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From the fear of a Japanese invasion of the West Coast after Pearl Harbor, to the intense hazing as a plebe at West Point, to the bitter cold on the long march to the Yalu River during the early days of the Korean War, to the midnight scramble to the Czech border duting the Cuban Missile crisis, Bob Hayes lived through it all. Then came a shock to his very being, a dubious dismissal from the Army leading him, his wife and their five children into a troubled world of unemployment, alcohol, drugs, foreclosure and mental illness. This is the heart-wrenching story of a highly intelligent, immensely likeable West Point graduate's long, slow descent into a personal hell from which he never escaped.
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The Pinnacle is the conclusion to the five-book series on the child prodigy, Jacob Cahill, who was raised in China by Buddhist monks, but forced to return to the U.S. as a teenager. Using his prodigious intellectual and athletic skills, he excels in school before deciding to join the Army to fight in Vietnam where heavy combat leaves him scarred for life despite a box full of metals earned during two tours in the country. After leaving the Army, he attends Stanford University where he earns a doctorate in physics before proceeding to start a software company which he leads to great success. Yet he is frustrated with the poor governance and incompetent politicians he must deal with which prom...
Winner of the Texas State Historical Association Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History, this authoritative study of red-baiting in Texas reveals that what began as a coalition against communism became a fierce power struggle between conservative and liberal politics.