Tag: Heartland

Aberration in the Heartland of the Real The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh


Free Download Wendy S. Painting PhD, "Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh"
English | 2016 | pages: 720 | ISBN: 1634240030 | EPUB | 2,4 mb
Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of the "All-American Terrorist," this book traces McVeigh’s life from childhood to the Army, throughout the Description to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and the period after his 1995 arrest until his 2001 execution. McVeigh’s life, as Dr. Wendy Painting describes it, offers a backdrop for her discussion of not only several intimate and previously unknown details about him, but a number of episodes and circumstances in American History as well. In Aberration in the Heartland, Painting explores Cold War popular culture, all-American apocalyptic fervor, organized racism, contentious politics, militarism, warfare, conspiracy theories, bioethical controversies, mind control, the media’s construction of villains and demons, and institutional secrecy and cover-ups. All these stories are examined, compared, and tested in Aberration in the Heartland of the Real, making this book a much closer examination into the personality and life of Timothy McVeigh than has been provided by any other biographical work about him

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Crossroads of Cuisine The Eurasian Heartland, the Silk Roads and Food


Free Download Paul David Buell, "Crossroads of Cuisine The Eurasian Heartland, the Silk Roads and Food "
English | ISBN: 9004432051 | 2020 | 352 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Crossroads of Cuisine offers history of food and cultural exchanges in and around Central Asia. It discusses geographical base, and offers historical and cultural overview. A photo essay binds it all together. The book offers new views of the past.

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A Fever in the Heartland The Ku Klux Klan’s Description to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them [Audiobook]


Free Download A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Description to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B9P2WGHV | 2023 | 10 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Timothy Egan
Narrator: Timothy Egan

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan’s rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. The Roaring Twenties-the Jazz Age-has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths of America was a charismatic charlatan named D.C. Stephenson.

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Poverty, Family, and Kinship in a Heartland Community


Free Download David L. Harvey, "Poverty, Family, and Kinship in a Heartland Community"
English | ISBN: 1138530557 | 2017 | 336 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
With a few notable exceptions, sociological studies of poor, native-born, non-ethnic whites in rural areas are rare. This book corrects this oversight with an ethnographic study of a small, poor, white, heartland community that the author calls "Potter Addition." The community consists of some 100 families and is located on the rural-urban fringe of a medium-sized Midwestern city.

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