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Author : George Waller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Saratoga written by George Waller and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Waller
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Saratoga; Saga of an Impious Era written by George Waller and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1966 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Kerrison
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105998223
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Saratoga: One Idiot's Journey to the Winner's Circle written by Patrick Kerrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick J. Kerrison grew up the son of a writer for the New York Post. He spent most of his formative years at the racetrack. This story, Saratoga: One Idiot's Journey to the Winner's Circle, is a simple one. It is a light hearted and fun love story of a knucklehead kid who grew up at the races, in love with thoroughbred horse racing, Saratoga Springs, NY and ultimately an amazing woman who made a dream he held dear to him for over 40 years come true. It is also a look back at some of the more notorious and colorful people that shaped the town's history and their role in gambling and horse racing at The Spa. It is the first book by Kerrison.
Author : Tricia O'Hara
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477167927
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)
Download or read book Saratoga Grazing written by Tricia O'Hara and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executive Chefs from famous restaurants and resorts have sent in their most wanted recipes. B&Bs have shared their homemade favorites. The community of Saratoga Springs and the surrounding counties sent in award winning recipes. Its all here throughout the pages of this extraordinary cookbook; Saratoga Grazing! As you begin to read and prepare the delicious recipes, you may well experience a taste of history in Saratoga Grazing. The authors mission is to take the readers back to the nineteenth century and introduce them to the chefs, their secret cooking techniques, their claims to fame, and the extravagant manner in which the cuisine was prepared for the blue bloods of the racing society, movie stars, politicians and high-ranking officers. How did the Travers Stakes get its name? What filly won the first race? What colt won the first Travers? The author could not resist listing the horses that grazed, ran, and won the Travers stakes; while incorporating intriguing history of the racetrack and the three turf experts who formed a racing association and made the first racetrack in America what it is today; a Saratoga institution, the oldest stakes race in America! Tricia OHara will take you through the Gay Nineties, Saratogas golden years. Part of Saratogas legend was the quality of its dinners and the famous people who came to Saratoga to dine and play. These personalities are in the book. How does the author bring you back to the present? Take this fascinating journey, read and enjoy Saratoga Grazing!
Author : Tony Collins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317987039
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Sport as History written by Tony Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to mark the career of one of sports history’s pioneers, this book traces the evolution of sport across three continents. It brings together some of sports history’s leading scholars to investigate not only the history of sport but also how that history is written. This Festschrift marks the retirement of Professor Wray Vamplew – an internationally-renowned leader in the field of sports history. His 1976 book The Turf was one of the very first academic histories of sport and he has been a prolific writer, scholar and teacher for almost forty years. No one has played such an important role in the field of sports history across North America, Europe and Australia. President of the Australian, Australian Society of Sports History (ASSH), the British Society of Sports History (BSSH), the European Committee for the History of Sport (CESH) and the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES), Vamplew is currently editor of the North American Society for Sports History’s (NASSH) journal, the Journal of Sport History. This collection reflects his interests and his appeal across the three continents, the essays deal with sport in America, Australia, Britain and Ireland and focus on the themes of national and regional identity, gender, trade unionism in sport and historiographical debates. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of sport and how it is studied today. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in History.
