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About Face
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Author : David H. Hackworth
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-09-29
About Face written by David H. Hackworth and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Called “everything a war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this all-time classic of the military memoir genre now includes a new forward from bestselling author and retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink. Whether he was fifteen years old or forty, David Hackworth devoted his life to the US Army and quickly became a living legend. However, he appeared on TV in 1971 to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam. From Korea to Berlin and the Cuban missile crisis to Vietnam, Hackworth’s story is that of an exemplary patriot, played against the backdrop of the changing fortunes of America and the US military. This memoir is the stunning indictment of the Pentagon’s fundamental misunderstanding of the Vietnam conflict and of the bureaucracy of self-interest that fueled the war. With About Face, Hackworth has written what many Vietnam veterans have called the most important book of their generation and presents a vivid and powerful portrait of patriotism.
About Face
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Author : William Giraldi
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2022-09-06
About Face written by William Giraldi and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-06 with Fiction categories.
A tragicomic novel of a fame-obsessed American society yet again on the brink. Evoking such classics as Elmer Gantry and The Day of the Locust, William Giraldi’s About Face boldly transfers the perennial literary themes of celebrity, ambition, and obsession to twenty-first-century Boston. There we meet Val Face, a charismatic self-help guru who captivates multitudes with his uncanny ability to heal adherents using only the power of his words, the mysterious touch of his hands, and the transcendent beauty of his face. Assigned to write a profile of Val Face during his much-hyped New England tour, thirty-year-old impoverished journalist Seger Jovi pens a brutal hatchet job. But Seger, at once curious and incredulous, is soon sucked into the mystic’s vortex of fame, becoming a devotee himself as he contends with the machinations and absurdities of Face’s many protectors, from beefcake bodyguards to helicoptering handlers to Face’s unwavering spouse, Nimble. At first unwilling to sacrifice his principles to fulfill his own ambition and rise from privation, then touched by Face’s unexpected humanity, Seger oscillates between acting as Face’s cynical foil and becoming his unlikely ally. Just as the exalted guru appears to be reaching the apex of his powers, danger threatens from the periphery in the form of an obsessive stalker who wants Face dead. To curb this stalker before he can do harm, Face’s security team enlists the aid of Jackie Jaworski, an ex-Marine and resourceful Boston detective who moonlights as a novelist of thrillers. And so About Face, building to a denouement that will astonish readers, takes us into the convergence of violence and fame that has come to define so much of American popular culture over the last half-century. With its indelible array of characters, hypnotic pacing, and shocking conclusion—and “a mesmerizing prose style that is downright pyrotechnic in its brilliance” (Andre Dubus III)—About Face is a novel in the grand tradition that dances along the tenuous line between the sacred and the profane.
About Face
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Author : Elena Bellina
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-10-02
About Face written by Elena Bellina and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
How do we represent ouselves and the cultures we live in? Is it possible to trace any boundaries between reality and self-representation? Because the self represented is the product of a process of selection and choice, in many ways to represent the self is, often simultaneously, to create the self and negate the self. What, then, becomes of the self once it is represented? Because the process of self-representation cumulates in a tangible result and given that any representation of the self is necessarily a construct which aims to render visible or knowable in concrete form the unseen and unknown, self-representation is vulnerable to assessments of its naturalness or artificiality, its honesty or deceit. Many issues affect the author or artist’s self-representation, both as process and form: the medium through which the self will be represented, the motivation for representing oneself, and the role of the audience, to name only a few relevant factors. This book explores the multifaceted nature of self-representation in relation to culture from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance up to contemporary Italian, American and Australian culture with reference to concepts and questions connected to literature, poetry, philosophy, theology, history, ethnicity studies, gender studies, and visual arts.
Right About Face Or Ben The Gordon Boy
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Author : Emily Brodie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1819
Right About Face Or Ben The Gordon Boy written by Emily Brodie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1819 with categories.
About Face
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Author : Jonathan Cole
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1999-02-18
About Face written by Jonathan Cole and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02-18 with Medical categories.
What is special about the face, and what happens when neurological conditions make expression or comprehension of the face unavailable? Through a mix of science, autobiography, case studies, and speculation, Jonathan Cole shows the importance not only of facial expressions for communication among individuals but also of facial embodiment for our sense of self. He presents, in his words, "a natural history of the face and an unnatural history of those who live without it." The heart of the book lies in the experiences of people with facial losses of various kinds. The case studies are of blind, autistic, and neurologically impaired persons; the most extreme case involves Mobius syndrome, in which individuals are born with a total inability to move their facial muscles and hence to make facial expressions. Cole suggests that it is only by studying such personal narratives of loss that we can understand facial function and something of what all our faces reflect.
About Faces
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Author : Sharrona Pearl
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-06-15
About Faces written by Sharrona Pearl and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with Psychology categories.
When nineteenth-century Londoners looked at each other, what did they see, and how did they want to be seen? Sharrona Pearl reveals the way that physiognomy, the study of facial features and their relationship to character, shaped the way that people understood one another and presented themselves. Physiognomy was initially a practice used to get information about others, but soon became a way to self-consciously give information--on stage, in print, in images, in research, and especially on the street. Moving through a wide range of media, Pearl shows how physiognomical notions rested on instinct and honed a kind of shared subjectivity. She looks at the stakes for framing physiognomy--a practice with a long history--as a science in the nineteenth century. By showing how physiognomy gave people permission to judge others, Pearl holds up a mirror both to Victorian times and our own.
The Girl S Own Annual
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
The Girl S Own Annual written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with Children's literature categories.
The Story Of A Thousand
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Author : Albion W. Tourgée
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
The Story Of A Thousand written by Albion W. Tourgée and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Ohio categories.
Senate Documents
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
Senate Documents written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with categories.
A Greek English Lexicon
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Author : Henry George Liddell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
A Greek English Lexicon written by Henry George Liddell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with English language categories.