The audacity to win by david plouffe6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Moving from the deliberations about whether to run at all, through the epic primary battle with Hillary Clinton and the general election against John McCain, Plouffe showcases the high-wire gamesmanship that fascinated pundits and the drama and intrigue that captivated a nation.The Audacity to Win chronicles the arrival of a new moment in American life at the convergence of digital technology and grassroots organization, and the exciting possibilities revealed by a campaign that in many ways functioned as a $1 billion start-up with laser-like focus and discipline. His is the ultimate insider's tale, revealing both the strategies that delivered Obama to office and how the candidate and campaign handled moments of great challenge and opportunity. The Audacity to Win is his story of that groundbreaking achievement, taking readers inside the remarkable campaign that led to the election of the first African American president.For two years Plouffe worked side by side with Obama, charting the course of the campaign. The architect of the Obama campaign reveals how it all happened- and how it will revolutionize our politicsDavid Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of democracy itself. ![]()
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Etta invincible6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s been four months since runaway heiress Asa crash-landed on the matriarchal outlaw colony Requiem, bringing a nasty AI and a host of deadly secrets with May 2023 Book Box Guesses In her family, every girl’s first love City of Vicious Nightīook Info: City of Vicious Night (Requiem Dark #2) by Claire Winn Genre: Publishing Date: Synopsis: For the most hated crew on Requiem, the only way out is up. The Revenge List : A Novel Hannah Mary McKinnon On Sale Date: 9780778333463 Trade Paperback $18.99 USD 368 pages ABOUT THE BOOK: As a therapy exercise, a woman writes a list of people she wants to forgive, and thinks nothing of it when she loses it in an Uber…until one by one When Oceans Riseīook Info: When Oceans Rise by Robin Alvarez Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Publishing Date: Synopsis: Submerged in a toxic relationship and disconnected from everyone, she turns to the sea to decide her fate. ![]() MICKEY CHAMBERS SHAKES IT UP Author: Charish Reid ISBN: 9781335453556 Publication Date: JPublisher: Canary Street Press 18.99 US | 23.99 CAN Book Summary: For readers of Talia Hibbert, a witty, contemporary love story with high emotional stakes and a multicultural cast, about a widowed bar owner who, upon returning to college at The Revenge List ![]() The feast of the goat6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Their epic story and that of Urania are intertwined in an intense kaleidoscope of love, hate, death and violence. The Feast of the Goat is also the story of the men who sacrificed their lives to end one of the bloodiest tyrannies of recent Latin American history. The book is set in the Dominican Republic and portrays the assassination of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, and its aftermath, from two distinct standpoints a generation. Finally, she will confess the terrible secret that kept her away from home and family forever, a secret that destroyed her life. ISBN 6-7 (English) The Feast of the Goat ( Spanish: La Fiesta del Chivo, 2000) is a novel by the Peruvian Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. She talks about it with her aunt and cousins who don´t understand why she didn´t come to see them or her own father for so many years. Urania remembers all this 30 years later. However, all that happened a long time ago. Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a. It is her father, AGUSTIN CABRAL, alias “Egghead”, President of the Senate and right hand man of Trujillo the dictator during many, many years until he fell into disgrace. Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (Translator) 4.32. ![]() She can barely recognize the old toothless man lying in his bed, mute and motionless, almost inert. 1990s Movie Groups Mario Vargas Llosa Adaptations Synopsis Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), 1992. ![]() Mystery | Dominican Republic Dictatorship. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book was released in 1886 and at first none of the bookshop wanted to carry the book because of the subject matter, but a positive review had people flocking to the stores to read this sinister tale of hubris overcoming reason. ![]() He has unleashed a power from within that is turning out to be too formidable to be properly contained. ![]() Henry Jekyll is a brilliant man who in the course of trying to understand the human psyche has turned himself, with tragic results, into a guinea pig for his experiments. The stage adaptation opened in London in 1887, a year after the publication of the novella. Richard Mansfield was mostly known for his dual role depicted in this double exposure. And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance rather of a leap of welcome. Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man) had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay. Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other. ”It came about that Edward Hyde was so much smaller, slighter, and younger than Henry Jekyll. ![]() The dirty life book kristin kimball6/26/2023 ![]() Once June hit, there was the 100-day growing season and an overabundance of vegetables to eat, and no end to the dirty, hard, fiercely satisfying tasks, winningly depicted by Kimball. However, the couple, relying on Mark's belief in a "magic circle" of good luck, exhausted their savings and set to work. ![]() To create a self-sustaining farm was enormously ambitious, and neighbors, while well-meaning, expected them to fail. By dint of hard work and smart planning-using draft horses rather than tractors to plow the five acres of vegetables, and raising dairy cows, and cattle, pigs, and hens for slaughter-they eventually produced a cooperative on the CSA model, in which members were able to buy a fully rounded diet. In this poignant, candid chronicle by season, Kimball writes how she and Mark infused new life into Essex Farm, and lost their hearts to it. Publishers Weekly Kimball has a gift for throwing into high relief contemporary Americans’ disconnect between farm-life realities and city ambitions. The Harvard-educated author, in her 30s, and Mark, also college educated and resolved to "live outside of the river of consumption," eventually found an arable 500-acre farm on Lake Champlain, first to lease then to buy. (there was) no end to the dirty, hard, fiercely satisfying tasks, winningly depicted by Kimball. Kimball chucked life as a Manhattan journalist to start a cooperative farm in upstate New York with a self-taught New Paltz farmer she had interviewed for a story and later married. ![]() The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() But then one night when he is with his mistress, Sherman takes a wrong turn off the freeway into the South Bronx and ends up hitting a black youth with his car because he perceives his life is in danger, and decides to not report the accident to police, to "hit and run". Sherman remembers his mother telling him a wife two years older would not make a difference when he was 24 and she was 26, but 20 years later it would, and actually it took only ten years. In the book, Judy McCoy, Sherman's wife, is described as handsome but matronly at aged 40. Hanks' character, Sherman McCoy, is a wall street tycoon, aged 38, with a wife two years older, a daughter he adores, and a young mistress that he insists he deserves all because he is a "master of the universe". Tom Hanks, even before Philadelphia or Forrest Gump or Sleepless in Seattle, played the likable every-man. ![]() I saw the trailer on TV, saw the disaster the film might be, but I went to see it anyways and I was very disappointed. It's been a long time since I read the book or saw the movie, but the casting in this film was all wrong. ![]() Fred minnick best bourbon 20216/25/2023 ![]() It's created in many parts of the world, but it's particularly renowned for its production in the United States, and remains an incredibly popular beverage in North America. Different Kinds Of Bourbon Explainedīourbon is a distinctive and popular type of whiskey, with a flavour and aroma that's unique to this classic spirit. They also review some of the different whiskey brands available and give expert insights on their flavor profiles. From scotch whisky and Irish whiskey, to bourbon whiskey and single malt whiskey, they provide knowledgeable whisky 101 tips to understand the different types of whiskeys and to help find the best whiskeys to suit each individual's palate. ![]() ![]() First Phil Whisky is a YouTube channel offering reviews, tasting notes, and comparisons of some of the world's leading whisky brands. ![]() Born to Love by Leigh Greenwood6/25/2023 ![]() After the separation of his parents, he grew up in Louisiana, Sacramento on the poultry farm of his maternal grandparents. ![]() Greenwood was born in South Gate, California, a few miles south of Los Angeles. ![]() His 1983 single "I.O.U." was also a top-five hit on the adult contemporary charts, and a number 53 on the Hot 100. He also has charted seven number-ones on the US Hot Country Songs list in his career: " Somebody's Gonna Love You", " Going, Going, Gone", " Dixie Road", " I Don't Mind the Thorns (If You're the Rose)", " Don't Underestimate My Love For You", " Hearts Aren't Made to Break (They're Made to Love)", and " Mornin' Ride". Greenwood is known for his patriotic signature song " God Bless the U.S.A.", which was originally released and successful in 1984, and became popular again during the Gulf War in 1991 and after the September 11, 2001, attacks (becoming his highest charting pop hit, reaching number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100), and again during the 20 United States presidential elections as President Donald Trump's rally introduction track. Active since 1962, he has released more than 20 major-label albums and has charted more than 35 singles on the Billboard country music charts. Melvin Lee Greenwood (born October 27, 1942) is an American country music singer-songwriter. ![]() Dead blondes bad mothers6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Janelle Monae wore a cartoonish Thom Browne coat over an impossible-to-sit-in spherical dress. Jennifer Lopez, 53, cosplayed - per usual - as a dewy twenty-something perpetually surprised by her own glamour, abdomen out. To paraphrase an infamous Real Housewife: Even Chanel makes mistakes. ![]() Margot Robbie may have been in Chanel, but her torso was sheathed in plastic. Her compatriot Brooklyn Beckham? Devon Aoki? Camila Morrone?Įven the few true stars who attended got it wrong. Really, who among us was waiting to see what Maude Apatow, that great beneficiary of nepotism, was wearing? ![]() Instead we got a stream of Z-listers peddling filth and flesh, their thirst palpable. Sarah Jessica Parker, Beyoncé, the Olsen twins, Zendaya, Taylor Swift, Anya Taylor-Joy, Harry Styles, Lady Gaga - all took a pass on the former ‘Oscars of fashion’. Monday night’s Met Gala was a desperate last gasp for elitism, cultural tone-setting, celebrity worship and Anna Wintour’s reign of terror.Īdd this one-time legendary event, the subject of its own documentary called 'The First Monday in May,' to the list of flagging entities killed by Covid-19.Ībsent were A-listers once Met Gala vanguards of high-style and theatricality. ![]() Miller Avenue Murder by Nenny May6/25/2023 ![]() But to do so, they would first have to quit school. Maybe there’s a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam.But maybe there\'s a way out. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. ![]() But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham’s newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that’s on shaky ground.Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. ![]() |