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Chapters: Alex Haley, Harry Browne, Alan Lightman, Al Gore, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Cormac Mccarthy, Shelby Foote, Nikki Giovanni, James Agee, Paco Ahlgren, Wilma Dykeman, Daniel Ellis, Sara M. Harvey, Dorothy Lavinia Brown, Thomas J. Anderson, Tim Leffel, Ann Patchett, Andrew Nelson Lytle, Donald Davidson, Tim Cahill, Thomas Harris, Lisa Quinn, Hampton Sides, Rankin Barbee, Eric Durchholz, Madison Smartt Bell, Kristin Gore, Michael Morrison, Anne Jackson, Debbi Fields, Jt Ellison, Jo Carson, Opie Read, Nancy K. Pearson, Tony Earley, Lisa Alther, Alex Bledsoe, Christine Sadler, William Peterfield Trent, David Madden, Mary Q. Steele, William O. Steele, Will Allen Dromgoole. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 215. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Vice Presidency of Al GoreAl Gore presidential campaign, 1988Al Gore presidential campaign, 2000Role in information technologyEnvironmental activism Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He is currently an author, businessperson, and American environmental activist who starred in the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Academy Award in 2007. Gore also wrote the book An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, which won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in February 2009. He was involved in American politics for 24 years, serving first in the U.S. House of Representatives (197785) and later in the U.S. Senate (198593) (representing Tennessee) before becoming vice president. Gore was the Democratic nominee for president in the 2000 presidential election. He won the popular vote by approximately 500,000 votes, but ultimately lost the electoral college to Republican...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5042706 ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Alex(ander) (Murray Palmer) Haley, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2683 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Chapters: Alex Haley, Medgar Evers, Steve Mcnair, Michael Clarke Duncan, Alexander O'neal, Donald Driver, Iris Kyle, Leslie Frazier, Horace R. Cayton, Katie G. Dorsett, J. Samuel Cook, Kimberly Morgan, Ed Smith, Larry Smith, Jimmie Giles, Lawrence Pillers, Alexander Graves, Julius Keye, Roynell Young, Dave Washington, Joseph Edison Walker, Louis Green, Willie Norwood, Mike Phelps. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 91. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Stephen LaTreal McNair (February 14, 1973 July 4, 2009) (Nicknamed Air McNair) was an American football quarterback who spent the majority of his NFL career with the Tennessee Titans. McNair played college football at Alcorn State in Lorman, Mississippi, where he won the 1994 Walter Payton Award as the top player in NCAA Division I-AA. He was drafted third overall by the NFL's Houston Oilers in 1995, becoming the Oilers' regular starting quarterback in 1997, their first season in Tennessee (though he started six games over the prior two seasons in Houston), and remained the starting quarterback for the Titans through 2005. After the 2005 season, McNair was traded to the Baltimore Ravens, with whom he played for two seasons before retiring after thirteen NFL seasons. McNair led the Titans to the playoffs four times, and the Ravens once, and played in Super Bowl XXXIV with the Titans. He is the Titans' all-time leading passer. McNair was selected to the Pro Bowl three times, was All-Pro and Co-MVP in 2003, all as a Titan. McNair was the victim of homicide on July 4, 2009, from gunshot wounds inflicted by Sahel Kazemi, his mistress, who then turned the gun on herself. McNair was born in Mount Olive, Mississippi, and attended Mount Olive High School as a freshman in the fall of 1987, where he played football, baseball, and basketball in add...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=640689 ... Read more

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Chapters: Fort Pillow State Park, Alex Haley House and Museum, Veterans' Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Fort Pillow State Park -In 1861, the Confederate States Army built extensive fortifications here and named the site for General Gideon J. Pillow of Maury County. Engraving of Confederate troops massacring Black Union soldiers after the Battle of Fort Pillow.Because of its strategic location, controlling traffic on the Mississippi River, the fort was attacked and captured by the Union Army, which controlled it during most of the war. An exception to this control occurred for less than one day immediately after the Battle of Fort Pillow in 1864. June 4, 1862 American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee. The Confederate victory at the Battle of Fort Pillow (April 1864) ended in the killing of 229 black and white Union soldiers out of 262 engaged in the battle. This slaughter by the Southern troops under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest has been labeled a massacre; historians still debate how much "slaughter" actually took place, and some believe the reports were exaggerated. While the Union casualty count for the battle does not indicate that the Confederate forces took many prisoners, Confederate records show about 200 prisoners were shipped south. In any case, "Remember Fort Pillow!" became a battle cry among Black soldiers for the remainder of the Civil War. In 1866, the Union Army created a cemetery for both Confederate and Union soldiers south of the battle site. In 1867, they moved about 250 bodies of Confederate and Union soldiers from that cemetery to the Memphis National Cemetery. In 1973, the site was added to the National R...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=881499 ... Read more

