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Author : Bob Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780888301123
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Wit & Wisdom of Bob Edwards written by Bob Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bob Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780888301208
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Wit & Wisdom of Bob Edwards written by Bob Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grant MacEwan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Eye Opener Bob written by Grant MacEwan and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grant MacEwan
Publisher : Brindle and Glass
ISBN 13 : 1926972562
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Eye Opener Bob written by Grant MacEwan and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-six years later those words still ring true: there has since been no book that has brought to life early Calgary the way that Eye Opener Bob does. Perhaps more importantly, it's the closest we'll ever get to Robert Chambers Edwards—Eye Opener Bob —the irrepressible editor of Calgary's most singular newspaper, and the city's most singular denizen. Bob Edwards was a true Canadian original, the prototypical hard-drinking, pull-no-punches editor of the Calgary Eye Opener—at the time the largest paper between Vancouver and Toronto, with a circulation of over 30,000 copies. A paper with the power to elect or dethrone governments, to bring the mighty CPR to reform its ways, and to skewer the pretensions of society like few before or since. Eye Opener Bob brings this fascinating character to life in all his glorious self-contradictions. MacEwan arrived in the city at just the right time to write Eye Opener Bob—the old Sandstone City hadn't yet been whitewashed over by the new money from the Leduc gusher, and there were still living people who had known Edwards. MacEwan ferreted out their stories as only he could do, combined the interviews with hard research, and the result is Grant MacEwan's best book by a country mile. Eye Opener Bob can be enjoyed on its own or as a companion piece to the new compilation of Edwards's writing, Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers, and Unabashed Grafters: A Bob Edwards Chrestomathy.
Author : Bob Edwards
Publisher : Brindle and Glass
ISBN 13 : 1926972643
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Irresponsible Freaks written by Bob Edwards and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Edwards, the Great White North's equivalent to H. L. Mencken, remains a singular figure in Canadian journalism. His newspapers, published in Wetaskiwin, Leduc, High River, Strathcona, Winnipeg, Port Arthur, and most famously Calgary, skewered politics, society, and business leaders with a fearlessness and outrageousness rarely seen then, now, or in between. As editor James Martin points out in his illuminating introduction, Bob Edwards seems more modern the farther back in history he recedes; he was the granddaddy of Gonzo Journalism à la Hunter S. Thompson, a freewheeling cultural critic in the spirit of Lester Bangs, a pioneer of satirical reform as evidenced in Frank magazine, and a spoofer of the po-faced reporting of his day in precisely the same way that The Onion is now. Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers and Unabashed Grafters features mountains of Edwards's superb aphorisms, a generous helping of his longer and lesser-known works, and some choice items which have never before seen print, as well as miraculous archival discoveries and many cartoons from Edwards's celebrated Eye Opener. It is a welcome addition to the Bob Edwards canon for those who thought they knew everything about him, and an eye-opening introduction to the uninitiated: "He was writing this stuff a hundred years ago!"
Author : Bob Edwards
Publisher : Brindle and Glass
ISBN 13 : 9780973248159
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers & Unabashed Grafters written by Bob Edwards and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Edwards, the Great White North's equivalent to H. L. Mencken, remains a singular figure in Canadian journalism. His newspapers, published in Wetaskiwin, Leduc, High River, Strathcona, Winnipeg, Port Arthur, and most famously Calgary, skewered politics, society, and business leaders with a fearlessness and outrageousness rarely seen then, now, or in between. As editor James Martin points out in his illuminating introduction, Bob Edwards seems more modern the farther back in history he recedes; he was the granddaddy of Gonzo Journalism à la Hunter S. Thompson, a freewheeling cultural critic in the spirit of Lester Bangs, a pioneer of satirical reform as evidenced in Frank magazine, and a spoofer of the po-faced reporting of his day in precisely the same way that The Onion is now. Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers and Unabashed Grafters features mountains of Edwards's superb aphorisms, a generous helping of his longer and lesser-known works, and some choice items which have never before seen print, as well as miraculous archival discoveries and many cartoons from Edwards's celebrated Eye Opener. It is a welcome addition to the Bob Edwards canon for those who thought they knew everything about him, and an eye-opening introduction to the uninitiated: "He was writing this stuff a hundred years ago!"
Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888642967
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)
Download or read book The Literary History of Alberta Volume One written by George Melnyk and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alberta's contradictory landscape has fired the imaginative energies of writers for centuries. The sweep of the plains, the thrust of the Rockies, and the long roll of the woodlands have left vivid impressions on all of Alberta's writers--both those who passed through Alberta in search of other horizons and those who made it their home. The Literary History of Alberta surveys writing in and about Alberta from prehistory to the middle of the twentieth century. It includes profiles of dozens of writers (from the earnestly intended to the truly gifted) and their texts (from the commercial to the arcane). It reminds us of long-forgotten names and faces, figures who quietly--or not so quietly--wrote the books that underpin Alberta's thriving literary culture today. Melnyk also discusses the institutions that have shaped Alberta's literary culture. The Literary History of Alberta is an essential text for any reader interested in the cultural history of western Canada, and a landmark achievement in Alberta's continuing literary history.
Author : Donald B. Smith
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552381749
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Calgary's Grand Story written by Donald B. Smith and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Calgary was a Boomtown of 50,000 people in 1912, the year the Lougheed building and the adjacent Grand Theatre were built. The fanfare and anticipation surrounding their opening marked the beginning of a golden era in the city's history. The Lougheed quickly became Calgary's premier corporate address, and the state-of-the-art Grand Theatre the hub of a thriving cultural community." "From the viewpoint of these two prominent heritage buildings, author Donald Smith introduces the reader to the personalities and events that helped shape Calgary in the twentieth century. Complemented by over 140 historical images, Calgary's Grand Story is a tribute to the Lougheed and the Grand, and celebrates their unrivalled position in the city's political, economic, and cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Rich Mole
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1926613937
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Whisky Wars of the Canadian West written by Rich Mole and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2012 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1874, the newly formed North West Mounted Police marched west to shut down unscrupulous liquor traders who had devastated the lives of many First Nations people. The Mounties' famous trek heralded over 50 years of "whisky wars" in the Canadian West. Author Rich Mole traces the turbulent history of alcohol, temperance movements and prohibition between 1870 and the 1920s through the stories of those who suffered and profited from the West's insatiable thirst for liquor. Before prohibition, young James Gray was one of many Winnipeg children who endured poverty and humiliation due to an alcoholic father. Calgary newspaperman Bob Edwards, known for his witty aphorisms, publicly supported prohibition while waging his own battle with the bottle. Harry Bronfman, "King of the Boozoriums," built a business empire shipping mail-order liquor on both sides of the Canada-US border. Rum-runner "Emperor" Emilio Picariello and his housekeeper, Florence Lassandro, faced the gallows after an Alberta police constable was shot and killed in front of his own children. Mole's vivid, real-life stories chronicle a tumultuous and fascinating era.
Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385659296
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book The Promised Land written by Pierre Berton and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the pioneers described in The National Dream, The Last Spike and Klondike came the settlers — a million people who filled a thousand miles of prairie in a single generation.
Author : Grant MacEwan
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780921102267
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Coyote Music and Other Humorous Tales of the Early West written by Grant MacEwan and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lighthearted and charming collection of stories, popular historian Grant MacEwan captures the homespun humour, the outrageous antics, and the colourful characters that brought laughter and joy into the often difficult lives of the early pioneers. Among these pages you will meet the likes of: Pegleg Paul, king of woodenleg mirth and permanent fixture at the Fleet Livery's Hot Stove Liars' League; and Tom Sukanen, inventor and mechanical genius, obsessed with the singlehanded construction of a 43-foot, 15-tonne seaworthy ship on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River.
