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The Best American Magazine Writing 2022

The Best American Magazine Writing 2022
The Best American Magazine Writing 2022 edited by Sid Holt
English | November 29, 2022 | ISBN: 0231208901, 023120891X | True EPUB | 472 pages | 2.2 MB
The Best American Magazine Writing 2022 presents a range of outstanding writing on timely topics, from in-depth reporting to incisive criticism: Kristin Canning calls for a change in how we talk about abortion (Women's Health), and Ed Yong warns us about the next pandemic (The Atlantic). Matthieu Aikins provides a gripping eyewitness account of the Taliban's seizure of Kabul (New York Times Magazine). Heidi Blake and Katie J. M. Baker's "Beyond Britney" examines how people placed under legal guardianship are deprived of their autonomy (BuzzFeed News). Rachel Aviv profiles a psychologist who studies the fallibility of memory―and has testified for defendants including Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby (The New Yorker).

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The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads And the Civil War's Final Campaign

The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads And the Civil War's Final Campaign
The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads: And the Civil War's Final Campaign By Eric J. Wittenberg
2007 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 1932714170 | EPUB | 3 MB
The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, fought March 10, 1865, was one of most important but least known engagements of William T. Sherman's Carolinas Campaign. Confederate cavalry, led by Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton and Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, launched a savage surprise attack on the sleeping camp of Maj. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, Sherman's cavalry chief. After three hours of some of the toughest cavalry fighting of the entire Civil War, Hampton broke off and withdrew. His attack, however, had stopped Kilpatrick's advance and bought another precious day for Lt. Gen. William J. Hardee to evacuate his command from Fayetteville. This, in turn, permitted Hardee to join the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and set the stage for the climactic Battle of Bentonville nine days later.Noted Civil War author Eric Wittenberg has written the first detailed tactical narrative of this important but long-forgotten battle, and places it in its proper context within the entire campaign. His study features 28 original maps and 50 illustrations. Finally, an author of renown has brought to vivid life this overlooked portion of the Carolinas Campaign.Ohio Attorney Eric J. Wittenberg is a noted Civil War cavalry historian and the author of some dozen books and two dozens articles on the Civil War. His first book, "Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions," won the 1998 Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award.

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The Battle for Yellowstone Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict

The Battle for Yellowstone Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict
The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) by Justin Farrell
English | June 30, 2015 | ISBN: 0691164347, 0691176302 | True PDF | 320 pages | 111 MB
Yellowstone holds a special place in America's heart. As the world's first national park, it is globally recognized as the crown jewel of modern environmental preservation. But the park and its surrounding regions have recently become a lightning rod for environmental conflict, plagued by intense and intractable political struggles among the federal government, National Park Service, environmentalists, industry, local residents, and elected officials. The Battle for Yellowstone asks why it is that, with the flood of expert scientific, economic, and legal efforts to resolve disagreements over Yellowstone, there is no improvement? Why do even seemingly minor issues erupt into impassioned disputes? What can Yellowstone teach us about the worsening environmental conflicts worldwide?

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The Bad Side Of Lincoln

The Bad Side Of Lincoln
The Bad Side Of Lincoln by Steve Preston
English | December 17, 2014 | ISBN: 1505585163 | 212 pages | EPUB | 0.59 Mb
If you have read any histories about Abraham Lincoln, you probably read that Lincoln was a great man and just about everything he did was great. Well, the details of his life don't match up to his almost godlike personality told in those books. Lincoln did some good things, but we should not ignore the rest of his life and we should not give him godlike status when none is due him. This is a different look at Abraham Lincoln. It looks at the other side of Abraham Lincoln so that we can see him more clearly and our history doesn't have to be clouded with fabrications to make him a hero. If you are looking for praise about Lincoln, this is not the book for you. It is greatly skewed towards the things he did To America rather than what he might have done for America.

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