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That Great Heart The Life Of I A Oshaughnessy Oilman Philanthropist
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Book Synopsis That Great Heart: The Life of I. A. O'Shaughnessy, Oilman & Philanthropist by : Doug Hennes
Download or read book That Great Heart: The Life of I. A. O'Shaughnessy, Oilman & Philanthropist written by Doug Hennes and published by Bookhouse Fulfillment. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ignatius Aloysius O'Shaughnessy, the thirteenth child of a Minnesota bootmaker, was kicked out of St. John's University in 1902 after skipping Sunday vespers to drink beer. On his way home, the sixteen-year-old stopped at the College of St. Thomas, bumped into the president, and shared his story, admitting his mistake. The president, impressed with O'Shaughnessy's honesty, accepted him as a student. O'Shaughnessy went on to star on the football team, and graduated in 1907. Ten years later, he founded Globe Oil & Refining Co. in Oklahoma, becoming the largest independent oil refiner in the U.S. He gave most of his money away, as the leading benefactor of Catholic higher education in the U.S., with St. Thomas and Notre Dame as primary beneficiaries. He funded hundreds of organizations and causes, reviewing every inquiry, always sending a reply, and, if he said no, an explanation. In this biography full of warm and revealing anecdotes, O'Shaughnessy's inspiring story finally is told.
Book Synopsis Anointed with Oil by : Darren Dochuk
Download or read book Anointed with Oil written by Darren Dochuk and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashes Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation's special blessing and its peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. Over the century that followed and down to the present day, the oil industry's leaders and its ordinary workers together fundamentally transformed American religion, business, and politics -- boosting America's ascent as the preeminent global power, giving shape to modern evangelical Christianity, fueling the rise of the Republican Right, and setting the terms for today's political and environmental debates. Ranging from the Civil War to the present, from West Texas to Saudi Arabia to the Alberta Tar Sands, and from oil-patch boomtowns to the White House, this is a sweeping, magisterial book that transforms how we understand our nation's history.
Book Synopsis American Priest by : Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C.
Download or read book American Priest written by Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. and published by Image. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative new biography probes deeply into the storied life of Father Ted Hesburgh, the well-loved but often controversial president of Notre Dame University. Considered for many decades to be the most influential priest in America, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, played what many consider pivotal roles in higher education, the Catholic Church, and national and international affairs. American Priest examines his life and his many and varied engagements—from the university he led for thirty-five years to his associations with the Vatican and the White House—and evaluates the extent and importance of his legacy. Author and Notre Dame priest-professor Wilson D. Miscamble tracks how Hesburgh transformed Catholic higher education in the postwar era and explores how he became a much-celebrated voice in America at large. Yet, beyond the hagiography that often surrounds Hesburgh’s legacy lies another more complex and challenging story. What exactly were his contributions to higher learning; what was his involvement in the civil rights movement; and what was the nature of his role as advisor to popes and presidents? Understanding Hesburgh’s life and work illuminates the journey that the Catholic Church traversed over the second half of the twentieth century. Exploring and evaluating Hesburgh’s importance, then, contributes not only to the colorful history of Notre Dame but also to comprehending the American Catholic experience. Praise for American Priest “An excellent, engaging biography . . . [Miscamble] deftly captures the ‘whole Hesburgh’ in a fair and thorough portrait.” —Catholic Philly “Excellent . . . the story that Father Miscamble tells is an all-American story—the rise of a Catholic of relatively modest background, close to his immigrant roots, to a place of prominence among the nation’s elite.” —Public Discourse
Book Synopsis Slam Dunk: The True Story of Basketball’s First Olympic Gold Medal Team by : Beth Fortenberry
Download or read book Slam Dunk: The True Story of Basketball’s First Olympic Gold Medal Team written by Beth Fortenberry and published by Hybrid Global Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’ve got to understand that I receive over 60 scripts a year not to mention books and articles all about basketball. I’ve read almost every basketball story that’s ever been brought to Hollywood’s attention. That’s what I get for producing Hoosiers, the movie that many consider to be the best basketball movie ever made. Most often, when I start reading, I don’t even get past the first page. When SLAM DUNK – The True Story of Basketball’s First Olympic Gold Medal Team came my way, I immediately knew this was something very special. I read it from beginning to end in one sitting. The content, the story, the unknown historical facts, the tragedies, the writing, the interesting characters, the very special young athletes, the unbelievable odds, the writer’s ability to combine the story from 1891 through WW1, the Dust Bowl to the 1936 Hitler Olympics makes this an epic story. I knew this script was very special and I’m lucky to be involved. From the players to the writer, this is the real deal.
