Dark Genius - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dark Genius write by Kerwin Swint. This book was released on 2012-02-07. Dark Genius available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Roger Ailes, former Republican political consultant, and current president of Fox News Channel, is a dominant media figure of our age. His made-for-TV imagery and mastery of “style over substance” has overtaken earlier methods of reporting the news, and radically refashioned our political and communications landscapes. Yet, no book has ever been published on this Oz-like figure: Dark Genius is the definitive study of Ailes and his controversial career. The 1960 television encounter between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy was the moment when slick television imagery began to take over politics. Ailes, a young TV producer, absorbed the lessons of the new video age, and put them into practice. While a director on “The Mike Douglas Show”, he met Richard Nixon, who soon hired Ailes to help him conquer the fledgling medium. Riding the wave of that triumph, Ailes went on to aid other key Republican figures like Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Rudy Giuliani. In the 1990s, Ailes was hired to run CNBC, the first cable financial network, bringing a talk radio sensibility to the small screen. Then, Rupert Murdoch hired him to implement the media mogul’s vision for a different kind of cable news network. Now, with Murdoch (whose News Corp. has recently acquired the Wall Street Journal), Ailes is launching the FOX News business channel in 2007. Over the span of several decades, Ailes has played a key role in the growing reach of conservatism, first in politics, then in mass media. Part history, part media criticism, part current events, Dark Genius tracks the rise, dominance, and relevance of political television, and how it has been used and abused by its master.
The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch)
The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch) write by Caroll Spinney. This book was released on 2007-12-18. The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An inspiring message for all ages: Find your inner bird. If you’re looking for wisdom and joy in your life, go straight to Sesame Street and heed the words of its most beloved and profound resident, Caroll Spinney, who has spent the past thirty-four years in a bird costume (and a trash can) as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. Three decades inside a giant puppet have taught Spinney a valuable and surprising lesson: Being a bird can make you a better person. In The Wisdom of Big Bird, the living legend of Sesame Street describes how we can all find our inner bird (or grouch). Each chapter illustrates a piece of useful wisdom Spinney has gleaned from a career in feathers. The lessons Big Bird teaches children every day on Sesame Street are the same ones that have brought Spinney success and satisfaction in his own life. Warm, witty, and affirming, Caroll Spinney’s memoir proves that being a bird can make you a better and happier person. “Every day on Sesame Street, we strive to give our innocent young audience the basis of a lifelong education. It is no accident that spending the past thirty-four years in the Bird suit teaching these lessons to others has taught me a few things, too.”—from The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch)
Captain Nemo
Captain Nemo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Captain Nemo write by Kevin J. Anderson. This book was released on 2019-12-11. Captain Nemo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times bestseller imagines the life of Jules Verne in this “rollicking whopper of a novel [that] glides down smoothly” (Publishers Weekly). Captain Nemo is the fictional life story of one of Jules Verne’s most memorable characters from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island. This alternate history covers his boyhood friendship with the dreamer, Jules Verne, adventures aboard sailing ships, battles with pirates, and survival on a mysterious deserted island. Each time he returns home to his beloved France, Captain Nemo shares the tales of his exploits with the struggling writer Verne. We follow Nemo’s exploration of hidden caverns that lead to the center of the earth, travels across darkest Africa in a hydrogen balloon, and his imprisonment by an evil Ottoman caliph who commands the dark genius to construct a sub-marine boat, the Nautilus, in order to attack merchant ships that venture through the newly completed Suez Canal. “K. J. Anderson seamlessly blends events of Jules Verne’s real life with the plotlines of his fictional works. His portrayal of Verne is masterful: a man able to break free from the circumstances that stifle him through his vivid imagination and the inspiration provided by his lifelong friend, Nemo.” —Harry Turtledove, New York Times–bestselling author of The Guns of the South “A swashbuckling mix of Jules Verne, Daniel DeFoe, and Michael Crichton.” —Terry Brooks, New York Times–bestselling author of The Sword of Shannara
Dark Genius of Wall Street
Dark Genius of Wall Street - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dark Genius of Wall Street write by Edward J. Renehan Jr.. This book was released on 2008-07-31. Dark Genius of Wall Street available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was the robber baron's robber baron, the most astute financial and business strategist of his time and also the most widely hated. In Dark Genius of Wall Street, acclaimed biographer Edward J. Renehan, Jr., combines lively anecdotes with the rich social tapestry of the Gilded Age to paint the portrait of the most talented financial buccaneer of his generation -- and one of the inventors of modern business.
Dark Genius
Dark Genius - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dark Genius write by H PETER. ALESSO. This book was released on 2017-12-16. Dark Genius available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hard science techno-thrillerAfter his troubled past, young Andrew Lawrence looked forward to a fresh start at MIT solving the secrets of the universe. He met bright and attractive Emma Franklin and hoped for an exciting future. But before he could begin, his world turned into a lie. Everything was torn away from him and he was embroiled in an international fraud investigation involving quantum computer hacking and murder.Dodging the FBI while hiding from cyber-terrorists, he was forced into the underworld of the dark net, anonymous encryption, and AI financial transactions. While trying to throw off the ghosts of his haunted past, he had to run faster and faster to evade the shadowy forces after him.Despite a troubled partnership, the ego of rivals, and the threat of cyber-terrorists, Lawrence persevered on his quest to redeem himself.
