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A band of noble women : racial politics in the women's peace movement / by Plastas, Melinda.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.African American women and the search for peace and freedom -- Race and the social thought of white women in the WILPF -- Philadelphia: forging a national model of interracial peace work -- Cleveland, Washington, DC, and Baltimore: extending the network of interracial peace work -- Conclusion.

Subjects: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Women and peace; Peace movements; African American pacifists;

© 2011., Syracuse University Press,

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Ray & Joan : the man who made the McDonald's fortune and the woman who gave it all away / by Napoli, Lisa,1963-;

Includes bibliographical references (287-353).Jewels -- Land of crazed speculation -- Blond beauty -- First fruits -- Wretched city -- The J and R Double Arch Ranch -- The JoniRay -- The secret everyone knows -- 1984: Two widows -- "Dear world, I really love you" -- Impromptu -- St. Joan -- Appendix: Where did the fast food fortune go?."The dramatic relationship between Ray Kroc, the man who amassed a fortune as chairman of one of America's most controversial and iconic companies--McDonald's--and the passionate woman, his wife, Joan, who then gave that fortune away,"--Baker & Taylor.A quintessentially American tale of corporate intrigue and private passion: a struggling Mad Men-era salesman with a vision for a fast-food franchise that would become one of the world's most enduring brands, and a beautiful woman willing to risk her marriage and her reputation to promote controversial causes that touched her deeply. Ray Kroc was peddling franchises around the country for a fledgling hamburger stand in the 1950s--McDonald's, it was called--when he entered a St. Paul supper club and encountered a beautiful young piano player who would change his life forever. The attraction between Ray and Joan was instantaneous and instantly problematic. Yet even the fact that both were married to other people couldn't derail their roller coaster of a romance. To the outside world, Ray and Joan were happy, enormously rich, and giving. But privately, Joan was growing troubled over Ray's temper and dark secret, something she was reluctant to publicly reveal. Those close to them compared their relationship to that of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. And yet, this volatility paved the way for Joan's transformation into one of the greatest philanthropists of our time. A force in the peace movement, she produced activist films, books, and music and ultimately gave away billions of dollars, including landmark gifts to the Salvation Army and NPR. Together, the two stories form a compelling portrait of the twentieth century: a story of big business, big love, and big giving.--Dust jacket.

Subjects: Biographies.; Kroc, Joan B.; Kroc, Ray, 1902-1984.; McDonald's Corporation; Women philanthropists; Women; Businesspeople; Restaurateurs; Women and peace; Antinuclear movement;

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The Hundred Years War : a people's history / by Green, David,1969-;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Chronology -- Note on money -- Note on names -- Family trees -- Introduction (1337) -- Knight and nobles: flowers of chivalry (1346) -- The Peasantry: "Vox Populi" (1358) -- The church and the clergy: voices from the Pulpit (1378) -- Making peace: "Blessed are the Peacemakers" (1396) -- The madness of Kings: kingship and royal power (1407) -- Soldiers: views from the front (1415) -- Occupation: coexistence, collaboration and resistance (1423) -- Women and war: power and persecution (1429) -- Prisoners of war: gilded cages (1435) -- National identities: St George and "La Mère France" (1449) -- Conclusion: 1453 and beyond.The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in history. Historian David Green focuses on the ways the war affected different groups, among them knights, clerics, women, peasants, soldiers, peacemakers, and kings. He also explores how the long war altered governance in England and France and reshaped peoples' perceptions of themselves and of their national character. Using the events of the war as a narrative thread, Green illuminates the realities of battle and the conditions of those compelled to live in occupied territory; the roles played by clergy and their shifting loyalties to king and pope; and the influence of the war on developing notions of government, literacy, and education. Peopled with vivid and well-known characters--Henry V, Joan of Arc, Philippe the Good of Burgundy, Edward the Black Prince, John the Blind of Bohemia, and many others--as well as a host of ordinary individuals who were drawn into the struggle, this absorbing book reveals for the first time not only the Hundred Years War's impact on warfare, institutions, and nations, but also its true human cost. -- Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453.;

