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Author : Pat Murphy
Publisher : Dial
ISBN 13 : 9780803715882
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Pigasus written by Pat Murphy and published by Dial. This book was released on 1996 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pigasus the flying pig recovers her mother's golden nose rig from a pirate shop, proving that while unusual, wings are useful on a pig.
Author : David Farber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226237990
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Chicago '68 written by David Farber and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-08-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago—an epochal moment in American cultural and political history. By drawing on a wide range of sources, Farber tells and retells the story of the protests in three different voices, from the perspectives of the major protagonists—the Yippies, the National Mobilization to End the War, and Mayor Richard J. Daley and his police. He brilliantly recreates all the excitement and drama, the violently charged action and language of this period of crisis, giving life to the whole set of cultural experiences we call "the sixties." "Chicago '68 was a watershed summer. Chicago '68 is a watershed book. Farber succeeds in presenting a sensitive, fairminded composite portrait that is at once a model of fine narrative history and an example of how one can walk the intellectual tightrope between 'reporting one's findings' and offering judgements about them."—Peter I. Rose, Contemporary Sociology
Author : Mark Stein
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640120327
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Presidential Fringe written by Mark Stein and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This offbeat slice of American history places the story of our great republic beneath an unexpected lens: that of fringe candidates for president of the United States. Mark Stein explores how their quest for our nation’s highest office helped to amplify voices otherwise quashed during their day. His careening tour through elections past includes the efforts of true pioneers in the quest for social equality in our country: the first woman to run for president, Victoria Woodhull in 1872; the first African American to run for president, George E. Taylor in 1904; and the first openly gay cross-dressing candidate for president, Joan Jett Blakk in 1992. But The Presidential Fringe also takes a look at those who would jest their way into the Oval Office, from comedians such as Will Rogers and Gracie Allen to Pat Paulsen and Stephen Colbert. Along the way, Stein shows how even seemingly zany candidates, such as “Live Forever” Jones, Vegetarian Party candidate John Maxwell, Flying Saucer Party candidate Gabriel Green, or, most recently, Vermin Supreme, provide extraordinary insights of clarity into who we were when they ran for president and how we became who we are today. Ultimately, Stein’s examination reveals that it was often precisely these fringe candidates who planted the seeds from which mainstream candidates later harvested genuine, positive change. Written in Stein’s direct and witty style, The Presidential Fringe surveys and portrays an American landscape rife with the unlikely, unassuming, unexpected, and (in a few cases) unbalanced presidential hopefuls who, in their own way, have contributed to this nation’s founding quest to form a more perfect Union.
Author : Ruth Plumly Thompson
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Wishing Horse of Oz written by Ruth Plumly Thompson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Wishing Horse of Oz" by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Benjamin K. Bergen
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465033334
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Louder Than Words written by Benjamin K. Bergen and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning -- a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop up in someone else's mind. You can use it to talk about all sorts of things -- from your new labradoodle puppy to the expansive gardens at Versailles, from Roger Federer's backhand to things that don't exist at all, like flying pigs. And when you talk, your listener fills in lots of details you didn't mention -- the curliness of the dog's fur or the vast statuary on the grounds of the French palace. What's the trick behind this magic? How does meaning work?In Louder than Words, cognitive scientist Benjamin Bergen draws together a decade’s worth of research in psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience to offer a new theory of how our minds make meaning. When we hear words and sentences, Bergen contends, we engage the parts of our brain that we use for perception and action, repurposing these evolutionarily older networks to create simulations in our minds. These embodied simulations, as they're called, are what makes it possible for us to become better baseball players by merely visualizing a well-executed swing; what allows us to remember which cupboard the diapers are in without looking, and what makes it so hard to talk on a cell phone while we're driving on the highway. Meaning is more than just knowing definitions of words, as others have previously argued. In understanding language, our brains engage in a creative process of constructing rich mental worlds in which we see, hear, feel, and act.Through whimsical examples and ingenious experiments, Bergen leads us on a virtual tour of the new science of embodied cognition. A brilliant account of our human capacity to understand language, Louder than Words will profoundly change how you read, speak, and listen.
Author : Ed Sanders
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306818884
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Fug You written by Ed Sanders and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irreverent, hilarious, illustrated history of social revolution in New York's East Village in the sixties, as told by poet, publisher, musician, and Peace Eye Bookstore owner Sanders.
