Absolute Power

Author : David Baldacci
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780446519960
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolute Power written by David Baldacci and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 1996-01-18 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When burglar Luther Whitney breaks into a Virginia mansion, he witnesses a brutal crime involving the president -- a man who believes he can get away with anything -- and now, Luther may be the only one who can stop him in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. In a heavily guarded mansion in the Virginia countryside, professional burglar and break-in artist Luther Whitney is trapped behind a two-way mirror. What he witnesses destroys his faith not only in justice, but in all he holds dear. What follows is an unthinkable abuse of power and criminal conspiracy, as a breathtaking cover-up is set in motion by those appointed to work for one of the most important people in the world -- the President of the United States.

Author : David Baldacci
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0759524602
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolute Power written by David Baldacci and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-06-15 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, a burglar, Luther Whitney, breaks into a Virginia mansion, and witnesses a brutal crime involving the president—​a man who believes he can get away with anything. In a heavily guarded mansion in the Virginia countryside, professional burglar and break-in artist Luther Whitney is trapped behind a two-way mirror. What he witnesses destroys his faith not only in justice, but in all he holds dear. What follows is an unthinkable abuse of power and criminal conspiracy, as a breathtaking cover-up is set in motion by those appointed to work for one of the most important people in the world -- the President of the United States.

Author : John Hagee
Publisher : Breakfast For Seven
ISBN 13 : 1951701062
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolute Power: Unlock Potential. Fulfill Your Destiny. written by John Hagee and published by Breakfast For Seven. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSOLUTE POWER can transform every one of your problems into an opportunity for success. ABSOLUTE POWER will birth a new dawn of hope to help you realize your goals and dreams with confidence, personal potential, wealth, and communication. ABSOLUTE POWER will make the impossible possible: sorrow becomes joy, defeat becomes victory, stress becomes peace, and doubt becomes faith in God.

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541762002
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolute Power written by Paul Collins and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authority In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. With cardinals scattered across Europe and the next papal election uncertain, even if Catholicism survived, it seemed the papacy was finished. In this gripping narrative of religious and political history, Paul Collins tells the improbable success story of the last 220 years of the papacy, from the unexalted death of Pope Pius VI in 1799 to the celebrity of Pope Francis today. In a strange contradiction, as the papacy has lost its physical power--its armies and states--and remained stubbornly opposed to the currents of social and scientific consensus, it has only increased its influence and political authority in the world.

Author : D. Jablow Hershman
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615927832
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brotherhood of Tyrants written by D. Jablow Hershman and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Stalin were three tyrants, and the effects of their brutal regimes are still with us. Each attained absolute power, and misused it in a gargantuan fashion, leaving in his wake a trail of hatred, devastation, and death.In A Brotherhood of Tyrants, D. Jablow Hershman and Julian Lieb uncover manic depression as a hidden cause of dictatorship, war, and mass killing. In comparing these three tyrants, they describe a number of behavioral similarities supporting the contention that a specific psychiatric disorder - manic depression - can be one of the key factors in such political pathologies as tyranny and terrorism.Manic depressive disorder has also produced the great destroyers in history - when in addition to ambition and egotism have been added large measures of ruthlessness, willfulness, utter intolerance of criticism, a consuming need to dominate others, paranoia, and megalomania.Focusing on these three dictators, A Brotherhood of Tyrants argues that manic depression has always been, and continues to be, a critical factor in compelling some individuals to seek political power and to become tyrants. It powerfully demonstrates how this disorder is the source of many of the typical characteristics - including grandiosity and megalomania - of a tyrannical personality and provides a manual for the identification of the psychotic tyrant.In their epilogue, the authors outline the clinical signs of manic depression as described in the classic studies of the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926). They apply these clinical signs and symptoms to the pathologies of four notorious mass killers of recent times: David Koresh, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jim Jones, and Colin Ferguson. They argue that if these individuals had been identified in time as manic depressives, they could have been successfully treated, and hundreds of innocent lives could have been saved.

Author : Kara Cooney
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1426221975
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Kings written by Kara Cooney and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the tradition of historians like Stacy Schiff and Amanda Foreman who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable pharaohs who ruled Egypt with absolute power, shining a new light on the country's 3,000-year empire and its meaning today.

Author : C.S. Denton
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848584741
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolute Power written by C.S. Denton and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07-31 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power" -Abraham Lincoln Throughout history, all monarchs have lived with the strange dichotomy of simultaneously being human and more than human. In our time, when monarchies seem little more than tourist curiosities and democracy is taken for granted, it is easy to forget just how much power pre-democratic rulers once wielded. The rulers and holders of political power in this book were all possessed of vast - in many cases, absolute - power: power which was often exercised arbitrarily and unjustly. What unites the figures in this book is that they all, in one way or another, failed to live up to the extravagantly high hopes invested in them and, as a consequence, have been judged harshly by history. A few, such as George III, might have been remembered more kindly were it not for mental illness changing their status from that of hero to villain. Some, like Louis XVI, were unfairly transformed into monsters by hostile propaganda, while others, such as Peter the Great, have been both celebrated as heroes and denounced as tyrants, often in the same breath. Finally, there are those rulers who, like Caligula or Ivan the Terrible, may well fully deserve their evil reputations. Absolute Power is a study in how often rulers were carried away or overwhelmed by their exalted status, while a few were even driven over the edge into madness.

Author : John P. MacKenzie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolute Power written by John P. MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Century Foundation report"--T.p.

Author : Jonah Anguka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolute Power written by Jonah Anguka and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of an innocent man's suffering at the hands of a ruthless regime. The title records events before and after the killing of Dr Ouko, a distinguished Kenyan politician. It is an account of the author's dramatic experiences during his arrest and imprisonment.

Author : Clive Foss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905204359
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tyrants written by Clive Foss and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the lives and deeds of fifty dictators from around the world who have ruled at times throughout the past 2500 years, including Julius Caesar, Herod, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Saddam Hussein.