Böcker av Charles Anderson

In this speech, Charles Anderson reflects on the state of the country and the political climate in Texas in November 1860. He shares his views on the issues of slavery, secession, and states' rights, and provides a unique perspective on a pivotal moment in American history.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This is a chronicle with over 75 photos of a two-week excursion from the Los Angeles area through Yosemite Valley, Mono Lake, the Eastern Sierra Nevada, northern California, Klamath Falls, Oregon high desert at Bend, Portland, the Oregon coast (Astoria, Cannon Beach, Tillamook, Newport, Coos Bay, Bandon), California redwoods, Eureka and culminating in San Francisco.

Kill or be killed.If you must be certain, shoot for the face.So, this is another mafia story? Gangsters, hoods?Well, no. It's a book about lawyers and bankers. But these lawyers and bankers are trapped in the beginnings of what quickly turned out to be the most criminal society of modern times.Public servants, police, ministers all the way up to the top are looking for targets.Tax officials don't bother with polite letters. They raid their victims, go through every file, sell business secrets to competitors, blackmail owners into destitution. Jason Rogers, Texan, jumped at the opportunities thrown open by the collapse of Communism. Carl Fitzmaurice, South African lawyer, young, bored with the easy money in the London financial behemoth, joins in.Kandinsky, oligarch, stretches his financial luck, and aims to get out of his nearly billion-dollar debts.Pearson, London lawyer, only in it for the money - helps Kandinsky hide his money, or thinks he does. Akhmatov hails from a part of the East that has been a battleground for centuries. He hacks the legs off accountants and lawyers to order. That's his employers' way of collecting debts.Ovchinnikov is a murderer for hire, too. But he keeps a sense of proportion. When he needs to shoot the bodyguard, he thinks it only fair to shoot the celebrity, too.Melnikov, Cabinet Minister, always in search of profits, blackmail, bribes.Soloviev, tax inspector, not as cautious as he needs to be, targets Jason Rogers. This is a world where a bottle of average Bordeaux costs the equivalent of one month's pension.The people in this book, though, live the high life - champagne, caviar, top restaurants, smart young women who eat their male counterparts for breakfast.And just about everyone comes to a grisly but spectacular end.