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Book Synopsis King of the Hoboes by : John Reinhard Dizon
Download or read book King of the Hoboes written by John Reinhard Dizon and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only one thing stands between Detective Veronika Heydrich and her coveted promotion: uncovering the truth behind the King Of The Hoboes, a man who prides himself on helping the homeless people of New York. Convinced he is more dangerous than helpful, Veronika goes undercover and learns first hand of the trials and tribulations the poverty-stricken must endure - and of the mysterious past of the King himself. It is up to Veronika to save the innocent homeless of New York, and protect the city itself. But can she discover the truth about the enigmatic King, while saving the people she has come to know and love as her own?
Book Synopsis Tales of an American Hobo by : Charles Elmer Fox
Download or read book Tales of an American Hobo written by Charles Elmer Fox and published by Singular Lives. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reefer Charlie" Fox rode the rails from 1928 to 1939; from 1939 to 1965 he hitched rides in automobiles and traveled by foot. From Indiana to British Columbia, from Arkansas to Texas, from Utah to Mexico, he was part of the grand hobo tradition that has all but passed away from American life. He camped in hobo jungles, slept under bridges and in sand houses at railroad yards, ate rattlesnake meat, fresh California grapes, and fish speared by the Indians of the Northwest. He quickly learned both the beauty and the dangers of his chosen way of life. One lesson learned early on was that there are distinct differences among hoboes, tramps, and bums. As the all-time king of hoboes, Jeff Davis, used to say, "Hoboes will work, tramps won't, and bums can't." Tales of an American Hobo is a lasting legacy to conventional society, teaching about a bygone era of American history and a rare breed of humanity who chose to live by the rails and on the road.
Book Synopsis The Damndest Radical by : Roger A. Bruns
Download or read book The Damndest Radical written by Roger A. Bruns and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roger A. Bruns's immensely entertaining biography, now available in paperback, throws a spotlight on a colorful, influential, but long-obscured Chicago character. This is the true story of Ben Reitman, ally of hobos, personal physician to scores of Al Capone's prostitutes, author, womanizer, founder of Chicago's Hobo College, and longtime lover of Emma Goldman."
Book Synopsis King of the Hoboes by : John Reinhard Dizon
Download or read book King of the Hoboes written by John Reinhard Dizon and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two detectives investigate a charismatic leader among the homeless community whose campaign of civil disobedience creates chaos throughout the streets of NYC. The situation threatens to escalate into violence as the world press focuses on the plight of the impoverished. Yet Veronika and Evan suspect that Adolf Hyatt has an ulterior motive as his notoriety increases. The concern is that terrorist groups may take advantage of the situation as the streets of New York become a battlefield between the authorities and the demonstrators. Veronika goes undercover to infiltrate the group and is introduced to a pitiless world of survival where women and children are marginalized and danger lurks at every nightfall. She finds herself dependent on the Hobo Network to survive, learning more about Hyatt's true plans in glorifying himself and his campaign at the expense of the City while using the homeless as cannon fodder. This is a gut-wrenching look at the surreal world of homeless women living on the streets, and the fanatical vision of a false messiah manipulating the media for gain and glory.
Book Synopsis King Of The Hoboes by : John Reinhard Dizon
Download or read book King Of The Hoboes written by John Reinhard Dizon and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only one thing stands between Detective Veronika Heydrich and her coveted promotion: uncovering the truth behind the King Of The Hoboes, a man who prides himself on helping the homeless people of New York. Convinced he is more dangerous than helpful, Veronika goes undercover and learns first hand of the trials and tribulations the poverty-stricken must endure - and of the mysterious past of the King himself. It is up to Veronika to save the innocent homeless of New York, and protect the city itself. But can she discover the truth about the enigmatic King, while saving the people she has come to know and love as her own?
