Focusing on the remarkable history of de Havilland Canada aircraft, the book explores their global presence, from urban airports to remote locations. It features over 220 unique photographs, many previously unpublished, alongside engaging stories, anecdotes, and detailed facts. This comprehensive account highlights the versatility and impact of these aircraft across diverse environments, showcasing their significance in aviation history.
The narrative intertwines the observations of a keen observer with a poet's emotional depth, capturing the vibrancy of springtime Paris. Through vivid imagery, it explores the nuances of everyday life, from a bus driver to a mechanic, revealing deeper truths about identity and experience. The blend of lyrical urgency and patient storytelling creates a rich tapestry of moments that resonate with both humor and introspection.
Steaming to Bamboola is a story of the author's time at sea. He tells first- hand about typhoons, cargoes, smuggling, mid-ocean burials, rescues, stowaways, hard places, hard drinking, and hard romance.
During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He's been binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work on a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian origin. He thinks he has Covid. His wife thinks he is losing his mind. In short, your typical pandemic worries. Things were going from bad to worse even before his doctor suggested a battery of brain tests. He knows what that means: dementia! But even in these scary times, there are plenty of things to distract him. His iPhone is fat-shaming him. He's been trying to read Proust and thinks the French novelist missed his true calling as a parfumier. And he's discovered nefarious Russian influence on the local coroner's race. Why is Putin so keen to control who decides who died peacefully and who by foul play in Pimento County? Could it be the local military base?--
Christopher Buckley?s latest book continues his exploration of how, despite the intellectual tools of science and philosophy, we are still somehow left with questions about identity, memory, love, loss, value, self, and God?not to mention the depredations of war. In his poetry and nonfiction, he has considered these matters in the belief that the answers to their mysteries are in the very act of pursuit. On every page is the work of a consummate artist who is also, recognizably, a companion spirit on the journey all of creation has been on all this time.
This book follows the fortunes of the great Soviet airliners over the last three decades and looks at what happened to this immense fleet of Antonovs, Ilyushins, Tupolevs and Yaks. Illustrated with 220 photos, and supported by many anecdotes, facts and figures, this book conveys the nostalgia and wonder of this tumultuous time in aviation history.
The award-winning and bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking delivers a hilarious and whipsmart fake memoir by Herb Nutterman—Donald Trump’s seventh chief of staff—who has written the ultimate tell-all about Trump and Russia. Herb Nutterman never intended to become Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff. Herb served the Trump Organization for twenty-seven years, holding jobs in everything from a food and beverage manager at the Trump Magnifica to being the first general manager of the Trump Bloody Run Golf Course. And when his old boss asks “his favorite Jew” to take on the daunting role of chief of staff, Herb, spurred on by loyalty, agrees. But being the chief of staff is a lot different from being a former hospitality expert. Soon, Herb finds himself deeply involved in Russian intrigue, deflecting rumors about Mike Pence’s high school involvement in a Satanic cult, and leading President Trump’s reelection campaign. What Nutterman experiences is outrageous, outlandish, and otherwise unbelievable—therefore making it a deadly accurate account of being the chief of staff during the Trump administration. With hilarious jabs at the biggest world leaders and Washington politics overall, Make Russia Great Again is a timely political satire from “one of the funniest writers in the English language” (Tom Wolfe).
Specters as various as Vallejo, Szymborska, Neruda, Fidel Castro, and Groucho Marx guide and support the elegies in Christopher Buckley's new collection. A god that may or may not be there as well as politics, memory, history, popular culture, philosophy, and a good deal of arm wrestling with chance inform Buckley's on-going debate between faith and doubt, science and religion. Buckley brings his customary sense of irony and slant humor to bear on the deep inquiry into our collective fates in Agnostic.
