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Download or read book Willie & Joe written by Bill Mauldin and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willie & Joe: Back Home brilliantly chronicles the struggles and disillusionments of these early post-WWII years and, in doing so, tells Bill Mauldin’s own extraordinary story of his journey home to a wife he barely knew and a son he had only seen in pictures. The drawings capture the texture and feel, the warp and woof, of this confusing time: the ubiquitous hats and cigarettes, the domestic rubs, the rising fear of another war, and new conflicts over Civil Rights, civil liberties, and free speech. This second volume of Fantagraphics’ series reprinting Mauldin’s greatest work identifies and restores the dozens of cartoons censored by Mauldin’s syndicate for their attacks on racial segregation and McCarthy-style “witch hunts.” Mauldin pleaded with his syndicate to let him out of his contract so that he could return to the simple quiet life so desired by Willie & Joe. The syndicate refused, so Mauldin did battle, as always, through pen and ink.
Download or read book Comin' Home written by Walter Townes and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and raised in the projects of Newark, NJ, Willie Joe Cunningham aspires to become a professional basketball player. Surrounded by everything from race riots to drug and alcohol abuse, Willie Joe manages to rise above his humble beginnings. Guided early by a few caring mentors, he now has to confront the issues of race and politics. After qualifying for a spot on a professional basketball team, he suffers an inury and a career setback. Willie Joe overcomes his injury, marries his college sweetheart and becomes a successful college basketball coach. He settles in suburbia. His perfect world is unsettled by the appearance of a former teammate, who implores him to come home andhelp the youth of his native city of Newark. Torn between two worlds, he finds major obstacles that include a wanting wife and an even more wanting ex-lover. Willie Joe's story concerns the search for one's own moral compass. It is everyone's story, regardless of his or her circumstances.
Download or read book Willie Nelson written by Joe Nick Patoski and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his first performance at age four, Willie Nelson was driven to make music and live life on his own terms. But though he is a songwriter of exceptional depth - "Crazy" was one of his early classics - Willie only found success after abandoning Nashville and moving to Austin, Texas. Red Headed Stranger made country cool to a new generation of fans. Wanted: The Outlaws became the first country album to sell a million copies. And "On the Road Again" became the anthem for Americans on the move. A craggy-faced, pot-smoking philosopher, Willie Nelson is one of America's great iconoclasts and idols. Now Joe Nick Patoski draws on over 100 interviews with Willie and his family, band, and friends to tell Nelson's story, from humble Depression-era roots, to his musical education in Texas honky-tonks and his flirtations with whiskey, women, and weed; from his triumph with #1 hit "Always On My Mind" to his nearly career-ending battles with debt and the IRS; and his ultimate redemption and ascension to American hero
Book Synopsis The Johnson Jinx by : Vincent Armstrong
Download or read book The Johnson Jinx written by Vincent Armstrong and published by Black Spiritual Press. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My True and Tender Love by : Jill Gregory
Download or read book My True and Tender Love written by Jill Gregory and published by Jill Gregory. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gilded Web written by J. R. Glover and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the spring of 1980, and Waynesville State University students Jeremy McCutchin and Rodney Blake have just spent two glorious weeks in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. They are returning to New York and to school when the unthinkable happens. The two best friendsone white and one blackare nearing the end of their prescribed 600-miles-per-day driving limit when they feel the new 1980 black convertible hit something on the dark stretch of county road. They investigate, see nothing, and decide the best course of action is to report the incident to the authorities. In this small town of 595 people, Jeremy and Rodney report the incident to Sheriff Relliford. He tells them there is probably nothing to worry about, but impounds their car for good measure. But the sheriff is mistaken. The boys are charged with vehicular homicide and must defend themselves in court. In this time of racial turmoil in the United States, Jeremy and Rodney fight for their freedom and come of age in a very difficult way.
Download or read book Oklahoma Justice written by Ron Owens and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the inside story of the Oklahoma City Police from 1889-1995.
Download or read book William Wyler written by Gabriel Miller and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his forty-five-year career, William Wyler (1902--1981) pushed the boundaries of filmmaking with his gripping storylines and innovative depth-of-field cinematography. With a body of work that includes such memorable classics as Jezebel (1938), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Ben-Hur (1959), and Funny Girl (1968), Wyler is the most nominated director in the history of the Academy Awards and bears the distinction of having won an Oscar for Best Director on three occasions. Both Bette Davis and Lillian Hellman considered him America's finest director, and Sir Laurence Olivier said he learned more about film acting from Wyler than from anyone else. In William Wyler, Gabriel Miller explores the career of one of Hollywood's most unique and influential directors, examining the evolution of his cinematic style. Wyler's films feature nuanced shots and multifaceted narratives that reflect his preoccupation with realism and story construction. The director's later works were deeply influenced by his time in the army air force during World War II, and the disconnect between the idealized version of the postwar experience and reality became a central theme of Wyler's masterpiece, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). None of Wyler's contemporaries approached his scope: he made successful and seminal films in practically every genre, including social drama, melodrama, and comedy. Yet, despite overwhelming critical acclaim and popularity, Wyler's work has never been extensively studied. This long-overdue book offers a comprehensive assessment of the director, his work, and his films' influence.
