Tag: Tragedy

Free Download James R. Barrett, "William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism (Working Class in American History)"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0252070518, 0252020464 | PDF | pages: 386 | 7.9 mb
In this trenchant work, James Barrett traces the political journey of a leading worker radical whose life and experiences encapsulate radicalism’s rise and fall in the United States.

Free Download MOVE: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy [Audible Original]
English | August 08, 2024 | ASIN: B0DCC7XFVG | M4B@128 kbps | 5h 19m | 291 MB
Authors: Curtis Bryant, Kevin Arbouet | Narrator: Tariq Trotter
In the 1970s, a man who called himself John Africa founded a controversial Black separatist group in Philadelphia called MOVE. The group lived communally and espoused a lifestyle set out by Africa that involved free thinking, a raw-food diet, and profound respect for animals, among other things. As MOVE gained momentum and attracted members, it became a source of contention in West Philly, rankling neighbors and drawing the ire of law enforcement. In 1978, a shootout between the Philadelphia police and MOVE members that resulted in the death of an officer led to nine MOVE members being sentenced to decades in prison. The conflict persisted, and on May 13, 1985, the city of Philadelphia bombed the house where MOVE members lived, killing six adults and five children-the first and only time the US government bombed its own citizens on American soil.
How did these events unfurl in a nondescript residential Philly neighborhood? Why were city officials determined to disband MOVE? What became of the MOVE members? How and why is this story largely buried in US history books?

Free Download Kent State: An American Tragedy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D9R8BYY6 | 2024 | 12 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 351 MB
Author: Brian VanDeMark
Narrator: Daniel Henning
On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters wearing bell-bottom jeans hurled taunts and rocks at another group of young Americans-National Guardsmen sporting gas masks and rifles. At half past noon, violence unfolded with chaotic speed, as guardsmen-many of whom had joined the Guard to escape the draft-opened fire on the students. Kent State meticulously re-creates the divided cultural landscape of America during the Vietnam War and popular anxieties around the country. On college campuses, teach-ins, sit-down strikes, and demonstrations exposed the growing rift between the left and the right.

Free Download Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan
English | February 23, 2010 | ISBN: 1400066646 | True EPUB | 752 pages | 5.4 MB
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina-and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial colony. Valley of Death is the untold story of the 1954 battle that, in six weeks, changed the course of history.

Free Download The Tories: A Tragedy: The new Shakespearean retelling of 14 years of Conservative rule from the hilarious satirist behind the Secret Tory by Henry Morris
English | 12 Sept. 2024 | ISBN: 0008709009 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 1.8 MB
The brilliant mind behind the Secret Tory presents 14 years of Tory rule – as told by William Shakespeare

Free Download The Last Disco: The story of the Stardust tragedy by Sean Murray, Christine Bohan, Nicky Ryan
English | August 8, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CZLX6CFM | 303 pages | EPUB | 3.24 Mb
‘A riveting and important read, forensically documenting the state’s failings while also relating the traumatic human fallout for a whole community for whom life would never be the same again’ – Mick Clifford

Free Download Suicide: Understanding and Ending a National Tragedy by John Bateson
English | September 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1421449412 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 0.96 MB
An urgent call to action on a rising-and preventable-trend.

Free Download Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism by Maurice Isserman
English | June 4, 2024 | ISBN: 1541620038 | 384 pages | PDF | 20 Mb
"The wisest, most eloquent history of the Communist Party USA that has ever been written" (Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win),revealing how party members contributed to struggles for justice and equality in America even as they championed a brutal, totalitarian state, the USSR

Free Download The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering by Daniel Light
English | 5 Sept. 2024 | ISBN: 0861548167 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 16.9 MB
The true story of the thrill-seekers, map-makers, soldiers, occultists, artists and porters who paved the way for modern mountaineering.

Free Download Naomi A. Weiss, "The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater"
English | ISBN: 0520295900 | 2017 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides’ allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestures towards musical and religious practices external to the drama but closely interwoven with the dramatic Description. Situating Euripides’ experimentation with the dramaturgical effects of mousike within a broader cultural context, she shows how much of his novelty lies in his reinvention of traditional lyric styles and motifs for the tragic stage. If we wish to understand better the trajectories of this most important ancient art form, The Music of Tragedy argues, we must pay closer attention to the role played by both music and text.