Torn Lace Curtain
Author : Frank Saunders
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 1984-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780523421216
Author : Frank Saunders
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 1984-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780523421216
Author : Frank Saunders
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
Page : pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 1984-11-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780517399798
Author : Michael Denning
Publisher : Verso
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 46,18 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781859841709
As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social movement by creating a cultural front. Disney cartoonists walked picket lines, and Billie Holiday sand 'Strange Fruit' at the left-wing cabaret, Café Society. Duke Ellington produced a radical musical, Jump for Joy, New York garment workers staged the legendary Broadway revue Pins and Needles, and Orson Welles and his Mercury players took their labor operas and anti-fascist Shakespeare to Hollywood and made Citizen Kane. A major reassessment of US cultural history, The Cultural Front is a vivid mural of this extraordinary upheaval which reshaped American culture in the twentieth century.
Author : Frank Saunders
Publisher :
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 1982
Category :
ISBN : 9780283991615
Author : Howard Roger Garis
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 25,1 MB
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
In 'The Curlytops and Their Pets; Or, Uncle Toby's Strange Collection' by Howard Roger Garis, readers are transported to a delightful world where siblings Teddy, Jan, and Trouble embark on adventures with their unusual pets. Garis' charming and engaging narrative style, filled with humor and heartwarming moments, captures the innocence and imagination of childhood. Set in the early 20th century, the book provides a nostalgic glimpse into a bygone era, highlighting the importance of family, friendship, and the wonders of nature. Through their playful escapades, the Curlytops learn valuable lessons about responsibility, compassion, and the joy of companionship. Howard Roger Garis, a prolific children's author known for his inventive storytelling and relatable characters, draws inspiration from his own experiences as a father and a lover of animals. His deep understanding of child psychology and his dedication to crafting entertaining yet educational tales shine through in this endearing book. 'The Curlytops and Their Pets' is a timeless classic that will enchant readers of all ages, making it a must-read for anyone seeking a heartwarming and wholesome story.
Author : Ronald Kessler
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 1996-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780446518840
In this new personal history--the first serious volume focusing exclusively on Joseph Patrick Kennedy in 30 years--Ronald Kessler recreates the life and times of this ambitious, powerful, masterfully manipulative man. Utilizing extensive research and interviews with Kennedy family members and their intimates, speaking on record for the first time, Kessler reveals stunning new details of JPK's enormous accomplishments and the terrible personal losses he suffered. 16-page photo insert.
Author : Geoffrey Perret
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 2002-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 037576125X
Jack is both the first comprehensive one-volume biography of JFK and the first account of his life based on the extensive documentary record that has finally become available, including personal diaries, taped conversations from the White House, recently declassified government documents, extensive family correspondence, and crucial interviews sealed for nearly forty years. Jack provides a much-needed perspective on Kennedy’s bewilderingly complex personality, presents a compelling account of the volatile relationship between Jack and Jackie (including her attempt to divorce him, move to Hollywood, and become a film star), and reveals how JFK forged the modern political campaign and, once in the White House, modernized the presidency. Jack: A Life Like No Other is a book like no other. Here, at last, John F. Kennedy seems to step off the page in all his vitality, charm, and originality.
Author : Christopher Fahy
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2016-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Fifteen short stories about archetypal Maine natives and out-of-staters who have chosen to live in Maine. The stories included in this collection: The Smell of Spring The Rock The Glow of Copper Uncle Cub at the Paradise Fair The Best in the World Detour Lost The Tip Ride A Clock in San Diego One Day in the Short Happy Life of Anna Banana Mistakes Journey Holly Point Home In LIMEROCK, Christopher Fahy does what he has always done so well: he puts normal people into the most troubling circumstances, then watches carefully to see what they will do. A Fahy story is the most delicious kind of eavesdropping, but we come away from each one with a bigger understanding of the little moments in our lives: a bus ride, a pail of berries, a city clock, snowflakes on a dark road. This is human nature dissected in the most compassionate and lyrical way. —Cathie Pelletier, author of The Weight of Winter and Beaming Sonny Home Christopher Fahy's stories are like Nelson Algren’s The Neon Wilderness or anything by Erskine Caldwell. Fahy writes from his soul, deep inside truth about people caught in illiteracy and desperation. These people who happen to be from Maine are from everywhere, universal, which is what great writing is about. Fahy's command of colloquial speech shows brilliance. “Uncle Cub at the Paradise Fair” is a masterpiece. THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ! —Leo Connellan, Connecticut Poet Laureate, author of The Clear Bine Lobster-Water Country and The Maine Poems. Christopher Fahy’s LIMEROCK is a downeast smorgasbord, a feast of Maine life and its myriad characters. One of Maine’s literary treasures, Fahy is equally adept at drama, suspense, reflection or farce. He has the gift of vanishing before our eyes and allowing other people to rise up whole, living and breathing. In these pages Fahy escorts his readers from kitchen to field, forest to shore, moving us like ghosts into the homes and hearts of the folks we’ve seen for years but never stopped to talk to. —Michael Kimball, author of Firewater Pond, Undone and Mouth to Mouth.
Author : Lila Ellen Gray
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 082237885X
Fado, Portugal's most celebrated genre of popular music, can be heard in Lisbon clubs, concert halls, tourist sites, and neighborhood bars. Fado sounds traverse the globe, on internationally marketed recordings, as the "soul" of Lisbon. A fadista might sing until her throat hurts, the voice hovering on the break of a sob; in moments of sung beauty listeners sometimes cry. Providing an ethnographic account of Lisbon's fado scene, Lila Ellen Gray draws on research conducted with amateur fado musicians, fadistas, communities of listeners, poets, fans, and cultural brokers during the first decade of the twenty-first century. She demonstrates the power of music to transform history and place into feeling in a rapidly modernizing nation on Europe's periphery, a country no longer a dictatorship or an imperial power. Gray emphasizes the power of the genre to absorb sounds, memories, histories, and styles and transform them into new narratives of meaning and "soul."
Author : Mike Rossiter
Publisher : Random House
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1407081586
Operation Market Garden: a plan to capture the bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem and outflank the German front. In all twelve thousand airborne troops were to land, either by parachute or glider, at three drop zones and move towards their objective. As the world now knows the mission was to be 'a bridge too far' for the British forces. Mike Rossiter has interviewed three of the survivors of those fateful days, each involved in a different flank of the British attack, and in vivid detail reconstructs the events that lead up to this most famous of glorious defeats. It is at once a story of hubris and bad planning, but also of valiant sacrifice and inspirational courage.