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Moving the Chains

Author : Erin Grayson Sapp
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807179094
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Moving the Chains written by Erin Grayson Sapp and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We remember the 1966 birth of the New Orleans Saints as a shady quid pro quo between the NFL commissioner and a Louisiana congressman. Moving the Chains is the untold story of the athlete protest that necessitated this backroom deal, as New Orleans scrambled to respond to a very public repudiation of the racist policies that governed the city. In the decade that preceded the 1965 athlete walkout, a reactionary backlash had swept through Louisiana, bringing with it a host of new segregation laws and enough social strong-arming to quash any complaints, even from suffering sports promoters. Nationwide protests had assailed the Tulane Green Wave, the Sugar Bowl, and the AFL’s preseason stop-offs, and only legal loopholes and a lot of luck kept football alive in the city. Still, live it did, and in January 1965, locals believed they were just a week away from landing their own pro franchise. All they had to do was pack Tulane Stadium for the city’s biggest audition yet, the AFL All-Star game. Ultimately, all fifty-eight Black and white teammates walked out of the game to protest the town’s lingering segregation practices and public abuse of Black players. Following that, love of the gridiron prompted and excused something out of sync with the city’s branding: change. In less than two years, the Big Easy made enough progress to pass a blitz inspection by Black and white NFL officials and receive the long-desired expansion team. The story of the athletes whose bravery led to change quickly fell by the wayside. Locals framed desegregation efforts as proof that the town had been progressive and tolerant all along. Furthermore, when a handshake between Pete Rozelle and Hale Boggs gave America its first Super Bowl and New Orleans its own club, the city proudly clung to that version of events, never admitting the cleanup even took place. As a result, Moving the Chains is the first book to reveal the ramifications of the All-Stars’ civil resistance and to detail the Saints’ true first win.

Beyond the Legend

Author : Derek Hunt
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752497340
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Legend written by Derek Hunt and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Legend is the authorised biography of William (Bill) Speakman,who was awarded one of only four Victoria Crosses for action in the Korean War. It covers his sometimes controversial life, from his childhood in Altrincham, Cheshire, to his later life in South Africa – about which little has been known previously. Authors Derek Hunt and John Mulholland also explore the myth of the ‘beer bottle VC’ (in which Speakman was said to have fended off the Chinese Communist Army by throwing empty beer bottles at them after they ran out of grenades), bringing to light what really happened on United Hill in November 1951. Speakman held the attacking Chinese army at bay for over four hours and led a final charge that allowed his company to withdraw from the hill. After Korea, he saw active service in Malaya, Borneo and Aden before retiring from the army, with the rank of sergeant, in 1968. Bill Speakman is one of only two surviving VC holders of the British Army and a true British hero.

As One Who Serves

Author : James M. Pitsula
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773575790
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book As One Who Serves written by James M. Pitsula and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitsula's history also takes student culture into account. He argues that the youth of the sixties created the "citizen student" who participates fully in the life of the university - and helped make the University of Regina.

Lords of the Starship

Author : Mark S. Geston
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575105178
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Lords of the Starship written by Mark S. Geston and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ship was to be seven miles long, a third of a mile in diameter and have a wing-spread of three and a half miles. It would take two and a half centuries to construct. Its announced purpose: to carry humanity away from its ruined world, from the world that had become a perpetual purgatory. To build this vast ship would require the undivided activity of an entire nation and would mean carrying out a ruthless program of war and conquest, of annihilation and reconstruction, and of education and rediscovery. But was this starship really what it was claimed to be? Or was there a greater secret behind its incredible cost - a secret so strange that no man dared reveal it?

Screening Nature and Nation

Author : Michael D. Clemens
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1771993359
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Screening Nature and Nation written by Michael D. Clemens and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning portrayals of the Canadian landscape in the documentaries produced by the National Film Board of Canada, not only influenced cinematic language but shaped our perception of the environment. In the early days of the organization, nature films produced by the NFB supported the Canadian government’s nation-building project and show the state as an active participant in the cultural construction of the land. By the mid-1960s however, films like Cree Hunters of Mistassini and Death of a Legend were asking provocative questions about the state’s vision of nature. Filmmakers like Boyce Richardson and Bill Mason began to centre the experiences of First Nations people, contest the notion that nature should be transformed for economic gain, and challenge the idea that the North is a wild and empty landscape bereft of civilization. Author Michael Clemens describes how films produced by the NFB broadened the ecological imagination of Canadians over time and ultimately inspired an environmental movement.

Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul

Author : Mark Ribowsky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871408740
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul written by Mark Ribowsky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction) Finalist for the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing “Evokes the fire of Redding.... Ribowsky tells the story with nonstop energy, while always probing for the larger social and musical pictures.” —New York Times Book Review When he died in one of rock's string of tragic plane crashes, Otis Redding was only twenty-six, yet already the avatar of a new kind of soul music. The beating heart of Memphis-based Stax Records, he had risen to fame belting out gospel-flecked blues in stage performances that seemed to ignite not only a room but an entire generation. If Berry Gordy's black-owned kingdom in Motown showed the way in soul music, Redding made his own way, going where not even his two role models who had preceded him out of Macon, Georgia—Little Richard and James Brown—had gone. Now, in this transformative work, New York Times Notable Book author Mark Ribowsky contextualizes his subject's short career within the larger cultural and social movements of the era, tracing the crooner's rise from preacher's son to a preacher of three-minute soul sermons. And what a quick rise it was. At the tender age of twenty-one, Redding needed only a single unscheduled performance to earn a record deal, his voice so "utterly unique" (Atlantic) that it catapulted him on a path to stardom and turned a Memphis theater-turned-studio into a music mecca. Soon he was playing at sold-out venues across the world, from Finsbury Park in London to his ultimate conquest, the 1967 Monterrey Pop Festival in California, where he finally won over the flower-power crowd. Still, Redding was not always the affable, big-hearted man's man the PR material painted him to be. Based on numerous new interviews and prodigious research, Dreams to Remember reintroduces an incredibly talented yet impulsive man, one who once even risked his career by shooting a man in the leg. But that temperament masked a deep vulnerability that was only exacerbated by an industry that refused him a Grammy until he was in his grave—even as he shaped the other Stax soul men around him, like Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, and Booker T. and The MG's. As a result, this requiem is one of great conquest but also grand tragedy: a soul king of truth, a mortal man with an immortal voice and a pain in his heart. Now he, and the forces that shaped his incomparable sound, are reclaimed, giving us a panoramic of an American original who would come to define an entire era, yet only wanted what all men deserve—a modicum of respect and a place to watch the ships roll in and away again.

History's Greatest Wars

Author : Joseph Cummins
Publisher : Fair Winds Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 1592334717
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book History's Greatest Wars written by Joseph Cummins and published by Fair Winds Press (MA). This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centuries of warfare that changed the world are captured in History’s Greatest Wars. This book acts as a perfect primer for novices while offering seasoned history readers new perspectives on many famous and some not-so-well-known conflicts. Each chapter includes a quick-reference summary, a timeline, an overview of the war, essays on its principal leaders, a series of short, often offbeat features on aspects of the conflict, and a detailed account of a pivotal battle.

The Revolution Wasn't Televised

Author : Lynn Spigel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113522076X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Revolution Wasn't Televised written by Lynn Spigel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions, The Revolution Wasn't Televised explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television became a ubiquitous element in American homes. The contributors in this volume argue that due to TV's constant presence in everyday life, it became the object of intense debates over childraising, education, racism, gender, technology, politics, violence, and Vietnam. These essays explore the minutia of TV in relation to the macro-structure of sixties politics and society, attempting to understand the struggles that took place over representation the nation's most popular communications media during the 1960s.

Radiological Health Data and Reports

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Radiological Health Data and Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Return of the Sphinx

Author : Hugh MacLennan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773583130
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Return of the Sphinx written by Hugh MacLennan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Montreal and Ottawa, this book continues the story of Alan Ainslie, idealist, patriot and intellectual, who has a special insight into Russian policy. This time, however, the theme is the conflict between Ainslie and his son Daniel, a young Quebec separatist.

Who's Who of British Jazz

Author : John Chilton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0826423892
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Who's Who of British Jazz written by John Chilton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chilton details the work of musicians from every era of British jazz, ranging from those who played professionally before 1920 to today's young jazz stars.

Southern Folklore Quarterly

Author : Alton Chester Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Folklore Quarterly written by Alton Chester Morris and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Book reviews."