Author : Pat Murphy
Publisher : Dial Books
ISBN 13 : 9780803715875
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Pigasus written by Pat Murphy and published by Dial Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pigasus the flying pig recovers her mother's golden nose ring from a pirate ship proving that while unusual, wings are useful on a pig.
Author : Peter Doggett
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802197744
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book There's a Riot Going On written by Peter Doggett and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Doggett’s encyclopaedic account of Sixties counter-culture is a fascinating history of pop’s relationship with politics.” —The Independent Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from Berkeley, Detroit, and Newark to Paris, Berlin, Ghana, and Peking. Rock and soul music fueled the revolutionary movement with anthems and iconic imagery. Soon the musicians themselves, from John Lennon and Bob Dylan to James Brown and Fela Kuti, were being dragged into the fray. From Mick Jagger’s legendary appearance in Grosvenor Square standing on the sidelines and snapping pictures, to the infamous incident during the Woodstock Festival when Pete Townshend kicked yippie Abbie Hoffman off the stage while he tried to make a speech about an imprisoned comrade, Peter Doggett unravels the truth about how these were not the “Street Fighting Men” they liked to see themselves as and how the increasing corporatization of the music industry played an integral role in derailing the cultural dream. There’s a Riot Going On is a fresh, definitive, and exceedingly well-researched behind-the-scenes account of this uniquely turbulent period when pop culture and politics shared the world stage with mixed results. “A fresh and near-definitive slant on a subject you might have thought had been picked clean by journalists and historians.” —Time Out London “An extraordinary book . . . Doggett emerges triumphant. Grab a copy—by any means necessary.” —Mojo
Author : Pat Thomas
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606998927
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Did It! From Yippie to Yuppie written by Pat Thomas and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a coffee table art book and biography of Yippie Jerry Rubin. This overstuffed coffee table book is not only the first biography of the infamous and ubiquitous Jerry Rubin―co-founder of the Yippies, Anti-Vietnam War activist, Chicago 8 defendant, social-networking pioneer, and a proponent of the Yuppie era―but a visual retrospective, with countless candid photos, personal diaries, and lost newspaper clippings. It includes correspondence with Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Eldridge Cleaver, the Weathermen, and interviews with more than 75 of Rubin’s friends, foes, and comrades. It reveals Rubins' and the Yippies’ historical-and-bizarre personal interactions with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Charles Manson, Mick Jagger, and other iconic figures of the era.
Author : Glenn L. Starks
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1641609281
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (416 download)
Download or read book A Seat at the Table written by Glenn L. Starks and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Shirley Chisholm was asked why she would dare run for president, her response was, why not her? Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm rose from being the child of immigrants to the United States to running for the highest office in the land. Her achievement in doing this as a Black woman was not in spite of her background but rather because of it. She became both the first African American woman elected to the US Congress and the first female African American of a major political party to make a serious run for president of the United States. She persevered by being steadfast in her political convictions and unwillingness to compromise on the issues she believed in. Chisholm directly challenged the political establishment and was successful because she galvanized women, minorities, young people, and the poor not only in her home district in Brooklyn, New York, but across the country. She was that catalyst for change who gave a political voice to so many segments of society who were, up until that time, ignored: women, minorities, the young, members of the gay community, domestic and agricultural workers, and the poor. Her run for the presidency in 1972 was a win in terms of her forging a unified grassroots campaign in which the voices of the previously voiceless joined together for a single cause of voting for someone who supported their diverse but collective interests. As many historians have pointed out, without Shirley Chisholm there may not have been a Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or Kamala Harris.
Author : Micah Issitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313365733
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Hippies written by Micah Issitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful introduction to hippie culture and how its revolutionary principles in the 1960s helped shape modern culture. This title explores how hippies, and 1960s counterculture in general, developed and influenced popular culture in America. Covering the years between 1961 and 1972, this is the first volume focused exclusively on the emergence, growth, and lasting legacy of hippie culture, on everything from clothing, hair styles, and music to attitudes toward sex and drugs, and anti-war, anti-establishment activism. Hippies includes a chronology, topical chapters on hippie culture, biographies, primary documents, and a glossary. Coverage ranges from an examination of hippie involvement in drug use, politics, sexual behavior, and music, and a contemporary perspective on lasting impact of hippies on modern American life. Readers will encounter famous icons of the era, from Abbie Hoffman to Timothy Leary, while getting a real sense of what life inside the hippie counterculture was like.
