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The Daybreak Boys

Author : Gregory Stephenson
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080938647X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Daybreak Boys written by Gregory Stephenson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these critical essays Gregory Stephenson takes the reader on a journey through the literature of the Beat Generation: a journey encompassing that common ethos of Beat literature—the passage from darkness to light, from fragmented being toward wholeness, from Beat to Beatific. He travels through Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend,following Kerouac’s quests for identity, community, and spiritual knowledge. He examines Allen Ginsberg’s use of transcendence in “Howl,” discovers the Gnostic vision in William S. Burroughs’s fiction, and studies the mythic, visionary power of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poetry. Stephenson also provides detailed examinations of the writing of lesser-known Beat authors: John Clellon Holmes, Gregory Corso, Richard Fariña, and Michael McClure. He explores the myth and the mystery of the literary legend of Neal Cassady. The book concludes with a look at the common traits of the Beat writers—their use of primitivism, shamanism, myth and magic, spontaneity, and improvisation, all of which led them to a new idiom of consciousness and to the expansion of the parameters of American literature.

The Gangs of New York

Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Gangs of New York written by Herbert Asbury and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Five Points

Author : Rocco Dormarunno
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595204465
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book The Five Points written by Rocco Dormarunno and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19th Century New York's most dangerous neighborhood comes back to life. The Five Points neighborhood, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, was home to the world's most dangerous criminals and impoverished immigrants. These two gritty stories ensure that this part of New York's history will not be forgotten.

Bengalo Moon

Author : Shirley A. Martin
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504924576
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Bengalo Moon written by Shirley A. Martin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloodline Gypsy: Jook and Gypsies Vol. 1 Rocking five-star ratings on Amazon and Barnes and Noble!!! *****Paranormal Romance Guild 5-star review and nominated for the 2014 Readers Choice Award. *****Mysterious. Fascinating. Infiltrating I want more, much more!!!! Lesli E. Houston Amazon Review *****This is nothing like anything I have experienced! Prepare for an original genre Barnes & Noble review *****Great book, thrilling and sexy! WHEN IS THE NEXT ONE COMING OUT?!?!? Melissa Amazon review *****I read voraciously and Shirleys book is the most exciting book I have read in quite some time. Bob Fuller Amazon review ****This is a good solid horror story; spooky atmospheric and at times brutally graphic. Tskoyal GoodReads review Bengalo Moon: Jook and Gypsies Vol. 2 Finally a sequel that delivers! Belinda Rainwater Literary agent and literary awards judge Venture into the darkness beyond the campfires in this 21st century saga where medieval folklore becomes terrifying reality Susannah Henika, an American-born poshrat (half-blood gypsy), is the descendant of the ancient strain of magic that forged werewolves into the world. Unknown to the teenager, two species of werewolves have evolved from the curse her distant ancestor Bisnik Zygan cast into the world. The Ruv Bengalo (devilish wolf) and the Jook are mortal enemies. Both species are born with an innate ability to track the Zygan lineage. The Jook must mate with the bloodline of their origin to preserve their species and humanity from the murderous Ruv Bengalo, who destroy Zygan progeny with the intent to drive the Jook into extinction. The Jook attempt to whisk Susannah to safety as she is discovered by the Ruv Bengalo In the vast, open lands of the United States the devilish wolves have been organizing an army, and our company escaping with their lives has become a perilous challenge

Recollections of a New York Chief of Police

Author : George Washington Walling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Recollections of a New York Chief of Police written by George Washington Walling and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

San Francisco in Fiction

Author : David M. Fine
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826316219
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book San Francisco in Fiction written by David M. Fine and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the beginning there was the bay, the land, the forty-three hills, the coastline down to Monterey, the strip of mountains, the quiet valley behind, the vast ocean, the hidden faults." And with the landscape came the stories, as Paul Skenazy and David Fine note in their introduction to this new anthology of essays. San Francisco is as much a place in the mind as on the map; if the terrain set the stage for the stories, the stories have helped remake our perceptions of the space. These twelve essays explore the relationship between place and prose--between San Francisco the city and San Francisco the territory of fiction. From the Gold Rush times of Mark Twain and Bret Harte, through the Prohibition Era of Dashiell Hammett to the Beat days of Jack Kerouac and the present works of writers like Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Arturo Islas, San Francisco has been blessed with great writers who have given life to the land in their fiction. These essays engage the history and geography, ethnic, gender, and class conflicts, and stylistic range of the fiction. They demonstrate how authors as various as Jack London, Gertrude Atherton, Frank Norris, William Saroyan, James D. Houston, Joan Didion, and Wallace Stegner have re-created and revised our understanding of this region.

