![]() ![]() ![]() There was never a shortage of power in California. The most shocking material in the film involves the fact that Enron cynically and knowingly created the phony California energy crisis. It is best when it sticks to fact, shakier when it goes for visual effects and heavy irony. It is assembled out of a wealth of documentary and video footage, narrated by Peter Coyote, from testimony at congressional hearings, and from interviews with such figures as disillusioned Enron exec Mike Muckleroy and whistle-blower Sherron Watkins. The documentary is based on the best-selling book of the same title, co-written by Fortune magazine's Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind. The movie argues that it was a con game almost from the start. There is a general impression that Enron was a good corporation that went bad. It tells the story of how Enron rose to become the seventh largest corporation in America with what was essentially a Ponzi scheme, and in its last days looted the retirement funds of its employees to buy a little more time. No matter what your politics, "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" will make you mad. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) ![]()
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![]() After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. ![]() He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. ![]() Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They Left Us Everything is a funny, touching memoir about the importance of preserving family history to make sense of the past, and nurturing family bonds to safeguard the future. ![]() Items from childhood trigger difficult memories of her eccentric family growing up in the 1950s and '60s, but unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships, with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued. ![]() But the task turns out to be much harder and more rewarding than she ever imagined. Plum thought: How tough will that be? I know how to buy garbage bags. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, twenty-three rooms bulging with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. After nearly 20 years of caring for her elderly parents, Johnson and her brothers begin to deal with the grief and solace of their loss, as well as the selling of their. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents-first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother-author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers have finally fallen to their middle-aged knees with conflicted feelings of grief and relief. Author Plum Johnsons memoir 'They Left Us Everything' draws a family portrait centered around the mementos and artifacts that make up a persons life. Log in Create account × SummaryĪ warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is my first book by this author, but I will definitely be checking the rest of her catalogue out. When they are thrown together on a school project, they are forced to get to know each other better.This story deals with some tough subjects, and while it is angsty, it also is incredibly sweet too. ![]() He is suddenly questioning everything he thought he wanted. Lukas takes one look (or rather bump into) Alan and his whole world tilts off it's axis. I do love a GFY story and this is one of the best that I have read. Masterful character development and a great ensemble cast, that even includes some lovable dogs!Not to be missed! Interesting, funny, heartbreaking and sexy. Sarge (Goodreads Author) Fire Falling (Air Awakens 2) by Elise Kova Famous Authors Born Today. It features M/M romance reads from the last couple of years.and they are all free!Such a smart, creative, belivable and original story. Want to Read saving Louder Than Sirens, Louder Than Bells (ebook) by K.D. Louder Than Sirens, Louder Than Bells (ebook). A veritable goldmine of free online books by the most widely read and best known authors from across the world. If you're not familiar with that, check it out. Louder Than Sirens, Louder Than Bells (ebook) by. ![]() The Overlord's Pet by Evangeline Anderson. Brought to you by The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Louder Than Sirens, Louder Than Bells (ebook) by. Review 1: This was great! I can see why it tops the list on the best of M/M Romance Group's "Don't Read in the Closet" events. Hebridean Island Hopping: A Guide For The Independent Traveller Martin Coventry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I never understood the Pacific War or its importance in the civil ized world we have today. Marvelously informative, evenhanded and fair-minded in presentation, logical and thorough with sequence of events, with the major players, of the critical brilliance of some highly responsible men, to the mediocre and sheer stupidity of others: it all comes together in remarkable clarity. From one grossly underinformed and biased I gained a keen sense of the years leading up to the Pacific War (I am too well informed on the European War)and the conflagration the engulfed my father's generation. ![]() I rate it as among the 5 best books I have ever read. In terms of a major RETHINK of the past century and my 60 odd years as a member, this book deeply shook up my grasp of the century, and really, part of the 19th century as well. ![]() ![]() The book was illustrated by Rombauer's daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker, who directed the art department at John Burroughs School. In 1931 Rombauer self-published The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat with more than 500 tested recipes and related commentaries. She paid them $3,000 to print 3,000 copies of The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat in November 1931. Clayton Printing Company, a printer for the St. During the autumn of 1930, Rombauer went to the A.C. With the help of her late husband's secretary, Mazie Whyte, Rombauer began writing and editing recipes and commentaries while searching for more recipes in St. Rombauer spent much of the summer of 1930 in Michigan, creating the first drafts that would later become Joy of Cooking. Rombauer's children, Marion Rombauer Becker and Edgar Roderick ("Put") Rombauer, Jr., encouraged her to compile her recipes and thoughts on cooking to help her cope with her loss. ![]() Edgar committed suicide in 1930 after a severe bout of depression, widowing Irma at age 52 and leaving her with $6,000 in savings. ![]() She married Edgar Rombauer, a lawyer, in 1899. ![]() Born to German immigrants in 1877, Irma Starkloff was born and grew up in St. