Author : Julia Donal
Publisher : Athena PressPub Company
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2006-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781844016471
Passion, betrayal and murder are ripe in this enthralling thriller of clandestine relationships, sex and violence. What will happen at that fateful rendezvous?
Author : John B Lundstrom
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1612512216
Fighter pilot Butch O'Hare became one of America's heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation. In fascinating detail the authors describe how O'Hare shot down five attacking Japanese bombers and severely damaged a sixth and other awe-inspiring feats of aerial combat that won him awards, including the Medal of Honor. They also explain his key role in developing tactics and night-fighting techniques that helped defeat the Japanese. In addition, the authors investigate events leading up to O'Hare's disappearance in 1943 while intercepting torpedo bombers headed for the Enterprise. First published in 1997, this biography utilizes O'Hare family papers and U.S. and Japanese war records as well as eyewitness interviews. It is essential reading for a true understanding of the development of the combat naval aviation and the talents of the universally admired and well-liked Butch O'Hare.
Author : Steve Ewing
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Perhaps the most famous aviator of World War II, Butch O'Hare captured America's hearts and headlines in 1942 after saving the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation - the downing of five attacking Japanese bombers. Yet the untimely and still controversial death of this Medal of Honor recipient the next year cast a shadow over O'Hare's legacy. This first full biography, written with the O'Hare family's cooperation and utilizing recently released Japanese war records, chronicles the short but eventful life of the American hero and sheds new light on his mysterious death. Seasoned naval aviation historians, the authors describe in fascinating detail O'Hare's awe-inspiring feats of aerial combat and his key role in developing tactics such as the Thach Weave and the night-fighting techniques that helped defeat the Japanese.
Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 2022-06-04T22:59:00Z
Category : History
ISBN :
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Butch O’Hare was born on 13 March 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the opposite of sharp, bitter, and angry. He would be known by everyone he met to be the opposite of sharp, bitter, and angry. His father, Edgar Joseph O’Hare, so esteemed the name Edward that he used it throughout his adult life. #2 EJ was extremely effervescent, and Selma was very reticent. They married in 1912, and EJ went to St. Louis University to earn credits in the School of Commerce and Finance. He never feared work, and he was fiercely determined to make a better life for himself and his family. #3 Butch’s parents noticed that his disposition was more Dutch than Irish or German. EJ’s letters to Selma in 1926, when Butch was going on twelve, almost always referred to him as the little Dutchman rather than Eddie. Love did not cease, only the manner in which it was demonstrated. #4 Butch was a very smart child, and he was always in good grades. He was also very creative, and he would often make things with his paint brush. He and his sister Patsy would often escape St. Louis to a camp on a river.
Author : Darin Strauss
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812982576
Lucille Ball, Hollywood’s first true media mogul, stars in this “bold” (The Boston Globe), “boisterous novel” (The New Yorker) with a thrilling love story at its heart—from the award-winning, bestselling author of Chang & Eng and Half a Life A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “A gorgeous, Technicolor take on America in the middle of the twentieth century.”—Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Nickel Boys This indelible romance begins with a daring conceit—that the author’s grandfather may have had an affair with Lucille Ball. Strauss offers a fresh view of a celebrity America loved more than any other. Lucille Ball—the most powerful woman in the history of Hollywood—was part of America’s first high-profile interracial marriage. She owned more movie sets than did any movie studio. She more or less single-handedly created the modern TV business. And yet Lucille’s off-camera life was in disarray. While acting out a happy marriage for millions, she suffered in private. Her partner couldn’t stay faithful. She struggled to balance her fame with the demands of being a mother, a creative genius, an entrepreneur, and, most of all, a symbol. The Queen of Tuesday—Strauss’s follow-up to Half a Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award—mixes fact and fiction, memoir and novel, to imagine the provocative story of a woman we thought we knew.