Book Synopsis A Country Mile by : Maxwell Dickinson
Download or read book A Country Mile written by Maxwell Dickinson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katy sat on the old stone bench, scrubbed of its mold, and wished she could warn all those eager faces waiting to return to the old town, the old farm, the old ways that nostalgia is an extravagance to be enjoyed frugally. "When you return home," she would explain," stand close enough to enjoy the glow of the hearth fire but not so close as to be scarred and maimed for life. When you leave a place where all your yesterdays are buried deep, visit briefly, leave fast, and never turn back." A Country Mile is the story of Katy, who has yearned for many years to return to her family home in Tennessee, to an historic plantation that served as a military hospital duringr the Civil War. The story, at times tender, at times violent, is set against a background of local color. The romance is vivid and the message reiiterates Thomas Wolfe's lament that one can never go home.
Download or read book Gender Wars written by Dee Dawning and published by New Dawning Bookfair. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disgusted with the GOP War on Women, a group of determined women take matters into their own hands & form a women's political party. Initially discounted by established political parties, they change their tune when women & men join in droves. GENDER WARS is a Political Chick-lit story, tied to the Republican 'War on Women' that would appeal most to politically middle and right of center readers
Book Synopsis The American Almanac, Year-book, Cyclopedia and Atlas ... by :
Download or read book The American Almanac, Year-book, Cyclopedia and Atlas ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Forgotten Witness by : Douglas Massingill
Download or read book The Forgotten Witness written by Douglas Massingill and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten year old Kandice Jamison has witnessed one of the most heinous crimes ever recorded in the small town of La Junta, Colorado. Scared and alone, she hides to avoid capture. Rescued and thought to be the only witness, Police bombard her with questions. But Kandice isnt talking. The investigation comes to a standstill and she is placed in protective custody. Moved from place to place and forgotten about, Kandice is trapped with her memories and gripped by fear. She knows she is being hunted and the killers wont stop until they find her. Tormented and struggling to face her new reality, she sadly slips into a world of her own. By divine appointment, Pastor Sparks, who is well known in the community, stumbles upon Kandice and introduces her to Christian Psychologist, Cheryl Reed. Kandice is intrigued. Dr. Reed is different from all the other people. She has something that Kandice wants. Together the two embark on a journey of healing and revelation. Will Kandice be able to come to grips with her loss and finally open up and tell the police what she saw?
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Download or read book The Last Stand written by Mickey Spillane and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON MICKEY SPILLANE'S 100TH BIRTHDAY - A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM THE MASTER When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just completed: THE LAST STAND. He asked his friend and colleague (and fellow Mystery Writers of America Grand Master) Max Allan Collins to take responsibility for finding the right time and place to publish this final book. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of Spillane's birth, his millions of fans will at last get to read THE LAST STAND, together with a second never-before-published work, this one from early in Spillane's career: the feverish crime novella A BULLET FOR SATISFACTION. A tarnished former cop goes on a crusade to find a politician's killer and avoid the .45-caliber slug with his name on it. A pilot forced to make an emergency landing in the desert finds himself at the center of a struggle between FBI agents, unsavory fortune hunters, and members of the local Indian tribe to control a mysterious find that could mean wealth and power - or death. Two substantial new works filled with Spillane's muscular prose and the gorgeous women and two-fisted action the author was famous for, topped off by an introduction from Max Allan Collins describing the history of these lost manuscripts and his long relationship with the writer who was his mentor, his hero, and for much of the last century the bestselling author in the world.
Book Synopsis The Percy Hargrove Stories by : Perry Lee Harden
Download or read book The Percy Hargrove Stories written by Perry Lee Harden and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percy Hargrove is a bright and precocious eleven-year-old boy growing up in New York City in 1976. The Percy Hargrove Stories is a collection of heartfelt and inspiring short stories about Percys life and growth. Through them we travel into Percys world and witness his triumphs over hardship, calamity and misfortune. From Percy we learn that intellect, kindness, laughter and a good dose of common sense can ultimately overcome racism, bullying, negative peer pressure and family conflicts. He shows us how to turn the difficult circumstances of life into opportunities to display friendship, forgiveness and love. Young Percy Hargrove is a product of the city. He's no angel, no cherub and certainly no saint. Hes a good-hearted, good-natured city kid who seeks adventure and, in the process, finds his way into and out of his fair share of trouble. But through it all, hes growing, learning and adapting. Read his stories and join his journey to become a better son, a better friend, a better man.
Book Synopsis Shaft: The Original Novel by : Ernest Tidyman
Download or read book Shaft: The Original Novel written by Ernest Tidyman and published by Dynamite. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is John Shaft? John Shaft is a private eye. John Shaft is a black man made of muscle and ice, and he has no prejudices. John Shaft will kill anyone... black or white. When the cloistered daughter of Harlem's crime boss discovers the true nature of her father's work, she runs off to be as bad as Dad. By the time she disappears, she's into sex, liquor, dope, and a few other scenes. Now, Big Daddy wants Shaft to get his baby back. The tough, take-no-guff detective goes to work... and the Mafia, the Black militants, the NYPD, and City Hall go to work on him. The original and unabridged Shaft novel by Ernest Tidyman, the 1970 tour de force of hardboiled crime fiction that introduced an unsuspecting world to a cultural icon.
Book Synopsis Shaft's Revenge by : David F. Walker
Download or read book Shaft's Revenge written by David F. Walker and published by Dynamite. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like an unstoppable force of nature, private detective John Shaft is back with a vengeance. Ernest Tidyman s iconic detective returns in the first original Shaft novel in more than forty years, and he s as bad as ever. When the Godfather of crime in Harlem reaches out to Shaft for a favor, the hardboiled detective finds himself caught in a web of violence and murder. No one is safe as the bullets start to fly and the bodies start to drop, leaving Shaft with only two options: kill or be killed.