Book Synopsis Tales of an American Hobo by : Charles Elmer Fox
Download or read book Tales of an American Hobo written by Charles Elmer Fox and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reefer Charlie Fox rode the rails from 1928 to 1939; from 1939 to 1965 he hitched rides in automobiles and traveled by foot. From Indiana to British Columbia, from Arkansas to Texas, from Utah to Mexico, he was part of the grand hobo tradition that has all but passed away from American life. He camped in hobo jungles, slept under bridges and in sand houses at railroad yards, ate rattlesnake meat, fresh California grapes, and fish speared by the Indians of the Northwest. He quickly learned both the beauty and the dangers of his chosen way of life. One lesson learned early on was that there are distinct differences among hoboes, tramps, and bums. As the all-time king of hoboes, Jeff Davis, used to say, Hoboes will work, tramps won't, and bums can't. "Tales of an American Hobo" is a lasting legacy to conventional society, teaching about a bygone era of American history and a rare breed of humanity who chose to live by the rails and on the road.
Book Synopsis Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos by : Owen Clayton
Download or read book Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos written by Owen Clayton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around the terms 'hobo', 'tramp', and 'vagabond'.
Download or read book Hoboes written by Mark Wyman and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the railroad stretched its steel rails across the American West in the 1870s, it opened up a vast expanse of territory with very few people but enormous agricultural potential: a second Western frontier, the garden West. Agriculture quickly followed the railroads, making way for Kansas wheat and Colorado sugar beets and Washington apples. With this new agriculture came an unavoidable need for harvest workers—for hands to pick the apples, cotton, oranges, and hops; to pull and top the sugar beets; to fill the trays with raisin grapes and apricots; to stack the wheat bundles in shocks to be pitched into the maw of the threshing machine. These were not the year-round hired hands but transients who would show up to harvest the crop and then leave when the work was finished. Variously called bindlestiffs, fruit tramps, hoboes, and bums, these men—and women and children—were vital to the creation of the West and its economy. Amazingly, it is an aspect of Western history that has never been told. In Hoboes: Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West, the award-winning historian Mark Wyman beautifully captures the lives of these workers. Exhaustively researched and highly original, this narrative history is a detailed, deeply sympathetic portrait of the lives of these hoboes, as well as a fresh look at the settling and development of the American West.
Book Synopsis The Areas of My Expertise by : John Hodgman
Download or read book The Areas of My Expertise written by John Hodgman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the great tradition of the American almanac, The Areas of My Expertise is a brilliant and hilarious compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom on all topics large and small. Although bestsellers such as Poor Richard’s Almanack and The Book of Lists were certainly valuable, they also were largely true. Here is a different kind of handy desk reference, one in which all of the historical oddities and amazing true facts are sifted through the singular, illuminating imagination of John Hodgman—which is the nice way of saying: He made it all up. John Hodgman brings his considerable expertise to bear in answering all of the questions book buyers have been asking: -What are the mottoes of the 51 United States? THE ANSWER IS PROVIDED -Who were the U.S. presidents who had hooks for hands? THE ANSWER IS PROVIDED -What role does the Yale secret society “Skull and Bones” play in the secret world government? THERE IS NO SECRET WORLD GOVERNMENT -What was the menu at the first Thanksgiving, and did it include eels? Technically, that is two questions, but do not apologize, for John Hodgman shall answer them both . . . LATER. -Aside from a compendium of fake trivia, what is the best kind of book to write? A SIMPLE TABLE OF THE 55 MOST DRAMATIC LITERARY SITUATIONS PROVIDES THE ANSWER, and John Hodgman is the author of that table. Imagine if The Book of Lists had been rewritten by Peter Cook and Jorge Luis Borges under the pseudonym of “John Hodgman” and then renamed The Areas of My Expertise, and you will only begin to have a sense of the dizzying, uproarious, sublimely weird, and strangely wise journey that is contained within this book (along with all the pages and words). Perfect for anyone who thirsts for knowledge, and especially for collectors of books of fake trivia, The Areas of My Expertise offers through absurdity a better understanding of the world we share—and recognizes that while the truth may be stranger than fiction, it is never as strange as lies . . . or as true. Look out for John Hodgman's latest book, Vacationland, available from Viking in Fall 2017.
