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Author : Paul Hurley
Publisher : Ten Years That Changed a City
ISBN 13 : 9781445636733
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Chester in the 1950s written by Paul Hurley and published by Ten Years That Changed a City. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From austerity to the start of the swinging sixties
Author : Vincent Terrace
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442261048
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Television Series of the 1950s written by Vincent Terrace and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often regarded as the first golden era of television, the 1950s was a decade when many classic programs—from I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke to The Honeymooners and Perry Mason, among others—made their debuts. Even after these shows departed the airwaves, they lived on in syndication, entertaining several generations of viewers. Devoted and casual fans alike can probably remember basic facts about these shows—like the names of Lucy and Ricky’s neighbors or the town where Marshall Matt Dillon kept the law. But more elusive facts, like the location of the most successful defense attorney in Los Angeles (Suite 904 of the Brent Building), might be harder to recall. In Television Series of the 1950s: Essential Facts and Quirky Details, Vincent Terrace presents readers with a cornucopia of information about 100 programs from the decade. Did you know, for example, that the middle initial of Dobie Gillis’ friend Maynard G. Krebs, stood for Walter? Or that Ralph Kramden’s electric bill came to only 39 cents a month? Or that on I Love Lucy, Ricky originally performed at Manhattan’s Tropicana Club? These are but a few of the hundreds of fun and intriguing trivia facts contained within this volume. Shows from all four networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and DuMont)—as well as select syndicated programs—are represented here. This is not a book of opinions or essays about specific television programs, but a treasure trove of the facts associated with each of these programs. Readers will discover a wealth of fascinating information that, for the most part, cannot be found anywhere else. In some cases, the factual data detailed herein is the only such documentation that exists currently on bygone shows of the era. Television Series of the 1950s is the ideal reference for fans of this decade and anyone looking to stump even the most knowledgeable trivia expert.
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Author : Benjamin Chase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book History of Old Chester [N. H.] from 1719 to 1869 written by Benjamin Chase and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pennsylvania Crime Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book Report written by Pennsylvania Crime Commission and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Goodman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781366639592
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Chester Eisenhuth, Photographer written by Mark Goodman and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chester Eisenhuth (1910-1995) was the local historian of Millerton, New York for more than four decades, as well as an amateur painter and photographer. This book presents fifty-one full-page reproductions of his photographs, primarily portraits taken for pleasure and sometimes for profit, between the 1930s and 1950s, of family members, friends, fellow townspeople, a dog, and Mr. Eisenhuth's cat, Rudy, on his twentieth birthday in 1943. The original negatives were rediscovered and printed in the 1970s by Mark Goodman, and for this book he wrote an introduction, titles and captions for the photographs, a short Eisenhuth family narrative, and a chronology; a brief history of the town of North East & the village of Millerton is included, as well as nineteenth century photographs, an 1887 bird's-eye view map, and early twentieth century post cards. Mr. Eisenhuth's photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, the Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas.
Author : Lawrence P. Jackson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393634132
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Chester B. Himes: A Biography written by Lawrence P. Jackson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work A Washington Post Notable Book The definitive biography of the groundbreaking African American author who had an extraordinary legacy on black writers globally. Chester B. Himes has been called “one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition” (Henry Louis Gates Jr.), “the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler” (San Francisco Chronicle), and “a quirky American genius” (Walter Mosely). He was the twentieth century’s most prolific black writer, captured the spirit of his times expertly, and left a distinctive mark on American literature. Yet today he stands largely forgotten. In this definitive biography of Chester B. Himes (1909–1984), Lawrence P. Jackson uses exclusive interviews and unrestricted access to Himes’s full archives to portray a controversial American writer whose novels unflinchingly confront sex, racism, and black identity. Himes brutally rendered racial politics in the best-selling novel If He Hollers Let Him Go, but he became famous for his Harlem detective series, including Cotton Comes to Harlem. A serious literary tastemaker in his day, Himes had friendships—sometimes uneasy—with such luminaries as Ralph Ellison, Carl Van Vechten, and Richard Wright. Jackson’s scholarship and astute commentary illuminates Himes’s improbable life—his middle-class origins, his eight years in prison, his painful odyssey as a black World War II–era artist, and his escape to Europe for success. More than ten years in the writing, Jackson’s biography restores the legacy of a fascinating maverick caught between his aspirations for commercial success and his disturbing, vivid portraits of the United States.
