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Author : Matt Tavares
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763632244
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)
Download or read book Henry Aaron's Dream written by Matt Tavares and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book biography of African-American baseball player Hank Aaron.
Author : Howard Bryant
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307279928
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Last Hero written by Howard Bryant and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive biography of Henry (Hank) Aaron—one of baseball's immortal figures—is a revelatory portrait of a complicated, private man who through sports became an enduring American icon. “Beautifully written and culturally important.” —The Washington Post “The epic baseball tale of the second half of the 20th century.” —Atlanta Journal Constitution After his retirement in 1976, Aaron’s reputation only grew in magnitude. But his influence extended beyond statistics. Based on meticulous research and extensive interviews The Last Hero reveals how Aaron navigated the upheavals of his time—fighting against racism while at the same time benefiting from racial progress—and how he achieved his goal of continuing Jackie Robinson’s mission to obtain full equality for African Americans, both in baseball and society, while he lived uncomfortably in the public eye.
Author : Aaron Henry
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578062126
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Aaron Henry written by Aaron Henry and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of civil rights activist Aaron Henry.
Author : Jerry Poling
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299181839
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)
Download or read book A Summer Up North written by Jerry Poling and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002-10-28 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June 12, 1952—only a local sportswriter showed up at the Eau Claire airport to greet a newly signed eighteen-year-old shortstop from Alabama toting a cardboard suitcase. "I was scared as hell," said Henry Aaron, recalling his arrival as the new recruit on the city’s Class C minor league baseball team. Forty-two years later, as Aaron approached the stadium where the Eau Claire Bears once played, an estimated five thousand people surrounded a newly raised bronze statue of a young "Hank" Aaron at bat. "I had goosebumps," he said later. "A lot of things happened to me in my twenty-three years as a ballplayer, but nothing touched me more than that day in Eau Claire." For the people of Eau Claire, Aaron’s summer two years before his Major League debut with the Milwaukee Braves symbolizes a magical time, when baseball fans in a small city in northern Wisconsin could live a part of the dream.
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617032240
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Aaron Henry written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of civil rights activist Aaron Henry.
Author : Henry Aaron
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815717776
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Politics and the Professors written by Henry Aaron and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1960s America was in a confident mood and embarked on a series of efforts to solve the problems of poverty, racial discrimination, unemployment, and inequality of educational opportunity. The programs of the Great Society and the War on Poverty were undergirded by a broad consensus about what our problems as a nation were and how we should solve them. But by the early seventies both political and scholarly tides had shifted. Americans were divided and uncertain about what to do abroad, fearful of military inferiority, and pessimistic about the capacity of government to deal affirmatively with domestic problems. A new administration renounced the rhetoric of the Great Society and changed the emphasis of many programs. On the scholarly front, new research called into question the old faiths on which liberal legislation had been based. In this book, the sixteenth volume in the Brookings series in Social Economics, Henry Aaron describes both the initial consensus and its subsequent decline. He examines the evolution of attitude and pronouncements by scholars and popular writers on the role of the federal government and its capacity to bring about beneficial change in three broad areas: poverty and discrimination, education and training, and unemployment and inflation. He argues that the political eclipse of the Great Society depended more on events external to it—war in Vietnam, dissolution of the civil rights coalition, and, finally, the Watergate scandal and all its repercussions—than on its intrinsic failings. Aaron concludes that both the initial commitment to use national polices to solve social and economic problems and the subsequent disillusionment of scholars and laymen alike rest largely on preconceptions and faiths that have little to do with research themselves.
Author : Clare Gault
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780590455305
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (553 download)
Download or read book The Home Run Kings written by Clare Gault and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1994-04-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biography emphasizing the careers of the two baseball players famous for their record number of home runs.
Author : Aaron David Miller
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1137464461
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The End of Greatness written by Aaron David Miller and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Presidency has always been an implausible—some might even say an impossible—job. Part of the problem is that the challenges of the presidency and the expectations Americans have for their presidents have skyrocketed, while the president's capacity and power to deliver on what ails the nations has diminished. Indeed, as citizens we continue to aspire and hope for greatness in our only nationally elected office. The problem of course is that the demand for great presidents has always exceeded the supply. As a result, Americans are adrift in a kind of Presidential Bermuda Triangle suspended between the great presidents we want and the ones we can no longer have. The End of Greatness explores the concept of greatness in the presidency and the ways in which it has become both essential and detrimental to America and the nation's politics. Miller argues that greatness in presidents is a much overrated virtue. Indeed, greatness is too rare to be relevant in our current politics, and driven as it is by nation-encumbering crisis, too dangerous to be desirable. Our preoccupation with greatness in the presidency consistently inflates our expectations, skews the debate over presidential performance, and drives presidents to misjudge their own times and capacity. And our focus on the individual misses the constraints of both the office and the times, distorting how Presidents actually lead. In wanting and expecting our leaders to be great, we have simply made it impossible for them to be good. The End of Greatness takes a journey through presidential history, helping us understand how greatness in the presidency was achieved, why it's gone, and how we can better come to appreciate the presidents we have, rather than being consumed with the ones we want.
