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Evel

Author : Leigh Montville
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385533675
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Evel written by Leigh Montville and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Leigh Montville, this riveting and definitive new biography pulls back the red, white, and blue cape on a cultural icon—and reveals the unknown, complex, and controversial man known to millions around the world as Evel Knievel. Evel Knievel was a high-flying daredevil, the father of extreme sports, the personification of excitement and danger and showmanship . . . and in the 1970s Knievel represented a unique slice of American culture and patriotism. His jump over the fountains at Caesar’s Palace led to a crash unlike anything ever seen on television, and his attempt to rocket over Snake River Canyon in Idaho was something only P. T. Barnum could have orchestrated. The dazzling motorcycles and red-white-and-blue outfits became an integral part of an American decade. Knievel looked like Elvis . . . but on any given Saturday afternoon millions tuned in to the small screen to see this real-life action hero tempt death. But behind the flash and the frenzy, who was the man? Bestselling author Leigh Montville masterfully explores the life of the complicated man from the small town of Butte, Montana. He delves into Knievel’s amazing place in pop culture, as well as his notorious dark side—and his complex and often contradictory relationships with his image, the media, his own family, and his many demons. Evel Knievel’s story is an all-American saga, and one that is largely untold. Leigh Montville once again delivers a definitive biography of a one-of-a-kind sports legend.

Evel Ways

Author : Evel Knievel
Publisher : GraF X Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780966647105
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Evel Ways written by Evel Knievel and published by GraF X Publishing. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most people he is sought as the greatest daredevil of all time - the last of the Gladiators. From his early daredevil attempts using the garage door as a ramp to his infamous Snake River Canyon jump, Evel Knievel reigns as a pioneer and inventor of his own sport. EVEL * WAYS, containing more than 250 photos, is a pure, candid profile of a pop culture icon. Relive Evel's journey from birth to bank robberies to the Skycycle and concluding with his most current feat of Hepatitis C. Evel's heroic feats and daring approach to life provides the impetus to his idealistic messages as expressed like no one else in EVEL * WAYS.

Evel Incarnate

Author : Steve Mandich
Publisher : Dean Street Press
ISBN 13 : 1910570087
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Evel Incarnate written by Steve Mandich and published by Dean Street Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was not a rock'n'roll star, cartoon character, religious figure, professional wrestler, writer, or politician. Nor was he famous for being an artist, comic book superhero, television personality, or movie star. He wasn't exactly an athlete either. Granted, he wore a few of these hats at various points throughout his career, but his fame primarily emanated from an obscure occupation which he made entirely his own.Arguably, no other figure in popular culture outside these realms had an impact which resulted in global notoriety, generated millions of dollars in merchandise, inspired widespread imitation, and yet was a constant source of controversy. He was a genuine celebrity, and at the height of his career, he was one of the most talked-about men in America.In Evel Incarnate, Steve Mandich vividly recounts the life and the legend of Evel Knievel -a relentless self-mythologizer, abetted by an international community of fans. They were hungry for a real-life super-hero, and waited with bated breath for the summit of his career: the much heralded, now infamous, Snake River Canyon jump.But the truth about this motorcycle daredevil is as fascinating, extraordinary and injury-laden as any of the legends he could promote. Incisive, witty and informed, Evel Incarnate is the Evel Knievel biography by which all others must be measured.

Evel Knievel Days

Author : Pauls Toutonghi
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307955729
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Evel Knievel Days written by Pauls Toutonghi and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically-acclaimed author of Red Weather comes a heartwarming, witty story of immigration and belonging, false starts and new beginnings, and finding out what home truly means Khosi Saqr has always felt a bit out of place in Butte, Montana, hometown of motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel. Half-Egyptian, full of nervous habits, raised by a single mother, owner of a name that no one can pronounce -- Khosi has never quite managed to fit in. But when a mysterious stranger arrives in town (and Khosi's longtime love uses Butte's annual festival, Evel Knievel Days, as a time to announce her impending marriage to someone else), Khosi takes his first daredevil like risk, and travels to Egypt to find his father -- and a connection to his heritage. What he discovers, in Cairo, is much more startling than he'd imagined it could be. The city is a thrilling mix of contradictions -- and locating his father turns out to be the easy part. Through mistaken identity, delicious food, and near tragedy, Khosi and his parents rediscover what it means to be connected to each other, to a family, and to a culture. The timely story of a young man searching for his roots, and along the way finding his identity, Evel Knievel Days is Khosi’s charming and funny journey to learn where he came from, and who he is. “A funny, heart-warming, compulsively readable novel about the unbreakable bonds of family — and baklava.” —Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain

Fear No Evel

Author : Shelly Saltman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781929841646
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Fear No Evel written by Shelly Saltman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyons presents the true account of how Evel Knievel attacked event promoter Shelly Saltman with a baseball bat and deconstructs Knievel's fabrications about the crime in sharp detail. The rest of the volume is written in Saltman's own voice as he tells his role in many of the defining public moments in entertainment and sports.

