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Book Synopsis My Father Was a Bootlegger by : William A. Kelly
Download or read book My Father Was a Bootlegger written by William A. Kelly and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is my story of growing up in those hard times of the great depression and WW2. I was taught right from wrong early and for the most part was left alone. There was no involvment with parents like Little League baseball or tackle football or neighborhood clubs. We were expected to pass in school, and be home for dinner and on time.I guess it could be called a period of benign neglect. If you were a poor player in any sport you didn´t play until you got better. Mom and Dad never even knew that you were no good. If you were really upset about not playing your father might play with you and give you some tips to make you better. In no case would he talk to any of your playmates to allow you to play. If you got lousey marks and your parents were called to school, it was your fault, not the teachers nor the politicians or anybody else.Your fault and you better improve or else. This system seemed to work. Certainly better than the current one. Books are now being written about how great my generation was. I never thought about it. All I know is we handled all the crap that was thrown at us and for the most part we were on our own. Nobody used drugs.We were afraid of them and rightly so. When I started writing, my experiences were remembered strongly in large bursts, so much so that it has taken over four hundred pages just to get me through college.The most surprising element of remembering was how strongly the girls in my life came back. I really liked the women I got to know and they made life more than tolerable for me. I was in heavy air combat in WW2 and yet to this day when the war is mentioned my first thought is about my English girl friend, a beautiful female British soldier that I didn´t spend three days in London with, because I was shipped home early. Life at Princeton was difficult because the learning was hard, basketball took big hunks of time and girls were very scarce. I used the language of my day so the sexual encounters may sound dirty. I never thought of them that way.I was discriminating in my choices and I like to think my girls were just as choosey when they selected me. I was an only child to very young parents. My father was a local bootlegger in Atlantic City. He had worked for the political boss of the area and was protected from being arrested for his illigal activity. I was always scared that he would be arrested anyway. Neither my mother nor my father were well educated. My mother made it through first year of high school. My father made it through 8th grade. I always thought both were very smart. Their friends seemed to think they were smart also. My father always seemed to have several millionairs as friends. He dressed neat even in the heart of the depression. My mother dressed very smartly and her picture made the newspapers on several occasions during celebration of the Easter parade. Both my parents had good personalities and after I got over my shy period I became known as the personality kid in local sports circles. I guess there was some rub off. Both my father and my mother learned about the stock market by reading the newspaper and as soon as money accumlated from the business each invested. They both did very well. My father worked by evaluating several stocks while my mother folllowed tips from friends. I guess my father shared some of the business income because mother always had plenty of cash to spend. One thing I remember is that on major expenditures like a new car or a house my parents always had serious discussions to help make the decision. The thing about my father that always surprised me was on special occassions he might buy mother a mink coat or a diamond ring or necklace. This was always a big surprise to everyone. Then they would go to dinner at some fancy restaurant to celebrate. This was after they had made some money of course. When I had acknowledged to myself that I was smart I sometimes used to try to figure
Download or read book Oklahoma Tough written by Ron Padgett and published by . This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An established poet recounts the life of his father, Wayne Padgett, who was not only a colorful, charming, and generous man, but also a high-ranking member of the Dixie Mafia who earned a reputation as "King of the Bootleggers." Reprint.
Book Synopsis Son of a Bootlegger by : Cathy Smith
Download or read book Son of a Bootlegger written by Cathy Smith and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From childhood to adulthood Charles (Hardrock) Smith has never met a stranger and never will. Folks are drawn to his friendliness and sense of humor. He loves the Lord and is a most loving husband, father, and grandfather. He is a remarkable man who overcame a difficult childhood, being raised in a bootlegger's home. The family endured hardships such as running from the law, living in shacks, plus enduring mental and physical abuse. Hardrock and his two sisters could never have friends over to spend the night and were taught to lie and, at times, steal corn for their daddy's still. His daddy made moonshine, and his mother sold it in their kitchen, nightly, by the glass. Hardrock and his mother were physically abused by his father. Through it all, though, he never lost his sense of humor which helped his mother and sisters get through tough times. So, in these little pages are memories of his life, living with a bootlegger. Some memories, sealed forever in his mind, are difficult to say the least; some, for a child's recollection, are great memories of family and friends who made this journey joyful and good and helped shape the man Hardrock became, hoping to help others with their journey, adding laughter along the way...grow old, just never grow up!
Book Synopsis Bootlegger's Daughter by : Margaret Maron
Download or read book Bootlegger's Daughter written by Margaret Maron and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1992-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This smart, sassy series introduces Deborah Knott, candidate for district judge--and daughter of an infamous bootlegger. Deborah's campaigning is interrupted when disturbing new evidence surrrounding a murder that has never been solved surfaces and she is implored to investigate.
