Michael McCarthy

"The story of a German conman who misled the world about the Hindenburg to bury his own Nazi connections"--

Includes over 20 Illustrations. The story of a young fighter pilot from basic training through the end of the war in Europe, this short memoir is a welcome addition to the literature of World War II aviation. It is noteworthy for a number of reasons. It illuminates the world of tactical aviation, which has taken a backseat to stories of strategic bombing and air superiority combat...Perhaps most importantly, it combines the immediacy of contemporary...

The untold story of the worst disaster on the Great Lakes in U.S. History. On July 24th, 1915, Chicago commuters were horrified as they watched the SS Eastland, a tourism boat taking passengers across Lake Michigan, flip over while tied to the dock and drown 835 passengers, including 21 entire families. Rockefeller, Morgan, and Carnegie had bought into the ship business in the Midwest, creating a boom market and a demand for ships that were bigger,...

English Vocabulary: The Basics offers a clear, non-jargonistic introduction to English vocabulary, the way linguists classify and explain it, and the place of vocabulary in our overall picture of the language, and in society. Introducing a range of terminology for discussing vocabulary, the listener is provided with a coherent, structured description of what we know about words and their meanings. Key features of this book include: - Analysis of...

Why has old-age security become less solidaristic and increasingly tied to risky capitalist markets? Drawing on rich archival data that covers more than fifty years of American history, Michael A. McCarthy argues that the critical driver was policymakers' reactions to capitalist crises and their political imperative to promote capitalist growth. Pension development has followed three paths of marketization in America since the New Deal, each distinct...

It could be classified as a mere skirmish, but no other fight of the entire four years struggle was followed by such important consequences, explained former Confederate General Thomas Munford years after the Civil War. It extinguished the campfires of the hitherto invincible army and was the mortal blow which caused the Southern Confederacy to perish forever. The Battle of Five Forks broke the long siege of Petersburg, triggered the evacuation of...

Billions and billions served! Our angelic auditor Winston Donovan breaks the fourth wall to take televangelist Lester Benny beyond the boundaries of the comic panels in an effort to unmask the truth behind Lester's improbable miracles. However, Winston's audit of Lester's healing powers leads to an unsettling revelation. Meanwhile in Las Vegas, the seeds of seismic events take root as an underground group of unnatural beings who call themselves The...

Are you in desperate need of a miracle? Got globs of money? Then come get fixed up with Lester Benny, a shady televangelist with astonishing healing powers. However, forensic accountant Winston Donovan smells a fraud-- and trying to expose Lester as a scam artist is proving near impossible, despite Winston’s own preternatural powers. Could it be divine intervention or a clever hoax? Miracle Kingdom is a playful detective story that examines...

Winston takes matters into his own hands when the improbable findings from his audit investigation fall on deaf ears. Worse still, Winston suspects Lester Benny's miracles are mutating into tragic twists of fate, placing everyone in Lester's church in grave danger! Winston's pursuit for answers sends him spiraling into the Infinite Incomplete, the realm containing the unfinished parts of the universe and other cosmic works-in-progress. But what exactly...

Documents the horrifying practices witnessed by the authors at their 1950s reform school, where students were terrorized by sadistic guards who assaulted, raped, and possibly murdered students, and traces the authors' efforts to expose and confront their abusers.