In an attempt to gain Congressional approval for a top secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist "Bird" McIntyre and sexy Neo-Con wonkette Angel Templeton start a rumour that the Chinese secret service is trying to assassinate the Dalai Lama. Their outrageous scheme provokes a series of crises involving the White House, the CIA, and a strangely sympathetic and vulnerable Chinese president, with both countries veering perilously towards war. Buckley has drawn his most convincing and outrageous characters to date: Bird, failed novelist of amusingly awful Clancy-esque thrillers; Angel, combination Anne Coulter and Ayn Rand; Bird's demanding, equestrian wife, Myndi; Bewks, his feckless but endearing Civil War re-enactor brother; the mild-mannered Chinese President Fa and his devoted aide Gang, manoeuvring desperately against sinister Politburo hard-liners Minister Lo and General Han. Blending the skewering genius of Thank You For Smoking with Dr. Strangelove's dark comedy, They Eat Puppies Don't They? has something to offend -- and amuse -- everyone. Praise for Christopher Buckely: "One of the funniest writers in the English language." Tom Wolfe. "A Benchley with WordPerfect." John Updike. "An effervescent joy." Joseph Heller.
In this sharp satire by acclaimed author Tom Wolfe, the U.S. President seeks revenge on the Senate by nominating a beloved TV judge to the Supreme Court. Praised for his humor and political wit, Wolfe delivers a hilarious critique of contemporary politics in this trade paperback edition.
Ils exagèrent, tous ces retraités. À Washington, entre villas de luxe et terrains de golf, ils sont de plus en plus nombreux à vivre aux crochets de la jeune génération. Aidée par un sénateur assoiffé de pouvoir, Cassandra, conseillère en communication et bloggeuse révoltée, déclare la guerre aux baby-boomers. Son arme ? Le "transitionnement volontaire", comprenez : le suicide assisté...
Horrifiée par les mauvais traitements infligés aux femmes dans le Royaume de Wasabie, la jeune Américaine Florence Farfaletti décide de taper du poing dans le sable. Démise de ses fonctions d'adjointe du sous-secrétaire d'État adjoint aux Affaires du Proche-Orient, elle s'engage dans une mission secrète visant à promouvoir l'égalité des droits entre les sexes dans le petit émirat du Matar, "la Suisse du Golfe". Son équipe d'élite se compose d'un tueur de la CIA, d'un conseiller en communication et d'un bureaucrate brillant mais frustré. Son arme : une chaîne de télévision féministe diffusant un talk show où l'on incite, entre autres, les femmes à prendre le volant, et une sitcom tournant en ridicule une escouade d'officiers de la police religieuse, qu'un critique télé surnomme le "Friends de l'Enfer". Résultats : une fatwa contre le personnel de la chaîne et une lutte acharnée pour garder le contrôle du Royaume… alors que la rumeur d'un coup d'État gronde. Démantelant sans concession autant l'ineptie américaine, l'interventionnisme intéressé de la France, que l'archaïsme de quelques pays arabes, Florence d'Arabie est une satire mordante sur la façon dont les bonnes intentions des pouvoirs occidentaux peuvent parfois dégénérer en farce.
Charlie Becker, a defense contractor in control of America's biggest conglomerates, unleashes his own private army of experts on the job when his granddaughter, Tasha, dies of a drug overdose. Reprint.
Maintaining the froideur that has won her little public support, First Lady Elizabeth Tyler MacMann needs to find the hottest lawyer in town to defend her in the biggest murder trial in America's history. And that means taking on the services of the fiance she dumped at law school in order to marry the then distinguished war hero who eventually becomes President. Serially divorced, Boyce Baylor is not surprised - he's the only attorney up to the job and he knows it. It's all going swimmingly - he's got it nailed, until his client decides she wants to take the stand and restore her reputation and he has no choice but to acquiesce. Throw in several egos the size of the White House, media-spin like there's no tomorrow, the old boy network, some very underhand business involving the FBI, a pregnancy, a few sex toys and a dose of Viagra and you're some way into this delicious farce - which becomes all the more delicious when you realise how small a leap of the imagination is required to get there.
