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  Title IX Pat Summitt and...

  Mary Ellen Pethel

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  In June 1972, President Richard Nixon put pen to paper and signed the Educational Amendments of 1972 into law. The nearly 150-page document makes no mention of “gender,” “athletics,” “girls,” or “women.” The bill did not appear to contain anything earth shattering. But tucked into its final pages, a heading appears, “Title IX—Prohibition of Sex Discrimination.” These 37 words would change the world for girls and women across the United States. On its face, Title IX legally guaranteed equal opportunity in education. In time, Title IX would serve as the tipping point for the modern era of women’s sport. Slowly but surely, women’s athletics at the high school and collegiate levels grew to prominence, and Tennessee fast emerged as a national leader. 
  In Title IX, Pat Summitt, and Tennessee’s Trailblazers, Mary Ellen Pethel introduces readers to past and present pioneers—each instrumental to the success of women’s athletics across the state and nation. Through vibrant profiles, Pethel celebrates the lives and careers of household names like Pat Summitt and Candace Parker, as well as equally important forerunners such as Ann Furrow and Teresa Phillips. Through their lived experiences, these fifty individuals laid the foundation for athletic excellence in Tennessee, which in turn shaped the national landscape for women’s sports. 
  With interviewees ranging from age 20 to 93, Pethel artfully combines storytelling with scholarship. Guided by the voices of the athletes, coaches, and administrators, Pethel vividly documents achievement and adversity, wins and losses, and advice for the next generation. This book represents the first statewide compilation of its kind—offering readers a behind-the- scenes perspective of Tennessee women who dedicated their lives to the advancement of sport and gender equality. Readers will delight in Title IX, Pat Summitt, and Tennessee’s Trailblazers: 50 Years, 50 Stories. For more follow @drpethel.

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  General Jan Smuts and his First...

  David Brock Katz

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  A new assessment of Jan Smuts’s military leadership through examination of his World War I campaigning, demonstrating that he was a gifted general, conversant with the craft of maneuver warfare, and a command style steeped in the experiences of his time as a Boer general.World War I ushered in a renewed scramble for Africa. At its helm, Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realize his ambition of a Greater South Africa. He set his sights upon the vast German colonies of South-West Africa and East Africa – the demise of which would end the Kaiser’s grandiose schemes for Mittelafrika. As part of his strategy to shift South Africa’s borders inexorably northward, Smuts even cast an eye toward Portuguese and Belgian African possessions.  Smuts, his abilities as a general much denigrated by both his contemporary and then later modern historians, was no armchair soldier. This cabinet minister and statesman donned a uniform and led his men into battle. He learned his soldiery craft under General Koos De la Rey's tutelage, and another soldier-statesman, General Louis Botha during the South African War 1899–1902. He emerged from that war, immersed in the Boer maneuver doctrine he devastatingly waged in the guerrilla phase of that conflict. His daring and epic invasion of the Cape at the head of his commando remains legendary. The first phase of the German South West African campaign and the Afrikaner Rebellion in 1914 placed his abilities as a sound strategic thinker and a bold operational planner on display. Champing at the bit, he finally had the opportunity to command the Southern Forces in the second phase of the German South West African campaign.  Placed in command of the Allied forces in East Africa in 1916, he led a mixed bag of South Africans and Imperial troops against the legendary Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his Shutztruppe. Using his penchant for Boer maneuver warfare together with mounted infantry led and manned by Boer Republican veterans, he proceeded to free the vast German territory from Lettow-Vorbeck’s grip. Often leading from the front, his operational concepts were an enigma to the British under his command, remaining so to modern-day historians. Although unable to bring the elusive and wily Lettow-Vorbeck to a final decisive battle, Smuts conquered most of the territory by the end of his tenure in February 1917.  General Jan Smuts and His First World War in Africa makes use of multiple archival sources and the official accounts of all the participants to provide a long-overdue reassessment of Smuts’s generalship and his role in furthering the strategic aims of South Africa and the British Empire in Africa during World War I.

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  Interview with Manson Murderer...

  Susan Atkins

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  Susan Denise Atkins (May 7, 1948 - September 24, 2009) was an American convicted murderer who was a member of Charles Manson's "Family." Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in California over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969. Known within the Manson family as Sexy Sadie, Atkins was convicted for her participation in eight of these killings, including the most notorious, the Tate murders in 1969. She was sentenced to death, which was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment when the California Supreme Court invalidated all death sentences issued prior to 1972. Atkins was incarcerated until her death in 2009. At the time of her death, she was California's longest-serving female inmate, since surpassed by fellow Manson family members Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel. The following interview is from 1978 while Atkins was incarcerated at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, CA.

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  The Columnist - Leaks Lies and...

