The Lucky Thirteen: The Winners of America`s Triple Crown of Horse Racing, Bowen Edward

Автор: Greenberg Raymond S.
Название: Medal Winners: How the Vietnam War Launched Nobel Careers
ISBN: 1477319425 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781477319420
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As the ground war in Vietnam escalated in the late 1960s, the US government leveraged the so-called doctor draft to secure adequate numbers of medical personnel in the armed forces. Among newly minted physicians’ few alternatives to military service was the Clinical Associate Training Program at the National Institutes of Health. Though only a small percentage of applicants were accepted, the elite program launched an unprecedented number of remarkable scientific careers that would revolutionize medicine at the end of the twentieth century.

Medal Winners recounts this overlooked chapter and unforeseen byproduct of the Vietnam War through the lives of four former NIH clinical associates who would go on to become Nobel laureates. Raymond S. Greenberg traces their stories from their pre-NIH years and apprenticeships through their subsequent Nobel Prize–winning work, which transformed treatment of heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. Greenberg shows how the Vietnam draft unintentionally ushered in a golden era of research by bringing talented young physicians under the tutelage of leading scientists and offers a lesson in what it may take to replicate such a towering center of scientific innovation as the NIH in the 1960s and 1970s.

Автор: Beyer Walter F., Keydel Oscar F.
Название: Heroes of the Indian Wars: Congressional Medal of Honour Winners During the Indian Wars
ISBN: 0857067621 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857067623
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Описание: The soldiers who fought the American Indian tribes

This book describes the exploits of the soldiers of the United States Army who fought the indigenous native Indian tribes for the dominance of the North American heartland in the years following the American Civil War. It concentrates particularly on those whose acts of outstanding bravery earned them the highest award it is possible to bestow upon an American soldier-the Congressional Medal of Honour. The contents of this volume were originally part of a two volume work which recounted the actions of the soldiers and sailors of the American Army and Navy from the time the award was created, through the American Civil War and covering actions and campaigns up to and including the Spanish American War and the war in China at the turn of the 20th century. What made this present selection particularly appealing was the large number of fine illustrations which appeared within the text to support the descriptions of the actions. As is often the case with 19th century books the illustrations were not given the prominence or focus that modern day readers might prefer. This Leonaur edition seeks to rectify this. These wonderful accounts of high action are compellingly told and this book is an essential addition to the libraries of all those interested in frontier America and the outstanding exploits of the soldiers in 'dirty shirt blue' who won a continent.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

Автор: Wedge Doug
Название: Pinnacle on the Mound: Cy Young Award Winners Talk Baseball
ISBN: 1538154811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538154816
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: In Pinnacle on the Mound, ten Cy Young Award winners-pitchers recognized as the very best at their craft-share amusing anecdotes and valuable insight about their keys to success. From Jim Lonborg to Corey Kluber, their fascinating stories represent 50 years of baseball history.

Автор: Liljeström Rita, Lindskog Eva, Van Ang Nguyen
Название: Profit and Poverty in Rural Vietnam: Winners and Losers of a Dismantled Revolution
ISBN: 1032190744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032190747
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Описание: This book, first published in 1998, studies the social impact of Doi Moi, a policy of economic renovation, on the living conditions in state forest enterprises and agricultural cooperatives in northern Vietnam. It compares the authors` findings with those of 1987, before the formal adoption of the new economic policies.

Автор: Kelly Jennifer S.
Название: Sir Barton and the Making of the Triple Crown
ISBN: 0813177162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813177168
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: That duel would cement the reputation of one horse for all time and diminish the reputation of the other for the next century -- until now. Sir Barton and the Making of the Triple Crown is the first book to focus on Sir Barton, his career, and his historic impact on horse racing.

Автор: Jack Gilden
Название: The Fast Ride: Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing
ISBN: 1496230507 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496230508
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: In an era of spectacular thoroughbreds, Spectacular Bid was perhaps the most exalted racehorse of them all. In 1979 he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes—and transcended his sport on a run of twelve consecutive stakes victories—but his quest for the Triple Crown was lost with a third-place finish in the Belmont Stakes due to a series of bizarre events that have never been accurately reported.

In The Fast Ride, Jack Gilden tells the story of what really happened that day the Bid lost the biggest race of his life. Along the way, he introduces the reader to a cast of characters from the gilded age of late twentieth-century horse racing, from Bid’s owners, the renowned Meyerhoff family, to Grover “Buddy” Delp, the fast-talking trainer, to teenage jockey Ronnie Franklin, whose meteoric rise to fame aboard Spectacular Bid came at the cost of his innocence and well-being. Also present are four of the era’s magnificent Latino riders, Ángel Cordero Jr., Jacinto Vasquez, Georgie Velasquez, and Ruben Hernandez, who all felt the sting of rejection and bigotry during their long careers even as they found their way and raised the level of competition to a feverish pitch.

Underlying Spectacular Bid’s saga was a thin line between hard work and excess, including substance abuse, animal manipulation and doping, and race fixing. Hardly anyone in the horse’s circle made it out unscathed or undamaged.

The Fast Ride is the story of a great racehorse, unfulfilled dreams, the exhilaration and steep price of striving at all costs, and an American era in which getting everything you ever wanted could be the most empty and unfulfilling sensation of all.

 
 

Автор: Duling Ennis
Название: Thirteen Charges Against Benedict Arnold: The Accusations of Colonel John Brown Prior to the Act of Treason
ISBN: 147668491X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476684918
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Описание: Although forgotten today, John Brown was an early hero of the American Revolution, a legislator, envoy, spy, and accomplished field officer. His misconduct charges against General Benedict Arnold and his many proposed witnesses are a starting point for a reevaluation of Arnold`s conduct in the Revolutionary War.

Автор: Robert G. Parkinson
Название: Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
ISBN: 1469662566 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469662565
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Описание: In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time. So how did these American colonies overcome long odds to create a durable union capable of declaring independence from Britain? In this powerful new history of the fifteen tense months that culminated in the Declaration of Independence, Robert G. Parkinson provides a troubling answer: racial fear. Tracing the circulation of information in the colonial news systems that linked patriot leaders and average colonists, Parkinson reveals how the system's participants constructed a compelling drama featuring virtuous men who suddenly found themselves threatened by ruthless Indians and defiant slaves acting on behalf of the king.

Parkinson argues that patriot leaders used racial prejudices to persuade Americans to declare independence. Between the Revolutionary War's start at Lexington and the Declaration, they broadcast any news they could find about Native Americans, enslaved Blacks, and Hessian mercenaries working with their British enemies. American independence thus owed less to the love of liberty than to the exploitation of colonial fears about race. Thirteen Clocks offers an accessible history of the Revolution that uncovers the uncomfortable origins of the republic even as it speaks to our own moment.

Автор: Robert G. Parkinson
Название: Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
ISBN: 1469662574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469662572
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Описание: How did the American colonies overcome long odds to create a durable union capable of declaring independence from Britain? In this powerful new history of the fifteen tense months that culminated in the Declaration of Independence, Robert Parkinson provides a troubling answer: racial fear.