J. O. Banion est un coriace : son talk-show bat les records d'audience en déliant les langues de bois. Le jour où il croise un engin lumineux et des êtres parlant une langue incompréhensible, il doute. Des jardiniers ? Des pompiers ? Des terroristes ? La seule réponse plausible : des extra-terrestres. Le plus cynique des présentateurs télé doit prouver que les petits hommes verts existent...
Die Geschichte handelt von einem ehemaligen Wall-Street-Profi, der als Bruder Ty Mönch wird, um seinem Leben eine neue Richtung zu geben. Im Kloster Kana, das kurz vor dem Bankrott steht, findet er in der Heiligen Schrift überraschende Börsentipps und entdeckt dabei sieben geistige Gesetze, die andere Gurus übertreffen.
His famous father conducted a legendary literary feud with Gore Vidal, and while Christopher Buckley's dust-up via fax machine with novelist Tom Clancy (who was outraged by Buckley's trashing of one of his novels in the New York Times Book Review doesn't reach that intellectual level, it does make for very funny reading and illustrates Buckley's gift for puncturing pomposity wherever he finds it. To his credit, most of the essays in this collection are quite witty, and he doesn't sink to mean- spirited ideological blather. Included are pieces published in the New Yorker , Esquire , the Wall Street Journal , and other publications. Apart from the humorous essays, Buckley's ruminations on why he didn't serve in Vietnam provide thought-provoking commentary on his generation's defining event.
Nick Naylor a sûrement le job le plus ingrat de tous les Etats-Unis. Porte-parole de l'industrie du tabac, il est l'un des hommes les plus impopulaires de Washington. De conférence de presse en talk-show télévisé, de colloque sur la santé en réunion à Hollywood, son habile - et douteuse - défense du tabagisme soulève les passions et l'entraîne dans des aventures invraisemblables. Voire parfois périlleuses... Drôle, cocasse, un rien provocateur et très peu politically correct, ce roman qui se moque du " néo-puritanisme " américain, tout en soulignant l'hypocrisie profonde et choquante de l'industrie du tabac, est un véritable tour de force. Christopher Buckley fait preuve, dans cette satire de l'Amérique d'aujourd'hui, d'une finesse, d'un mordant et d'un humour dévastateurs.
With a pajama-clad President Reagan refusing to leave the White House on his successor’s Inauguration Day, Buckley has given this farce of Oval Office politics a nearly perfect beginning. Parodying the familiar form of the White House memoir, Buckley recounts the turbulent years of the Democratic Tucker administration, as told by loyalist Herbert Wadlough. Through this former accountant’s eyes, we see the infighting that plagues the White House, the President’s faltering marriage to a former starlet, and his ongoing crises.
Od prvních dramatických zpráv o vylodění angloamerických armád na Sicílii čekal každý, kdo prožíval válku, na podrobný obraz této gigantické a v dějinách jedinečné události. Christopher Buckley, válečný dopisovatel, který po sedm let od bojů ve Španělsku až k vítěznému vstupu spojenců do Evropy provázel bojující muže s psacím strojem a zásobou papíru, na který "by byl mohl napsat Vojnu i mír", podává nám své zážitky z prvních linií, a často i z míst, předbíhajících frontu, a uchovává tak budoucnosti zprávy o událostech, jaké nemají v dějinách obdoby. Invaze, rychlý postup Sicílií, osvobozování Itálie, boje o Monte Cassino a posléze tvrdé dobytí Říma - to jsou fakta, která nám líčí neobyčejně lidským, neoficiálním a netendenčním způsobem, jsa ve své osobě válečného zpravodaje jaksi prvním civilistou, který se začerstva díval na průběh bojů. Jeho kniha je napsána perem zkušeného zpravodaje, který se umí důkladně rozhlížet kolem sebe a vidí především život a lidi uprostřed válečných kulis. Nechybí mu ani humor, k němuž přes všechnu tragiku poražené země dávali častý podnět Italové, nepodaření a zotročení "spolubojovníci" tvrdých a vojáckých Němců.