Download or read book Cult Fiction written by C. Bloom and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-10-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an exploration of pulp literature and pulp mentalities: an investigation into the nature and theory of the contemporary mind in art and in life. Here too, the violent, the sensational and the erotic signify different facets of the modern experience played out in the gaudy pages of kitsch literature. Clive Bloom offers the reader a chance to investigate the underworld of literary production and from it find a new set of co-ordinates for questions regarding publishing and reading practices in America and Britain, ideas of genre, problems related to commercial production, concerns regarding high and low culture, the canon and censorship, as well as a discussion of the rhetoric of current critical debate. Concentrating on remembered authors as well as many long disregarded or forgotten, Cult Fiction provides a theory of kitsch art that radically alters our perceptions of literature and literary values whilst providing a panorama of an almost forgotten history: the history of pulp.
Book Synopsis The Linen Bands by : Raymond Roseliep
Download or read book The Linen Bands written by Raymond Roseliep and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Trail written by Silas Chamberlin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of the American hiking community and its contributions to the nation’s vast network of trails. In the mid-nineteenth century urban walking clubs emerged in the United States. A little more than a century later, tens of millions of Americans were hiking on trails blazed in every region of the country. This groundbreaking book is the first full account of the unique history of the American hiking community and its rich, nationwide culture. Delving into unexplored archives, including those of the Appalachian Mountain Club, Sierra Club, Green Mountain Club, and many others, Silas Chamberlin recounts the activities of hikers who over many decades formed clubs, built trails, and advocated for environmental protection. He also discusses the shifting attitudes of the late 1960s and early 1970s when ideas about traditional volunteerism shifted and new hikers came to see trail blazing and maintenance as government responsibilities. Chamberlin explores the implications for hiking groups, future club leaders, and the millions of others who find happiness, inspiration, and better health on America’s trails. “With rich historical context Silas Chamberlin inspires new appreciation for trailblazers, while sharing the legacy of hiking and its growing importance today, as people find their way to a new relationship with the natural world.”—Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and Vitamin N “Chamberlin has demonstrated that what at first looks simple—walking on our own two feet—has a complex history of changing cultural associations, social infrastructure, and national significance.”—James Longhurst, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
Book Synopsis Thirteen Author Collections of the Nineteenth Century and Five Centuries of Familiar Quotations by : Jean C. S. Wilson
Download or read book Thirteen Author Collections of the Nineteenth Century and Five Centuries of Familiar Quotations written by Jean C. S. Wilson and published by Orchard Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CARROLL A. WILSON Thirteen Author Collections of the Nineteenth Century AND Five Centuries of Familiar Quotations Edited by JEAN C. S. WILSON and DAVID A. RANDALL Privately Printed for CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS New York 1950 V Contents OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 451 ANTHONY TROLLOPE 657 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER 705 KANSAS GUV WM PUBLIC LIBRARY HeC G72 439 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 1809-1894 Oliver Wendell Holmes A CATALOGUE OF THE OFFICERS AND STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY IN CAMBRIDGE. OCTOBER, 1825. Cambridge, 1825. Holmes is listed among the freshmen, on p. 17. With much curi ous data. College board was 1.75 a week, board in town has been of late from 2 to 3 a week, and the estimated expenses for the college year totalled 176. This was the first Harvard catalogue in I2mo form. ORDER OF PERFORMANCES FOR EXHIBITION, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1828. Leaflet, 4 pp. Cambridge, 1828. Hitherto unknown. Holmes appears as No. 7, An English Translation, from Sallust The Speech of Caius Memmius. A MS in Holmes hand is preserved in the Harvard archives photo stat with this. To date it has never been printed. Other speakers were William H. Channing, Edward H. Hedge, and Robert C. Winthrop. THE HARVARD REGISTER. 