Scott Burton's Claim
Author : Edward Gheen Cheyney
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Page : 278 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Forest rangers
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Author : Edward Gheen Cheyney
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Forest rangers
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Author : Matt Farwell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0735221065
The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan ”An unsettling and riveting book filled with the mysteries of human nature.” —Kirkus Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl left his platoon's base in eastern Afghanistan in the early hours of June 30, 2009. Since that day, easy answers to the many questions surrounding his case—why did he leave his post? What kinds of efforts were made to recover him from the Taliban? And why, facing a court martial, did he plead guilty to the serious charges against him?—have proved elusive. Taut in its pacing but sweeping in its scope, American Cipher is the riveting and deeply sourced account of the nearly decade-old Bergdahl quagmire—which, as journalists Matt Farwell and Michael Ames persuasively argue, is as illuminating an episode as we have as we seek the larger truths of how the United States lost its way in Afghanistan. The book tells the parallel stories of a young man's halting coming of age and a nation stalled in an unwinnable war, revealing the fallout that ensued when the two collided: a fumbling recovery effort that suppressed intelligence on Bergdahl's true location and bungled multiple opportunities to bring him back sooner; a homecoming that served to deepen the nation's already-vast political fissure; a trial that cast judgment on not only the defendant, but most everyone involved. The book's beating heart is Bergdahl himself—an idealistic, misguided soldier onto whom a nation projected the political and emotional complications of service. Based on years of exclusive reporting drawing on dozens of sources throughout the military, government, and Bergdahl's family, friends, and fellow soldiers, American Cipher is at once a meticulous investigation of government dysfunction and political posturing, a blistering commentary on America's presence in Afghanistan, and a heartbreaking story of a naïve young man who thought he could fix the world and wound up the tool of forces far beyond his understanding.
Author : David J. Getsy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226817067
The first book to chart Scott Burton’s performance art and sculpture of the 1970s. Scott Burton (1939–89) created performance art and sculpture that drew on queer experience and the sexual cultures that flourished in New York City in the 1970s. David J. Getsy argues that Burton looked to body language and queer behavior in public space—most importantly, street cruising—as foundations for rethinking the audiences and possibilities of art. This first book on the artist examines Burton’s underacknowledged contributions to performance art and how he made queer life central in them. Extending his performances about cruising, sexual signaling, and power dynamics throughout the decade, Burton also came to create functional sculptures that covertly signaled queerness by hiding in plain sight as furniture waiting to be used. With research drawing from multiple archives and numerous interviews, Getsy charts Burton’s deep engagements with postminimalism, performance, feminism, behavioral psychology, design history, and queer culture. A restless and expansive artist, Burton transformed his commitment to gay liberation into a unique practice of performance, sculpture, and public art that aspired to be antielitist, embracing of differences, and open to all. Filled with stories of Burton’s life in New York’s art communities, Queer Behavior makes a case for Burton as one of the most significant out queer artists to emerge in the wake of the Stonewall uprising and offers rich accounts of queer art and performance art in the 1970s.
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Page : 1630 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Patents
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Publisher :
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Forests and forestry
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Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher :
Page : 1594 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Government publications
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Author : Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas
Publisher :
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : John W. Leonard
Publisher :
Page : 2504 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 1928
Category : United States
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Vols. 28-30 accompanied by separately published parts with title: Indices and necrology.
Author : Alberta Lawrence
Publisher :
Page : 1106 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Authors, American
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"Covering the United States and Canada [with their possessions and neighbors] and containing the biographical and literary data of living authors whose birth or activities connect them with the continent of North America, with a press section devoted to journalists and magazine writers" (varies slightly).
Author : Lancaster (Mass.). Town Library
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 1924
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