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The quotable Abigail Adams / by Adams, Abigail,1744-1818.; Kaminski, John P.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Advice -- America -- The arts -- Cities, countries, and other places -- Communications -- Death -- Dreams, imagination, memories -- Duty, honor, citizenship -- Economics -- Education -- Family and home -- Food and drink -- Foreign affairs -- Freedom, liberty, and equality -- Friends and enemies -- Government -- Health, medicine, and exercise -- History -- Human nature -- Human relations -- Language, grammar, and penmanship -- Life's blessings -- Life's difficulties -- Life's uncertainties -- Love -- The military -- Morality -- The natural world -- Pain and pleasure -- Peace -- People -- Politics -- Religion -- Travel and transportation -- Vices -- Virtues -- War -- Women -- Alternate spelligns commonly used by Abigail Adams -- Chronology.Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams, shared her penetrating and often humorous observations with correspondents ranging from friends and neighbors to family members to heads of state, offering lively opinions on human nature, politics, culture, and family life. Selected and arranged by topic, these quotations provide an entertaining introduction to the thought and character of America's founding mother. They are accompanied by a biographical introduction, source notes, chronology, and a comprehensive index.

Subjects: Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818; Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818; Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818; Presidents' spouses;

© 2009., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

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The Hello Girls : America's first women soldiers / by Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-354) and index.Prologue / 1. America’s Last Citizens / 2. Neutrality Defeated, and the Telephone in War and Peace / 3. Looking for Soldiers and Finding Women / 4. We’re Going Over / 5. Pack Your Kit / 6. Wilson Adopts Suffrage, and the Signal Corps Embarks / 7. Americans Find Their Way, Over There / 8. Better Late Than Never on the Marne / 9. Wilson Fights for Democracy at Home / 10. Together in the Crisis of Meuse-Argonne / 11. Peace without Their Victory Medals / 12. Soldiering Forward in the Twentieth Century / Epilogue / Notes / Acknowledgments / IndexThis is the story of how America’s first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, demanded female “wire experts” when he discovered that inexperienced doughboys were unable to keep him connected with troops under fire. Without communications for even an hour, the army would collapse.While suffragettes picketed the White House and President Woodrow Wilson struggled to persuade a segregationist Congress to give women of all races the vote, these competent and courageous young women swore the Army oath. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges they faced in a war zone where male soldiers welcomed, resented, wooed, mocked, saluted, and ultimately celebrated them. They received a baptism by fire when German troops pounded Paris with heavy artillery. Some followed “Black Jack” Pershing to battlefields where they served through shelling and bombardment. Grace Banker, their 25-year-old leader, won the Distinguished Service Medal.The army discharged the last Hello Girls in 1920, the same year Congress ratified the Nineteenth Amendment granting the ballot. When the operators sailed home, the army unexpectedly dismissed them without veterans’ benefits. They began a sixty-year battle that a handful of survivors carried to triumph in 1979. With the help of the National Organization for Women, Senator Barry Goldwater, and a crusading Seattle attorney, they triumphed over the U.S. Army. --Provided by publisher.

Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Telephone operators; World War, 1914-1918; United States. Army. Signal Corps; United States. Army; Women soldiers; Women veterans; Women soldiers; Sex discrimination against women; World War, 1914-1918; Women;

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The Hello girls : America's first women soldiers / by Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue / 1. America’s Last Citizens / 2. Neutrality Defeated, and the Telephone in War and Peace / 3. Looking for Soldiers and Finding Women / 4. We’re Going Over / 5. Pack Your Kit / 6. Wilson Adopts Suffrage, and the Signal Corps Embarks / 7. Americans Find Their Way, Over There / 8. Better Late Than Never on the Marne / 9. Wilson Fights for Democracy at Home / 10. Together in the Crisis of Meuse-Argonne / 11. Peace without Their Victory Medals / 12. Soldiering Forward in the Twentieth Century / Epilogue / Notes / Acknowledgments / IndexThis is the story of how America’s first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, demanded female “wire experts” when he discovered that inexperienced doughboys were unable to keep him connected with troops under fire. Without communications for even an hour, the army would collapse.While suffragettes picketed the White House and President Woodrow Wilson struggled to persuade a segregationist Congress to give women of all races the vote, these competent and courageous young women swore the Army oath. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges they faced in a war zone where male soldiers welcomed, resented, wooed, mocked, saluted, and ultimately celebrated them. They received a baptism by fire when German troops pounded Paris with heavy artillery. Some followed “Black Jack” Pershing to battlefields where they served through shelling and bombardment. Grace Banker, their 25-year-old leader, won the Distinguished Service Medal.The army discharged the last Hello Girls in 1920, the same year Congress ratified the Nineteenth Amendment granting the ballot. When the operators sailed home, the army unexpectedly dismissed them without veterans’ benefits. They began a sixty-year battle that a handful of survivors carried to triumph in 1979. With the help of the National Organization for Women, Senator Barry Goldwater, and a crusading Seattle attorney, they triumphed over the U.S. Army. -- provided by publisher.Description based on print version record.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Subjects: Electronic books.; World War, 1914-1918; Telephone operators; World War, 1914-1918;