Author : Anat Geva
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1648431364
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (484 download)
Download or read book The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s–1960s written by Anat Geva and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of World War II, the United States experienced a rapid expansion of church and synagogue construction as part of a larger “religious boom.” The synagogues built in that era illustrate how their designs pushed the envelope in aesthetics and construction. The design of the synagogues departed from traditional concepts, embraced modernism and innovations in building technology, and evolved beyond the formal/rational style of early 1950s modern architecture to more of an expressionistic design. The latter resulted in abstraction of architectural forms and details, and the inclusion of Jewish art in the new synagogues. The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s–1960s introduces an architectural analysis of selected modern American synagogues and reveals how they express American Jewry’s resilience in continuing their physical and spiritual identity, while embracing modernism, American values, and landscape. In addition, the book contributes to the discourse on preserving the recent past (e.g., mid 20th century architecture). While most of the investigations on that topic deal with the “brick & mortar” challenges, this book introduces preservation issues as a function of changes in demographics, in faith rituals, in building codes, and in energy conservation. As an introduction or a reexamination, The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s–1960s offers a fresh perspective on an important moment in American Jewish society and culture as reflected in their houses of worship and adds to the literature on modern American sacred architecture. The book may appeal to Jewish congregations, architects, preservationists, scholars, and students in fields of studies such as architectural design, sacred architecture, American modern architecture and building technology, Post WWII religious and Jewish studies, and preservation and conservation.
Author : Michael Owen Jones
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081318391X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Craftsman of the Cumberlands written by Michael Owen Jones and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people consider aesthetic qualities as well as utilitarian ones in the making of everyday objects? Why do they maintain traditions? What is the nature of their creative process? These are some of the larger questions addressed by Michael Owen Jones in his book on craftsmen in the Cumberland Mountains of eastern Kentucky. Concentrating on the work of one man, woodworker and chairmaker Chester Cornett, Jones not only describes the tools and techniques employed by Cornett but also his aspirations and values. Cornett possessed a deep knowledge of his materials and a mastery of construction methods. Some of his chairs represent not objects of utility but aesthetic developments of the chair form. Cornett sought to cope with the problems of his life, Jones maintains; their massiveness provided a sense of security, the virtuosity of their design and construction, a feeling of self-esteem. Jones also compares other area craftsmen and their views about their work.
Author : Bergan, Sjur
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9287182809
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Higher education for democratic innovation written by Bergan, Sjur and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy is increasingly the standard against which societies are measured. The term “democratic culture” designates the set of attitudes and behaviours that citizens need to have for democratic institutions and laws to function in practice. This is an important development from older perceptions of democracy, which focused on institutions, laws and procedures. It is a recognition that democracy will not function unless citizens want it to function. In all countries there are committed individuals aspiring to make their societies better democracies. As the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, has said on several occasions, our societies seek to address 21st-century issues through 19th-century institutions. Through contributions by authors from Europe, North America and other parts of the world, this book explores how higher education can help find new ways to develop commitment to public space and societal engagement and make democracy more vibrant.
Author : Christopher Mele
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479880434
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Race and the Politics of Deception written by Christopher Mele and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unpacks America’s history of dealing with racial problems through the inequitable use of public space. Focuses on Chester, Pennsylvania—a small city comprised of primarily low-income, black residents, roughly twenty miles south of Philadelphia. Like many cities throughout the United States, Chester is experiencing post-industrial decline. A development plan touted as a way to “save” the city, proposes to turn one section into a desirable waterfront destination, while leaving the rest of the struggling residents in fractured communities. Dividing the city into spaces of tourism and consumption versus the everyday spaces of low-income residents. While these development plans are described as socially inclusive and economically revitalizing, Mele asserts that political leaders and real estate developers intentionally exclude certain types of people—most often, low-income people of color.