Author : Ed Sanders
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781574230376
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book 1968 written by Ed Sanders and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the year 1968, presented in verse form, with explanatory notes.
Author : William Williams
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524624411
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Will It Play in Peoria written by William Williams and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a whirlwind journey through the tumultuous 1960shippies and yippies, sex, drugs, rock and roll, peace, love, war, harmony, and rage. This is a look back at that period of time, how the events of those days changed the world and changed the people who lived through it, and how those changes continue to affect the world even today. This is the life story of the Reverend Billy Williams, who experienced all of it, from Woodstock to Vietnam. He was there for the protests and the parties from coast to coast. He was an active participant in the events of those days and a keen observer of the action who recorded those events in his daily journal. He experienced the good and the bad, and he tells it like it was. The 1960s was a unique time in history; it could be compared to an earlier renaissance, where the ideas and actions of a generation had a profound effect on the human experience. This is the history and the philosophy of those days, all wrapped up in a rousingly good tale that is Billys and his fellow hippie friends true life experiences. Those were the days, and here they are to be lived again.
Author : John Anthony Moretta
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476627398
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Hippies written by John Anthony Moretta and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most significant subcultures in modern U.S. history, the hippies had a far-reaching impact. Their influence essentially defined the 1960s--hippie antifashion, divergent music, dropout politics and "make love not war" philosophy extended to virtually every corner of the world and remains influential. The political and cultural institutions that the hippies challenged, or abandoned, mainly prevailed. Yet the nonviolent, egalitarian hippie principles led an era of civic protest that brought an end to the Vietnam War. Their enduring impact was the creation of a 1960s frame of reference among millions of baby boomers, whose attitudes and aspirations continue to reflect the hip ethos of their youth.
Author : Mark Stein
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640121250
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Presidential Fringe written by Mark Stein and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This offbeat slice of American history places the story of our great republic beneath an unexpected lens: that of fringe candidates for president of the United States. Mark Stein explores how their quest for our nation’s highest office helped to amplify voices otherwise quashed during their day. His careening tour through elections past includes the efforts of true pioneers in the quest for social equality in our country: the first woman to run for president, Victoria Woodhull in 1872; the first African American to run for president, George E. Taylor in 1904; and the first openly gay cross-dressing candidate for president, Joan Jett Blakk in 1992. But The Presidential Fringe also takes a look at those who would jest their way into the Oval Office, from comedians such as Will Rogers and Gracie Allen to Pat Paulsen and Stephen Colbert. Along the way, Stein shows how even seemingly zany candidates, such as “Live Forever” Jones, Vegetarian Party candidate John Maxwell, Flying Saucer Party candidate Gabriel Green, or, most recently, Vermin Supreme, provide extraordinary insights of clarity into who we were when they ran for president and how we became who we are today. Ultimately, Stein’s examination reveals that it was often precisely these fringe candidates who planted the seeds from which mainstream candidates later harvested genuine, positive change. Written in Stein’s direct and witty style, The Presidential Fringe surveys and portrays an American landscape rife with the unlikely, unassuming, unexpected, and (in a few cases) unbalanced presidential hopefuls who, in their own way, have contributed to this nation’s founding quest to form a more perfect Union.
Author : John Schultz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226741141
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Chicago Conspiracy Trial written by John Schultz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to "incite, organize, promote, and encourage" antiwar riots during the Democratic National Convention. The Chicago Conspiracy Trial is an electrifying account of the months-long trial that commanded the attention of a divided nation. John Schultz, on assignment for The Evergreen Review, witnessed the whole trial, from the jury selection to the aftermath of the verdict. In his vivid account, Schultz exposes the raw emotions and judicial corruption that came to define one of the most significant legal events in American history. "This work, aside from being a profound study of fear, is investigative journalism in its highest sense."--Studs Terkel " Schultz] puts words together with a clarity of sense and syntax that is almost physically engaging. . . . A probe into the American conscience."--David Graber, Los Angeles Times "A masterful recapitulation of these anomalous events. . . . All politically literate Americans should read it]."--Kirkus Reviews
Author : Fred Schneider
Publisher : Fred Schneider
ISBN 13 : 1595264280
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Cats in a Chowder written by Fred Schneider and published by Fred Schneider. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's face it, no matter who prays, sometimes families are left to simmer in their own deception. And while it might not be what Jesus would do, sometimes it's a lot of fun to watch.
