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Author | : Eliot Asinof |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780805065374 |
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"The most thorough investigation of the Black Sox scandal on record . . . A vividly, excitingly written book."--Chicago Tribune
Author | : Richard Wright |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2008-04-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061450189 |
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Here, in these powerful stories, Richard Wright takes readers into this landscape once again. Each of the eight stories in Eight Men focuses on a black man at violent odds with a white world, reflecting Wright's views about racism in our society and his fascination with what he called "the struggle of the individual in America." These poignant, gripping stories will captivate all those who loved Black Boy and Native Son.
Author | : Jared Cohen |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2020-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501109839 |
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This New York Times bestselling “deep dive into the terms of eight former presidents is chock-full of political hijinks—and déjà vu” (Vanity Fair) and provides a fascinating look at the men who came to the office without being elected to it, showing how each affected the nation and world. The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Eight men have succeeded to the presidency when the incumbent died in office. In one way or another they vastly changed our history. Only Theodore Roosevelt would have been elected in his own right. Only TR, Truman, Coolidge, and LBJ were re-elected. John Tyler succeeded William Henry Harrison who died 30 days into his term. He was kicked out of his party and became the first president threatened with impeachment. Millard Fillmore succeeded esteemed General Zachary Taylor. He immediately sacked the entire cabinet and delayed an inevitable Civil War by standing with Henry Clay’s compromise of 1850. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded our greatest president, sided with remnants of the Confederacy in Reconstruction. Chester Arthur, the embodiment of the spoils system, was so reviled as James Garfield’s successor that he had to defend himself against plotting Garfield’s assassination; but he reformed the civil service. Theodore Roosevelt broke up the trusts. Calvin Coolidge silently cooled down the Harding scandals and preserved the White House for the Republican Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. Harry Truman surprised everybody when he succeeded the great FDR and proved an able and accomplished president. Lyndon B. Johnson was named to deliver Texas electorally. He led the nation forward on Civil Rights but failed on Vietnam. Accidental Presidents shows that “history unfolds in death as well as in life” (The Wall Street Journal) and adds immeasurably to our understanding of the power and limits of the American presidency in critical times.
Author | : Jack Walter Peltason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Oscar Ryan |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2013-03-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0776620746 |
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The first scholarly edition of the only play banned in Canada for political reasons.
Author | : Nick Thorpe |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2007-11-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0743233255 |
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8 Men and a Duck charts the hilarious and unnerving Pacific voyage as it rolls between waves of high drama and high farce: from the five-day launch off a Chilean beach, to the bungled phone call that triggered a naval rescue alert, to the sad fate of Pedro the duck, to the constant race against the inexorable sinking of the soggy hull. On a fateful South American bus trip, journalist Nick Thorpe overheard some fellow passengers discussing an improbable plan to sail 2,500 miles from northern Chile to Easter Island on the Viracocha—a boat made of reeds. The crew's aim in reviving this pre-Incan boat-building technology was twofold: to reopen the controversial migration theories of Thor Heyerdahl, who sailed his boat the Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 1947, and to have one heck of an adventure in the process. Thorpe talked his way on board Captain Phil Buck's Viracocha only to find himself plagued by uncertainty. Why did the crew include a tree surgeon, a jewelry salesman, and two ducks? What happened to the navigator? Did anybody actually know how to sail? And, most important, where was the life raft? Despite the best efforts of storms and sharks and fast-moving freighters, an alarming lack of sailing qualifications, and a rival explorer dogging the adventure at every turn, the crew members of the Viracocha lived to tell their extraordinary tale right through to its wickedly unexpected conclusion. Nick Thorpe's account is by turns funny, touching, and thrilling—a story of friendship, fate, and the unlikely distances people will go for real adventure.
Author | : Leslie Kirk Campbell |
Publisher | : Sarabande Books |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2022-04-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1946448893 |
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In these brilliant, thematically linked stories, men and women from the Midwest to the West Coast, from Germany to Japan—engineers, opera singers, waitresses, teenagers, and monks—reckon with their body’s relationship to grief, illness, violation, technology, and genocide. They escape their fate in unusual ways—by befriending the squatting heroin addict next door, using a child’s flute as a gun in the dark, or ordering a new pair of legs, all in a variety of rich settings. The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is about the ways our bodies are marked by memory, often literally (burns, bruises, tracks, tattoos), and the risky decisions we make when pushed to the extreme. There’s a little O’Connor, a dash of DeLillo, and a cup of Alice Munro mixed together with a great deal of compassion. Leslie Campbell’s fiction debut is a must-read and sure winner.
Author | : John Steinbeck |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : 0359199143 |
Download Of Mice and Men Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles a farmer's wife.
Author | : Erich Maria Remarque |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2018-05-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1479888095 |
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Seven of the eight short stories in this collection were originally published in Collier's magazine. The eighth story, Dreamt Last Night, was published in Redbook magazine.
Author | : S. W. Harman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780803223622 |
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History of Judge Ike Parker and his Fort Smith tribunal.