Author : Doug Gelbert
Publisher : Cruden Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780964442702
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (427 download)
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Author : Carolyn Adams
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592138985
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Restructuring the Philadelphia Region written by Carolyn Adams and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for regional solutions to local limitations of opportunity in education, jobs and housing.
Author : Diane Sicotte
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813574226
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book From Workshop to Waste Magnet written by Diane Sicotte and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation: neighborhoods littered with abandoned waste sites, polluting factories, and smoke-belching incinerators. However, other neighborhoods within and around the city are relatively pristine. This eye-opening book reveals that such environmental inequalities did not occur by chance, but were instead the result of specific policy decisions that served to exacerbate endemic classism and racism. From Workshop to Waste Magnet presents Philadelphia’s environmental history as a bracing case study in mismanagement and injustice. Sociologist Diane Sicotte digs deep into the city’s past as a titan of American manufacturing to trace how only a few communities came to host nearly all of the area’s polluting and waste disposal land uses. By examining the complex interactions among economic decline, federal regulations, local politics, and shifting ethnic demographics, she not only dissects what went wrong in Philadelphia but also identifies lessons for environmental justice activism today. Sicotte’s research tallies both the environmental and social costs of industrial pollution, exposing the devastation that occurs when mass quantities of society’s wastes mix with toxic levels of systemic racism and economic inequality. From Workshop to Waste Magnet is a compelling read for anyone concerned with the health of America’s cities and the people who live in them.
Author : Leonard Cassuto
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023150165X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Hard-Boiled Sentimentality written by Leonard Cassuto and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue--centered on the power of sympathy--between these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the twentieth century, ending with a surprising connection between today's serial killers and the domestic fictions of long ago.
Author : Ginny Reeves
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1098068327
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Goddard School Memories written by Ginny Reeves and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Goddard School Memories, author and historian Ginny Reeves tells the story of the Goddard, Kentucky, common school through its people, giving slices of life from the log field schools to the three-room school. The common school movement, widely regarded as the most significant reform in nineteenth century American education, was developed by Horace Mann of Massachusetts. Mann's goal was to provide free education to all, regardless of wealth, heritage, or class. His theme is from Proverbs 22:6: "Train up a child the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." It was used at Goddard School every day. This comprehensive history of rural education in Kentucky details social, cultural, and educational events, giving state and local curriculum, contracts, teaching methods, textbooks, moonlight schools, and common school requirements. Goddard School Memories has many engaging anecdotes full of adventure, humor, and tragedy. The collection covers tales that range from daring discipline issues with naughty boys putting skunk oil in teachers' coat pockets, turning over outhouses, misplacing tombstones in the cemetery, taking boards from the schoolhouse, and making wooden pistols, to memories of box suppers, plays, and a musical performance by Tom T. Hall before he became a noted county music star, to the celebrated eighth grade graduation events at the neighboring Goddard Methodist Church, to the federal school lunch program that spurred the development of a lunchroom, the electrical wiring of the school, and the building of a cistern Genealogists will be delighted with a list of students who attended Goddard School, listing birth dates and parent names. Short biographies of many teachers are given. Goddard School Memories is a moving portrait of schoolroom stories that preserves the rich educational heritage of Fleming County, Kentucky. 238
Author : Mark Krupnick
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299214435
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination written by Mark Krupnick and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he learned he had ALS and roughly two years to live, literary critic Mark Krupnick returned to the writers who had been his lifelong conversation partners and asked with renewed intensity: how do you live as a Jew, when, mostly, you live in your head? The evocative and sinuous essays collected here are the products of this inquiry. In his search for durable principles, Krupnick follows Lionel Trilling, Cynthia Ozick, Geoffrey Hartman, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and others into the elemental matters of life and death, sex and gender, power and vulnerability. The editors—Krupnick’s wife, Jean K. Carney, and literary critic Mark Shechner—have also included earlier essays and introductions that link Krupnick’s work with the “deep places” of his own imagination.
Author : David Parker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134031408
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Official History of Privatisation Vol. I written by David Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