Book Synopsis The Bootlegger's Dance by : Rosemary Jones
Download or read book The Bootlegger's Dance written by Rosemary Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas comes to Arkham Horror in this action-packed eldritch adventure full of secret whispers, haunted streets, and a lost actor falling through time Raquel Malone Gutierrez is running away, although she won’t admit that to herself. Suffering from hearing loss after an illness, the former music teacher wants to find a way to retain her independence, but only a wealthy relative offers any hope of that. Put to work in her aunt Nova’s Kingsport dance hall, Raquel stumbles upon a mystery when her new hearing aids begin picking up conversations that no one else can hear. As Christmas draws closer, Raquel realizes the voice comes from a hunted man lost in time. Now she must do everything she can to free him before the monsters chasing him can catch up and break through.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of a Bootlegger’S Daughter by : Renee' Carter Tench
Download or read book Memoirs of a Bootlegger’S Daughter written by Renee' Carter Tench and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For author Renee Carter Tench, April 17, 2008, was the first day of the rest of her life. It was the day she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Tench spent more and more time reflecting on her past experiences and examining her life. In Memoirs of a Bootleggers Daughter, she tries to understand the reason and purpose behind all of the chaos in growing up the child of alcoholic parents. The lone survivor of the Carter family who lived at the end of the dirt road in Hickory, North Carolina, Tench shares the stories of her tumultuous childhood. She tells how, by the grace of God and taking advantage of the opportunities He provided, she broke the cycle of alcoholism in her family, a cycle that began even before her grandfather and father became bootleggers. She often felt looked down on because of the spectacle she and her family often made. Memoirs of a Bootleggers Daughter narrates how Tench started out at the end of one dirt road and ended up at the end of another and the wild journey in between, a journey she would be happy to take again.
Book Synopsis The Bootlegger's Daughter by : Lauri Robinson
Download or read book The Bootlegger's Daughter written by Lauri Robinson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the speakeasies, in all the world... Mysterious city slicker Ty Bradshaw might have won her father's trust, but everyone knows Norma Rose is the true boss of Nightingale's resort. And it'll take more than that charming smile to shake the feeling that Ty is not all he seems... He walks into hers Ty is a federal agent on a personal mission of revenge. But he hasn't figured on falling for a bootlegger's daughter. Suddenly, flirting with headstrong Norma Rose seems far more exhilarating than chasing gangsters!
Book Synopsis The Bootlegger's Daughter by : Ms. Dorothy
Download or read book The Bootlegger's Daughter written by Ms. Dorothy and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was raised in a café my first years of living. My father’s brother and his wife raised me on their own. There was bootlegging, gambling, police raids, and people put in jail. I didn’t get to church very much, but there were older women around who looked out for me the best they could. I was molested, burned with a cig, and drunk by the time I was eight. I picked a little cotton as time went on. I became a businesswoman, and an addict of crack cocaine and drank heavily. I had a child at fourteen, she had one at thirteen, and so I was a grandmother at twenty-eight. But I loved learning. God and books turned my life around. To me, no matter what you go through, you can overcome it. Don’t let your pride hold you back. There is a power greater than all of us, who is willing and will to help you. Keep the faith; if I did it, so can you. In reading this book, it will show you that we all go through something. Most importantly, love yourself. My title is a very true story. I hope that by reading this book, it will help you. Now we have drug dealers, then, in my day, we had booze.
Book Synopsis The Bootlegger's Other Daughter by : Mary Cimarolli
Download or read book The Bootlegger's Other Daughter written by Mary Cimarolli and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The generation that toiled through the Great Depression and won the Second World War has become known as “the greatest generation.” But not all of them qualified for that exaggerated epithet in the eyes of their own children. In this tender but unsparing memoir, Mary Cimarolli remembers a world in which the family home was lost to foreclosure, her father made his way by bootlegging, and school was a haven to hide from her brother’s teasing. Her stories are about struggle and survival, making do and overcoming, and, ultimately, reconciliation. From her perspective as a child, she describes the cotton stamps and other programs of the New Deal, the yellow-dog Democrat politics and racism of East Texas, and the religious revivals and Old Settlers reunions that gave a break from working in the cotton patch. The colorful colloquialisms of rural East Texas that dot the manuscript help express both the traditionalism of the region and its changes under the impact of modernization, electrification, and the coming of war. Along with these regional and national trends, Cimarolli skillfully interweaves the personal: conflict between her parents, the death of her brother a few days before his sixteenth birthday, and her own inner tensions.
