Uncle Bush's Live Funeral

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ISBN 13 : 9781936519262
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis Uncle Bush's Live Funeral by : Scott Seeke

Download or read book Uncle Bush's Live Funeral written by Scott Seeke and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the publicity tour for the 2010 film Get Low, the first question from the audience was always "What's the true story that inspired this film?" After more than a decade of research, Get Low writer Scott Seeke answers that question with Uncle Bush's Live Funeral. This book tells the incredible true story of Felix "Bush" Breazeale, a feared hermit who attracted ten thousand strangers to the funeral he held while still alive in 1938. Seeke had begun researching Get Low as an outsider, a New Yorker married into a skeptical East Tennessee family. By the time Get Low arrived in theaters ten years later, he had earned their trust. They opened doors that allowed him to finally learn why Bush had his funeral while he was still alive, and why so many people came. He found the moving story of a man trapped by his culture and past, desperate to rewrite his life's story before it was too late. Uncle Bush's Live Funeral shows that any outcast can find acceptance, and any label can be overcome, all masterfully told by Get Low writer Scott Seeke.

Barbara Bush

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Publisher : Modern First Ladies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Barbara Bush by : Myra G. Gutin

Download or read book Barbara Bush written by Myra G. Gutin and published by Modern First Ladies. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively account of the outspoken first lady during her White House years, showing how the "Silver Fox" used her rich experience in politics to master the public relations side of first ladyship with as much skill as any White House spouse.

Uncle

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Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557539308
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Book Synopsis Uncle by : Irena McCammon Scott

Download or read book Uncle written by Irena McCammon Scott and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802-1876) to date, Purdue's great-great-grandniece describes her travels to the diverse places where Purdue had lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as Uncle. Using fresh, unpublished source materials-including Purdue's personal correspondence, business ledgers, and the family oral histories-the author examines Purdue's beginning among illiterate, immigrant, Pennsylvania mountain-hollow folks. Uncle challenges a commonly held belief that Purdue was a cold-hearted business mogul. Instead the author shows Purdue as a human being and as a generous family man with a visionary nature.

Braided Lives

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Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1604868775
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)

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Book Synopsis Braided Lives by : Piercy, Marge

Download or read book Braided Lives written by Piercy, Marge and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marge Piercy carries her portrait of the American experience back into the Fifties—that closed, repressive time in which forces for the upheavals of the Sixties ticked away underground. Spanning twenty years, and teeming with vivid characters, Braided Lives tells the powerful, unsentimental story of two young women coming of age. Jill, fiercely independent, dark, Jewish, an intellectual with Detroit street smarts, is a poet, curious, avid of life—a “professional student” and sometime thief. Donna, Jill’s cousin and closest friend, is blond, pretty, and alluring. Together, they grow and change at college in Ann Arbor, where the life of poets and painters contrasts sharply with the working-class neighborhood where Jill’s family lives. In Michigan, and afterward in New York City, the two women taste love and betrayal, friendship and pain, independence and fear as they reach a deepening understanding that to control their lives they must fight. And though their fates differ as widely as their personalities, both reflect the danger that sex posed at a time when abortions were illegal and an affair could destroy a woman’s life, making the outcome of a chance encounter or a night of love a matter of life and death. Braided Lives is an enduring portrait of the past that has led to our tenuous present. In her new introduction to this edition, Marge Piercy reflects on both the most autobiographical of her novels, and the ongoing battles to ensure the hard-fought victories of the Sixties and Seventies, particularly around sex and reproductive rights.

The Bushes

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400096367
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Bushes by : Peter Schweizer

Download or read book The Bushes written by Peter Schweizer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2005-01-04 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on hours of unprecedented interviews with members of the Bush family, The Bushes tells the inside story of the unique dynasty at the heart of American power. As well as laying out the secretive family’s inner workings, this intimate and fascinating group portrait probes into such sensitive matters as their dealings in the oil business, George W.’s turbulent youth, and Jeb’s likely run for the presidency in 2008. In this first full-scale biography, Peter and Rochelle Schweizer insightfully explore the secrets of the Bushes’ rise from obscurity to unprecedented influence. The family’s free-flowing, pragmatic, and opportunistic style consciously distinguishes them from previous political dynasties; they consider themselves the “un-Kennedys.” But with their abiding emphasis on loyalty and networking, the Bushes’ continuing success seems assured–making this book essential reading for anyone who cares about America’s future.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis We Have Always Lived in the Castle by : Shirley Jackson

Download or read book We Have Always Lived in the Castle written by Shirley Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

All the Best, George Bush

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476731160
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book All the Best, George Bush written by George Bush and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.

George & Barbara Bush

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Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 160893974X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis George & Barbara Bush by : Ellie LeBlond Sosa

Download or read book George & Barbara Bush written by Ellie LeBlond Sosa and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “To begin with I was in love and I am in love so that’s not hard,” Barbara Bush told her granddaughter Ellie LeBlond Sosa on her porch in Kennebunkport, Maine. Sosa had asked for the secret to her and President George H.W. Bush's77-year love affair that withstood World War II separation, a leap of faithinto the oil fields of West Texas, the painful loss of a child, a political climb to the highest office, and after the White House, the transition back to a “normal” life. Through a lifetime’s worth of letters, photographs, and stories, Sosa and coauthor Kelly Anne Chase paint the portrait of the enduring relationship of George and Barbara Bush. Sharing intimate interviews with the Bushes and family friends, this is a never-before-seen look into the private life of a very public couple.

God and George W. Bush

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006077956X
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis God and George W. Bush by : Paul Kengor

Download or read book God and George W. Bush written by Paul Kengor and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-09-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George W. Bush has brought the question of religion back into American political life in a way that it has not been for decades. From the 2000 election through the challenges America has faced in the wake of September 11, Bush's personal faith -- and his conviction about the importance of religion in our national life -- have won him lasting admiration from the right, while attracting fury and scorn from the left. Now presidential scholar Paul Kengor, the author of the acclaimed God and Ronald Reagan, reconstructs the spiritual journey that carried George W. Bush to the White House -- from the death of his sister, which helped to shape his character, to the conversion experience that changed his life. Matching detailed new research with thoughtful analysis, God and George W. Bush is the definitive look at the spiritual life of this American president.

Bushworld

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425202760
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)

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Book Synopsis Bushworld by : Maureen Dowd

Download or read book Bushworld written by Maureen Dowd and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

The Return of Buddy Bush

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439116377
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis The Return of Buddy Bush by : Shelia P. Moses

Download or read book The Return of Buddy Bush written by Shelia P. Moses and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First introduced in Shelia P. Moses' award-winning The Legend of Buddy Bush, Pattie Mae Sheals continues her journey in The Return of Buddy Bush. Pattie Mae goes to Harlem to visit her sister after the death of their beloved grandfather and the disappearance of Uncle Buddy, who has been wrongly accused of a terrible crime. Harlem could not be more different from Rich Square, North Carolina-people speak differently, people dress differently, and black men and women work and run their own businesses, just like any white man would do. Harlem is magical to Pattie Mae, and a chance meeting with the black writer Richard Wright fully opens her eyes to the fact that anything is possible in her future. Pattie Mae is not only determined to soak up the Northern lifestyle, but she is on a secret mission to find her uncle. The rumors are that he is hiding out in Harlem, so Pattie Mae wants to bring him back. In her innocence she believes that once Uncle Buddy returns, he can have a fair trial and prove once and for all that he did nothing wrong. What Pattie Mae learns about life and opportunity, and what Uncle Buddy learns about family and justice, are at the heart of this rich and unforgettable novel.