On-line resources: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kirtland-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4830752 -- Available online. Click here to access.;

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World War I : a history / by Strachan, Hew.;

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-336) and index.The origins of the War / Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. -- The strategy of the Central Powers, 1914-1917 / L.L. Farrar, Jr. -- Manoeuvre warfare: the Eastern and Western fronts, 1914-1915 / D.E. Showalter -- The strategy of the Entente Powers, 1914-1917 / David French -- The Balkans, 1914-1918 / R.J. Crampton -- Turkey's War / Ulrich Trumpener -- The War in Africa / David Killingray -- The War at sea / Paul G. Halpern -- Economic warfare / B.J.C. McKercher -- Economic mobilization: money, munitions, and machines / Hew Strachan -- Women, war, and work / Gail Braybon -- The challenge to Liberalism: the politics of the home fronts / L.A. Turner -- Eastern front and Western front, 1916-1917 / Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson -- Mutinies and military morale / David Englander -- War aims and peace negotiations / David Stevenson -- Propaganda and the mobilization of consent / J.M. Winter -- Socialism, peace, and revolution, 1917-1918 / John Horne -- The entry of the USA into the War and its effects / David Trask -- The German victories, 1917-1918 / Holger H. Herwig -- The War in the air / John H. Morrow, Jr. -- The allied victories, 1918 / Tim Travers -- The peace settlement / Zara Steiner -- Memory and the Great War / Modris Eksteins.This volume explores World War I in all its different aspects. From its causes to its consequences, from the Western Front to the Eastern, from the strategy of the politicians to the tactics of the generals, the course of the war is charted and assessed.

Subjects: World War, 1914-1918.; Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918.;

© c1998., Oxford University Press,

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Roosevelt's lost alliances : how personal politics helped start the Cold War / by Costigliola, Frank,1946-;

Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-522) and index.A portrait of the allies as young men : Franklin, Winston, and koba -- From Missy to Molotov : the women and men who sustained the Big Three -- The personal touch : forming the alliance, January-August 1941 -- Transcending differences : Eden goes to Moscow and churchill to washington, december 1941 -- Creating the "family circle" : the torturous path to Tehran, 1942-43 -- "I've worked it out": Roosevelt's plan to win the peace and defy death, 1944-45 -- The diplomacy of trauma : Kennan and his colleagues in Moscow, 1933-46 -- Guns and kisses in the Kremlin : ambassadors Harriman and Clark Kerr encounter Stalin, 1943-46 -- "Roosevelt's death has changed everything" : Truman's first days, April-June 1945 -- The lost alliance : widespread anxiety and deepening ideology, July 1945-March 1946 -- Conclusion and epilogue.In the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. This book shows how FDR crafted a winning coalition by overcoming the differences among the three leaders. In particular, Roosevelt trained his famous charm on Stalin, rendering him more amenable to compromise. Yet, even as he pursued a lasting peace, FDR was alienating his own intimate circle of advisers. After his death, postwar cooperation depended on Harry Truman, who, with very different sensibilities, heeded the embittered "Soviet experts" his predecessor had kept distant. A Grand Alliance was painstakingly built and carelessly lost--the Cold War was by no means inevitable. This landmark study brings to light key overlooked documents, highlighting the interplay between national interests and more contingent factors, such as the personalities cultural differences of leaders. Foreign relations flowed from personal politics--a lesson pertinent to historians, diplomats, and citizens alike.--From publisher description.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.; Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.; Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.; Cold War;

© c2012., Princeton University Press,

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Appaloosa / by Parker, Robert B.,1932-2010.;

When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses, and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary-one who raises the stakes by playing not with the rules, but with emotions.

Subjects: Western stories.; Frontier and pioneer life; Ranchers; Peace officers; Outlaws;

© 2006., Berkley Books,

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Burning bright / by Petrie, Nicholas.;

War veteran Peter Ash sought peace and quiet among the towering redwoods in Northern California, but the trip isn't quite the balm he hoped for. The dense forest and close fog cause his claustrophobia to buzz and spark, and then he stumbles upon a hungry grizzly bear. Peter doesn't favor his odds in a fight of man against bear, so he makes a strategic retreat up a nearly sapling. There, he finds something strange: a climbing rope, affixed to a distant branch above. It leads to another, and another, up through the giant tree canopy, ending at a hanging platform. On the platform is a woman on the run. From below them come the sounds of men and gunshots.

Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Veterans; Women journalists;

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