1827-1828. Cambridge, 1828. Copy formerly belonging to James H. Wilder, Holmes class mate, who has identified in pencil the bulk of the authors, and indi cates as Holmes the article Periodical Publications, at p. 76 May, 1827, signed W. H. If this identification is true, it is Holmes first published work, but in spite of the analogy of the sig nature with H. H. Edward Holyoke Hedge, it is certainly not true. Andrews Nortons copy, owned by H. V. Bail, attributes the article to William H. Brooks, 1827, as do four copies in the Har vard library, and the recently discovered wrappered copy of the May, 1827, issue belonging to John H. Warland, 1827. One of the Harvard copies attributes the poem at p, 27, Napoleons Depar ture to St, Helena, to Holmes, but the others unite in giving its author as John H Warland it is signed H. Various letters arc laid in concerning this publication, including four from P. K. Foky. In this collection only for historical purpose, since the above and other evidence proves that it has nothing by Holmes. 453 454 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES LINES TO A YOUNG LADY. MS, without title, 4 x 3, three 6-line stanzas and one 4-line stanza. Support ing documents. Salem 1828. Earliest Holmes manuscript in private hands. Wholly unpub lished, and preceded in poetry only by his little-boy poem, in Abiels hand, in the E. J. Holmes papers, the Andover translation from Virgil, and perhaps the green bantling poem, q. v. The supporting documents tell the story. The poem was written for Marianne C. D. Silsbee maiden name not given as shown by a 1913 statement from a descendant. The date, 1828, comes from the envelope which enclosed them. They were written at Salem, where Holmes sometimes passed a part of the vacation with a married sister Mrs. Upham. With this is a charming a. l. s. and envelope of 1879 rom Holmes to Mrs. Silsbee, referring to early college days, my visits to Salem, etc. Marianne was then 14. The verses are undistinguished, but accurate, rhyming ab, ab, ce, a metre rarely used by Holmes. ORDER OF EXERCISES FOR COMMENCEMENT, 26 August 1829. 410 leaflet, 4 pp. Cambridge, 1829. Holmes is of course listed as one of those graduating and No. 9 is A Poem. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Cambridge A contempo rary hand has endorsed the length of each contribution, and its quality, from which we learn that the poem began at 1 2 152 and took eight minutes in delivery, and was ggR which high praise b given to only one of the other twenty-eight participants, The ex ercises began at 10 40 A. M., and continued without interval to 3 142 P. M, the informant notes. Again a MS in Holmes hand is preserved in the Harvard archives. It has never been printed...
Book Synopsis The Black Pope by : Mary Francis Cusack
Download or read book The Black Pope written by Mary Francis Cusack and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Broadway Plays and Musicals by : Thomas S. Hischak
Download or read book Broadway Plays and Musicals written by Thomas S. Hischak and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City's Broadway district is by far the most prestigious and lucrative venue for American performers, playwrights, entertainers and technicians. While there are many reference works and critical studies of selected Broadway plays or musicals and even more works about the highlights of the American theater, this is the first single-volume book to cover all of the activities on Broadway between 1919 and 2007. More than 14,000 productions are briefly described, including hundreds of plays, musicals, revivals, and specialty programs. Entries include famous and forgotten works, designed to give a complete picture of Broadway's history and development, its evolution since the early twentieth century, and its rise to unparalleled prominence in the world of American theater. The productions are identified in terms of plot, cast, personnel, critical reaction, and significance in the history of New York theater and culture. In addition to a chronological list of all Broadway productions between 1919 and 2007, the book also includes approximately 600 important productions performed on Broadway before 1919.
