The Miracle of the Kurds : A Remarkable Story of Hope Reborn In Northern Iraq

The director of the Tea Party News Network examines "the strength of the new conservative woman in everyday life and politics--from deep faith and spirituality to love for family and children to independence and refusal to participate in a manufactured war against men"--Dust jacket flap.;Why We Need to Find Our ROAR -- Blame It on Genetics -- First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage -- Parenting and the Mommy Mafia -- Not Just a Girl and Her Gun -- "The Fair and Balanced Media" ... Said No One Ever -- Religious Freedom for Tigers, Nuns, and Hobby Lobby -- Women in Combat (and I Don't Mean Black Friday) -- What Women Want (from the Economy) -- Hugging Trees and Getting All Sappy -- There is Nothing Healthy about Obamacare -- The Brutal Truth. New York Times best-selling author Stephen Mansfield was witness to much of the modern history of the Kurds. In this riveting account, Mansfield movingly tells the stories of the people who have fashioned one of the greatest economic and cultural resurrections in human history. They are the largest people group in the world without a homeland of their own. Despised and persecuted the world over, they even call themselves "the people without a friend." Saddam Hussein tried to wipe them from the face of the earth, killing several hundred thousand of them in the attempt. Their sufferings have become legend. They are the Kurds, descendants of the ancient Medes best known today from the pages of the Bible -- inhabitants of what the world now calls Northern Iraq. Yet today the Kurds are rebuilding so brilliantly from war and oppression that even their enemies call it "a miracle." Six star hotels stand where bombs once fell, shopping malls and gleaming schools rise where massacres once occurred. National Geographic and Conde Nast have listed modern "Kurdistan" as a "must-see" tourist destination. Popular political news commentator Scottie Nell Hughes tackles the myth of the weak and meek conservative American woman with a fighting spirit that refuses to be intimidated by the mainstream media.