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Download or read book James Melton written by Margo Melton Nutt and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “America's Favorite Tenor.” That was what they called James Melton from the 1920s through the 1950s. He was perhaps the first multi-media performer—in a career that spanned concerts, recordings, movies, the Metropolitan Opera, radio and television. His fame as a singer was equaled by his renown as an antique car collector. In this hobby he was a pioneer in recognizing these vehicles not only as an important part of America's history, but as works of art. His career and his hobby reflected the two great technologies that knit the country together in the first half of the 20th century—radio and the automobile.The James Melton story is the story of an era: from the Roaring Twenties, through the Great Depression, World War II, and post-war prosperity. It is a story filled with interesting characters—his friends and colleagues. He toured the Southwest with Will Rogers to raise money for dustbowl denizens in 1931; he collaborated with George Gershwin in 1934 on a concert tour of 28 cities in 29 days; while in Hollywood making movies for Warner Bros. he visited San Simeon as the guest of William Randolph Hearst; he helped to raise millions at War Bond rallies with performers like Milton Berle and Irving Berlin; he began his TV career after talking Henry Ford II into a Ford Motor Company-sponsored variety show. He created his own lucky breaks through a combination of hard work, talent and charm. All the while he was collecting antique cars, displaying his collection in two museums and participating in car activities. Even fifty years after his death, the provenance of having been in the Melton collection provides added value to those cars.James Melton's life and career are emblematic of America in the first half of the 20th century—a country possessed by a “can do” attitude—a country that could win two world wars and pull itself out of the Great Depression. The James Melton story also a rags-to-riches-to-rags story of a talented, confident young man who raised himself from obscure beginnings in a tiny Florida town to the height of fame on stage, screen and airwaves—but who could not live without the adulation of an adoring public, and who had nothing to fall back on as he aged and musical tastes changed.The author chose to do a biographical memoir because it allowed her to tell the story from her point of view—anecdotally. It includes her personal exploration of the motivations that shaped her father's life, and her discovery of the resulting pressures that brought him down.
Book Synopsis The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe by : James Van Horn Melton
Download or read book The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe written by James Van Horn Melton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Melton examines the rise of the public in 18th-century Europe. A work of comparative synthesis focusing on England, France and the German-speaking territories, this a reassessment of what Habermas termed the bourgeois public sphere.
Book Synopsis Rightly Dividing the Word by : Clarence Larkin
Download or read book Rightly Dividing the Word written by Clarence Larkin and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Your Right to Fly by : James E. Melton
Download or read book Your Right to Fly written by James E. Melton and published by Global Academic Publishing. This book was released on 1979 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Endurance of National Constitutions by : Zachary Elkins
Download or read book The Endurance of National Constitutions written by Zachary Elkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutions are supposed to provide an enduring structure for politics. Yet only half live more than nine years. Why is it that some constitutions endure while others do not? In The Endurance of National Constitutions Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton examine the causes of constitutional endurance from an institutional perspective. Supported by an original set of cross-national historical data, theirs is the first comprehensive study of constitutional mortality. They show that whereas constitutions are imperilled by social and political crises, certain aspects of a constitution's design can lower the risk of death substantially. Thus, to the extent that endurance is desirable - a question that the authors also subject to scrutiny - the decisions of founders take on added importance.
Book Synopsis Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria by : James van Horn Melton
Download or read book Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria written by James van Horn Melton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1988 book is a study of precocious attempts at school reform in societies that were overwhelmingly 'premodern'.
Book Synopsis Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier by : James Van Horn Melton
Download or read book Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier written by James Van Horn Melton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salzburg. This study traces the lives of the settlers from the alpine world they left behind to their struggle for survival on the southern frontier of British America. Exploring their encounters with African and indigenous peoples with whom they had had no previous contact, this book examines their initial opposition to slavery and why they ultimately embraced it. Transatlantic in scope, this study will interest readers of European and American history alike.
Book Synopsis Perspectives on the New Age by : James R. Lewis
Download or read book Perspectives on the New Age written by James R. Lewis and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-11-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with a comprehensive historical section that places the New Age within the context of its predecessor movements. It then focuses on specialized aspects of this subculture, from essays on the convergence of New Age spirituality with women's spirituality, to an essay on how Evangelical Christians have responded to the movement. The book also examines the international impact of the New Age.
Book Synopsis Comparative Constitutions by : L.Wolf- Phillips
Download or read book Comparative Constitutions written by L.Wolf- Phillips and published by Springer. This book was released on 1972-06-18 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pietism in Germany and North America 1680-1820 by : Jonathan Strom
Download or read book Pietism in Germany and North America 1680-1820 written by Jonathan Strom and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores different approaches to contextualizing and conceptualizing the history of Pietism, particularly German-speaking Pietistic groups who migrated to the British colonies in North America during the long eighteenth century. Emerging in the seventeenth century, Pietism was closely related to Puritanism, sharing similar evangelical and heterogeneous characteristics. The importance of Pietism in shaping Protestant society and culture in Europe and North America has long been recognized, but as a topic of scholarly inquiry, it has until now received little interdisciplinary attention. Offering essays by leading scholars from a range of fields this volume provides the first overview of the subject, helping to situate Pietism in the broader Atlantic context, and making an important contribution to understanding religious life in Europe and colonial North America during the eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis Paths of Continuity by : Hartmut Lehmann
Download or read book Paths of Continuity written by Hartmut Lehmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The defeat of National Socialism in 1945 was a pivotal point in Central European history. For the writing and practice of history, however, the event proved far less decisive. In West Germany and Austria, most historians who had taught under the Nazis retained their positions after 1945. Even those dismissed for their National Socialist sympathies were often able to resume their careers. And an entire generation of younger historians, trained during the Nazi years, was to enter the historical profession after 1945. Paths of Continuity examines the effect of this professional continuity on West German historical scholarship, and the impact of the Third Reich on the way German-language historians practiced their craft. The essays look at ten prominent German and Austrian historians whose lives and work spanned the period before and after 1945: Friedrich Meinecke, Gerhard Ritter, Hans Rothfels, Franz Schnabel, Heinrich Ritter von Srbik, Hans Freyer, Hermann Aubin, Otto Brunner, Werner Conze, and Theodor Schieder. All responded to the Nazi regime in different ways. Some willingly embraced the New Order of National Socialism; others kept their distance from the regime or openly opposed it. Ironically, however, those who were least compromised by Nazi involvements and who emerged after 1945 with the greatest moral and professional authority, often proved the most resistant to change within the discipline. Conversely, much of the impetus for scholarly innovation after 1945 came from historians with earlier ties to the anti-liberal "folk history" of the Nazi era. Exploring these and other paradoxes, this collection of essays provides fresh insight into the development of German historical scholarship since 1945.
Book Synopsis The Quotable Augustine by : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Download or read book The Quotable Augustine written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is ideal for those who wish to read some of the wisest and most wonderful sayings of Augustine. It will help all those who wish to pepper a speech, or a sermon, or an essay with the wisdom of Saint Augustine. The book is a valuable resource, too, for anyone who wants to find out "Did Augustine really say that?" and, if he did, in which of his voluminous writings it appeared. Drawn from the internationally acclaimed and successful series, the 'Fathers of the Church,' The Quotable Augustine presents a wide-ranging sample of the writings of a towering figure of the early church.
Book Synopsis Typescript Letter from James Melton to the Editors of Look Magazine by : James Melton
Download or read book Typescript Letter from James Melton to the Editors of Look Magazine written by James Melton and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes by : Tom Ginsburg
Download or read book Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes written by Tom Ginsburg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the form and function of constitutions in countries without the fully articulated institutions of limited government.
Book Synopsis Success Simplified by : Patricia Fripp
Download or read book Success Simplified written by Patricia Fripp and published by INHPL. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interviews found in this book are conducted by David Wright, President of ISN Works and Insight Publishing. Achieving success is serious business, or so it would seem. So many people are striving for this nebulous concept known as ¿success.¿ I¿ve asked many people what their definition of success is and I¿ve heard different answers from just about all of them. Some people appear successful and on the surface it seems that they should be very happy about what they¿ve accomplished. But often they are not. Their lives have become so complicated that they feel harried and on a treadmill of endless things to do to keep their hard-won success. Can¿t success be simple? I wondered if anyone else had ever thought about this, so I searched for speakers and authors who would give me some answers. In this book, Success Simplified, the successful businesspeople I found gave several different answers to my question. The answers were very insightful, in my opinion. I think they will give you a new perspective on success and how to make it simple.
Download or read book Belovedness written by James Franklin and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking book for college students and those who minister with them deals with issues of faith, identity, sex, success, failure, and more, through the concept of belovedness. Every college student’s story is different, but they all have the same questions in common. Who am I? How do I make good choices? What does it mean to be successful? How do I navigate changing relationships with my family, my peers, my significant other? And how do I do all of this faithfully? This book approaches these topics through a fundamental inquiry: “What if I really, truly believed that I was beloved beyond all measure, and how would that influence what I do?” Along with the editors, eight campus ministers from across several denominations contributed to this volume to help students navigate questions of life and faith in the world of high-pressure college campuses. Telling it like it is with wit and wisdom drawn from scripture, tradition, and life experience, this book offers profound and practical reminders of what it is to be beloved.
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Download or read book New York Supreme Court Appellate Division written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