Download or read book Citizen Hobo written by Todd DePastino and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as "hobohemia." Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the American road as the preserve of white manhood, hoboes took command of downtown districts and swaggered onto center stage of the new urban culture. Less obviously, perhaps, they also staked their own claims on the American polity, claims that would in fact transform the very entitlements of American citizenship. In this eye-opening work of American history, Todd DePastino tells the epic story of hobohemia's rise and fall, and crafts a stunning new interpretation of the "American century" in the process. Drawing on sources ranging from diaries, letters, and police reports to movies and memoirs, Citizen Hobo breathes life into the largely forgotten world of the road, but it also, crucially, shows how the hobo army so haunted the American body politic that it prompted the creation of an entirely new social order and political economy. DePastino shows how hoboes—with their reputation as dangers to civilization, sexual savages, and professional idlers—became a cultural and political force, influencing the creation of welfare state measures, the promotion of mass consumption, and the suburbanization of America. Citizen Hobo's sweeping retelling of American nationhood in light of enduring struggles over "home" does more than chart the change from "homelessness" to "houselessness." In its breadth and scope, the book offers nothing less than an essential new context for thinking about Americans' struggles against inequality and alienation.
Download or read book 8 to 80 written by Glen W. Filberth and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 8 to 80 is the true story of Glen Filberth, a man who was a Doctor, a wartime Bomber pilot, and a prisoner of war for over one year under brutal starving conditions. In youth he was an abused boy by a stepfather. Having a strong desire for a college education, Filberth braved traveling as a hobo on freight trains to obtain profitable work. He worked on western ranches, civilian conservation camps, and fought forest fires in the mountainous terrain of Idaho. Finally, Filberth worked his way through college to obtain Doctorate Degrees in Naturopathy and Chiropractic. In WWII he enlisted as an Aviation Cadet for Pilot Training. His training in planes including the twin engine Fighter P-38. After getting his wings he was assigned to pilot a B-17 Bomber, until, after flying seven missions over Germany, he was shot down and became a POW. After more than a year of many abuses he was liberated and returned to the States to resume his Illinois-based natural healing practice. In 8 to 80 he tells of many successes in relieving and even curing many so-called incurable diseases, with diagnosis made by reputable clinics and physicians. This book includes letters from thosepatients. He writes of his family life, their sports and experiences that were interesting. He writes of hunting, fishing, golf, bowling and water-skiing, and includes many pictures, depicting the lifestyle. Everything that he assumes would be interesting to the reader is included within 8 to 80.
Book Synopsis Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader by : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Download or read book Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 70% of North Americans are (water) closet readers. The Uncle John's Bathroom Readers series is still the best selling book of its kind anywhere in the world. Millions of people have discovered it over the past 25 years, making it one of the publishing industry's longest-running humor series. It's our 16th year running (so to speak) I mean, we're still going (uhh) strong. A light-hearted, easy-to-read collection of facts, quotes, history, science, word-origins, pop culture, gossip, humor . . . and more! Organized by length-"Short" (a quick read), "Medium" (1-3 pages), "Long" (for those visits when something a little more involved is required), and to satisfy every demand, our popular "Extended Sitting Section" (for a leg-numbing experience.) Running feet on every page provide a "book within a book" of weird facts. Partial Table of Contents included.
Download or read book King of the Hobos written by Jeff Dennis and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ways of the Hobo written by A-No. 1 and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hard Travellin' written by Kenneth Allsop and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the railway system which moulded the American hobo into the legendary figure he became, especially in the depression years, but surviving until today. His origins, however, go back to the early pioneer days. He is in fact a unique and indigenous American product, 'capriciously used and discarded by a callous but dynamic system'. Revered and romanticized by some as the prototype of free man, he is hated and feared by others for his nonconformity. In order to trace the origins of the various types of hobo and their effect on American life, Kenneth Allsop travelled 9,000 miles across the continent, following old hobo routes, interviewing and researching as he went along.
Download or read book The Hobo's Hornbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Me and Hobo Bill by : Marimann Publications
Download or read book Me and Hobo Bill written by Marimann Publications and published by . This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