Author : Minion K. C. Morrison
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557287597
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Aaron Henry of Mississippi written by Minion K. C. Morrison and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Lillian Smith Book Award When Aaron Henry returned home to Mississippi from World War II service in 1946, he was part of wave of black servicemen who challenged the racial status quo. He became a pharmacist through the GI Bill, and as a prominent citizen, he organized a hometown chapter of the NAACP and relatively quickly became leader of the state chapter. From that launching pad he joined and helped lead an ensemble of activists who fundamentally challenged the system of segregation and the almost total exclusion of African Americans from the political structure. These efforts were most clearly evident in his leadership of the integrated Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation, which, after an unsuccessful effort to unseat the lily-white Democratic delegation at the Democratic National Convention in 1964, won recognition from the national party in 1968. The man who the New York Times described as being “at the forefront of every significant boycott, sit-in, protest march, rally, voter registration drive and court case” eventually became a rare example of a social-movement leader who successfully moved into political office. Aaron Henry of Mississippi covers the life of this remarkable leader, from his humble beginnings in a sharecropping family to his election to the Mississippi house of representatives in 1979, all the while maintaining the social-change ideology that prompted him to improve his native state, and thereby the nation.
Author : Henry J. Aaron
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815701200
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Can We Say No? written by Henry J. Aaron and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the use of rationing as a means to curb health care spending, using the experience of Great Britain to highlight the promises and pitfalls of this approach"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Henry Aaron
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780815796053
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Agenda for the Nation written by Henry Aaron and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-07-29 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More powerful and affluent today than ever, the United States has promising opportunities to influence the course of history. Yet these prospects are shadowed by significant perils and burdens. In this visionary book, leading scholars from the Brookings Institution and other prominent research organizations and universities analyze the major domestic and foreign policy problems facing the nation over the next five to ten years. The challenges on the domestic front are formidable: assuring fair but affordable access to health care, shoring up retirement income for an aging population, encouraging long-term economic growth, easing the growing pains of an increasingly diverse society, and reconciling energy policies with environmental concerns. In international affairs the central task is to use America's unprecedented power wisely and to protect a homeland that has been revealed as surprisingly vulnerable. Yet efforts must also focus on improving the economic fortunes of poorer countries, expanding trade, and reforming the rules that regulate the flows of capital across national borders. Is the United States government capable of rising to these vast and varied challenges? The concluding chapters of this book offer cautious optimism. While it is often criticized, the American political system is fundamentally resilient and flexible. Ambitious in scope, Agenda for the Nation provides thoughtful, constructive answers to questions of how the U.S. government can effectively serve its citizens and meet its global responsibilities in a world of opportunity and uncertainty.
Author : Hank Aaron
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061873373
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book I Had a Hammer written by Hank Aaron and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Classic New York Times Bestseller The man who shattered Babe Ruth's lifetime home run record, Henry "Hammering Hank" Aaron left his indelible mark on professional baseball and the world. But the world also left its mark on him. I Had a Hammer is much more than the intimate autobiography of one of the greatest names in pro sports—it is a fascinating social history of twentieth-century America. With courage and candor, Aaron recalls his struggles and triumphs in an atmosphere of virulent racism. He relives the breathtaking moment when, in the heat of hatred and controversy, he hit his 715th home run to break Ruth's cherished record—an accomplishment for which Aaron received more than 900,000 letters, many of them vicious and racially charged. And his story continues through the remainder of his milestone-setting, barrier-smashing career as a player and, later, Atlanta Braves executive—offering an eye-opening and unforgettable portrait of an incomparable athlete, his sport, his epoch, and his world.
Author : Irving Kristol
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451617859
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Two Cheers for Capitalism written by Irving Kristol and published by Signet. This book was released on 1979 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Françoise N. Hamlin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835498
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Crossroads at Clarksdale written by Françoise N. Hamlin and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hamlin paints a full picture of the town ov
Author : Henry J. Aaron
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Painful Prescription written by Henry J. Aaron and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Aaron and Schwartz examine how the British have made those choices and draw inferences about how Americans would respond should they undertake to sharply reduce growth of medical spending. After describing the British health care system, they examine ten important medical procedures, comparing the British and American levels of care.
Author : Henry J. Aaron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Economic Effects of Fundamental Tax Reform written by Henry J. Aaron and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together studies of leading tax economists and lawyers to assess the various reform proposals and examine the effects of tax reform in several distinct areas. Together, these studies and comments on them present a balanced evaluation of professional opinion on the issues that will be critical in the tax reform debate.
Author : Hank Aaron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892129055
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Home Run written by Hank Aaron and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The baseball legend and his admirers describe his career, from his seasons with the Negro Leagues through his Major League days