Author : Conger Beasley
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781557281296
-- 1991 Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Achievement
Author : Mike Peros
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496809939
Dan Duryea (1907–1968) made a vivid impression on moviegoers with his first major screen appearance as the conniving Leo Hubbard in 1941's classic melodrama The Little Foxes. His subsequent film and television career would span from 1941 until his death. Duryea remains best known for the nasty, scheming villains he portrayed in such noir masterpieces as Scarlet Street, Criss Cross, and The Woman in the Window. In each of these, he wielded a blend of menace, sleaze, confidence, and surface charm. This winning combination led him to stardom and garnered him the adoration of female fans, even though Duryea's onscreen brutality so often targeted female characters. Yet this biography's close examination of Duryea's oeuvre finds him excelling in various roles in many genres—war films, westerns, crime dramas, and even the occasional comedy. Dan Duryea: Heel with a Heart is a full-scale, comprehensive biography that examines the tension between Duryea's villainous screen image and his Samaritan personal life. At home, he proved to be one of Hollywood's most honorable and decent men. Duryea remained married to the former Helen Bryan from 1931 until her death in 1967. A dedicated family man, he and Helen took an active role in raising their children and in the community. In his career, Duryea knew villainous roles were what the public wanted—there would be a public backlash if fans read an article depicting what a decent guy he was. Frustrated that he couldn't completely shake his screen image and public persona, he wrestled with this restriction throughout his career. Producers and the public did not care to follow any new directions he hoped to pursue. This book, written with Duryea's surviving son Richard's cooperation, fully explores the life and legacy of a Hollywood icon ready for rediscovery.
Author : Marvel Comics
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 35,10 MB
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1302490354
Collects Daredevil (1964) #64-74, Iron Man (1968) #35 and material from Iron Man (1968) #36. The Man Without Fear heads out to the Left Coast in a quest to earn back the love of Miss Karen Page - and L.A.'s never been stranger! A cast of bizarre and action-packed enemies stands between DD and the woman he loves, including Stunt-Master, Brother Brimstone and the Stilt-Man. Back in the Big Apple, Daredevil teams up with the Black Panther, fights Tagak the Leopard Lord, and protects a young boxer under the wing of his father's trainer. Meanwhile, the Tribune attempts to lay his own justice down on the youth movement. And it all leads to a crossover classic as DD joins forces with Iron Man and Nick Fury against Spymaster and the Zodiac!
Author : Mike Davis
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1788732170
Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene? Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching, propulsive essays, Davis, the bestselling author of City of Quartz and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, explores Marx’s inquiries into two key questions of our time: Who can lead a revolutionary transformation of society? And what is the cause—and solution—of the planetary environmental crisis? Davis consults a vast archive of labor history to illuminate new aspects of Marx’s theoretical texts and political journalism. He offers a “lost Marx,” whose analyses of historical agency, nationalism, and the “middle landscape” of class struggle are crucial to the renewal of revolutionary thought in our darkening age. Davis presents a critique of the current fetishism of the “anthropocene,” which suppresses the links between the global employment crisis and capitalism’s failure to ensure human survival in a more extreme climate. In a finale, Old Gods, New Enigmas looks backward to the great forgotten debates on alternative socialist urbanism (1880–1934) to find the conceptual keys to a universal high quality of life in a sustainable environment.
Author : Adam D. Pfeffer
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1440112320
This collection of inspiring poetry includes such favorites as I THOUGHT I SAW A RAINBOW, THE LIGHT SHINING 'ROUND THE WORLD and THE WAR NOBODY FOUGHT. Besides poems inspired by Barack Obama's victory, the collection recalls events of the past including THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, THE DAY THE TOWERS FELL and THE LAST DAY OF THE CENTURY. The collection includes rhyming poems and many free or blank verse poems and includes an historical perspective. Subjects such as television, advertising, greed, society in general and yes, love, are confronted in an entertaining manner. A conscious effort was also made to distort and, ultimately, obliterate form in some of the poems. In experimenting with the form and wordplay involved, the essentials of poetry are explored. Meant to be entertaining reading, many of these poems will stimulate you and affect your life in a positive manner. THE DAY THE DREAM CAME TRUE and OTHER POEMS is an homage to hope for anyone seeking peace in the world.