Book Synopsis Bernie, You're a Bootlegger! by : Joan Winghart Wilcox Sullivan
Download or read book Bernie, You're a Bootlegger! written by Joan Winghart Wilcox Sullivan and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Prohibition era arrives in 1920, it changes the lives of almost every person living in America, including Bernie Winghart. Instead of pursuing a career as a factory worker or mechanic, Bernie vows to save the people from the bad liquor thats killing them. He teams up with his brother, Joe Winghart Jr., and his sister-in-law, Mayme Schaller Winghart, to illegally sell alcohol to the masses. Known as the Bootlegging Trio, they profit handsomely. Even so, this formerly upstanding family from upstate New York is now part of a secret underworld of lawbreakers that includes sinister gangsters. There is danger everywhere, and Bernie is so intimidated that he vows never to marry until hes out of the business. He goes from woman to woman, breaking hearts. Told through the perspective of the bootleggers daughter, Bernie, Youre a Bootlegger! gives a glimpse into how Prohibition affected one family and an entire nation until it was declared a failure.
Book Synopsis The Bootlegger's Bride by : M.K.Chester
Download or read book The Bootlegger's Bride written by M.K.Chester and published by LBD Media . This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenaged war widow on a mission finds a disillusioned WWI veteran. As Prohibition begins, Grace searches Bryeton for Aiden Palmer, the man she truly wanted to marry when she was forced to marry another. Seeking cash and excitement running bootleg liquor for an unknown investor, Aiden is jaded and not easily convinced Grace still loves him. To be together, they will need to learn to trust again, out-maneuver her power-hungry brother, and outrun fast competition. And the clock is ticking.
Download or read book The Bootlegger written by John E. Hallwas and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary account of a struggling midwestern coal town profiles small-time bootlegger Kelly Wagle, whose mysterious career--and suspected involvement with two unsolved murder cases--had a profound and lasting impact on his community. In unraveling the process by which Colchester, Illinois, lost its grip on the American promise, John Hallwas reveals this remote corner of the Midwest as a true reflection of the quintessential American experience.
Book Synopsis The Real Story of a Bootlegger by : Reginald Wright Kaufmann
Download or read book The Real Story of a Bootlegger written by Reginald Wright Kaufmann and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A film about a Hamburg picture framer who is suffering from a rare and fatal blood disease. His peace and sanity are upset when he is offered money to assassinate a Mafia figure in Paris.
Book Synopsis The Story of a Blacklisted Bootlegger by : Kevin Neece
Download or read book The Story of a Blacklisted Bootlegger written by Kevin Neece and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to report his late father's real life EPA whistleblower crime, Kevin Neece confesses his life story to the FBI in the form of a Scandalous Filmmaker Tell All that's been described as Self Delusional, Self Destructive, and Surreal.
Book Synopsis Bootlegger's Other Daughter by : Mary Cimarolli
Download or read book Bootlegger's Other Daughter written by Mary Cimarolli and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The generation that toiled through the Great Depression and won the Second World War has become known as -the greatest generation.- But not all of them qualified for that exaggerated epithet in the eyes of their own children. In this tender but unsparing memoir, Mary Cimarolli remembers a world in which the family home was lost to foreclosure, her father made his way by bootlegging, and school was a haven to hide from her brother's teasing. Her stories are about struggle and survival, making do and overcoming, and, ultimately, reconciliation. From her perspective as a child, she describes the cotton stamps and other programs of the New Deal, the yellow-dog Democrat politics and racism of East Texas, and the religious revivals and Old Settlers reunions that gave a break from working in the cotton patch. The colorful colloquialisms of rural East Texas that dot the manuscript help express both the traditionalism of the region and its changes under the impact of modernization, electrification, and the coming of war. Along with these regional and national trends, Cimarolli skillfully interweaves the personal: conflict between her parents, the death of her brother a few days before his sixteenth birthday, and her own inner tensions.
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Book Synopsis Bootleggers by : Whiskey-Jack Peters
Download or read book Bootleggers written by Whiskey-Jack Peters and published by Ansari California Marketing Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-07-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moonshine. Mobster. Murder. A rascally, bootlegger and his estranged son struggle to connect after the young man returns from the Great War. Meanwhile, a new gangster has come to stake his claim on the territory and is ready and willing to kill anyone who stands in his way. In 1920, Prohibition was instituted nationwide in Canada and the United States. BOOTLEGGERS is a historical fiction novella weaving a tale of father and son learning to understand and accept one another amidst the era of illegal booze trade on land and sea between the American Northwest and the Canadian coastal islands. For fans of a series like PEAKY BLINDERS, experience the era not explored often enough in film and television.
Book Synopsis A Bootlegger's Paradise by : Charles W. Jackson
Download or read book A Bootlegger's Paradise written by Charles W. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