The Starr Sting Scale

Author : C.S. O'Cinneide
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459744853
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book The Starr Sting Scale written by C.S. O'Cinneide and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candace Starr considers herself retired from the world of professional hits since she got out of prison. That’s until a society maven wants her daughter’s boyfriend removed from their lives permanently. When he shows up dead, Candace has to help the cops catch the killer, even as she's a prime suspect.

The Real Gangs of New York

Author : Wallace Edwards
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Gangs of New York written by Wallace Edwards and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2020-09-12 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★★★ Is true better than fiction? ★★★ The subject of a classic history by Herbert Asbury and an Academy Award-nominated film by Martin Scorsese, the gangs of The Five Points in New York have become the stuff of legend. But how much is legend and how much is fact? In this short book, we examine the original gangs of the Five Points in New York and see how accurate the film was (spoiler alert: not very) and what Asbury may have gotten wrong in his original research on this era. From the Bowery Boys to the Dead Rabbits, we look at the gangs that operated not just in the Five Points, but also those who wanted a piece of the action there and engaged in gang wars that would leave even modern thugs quivering in their boots!

We Is Got Him

Author : Carrie Hagen
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 159020896X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book We Is Got Him written by Carrie Hagen and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “relentlessly suspenseful” story of America’s first known kidnapping in nineteenth century Philadelphia is “elegantly told, superbly accomplished” (The Philadelphia Enquirer). In 1874, a little boy named Charley Ross was snatched from his family’s front yard in Philadelphia. A ransom note arrived three days later, demanding twenty thousand dollars for the boy’s return. The city was about to host the America’s Centennial celebration, and the mass panic surrounding the Charley Ross case plunged the nation into hysteria. The desperate search led the police to inspect every building in Philadelphia, set up saloon surveillance in New York’s notorious slums, and begin a national manhunt. With white-knuckle suspense and historical detail, Hagen vividly captures the dark side of an earlier America. Her brilliant portrayal of its criminals, detectives, politicians, spiritualists, and ordinary families will stay with the reader long after the final page. “Hagen skillfully narrates a saga that transcends one kidnapping, a saga tied up with the World’s Fair that was about to open in Philadelphia.” —Kirkus Reviews “As Erik Larson mined the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair for Devil in the White City, Hagen chronicles a tragically more relevant 19th-century story.” —Michael Capuzzo, author of The Murder Room

Rebels

Author : Leerom Medovoi
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387298
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Rebels written by Leerom Medovoi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-23 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holden Caulfield, the beat writers, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and James Dean—these and other avatars of youthful rebellion were much more than entertainment. As Leerom Medovoi shows, they were often embraced and hotly debated at the dawn of the Cold War era because they stood for dissent and defiance at a time when the ideological production of the United States as leader of the “free world” required emancipatory figures who could represent America’s geopolitical claims. Medovoi argues that the “bad boy” became a guarantor of the country’s anti-authoritarian, democratic self-image: a kindred spirit to the freedom-seeking nations of the rapidly decolonizing third world and a counterpoint to the repressive conformity attributed to both the Soviet Union abroad and America’s burgeoning suburbs at home. Alongside the young rebel, the contemporary concept of identity emerged in the 1950s. It was in that decade that “identity” was first used to define collective selves in the politicized manner that is recognizable today: in terms such as “national identity” and “racial identity.” Medovoi traces the rapid absorption of identity themes across many facets of postwar American culture, including beat literature, the young adult novel, the Hollywood teen film, early rock ‘n’ roll, black drama, and “bad girl” narratives. He demonstrates that youth culture especially began to exhibit telltale motifs of teen, racial, sexual, gender, and generational revolt that would burst into political prominence during the ensuing decades, bequeathing to the progressive wing of contemporary American political culture a potent but ambiguous legacy of identity politics.

Law & Disorder

Author : Bruce Chadwick
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN 13 : 1250082587
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Law & Disorder written by Bruce Chadwick and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century New York City was one of the most magnificent cities in the world, but also one of the most deadly. Without any real law enforcement for almost 200 years, the city was a lawless place where the crime rate was triple what it is today and the murder rate was five or six times as high. The staggering amount of crime threatened to topple a city that was experiencing meteoric growth and striving to become one of the most spectacular in America. For the first time, award-winning historian Bruce Chadwick examines how rampant violence led to the founding of the first professional police force in New York City. Chadwick brings readers into the bloody and violent city, where race relations and an influx of immigrants boiled over into riots, street gangs roved through town with abandon, and thousands of bars, prostitutes, and gambling emporiums clogged the streets. The drive to establish law and order and protect the city involved some of New York’s biggest personalities, including mayor Fernando Wood, police chief Fred Tallmadge, and journalist Walt Whitman. Law and Disorder is a must read for fans of New York history and those interested in how the first police force, untrained and untested, battled to maintain law and order.

