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Download or read book Paper Sons written by Dickson Lam and published by Autumn House. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Autumn House Nonfiction Contest, selected by Alison Hawthorne Deming (2017) Set in a public housing project in San Francisco, Lam's memoir explores his transformation from a teenage graffiti writer to a high school teacher working with troubled youth while navigating the secret violence in his immigrant's family's past.
Download or read book Think Tanks written by Paul Dickson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1971 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brian Dickson written by Robert J. Sharpe and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging and incisive, Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey traces Dickson's life from a Depression-era boyhood in Saskatchewan, to the battlefields of Normandy, the boardrooms of corporate Canada and high judicial office, and provides an inside look at the work of the Supreme Court during its most crucial period.
Download or read book Bill Veeck written by Paul Dickson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Louis "Bill" Veeck, Jr. (1914-1986) is legendary in many ways-baseball impresario and innovator, independent spirit, champion of civil rights in a time of great change. Paul Dickson has written the first full biography of this towering figure, in the process rewriting many aspects of his life and bringing alive the history of America's pastime. In his late 20s, Veeck bought into his first team, the American Association Milwaukee Brewers. After serving and losing a leg in WWII, he bought the Cleveland Indians in 1946, and a year later broke the color barrier in the American League by signing Larry Doby, a few months after Jackie Robinson-showing the deep commitment he held to integration and equal rights. Cleveland won the World Series in 1948, but Veeck sold the team for financial reasons the next year. He bought a majority of the St. Louis Browns in 1951, sold it three years later, then returned in 1959 to buy the other Chicago team, the White Sox, winning the American League pennant his first year. Ill health led him to sell two years later, only to gain ownership again, 1975-1981. Veeck's promotional spirit-the likes of clown prince Max Patkin and midget Eddie Gaedel are inextricably connected with him-and passion endeared him to fans, while his feel for the game led him to propose innovations way ahead of their time, and his deep sense of morality not only integrated the sport but helped usher in the free agency that broke the stranglehold owners had on players. (Veeck was the only owner to testify in support of Curt Flood during his landmark free agency case). Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick is a deeply insightful, powerful biography of a fascinating figure. It will take its place beside the recent bestselling biographies of Satchel Paige and Mickey Mantle, and will be the baseball book of the season in Spring 2012.
Book Synopsis A Shirt Box Full of Songs by : Barbara Dickson
Download or read book A Shirt Box Full of Songs written by Barbara Dickson and published by Headline. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From singing to the postman when she was two years old to her annual sell-out tours in the 2000s, Barbara Dickson has been captivating her fans for the best part of sixty years. In her autobiography she describes the joys of growing up in Fife with her talented brother and loving parents, of moving to Edinburgh to find her place in the world and the stresses and strains of trying to make a living on the Scottish folk scene. Not content to have just a successful singing career, she turned to another: acting. A regular on prime-time television, Barbara also took to musicals and was the original lead role in Spend, Spend, Spend. Her hugely successful time onstage earned her many acting accolades but her pursuit of perfection led to complete exhaustion from which she fought hard to recover. Barbara writes beautifully about the close relationships she cultivated over these years with people such as Willy Russell, Elaine Paige and Billy Connolly. The result is a warm, fascinating story encompassing the best of British music, stage and television.
Book Synopsis My True Hidden Hollywood Story by : Brenda Dickson
Download or read book My True Hidden Hollywood Story written by Brenda Dickson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940–1941 by : Paul Dickson
Download or read book The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940–1941 written by Paul Dickson and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A must-read book that explores a vital pre-war effort [with] deep research and gripping writing.” —Washington Times In The rise of the G.I. Army, 1940–1941, Paul Dickson tells the dramatic story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World War II. In September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and initiated World War II, America had strong isolationist leanings. The US Army stood at fewer than 200,000 men—unprepared to defend the country, much less carry the fight to Europe and the Far East. And yet, less than a year after Pearl Harbor, the American army led the Allied invasion of North Africa, beginning the campaign that would defeat Germany, and the Navy and Marines were fully engaged with Japan in the Pacific. Dickson chronicles this transformation from Franklin Roosevelt’s selection of George C. Marshall to be Army Chief of Staff to the remarkable peace-time draft of 1940 and the massive and unprecedented mock battles in Tennessee, Louisiana, and the Carolinas by which the skill and spirit of the Army were forged and out of which iconic leaders like Eisenhower, Bradley, and Clark emerged. The narrative unfolds against a backdrop of political and cultural isolationist resistance and racial tension at home, and the increasingly perceived threat of attack from both Germany and Japan.
Download or read book River Rising written by Athol Dickson and published by . This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-crafted tale of secrets and evil lurking under the surface in the Mississippi river town of Pilotville, Louisiana, during the great flood of 1927.
