Tag: Battle

Gangbuster One Man’s Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan


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2023 | ISBN: 0806542128 | English | 320 pages | True EPUB | 2 MB
As gripping as it is prescient, Gangbuster is the first-ever history of the battle waged by one rookie District Attorney, Philip Van Cise, against the KKK, organized crime, and government corruption at the highest levels throughout the 1920s. One century later, in the face of contemporary society’s divisiveness and fearmongering politics, the personal courage of this maverick’s battle against underworld figures and a mainstream white supremacist movement is more relevant and inspiring than ever.

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Battle at Sea 3,000 Years of Naval Warfare


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English | ISBN: 0756671868 | 2011 | 360 pages | PDF | 123 MB
A visual journey through 3,000 years of naval warfare-now in paperback! From the clash of galleys in Ancient Greece to deadly encounters between nuclear-powered submarines in the 20th century, explore every aspect of the story of naval warfare on, under, and above the sea.

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AI Battle Royale How to Protect Your Job from Disruption in the 4th Industrial Revolution


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 303119277X | 635 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 56 MB
AI, Big Data and other 4th industrial revolution technologies are poised to wreak havoc in virtually every industry, unlocking huge productivity gains via automation of labor both manual and cognitive. Less discussed are the impacts on workers, who see the value of their skills erode, along with the menace of mass structural unemployment.

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Gangbuster One Man’s Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BY9R5BS4 | 2023 | 9 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 292 MB
Author: Alan Prendergast
Narrator: Gabriel Vaughan

At the height of the roaring 1920s, the ex-frontier town of Denver, Colorado, emerged from the postwar boom as the future of the American city. But the slick façade of progress and opportunity masked a murky stew of organized crime, elaborate swindles, and widespread government corruption. Rookie district attorney Phillip Van Cise was already making national headlines for a new brand of law enforcement. Employing military intelligence tools he’d developed during the Great War, Van Cise crippled the criminal empire of Lou Blonger, an ex-lawman who had risen from petty scam artist to master of the Big Con.

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Claiming Lincoln Progressivism, Equality, and the Battle for Lincoln’s Legacy in Presidential Rhetoric


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English | ISBN: 0875804357 | 2011 | 243 pages | EPUB | 276 KB
Abraham Lincoln is clearly one of the most frequently cited figures in American political rhetoric, especially with regard to issues of equality. But given the ubiquity of Lincoln’s legacy, many references to him, even on the presidential level, are often of questionable accuracy. In Claiming Lincoln, Jividen posits that in much twentieth-century presidential rhetoric, especially from progressive leaders, Lincoln’s understanding of equality is slowly divorced from its grounding in the natural rights thinking of the American Founding and reinterpreted in light of progressive history.

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Alexander Hamilton and the Battle of Yorktown, October 1781 The Winning of American Independence [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BYTFPL2X | 2023 | 8 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 242 MB
Author: Phillip Thomas Tucker
Narrator: Justin Price

Alexander Hamilton and the Battle of Yorktown, October 1781 is the first book in nearly two and a half centuries that has ever been devoted to the story of Alexander Hamilton’s key contributions in winning the most decisive victory the of the American Revolutionary war at Yorktown. Past biographies of Hamilton, including the most respected ones, have minimized the overall importance of the young lieutenant colonel’s role and battlefield performance at Yorktown, which was key to forcing the surrender of Lord Cornwallis’s army.

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