American and British Poetry: 1979-1990

Author : Harriet Semmes Alexander
Publisher : Athens : Ohio University Press/Swallow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American and British Poetry: 1979-1990 written by Harriet Semmes Alexander and published by Athens : Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes approximately 800 British and American poets, past and present, with criticisms drawn from more than 160 journals and 300 books

Andersonville

Author : MacKinlay Kantor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0147515378
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Andersonville written by MacKinlay Kantor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The greatest of our Civil War novels” (New York Times) reissued for a new generation As the United States prepares to commemorate the Civil War’s 150th anniversary, Plume reissues the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel widely regarded as the most powerful ever written about our nation’s bloodiest conflict. MacKinlay Kantor’s Andersonville tells the story of the notorious Confederate Prisoner of War camp, where fifty thousand Union soldiers were held captive—and fourteen thousand died—under inhumane conditions. This new edition will be widely read and talked about by Civil War buffs and readers of gripping historical fiction.

Hell Gate

Author : Michael Nichols
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438471416
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Hell Gate written by Michael Nichols and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part history and part memoir, Hell Gate tells of a man's excursions along and through Hell Gate, a narrow stretch of water in New York City's East River, notorious for dangerous currents, shipwrecks, and its melancholic islands and rocks. Drawn to the area by his fascination with its name—from the Dutch Hellegat, translated into English as both "bright passage" and "hellhole"—what begins as a set of casual walks for Michael Nichols becomes an exploration of landscape and history as he traces these idyllic and hellish images in an attempt to discover Hell Gate's hidden character and the meaning of its elusive name. Using a loosely constructed set of sketches organized as a kind of tour along the edge of the river and then from a rowboat in the river, Nichols describes scenes and events as they present themselves, mixing history and lore with contemporary scenes.

Not Quite Dead

Author : John MacLachlan Gray
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429971916
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Not Quite Dead written by John MacLachlan Gray and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a rust-bucket cargo ship bound from Liverpool to the United States in 1848, an Irish stowaway named Devlin steals a suspicious package after witnessing it changing hands between two sea captains. All he finds is a seemingly worthless pile of papers marked "David Copperfield, Final Four Numbers, by Charles Dickens." Devlin is determined to see if he can somehow turn events to his advantage by paying a call on Dickens's American publisher. A year later, a newly admitted patient to a Baltimore hospital, a disreputable writer who goes by the name of Edgar Allan Poe, is clearly raving mad, which makes it easy to dismiss his claims to have information about the murder of an innocent woman. Meanwhile, the eminent English novelist Charles Dickens has embarked on a tour of America, where his views are not received as he would have wished. Dickens's growing discomfort reaches new heights of intensity when he finds himself sharing disreputable lodgings---and reluctantly collaborating with---none other than Edgar Allan Poe, who has gone into hiding after faking his own death in a desperate attempt to escape the Irish mob. Like White Stone Day, which The Washington Post hailed as "a Dickens of a thriller," this is a brilliantly imaginative tale in which crime and literature intersect in surprising ways.

The Circus Of Ghosts

Author : Barbara Ewing
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 0748123598
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Circus Of Ghosts written by Barbara Ewing and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York, late 1840s, and in the wild, noisy, brash and beautiful circus of Silas P. Swift a shadowy, mesmeric woman entrances crowds because she can unlock the secrets of troubled minds. Above them all her daughter sweeps and soars: acrobat and tightrope-walker. People cannot take their eyes from the mysterious woman in the Big Top who can help so many others - but she cannot unlock dark, literally unspeakable, memories of her own. In London memories fester in the mind of an old and venomous duke of the realm. He plots, with an unscrupulous lawyer (and a huge financial reward) against the mother and the daughter: to kill one, and to abduct the other and bring her across the Atlantic to him: She is mine. The actress and mesmerist Cordelia Preston and her daughter Gwenlliam live with their unusual family in the exciting new city among exciting new ideas: the telegraph, the daguerrotype, anaesthesia, table-tapping. And among the dangerous street-gangs of New York also, whose raw violence meets Cordelia and Gwenlliam and those that they love, with unexpected results.

Fire Island

Author : John J. Stevens
Publisher : Bullfrog Communications
ISBN 13 : 0615401562
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Fire Island written by John J. Stevens and published by Bullfrog Communications. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spins the tale of a seafaring captain who overcomes personal tragedy and extreme obstacles to reinvent and find himself and start a new beginning.