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Assassination of a Michigan King: The Life of James Jesse Strang
ISBN: 9780472084548 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A skeptical follower of James Jesse Strang once wrote: "No man can serve two masters. You cannot serve a temporal king and a republican government at the same time. The thing is preposterous." And yet, under Strang, such a system survived in Michigan for six years. This book traces the life and assassination of King Strang, the extraordinary Mormon leader who, in the 1850s, created a literal kingdom on Beaver Island, in Lake Michigan. As a young man, Strang was a dreamer of grandiose dreams---dreams of power, of royalty, and of fame. For him, the dreams came true. But in his pursuit... A skeptical follower of James Jesse Strang once wrote: "No man can serve two masters. You cannot serve a temporal king and a republican government ... |
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118,69 zł |
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Unleashed: A storyteller's odyssey
ISBN: 9781492726142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An unforgettable storyteller, Al MacLeese delighted in recounting his escapades in the Navy and during journalism's hard-drinking era, when bosses fired him with astonishing regularity. He counted 47 newsroom jobs in a 15-year stretch, drifting from Miami to San Francisco to Boston. In one forced migration after falling asleep drunk at a Golden Gate Bridge tollgate, he was jailed when he instigated confrontations on a bus and a fracas in the bus station. While being questioned by police, he blurted a confession to a triple ax murder. "Unleashed: A storyteller's odyssey" tells the history of a...
An unforgettable storyteller, Al MacLeese delighted in recounting his escapades in the Navy and during journalism's hard-drinking era, when bosses fir...
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56,68 zł |