Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. <I>Whitewashed Adobe </I>considers six different developments in the history of the city—including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1924, and the evolution of America's largest brickyard in the 1920s. In an absorbing narrative sup ...
This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11. Peter Dale Scott, whose previous books have investigated CIA involvement in southeast Asia, the drug wars, and the Kennedy assassination, here probes how the policies of presidents since Nixon have augmented the tangled bases for the 2001 terrori ...
Mehr als zwolf Jahre sind vergangen seit den letzten Abenteuern der ehemaligen Wanderhure Marie. Sie und ihr Mann Michel Adler leben zwar immer noch auf Burg Kibitzstein, doch ihr Gonner, der Furstbischof, ist gestorben, und seinem Nachfolger Gottfried sind die beiden ein Dorn im Auge. Besonders Maries Tochter Trudi bekommt die Auswirkungen dieses Konflikts hautnah zu spuren … ...
