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Author : Shana Penn
Release : 2005
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 962/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Solidarity's Secret by : Shana Penn
Download or read book Solidarity's Secret written by Shana Penn. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to document women's crucial role in the fall of Poland's communist regime
Author : Kim Scipes
Release : 2011
Genre : Labor unions
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 023/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers by : Kim Scipes
Download or read book AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers written by Kim Scipes. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the themes of imperialism and empire from the perspective of the foreign policy program of organized labor in the United States. It details efforts to make real popular democracy within Labor. The author calls for American workers to join the global movement for economic and social justice and to extend globalization from 'below' against the values and activities of the top-down and destructive military-corporate globalization that has been sweeping the world for years.
Author : F. G. Haghenbeck
Release : 2012-09-25
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 843/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo by : F. G. Haghenbeck
Download or read book The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo written by F. G. Haghenbeck. This book was released on 2012-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Mexico’s most celebrated new novelists, F. G. Haghenbeck offers a beautifully written reimagining of Frida Kahlo’s fascinating life and loves. When several notebooks were recently discovered among Frida Kahlo’s belongings at her home in Coyoacán, Mexico City, acclaimed Mexican novelist F. G. Haghenbeck was inspired to write this beautifully wrought fictional account of her life. Haghenbeck imagines that, after Frida nearly died when a streetcar’s iron handrail pierced her abdomen during a traffic accident, she received one of the notebooks as a gift from her lover Tina Modotti. Frida called the notebook “The Hierba Santa Book” (The Sacred Herbs Book) and filled it with memories, ideas, and recipes. Haghenbeck takes readers on a magical ride through Frida’s passionate life: her long and tumultuous relationship with Diego Rivera, the development of her art, her complex personality, her hunger for experience, and her ardent feminism. This stunning narrative also details her remarkable relationships with Georgia O’Keeffe, Leon Trotsky, Nelson Rockefeller, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Henry Miller, and Salvador Dalí. Combining rich, luscious prose with recipes from “The Hierba Santa Book,” Haghenbeck tells the extraordinary story of a woman whose life was as stunning a creation as her art.
Author : Seth G. Jones
Release : 2018-09-11
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 015/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland by : Seth G. Jones
Download or read book A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland written by Seth G. Jones. This book was released on 2018-09-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A tale of victory for peace, for freedom, and for the CIA— a trifecta rare enough to make for required reading.” —Steve Donoghue, Spectator USA In 1981, the Soviet-backed Polish government declared martial law to crush a budding democratic opposition movement. Moscow and Washington were on a collision course. It was the most significant crisis of Ronald Reagan’s fledgling presidency. Reagan authorized a covert CIA operation codenamed QRHELPFUL to support dissident groups, particularly the trade union Solidarity. The CIA provided money that helped Solidarity print newspapers, broadcast radio programs, and conduct an information campaign against the government. This gripping narrative reveals the little-known history of one of America’s most successful covert operations through its most important characters—spymaster Bill Casey, CIA officer Richard Malzahn, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, Pope John Paul II, and the Polish patriots who were instrumental to the success of the program. Based on in- depth interviews and recently declassified evidence, A Covert Action celebrates a decisive victory over tyranny for US intelligence behind the Iron Curtain, one that prefigured the Soviet collapse.
Author : David Featherstone
Release : 2012-07-12
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 971/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Solidarity by : David Featherstone
Download or read book Solidarity written by David Featherstone. This book was released on 2012-07-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the frequency with which the word 'solidarity' is invoked the concept itself has rarely been subjected to close scrutiny. In this original and stereotype-busting work, David Featherstone helps redress this imbalance through an innovative combination of archival research, activist testimonies and first-hand involvement with political movements. Presenting a variety of case studies, from anti-slavery and anti-fascist organizing to climate change activism and the boycotts of Coca-Cola, Featherstone unearths international forms of solidarity that are all too often marginalized by nation-centred histories of the left and social movements. Timely and wide-ranging, this is a fascinating investigation of an increasingly vital subject.