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, she clarifies to him that she wants to marry a person named Ernest. Jack, taking it as a golden opportunity, proposes to her and seems astounded at her quick positive response and more astounded at her obsession with Ernest. Meanwhile, Gwendolen arrives with her mother, Lady Bracknell. Jack also seduces his friend through Cecily’s beautiful description. Algernon too confesses that he says he is visiting an Imaginary friend called Bunbury whenever he wants to leave the city. ![]() ![]() When Jack one day confesses to Algernon that he wants to marry Gwendolen, Algy confronts him about the cigarette case presented by someone called ‘Little Cecily.’ He then understands the game being played by Jack, who tells him that he takes up the name Ernest whenever he ventures into the city for fun. However, he is also in love with Gwendolen Fairfax, who happens to be the cousin of Algernon Moncrieff (Algy), one of his best friends. In fact, he merely hides it to enjoy life, becoming an unruly person in London. ![]() Besides being a responsible young man, he has also liked playing the role of his brother, Ernest who is a wayward and irresponsible young man. As the adopted son of the Cardew family, Jack now heads the family estate with other responsibilities, including that of the justice of the peace. The story of the play revolves around Jack Worthing, the main character and the guardian of the beautiful girl, Cecil Cardew, the granddaughter of Thomas Cardew. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive,The Destiny of the Republic brings alive a forgotten chapter of U.S. ![]() However, he managed to go to Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, a preparatory school, where he excelled in his studies. Born in 1831, in Mentor, Ohio, he was raised in poverty after his father died when he was two. Garfield survived the attack, but become the object of bitter, behind-the-scenes struggles for power-over his administration, over the nation's future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. James Garfield is at the center of the book, which is about his presidency, assassination, and medical care. But four months after Garfield's inauguration in 1881, he was shot in the back by a deranged office-seeker named Charles Guiteau. Millard briefly explains how he was born into poverty, only to make a success of himself with a passionate love of. In attendance was a congressman from Ohio, James Garfield, and his family. This chapter describes the Centennial International Exhibition, held in Philadelphia in 1876. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, a renowned congressman, and a reluctant presidential candidate who took on the nation's corrupt political establishment. Part 1, Chapter 1 Summary: The Scientific Spirit. ![]() James Abram Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. The extraordinary New York Times bestselling account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from bestselling author of The River of Doubt, Candice Millard. ![]() ![]() She followed it last year with Anything Is Possible, which took up the stories of several characters that had appeared fleetingly in its predecessor. In 2016 she published My Name Is Lucy Barton, an exceptional novel narrated by the eponymous Lucy, a novelist who has been forced to spend several weeks in hospital where her estranged mother comes to visit. Her books - among them Olive Kitteridge, which has sold more than a million copies and won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - are peopled with characters so fully realised you imagine she has known them her entire life. Now 62, Elizabeth Strout is one of America’s foremost novelists. ![]() And I didn’t realise it then but spending so much time alone at such a young age gave me the inner resources I needed to become a writer.” I would spend many hours alone in the woods. ![]() “I was a very solitary child my brother and I didn’t play together the way some siblings do. “I would stare at other people so hard, wondering what they were thinking, that in my head I almost became them,” she tells me over tea at the Bridge Theatre in London. When Elizabeth Strout was growing up among the cornfields of Maine, she would spend a lot of time imagining she was someone else. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has shaped her life and her mother's before her. What secrets does she keep amidst the charred remains of the Big House? Which spells has she conjured to threaten their children? And why is she so wary of the charismatic preacher man who promises to save them all? Rue understands fear. When sickness sweeps across her tight-knit community, Rue finds herself the focus of suspicion. But this new world brings new dangers, and Rue's old magic may be no match for them. Times have changed since her mother Miss May Belle held the power to influence the life and death of her fellow slaves.įreedom has come. The other is that Miss Rue – midwife, healer, crafter of curses – will know what to do. That's one thing the people on the old plantation are sure of. The pale-skinned, black-eyed baby is a bad omen. But how do you escape the ghosts of the past?' ![]() |