The House by the Lake

Author : Thomas Harding
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250065062
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The House by the Lake written by Thomas Harding and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been a holiday home for her and her family, but in the 1930s, she had been forced to flee to England as the Nazis swept to power. Nearly twenty years later, the house was government property and soon to be demolished. It was Harding's legacy, one that had been loved, abandoned, fought over -- a house his grandmother had desired until her death. Could it be saved? And should it? As Harding began to make inquiries, he unearthed secrets that had lain hidden for decades about the lives of the five families who had lived there: a wealthy landowner, a prosperous Jewish family, a renowned composer, a widow and her children, and a Stasi informant. All had made the house their home, and all -- bar one -- had been forced out. The house had been the site of domestic bliss and of contentment, but also of terrible grief and tragedy. It had weathered storms, fires and abandonment; witnessed murders, had withstood the trauma of a world war, and the dividing of a nation. As the story of the house began to take shape, Harding realized that there was a chance to save it, but in doing so, he would have to resolve his own family's feelings towards their former homeland -- and a hatred handed down through the generations. -- For readers of Edmund de Waal, Daniel Mendelson, and David Laski" -- Provided by publisher.

The Vietnam War

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0744034639
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Vietnam War written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive telling of one of the longest and most controversial wars in US history. Delve into the compelling history and impact of the Vietnam War in reverting detail. This authoritative visual guide unpacks accounts of struggle, sacrifice, and bravery, making this a perfect read for any military history enthusiast. Inside the pages of this retelling of America's bloodiest conflict, you'll discover: - A vivid, moving, and informative read written in an engaging style. - A clear and compelling account of the conflict, in short, self-contained events from the Battle of Ia Drang to the Tet Offensive and The Khmer Rouge. - Biography pages highlight major military and political figures such as Henry Kissinger, President Nixon, General Thieu, and Ho Chi Minh. - Features on everyday life in the war offering additional context. - Stunning image double page features display weapons, spy gear, and other equipment that defined the war. - Maps and feature boxes provide additional information on significant events during the conflict. Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this history book for adults is an authoritative history of both the first televised war and its lasting impact through the lenses of both sides of the conflict. The Vietnam War explores all aspects of the conflict and the wider political landscape using compelling text, maps, and archive photography of collections of weapons, aircraft, and armored vehicles. The military techniques and conduct employed against the inferior technologies of the Viet Cong remain controversial and intriguing to date. Eyewitness accounts and iconic photographs bring events to life - from the background of the conflict to the incidents that drew America into Vietnam, the chronological event

Cinema Arthuriana

Author : Kevin J. Harty
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147660844X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Cinema Arthuriana written by Kevin J. Harty and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legends of King Arthur have not only endured for centuries, but also flourished in constant retellings and new stories built around the central themes. With the coming of motion pictures, Arthur was destined to hit the screen. This edition of Cinema Arthuriana, revised in 2002, presents 20 essays on the topic of the recurring presence of the legend in film and television from 1904 to 2001. They cover such films as Excalibur (1981) and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), television productions such as The Mists of Avalon (2001), and French and German films about the quest for the Holy Grail and the other adventures of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

Fact, Fancy, Legend

Author : R. R. Massegee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Fact, Fancy, Legend written by R. R. Massegee and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details seven generations of the Mass(a)gee family beginning in N. C. through to Texas. Includes many family photos and anecdotes as well as a fifty page every name index.

The History of AMC Motorsports

Author : Bob McClurg
Publisher : CarTech Inc
ISBN 13 : 1613251777
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The History of AMC Motorsports written by Bob McClurg and published by CarTech Inc. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When thinking of a manufacturer's racing involvement, AMC is not a manufacturer that immediately comes to mind. Yet even from the very beginning of American motorsports, the companies that became AMC had some serious involvement in motorsport. From the early Nash and Hudson models all the way through the muscle car era, AMC had direct involvement in racing. The success of Nash and Hudson in early NASCAR racing, AMC Javelins in Trans-Am racing, and AMC's involvement with Mark Donahue and Roger Penske in both their Trans-Am and 1970s NASCAR teams prove that AMC was "in it to win it." The History of AMC Motorsports from veteran racing journalist Bob McClurg covers it all, from a Nash–American Motors corporate history, the first years of NASCAR, the 1960s efforts that included Trans-Am and drag racing Super Stock programs, to the Craig Breedlove land speed record efforts when 106 world records were shattered and covered by Hot Rod magazine. And let's not forget the 1970s Trans-Am championships with Donahue and Penske, and finally the NASCAR success with Bobby Allison in the always-curious looking Matador, which is also covered here. Never before has a single volume chronicled the events that encompass AMC racing history. Whether a hardcore racing history fan or a casual enthusiast of the AMC street offerings, The History of AMC Motorsports provides a unique showcase vital to every enthusiast's library.