Bøger af Greg McLaughlin

Clinton Groverton secures the role of Presidential candidate through the extreme measure of forming a new independent political party and petitioning each state one by one.No independent candidate for the Office of the President of the United States has ever won even a single electoral vote in any national election. Despite the odds, Groverton's fledgling organization, simply called the American Unicratic Party, takes hold of the public and gains grass-roots popularity like wildfire. Groverton's poll numbers grow with each unique and revolutionary component of his platform. And before long, the number of "Unicrats" starts to rival the number of Republicans and Democrats. Will this new moderate and centrist party with radical ideas for improving the American society survive the election and all the mudslinging and dirty politics it evokes? Can it deliver on its promise to lead the nation and unite the country? Or will the outlandish Groverton brand of disruptive ideas rip apart a tried and true political system that has existed and flourished in the American lexicon since the first Presidential election?Moreover, will the election and all its fallout destroy Clint's party, his reputation and his life?

Former collegiate athlete Ellie Shaw loves coaching her enthusiastic eight-year-old son, Braden. But balancing three jobs and a five-acre farm doesn't leave much time for anything else, let alone navigating the travel team politics that have frozen out Ellie from having any influence on "the B-team" where her son and his friends have been relegated.When Colt Gibson, an All-American outfielder from Ellie's rival college, rents the apartment above her barn to escape an NCAA recruiting scandal, he forms a bond with her son while helping to guide Braden's struggling team.As the B-team improves and begins to challenge the town's A-team for attention and success, the travel team coaches and parents learn of Colt's scandalous past and seek to use it to destroy the B-team by any means necessary. Will they destroy Ellie and Colt's budding romance as well?Heading for Home is a story about how we find the center of our world through the people and things we love most.

Are we witnessing the dawn of a new cold war?

What is the role of the war reporter today? Through interviews with prominent war and foreign correspondents such as John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Mary Dejevsky and Alex Thomson The War Correspondent delves into the most dangerous form of journalism.*BR* *BR*From Crimea to Vietnam, the Falklands to the Gulf and Afghanistan, Iraq and the War on Terror, the books examines the attractions and risks of war reporting; the challenge of objectivity and impartiality in the war zone; the danger that journalistic independence is compromised by military control, censorship and public relations; as well as the commercial and technological pressures of an intensely concentrated, competitive news media environment. *BR**BR*As history and ideology return to the reporting of international conflict, Greg McLaughlin asks what will that mean for a new generation of war correspondents, attuned not to history or ideology but to the politics of the next conflict.

Bloody Sunday was one of the most controversial events in the history of the Northern Ireland conflict and also one of the most mediated. This book identifies two countervailing impulses in media coverage of Bloody Sunday and its legacy, suggesting a more complex set of representations than a straightforward propaganda analysis might allow for.