The Trojan Horse President
Title | The Trojan Horse President PDF eBook |
Author | Peter A. Olsson and Laurence F. Messner |
Publisher | Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2019-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1950015130 |
Authors Peter A. Olsson and Laurence F. Messner both had high hopes when Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. “We were impressed with Obama’s gift for moving and eloquent speeches. As both black and white himself, Obama had a unique opportunity. We had hopes that Obama would bring black America and white America together to continue our country’s solid progress toward freedom and justice for all,” the authors state. “After a severe economic crisis, we hoped for the return of American economic prosperity, military power, and spiritual leadership for peace in the world through American strength of leadership. We have been sorely disappointed in Mr. Obama! This book expresses our intense disappointments and the rationale behind our thinking.” The opinions, discussions, and correspondence in The Trojan Horse President took place from soon after Barack Obama’s election to the presidency until just before the presidential election of 2016.
A Man of Iron
Title | A Man of Iron PDF eBook |
Author | Troy Senik |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2023-11-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1982140771 |
"A long-overdue biography of Grover Cleveland, the honest, principled, plain-spoken, and incorruptible twenty-second and twenty-fourth president whose country has largely forgotten him"--
Creationism's Trojan Horse
Title | Creationism's Trojan Horse PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Forrest |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 447 |
Release | 2004-01-08 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0198035780 |
Forrest and Gross expose the scientific failure, the religious essence, and the political ambitions of "intelligent design" creationism. They examine the movement's "Wedge Strategy," which has advanced and is succeeding through public relations rather than through scientific research. Analyzing the content and character of "intelligent design theory," they highlight its threat to public education and to the separation of church and state.
The Trojan Horse in the Belly of the Beast
Title | The Trojan Horse in the Belly of the Beast PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Douglass |
Publisher | Publication Consultants |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2015-11-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1594334633 |
The carefully crafted projects and deep secrets of the Islamic Republic of Iran and their opponents in the Iran Nuclear Weapons Interdiction Project each bring their best and their worst to fruition in this the final book in the Trojan Horse in the Belly of the Beast Trilogy. Both sides are playing an extremely expensive and dangerous game with apocalypse or economic ruin as real consequences. Cyber war is waged with a vengeance, but Afsoon and Gideon hold strategic advantages. The question is whether or not their elaborate plan will succeed in time to prevent the impending holocaust. The answer to that existential reality will depend upon whether or not Afsoon can survive.
Aeneid
Title | Aeneid PDF eBook |
Author | Virgil |
Publisher | |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 1918 |
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The Trojan War Museum: and Other Stories
Title | The Trojan War Museum: and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Ayse Papatya Bucak |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2019-08-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1324002980 |
Short-listed for the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection “As profound as it is lyrical. The stories are music.” —Marcela Davison Avilés, NPR In Ayse Papatya Bucak’s dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount gas explosions and a chess-playing automaton falls in love. A student stops eating, and no one knows whether her act is personal or political. A Turkish wrestler, a hero in the East, is seen as a brute in the West. And in the masterful title story, the Greek god Apollo confronts his personal history to memorialize, and make sense of, generations of war. A joy and a provocation, Bucak’s stories confront the nature of memory with humor and myth, performance and authenticity.
Demagogue for President
Title | Demagogue for President PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Mercieca |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2020-07-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1623499070 |
Winner, Bronze, 2020 Foreword Indies, Political and Social Sciences Winner, 2021 PROSE Award for Government & Politics "Deserves a place alongside George Orwell’s 'Politics and the English Language'. . . . one of the most important political books of this perilous summer."—The Washington Post "A must-read"—Salon "Highly recommended"—Jack Shafer, Politico Featured in "The Best New Books to Read This Summer" and "Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2020"—Literary Hub Historic levels of polarization, a disaffected and frustrated electorate, and widespread distrust of government, the news media, and traditional political leadership set the stage in 2016 for an unexpected, unlikely, and unprecedented presidential contest. Donald Trump’s campaign speeches and other rhetoric seemed on the surface to be simplistic, repetitive, and disorganized to many. As Demagogue for President shows, Trump’s campaign strategy was anything but simple. Political communication expert Jennifer Mercieca shows how the Trump campaign expertly used the common rhetorical techniques of a demagogue, a word with two contradictory definitions—“a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power” or “a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times” (Merriam-Webster, 2019). These strategies, in conjunction with post-rhetorical public relations techniques, were meant to appeal to a segment of an already distrustful electorate. It was an effective tactic. Mercieca analyzes rhetorical strategies such as argument ad hominem, argument ad baculum, argument ad populum, reification, paralipsis, and more to reveal a campaign that was morally repugnant to some but to others a brilliant appeal to American exceptionalism. By all accounts, it fundamentally changed the discourse of the American public sphere.