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Chapters: Peter Debye, Alex Haley, Rod Serling, David Foster Wallace, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Paul Wolfowitz, Shane Hurlbut, Johnny Dowd, Kirkpatrick Sale, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Jim Marshall, Nir Shaviv, Mary Mcdonnell, Ezra Cornell, Dustin Brown, Susan Kare, Jordin Kare, Benjamin G. Ferris, Henry W. Sage, Philipp Meyer, Josh Bard, Daisy Fried, Constance Cook, Paul Glover, Simeon de Witt, Montgomery Schuyler, List of People From Ithaca, New York, Banks Violette, Alonzo B. Cornell, Mortimer Dormer Leggett, Bart Sears, Tim Dekay, Benjamin Nichols, John Clapp, Adam C. Engst, Enzo Riccardo Campagnolo, Lori Atsedes, Tim Hamulack, David K. Wyatt, Arthur Dean, John H. Gear, Bernard W. Kearney, Marty Domres, Tonya Engst, Matthew F. Mchugh, Andrew D. W. Bruyn, Stephen T. Hayt, Crawford Palmer, David D. Spencer, Caryn Davies, James Milton Black, Billy Devlin, Kurt Sohn, Jim Butterfield, Walter Palmer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 274. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Democratic (before 1981). Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is a former United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, President of the World Bank, and former dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships, and chairman of the US-Taiwan Business Council. He is a leading neoconservative. As Deputy Secretary of Defense, he was "a major architect of President Bush's Iraq policy and ... its most hawkish advocate." After serving two years, he resigned as president of the World Bank Group "ending a protracted and tumultuous battle over his stewardship, sparked by a promotion he arra...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=192005 ... Read more

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Chapters: Uss Beaufort, Uss Brunswick, Uscgc Alex Haley. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 6 x .50 Caliber mounts 2 x 20mm mounts 2 x Phalanx turrets USS Beaufort (ATS-2) was an Edenton-class salvage and rescue ship acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1972 and maintained in service until struck in 1996. Beaufort spent her entire career in the Pacific Ocean, based out of Pearl Harbor, and provided salvage and rescue services where needed from the Western Pacific to the North Pacific. The fifth ship to be so named by the Navy, Beaufort (ATS-2) was laid down on 19 February 1968 at Lowestoft, England, by Brooke Marine Ltd.; launched on 20 December 1968; sponsored by Mrs. Waldemar F. A. Wendt; delivered to the Navy at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard on 5 January 1972; and commissioned there on 22 January 1972, Lt. Comdr. Arthur R. Erwin in command. Beaufort completed outfitting at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard on 5 April 1972 and moved first to the Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, for deperming and thence to Little Creek, Virginia, to load in preparation for the voyage to Pearl Harbor. She made an overnight stop at one of her namesake cities, Beaufort, South Carolina, on 14 and 15 April and a two-day visit to Port Royal, South Carolina, from 15 to 17 April before resuming her voyage to Hawaii. The salvage tug transited the Panama Canal on 24 April and headed up the U.S. West Coast of North America to San Diego, California, arriving there on 3 May. Five days later, Beaufort put to sea on the last leg of her voyage. She arrived in Pearl Harbor on 15 May and became a unit of Service Squadron (ServRon) 5. The ship remained in port until 5 June at which time she began shakedown training in the Hawaiian Islands operating area. The salvage tug completed shakedown...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19110530 ... Read more

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Chapters: Gambian Emigrants, People of Gambian Descent, Alex Haley, Mathias Jørgensen, Kebba Ceesay, Haddy Jallow. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alex Haley (August 11, 1921 February 10, 1992) was an African-American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family and as Malcolm X's collaborator on The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Haley was born in Ithaca, New York August 11, 1921. As the oldest of three brothers and a sister. Haley lived with his family in Henning, Tennessee before he returned to Ithaca with his family when he was five years old. Haley's father was a professor of agriculture at Cornell University and a decorated World War I veteran. The younger Haley always spoke proudly of his father and the incredible obstacles of racism he had overcome. Alex Haley was enrolled at Alcorn State University at age 15. Two years later he returned to his parents to inform them of his withdrawal from college. Simon Haley felt that Alex needed discipline and growth and convinced his son to enlist in the military when he turned 18. On May 24, 1939, Alex Haley began his twenty-year enlistment with the Coast Guard. He enlisted as a mess attendant and then became a Petty Officer Third Class in the rate of Steward, one of the few rates open to African Americans at that time. His Coast Guard service number was 212-548. It was during his service in the Pacific theater of operations that Haley taught himself the craft of writing stories. It is said that during his enlistment he was often paid by other sailors to write love letters to their girlfriends. He talked of how the greatest enemy he and his crew faced during their long sea voyages wasn't the Japanese but boredom. Alex Haley's boyhood home in Henning, Tennessee (2007)A...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=96904 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 712 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador). In both regions, the history of civilization goes back thousands of years. ... Read more

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First Edition stated. Doubleday, NY 1988. Good/Good dust jacket condition. A TALE BY THE AUTHOR OF ROOTS. This is the author, Alex Haley's ("Roots") drama of white Southerner, Fletcher Randall the son of a powerful North Carolina plantation owner, and a black slave working towards a common goal. There was a mass escape of slaves to the Underground Railroad, with the secret date being set for Christmas Eve of 1855. ... Read more

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More relevant than prior to Obama's victory.
Author of "Roots", Alex Haley, does indeed write "A Different Kind of Christmas" book. It deals with a teenage only-son from a N. Carolina plantation (Fletcher Randall) who attends college in New Jersey. There becomes aware of his belief that slavery is wrong, through friendship with Quaker schoolmates.

He offers his assistance to the underground railroad people and is given the assignment to assist getting a group of slaves away from his own home county, indeed, some from his own father's plantation. He will meet a slave co-organizer of the escape. The escape is intended to happen during local events on Christmas Eve, 1855. Plans go awry. Will the slaves escape? Will Fletcher and his assistant, Harpin' John, survive?

It is a different Christmas story and one that will never become outdated. It is a fine bit of historical fiction. Is it fiction? It is written so well, a spell-binder, that one wonders how much is truth. This book is even more significant now, due to the Obama election.

A book for schools across the nation, as well as homeschoolers. ... Read more