Book Synopsis How Much Do You Know? by : The Reverend Joanne Showell-Countee
Download or read book How Much Do You Know? written by The Reverend Joanne Showell-Countee and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Much Do You Know? is created to love the King James translation of the Scriptures and learn truths that are forgotten and/or unknown. Also, to encourage, revisit, and confirm what you know and understand about God, the Bible, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the men and women recorded in the Word of God. Bible challenges are great for your heart, soul, mind, strength, and inspiration. This is an open-Bible challenge. The use of the King James translation of the Bible is greatly encouraged. You are neither cheating nor are you a cheater. You are a researcher! Do you know where to find the answers, confirm, correct and/or how to search the Scriptures? Pray! Have Fun!
Book Synopsis America 200 by : United States. Department of the Interior
Download or read book America 200 written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Managing Martians by : Donna Shirley
Download or read book Managing Martians written by Donna Shirley and published by Broadway Books. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback--the extraordinary story of a woman's lifelong quest to "get to Mars"--and of the team behind the space robot that captured the world's imagination. 8-page photo insert.
Book Synopsis Master Dyers to the World by : Mattiebelle Gittinger
Download or read book Master Dyers to the World written by Mattiebelle Gittinger and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Occupying Ownership (Ireland) by : Vincent Scully
Download or read book Occupying Ownership (Ireland) written by Vincent Scully and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pittsburgh Club by : Pittsburgh Club
Download or read book The Pittsburgh Club written by Pittsburgh Club and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Much Loved Books - Best Sellers of the Ages by : James O. Donnell Bennett
Download or read book Much Loved Books - Best Sellers of the Ages written by James O. Donnell Bennett and published by Stevenson Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREFACE. THE Author of this very practical treatise on Scotch Loch - Fishing desires clearly that it may be of use to all who had it. He does not pretend to have written anything new, but to have attempted to put what he has to say in as readable a form as possible. Everything in the way of the history and habits of fish has been studiously avoided, and technicalities have been used as sparingly as possible. The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general. This section is interleaved with blank shects for the readers notes. The Author need hardly say that any suggestions addressed to the case of the publishers, will meet with consideration in a future edition. We do not pretend to write or enlarge upon a new subject. Much has been said and written-and well said and written too on the art of fishing but loch-fishing has been rather looked upon as a second-rate performance, and to dispel this idea is one of the objects for which this present treatise has been written. Far be it from us to say anything against fishing, lawfully practised in any form but many pent up in our large towns will bear us out when me say that, on the whole, a days loch-fishing is the most convenient. One great matter is, that the loch-fisher is depend- ent on nothing but enough wind to curl the water, -and on a large loch it is very seldom that a dead calm prevails all day, -and can make his arrangements for a day, weeks beforehand whereas the stream- fisher is dependent for a good take on the state of the water and however pleasant and easy it may be for one living near the banks of a good trout stream or river, it is quite another matter to arrange for a days river-fishing, if one is looking forward to a holiday at a date some weeks ahead. Providence may favour the expectant angler with a good day, and the water in order but experience has taught most of us that the good days are in the minority, and that, as is the case with our rapid running streams, -such as many of our northern streams are, -the water is either too large or too small, unless, as previously remarked, you live near at hand, and can catch it at its best. A common belief in regard to loch-fishing is, that the tyro and the experienced angler have nearly the same chance in fishing, -the one from the stern and the other from the bow of the same boat. Of all the absurd beliefs as to loch-fishing, this is one of the most absurd. Try it. Give the tyro either end of the boat he likes give him a cast of ally flies he may fancy, or even a cast similar to those which a crack may be using and if he catches one for every three the other has, he may consider himself very lucky. Of course there are lochs where the fish are not abundant, and a beginner may come across as many as an older fisher but we speak of lochs where there are fish to be caught, and where each has a fair chance. Again, it is said that the boatman has as much to do with catching trout in a loch as the angler. Well, we dont deny that. In an untried loch it is necessary to have the guidance of a good boatman but the same argument holds good as to stream-fishing...
