Schoolboy, Cowboy, Mexican Spy - 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 Schoolboy, Cowboy, Mexican Spy write by Jay Monaghan. This book was released on 2023-11-10. Schoolboy, Cowboy, Mexican Spy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 1977.
Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs
Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs - 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 Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs write by Jay Monaghan. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the eve of the American Civil War, the old predatory powers of Europe were waiting to capitalize on the split in the Union. President Lincoln had to prevent foreign governments from giving official recognition to the Confederacy. Jay Monaghan shows how the underestimated, “rustic” president dealt with diplomats both in this country and abroad—and also with contentious politicians and cabinet members.
Trickster in the Land of Dreams
Trickster in the Land of Dreams - 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 Trickster in the Land of Dreams write by Zeese Papanikolas. This book was released on 1998-10-01. Trickster in the Land of Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Zeese Papanikolas forges seemingly disparate events and movements in western history?including some of its strangest and most exotic strains?into a coherent whole by examining them against the laughter and wisdom of Shoshonean trickster tales. Seen against these tales, the West becomes both a canvas for the projection of utopian dreams and the site of their shattered remains. ø Papanikolas undertakes a dramatic retelling of Shoshoni creation stories and examines, along with other topics, the mythologies embedded in the ?Dream Mine? of Mormon folklore, the heroic images of cowboys and Wobblies, the MX missile, the dark side of Oz, and the Las Vegas of tourists, dam builders, and gamblers. ø Among those whose visions are played out against the mirage-haunted background of the West are Cabeza de Vaca, Winston Churchill, Big Bill Haywood, and Native American wise man, Antelope Jake. It is a testament to the power of Papanikolas's conception that he can weave the themes and topics of each chapter into a book that is both eloquent and intellectually stimulating.
Journal of the West
Journal of the West - 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 Journal of the West write by Lorrin L. Morrison. This book was released on 1979. Journal of the West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang
The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang - 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 Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang write by Grant Barrett. This book was released on 2006-06-08. The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here is a wonderful Baedeker to down-and-dirty politics--more than six hundred slang terms straight from the smoke-filled rooms of American political speech. Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as Beltway bandit and boondoggle, angry white male and leg treasurer, juice bill and Joe Citizen, banana superpower and the Big Fix. We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as gerrymander, but also of lesser-known terms such as cracking (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and fair-fight district (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party). Each entry includes the definition of the word, its historical background, and illuminating citations, some going back more than 200 years. (We learn, for instance, that a term as seemingly current as political football actually dates back to before the Civil War.) Selected entries will have extended encyclopedic notes. The book also features sidebar essays on topics such as political words in Blogistan; a short history of "big cheese"; all about chads and the 2000 election; the suffix "-gate" and all the related Watergate terms; and the naming of legislation. Political junkies, policy wonks, journalists, and word lovers will find this book addictive reading as well as a reliable guide to one of the more colorful corners of American English.
