"Life's Little Annoyances is a collection of stories, sorted into chapters with themes such as Going Postal, Press "1" for Aggravation, and Bills, Banks and Bile. Each story describes a situation where a pet peeve has driven a person to react, sometimes quite elaborately. While many of us dream of the perfect revenge to such petty behavior, few follow through. If you are one of the timid, take heart in the stories of the brave and ingenious who take revenge on those who are behind "life's little annoyances." And for those who create these petty moments of distress, be forewarned, there are those out there who are unafraid to take action! Life's Little Annoyances is pure entertainment, a short and endearing read that provides that much-needed life break - especially after those days when you've encountered one of many possible little annoyances." Regan Windsor

Life's Little Annoyances (TRUE TALES OF PEOPLE WHO JUST CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE)

Humor & Entertainment

IAN URBINA

Humor

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The towering figure who remade American politics―the champion of the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege
"It is rare that historians manage both Wilentz's deep interpretation and lively narrative." - Publishers Weekly
 The Founding Fathers espoused a republican government, but they were distrustful of the common people, having designed a constitutional system that would temper popular passions. But as the revolutionary generation passed from the scene in the 1820s, a new movement, based on the principle of broader democracy, gathered force and united behind Andrew Jackson, the charismatic general who had defeated the British at New Orleans and who embodied the hopes of ordinary Americans. Raising his voice against the artificial inequalities fostered by birth, station, monied power, and political privilege, Jackson brought American politics into a new age. Sean Wilentz, one of America's leading historians of the nineteenth century, recounts the fiery career of this larger-than-life figure, a man whose high ideals were matched in equal measure by his failures and moral blind spots, a man who is remembered for the accomplishments of his eight years in office and for the bitter enemies he made. It was in Jackson's time that the great conflicts of American politics―urban versus rural, federal versus state, free versus slave―crystallized, and Jackson was not shy about taking a vigorous stand. It was under Jackson that modern American politics began, and his legacy continues to inform our debates to the present day.

Andrew Jackson

Biographies & Memoirs

Sean Wilentz

Historical

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