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By Dave Jordan

ISBN: 9781847471208
Published: 2007
Pages: 120
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This is the story of how, through naivity and misfortune, I transgressed from a normal healthy young man stood at life's launch pad into the nightmare of clinical mental illness. It tells of how after 3 years of psychiatric treatment I was left a destroyed, disabled and unemployed person on the scrap heap despite a relentless campaign of resiliance and self help. It also tells of my attempts to get justice for what I believed to be medical negligence,...

..". detailed, well-written and thoroughly documented." The Journal of Military History

..". comprehensive, well-written, and thoroughly researched... " Booklist

..". the definitive work on the life of Winfield Scott Hancock... " Blue and Gray

"At last we have a complete life of Hancock], and it, too, is superb." The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Jordan s careful attention to detail and excellent use of sources highlight a lively writing style to make a highly readable book." America s Civil War

"Jordan s study of Hancock is an important contribution to both...

Drug Politics is an enlightening new book by a man who knows this disturbing and dangerous subject. A former United States ambassador to Peru, David C. Jordan has testified before the U.S. Senate and House Foreign Relations committees and has consulted with various government security organizations. His account of government protection of the criminal elements intertwined with local and global politics challenges many of the assumptions of current drug policies. Using examples from South America, Mexico, Russia, and the United States, Jordan shows that the narcotics problem is not...

Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been overshadowed by the war, Roosevelt's health and his death the following April, Truman's ascendancy, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb. Today most people assume that FDR's reelection was assured. Yet, as David M. Jordan's engrossing account reveals, neither the outcome of the campaign nor even the choice of candidates was assured. Just a week before Election Day, pollster George Gallup thought a small shift in votes in a few key...

Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been overshadowed by the war, Roosevelt's health and his death the following April, Truman's ascendancy, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb. Today most people assume that FDR's reelection was assured. Yet, as David M. Jordan's engrossing account reveals, neither the outcome of the campaign nor even the choice of candidates was assured. Just a week before Election Day, pollster George Gallup thought a small shift in votes in a few key...