Book Description
This is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.
Author : J.M. Bumsted
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 1982-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0887553826
This is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.
Author : J.M. Bumsted
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 1982-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0887550657
This is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Joan Mellen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1620408066
Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace crossed paths only briefly; but Wallace’s life, especially one violent episode and its intricate aftermath, illuminates the dark side of our 36th president. Perhaps no president has a more ambiguous reputation than LBJ. A brilliant tactician, he maneuvered colleagues and turned bills into law better than anyone. But he was trailed by a legacy of underhanded dealings, from his “stolen” Senate election in 1948 to kickbacks he artfully concealed from deals engineered with Texas wheeler-dealer Billie Sol Estes and defense contractors like his longtime supporter Brown & Root. On the verge of investigation, Johnson was reprieved when he became president upon JFK’s assassination. Among the remaining mysteries has been LBJ’s relationship to Mac Wallace who, in 1951, shot a Texas man having an affair with LBJ’s loose-cannon sister Josefa, also Wallace’s lover. When arrested, Wallace cooly said "I work for Johnson . . . I need to get back to Washington." Charged with murder, he was overnight defended by LBJ’s powerful lawyer John Cofer, and though convicted, amazingly received a suspended sentence. He then got high-security clearance from LBJ friend and defense contractor D.H. Byrd, which the Office of Naval Intelligence tried to revoke for 11 years without success. Using crucial Life magazine and Naval Intelligence files and the unredacted FBI files on Mac Wallace, never before utilized by others, investigative writer Joan Mellen skillfully connects these two disparate Texas lives and lends stark credence to the dark side of Lyndon Johnson that has largely gone unsubstantiated.
Author : Dana Priest
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 25,36 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0316194042
The top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has become so enormous, so unwieldy, and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs or exactly how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere. The result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe may be putting us in greater danger. In Top Secret America, award-winning reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin uncover the enormous size, shape, mission, and consequences of this invisible universe of over 1,300 government facilities in every state in America; nearly 2,000 outside companies used as contractors; and more than 850,000 people granted "Top Secret" security clearance. A landmark exposé of a new, secret "Fourth Branch" of American government, Top Secret America is a tour de force of investigative reporting-and a book sure to spark national and international alarm.
Author : David Taylor
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1788855221
Badenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region's destiny: climate and market forces, hunger and relief measures, sheep farms and sporting estates, agricultural improvement and proprietorial greed, and the evolution of clanship. Although this is an intensely localised study, the dramatic nature of change is explored against the wider context of events not just across the Highlands, but also within the British state and its global empire. Badenoch's journey moves from the relative prosperity of the Napoleonic Wars into the terrible post-war destitution that devastated peasant, tacksman and Duke of Gordon alike. Estate reform and 'improvement' gradually brought a degree of economic and social stability, but inevitably resulted in depopulation as people were forced off the land to seek refuge in the impoverished 'planned villages' or to abandon their Gaelic homeland for life in the Lowlands. For those with the means, however, emigration provided lucrative opportunities unimaginable at home. Through extensive use of documentary evidence, much of it previously unseen, David Taylor paints an intimate portrait of the historically neglected region of Badenoch – one that provides a compelling new perspective on Highland history.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher :
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 1966
Category :
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher :
Page : 1700 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Gina Clayton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198747551
This volume examines the law and system of control which govern immigration and asylum in the UK. It begins with the historical and legal context, explains who is subject to immigration control, and describes the legal and administrative structure of the system.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee
Publisher :
Page : 1150 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 1948
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ISBN :