Evel Knievel

Author : Ace Collins
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429972319
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Evel Knievel written by Ace Collins and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert "Evel" Knievel is one of the most unique heroes to earn a place in the collective psyche of this country. A high school dropout, an award-winning athlete, a petty thief, a motorcycle racer, and a political activist, Knievel earned his nickname because of his unlawful activities early in his life but rode that name to fame by consistently tempting death in the public eye. With a showman's panache and a madman's daring, he has risen-along with the likes of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe-past mere celebrity to the exalted level of American icon. Today, at sixty-two years of age, Evel still makes headlines, proving that the appeal of daredevil never dies. From his recent liver transplant to his son Robbie's jump off the Grand Canyon to his very public support of mandatory helmet laws, Knievel remains foremost in the minds of his millions of fans. Evel Knievel stands as a truly perfect example of a certain uniquely American aesthetic, one in which pride and heart can overcome any circumstances at all.

Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel

Author : Giles Smith
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780330481892
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel written by Giles Smith and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manchester United scooping the Treble; Schumacher barging Hill off the track; Tyson chewing Holyfield; Argentina beating England on penalties, Giles Smith witnessed many defining sporting moments. This work collects the best of Smith's award-winning columns for the Daily Telegraph .

Kel Gilligan's Daredevil Stunt Show

Author : Michael Buckley
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1613124899
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Kel Gilligan's Daredevil Stunt Show written by Michael Buckley and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Michael Buckley, the bestselling author of the Sisters Grimm and NERDS series, and Dan Santat, author-illustrator of Sidekicks, comes this hilarious picture book starring Kel Gilligan (a.k.a. “The Boy Without Fear”) that encourages kids to laugh at their fears and celebrates the bravery it takes to try new things no matter how ordinary. Narrated by Kel himself as he attempts his “stunts” with Evel Knievel–like flair, the story unfolds as a performance in which readers themselves become part of the audience, encouraging Kel to get dressed all by himself (without a net!), eat new foods like broccoli (eww!), and take a bath (gasp!). Bold, interactive, and downright silly, this is a book to make kids cheer and attempt some “stunts” of their own.

Life of Evel

Author : Stuart Barker
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312547356
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Life of Evel written by Stuart Barker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Daredevils

Author : Shawn Vestal
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101979917
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Daredevils written by Shawn Vestal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of 2014’s PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize, an unforgettable debut novel about Loretta, a teenager married off as a “sister wife,” who makes a break for freedom At the heart of this exciting debut novel, set in Arizona and Idaho in the mid-1970s, is fifteen-year-old Loretta, who slips out of her bedroom every evening to meet her so-called gentile boyfriend. Her strict Mormon parents catch her returning one night, and promptly marry her off to Dean Harder, a devout yet materialistic fundamentalist who already has a wife and a brood of kids. The Harders relocate to his native Idaho, where Dean’s teenage nephew Jason falls hard for Loretta. A Zeppelin and Tolkien fan, Jason worships Evel Knievel and longs to leave his close-minded community. He and Loretta make a break for it. They drive all night, stay in hotels, and relish their dizzying burst of teenage freedom as they seek to recover Dean’s cache of “Mormon gold.” But someone Loretta left behind is on their trail... A riveting story of desire and escape, Daredevils boasts memorable set pieces and a rich cast of secondary characters. There’s Dean’s other wife, Ruth, who as a child in the 1950s was separated from her parents during the notorious Short Creek raid, when federal agents descended on a Mormon fundamentalist community. There’s Jason’s best friend, Boyd, part Native American and caught up in the activist spirit of the time, who comes along for the ride, with disastrous results. And Vestal’s ultimate creation is a superbly sleazy chatterbox—a man who might or might not be Evel Knievel himself—who works his charms on Loretta at a casino in Elko, Nevada. A lifelong journalist whose Spokesman column is a fixture in Spokane, WA, Shawn has honed his fiction over many years, publishing in journals like McSweeney's and Tin House. His stunning first collection, Godforsaken Idaho, burrowed into history as it engaged with masculinity and crime, faith and apostasy, and the West that he knows so well. Daredevils shows what he can do on a broader canvas--a fascinating, wide-angle portrait of a time and place that's both a classic coming of age tale and a plunge into the myths of America, sacred and profane.

