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Daniel Ortega Grady is a California kid, Mexican-Irish, and a firefighteraa dream come true that began when a small boy was mesmerized by Sacramento Fire Station 2's red behemoth trucks and the men and women who drive them. His career path, however, was neither straight nor smooth. As a young Marine, Dan returns from Afghanistan a war hero, only to find his biggest battles lie still ahead in the college classroom. A stunning Austrian coed beauty nearly derails his long-term romance with his high school sweetheart; he meets Californiaas governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and brushes elbows with Senator Diane Feinstein, flirting with the idea of wealth and power as he struggles with his identity and juggles the many forces in his life toward his lifelong dream.
An explosive, eye-opening expose of the corporate forces that have for more than a century sabotaged the creation of alternative energies and vehicles in order to keep us dependent on oil. There is enough truth in this book to revolutionize our way of life. Winner of four awards for editorial excellence: American Society of Journalists and Authors Best Book, Thomas Edison Award, Green Globes, and an AJPA Rockower Award.
"400 United Irishmen and fellow-rebels brought the spirit of Irish rebellion "down under" in the aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 - and changed Australia forever. At Castle Hill in 1804, this "army of shadows" carried on where they left off but during Bligh's overthrow in 1808, they stood back from a fight that was not theirs. The "political Irish" played a central role in the developing colony. Their professions, trades and skills made them useful as clerks, storekeepers and teachers, and fitted them to be overseers and constables, and helped bring self-sufficiency to the still-fragile colonial economy. They remained revolutionaries; only they negotiated change rather than raised warlike rebellion. Through their open defiance and quiet manipulation of authority, the harp "new strung" resonates to this day in the Australian ethos that United Irishmen helped to create." -- book cover.
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