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Free Download Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CR4J1MZ2 | 2024 | 21 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 628 MB
Author: Richard Beck
Narrator: Patrick Harrison
A groundbreaking history of how the decades-long war on terror changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the erosion of citizenship down to the cars we bought and TV we watched-by an acclaimed n+1 writer. For twenty years after September 11, the war on terror was simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. With all of the military violence occurring overseas even as the threat of sudden mass death permeated life at home, Americans found themselves living in two worlds at the same time. In one of them, soldiers fought overseas so that nothing at home would have to change at all. In the other, life in the United States took on all kinds of unfamiliar shapes, changing people’s sense of themselves, their neighbors, and the strangers they sat next to on airplanes. In Homeland, Richard Beck delivers a gripping exploration of how much the war changed life in the United States and explains why there is no going back. Though much has been made of the damage that Donald Trump did to the American political system.

Free Download Klas-Göran Karlsson, "Lessons of History: The Holocaust and Soviet Terror as Borderline Events"
English | ISBN: 164469879X | 2024 | 416 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Lessons of history are often referred to in public discourse, but seldom in scholarly discussions. This book seeks to change this by introducing an innovative analytical model of historical lessons, starting from the basic three-fold perspective that everyone simultaneously is history, shares history, and makes history. Not all history, however, is useful for extracting lessons. Here, what are called borderline historical events, which demonstrate both time-specific and time-transcending qualities, are suggested as useful didactic material. Scholarly works on the Holocaust and Soviet terror, from Raul Hilberg’s and Robert Conquest’s classical works of the 1960s, to more recent books by Jan Gross and Timothy Snyder, are analyzed to identify lessons of history, and how they have changed during a full half-century.

Free Download Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America by Kelly Florence, Meg Hafdahl
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1728290198 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 7.90 MB
Grab your flashlight, garlic, and ghost hunting equipment. We’re taking you on the ultimate road trip of the spookiest places around the U.S.

Free Download Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America by Kelly Florence, Meg Hafdahl
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1728290198 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 7.90 MB
Grab your flashlight, garlic, and ghost hunting equipment. We’re taking you on the ultimate road trip of the spookiest places around the U.S.

Free Download John Ferak, "TERROR TOWN, USA: The Untold Story of Joliet’s Notorious Serial Killer"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 195222568X | EPUB | pages: 342 | 0.9 mb
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Free Download Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life by Richard Beck
English | September 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 0593240227 | 592 pages | True EPUB | 2.40 MB
A groundbreaking history of how the decades-long war on terror changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the erosion of citizenship down to the cars we bought and TV we watched-by an acclaimed n+1 writer

Free Download Edwin Jacob, "American Security and the Global War on Terror"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1032199199, 0367438313 | EPUB | pages: 152 | 0.5 mb
This book delivers an interpretive framework for making sense of today’s geopolitical landscape and casts new light on the impact ideology and technology have had on American foreign policy and contemporary security practices.

Free Download Tiny Terror: Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers By William Todd Schultz
2011 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0199752044 | PDF | 1 MB
Truman Capote was one of the most gifted and flamboyant writers of his generation, renowned for such books as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and his masterpiece, the nonfiction novel In Cold Blood. What has received comparatively little attention, however, is Capote’s last, unfinished book, Answered Prayers, a merciless skewering of cafe society and the high-class women Capote called his "swans." When excerpts appeared he was immediately blacklisted, ruined socially, labeled a pariah. Capote recoiled–disgraced, depressed, and all but friendless. In Tiny Terror, a new volume in Oxford’s Inner Lives series, William Todd Schultz sheds light on the life and works of Capote and answers the perplexing mystery–why did Capote write a book that would destroy him? Drawing on an arsenal of psychological techniques, Schultz illuminates Capote’s early years in the South–a time that Capote himself described as a "snake’s nest of No’s"–no parents to speak of, no friends but books, no hope, no future. Out of this dark childhood emerged Capote’s prominent dual life-scripts: neurotic Capote, anxious, vulnerable, hypersensitive, expecting to be hurt; and Capote the disagreeable destroyer, emotionally bulletproof, nasty, and bent on revenge. Schultz shows how Capote would strike out when he felt hurt or taken for granted, engaging in caustic feuds with Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, and many other writers. And Schultz reveals how this tendency fed into Answered Prayers, an exceedingly corrosive and thinly disguised roman a clef that trashed his high-society friends. What emerges by the end of this book is a cogent, immensely insightful portrait of an artist on the edge, brilliantly but self-destructively biting the jet-set hands that fed him. Anyone interested in the inner life of one of America’s most fascinating literary personalities will find this book a revelation.

Free Download Terror and Consent : The Wars for the Twenty-First Century By Philip Bobbitt
2008 | 688 Pages | ISBN: 1400042437 | EPUB | 2 MB
An urgent reconceptualization of the Wars on Terror from the author of The Shield of Achilles ("magisterial"- The New York Times, "a classic for future generations"-The New York Review of Books). In this book Philip Bobbitt brings together historical, legal, and strategic analyses to understand the idea of a "war on terror." Does it make sense? What are its historical antecedents? How would such a war be "won"? What are the appropriate doctrines of constitutional and international law for democracies in such a struggle?He provocatively declares that the United States is the chief cause of global networked terrorism because of overwhelming American strategic dominance. This is not a matter for blame, he insists, but grounds for reflection on basic issues. We have defined the problem of winning the fight against terror in a way that makes the situation virtually impossible to resolve. We need to change our ideas about terrorism, war, and even victory itself.Bobbitt argues that the United States has ignored the role of law in devising its strategy, with fateful consequences, and has failed to reform law in light of the changed strategic context. Along the way he introduces new ideas and concepts-Parmenides’ Fallacy, the Connectivity Paradox, the market state, and the function of terror as a by-product of globalization-to help us prepare for what may be a decades-long conflict of which the battle against al Qaeda is only the first instance.At stake is whether we can maintain states of consent in the twenty-first century or whether the dominant constitutional order will be that of states of terror. Challenging, provocative, and insightful, Terror and Consent addresses the deepest themes of governance, liberty, and violence. It will change the way we think about confronting terror-and it will change the way we evaluate public policies in that struggle.

Free Download Jefferson’s war: America’s first war on terror 1801-1805 By Joseph Wheelan
2003 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0786712325 | EPUB | 4 MB
Two centuries ago, the ostensibly pacifist president Thomas Jefferson launched America’s first war on foreign soil-a war against terror. The enemy was Muslim; the war was waged unconventionally, with commandos, native troops, encrypted intelligence, and foreign bases under short-term alliances. For nearly two hundred years, Barbary pirates had haunted the Mediterranean, enslaving infidels and extorting millions of dollars from European countries in a holy war against Christendom. Newly independent, American ships became a target of piracy. Instead of paying tribute, after his inauguration Jefferson chose to fight. With telling illustrations, Jefferson’s War traces the events surrounding his resolute belief that peace with the Barbary States, and the attainment of Europe’s respect, could be gained only through the "medium of war." Jefferson ordered the new U.S. Navy to Tripoli in 1801, starting the Barbary War that ended in 1805. The war proved that ship-for-ship the U.S. Navy was the equal of any navy afloat. William Eaton’s bold frontal assault on Derna with a fractious army of Arabs, disaffected Tripolitans, European mercenaries, and eight U.S. Marines punctuated the American victory as the marines ran up the Stars and Stripes over the city-the first flag-raising on hostile shores by U.S. troops.