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Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Release : 1975
Genre : Spanish fiction
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Book Rating : 336/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Universal History of Infamy by : Jorge Luis Borges
Download or read book A Universal History of Infamy written by Jorge Luis Borges. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pablo Piccato
Release : 2017-04-25
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 074/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Infamy by : Pablo Piccato
Download or read book A History of Infamy written by Pablo Piccato. This book was released on 2017-04-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought truth and justice outside state institutions. During this period, criminal news and crime fiction flourished. Civil society’s search for truth and justice led, paradoxically, to the normalization of extrajudicial violence and neglect of the rights of victims. As Pablo Piccato demonstrates, ordinary people in Mexico have made crime and punishment central concerns of the public sphere during the last century, and in doing so have shaped crime and violence in our times.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Release : 2001
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis A Universal History of Iniquity by : Jorge Luis Borges
Download or read book A Universal History of Iniquity written by Jorge Luis Borges. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borges reveals his delight in sharing colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified fascination with knife fights, political and personal betrayal, and bloodthirsty revenge.
Author : Stephanie Fitzgerald
Release : 2017-09-15
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 949/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pearl Harbor by : Stephanie Fitzgerald
Download or read book Pearl Harbor written by Stephanie Fitzgerald. This book was released on 2017-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Franklin D. Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." Early that morning hundreds of Japanese fighter planes unexpectedly attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. More than 2,000 Americans were killed and the battleships of the Pacific Fleet lay in ruins. The brutal attack launched the United States into war, a conflict that engulfed the world.
Author : Richard Reeves
Release : 2015-04-21
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 395/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Infamy by : Richard Reeves
Download or read book Infamy written by Richard Reeves. This book was released on 2015-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE • Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II Less than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed the nation, President Roosevelt signed an executive order declaring parts of four western states to be a war zone operating under military rule. The U.S. Army immediately began rounding up thousands of Japanese-Americans, sometimes giving them less than 24 hours to vacate their houses and farms. For the rest of the war, these victims of war hysteria were imprisoned in primitive camps. In Infamy, the story of this appalling chapter in American history is told more powerfully than ever before. Acclaimed historian Richard Reeves has interviewed survivors, read numerous private letters and memoirs, and combed through archives to deliver a sweeping narrative of this atrocity. Men we usually consider heroes-FDR, Earl Warren, Edward R. Murrow-were in this case villains, but we also learn of many Americans who took great risks to defend the rights of the internees. Most especially, we hear the poignant stories of those who spent years in "war relocation camps," many of whom suffered this terrible injustice with remarkable grace. Racism, greed, xenophobia, and a thirst for revenge: a dark strand in the American character underlies this story of one of the most shameful episodes in our history. But by recovering the past, Infamy has given voice to those who ultimately helped the nation better understand the true meaning of patriotism.
