'You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs' The apologists of Josef Stalin Feliks Zhukovski, a Pole in Paris, is a hangover from another age - a man who chose politics over people and ideas over love. His life's work is a travel guide to the old Eastern bloc; his personal life a series of failures. Unfortunately for Feliks, it's 1991. Communism has collapsed, East Germany isn't the economic miracle he wants it to be, and at 61, his travel-writing days are numbered. Feliks makes the shock decision to sell his guide to an American firm, and sets in motion a life-changing chain of events. He will meet a brother he hasn't seen in fifty years, learn the horrifying truth about the mother he thought abandoned him, and get a second chance with a long-lost love. But after fifty years of misunderstandings and delusions, can he start his life afresh? From the boulevards of Paris to the ghettos of wartime Poland, via Midwest America and the Berlin Wall, THE BREAKING OF EGGS chronicles the extraordinary journey of a lonely man who discovers it needn't have been so. As thought-provoking as it is moving, the novel casts an unflinching gaze on the human cost of a century of wars, in a voice that never loses its humour or uplifting power.

Breaking of Eggs

Jim Powell

Phoenix

Since 1968, in coffeehouses around the world, intellectuals have been talking about Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction. Jim Powell has written the most lucid introduction available on this important philosopher, whose abstruse mode of philosophizing remains incomprehensible to even the best-educated minds. Speaking tours.

Derrida for Beginners (Writers and Readers Documentary Comic Book)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Writers & Readers

The fateful blunder that radically altered the course of the twentieth century—and led to some of the most murderous dictators in history President Woodrow Wilson famously rallied the United States to enter World War I by saying the nation had a duty to make “the world safe for democracy.” But as historian Jim Powell demonstrates in this shocking reappraisal, Wilson actually made a horrible blunder by committing the United States to fight. Far from making the world safe for democracy, America’s entry into the war opened the door to murderous tyrants and Communist rulers. No other president has had a hand—however unintentional—in so much destruction. That’s why, Powell declares, “Wilson surely ranks as the worst president in American history.” Wilson’s War reveals the horrifying consequences of our twenty-eighth president’s fateful decision to enter the fray in Europe. It led to millions of additional casualties in a war that had ground to a stalemate. And even more disturbing were the long-term consequences—consequences that played out well after Wilson’s death. Powell convincingly demonstrates that America’s armed forces enabled the Allies to win a decisive victory they would not otherwise have won—thus enabling them to impose the draconian surrender terms on Germany that paved the way for Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. Powell also shows how Wilson’s naiveté and poor strategy allowed the Bolsheviks to seize power in Russia. Given a boost by Woodrow Wilson, Lenin embarked on a reign of terror that continued under Joseph Stalin. The result of Wilson’s blunder was seventy years of Soviet Communism, during which time the Communist government murdered some sixty million people. Just as Powell’s FDR’s Folly exploded the myths about Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, Wilson’s War destroys the conventional image of Woodrow Wilson as a great “progressive” who showed how the United States can do good by intervening in the affairs of other nations. Jim Powell delivers a stunning reminder that we should focus less on a president’s high-minded ideals and good intentions than on the consequences of his actions. A selection of the Conservative Book Club and American Compass

Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War II

History

Americas

Crown Forum

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is widely respected for having supposedly saved America from the Great Depression. But actually, his New Deal policies prolonged and exacerbated the economic disaster.

FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression (Library Binding)

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

It began as an idea in the mind of a medical student at Duke University. Later in 1969 that idea became a reality. In that year Dr. Jim Powell—with Ernie Knesel as the laboratory manager and Powell’s brothers, Ed and John, as coinvestors—started a medical testing laboratory in Burlington, a small North Carolina town.As time passed, the company and its successors revolutionized medical treatment and assured millions of patients faster and more thorough testing to determine their health problems and how they should be treated. In the past it might have taken two weeks to get test results, often delaying treatment necessary for the patient’s well-being. This new company, however, soon made it possible—even in rural areas—to get sophisticated, state-of-the-art lab testing with twenty-four-hour turnaround, resulting in better medicine.Today, that company, after internal growth and many mergers and acquisitions, is the largest of its kind in the world, serving millions of people not only in the United States but in several foreign countries as well. It is one of the few S&amp;P 500 companies headquartered in North Carolina, and those facilities remain in Burlington. We now know it as LabCorp.

Labcorp: The DNA of a Corporation

Business & Money

Don Bolden

Biography & History

Chapel Hill Pr

War Shirt

Sacred Mountain Productions

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