LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael aaron rockland

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Married to Hitler

Michael Aaron Rockland

Adam Levin is a Jewish college professor going through a divorce in the mid-1970s. He lives in a typical New Jersey suburban town, but nothing is typical about Adam—he’s obsessed with his hatred of Adolf Hitler and anything German. His internal and external adventures are filled with uncomfortable and bizarre situations leading to zany and hilarious outcomes. Only Adam can go o...

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Married to Hitler

Michael Aaron Rockland

Adam Levin is a Jewish college professor going through a divorce in the mid-1970s. He lives in a typical New Jersey suburban town, but nothing is typical about Adam—he’s obsessed with his hatred of Adolf Hitler and anything German. His internal and external adventures are filled with uncomfortable and bizarre situations leading to zany and hilarious outcomes. Only Adam can go o...

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25,30 €
Sarmiento’s Travels in the U.S. in 1847

Michael Aaron Rockland

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888), Argentine educator, statesman, and writer, self-educated after the model of Benjamin Franklin, was 'not a man but a nation,' in the words of Mrs. Horace Mann. Like De Tocqueville, this remarkable man visited the United States in its early years and wrote a detailed account of this new phenomenon.Full of shrewd social commentary and unique...

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200,38 €
Sarmiento’s Travels in the U.S. in 1847

Michael Aaron Rockland

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888), Argentine educator, statesman, and writer, self-educated after the model of Benjamin Franklin, was 'not a man but a nation,' in the words of Mrs. Horace Mann. Like De Tocqueville, this remarkable man visited the United States in its early years and wrote a detailed account of this new phenomenon.Full of shrewd social commentary and unique...

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78,61 €
Navy Crazy

Michael Aaron Rockland

Navy Crazy is a different kind of war story depicting the backwardness of military medicine in the mid-1950s. A memoir of a young medical corpsman learning to survive on a locked psychiatric ward for Navy and Marine mental patients at the hospital on the U.S. Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan from 1955-57. Rockland captures the ward's atmosphere, its flavor, its culture and its lan...

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10,84 €
An American Diplomat in Franco Spain

Michael Aaron Rockland

An American Diplomat in Franco Spain is filled with Michael Aaron Rockland’s experiences as a cultural attache at the United States embassy in Madrid, Spain in the 1960s. He captures episodes of historical and cultural significance as he goes about doing his country’s business. Some of his stories are quite poignant while others are quite amusing. He shares with his readers how...

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11,88 €
Un diplomático americano en la España de Franco

Michael Aaron Rockland / Carme Manuel Cuenca

Hace años Michael Rockland trabajó como adjunto cultural en la embajada norteamericana en Madrid, pero ni física ni espiritualmente se ha despedido nunca de nuestro país. A pesar de haber escrito trece libros, «Un diplomático americano en la España de Franco» es su primera obra sobre sus vivencias de aquella época. En uno de los capítulos narra cómo pasó un día acompañando al r...

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15,00 €
Stones

Michael Aaron Rockland

STONES is a novel simultaneously serious and comic. It takes place in one day as its protagonist, Jack Berke, accompanies his aged mother Rachel to visit the family graves in Brooklyn, Queens, and further out on Long Island. As Jack negotiates the congested expressways from cemetery to cemetery, he contemplates the tombstones, the lives of family members who lie under them, t...

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10,77 €