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Author: Phillip C. Naylor File Type: pdf A major contribution to understanding the tragic drama of Algerian history, casting light on the dilemmas facing the Two-Thirds World in the 21st century.--Don Holsinger, Seattle Pacific UniversityPhillip Naylor describes the extraordinary bilateral relationship between France and Algeria, countries which--after 132 years of colonialism and a brutal war of independence--have attempted to fashion a new relationship based on mutual respect.Beginning with a review of the colonial period up to 1958, Naylor examines the various dramas that have distinguished bilateral relations since independence the Evian Accords of March 1962, the substitution of cooperation for colonialism, the nationalization of the hydrocarbons sector in 1971, and the Fitna, Algerias violent trial of itself as a nation during the 90s.Recognizing many contradictions and complexities in the period of postcolonial decolonization, Naylor melds philosophy, economics, sociology, political science, and literary criticism into his historical narrative. Readers will find an impressive range of subject matter and methodologies brought to bear on the evolving relations of power, perception, and identity between the two states.In the voluminous literature covering Frances relationship with Algeria, the bilateral postcolonial history has been marginalized, if not neglected. Naylor offers a widely and deeply researched account of this period, and of the exceptional relationship between France and Algeria as the former continues to ascribe strategic importance to Algeria while the latter struggles to transform and escape the residual influence of its colonial past.Phillip C. Naylor, associate professor of history at Marquette University, is coeditor of State and Society in Algeria (1992).Review...emphasizes the importance of the personalities and histories of those who held leadership positions in both countries... -- Middle Eastern Studies Bulletin

Author: Angela Palm File Type: epub Angela Palm grew up in a place not marked on the map, her house set on the banks of a river that had been straightened to make way for farmland. Every year, the Kankakee River in rural Indiana flooded and returned to its old course while the residents sandbagged their homes against the rising water. From her bedroom window, Palm watched the neighbor boy and loved him in secret, imagining a life with him even as she longed for a future that held more than a job at the neighborhood bar. For Palm, caught in this landscape of flood and drought, escape was a continually receding hope. Though she did escape, as an adult Palm finds herself drawn back, like the river, to her origins. But this means more than just recalling vibrant, complicated memories of the place that shaped her, or trying to understand the family that raised her. It means visiting the prison where the boy that she loved is serving a life sentence for a brutal murder. It means trying to chart, through the mesmerizing, interconnected essays of Riverine, what happens when a single event forces the path of her life off course.**ReviewWINNER OF THE GRAYWOLF NONFICTION PRIZE A spellbinding memoir of place, young love, and a life-altering crimeA Most Anticipated Book for 2016 by The Week A Chicago Tribune Summer Reading PickHaunting. . . . Densely symbolic, unsentimental, and eloquent, Palms book explores the connections between yearning, desire, and homecoming with subtlety and lucidity. The result is a narrative that maps the complex relationships that exist between individual identity and place. An intelligent, evocative, and richly textured memoir.Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewCombining lyrical prose with a haunting narrative, Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prizewinner Palm recounts a story filled with secret longings, family history, and musings on what might have been. . . . This is a memoir to linger over, savor and study.Publishers Weekly, starred review [Palms] writing is easy to read, compelling and draws the reader in with its momentum. Riverine is about self-determination, the origin of deviance, and places, particularly the liminal ones. . . . Palms story is yet unfinished, but her memoir has an admirable structure and art of its own.*Shelf Awareness *Moving meditations on how memories continue to affect ones ever-changing personality, however far away we may move.*Booklist*Riverine digs deep into the soil of the pastriver soil, corn field soil, flooded soil and stubborn soilto find not only the roots of the future, in all of its mysterious convolutions and divergences, but also the possibility of futures that never came to pass. Angela Palms gorgeous candor sings urgently through these pages, her prose a tuning fork offering frequencies Id never heard before.Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy ExamsRiverine is a beautiful bookboth expansive and intimateabout homecoming and departure, the American ideal of reinvention and the ways we are bound to and bound by the past.Brigid Hughes, Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize judge Angela Palms Riverine is the stuff good memoir is made of a personal narrative rich in metaphor and insight that finds meaning in those memories that confused us as children, made us squirm as adults. A truly lovely book crafted with exquisite language.Domingo Martinez, author of *The Boy Kings of Texas*With a probing curiosity for the topography of both the land and the mind, Angela Palm maps out a world of deep quiet, loneliness, and sudden violence. Riverine reminds us that, while their land may be flat, the lives of those who populate our prairies and flood plains are anything but.Will Boast, author of *Epilogue*Angela Palm delivers a lyrical storywe come of age with her as she navigates a complicated landscape within and surrounding her. She breaks rules in life. She breaks rules on the page. Language is her essence here. There are sentences so arresting, I paused and paused and paused to absorb them. Molly Caro May, author of *The Map of Enough*Riverine is a stop-and-think kind of book, and a stay-up-all-night kind of book, as well, a quest for a place that isnt quite there, but that grows more real page by page, even as we rush to flee it. Angela Palm offers a fresh voice and shows us the heartland were least likely to hear about, those fruited plains dotted with prisons and parties and families that dont quite fly, even as these chapters soar. A beautiful book, heartfelt but literary, blunt but poetic, moving and wise, funny, too.Bill Roorbach, author of Temple Stream and *Life Among Giants*About the Author Angela Palm owns Ink + Lead Literary Services and is the editor of an anthology of Vermont writers, Please Do Not Remove. Her work has appeared in Paper Darts, Midwestern Gothic, Tampa Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Author: Willard M. Oliver File Type: epub Most people believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation began under J. Edgar Hoover in the 1920s or 1930s. Many also naturally assume it was developed for the express purpose of fighting crime. However, the reality is very different. The reality is it began years earlier, in 1908, under President Theodore Roosevelt. In The Birth of the FBI Teddy Roosevelt, the Secret Service, and the Fight Over Americas Premier Law Enforcement Agency, Willard Oliver details the political fight that led to the birth of Americas premier law enforcement agency. Roosevelt was concerned about conservation and one issue he wanted enforced were the fraudulent land deals being perpetrated by many people, including some members of Congress. When he began using the Secret Service to investigate these crimes, Congress blocked him from doing so. The end result of this political spat was Roosevelts creation of the FBI, which heightened the political row between the two branches of government in the final year of Roosevelts presidency.The truth of the matter is, the premier law enforcement agency in the United States was actually created because of a political fight between the executive and legislative branches of government. The Birth of the FBI reveals the true story behind the birth of the FBI and provides some useful insight into an important part of our American history.