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Author | : George Nakagawa |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0595296130 |
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In early 1942, the U.S. government imprisoned, without charge or trial, 120,000 American citizens and legal resident aliens. Their crime? They were of Japanese ancestry and were living on the West Coast. The Cross on Castle Rock chronicles the World War II years which author George Nakagawa spent in American prison camps. In spite of the poor food, stark conditions, and restrictions on freedom, communal living and freedom from chores resulted in a fun-filled three years for the young son of a poor immigrant farmer. Endless days of school, sports, play, and mischief-making with adolescent buddies who lived together like members of the same family are the source of many of Nakagawa's best childhood memories. There was also a dark side. Widespread racism in America and instances of gross incompetence on the part of inexperienced camp administrators resulted in mistrust and misunderstanding. This led to ruined lives and the irreparable fracturing of the closely-knit Japanese American community, leaving scars that have never healed. There was also needless pain and suffering when the camps were suddenly closed and some of the last residents of the camps, mostly the elderly, were evicted, leaving them homeless, jobless, and virtually penniless.
Author | : George Nakagawa |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2004-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781462088829 |
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In early 1942, the U.S. government imprisoned, without charge or trial, 120,000 American citizens and legal resident aliens. Their crime? They were of Japanese ancestry and were living on the West Coast. The Cross on Castle Rock chronicles the World War II years which author George Nakagawa spent in American prison camps. In spite of the poor food, stark conditions, and restrictions on freedom, communal living and freedom from chores resulted in a fun-filled three years for the young son of a poor immigrant farmer. Endless days of school, sports, play, and mischief-making with adolescent buddies who lived together like members of the same family are the source of many of Nakagawa's best childhood memories. There was also a dark side. Widespread racism in America and instances of gross incompetence on the part of inexperienced camp administrators resulted in mistrust and misunderstanding. This led to ruined lives and the irreparable fracturing of the closely-knit Japanese American community, leaving scars that have never healed. There was also needless pain and suffering when the camps were suddenly closed and some of the last residents of the camps, mostly the elderly, were evicted, leaving them homeless, jobless, and virtually penniless.
Author | : Kia Corthron |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 915 |
Release | : 2016-01-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1609806581 |
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Winner of the Center for Fiction's 2016 First Novel Prize The hotly anticipated first novel by lauded playwright and The Wire TV writer Kia Corthron, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter sweeps American history from 1941 to the twenty-first century through the lives of four men--two white brothers from rural Alabama, and two black brothers from small-town Maryland--whose journey culminates in an explosive and devastating encounter between the two families. On the eve of America's entry into World War II, in a tiny Alabama town, two brothers come of age in the shadow of the local chapter of the Klan, where Randall--a brilliant eighth-grader and the son of a sawmill worker--begins teaching sign language to his eighteen-year-old deaf and uneducated brother B.J. Simultaneously, in small-town Maryland, the sons of a Pullman Porter--gifted six-year-old Eliot and his artistic twelve-year-old brother Dwight--grow up navigating a world expanded both by a visit from civil and labor rights activist A. Philip Randolph and by the legacy of a lynched great-aunt. The four mature into men, directly confronting the fierce resistance to the early civil rights movement, and are all ultimately uprooted. Corthron's ear for dialogue, honed from years of theater work, brings to life all the major concerns and movements of America's past century through the organic growth of her marginalized characters, and embraces a quiet beauty in their everyday existences. Sharing a cultural and literary heritage with the work of Toni Morrison, Alex Haley, and Edward P. Jones, Kia Corthron's The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter is a monumental epic deftly bridging the political and the poetic, and wrought by one of America's most recently recognized treasures.
Author | : John J. Sheehan |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2014-02-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1493170031 |
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John J. Sheehan, LTJG USN (ret.) John Joseph Sheehan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 27. 1935 to Margaret and Joseph Sheehan, Sr. He attended St. Timothy Parochial School in the Mayfair section of the city. He is a 1952 graduate of St. Josephs Preparatory School, (The Prep) and St. Josephs College (now University) in 1956. John enlisted in the United States Navy and graduated from the Naval Officers Candidate School in 1956. John served as Communications Officer on the USS Cross and the USS Chamber until his honorable discharge as a Lieutenant JG in 1959. Upon his retirement from the City of Philadelphia Comptrollers Office, John use the logs from the Library of Congress to research material from his real life experiences aboard ship. John lives in Philadelphia with his wife of fifty years, Ellen. He is the father of Ann Marie Matekovic, John Sheehan, Jr. and Ellyn Taylor and the grandfather of Katelyn and Laura Matekovic, Casey and Megan Sheehan and Charles, Kelley and Joseph Taylor.
Author | : John L. Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1481785478 |
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"Africa, and especially Zimbabwe, is full of both promise and tragedy. Traveling from the crucible of the once-civilized world, itself plunged into the evil and insanity of Hitler's mesmerizing dreams, a dedicated and devout Catholic missionary makes his way through an era of change, touching countless lives. Father Odilo Weeger, CMM, has been one of Zimbabwe's outstanding personalities. His life spanned nearly a century of local and world history. He had a sincere love for people and he showed his concern and interest among the thousands of people from all religions whom he visited in hospitals or with whom he socialized and corresponded. Countless others heard him in radio discussions or met him in the course of his duties and community involvement. From the terrible Nazi period in Europe, to Southern Africa, and through guerilla wars that led to Zimbabwe's independence, this novel wades into some of Africa's unresolved struggles with injustice."--Publisher.
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Total Pages | : 1260 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Author | : Todd Lowther |
Publisher | : Castle Rock & Ku Klux Klan |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Golden (Colo.) |
ISBN | : 0978919718 |
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"When McKinley Casperson, fun-loving promoter and bachelor, meets Lillian Prichard on the funicular railroad he operates on Castle Rock, he cannot imagine that one day this spirited beauty will tangle with the Ku Klux Klan and help his family shed the dark influence, a surprising political current that captured Colorado's statehouse and governor's mansion in the 1920s."--Page 4 of cover
Author | : Robert Bradford Marshall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Bench-marks |
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Author | : Alice Munro |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2006-11-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307266028 |
Download The View from Castle Rock Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet. A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversity, and wonder. The View from Castle Rock reveals what is most essential in Munro’s art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.
Author | : California (State). |
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Total Pages | : 44 |
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Genre | : Law |
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