Author : H. Paul Jeffers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471226025
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Diamond Jim Brady written by H. Paul Jeffers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for H. Paul Jeffers An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of GroverCleveland "A well-written and timely book that reminds us of GroverCleveland?s courage, commitment, and honesty at a time when thesequalities seem so lacking in so much of American politics." ?JamesMacGregor Burns, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National BookAward Colonel Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt Goes to War, 1879-1898 "A handsome narrative of a crucial period in the career of one ofour country?s most colorful politicians." ?Publishers Weekly Commissioner Roosevelt: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt and the NewYork City Police, 1895-1897 "A lively, entertaining, and well-researched portrait of a zealousreformer during the historic crusade that successfully launched hiscareer in government." ?Publishers Weekly
Author : Gene Carney
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1597971081
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Burying the Black Sox written by Gene Carney and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New insight on baseball's most famous scandal
Author : John Dizikes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803266414
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Yankee Doodle Dandy written by John Dizikes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1890s the world of racing was turned on its ear by a young American who rodeøhorses as no professional jockey had ever ridden: Tod Sloan hitched up his stirrups and thrust his weight far forward. Traditionalists laughed at first and dismissed him as a novelty, but as he came to dominate racing on both sides of the Atlantic, his style of riding became widely imitated, and his famous ?forward seat? remains universally practiced to this day. Sloan?s place in racing lore and popular culture was cemented in 1904 when George M. Cohan wrote and starred in Little Johnny Jones, a Broadway musical based on Sloan?s rise and fall in England. John Dizikes?s portrait of Sloan (1874?1933) shows a small-town, hard-luck, midwestern boy who became an overnight sensation and an international celebrity in a world of breeders, bookmakers, gamblers, hustlers, bluebloods, and princes. As the King of Jockeys in the sport of kings, Sloan lived in high style, until he was banned from British racing and forced to eke out a living on the margins of the sport for thirty years.
Author : Richard Chait
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467127094
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Rails in and around Saratoga written by Richard Chait and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saratoga Springs is special. Its reputation goes back to 1767 when Native Americans brought Sir William Johnson to the area for the healing powers of the High Rock Spring. From this humble beginning, the popularity of Saratoga Springs and its many mineral water springs grew from the 19th century to the mid-20th century. Railroads played a key role in that growth. The first train entered Saratoga Springs in 1832. Regularly scheduled passenger trains made Saratoga Springs more accessible, and as a result, it grew by leaps and bounds. Beautiful train stations welcomed visitors, the Saratoga Race Course opened, large bathhouses were constructed, the Grand Union and other luxurious hotels awaited overnight guests, and many people from all walks of life visited the casino in historic Congress Park. Visits to historic locations such as Mount McGregor and North Creek were made easier by train. Along with the railroads in and around Saratoga Springs, this book also includes historic highlights of those locations.
Author : Joseph Norman Heard
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810818941
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Bookman's Guide to Americana written by Joseph Norman Heard and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for this title.
Author : United States. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Gambling in America written by United States. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Betsy Prioleau
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468314513
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Diamonds and Deadlines written by Betsy Prioleau and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betsy Prioleau’s biography of Gilded Age female tycoon Miriam Leslie is “an appropriately twisty tale of someone trying to outrun her origins. . . . Her story sparkles, as intoxicating as a champagne fountain that somebody else is paying for” (New York Times Book Review). Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age—Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt—is a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For 20 years she ran the country’s largest publishing company, Frank Leslie Publishing, which chronicled postbellum America in dozens of weeklies and monthlies. A pioneer in an all-male industry, she made a fortune and became a national celebrity and tastemaker in the process. But Miriam Leslie was also a byword for scandal: she flouted feminine convention, took lovers, married four times, and harbored unsavory secrets that she concealed through a skein of lies and multiple personas. Both during and after her lifetime, glimpses of the truth emerged, including an illegitimate birth and a checkered youth. Diamonds and Deadlines reveals the previously unknown, sensational life of the brilliant and brazen “empress of journalism,” who dropped a bombshell at her death: she left her entire multimillion-dollar estate to women’s suffrage—a never-equaled amount that guaranteed passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. In this dazzling biography, cultural historian Betsy Prioleau draws from diaries, genealogies, and published works to provide an intimate look at the life of one of the Gilded Age’s most complex, powerful women and unexpected feminist icons. Ultimately, Diamonds and Deadlines restores Mrs. Frank Leslie to her rightful place in history as a monumental businesswoman who presaged the feminist future and reflected, in bold relief, the Gilded Age, one of the most momentous, seismic, and vivid epochs in American history. Includes Black-and-White Images
Author : Geoffrey O'Brien
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429989629
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Fall of the House of Walworth written by Geoffrey O'Brien and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The Devil in the White City comes a spell-binding tale of madness and murder in a nineteenth century American dynasty On June 3, 1873, a portly, fashionably dressed, middle-aged man calls the Sturtevant House and asks to see the tenant on the second floor. The bellman goes up and presents the visitor's card to the guest in room 267, returns promptly, and escorts the visitor upstairs. Before the bellman even reaches the lobby, four shots are fired in rapid succession. Eighteen-year-old Frank Walworth descends the staircase and approaches the hotel clerk. He calmly inquires the location of the nearest police precinct and adds, "I have killed my father in my room, and I am going to surrender myself to the police." So begins the fall of the Walworths, a Saratoga family that rose to prominence as part of the splendor of New York's aristocracy. In a single generation that appearance of stability and firm moral direction would be altered beyond recognition, replaced by the greed, corruption, and madness that had been festering in the family for decades.
Author : John Hope Franklin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199728798
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book In Search of the Promised Land written by John Hope Franklin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. In Search of the Promised Land offers a vivid portrait of the extended Thomas-Rapier family and of slave life before the Civil War. Based on personal letters and an autobiography by one of Thomas' sons, this remarkable piece of detective work follows the family as they walk the boundary between slave and free, traveling across the country in search of a "promised land" where African Americans would be treated with respect. Their record of these journeys provides a vibrant picture of antebellum America, ranging from New Orleans to St. Louis to the Overland Trail. The authors weave a compelling narrative that illuminates the larger themes of slavery and freedom while examining the family's experiences with the California Gold Rush, Civil War battles, and steamboat adventures. The documents show how the Thomas-Rapier kin bore witness to the full gamut of slavery--from brutal punishment, runaways, and the breakup of slave families to miscegenation, insurrection panics, and slave patrols. The book also exposes the hidden lives of "virtually free" slaves, who maintained close relationships with whites, maneuvered within the system, and gained a large measure of autonomy.
Author : Susan Braudy
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0804153353
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book This Crazy Thing Called Love written by Susan Braudy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1955, Ann Woodward shot her husband, Billy, in their Oyster Bay, Long Island, home. While she was cleared by a grand jury, which believed her story that she had mistaken Billy for a prowler who had been recently breaking into neighboring houses, New York society was convinced that she had deliberately murdered Billy and that her formidable mother-in-law, Elsie Woodward, had covered up the crime to prevent further scandal to the socially prominent family. The incident became fiction in Truman Capote's malicious 1975 Esquire story, leading to Ann's suicide, and later was the subject of Dominick Dunne's The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. Now, after years of research, Braudy reveals the truth behind the legend. Tracing Ann's life from her difficult Kansas childhood through her early years as a model and aspiring actress to her stormy marriage to Billy Woodward and the sad years of her social exile after his death, Braudy shows how Ann, a victim of cruel gossip and class snobbery, could not have deliberately killed Billy.
Author : Gregory M. Fulkerson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739178776
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Studies in Urbanormativity written by Gregory M. Fulkerson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex ways to spatial arrangements that can be described in terms of inequality and uneven development. Through a focus on localities, Studies in Urbanormativity: Rural Community in Urban Society examines the implications of urbanization and its corresponding ideology. Urbanormativity justifies rural domination by holding urban life as the standard against which rural forms are compared and deemed to be irregular, inferior, or deviant. Urban production, as conceptualized in this book, is inherently exploitative of rural resources—natural, social, cultural, and symbolic. As this exploitation advances, a wake of entropic conditions is left behind in the forms of degraded landscapes, broken social institutions, and denigrated communities, cultures and identities. Edited by Gregory M. Fulkerson and Alexander R. Thomas, Studies in Urbanormativity engages a topic on which scholars have been surprisingly silent. Designed for advancing theory and practice, the chapters provide new theoretical tools for understanding the complex relationship between the urban and rural. While primarily intended for scholars and practitioners interested in rural life, rural policy, and community development, the insights of this book will also be of interest to scholars studying various forms of cultural and social domination, as well as identity politics.
Author : Charles Kelley Jones
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780934223867
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Francis Johnson (1792-1844) written by Charles Kelley Jones and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Johnson pursued all phases of his music with unmatched skill and fervor, even to the detriment of his health. At the time of his untimely death in 1844, Johnson had become the most prolific and widely traveled American composer, bandmaster, and performer in our nation's first century."--Jacket.
