Inferno In The French Quarter PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Inferno In The French Quarter PDF full book. Access full book title Inferno In The French Quarter.
Author | : Johnny Townsend |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-05-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Inferno in the French Quarter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first book on the UpStairs Lounge tragedy, an arson that killed 32 people in a French Quarter gay bar in 1973 (second edition).
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Scene of French Quarter Fire Is Said Dante's 'Inferno', Hitler's Incinerators Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Article discussing the deaths of people burned alive in a bar fire.
Author | : Johnny Townsend |
Publisher | : Booklocker.com |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Arson |
ISBN | : 9781614344537 |
Download Let the Faggots Burn Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On Gay Pride Day in 1973, someone set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. In the terrible inferno that followed, thirty-two people lost their lives, including a third of the local congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church, their pastor burning to death halfway out a second-story window as he tried to claw his way to freedom. A mother who'd gone to the bar with her two gay sons died alongside them. A man who'd helped his friend escape first was found dead near the fire escape. Two children waited outside of a movie theater across town for a father and step-father who would never pick them up. During this era of rampant homophobia, several families refused to claim the bodies, and many churches refused to bury the dead. Author Johnny Townsend pored through old records and tracked down survivors of the fire and relatives and friends of those killed to compile this fascinating account of a forgotten moment in gay history.
Author | : Genaro Jesse Perez |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2006-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595421040 |
Download French Quarter Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Magic realism is a term that is often used to describe the fiction of such Latin American writers as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar and Jorge Luis Borges. Literary critics such as Seymour Menton have contended that it is also present in the art and literature of Germany, Italy, France and the United States after World War I. The stories in French Quarter Tales follow such a tradition by presenting unusual (and even supernatural) situations within very familiar settings. Professor Perez explores in these stories the boundaries between reality and the supernatural, love and hate, good and evil. In these tales the everyday meets the recondite and sometimes even the terrifying. Most of these postmodern short tales are left open and defy interpretation.
Author | : Clayton Delery-Edwards |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2014-06-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476615101 |
Download The Up Stairs Lounge Arson Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On June 24, 1973, a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. This still stands as the deadliest fire in the city's history. Though arson was suspected, and though the police identified a likely culprit, no arrest was ever made. Additionally, government and religious leaders who normally would have provided moral leadership at a time of crisis were either silent or were openly disdainful of the dead, most of whom were gay men. Based upon review of hundreds of primary and secondary sources, including contemporary news accounts, interviews with former patrons of the lounge, and the extensive documentary trail left behind by the criminal investigations, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson tells the story of who used to go to this bar, what happened on the day of the fire, what course the investigations took, why an arrest was never made, and what the lasting effects of the fire have been.
Author | : John R. Greene |
Publisher | : Gatekeeper Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2022-07-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 166292643X |
Download French Quarter Saints Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
George Santos has lost his job, his wife, his savings, and his best friend in one afternoon. He has nothing left to live for, until he stops at the smallest bar in the French Quarter for a final drink. The people that he meets, and the adventures he encounters, force him to reexamine the world, reality, and his place in it. French Quarter Saints is set in New Orleans as it was in 1972. The city, and the world, are in turmoil as young people question traditional roles and views. The book is carefully researched and persons who are interested in the New Orleans of 1972 and its rich, vibrant history, as well as the joyful music of the Crescent City, are invited to come along for the ride.
Author | : Chuck Hustmyre |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2016-03-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1682991571 |
Download A Killer Like Me Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A gruesome serial killer calling himself the Lamb of God is stalking the streets of New Orleans and leaving a trail of blood and terror, but city officials, still reeling from the effects of a devastating hurricane the year before and desperate to reboot the tourism business that is the lifeblood of the city, refuse to acknowledge that the murders are connected and deny homicide detective Sean Murphy the resources he needs for a proper investigation. So Murphy sets out to stop the killer the best way he knows how, by getting inside the killer's head, thinking the way the killer thinks and anticipating the killer's next move. But thinking like a madman is a dangerous game that can have unintended and deadly consequences.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781617034978 |
Download The French Quarter of New Orleans Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The author, a native of New Orleans, displays his passion for the "French Quarter" of the city in 106 color photographs highlighting Old World architecture, style, and history that has made this section of the city famous throughout the world.
Author | : James D. Hornfischer |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2012-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0553385127 |
Download Neptune's Inferno Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“A literary tour de force that is destined to become one of the . . . definitive works about the battle for Guadalcanal . . . [James D.] Hornfischer deftly captures the essence of the most pivotal naval campaign of the Pacific war.”—San Antonio Express-News The Battle of Guadalcanal has long been heralded as a Marine victory. Now, with his powerful portrait of the Navy’s sacrifice, James D. Hornfischer tells for the first time the full story of the men who fought in destroyers, cruisers, and battleships in the narrow, deadly waters of “Ironbottom Sound.” Here, in stunning cinematic detail, are the seven major naval actions that began in August 1942, a time when the war seemed unwinnable and America fought on a shoestring, with the outcome always in doubt. Working from new interviews with survivors, unpublished eyewitness accounts, and newly available documents, Hornfischer paints a vivid picture of the officers and enlisted men who opposed the Japanese in America’s hour of need. The first major work on this subject in almost two decades, Neptune’s Inferno does what all great battle narratives do: It tells the gripping human stories behind the momentous events and critical decisions that altered the course of history and shaped so many lives. Praise for Neptune’s Inferno “Vivid and engaging . . . extremely readable, comprehensive and thoroughly researched.”—Ronald Spector, The Wall Street Journal “Superlative storytelling . . . the masterwork on the long-neglected topic of World War II’s surface ship combat.”—Richard B. Frank, World War II “The author’s two previous World War II books . . . thrust him into the major leagues of American military history writers. Neptune’s Inferno is solid proof he deserves to be there.”—The Dallas Morning News “Outstanding . . . The author’s narrative gifts and excellent choice of detail give an almost Homeric quality to the men who met on the sea in steel titans.”—Booklist (starred review) “Brilliant . . . a compelling narrative of naval combat . . . simply superb.”—The Washington Times
Author | : Robert W. Fieseler |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1631491644 |
Download Tinderbox Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted, blue- collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community. The aftermath was no less traumatic—families ashamed to claim loved ones, the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights, the city impervious to the survivors’ needs—revealing a world of toxic prejudice that thrived well past Stonewall. Yet the impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. Tinderbox restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs.