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Author : Michael Olesker
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421411601
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Front Stoops in the Fifties written by Michael Olesker and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olesker's doo-wop portrait of Baltimore is nostalgic, but it has a hard edge.
Author : Michael Olesker
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 142141161X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Front Stoops in the Fifties written by Michael Olesker and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This personal history of prominent Baltimoreans sheds light on the social transformations already taking place in the supposedly innocent 1950s. Front Stoops in the Fifties recounts the stories of some of Baltimore’s most famous personalities as they grew up during the “decade of conformity”—just before they entered the turbulent 1960s. Focusing on the period before JFK’s assassination, Olesker looks to individuals who would go on to influence the brewing cultural revolution. Such familiar names as Jerry Leiber, Nancy Pelosi, Thurgood Marshall, and Barry Levinson figure prominently in Michael Olesker’s fascinating account, which draws on personal interviews and journalistic research. Olesker tells the story of Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi, daughter of the mayor, who grew up in a political home and eventually became the first woman Speaker of the House. Thurgood Marshall, schooled in a racially segregated classroom, went on to argue Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka before the U.S. Supreme Court and rewrite race-relations law. These and many other stories come to life in Front Stoops in the Fifties. “[A] fascinating read . . . The shocking part is just how relevant these stories remain today.” —Baltimore Post-Examiner “[A] crisp, insightful dispatch from a skilled writer who knows his city and its history.” —David Simon, executive producer of HBO’s The Wire
Author : Michael S. Foley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809054825
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Front Porch Politics written by Michael S. Foley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An on-the-ground history of ordinary Americans who took to the streets when political issues became personal. It is widely believed that Americans of the 1970s and '80s were exhausted by the upheavals of the '60s and eager to retreat to the private realm. When they did take action, it was mainly to express their disillusionment with government by supporting the right. In fact, as Michael Stewart Foley shows, neither of these assumptions is correct. On the community level, the 1970s and '80s saw vibrant new forms of political activity emerge. Tenants challenged landlords, farmers practiced civil disobedience to protect their land, and laid-off workers asserted a right to own their idled factories. Activists fought to defend the traditional family or to expand the rights of women, while entire towns organized to protest the toxic sludge in their basements. In all these arenas, Americans were propelled by their own experiences into the public sphere. Disregarding conventional ideas of "left" and "right," they turned to political action when they perceived an immediate threat to the safety and security of their families, homes, or dreams. Front Porch Politics is a people's history told through on-the-ground experiences. Recalling crusades famous and forgotten, Foley shows how Americans followed their outrage into the streets. Their distinctive style of visceral, local, and highly personal activism remains a vital resource for the renewal of American democracy"--
Author : Louis H. Gibson
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Convenient Houses, With Fifty Plans for the Housekeeper written by Louis H. Gibson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was intended to inspire and instruct both homeowners and housewives as to the perfect house with an emphasis on convenience and workability. He also talks about practical building tips and ways in which such a house could be paid for.
Author : David Shwaiko
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664135669
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Fifty-One Tales and Miracles Too written by David Shwaiko and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyway, there are fifty-one short tales in this book. My great buddy Fritz has provided the images. I think he does a great job. So, read and enjoy.
Author : Thomas de Witt TALMAGE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Every-Day Religion; Being a Fourth Series of Fifty Sermons Delivered in Brooklyn Tabernacle, Etc written by Thomas de Witt TALMAGE and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Amey
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483418049
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Margate to London and Back in Fifty Years and One Second written by Peter Amey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many on the police force serving with young beat constable Peter Roberts in 1964 believe he has the potential to go far. But Edward Brookes, a professor at the University of Kent at Canterbury, has other plans for Roberts. Brookes kidnaps Roberts fr
Author : Daniel Pyne
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 0451473957
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Fifty Mice written by Daniel Pyne and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Mice is a gripping, intense thriller from screenwriter Daniel Pyne. Jay Johnson is a 30-something guy with a job in telephone sales, a regular pick-up basketball game and a devoted girlfriend. Then he's abducted, tranquilized, interrogated and his entire life history obliterated. Jay is involuntarily relocated to a community of protected witnesses and soon realises that the only way out is through the twisted maze of lies and unreliable memories swirling through his own mind.
Author : Sue Patton Thoele
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573241267
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Freedoms After Fifty written by Sue Patton Thoele and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief entries advise women to appreciate the wisdom they have gained with age and experience and to apply it to everyday opportunities
Author : Helen Carver
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1452515050
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Life Begins at Fifty written by Helen Carver and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnt do than by the ones you did do. Mark Twain Ever wondered if there must be more to life than this? Ever thought, Its now or never? Ever wanted to travel the world? Me too! At the ripe old age of fifty, I decided I wanted some fun - I wanted to live rather than just exist! I wanted some wild and whacky experiences to tell my grandchildren about in years to come. So, after years of feeling like a hamster in a wheel, juggling work with children, I rebelled in the most spectacular way. I walked away from my job, rented my house out, went off travelling around the world for six months with my nineteen-year-old daughter, and embraced a whole new way of life. I hope you laugh as much as we did at the crazy things that happened to us and the madcap things we tried (white-water rafting, skydiving, hiking up glaciers, jumping off waterfalls and posing naked in front of them, to name a few). I hope it makes you realise that you only get one life, and now is the time to start living it, doing what you really want to and enjoying every precious moment. Follow your dreamsyoull be amazed where they take you! I did, and my life has never been the same since. For more information about Life Begins at Fifty, please go to www.lifebeginsatfifty.info
Author : Milton Crane
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0553272942
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Fifty Great American Short Stories written by Milton Crane and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1984-08-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories Edgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods Stephen Vincent Benét’s By the Waters of Babylon The Great Writers Melville James Dreiser Faulkner Hemingway Steinbeck McCullers The Little-Known Masterpieces Edith Wharton’s The Dilettante Finley Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman Charles M. Flandrau’s A Dead Issue James Reid Parker’s The Archimandrite’s Niece
Author : Hull Cook
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080326481X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years a Country Doctor written by Hull Cook and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of HMOs, insurance companies, and an endless flood of forms, Hull Cook reminds us that there was a time when a visit to the doctor's office cost three dollars and doctors still made house calls. Cook recounts fifty years of service as a rural doctor in Texas and Nebraska, where a wide spectrum of dilemmas tested his resourcefulness, endurance, and sense of humor. He describes helping to deliver a baby via telephone during the Blizzard of '49, and he explains his "special delivery" of medication in the dead of winter-an operation involving his Beechcraft Bonanza airplane and a p.
Author : Bob Jacobs
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504399293
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years of Silence No More written by Bob Jacobs and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have stood in the presence of God and the afterlife. This book explains my journey with God and how Gods presence inspired me to develop my mediumship skills. In this amazing experience, I found that the afterlife and God are all about love and understanding. God doesnt care what color your skin is, and he doesnt care what religion you practice. God also doesnt care if you are gay or straight. God is an all-encompassing and understanding presence. God is love!
Author : Tom Colbert
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039169694
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years from the Basement to the Second Floor written by Tom Colbert and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fifty Years from the Basement to the Second Floor, Tom Colbert, former chief of justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, shares his extraordinary life story—a story of resilience, determination, and hope. From his great-great grandmother who, though born into slavery, lived to be over 100 years old to his great grandfather who fought to be enrolled as a member of Creek Tribal Nation to his grandfather who walked over a mile home after being shot in the chest, never giving up no matter how hard the journey was instilled into Tom at a very young age. Born on December 30, 1949, Tom was raised by his mother and grandparents in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, when segregation laws were in effect. In fact, a few days after Tom was born, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher had just started her second semester as a law student at the University of Oklahoma Law School after fighting for three years to be admitted there, refusing to attend the makeshift “Black-only” law school set up in the basement of the State Capitol. Though racial segregation was deemed unconstitutional in 1954, integration was intentionally delayed in Tom’s town, and he didn’t attend an integrated school until the fall of 1965. Although some teachers at his high school were welcoming, many staff and students were not, and Tom and his friends experienced racism, bigotry, and hatred, despite being star athletes and diligent students. Though he grew up in poverty and a world entrenched in systemic racism as well as dealt with family tragedies, Tom beat impossible odds, proving the naysayers of his youth wrong. He not only worked hard and became an outstanding lawyer, but reached the pinnacle of judiciary—and became the first Black man in Oklahoma to do so. Just like Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, Tom refused the “basement,” and that noble resistance led him all the way to the second floor of the Oklahoma State Capitol.
Author : Jeff Davis
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595282601
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Fifty-Five Years in the Alaskan Bush written by Jeff Davis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-06-24 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a half century ago, John Swiss acquired a remote property on the far shore of Cook Inlet 100 air miles southwest of Anchorage. Polly Creek is a place of dreams. With a backdrop of snow-draped peaks, razor clam beds stretch out from the cabin's front door, salmon race through nearby seas and fresh brown bear tracks pockmark the sand at his doorstep. Moose and bear, beaver, eagles and whales are his neighbors. Over the years, he has trapped, fished, hunted, prospected, guided and flown his way into the realm of legend. John's career as a bear guide spans Alaskan bear hunting from the immediate post war period to the present time. He has guided black and brown bear hunters for all these years and polar bear hunters for 18 of the 20 years it was a popular sport. This book is told for the most part in John's own words. John's spellbinding stories unwind slowly at first, from his upstate New York childhood. He is a true pioneer of the North and just as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett did before him, he blazed a trail into the unknown land to the west of civilization and carved a life out of the wilderness.
Author : Swan Morrison
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445274353
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (452 download)
Download or read book People of Few Words - Volume 2 - Fifty More Writers from the Writers' Showcase of the Short Humour Site written by Swan Morrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People of Few Words - Volume 2 is the second collection of work by contributors to the Short Humour Site from across the world. It contains one piece of 500 word 'Short Humour' by each of fifty writers, together with a brief biography of each writer.
Author : Jay S. Warburton
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595156487
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Big Fifty written by Jay S. Warburton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The language was unique, the love was simple, the excitement was real and the cars were special. The Big Fifty will take you to those special times. The Pikes Peak High School hockey team was made up of students who did not live in the ‘high class’ neighborhood on the hill. Brookshire was one of the wealthiest communities in Colorado and unless you were from one of the ‘families on the hill’ you couldn’t go out for the more glamorous sports. Hockey was the sport for the kids in the valley. When their team won the state championship held in the Brookshire Ice Palace and a fight broke out on the rink the result was the banishment of the Pikes Peak hockey team from participating in the sport for one year – even though it wasn’t their fault. That very night a small group of students formed the first teenage gang in the city. “If they don’t want us up on their mighty hill, then we don’t want them down here!” Rock shouted. With the strategy of an army unit this tiny group of teenagers set out to isolate the wealthy community of Brookshire from the rest of the city.