Download or read book January Justice written by Athol Dickson and published by Athol Dickson. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reeling from his wife's unsolved murder, Malcolm Cutter is just going through the motions as a chauffeur and bodyguard for Hollywood's rich and famous. Then a pair of Guatemalan tough guys offer him a job. Cutter doesn't much care if they are patriotic revolutionaries or terrorists until he gets a bomb through his window, a beating, and three bullets in the chest. Now there's another murder on Cutter's mind. His own. (paraphrased from back cover copy)
Download or read book History Shock written by John Dickson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over twenty-five years John Dickson served the United States as a Foreign Service officer in North America, South America, the Caribbean, and Africa. In History Shock: When History Collides with Foreign Relations Dickson offers valuable insights into the daily life of a Foreign Service officer and the work of representing the United States. Dickson organizes History Shock around a country-by-country series of lively personal experience vignettes followed by compelling historical analyses of the ways in which his inadequate understanding of the host country’s history, particularly its prior history with the United States, combined with his lack of knowledge of his own nation’s history led to history shock: where dramatically different interpretations of history blocked diplomatic understanding and cooperation. John Dickson offers these “stories with a history” to highlight the interaction between history and foreign relations and to underscore the costs of not knowing the history of our partners and adversaries, much less our own. In both Mexico and Canada in particular we see how our lack of knowledge and understanding of how our long history of military interventions continues to complicate our efforts at developing mutually beneficial relationships with our two closest neighbors. In Nigeria and South Africa, Dickson experienced firsthand how the history of racism in the United States plays out on a world stage and clouds our ability to effectively work with key African nations. Perhaps the starkest example of history shock, of two nations with deeply conflicted views of their own histories and their shared history, is another country near at hand, Cuba. Not all of the gaps are too wide for bridge building; in Peru, Dickson provides an example of how history can be deployed to mutual advantage. The Foreign Service has long sought to improve its training, to provide some form of “playbook” or “operating manual” with systematic case studies for its officers. In History Shock Dickson provides not only a model for such case studies but also a unique contribution of an interpretive framework for how to remedy this deficit, including recommendations for strengthening historical literacy in the Foreign Service.
Book Synopsis The Dickson Memoirs by : Sir Alexander Dickson
Download or read book The Dickson Memoirs written by Sir Alexander Dickson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Other Mrs. Miller by : Allison Dickson
Download or read book The Other Mrs. Miller written by Allison Dickson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two women are watching each other. Phoebe Miller isn't sure when the rusty car started showing up in the cul-de-sac she calls home, or why its driver would be spying on her. What could be interesting about an unhappy housewife who drowns her sorrows in ice cream and wine and barely leaves her house? Only one knows why. When a new family moves in across the street--the exuberant Vicki, who just might become the gossipy best friend Phoebe's always wanted, and her handsome college-bound son, Jake, who offers companionship of a different variety--Phoebe finds her dull routine infused with the excitement she's been missing. But with her head turned she's no longer focused on the woman in the car. And she really should be... An addictive domestic thriller for fans of The Last Mrs. Parrish and The Couple Next Door, The Other Mrs. Miller serves up a delicious brew of dark secrets and stunning plot twists that will keep you captivated until the very last page.
Book Synopsis The Dickson Memoirs. Series A, from 1294 to 1794. Being a Collection of Manuscripts, Letters, Prints, Books, Maps, Etc., Gathered Together by the Late Major-General Sir Alexander Dickson ... & Presented to the Royal Artillery Institution by His Son, General Sir Collingwood Dickson ... Collated for Publication and Annotated by Major R. H. Murdoch ... Edited by the Committee of the R.A. Institution by : Sir Alexander DICKSON
Download or read book The Dickson Memoirs. Series A, from 1294 to 1794. Being a Collection of Manuscripts, Letters, Prints, Books, Maps, Etc., Gathered Together by the Late Major-General Sir Alexander Dickson ... & Presented to the Royal Artillery Institution by His Son, General Sir Collingwood Dickson ... Collated for Publication and Annotated by Major R. H. Murdoch ... Edited by the Committee of the R.A. Institution written by Sir Alexander DICKSON and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Judas Window by : Carter Dickson
Download or read book The Judas Window written by Carter Dickson and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dragon Knight by : Gordon R. Dickson
Download or read book The Dragon Knight written by Gordon R. Dickson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dragon Knight is the second book of Gordon R. Dickson's Dragon Knight series. The novel begins five months after the battle at Loathly Tower which took place in The Dragon and The George.
Book Synopsis Gentlemen, More Dolce, Please! by : Harry Ellis Dickson
Download or read book Gentlemen, More Dolce, Please! written by Harry Ellis Dickson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dragon In Lyonesse by : Gordon R. Dickson
Download or read book The Dragon In Lyonesse written by Gordon R. Dickson and published by Tor Fantasy. This book was released on 1999-08-15 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
