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Brown Bomber

Author : John G Van Deusen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Brown Bomber written by John G Van Deusen and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-03 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Dr. John G. Van Deusen, formerly professor of American history at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and the same man who wrote one the earliest books on Africa-American studies, The Black Man in White America, this is an interesting and informative book about the ring career of Joe Louis, heavyweight champion of the world [1937-1948].In this book Dr. Van Deusen tells not only the life story of Joe Louis but, a good deal of American ring history. In twelve chapters the biographer takes us through the early life of Louis on an Alabama cotton plantation, his family's trek to Detroit, Joe's work in the Ford plant, his mother's ambition to make a violinist of him, his early experiences in the Edison Athletic Club, and Joe's debut as an amateur boxer in the spring of 1932. Joe Louis' various career fights are described in detail as well as the more personal stories that shaped this great American athlete.

Joe Louis

Author : Thomas Myler
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781785315367
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Joe Louis written by Thomas Myler and published by Pitch Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Louis was one of boxing's all-time greats. Undisputed heavyweight champion of the world for 11 years and nine months, the 'Brown Bomber' put his title on the line no less than 25 times. His classic fights with Max Baer, Max Schmeling, James J. Braddock, Billy Conn and many others are part of boxing lore. Often coming from behind to retain his prized title, his fights ended in a blaze of glory. In his prime, Louis was beaten only once, his other two losses coming at the end of his career. Louis also helped to smash the despicable colour bar which denied so many great heavyweights a title tilt. In 1937 he became the first black boxer to win the championship since Jack Johnson's reign ended 22 years earlier. Louis was a more popular champion than the arrogant Johnson, though outside the ring he had a string of lady friends, including many celebrities, all through his three marriages. A big spender and a notably poor entrepreneur, he was forever plagued by income tax demands. But when that first round bell rang, Louis was the business.

The Bomber Mafia

Author : Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316296937
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Bomber Mafia written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “truly compelling” (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war—from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the “Bomber Mafia,” asked: What if precision bombing could cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In contrast, the bombing of Tokyo on the deadliest night of the war was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched-earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared even more by averting a planned US invasion. In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell asks, “Was it worth it?” Things might have gone differently had LeMay’s predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. Hansell believed in precision bombing, but when he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II. The Bomber Mafia is a riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war.

Cassell's Dictionary of Slang

Author : Jonathon Green
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780304366361
Total Pages : 1600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Cassell's Dictionary of Slang written by Jonathon Green and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results

Flying Blind

Author : Michael Edward Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Flying Blind written by Michael Edward Brown and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying Blind offers an astute analysis of the role of organizational forces in initiating and shaping weapons programs. Michael E. Brown concerns himself with how weapons programs begin and why they turn out as they do. In the process he redresses a large imbalance in our understanding of how nations arm themselves. In an unmatched account constructed from massive archival work and material declassified through the Freedom of Information Act, the author provides a detailed description of all fifteen postwar U.S. strategic bomber programs, from the B-35 to the B-2. Challenging the conventional wisdom about arms races and the weapons acquisition process, Brown marshals compelling evidence that Air Force reactions to strategic developments, not technological opportunism or industry initiative, brought about many major innovations in those programs. He also discusses competing explanations of the cost, schedule, and performance problems that plague U.S. acquisition efforts. He maintains that powerful strategic and bureaucratic forces lead American military organizations to set their performance requirements far beyond the state of the art and to push their programs as fast as possible. This, he argues, is a recipe for disaster. Developing a comprehensive explanation of the cost and performance problems that plague modern weapons programs, he presents policy recommendations designed to address these issues.

Fame to Infamy

Author : David C. Ogden
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604737522
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Fame to Infamy written by David C. Ogden and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace follows the paths of sports figures who were embraced by the general populace but who, through a variety of circumstances, real or imagined, found themselves falling out of favor. The contributors focus on the roles played by athletes, the media, and fans in describing how once-esteemed popular figures find themselves scorned by the same public that at one time viewed them as heroic, laudable, or otherwise respectable. The book examines a wide range of sports and eras, and includes essays on Barry Bonds, Kirby Puckett, Mike Tyson, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, Branch Rickey, Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, and Jim Brown, as well as an afterword by noted scholar Jack Lule and an introduction by the editors. Fame to Infamy is an interdisciplinary volume encompassing numerous approaches in tracing the evolution of each subject's reputation and shifting public image.

Here's the Pitch

Author : Roberta J. Newman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149621367X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Here's the Pitch written by Roberta J. Newman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 SABR Baseball Research Award In the mid-nineteenth century, two industries arrived on the American scene. One was strictly a business, yet it helped create, define, and disseminate American culture. The other was ostensibly just a game, yet it soon became emblematic of what it meant to be American, aiding in the creation of a national identity. Today, whenever the AT&T call to the bullpen is heard, fans enter Minute Maid Park, or vote for favorite All-Stars (brought to us by MasterCard), we are reminded that advertising has become inseparable from the MLB experience. Here’s the Pitch examines this connection between baseball and advertising, as both constructors and reflectors of culture. Roberta J. Newman considers the simultaneous development of both industries from the birth of the partnership, paying particular attention to the ways in which advertising spread the gospel of baseball at the same time professional baseball helped develop a body of consumers ready for the messages of advertising. Newman considers the role of product endorsements in the creation of the culture of celebrity, and of celebrity baseball players in particular, as well as the ways in which new technologies have impacted the intersection of the two industries. From Ty Cobb to Babe Ruth in the 1920s and 1930s to Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Willie Mays in the postwar years, to Derek Jeter, Rafael Palmeiro, and David Ortiz in the twenty-first century, Newman looks at many of baseball’s celebrated players and shows what qualities made them the perfect pitchmen for new products at key moments. Here’s the Pitch tells the story of the development of American and an increasingly international culture through the marriage between Mad Men and The Boys of Summer that made for great copy, notable TV advertisements, and lively social media, and shows how baseball’s relationship with advertising is stronger than ever.