FantasticLand

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510709460
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis FantasticLand by : Mike Bockoven

Download or read book FantasticLand written by Mike Bockoven and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where “Fun is Guaranteed!” But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares. How could a group of survivors, mostly teenagers, commit such terrible acts? Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience. Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh. This new social network divides the ravaged dreamland into territories ruled by the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, and the Mole People. If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost? FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Barbara Bush

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501117785
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Barbara Bush by : Barbara Bush

Download or read book Barbara Bush written by Barbara Bush and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mrs. Bush offers a ... portrait of her life in and out of the White House, from her small-town schoolgirl days in Rye, New York, to her fateful union with George H.W. Bush, to her role as First Lady of the United States"--Back cover.

Joseph's Grace

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442406186
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Book Synopsis Joseph's Grace by : Shelia P. Moses

Download or read book Joseph's Grace written by Shelia P. Moses and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph’s story continues in this heart-wrenching young adult novel that grapples with tragedy and coming of age. Joseph’s sophomore year is about to begin, but his new start is a false one. At his father’s request, Joseph moved in with Aunt Shirley, Uncle Todd, and cousin Jasmine over the summer to distance himself from his mother’s drug problems and the dangerous characters she interacts with. But efforts to keep Joseph safe have had tragic results. As Joseph contends with his grief, his mother’s persistent pleas for money, and the distance between himself and his father in Iraq—not to mention schoolwork, making the tennis team, and a new relationship—he’s learning what’s most important to him, and what sacrifices he’ll have to make to become the person he needs to be.

Funeral for a Stranger

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Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426722346
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Funeral for a Stranger by : Becca Stevens

Download or read book Funeral for a Stranger written by Becca Stevens and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have seen water move rocks. I have seen thistles break through boulders. If water and flowers can move stones, surely love can. Becca Stevens, from Funeral for a Stranger In this meditation on living and dying, Becca Stevens shares moving and hilarious stories about her life, love, friends, and our many families. This delicately formed narrative is also a window into the soul of a priest. I loved it and will hold it in my heart with gratitude for years to come. -Phyllis Tickle, author of The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why Loneliness finds connections, depair meets celebration, and fear discovers faith. Join Becca on her journey to a funeral for a stranger. God will be there. -Don Schlitz, Hall of Fame songwriter of The Gambler With elegant simplicity Becca Stevens escorts the reader to the banks of the deepest spiritual wellspring. Surely she ranks among our most gifted teachers on the things that matter most of all. -Stephen Bauman, author of Simple Truths: On Values, Civility, and Our Common Good

Looking for Uncle Louie on the Fourth of July

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Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781590780619
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Looking for Uncle Louie on the Fourth of July by : Kathy Whitehead

Download or read book Looking for Uncle Louie on the Fourth of July written by Kathy Whitehead and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy gets a big surprise when the low riders take part in the Independence Day parade.

Running Alone

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Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786748575
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis Running Alone by : James MacGregor Burns

Download or read book Running Alone written by James MacGregor Burns and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disastrous war in Iraq, prisoner abuse, secret wiretaps -- the presidency of George W. Bush represents a crisis in American democracy. How did this happen? In Running Alone the revered political scientist and commentator James MacGregor Burns sets the imperial presidency of George W. Bush in the context of half a century of presidential politics. In his 1960 campaign, John F. Kennedy turned his back on the Democratic Party. He relied instead on his personal charisma and his family's vast wealth to win office. Once elected, he governed much as he had run: alone. He ignored the Democratic platform and instead sought counsel from a small group of hand-picked advisors, including his own brother. Kennedy fundamentally reshaped the role of President, and each of his successors has built on this model. American presidents have become increasingly isolated from the parties that brought them to power. Democratic presidents -- Johnson, Carter, and Clinton -- did tremendous damage to the Democratic Party by abandoning its core principles. Republican presidents have managed to lead more effectively in isolation, but have imperiled the nation in the process. Drawing on his own personal letters, interviews, and recollections of America's presidents, Burns charts the decline of genuine leadership in the Oval Office and offers a stirring vision of what the presidency can and should be. America deserves better leaders, and with unsurpassed knowledge of American history and politics, Burns shows us the way forward.