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Above the Law
Matthew Whitaker came to Washington to serve as chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and following Sessions’s resignation, he was appointed Acting Attorney General of the United States. A former football player at the University of Iowa who had been confirmed by the Senate as a U.S. Attorney, Whitaker was devoted to the ideals of public service and the rule of law. But what he found when he led the Department of Justice on behalf of President Trump were bureaucratic elites with an agenda all their own. The Department of Justice had been steered off course by a Deep State made up of Washington insiders who saw themselves as above the law. Recklessly inverting, bending, and brea...
New Creature
Are you living to be everything that God created you to be, or have you found yourself stuck in the process? Perhaps you have found yourself meandering aimlessly through life, and God is dealing with your heart to make a change, but you don't know how. Maybe you are a parent whose child is lost in the world, and you are in search of answers and hope. In this book, Matthew Whitaker tells his very personal story of how he meandered through life without any vision or direction and lived a very destructive lifestyle of alcoholism, drug addiction, and homosexuality until one day he encountered God in such a powerful way that changed everything. After God spoke very clearly to Matthew in a vision ...
Assault on Democracy: Matthew Whitaker's Attack on Gay State Senator Matt McCoy
This book is a highly personal story about coming to terms with my past and my identity. My story includes growing up in a strong Catholic family, marriage to a wonderful woman, successful political career, struggle with alcoholism, divorce, coming out as a openly gay elected official, and the government charging me with extortion on a small business deal gone sour. As an elected public official this was played out in full view of the public. I was threatened with charges that would result in a long prison term and a fine that would take a lifetime to pay. It was me, Iowa State Senator Matt McCoy who was pursued. I hope readers will gain, as I have, the fortitude to live their lives with int...
Icons of Black America [3 volumes]
This stunning collection of essays illuminates the lives and legacies of the most famous and powerful individuals, groups, and institutions in African American history. The three-volume Icons of Black America: Breaking Barriers and Crossing Boundaries is an exhaustive treatment of 100 African American people, groups, and organizations, viewed from a variety of perspectives. The alphabetically arranged entries illuminate the history of highly successful and influential individuals who have transcended mere celebrity to become representatives of their time. It offers analysis and perspective on some of the most influential black people, organizations, and institutions in American history, from the late 19th century to the present. Each chapter is a detailed exploration of the life and legacy of an individual icon. Through these portraits, readers will discover how these icons have shaped, and been shaped by, the dynamism of American culture, as well as the extent to which modern mass media and popular culture have contributed to the rise, and sometimes fall, of these powerful symbols of individual and group excellence.
Race Work
Nearly sixty years ago, Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale descended upon the isolated, somewhat desolate, and entirely segregated city of Phoenix, Arizona, in search of freedom and opportunity?a move that would ultimately transform an entire city and, arguably, the nation. Race Work tells the story of this remarkable pair, two of the most influential black activists of the post?World War II American West, and through their story, supplies a missing chapter in the history of the civil rights movement, American race relations, African Americans, and the American West. ø Matthew C. Whitaker explores the Ragsdales? family history and how their familial traditions of entrepreneurship, professionalism...
African American Icons of Sport
This volume offers an examination of African Americans in sports, from a variety of perspectives. It explores the history and lives of complex, multi-layered personages and groups. Also examined is the extent to which modern mass media and popular culture have contributed greatly to the rise, and sometimes fall, of these powerful symbols of athletic, individual, and group excellence.
Iranian Solution
It was supposed to be an easy mission, but what both men, One a contractor working for the CIA and the other a Colombian Intelligence Agent, would soon find that they would be wanted by both of their countries along with Venezuela, the country they were currently operating in. Wanted for Murder, but for what they witnessed on a clandestine mission will test their resolve and training. Both men are positioned to make a difference although it would take more than two of them to protect the United States Of America from a terrifying coordinated terrorist attack. One such attack to America that would make 9/11 seems like child's play.
Peace Be Still
A concise, engaging, and provocative history of African Americans since World War II, Peace Be Still is also nothing less than an alternate history of the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Organizing this history around culture, politics, and resistance, Matthew C. Whitaker takes us from World War II as a galvanizing force for African American activism and the modern civil rights movement to the culmination of generations of struggle in the election of Barack Obama. From the promise of the post–World War II era to the black power movement of the 1960s, the economic and political struggles of the 1970s, and the major ideological realignment of political culture duri...
