Max cleland ben raines (13 risultati)

Condizione: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First ] Very good condition. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub Date: 1/1/2009 Binding: Paperback Pages: 274 First edition.

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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reprint edition. 259 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Condizione: New. pp. 272 Reprint edition Trade Paperback.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 272 pages. 9.10x6.10x1.10 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. viii, [2], 259, [3] pages Illustrations. Bookplate signed by Cleland on the fep. There is minor damage to the top left corner of the spine including the dust jacket which is chipped at the top of the spine, otherwise the book and dust jacket would be graded as very good. .Joseph Maxwell Cleland (August 24, 1942 - November 9, 2021) was an American politician from Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a disabled U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War, a recipient of the Silver Star and the Bronze Star for valorous actions in combat, as well as a United States senator (1997-2003). After returning from the Vietnam War having lost three limbs, he entered politics soon after recovering from his injuries. From 1971 to 1975, he served as a Georgia state senator. He also served as Administrator of Veterans Affairs under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981 and as Georgia Secretary of State from 1982 to 1996 before being elected to a single term in the United States Senate. After leaving the Senate in 2003, he served on the board of directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States from 2003 to 2007. From 2009 to 2017, he served as Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission. Ben Raines is an award-winning environmental journalist and filmmaker recognized for discovering the Clotilda, the last slave ship to bring Africans to the U.S. He studied filmmaking at New York University, and worked as an environmental reporter at the Press-Register. He has made numerous documentaries, including 'Alabama Eden,' 'America's Amazon,' and 'The Underwater Forest.' By the time he had reached middle age, Max Cleland thought he had nothing to live for. A grenade explosion in Vietnam had left him a triple amputee. He had lost his seat in the U.S. Senate, and in the grip of depression he had lost his fiancée, too. But instead of giving up, Cleland reaches deep into his soul and discovers that he has what it takes to survive: the heart of a patriot. Born and raised in Georgia, Max comes back from Vietnam missing three limbs and is confined for months at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Doctors don't give him much hope of living an active life, but through the bonds he forms with other wounded soldiers, and through his own Southern grit, he learns how to be mobile and overcome his despair. He returns home, where he pursues his passion for public service by becoming the first Vietnam veteran to serve in the Georgia state senate. Jimmy Carter then appoints him head of the Veterans Administration. From there he becomes Georgia's youngest secretary of state and ultimately realizes his dream of becoming a U.S. Senator. But during his reelection campaign he is singled out by Republicans, who smear him as "unpatriotic." He loses his seat and begins another steep tumble. A long-dormant case of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, awakened after 9/11 by the invasion of Iraq, pushes Max to the brink. Forty years after Vietnam, having reached -- and fallen from -- a pinnacle of power, Max returns to Walter Reed as a patient, surrounded by veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. Among them, Max again finds the faith and endurance to regain control of his life. In a memoir free of bitterness but frank about the costs of being a soldier, Max Cleland describes with love the ties America's soldiers forge with one another, along with the disillusionment many of them experience when they come home. He spares no one his humiliations and setbacks in this gut-wrenching account of his life in the hope it will keep even one veteran from descending into darkness. Heart of a Patriot is a story about the joy of serving the country you love, no matter the cost -- and how to recover from the deepest wounds of war. First Simon & Schuster Hardcover Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Gregory Reisler (Jacket photograph) (illustratore). Signed.…

Condizione: New. Print on Demand pp. 272.

Condizione: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 272.