Bøger af Bob Grudle

On July 21, 1960, Bob Grudle was struck by a car at the age of five, leaving him unconscious for five weeks and partially paralyzed, having suffered multiple skull fractures. As a result, he ended up attending a school for handicapped children.Grudle went back to visit that same school as an adult to learn more about the accident and his subsequent treatment, as he had no memory of the accident itself or anything before it.During his journey, Grudle's family reminds him of his life after the accident and how he learned to walk again.About the AuthorBob Grudle worked various jobs before being hired by the FBI and relocating first to Washington, DC, and then Nebraska. He retired from the FBI due to a hip injury, earned several college degrees, traveled, and worked in maintenance until retiring in 2020. He has written and published several books prior to this one.

As the World TurnsBy: Bob GrudleAs far back as ancient Rome, there has always been a dominant country, or in today's terminology, a superpower. Along with the superpower, there are a number of regional powers who are allies or adversaries of the superpower. The Roman Republic had as a regional power, first the Carthage Empire, then the Persian Empires. As Rome began to decline, the Roman territory was split in two the eastern part of the empire, which became the Byzantine Empire and the superpower, and the regional powers were the Persian Empire and later the Islamic Empire.As the Byzantine Empire declined, France took its place. After France it was Spain, then after Spain it was the British. As the United Kingdom began to decline during World War 2, the United States took up the leadership role. After World War 2, the Soviet Union began to challenge the United States for the leadership role, and after the Soviet Union collapsed, China began to challenge the United States for the leadership role.

Influence merges parts of Bob Grudle's earlier books, Influential Countries in History and Middle East Then and Now. The author references and defends the material from these two books with updated information he has since gained. About the Author Bob Grudle wrote his first book, Influential Countries in History, while working at a casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and both Middle East Then and Now and Influence were written while Grudle is currently working in Shenandoah, Iowa.