A Guide for Using The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 in the Classroom

Author : Debra J. Housel
Publisher : Teacher Created Resources
ISBN 13 : 0743931556
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book A Guide for Using The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 in the Classroom written by Debra J. Housel and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2002 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pages perforated for removal and reproduction.

Battle Born

Author : Dale Brown
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553580035
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Battle Born written by Dale Brown and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2001-02-27 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick McLanahan is back — and this time he faces his most difficult challenge. He must pull together a team of aggressive, maverick young pilots to face a world on the brink of massive nuclear conflict. It begins with a joint U.S.-Japanese-South Korean mock bombing raid. But the South Korean fighter pilots don't stick to the script. Instead, they race across the border into North Korea to support a massive people's revolt against the Communists. Virtually overnight, the fledgling United Korea is the world's newest nuclear power, igniting a fuse that threatens to blow Asia apart and trigger World War III. Only McLanahan has the top-secret aviation technology and the brash young heroes to stop the coming inferno — if he can get them to stop fighting each other and start fighting as a team before the world is reduced to cinders!

Joe Louis

Author : Randy Roberts
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300168853
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Joe Louis written by Randy Roberts and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “humbling, inspiring . . . deeply emotional” biography of the boxing legend who held the heavyweight world championship for more than eleven years (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Known as the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis defended his heavyweight title an astonishing twenty-five times. Through the 1930s, he got more column inches of newspaper coverage than President Roosevelt. At a time when the boxing ring was the only venue where black and white could meet on equal terms, Louis embodied Black America’s hope for dignity and equality. And in 1938, his politically charged defeat of German boxer Max Schmeling made Louis a national hero on the world stage. Through meticulous research and first-hand interviews, acclaimed biographer Randy Roberts presents a complete portrait of Louis and his outsized impact on sport and country. Digging beneath the simplistic narratives of heroism and victimization, Roberts reveals an athlete who carefully managed his public image, and whose relationships with both the black and white communities—including his relationships with mobsters—were deeply complex. “Roberts is a fine match with his subject. He supports with powerful evidence his contention that Louis’s impact was enormous and profound.” —The Boston Globe

Supreme Court

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Sports

Author : Pamela Grundy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315509245
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book American Sports written by Pamela Grundy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Sports offers a reflective, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Readers will focus on the diverse relationships between sports and class, gender, race, ethnicity, religion and region, and understand how these interactions can bind diverse groups together. By considering the economic, social and cultural factors that have surrounded competitive sports, readers will understand how sports have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of society.

Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

Author : John Ayto
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199232059
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang written by John Ayto and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney 'abaht' to the American term 'zowie', this is the most authoritative dictionary of slang from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Diary of a First Street Rambler

Author : Ralph E. Stone
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490856587
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Diary of a First Street Rambler written by Ralph E. Stone and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a time before television sets, Big Macs, video games, and Harry Potter. The Japanese had bombed our naval base at Pearl Harbor. Older brothers, uncles and even fathers were drafted into the Armed Forces. Gene Autry was busy riding the range. Batman and Robin kept our cities safe, and Tarzan swung from vines in a jungle habitat. The magic of radio kept imaginative minds occupied with the adventures of Superman and the Lone Ranger. In spite of the hardships of World War II, it was a marvelous adventure to be a boy growing up in a multicultural Pennsylvania steel town. Join Ralphie and his First Street Rambler teammates "Heads" Pinasko, "Half-Pint" Hayes, Jonesy. and "Jay Boy" Husher in their adventures as they built their own ball fields, swam in sulfur creeks, raided cherry trees and cabbage patches, shined shoes on street corners, and made their own sling shots, go carts and rubber band guns! If you lived during that era, you will find joy in revisiting a past which has long disappeared. If you missed out on those cherished years of a bygone era, you are in for a delightful history lesson!

A Shepherd in Harlem: The Life and Times of Ezra N. Williams

Author : Louis A. DeCaro, Jr
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105056422
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Shepherd in Harlem: The Life and Times of Ezra N. Williams written by Louis A. DeCaro, Jr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11-13 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of one of Harlem's leading clergyman in the 20th century. This book frames his personal story in the context of black history, particularly the events and personalities of Harlem. Based upon extensive interviews and detailed research, A Shepherd in Harlem provides an intimate look at the subject's life set against the backdrop of the dramatic and often disturbing events in the history of the most famous black community in the western world.

Sophisticated Giant

Author : Maxine Gordon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520350790
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Sophisticated Giant written by Maxine Gordon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon was one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his "solo" turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. She shows that his image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the three-dimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son, father, husband, and world citizen. --

Third Language Dictionary

Author : Kerrin P. Rowe
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490786341
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Third Language Dictionary written by Kerrin P. Rowe and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third Language Dictionary is a guide to everyday language that is peculiar to and used by Australian folks from all walks of life no matter what or who they are or the level of success, education, credence, or place in society they have attained.