  Donald A. Ritchie

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  Long before Wikileaks and social media, the journalist Drew Pearson exposed to public view information that public officials tried to keep hidden. Pearson devoted himself to revealing what politicians were doing behind closed doors. From 1932 to 1969, his daily "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column and weekly radio and TV commentary broke secrets, revealed classified information, and passed along rumors based on sources high and low in the federal government, while intelligence agents searched fruitlessly for his sources. 
   
   
   
  For forty years, this syndicated columnist and radio and television commentator  called public officials to account and forced them to confront the facts. Pearson's daily column, published in more than 600 newspapers, and his weekly radio and television commentaries led to the censure of two US senators, sent four members of the House to prison, and undermined numerous political careers. 
   
   
   
  Breaking secrets was the heartbeat of Pearson's column. He played cat and mouse with the investigators who shadowed him, tapped his phone, read his mail, and planted agents among his friends. Yet they rarely learned his sources. Drawing on Pearson's extensive correspondence, diaries, and oral histories, The Columnist reveals the mystery behind Pearson's leaks and the accuracy of his most controversial revelations.

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  Abraham Lincoln - The truth...

  Susanne Monroe

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  Do you want to learn about Abraham Lincoln? 
  Abrаhаm Lincoln's journey from bеing juѕt аnоthеr роlitiсiаn to bесоming America's greatest рrеѕidеnt. Hiѕtоriсаl rаnkingѕ оf Presidents of thе United States" which mаkеѕ it clear thаt in thе еуеѕ оf mаnу еxреrtѕ, and the public, Linсоln hаѕ соnѕiѕtеntlу hеld thiѕ ѕtаtuѕ. 
  A kеу tо thiѕ transformation was hоw Linсоln, whоѕе birthday iѕ today, developed thе ѕеlf-diѕсiрlinе tо tаkе оnе of his signature strengths-; hiѕ mastery of language-; аnd uѕеd it to serve the intеrеѕtѕ of thе Amеriсаn реорlе rаthеr thаn his оwn. 
  Linсоln wаѕ undоubtеdlу оnе of the grеаtеѕt соmmuniсаtоrѕ аmоng all Amеriсаn рrеѕidеntѕ. Hiѕ wоrdѕ-; аѕ a рubliс speaker, writеr, dеbаtеr, humоriѕt, аnd conversationalist-; continue tо еntеrtаin, educate, and inѕрirе uѕ to thiѕ dау. With оnlу one уеаr оf fоrmаl ѕсhооling, Linсоln соnѕсiоuѕlу cultivated thiѕ mastery оf lаnguаgе аnd еxрrеѕѕiоn. As a уоung bоу, he would рrасtiсе public ѕреаking bу gаthеring hiѕ friеndѕ tоgеthеr аnd ѕtеррing оntо a stump to address thеm. During hiѕ dауѕ аѕ a lаwуеr in Illinоiѕ, Linсоln wоuld frequently mееt uр in thе еvеning with friеndѕ аt a tavern whеrе they wоuld еngаgе in ѕtоrу-tеlling соntеѕtѕ. And hе glеаnеd valuable lessons in rhеtоriс by diligently ѕtudуing Shаkеѕреаrе. 
  As hе bеgаn forging hiѕ political ambitions, Linсоln rесоgnizеd thе роwеr оf words tо wеаkеn аnd еvеn dеѕtrоу his орроnеntѕ, аnd ѕо he started tо аttасk them with роwеrful vоllеуѕ of сritiсiѕm аnd mockery. Uроn provocation аt a political gаthеring in 1840, Linсоln mimiсkеd аnd ridiсulеd his opponent, Jеѕѕ Thоmаѕ, tо uрrоаriоuѕ cheering оf thе crowd. Thоmаѕ, whо wаѕ рrеѕеnt at thе event, wаѕ rеduсеd tо tears, and fоr уеаrѕ afterward, the реорlе referred tо it аѕ "thе ѕkinning оf Thomas."

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  Pickett's Charge - Eyewitness...

  Richard Rollins

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  Constructed from first person accounts from Union and Confederate officers and soldiers, this military history is perfect for Civil War buffs.    At Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, Confederate soldiers launched one of history’s most famous infantry assaults: Pickett's Charge. Using the participants’ own words, Richard Rollins deftly reconstructs that momentous event. Separate sections cover planning and preparation; the preliminary artillery barrage; the charges of Pickett's, Pettigrew's, and Trimble's Divisions; and defensive actions up and down the Federal line. From the generals who devised the assault to the lower-level officers and men who bravely walked through shell and shot, Rollins offers a comprehensive, panoramic view of the charge, with more than 150 firsthand accounts—including accounts from Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Meade, and Hancock—many of them long forgotten and previously unpublished.

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