The Victims of Society
Author : Marguerite Countess of Blessington
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 1837
Category : English literature
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Author : Marguerite Countess of Blessington
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 1837
Category : English literature
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Author : John Authers
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0063246422
“Imagine a book with the narrative force and the behind-the-scenes revelations of Barbarians at the Gate. Now imagine that what’s at stake isn’t just which rich investment banker gets richer, but rather is one of the great moral issues of our time, restitution for Holocaust survivors. Imagine no more, because John Authers and Richard Wolffe have written just such a book in The Victim’s Fortune.”— Samuel G. Freedman, author of Jew vs. Jew A riveting account of what went wrong in the battle over compensation for Holocaust survivors Fifty years after World War II, a small group of Americans launched a campaign to confront the world with the fact that many assets looted by the Nazis had never been returned to their owners. Backed by class-action lawsuits and threats of economic sanctions, they mounted a vigorous challenge against some of the world's largest corporations and governments to demand billions of dollars. But what began as a moral crusade soon became a bare-knuckle battle that opened up painful debates about whether money can ever compensate for the horrors of the Holocaust. John Authers and Richard Wolffe offer a spellbinding investigative account of this momentous international struggle. The Victim's Fortune captures the personalities, ruthless tactics, and moral dilemmas surrounding the fight over compensation -- all unfolding against the backdrop of one of the darkest moments in human history.
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Compulsive gamblers
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Author : Marguerite Countess of Blessington
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 1838
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Author : Andrew Steinmetz
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, edition in two volumes, represents history of gambling from ancient times in India, Egypt and Greece to modern days England, France and United States. The book covers all sorts of gaming and gambling, including card games, board games, lotteries, tricks, frauds and many more schemes that developed throughout the ages.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 2024-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368945408
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Author : Andrew Ladis
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1469626039
Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Artists (1550, 1568) has been a key subject of study for students of the Italian Renaissance over the hundreds of years since its publication. It has maintained a powerful grip on the historical imagination and continues to influence the way scholars treat the Renaissance, its artists, and the entire intellectual enterprise of Western art. Focusing on Vasari's literary and narrative achievements, Andrew Ladis turns to Vasari's villains, rather than his heroes, to demonstrate the biographer's foremost interest in glorifying Michelangelo. Approaching Lives on Vasari's terms--as the grand story of the rebirth and triumph of art in Italy--Ladis argues that Vasari was not a mere compiler of facts, but a shrewd, self-confident author aware of the power of metaphor. With a literary reading of the text, Ladis analyzes Vasari's motives and methods as an attempt to portray the great Michelangelo as a Christlike exemplum of ultimate light and goodness. Through biographic details both real and invented, Vasari presents all other artists as various players with varying degrees of heroic and villainous value. Antiheroic characters such as Buffalmacco, Lippi, and Castagno, Ladis argues, serve to accentuate the contrasting greatness of Michelangelo.
Author : Horace Bleackley
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Capital punishment
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Author : Marguerite Blessington
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2024-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385607922
Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.
Author : Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520332091
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.