Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, Crito (Oxford World's Classics)

GO Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, Crito (Oxford World's Classics)


Author: Plato
Type: eBook
Language: English
Released: 1999
Publisher: No
Page Count: 160
Format: pdf
ISBN-10: 0192838644
ISBN-13: 9780585283562
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From Publishers Weekly On September 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore attempted to kill President Gerald Ford. Investigative journalist Spieler traces the unlikely assassin's convoluted path as the suburban housewife who abandoned her children meandered through relationships, marriages and careers ranging from bookkeeping to political activist turned FBI informant. Moore assumed varied personas, a skill she first displayed as an actress in high school. Despite three decades of contact with Moore, Spieler admits she still cannot explain what led Moore to attempt to kill Ford. But Spieler offers a portrait of an erratic, unstable woman with a protean capacity to shift identities, with the 1960s and '70s as a dramatic backdrop. Fans of true crime accounts or contemporary history will savor this portrait of the first woman to make an assassination attempt on an American president. (Jan. 12) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review Winner of the 2009 San Francisco Book Festival Award (Wild Card category)  "Spieler offers a portrait of an erratic, unstable woman with a protean capacity to shift identities, with the 1960s and '70s as a dramatic backdrop. Fans of true crime accounts or contemporary history will savor this portrait of the first woman to make an assassination attempt on an American president." -- Publishers Weekly "It is the obligation of the thoughtful journalist to tell us something meaningful that we don’t already know.  In Taking Aim at the President, Geri Spieler is more than up to the task.  The byzantine tale of Sara Jane Moore's double, triple and quadruple lives, with so many bizarre groups -- including the federal government -- exploiting her vulnerabilities, is the stuff of Hollywood fiction. The fact that it’s all true, and told with precision by Spieler, raises Sara Jane’s story to something significantly more than a footnote to history." --Alan Weisman, author of Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle, The Kingdom, the Power & the End of Empire in America and Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather  "A well-written, fascinating story about an inexplicable moment in American History." -- Carl Stern, Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University, and former NBC News correspondent  "Geri Spieler has done a marvelous job of unraveling the details surrounding one of the most bizarre events in American history, Sara Jane Moore’s attack on Gerald Ford." – James Dalessandro, author of 1906 and Citizen Jane“Talk about truth being stranger than fiction! Captivating.” —The San Francisco Chronicle