Author : Aritha Van Herk
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143176951
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Mavericks written by Aritha Van Herk and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth title in our provincial histories series, Mavericks is an idiosyncratic and episodic history of what is arguably Canada's most unconventional province. From mapmakers to ranchers, Stampede Wrestling to Stockwell Day, acclaimed writer Aritha van Herk brings the drama and combative beauty of this irascible province to stunning life. van Herk's portrait of her home province embraces all its extremes, from deadly and spectacular weather to dinosaur graveyards, and from oil gushers and geysers to barnstorming social reformers and political haymakers. Bronc-riders of boom and bust, Alberta's people are a beguiling mixture of opinionated extremists, hardy pioneers and gentle sinners. Alberta is a province that most Canadians simply don't understand, the province most Canadians love to hate. It is regarded as a land of reckless, redneck and ignorant individualists. But it is also the province where the Famous Five fought the landmark Person's Case, giving Canadian women the same status as men in the eyes of the law, a province that truly believes in free speech. Albertans tolerate in their midst people whose extreme views on any manner of subjects would make them outcasts elsewhere. And Albertans practice the creed of western neighbourliness, giving assiduously to charity and always lending a hand where help is needed. They are a tough, tender bunch, squinting into the wind of determined difference. If you're an Albertan, you'll recognize yourself and your home in this book. If you're not an Albertan, this book will be an education for you. Mavericks will open your eyes to the real Alberta, as she was and is.
Author : Nick Russell
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774804578
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Morals and the Media written by Nick Russell and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronted daily with decisions on how to present their stories, whatto write and what not to write, journalists and the media arefrequently accused of sensationalizing, of choosing to report the badnews, and of misquoting those they interview. In this substantiallyupdated edition of Morals and the Media, Nick Russelladdresses many of the concerns the public has about the media as heexamines why the media behave the way they do. He also discusses howvalues have been developed and applied and suggests value systems thatcan be used to judge special situations.
Author : Bob Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671500528
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Fridays with Red written by Bob Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wit, wisdom, a silky southern voice--these were the qualities that captivated millions of faithful Red Barber fans each Friday as he chatted with Morning Edition host Bob Edwards on subjects ranging from gardening to sports to the mysteries of life. This affectionate memoir will delight readers.
Author : Arlene Pervin
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426931719
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Rocky Mountain Tales written by Arlene Pervin and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of the West was an exciting and adventurous time in history. In Rocky Mountain Tales, author Arlene Pervin brings that history to life in this collection of eclectic stories. These stories tell of adventurers and entrepreneurs, hard-drinking men and gamblers, of fishing tales, cougars, and high-diving elk. Through stories like Bacon and Civilization, Camel Not and Of Men and Ink, the trials and tribulations of life at that time are revealed through the iconoclastic voices of the developing West. Rocky Mountain Tales reveals what life was like in the West through humour, political satire, and commentary in the writing of legendary newspapermen who lived and wrote of their time and place and dared to cross the line, in words and in their vision for the West.
Author : Fritz Knapp
Publisher : Price World Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1619840219
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (198 download)
Download or read book The Book of Sports Virtues - Youth Edition written by Fritz Knapp and published by Price World Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Book of Sports Virtues: High Impact Athletes and Coaches" is a masterful collection of stories about the struggles and triumphs of many celebrated athletes. Each chapter is assigned a trait or virtue and uses an athlete's story as a lens through which the reader can gain the insight needed to achieve that trait or virtue. The chapter on appreciation is the story of Lou Gehrig and Jacky Robinson's story is used to exemplify and define nobility. What emerges after reading these stories is not only a greater understanding and appreciation of the virtues that these icons needed to get through life, but also an inspiration for the reader. Each story is followed by a small quotation from literature to amplify the meaning and application of the positive virtue. This book makes for the perfect gift from parents to children or for adult mentors to their students. Virtues covered: Appreciation, Compassion, Dedication, Honesty, Strength, Humility, Integrity, Nobility, Persistence, Discipline, Triumph, Trust, Unity, Wisdom, and Determination.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Saskatchewan History written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
