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1) Secession
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A Civil War!
After a series of presidential administrations pummeled the powers of the individual states, the US is left angry and severely divided. A
shocking act of violence against the federal government is the kindling that ignites a fire that takes the rage against Washington to the point of no return. Although fiction, the story details the facts that can make this thriller a reality. Several states stand on the brink of Secession. This story...
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A symbol of modernity, the Viennese Secession was defined by the rebellion of twenty artists who were against the conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus' oppressive influence over the city, the epoch, and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Influenced by Art Nouveau, this movement (created in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, and Josef Hoffmann) was not an anonymous artistic revolution. Defining itself as a "total art", without any political or commercial...
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Secession / Insecession is a homage to the acts of reading, writing and translating poetry. In it, Chus Pato's Galician biopoetics of poet and nation, Secession – translated by Erín Moure – joins Moure's Canadian translational biopoetics, Insecession. To Pato, the poem is an insurrection against normalized language; to Moure, translation itself disrupts and reforms poetics and the possibility of the poem. In solidarity with Pato, Moure echoes...
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Major Jimjoy Earle Wright, secret agent of the Empire, is intelligent and highly trained. But, he succeeds all too well in overthrowing a military dictatorship-and the result is a new government inimical to the Empire and disgrace for Jimjoy. After surviving two assassination attempts, Jimjoy realizes that it's his own imperial superiors who want him dead: that, in fact his worst enemies could now become his best friends. Jimjoy switches sides, joins...
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These chronicles gather the most important events that took place during the stormy winter of 2016 and 2017, along with the actions and destinies of some of the most relevant characters that participated in them. They all move in the setting of a shift of government in Washington and a world where the most diverse and controversial interests stir; political fiction with the hints of possibility. Real and imaginary characters take part to give life...
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Until a few years ago anyone who spoke of secession as a legal right could expect to be scoffed at as the advocate of a permanently outmoded idea. In recent decades, however, separatist movements have appeared across Europe and North America. Peoples are seeking to reclaim their self-government from centralized nationstates and secession can now be seriously discussed. John Remington Graham has brought his considerable knowledge to the question. He...
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The result of painstaking and detailed research, Ralph A. Wooster, offers a fascinating insight into the men that participated in the conventions, and Legislatures that led the abortive rebellion of the Southern states. Delving into their professions, backgrounds, land and slave holding, the author elucidates the trends, voting records and party politics of the members.
A fascinating and necessary study on the proponents of the Confederate cause....
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"Webster's Seventh of March Speech and the Secession Movement, 1850" by Herbert Darling Foster. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for...
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In Secession and Security, Ahsan I. Butt argues that states, rather than separatists, determine whether a secessionist struggle will be peaceful, violent, or genocidal. He investigates the strategies, ranging from negotiated concessions to large-scale repression, adopted by states in response to separatist movements. Variations in the external security environment, Butt argues, influenced the leaders of the Ottoman Empire to use peaceful concessions...
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President Sybil Norton Daniels's presidency is tumultuous, to put it mildly. In this, the eleventh book of the series, there are rumors of war and some serious skirmishes, a legal battle over secession moving seriously through the courts, and beaucoup troubles for the harried president--the first woman to hold the office. There is a scandal popularly known as the New Teapot Dome Scandal,' a National Enquirer contrived and photoshopped lurid expose,'...
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When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this groundbreaking and highly praised book, McClintock follows the decision-making process from bitter partisan rancor to consensus. From small towns to big cities and from state capitals to Washington, D.C., McClintock highlights individuals both powerful and obscure to demonstrate the ways ordinary citizens,...
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Why did eleven slave states secede from the Union in 1860-61? Why did the eighteen free states loyal to the Union deny the legitimacy of secession, and take concrete steps after Fort Sumter to subdue what President Abraham Lincoln deemed treasonous rebellion? At the Precipice seeks to answer these and related questions by focusing on the different ways in which Americans, North and South, black and white, understood their interests, rights, and honor...
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Presenting an original, thought-provoking look at Ulysses S. Grant, “Soldier of Destiny” evokes the life of the general through his conflicted connection to slavery, allowing readers a clearer understanding of this great American.
Captain Ulysses S. Grant, an obscure army officer who was expelled for alcohol abuse in 1854, rose to become general-in-chief of the United States Army in 1864. What accounts for this astonishing turn-around during...
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Whether the Civil War was preventable is a debate that began shortly after Appomattox and continues today. But even earlier, in 1861, a group of Union-loyal Virginians--led by George Summers, John Brown Baldwin, John Janney and Jubal Early--felt war was avoidable. In the statewide election for delegates to the Secession Convention that same spring, the Unionists defeated the Southern Rights Democrats with a huge majority of the votes across the state....
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Many accounts of the secession crisis overlook the sharp political conflict that took place in the Border South states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Michael D. Robinson expands the scope of this crisis to show how the fate of the Border South, and with it the Union, desperately hung in the balance during the fateful months surrounding the clash at Fort Sumter. During this period, Border South politicians revealed the region's deep...
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What if the Confederates won the Battle of Gettysburg and successfully seceded, leaving the North intact with 11 fewer states? What might have been the progression of the country in the next 130 years? This is a creative effort to answer those questions. Much would be the same, but much would be potentially different. This is an exploration.
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The third book in the &LAW series addresses the perpetual issue of state sovereignty in the federal union-states' rights. From the 1770's, through the Confederate states' secession, and continuing until now, a central issue of governance is state power to object to, cancel, or be immune from federal law. The issue is fervently debated in the political arena by Tea Party efforts to limit federal intervention in education and health care; and the nullification...
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Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861.
Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Egnal shows that between 1820 and 1850, patterns of trade and production drew the North and South together and allowed sectional leaders to broker a series of compromises. After midcentury,...
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