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![]() As a diplomat and secretary of state, he defended American sovereignty against France and Britain, counseled President John Adams, and supervised the construction of the city of Washington, DC. As the leading Federalist in Virginia, he rivaled his cousin Thomas Jefferson in influence. As Chief Justice of the United States - the longest-serving in history - he established the independence of the judiciary and the supremacy of the federal Constitution and courts. From the nation's founding in 1776 and for the next 40 years, Marshall was at the center of every political battle. ![]() No member of America's founding generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more to preserve the delicate unity of the fledgling United States. ![]() The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tarzan of the Apes, first published in 1912, is the first installment of Burroughs tales of the ape man, which would expand to encompass more than two dozen books. All things outside his own tribe were his deadly enemies…įrom Chapter X: The Fear Phantom Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public’s imagination. He knew nothing of the brotherhood of man. Tarzan of the Apes was no sentimentalist. ![]() Similarity of form led him into no erroneous conception of the welcome that would be accorded him should he be discovered by these, the first of his own kind he had ever seen. His savage life among the fierce wild brutes of the jungle left no opening for any thought that these could be aught else than enemies. ![]() He saw that at one point the forest touched the village, and to this spot he made his way, lured by a fever of curiosity to behold animals of his own kind, and to learn more of their ways and view the strange lairs in which they lived. From a lofty perch Tarzan viewed the village of thatched huts across the intervening plantation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through memoir, interviews and extensive reading, Treuer counters the familiar narratives of invisibility that have so readily frozen America’s indigenous peoples. “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee,” by David Treuer (Ojibwe), examines these recent generations of American Indian history. The Self-Determination Era has now grown in prodigious ways and yielded countless examples of achievement across Native North America, including the elections of Haaland and Davids as the first American Indian women ever elected to Congress. Though still poorly understood, this era emerged from urban and reservation activism in the 1960s and ’70s, when community leaders, students and veterans, among others, challenged onerous policies that had aimed to assimilate tribal communities. During an era known as “Self-Determination,” Indian tribes and their citizens have changed not only their particular nations but also the larger nation around them. ![]() ![]() Raviv resides in Washington, and Melman in Tel Aviv. Together, RAVIV and MELMAN wrote BEHIND THE UPRISING: ISRAELIS, JORDANIANS, AND PALESTINIANS (1989(, the national best seller EVERY SPY A PRINCE: THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF ISRAEL'S INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY (1990), and FRIENDS IN DEED: INSIDE THE U.S.-ISRAEL ALLIANCE (1994). He organized and participated in ironman triathlons in Israel and has run 30 marathons and 4 ironman competitions. Melman is winner of the Sokolov Prize for Journalism (Israel's equivalent of the Pulitzer) and a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard. He is author of THE NEW ISRAELIS, THE NUCLEAR SPHINX OF TEHRAN, and other books. YOSSI MELMAN is an Israeli columnist with a worldwide reputation for breaking news on espionage and security. ![]() He is author of COMIC WARS, a book about the Marvel Comics bankruptcy and renaissance. He hosts a national radio show, CBS News Weekend Roundup. ![]() DAN RAVIV has been an award-winning CBS News correspondent for over thirty years, with a Middle East specialty. ![]() ![]() ![]() What she didn’t yet know was that two seeds had been planted that long-ago night - one of a great love, and one of a terrible vengeance.Ī Macmillan Audio production from St. Then there were years spent away in Western Ireland, peaceful and protected but with restlessness growing in her soul.įinally, she would return to Los Angeles, gathering the courage to act again and get past the trauma that had derailed her life. First came the discovery of a shocking betrayal that would send someone she’d trusted to prison. Dillon Cooper was shocked to find the bloodied, exhausted girl huddled in his house - but when the teenager and his family heard her story, they provided refuge, reuniting her with her loved ones.Ĭate’s ordeal, though, was far from over. Some may have considered her a pampered princess, but Cate was in fact a smart, scrappy fighter, and she managed to escape her abductors. It was during one of those games that she disappeared. At nine, she was already a star - yet still an innocent child who loved to play hide-and-seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ĭaitlyn Sullivan had come from a long line of Hollywood royalty, stretching back to her Irish immigrant great-grandfather. Hideaway Kindle Edition by Nora Roberts (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 23,842 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial A powerful new novel from global bestseller Nora Roberts about finding what matters most in the least expected places. A family ranch in Big Sur country and a legacy of Hollywood royalty set the stage for Nora Roberts’ emotional new suspense novel, Hideaway. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tidewater masters had long dreaded their slaves as "an internal enemy." By mobilizing that enemy, the war ignited the deepest fears of Chesapeake slaveholders. ![]() They enabled the British to escalate their onshore attacks and to capture and burn Washington, D.C. As guides, pilots, sailors, and marines, the former slaves used their intimate knowledge of the countryside to transform the war. The runaways pressured the British admirals into becoming liberators. Over many nights, hundreds of slaves paddled out to the warships seeking protection for their families from the ravages of slavery. In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the empire. Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s swift-winged angels". This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war. ![]() ![]() ![]() (The following recording, and a lot of the work we’re going to do in this Whistlestop, is the result of the amazing work they do at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, where they’ve transcribed and put together recordings from the Johnson era. ![]() It’s 9:18 in the evening, and he’s explaining to Dirksen what the stakes are for political opponents to delay this peace deal for the purposes of taking political advantage. The president’s calling from the LBJ ranch. Why have we started our tale on the 3 rd of November, just three days from the election? That’s when the president is on the phone with his old friend and adversary, Everett Dirksen, the Senate minority leader. President Thiệu of South Vietnam was not going to go along with that, and if Nixon won, he wouldn’t have to. ![]() State of the play was that the Communists wanted a share of power in the South, and the doves in the United States thought that was maybe OK-that was the signal Humphrey was sending. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And how the pact they swore that day echoed down the decades, forever shaping their lives.īut the more Wilder writes, the less he trusts himself and his memory. About the terrible secret he and his companions, Nat and Harper, discovered entombed in the coves off the bay. It is the story about the sun-drenched summer days of his youth in Whistler Bay, and the blood-stained path of the killer that stalked his small vacation town. In a cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow has begun the last book he will ever write. “If you love the novels of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Tana French, here’s your next obsession.”-Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dogįrom Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street, comes a masterful story about friendship and betrayal, dark obsessions, and the impossibility of escaping your own story. ![]() ![]() ![]() From promoting bombshells like Jean Harlow and Jane Russell to his contentious battles with the censors, Hughes-perhaps more than any other filmmaker of his era-commoditized male desire as he objectified and sexualized women. His supposed conquests between his first divorce in the late 1920s and his marriage to actress Jean Peters in 1957 included many of Hollywood’s most famous actresses, among them Billie Dove, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, and Lana Turner. ![]() But as Karina Longworth reminds us, long before the Harvey Weinsteins there was Howard Hughes-the Texas millionaire, pilot, and filmmaker whose reputation as a cinematic provocateur was matched only by that as a prolific womanizer. In recent months, the media has reported on scores of entertainment figures who used their power and money in Hollywood to sexually harass and coerce some of the most talented women in cinema and television. ![]() In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood’s glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul’s obsessions with sex, power and publicity trapped, abused, or benefitted women who dreamt of screen stardom. ![]() |