth are a beacon that need to be seen and heard and understood in order for the world to progress."—Julian Casablancas, lead vocalist for The Strokes "In frightening times like these, what is desperately needed is an informed and wise voice that speaks clearly and with conviction about the situation we are in, and what can be done. Henry Giroux is one of the great public intellectuals of our times, and American Nightmare is exactly the book for people grappling with how to understand the Trump era and how to proceed. This is precisely the book that needs to be shared with friends and acquaintances. It will provoke hard thinking, bring clarity, and stimulate much needed conversation and action."—Robert W. McChesney, co-author of People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy "We have no greater chronicler of these dystopian times. Giroux's critique cuts to the crux of today’s authoritarian crisis, yet his voice remains of one hope that the people may collectively regain control. Even while living though systemic efforts to privatize hope, Giroux’s critique enacts the sort of shared resistance that can effectively challenge authoritarianism. American Nightmare demonstrates how we can resist the normalization of hate, authoritarianism and alienation in Trump’s America. He shows us that not only are we not alone, but we are among a majority who oppose the cruelties of American social policies."—David H. Price, author of Cold War Anthropology: The CIA and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology "At a moment when the news cycle presents the dangers of Trumpian authoritarianism through disjointed and discrete hottakes, Giroux's wide-reaching analysis accounts for our current American nightmare with necessary historical context, and in so doing creates an aperture for resistance more meaningful than a hashtag."—Natasha Lennard, contributing writer for The Intercept, co-editor of Violence: Humans in Dark Times
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 087286779X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Are we in the beginning of a new fascist era? As white supremacy, ultra-nationalism, rabid misogyny and anti-immigrant fervor coalesce, a new and uniquely American form of fascism looms. Could our current moment actually bring about the end of democracy in the United States? Are Americans willing to surrender their freedom and dignity, along with their ongoing struggle for equality, justice and mutual respect in the face of the rising tide of political and ideological extremism? In this provocative collection of essays, Henry Giroux warns of the consequences of doing too little as Trump and the so-called alt-right relentlessly attack critics, journalists, and target the hard-earned civil rights of women, people of color, immigrants, the working class, and low-income Americans. As we face down the frightening reality of living under a system that serves only the interests of the wealthy few, Giroux makes a passionate call for ordinary citizens to organize, educate, and resist by all available means. Praise for American Nightmare: "In this current era of corporate media misdirection and misinformation . . . Henry Giroux is one of the few great political voices of today, with powerful insight into the truth. Dr. Giroux is defiantly explaining, against the grain, what's REALLY going on right now, and doing so quite undeniably. Simply put, the ideas he brings forth are a beacon that need to be seen and heard and understood in order for the world to progress."—Julian Casablancas, lead vocalist for The Strokes "In frightening times like these, what is desperately needed is an informed and wise voice that speaks clearly and with conviction about the situation we are in, and what can be done. Henry Giroux is one of the great public intellectuals of our times, and American Nightmare is exactly the book for people grappling with how to understand the Trump era and how to proceed. This is precisely the book that needs to be shared with friends and acquaintances. It will provoke hard thinking, bring clarity, and stimulate much needed conversation and action."—Robert W. McChesney, co-author of People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy "We have no greater chronicler of these dystopian times. Giroux's critique cuts to the crux of today’s authoritarian crisis, yet his voice remains of one hope that the people may collectively regain control. Even while living though systemic efforts to privatize hope, Giroux’s critique enacts the sort of shared resistance that can effectively challenge authoritarianism. American Nightmare demonstrates how we can resist the normalization of hate, authoritarianism and alienation in Trump’s America. He shows us that not only are we not alone, but we are among a majority who oppose the cruelties of American social policies."—David H. Price, author of Cold War Anthropology: The CIA and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology "At a moment when the news cycle presents the dangers of Trumpian authoritarianism through disjointed and discrete hottakes, Giroux's wide-reaching analysis accounts for our current American nightmare with necessary historical context, and in so doing creates an aperture for resistance more meaningful than a hashtag."—Natasha Lennard, contributing writer for The Intercept, co-editor of Violence: Humans in Dark Times
American Dream, American Nightmare
Author: Kathryn Hume
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025205413X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream. In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, Hume identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly disparate and unconnected writers including T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ralph Ellison, Russell Banks, Gloria Naylor, Tim O'Brien, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walker Percy, N. Scott Momaday, John Updike, Toni Morrison, William Kennedy, Julia Alvarez, Thomas Pynchon, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Don DeLillo. Hume explores fictional treatments of the slippage in the immigrant experience between America's promise and its reality. She exposes the political link between contemporary stories of lost innocence and liberalism's inadequacies. She also invites us to look at the literary challenge to scientific materialism in various searches for a spiritual dimension in life. The expansive future promised by the American Dream has been replaced, Hume finds, by a sense of tarnished morality and a melancholy loss of faith in America's exceptionalism. American Dream, American Nightmare examines the differing critiques of America embedded in nearly a hundred novels and points to the source for recovery that appeals to many of the authors.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025205413X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream. In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, Hume identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly disparate and unconnected writers including T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ralph Ellison, Russell Banks, Gloria Naylor, Tim O'Brien, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walker Percy, N. Scott Momaday, John Updike, Toni Morrison, William Kennedy, Julia Alvarez, Thomas Pynchon, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Don DeLillo. Hume explores fictional treatments of the slippage in the immigrant experience between America's promise and its reality. She exposes the political link between contemporary stories of lost innocence and liberalism's inadequacies. She also invites us to look at the literary challenge to scientific materialism in various searches for a spiritual dimension in life. The expansive future promised by the American Dream has been replaced, Hume finds, by a sense of tarnished morality and a melancholy loss of faith in America's exceptionalism. American Dream, American Nightmare examines the differing critiques of America embedded in nearly a hundred novels and points to the source for recovery that appeals to many of the authors.