Evel Knievel

Author : Ace Collins
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312243901
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Evel Knievel written by Ace Collins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the biography of the legendary motorcycle daredevil.

Alligator Candy

Author : David Kushner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451682638
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Alligator Candy written by David Kushner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love—and the basis for the podcast Alligator Candy. David Kushner grew up in the early 1970s in the Florida suburbs. It was when kids still ran free, riding bikes and disappearing into the nearby woods for hours at a time. One morning in 1973, however, everything changed. David’s older brother Jon biked through the forest to the convenience store for candy, and never returned. Every life has a defining moment, a single act that charts the course we take and determines who we become. For Kushner, it was Jon’s disappearance—a tragedy that shocked his family and the community at large. Decades later, now a grown man with kids of his own, Kushner found himself unsatisfied with his own memories and decided to revisit the episode a different way: through the eyes of a reporter. His investigation brought him back to the places and people he once knew and slowly made him realize just how much his past had affected his present. After sifting through hundreds of documents and reports, conducting dozens of interviews, and poring over numerous firsthand accounts, he has produced a powerful and inspiring story of loss, perseverance, and memory. Alligator Candy is searing and unforgettable.

Queen of the Falls

Author : Chris Van Allsburg
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547608403
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Queen of the Falls written by Chris Van Allsburg and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She could remember standing in a park near the falls, hypnotized by the sight and sound, and holding her father’s hand as they took a walk that would lead them closer. That’s what everyone wonders when they see Niagara . . . How close will their courage let them get to it? At the turn of the nineteenth century, a retired sixty-two-year-old charm school instructor named Annie Edson Taylor, seeking fame and fortune, decided to do something that no one in the world had ever done before—she would go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. Come meet the Queen of the Falls and witness with your own eyes her daring ride!

Evel

Author : Leigh Montville
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0767930525
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Evel written by Leigh Montville and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evel Knievel, the father of extreme sports, was a high-flying daredevil. He was the personification of excitement and danger and showmanship, and represented a unique slice of American culture and patriotism. But behind the flash and the frenzy, who was this man in red, white, and blue? With characteristic flair and insight, Leigh Montville delves into Knievel’s amazing place in pop culture, as well as his notorious dark side, exploring Knievel’s complicated and often contradictory relationships with his image, the media, his own family, and his many demons. With this all-American saga, Montville has delivered another definitive biography of a one-of-a-kind sports legend.

American Rocketman

Author : ROBERT C. TRUAX
Publisher : Apogee Books
ISBN 13 : 9781989044155
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book American Rocketman written by ROBERT C. TRUAX and published by Apogee Books. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine Huckleberry Finn grew up to be a Jack Kerouac character, but instead of wandering aimlessly in search of a purpose he joined the military and decided he wanted to be Flash Gordon...read on. This is the life-story of Robert C. Truax - a story that could only have happened in the United States of America. Told entirely in his own words American Rocketman takes the reader on a trip through the 20th century from the hardships of pioneering on the frontier of the American West, to the Final Frontier. Robert Truax grew up shoeless, living in a log cabin built entirely by his father and mother using only basic tools and their bare hands. His story of dauntless entrepreneurialism, duty to his country and creative genius epitomizes the American spirit. Big dreams and big accomplishments are tempered by the roadblocks put in the way of reaching for the stars. If you ever wondered who really proposed the United States Space Force; or who designed the biggest rocket ever conceived; or who came up with the critical components that made the Space Shuttle engines work; or who outcompeted Robert Goddard, the inventor of the liquid fuelled rocket read on. From abject poverty, to leading the team that brought the United States some of its most important Cold War missile deterrents, to the hi-jinks of trying to launch daredevil Evel Knievel across a massive river canyon in front of a live TV audience, Truax navigates the reader through his remarkable life of adventure with his own personal brand of humour and optimism.

Cincinnati Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cincinnati Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1975-12 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.

Evel Knievel

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Evel Knievel written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: