Author : Rusty McClure
Publisher : Ternary Publishing LLC
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0984213201
A PGA tournament fixing scheme links a washed-up golfer and a DOJ attorney. The duo is challenged by a powerful brotherhood formed during America's independence and encounter paranormal mysteries as they try to prevent a plot of draconian consequences. Cincinnatus is a riveting dramatic tale full of intrigue, murder and lost love. Suspenseful and morally complex, this is the rare thriller whose meaning resonates with readers long after they have turned the final page.
Author : Michael J. Hillyard
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2001-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1401011268
A compilation of the recorded life, times, and influence of a Roman legend, Cincinnatus and the Citizen-Servant Ideal captures the essence of human virtue as it was embodied in the Roman Republic?s earliest days. Describing Cincinnatus?s recorded life and times, Hillyard traces the legend?s major interpretations from its origin amidst early Roman culture through contemporary times. In its impact on some of the world?s leading thinkers and leaders, such as Livy, George Washington, Henry Knox, Harry Truman, and others, the Cincinnatus legend is described in the many interesting forms it has taken over two millennia. Carried throughout the narrative is the timeless nature of the Cincinnatus ideal?the central issues of the role of citizen and leader in society.
Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Stephen M. Krason
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781621379843
"America descends deeper into political, social, and cultural turmoil... after an unorthodox campaign... he is elected... the non-politician President uses executive power... to save the Constitution and spawns political and cultural renewal." --Abstracted from back book cover.
Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 1989-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0679725318
Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his cell. When Cincinnatus is led out to be executed, he simply wills his executioners out of existence: they disappear, along with the whole world they inhabit.
Author : Livy
Publisher :
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Rome
ISBN :
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 1896
Category : History
ISBN :
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin, first published in 1896, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Markus Hünemörder
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845451073
In 1783, the officers of the Continental Army created the Society of the Cincinnati. This veterans' organization was to preserve the memory of the revolutionary struggle and pursue the officers' common interest in outstanding pay and pensions. Henry Knox and Frederick Steuben were the society's chief organizers; George Washington himself served as president. Soon, a nationally distributed South Carolina pamphlet accused the Society of treachery; it would lead to the creation of a hereditary nobility in the United States and subvert republicanism into aristocracy; it was a secret government, a puppet of the French monarchy; its charitable fund would be used for bribes. These were only some of the accusations made against the Society. These were, however, unjustified. The author of this book explores why a part of the revolutionary leadership accused another of subversion in the difficult 1780s, and how the political culture of this period predisposed many leading Americans to think of the Cincinnati as a conspiracy.
Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1387338471
On the Commonwealth represents Cicero's first serious attempt to bring Greek theories of political life to the circumstances of the Roman Republic. While some passages have been lost or reduced to fragments, it remains an important work of political philosophy and essential reading for political science students.
Author : Callihan Wesley
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780989702867
