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UNINA9910135045003321 |
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O'Neill John E. |
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Unfit for command : swift boat veterans speak out against John Kerry / / John E. O'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D |
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Washington, District of Columbia : , : Regnery Publishing, , 2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 pages) |
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Legislators - United States |
Presidential candidates - United States |
Soldiers - United States |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
Public opinion - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: John Kerry in Vietnam -- One: Debating Kerry -- Two: The Reluctant Warrior -- Three: The Purple Heart Hunter -- Four: War Crimes -- Five: More Fraudulent Medals -- Part II: Antiwar Protester -- Six: A Testimony of Lies -- Seven: Meeting with the Enemy -- Eight: Kerry's Antiwar Secrets -- Nine: Kerry's Communist Honors -- Ten: Unfit for Command -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
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"What sort of combination of hypocrite and paradox is John Kerry?" ask the authors in this heated critique of the Democratic presidential candidate's Vietnam-era military service and antiwar activism. O'Neill, a lawyer and swift boat veteran, and Corsi, an expert on Vietnam antiwar movements, argue that Kerry misrepresented his wartime exploits and is therefore incompetent to serve as commander in chief. Buttressed by interviews with Navy veterans who patrolled Vietnam's waters, some along with Kerry, the book claims he exaggerated minor injuries, self-inflicted others, wrote fictitious diary entries and filed "phony" reports of his heroism under fire--all in a calculated quest to secure career- |
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enhancing combat medals. They also maintain that Kerry, whom they call a "moral coward," committed atrocities that alarmed his peers and superior officers during his four-month tour of duty. Yet his activities on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War clearly raises the authors' hackles the most, and they present Kerry's post-war actions as additional, damning evidence of his "total unfitness," claiming that his testimony against the war "caused more deaths and prolonged the war in Vietnam by undermining support at home and contributing directly to a Vietnamese Communist victory." The battle that lies at the heart of this book is the decades-old feud between antiwar veterans and their my-country-right-or-wrong counterparts. The authors' conservative take on the war is palpable: the U.S. military failed to unleash "massive, indiscriminate bombing" to force North Vietnam's capitulation; the conflict was a struggle against communism, not a civil war; and the dissenting soldiers undermined homefront morale. Consequently, this overwrought and repetitive polemic seethes with a resentment that compromises the otherwise eyebrow-raising testimonies. |
Further, without access to Kerry's full military and medical records, the authors rely heavily on 35-year-old recollections and recent Kerry biographies by Douglas Brinkley and a Boston Globe reporting team. Those looking for a thorough, unbiased investigation into Kerry's wartime record would do best to wait for more objective, methodical chroniclers who have access to the relevant documents. |
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UNINA9910789566603321 |
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Researching violence in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : ethical and methodological challenges / / edited by Christopher Cramer, Laura Hammond, and Johan Pottier |
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Leiden [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2011 |
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1-283-12118-2 |
9786613121189 |
90-04-20439-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Africa-Europe group for interdisciplinary studies, , 1574-6925 ; ; 6 |
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CramerChristopher, Dr. |
HammondLaura <1967-> |
PottierJohan |
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Violence - Research - Africa |
Social conflict - Research - Africa |
Research - Moral and ethical aspects - Africa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Navigating the terrain of methods and ethics in conflict research / Johan J.P. Pottier, Laura Hammond and Christopher M. Cramer -- Researching conflict in Africa : a researcher's account of IFE-Modakeke -- South-Western Nigeria / Olajide O. Akanji -- Researching children and violence in evolving socio-political contexts / Giorgia Dona -- Layers of silence : counterinsurgency in northeastern Ethiopia / Laura Hammond -- Uncertain ethics : researching civil war in Sudan / Sharon E. Hutchinson -- "From nation to family" : researching gender and sexuality / Danai Mupotsa -- Cooperative ethics as a new model for cultural research on peace and security / Derek B. Miller and Ron Scollon -- Hidden agendas in conflict research : informants' interests and research -- Objectivity in the Niger delta / Ukoha Ukiwo -- Silence and authoritative speech in post-violence northern Ghana / Martijn Wienia. |
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Researching violence and conflict can be challenging for a variety of reasons, including security risks to researchers and informants, |
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restricted or lack of access to informants and field sites, and poor reliability of official data. Traditional methodological approaches may need to be adapted, and new methods may be called for. In addition, such research carries ethical challenges about representation of informants and information and possible use of the research for harmful ends. This book, drawing on research conducted throughout Africa in conflict zones and other insecure environments, considers the everyday dilemmas researchers face. It provides essential contributions to ongoing challenging debates about the use of alternative and mixed methods in social science research. |
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UNINA9910787616103321 |
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Autore |
Rose Charles Brian |
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Titolo |
The archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy / / Charles Brian Rose |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2014 |
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1-107-50163-6 |
1-139-89010-7 |
1-107-50048-6 |
1-107-50594-1 |
1-107-51364-2 |
1-107-49603-9 |
1-107-51636-6 |
1-107-50328-0 |
1-139-02808-1 |
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1 online resource (xv, 406 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; digital, PDF file(s) |
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Excavations (Archaeology) - Turkey - Troy (Extinct city) |
Troy (Extinct city) |
Turkey Antiquities |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Troy in the Bronze Age; 2. Troy during the Archaic Period; 3. The tombs of the Granicus River Valley: the Polyxena sarcophagus; 4. The tombs of the Granicus River Valley II: the child's sarcophagus; 5. The tombs of the Granicus River Valley III: the Dedetepe tumulus; 6. The tombs of the Granicus River Valley IV: the Çan sarcophagus; 7. Ilion, Athens, and Sigeion during the 5th and 4th centuries B.C.; 8. Ilion in the early Hellenistic period; 9. The West Sanctuary during the Hellenistic period; 10. Late Hellenistic and early imperial Ilion; 11. Ilion from the Flavians to the Byzantines; 12. The concept of Troy after antiquity. |
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The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy provides an overview of all excavations that have been conducted at Troy, from the nineteenth century through the latest discoveries between 1988 and the present. Charles Brian Rose traces the social and economic development of the city and related sites in the Troad, as well as the development of its civic and religious centers from the Bronze Age through the early Christian period, with a focus on the settlements of Greek and Roman date. Along the way, he reconsiders the circumstances of the Trojan War and chronicles Troy's gradual development into a Homeric tourist destination and the adoption of Trojan ancestry by most nation-states in medieval Europe. |
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