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Book Synopsis The Peabody Story by : John A. Wells
Download or read book The Peabody Story written by John A. Wells and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Peabody Ducks by : Martha L. Garrety
Download or read book The Peabody Ducks written by Martha L. Garrety and published by . This book was released on 1983-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Peabody Hotel by : Scott Faragher
Download or read book The Peabody Hotel written by Scott Faragher and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South's finest and one of America's best-these words have always defined the world-famous Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. The Peabody emerged from the war-torn, post-Civil War South in 1869 to become one of the finest hotels in America. Its reputation for comfort, service, and fine dining grew along with Memphis's stature as "the river city, cotton capital, and birthplace of the blues." The most famous and infamous citizens of the era stayed at the original Peabody in its day. There, plantations were won or lost on a roll of the dice. After more than 50 years, the original hotel was replaced by a new 12-story, 615-room hotel in 1925. It was then that the hotel's name became synonymous with elegance. It also became the social center of Memphis and the mid-South, and a haunt for the rich and famous. The celebrated ducks swimming in the marble lobby fountain, parties in the skyway, or dancing on the open plantation roof to the music of the most renowned bands and orchestras of the day have all been part of this fabulous hotel's history. Today, the fully restored Peabody retains its reputation for legendary Southern hospitality and tasteful elegance. The hotel continues to serve as an anchor for the restoration and revitalization of the downtown area of one of America's most important cities.
Book Synopsis The Peabody Sisters by : Megan Marshall
Download or read book The Peabody Sisters written by Megan Marshall and published by HMH. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize Finalist: “A stunning work of biography” about three little-known New England women who made intellectual history (The New York Times). Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways the American Brontës. The story of these remarkable sisters—and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day—has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall’s monumental biography brings the era of creative ferment known as American Romanticism to new life. Elizabeth Peabody, the oldest sister, was a mind-on-fire influence on the great writers of the era—Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them—who also published some of their earliest works; it was she who prodded these newly minted Transcendentalists away from Emerson’s individualism and toward a greater connection to others. Middle sister Mary Peabody was a passionate reformer who finally found her soul mate in the great educator Horace Mann. And the frail Sophia, an admired painter among the preeminent society artists of the day, married Nathaniel Hawthorne—but not before Hawthorne threw the delicate dynamics among the sisters into disarray. Casting new light on a legendary American era, and on three sisters who made an indelible mark on history, Marshall’s unprecedented research uncovers thousands of never-before-seen letters as well as other previously unmined original sources. “A massive enterprise,” The Peabody Sisters is an event in American biography (The New York Times Book Review). “Marshall’s book is a grand story . . . where male and female minds and sensibilities were in free, fruitful communion, even if men could exploit this cultural richness far more easily than women.” —The Washington Post “Marshall has greatly increased our understanding of these women and their times in one of the best literary biographies to come along in years.” —New England Quarterly
Book Synopsis Belle-Duck at the Peabody by : Dean Faulkner Wells
Download or read book Belle-Duck at the Peabody written by Dean Faulkner Wells and published by . This book was released on 1984-11-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Consuming Stories by : Rebecca Peabody
Download or read book Consuming Stories written by Rebecca Peabody and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Consuming Stories, Rebecca Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of popular storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and ramifications in the present. Focusing on a few key pieces that range from a wall-size installation to a reworked photocopy in an artist’s book and from a theater curtain to a monumental sculpture, Peabody explores a significant yet neglected aspect of Walker’s production: her commitment to examining narrative depictions of race, gender, power, and desire. Consuming Stories considers Walker’s sustained visual engagement with literary genres such as the romance novel, the neo-slave narrative, and the fairy tale and with internationally known stories including Roots, Beloved, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Walker’s interruption of these familiar works , along with her generative use of the familiar in unexpected and destabilizing ways, reveals the extent to which genre-based narrative conventions depend on specific representations of race, especially when aligned with power and desire. Breaking these implicit rules makes them visible—and, in turn, highlights viewers’ reliance on them for narrative legibility. As this study reveals, Walker’s engagement with narrative continues beyond her early silhouette work as she moves into media such as film, video, and sculpture. Peabody also shows how Walker uses her tools and strategies to unsettle cultural histories abroad when she works outside the United States. These stories, Peabody reminds us, not only change the way people remember history but also shape the entertainment industry. Ultimately, Consuming Stories shifts the critical conversation away from the visual legacy of historical racism toward the present-day role of the entertainment industry—and its consumers—in processes of racialization.
Book Synopsis John Philip Duck by : Patricia Polacco
Download or read book John Philip Duck written by Patricia Polacco and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Depression, a young Memphis boy trains his pet duck to do tricks in the fountain of a grand hotel and ends up becoming the Duck Master of the Peabody Hotel.
Book Synopsis The Peabody (Massachusetts) Story by : John A. Wells
Download or read book The Peabody (Massachusetts) Story written by John A. Wells and published by . This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis George Foster Peabody by : Louise Ware
Download or read book George Foster Peabody written by Louise Ware and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1951, this biography of George Foster Peabody (1852-1938) tells the story of an industry pioneer, railroad magnate, and philanthropist. A native of Georgia, Peabody is often listed alongside such men as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J. P. Morgan--men who rose from obscurity to prominence after Reconstruction. Peabody's businesses were central to the building of railroads in the United States and Mexico, and to financing mining, electrical, and sugar beet industries. Peabody also took a prominent role in civic affairs, using his position of power as an active philanthropist. Peabody's greatest concern was the advancement of education, and he eventually retired from his many business interests to devote himself to humanitarian work. Today, Peabody may be recognized most widely as the person after whom the George Foster Peabody Awards--which recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious service in the electronic media--are named.
Download or read book Mr Peabodys Apples written by Madonna and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy learns a lesson about the destructive power of gossip.
Book Synopsis Art of Mr. Peabody & Sherman by : Jerry Beck
Download or read book Art of Mr. Peabody & Sherman written by Jerry Beck and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr Peabody has invented the WABAC, a time-travelling machine that he and his adopted boy Sherman use to explore history. Examining the making of the DreamWorks comedy animation, this book goes behind the scenes in order to shed light on the creative process involved in bringing the film to fruition.
Book Synopsis More Than a Century of Investment Banking by : Vincent P. Carosso
Download or read book More Than a Century of Investment Banking written by Vincent P. Carosso and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1979 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Best Maritime Short Stories by : George Peabody
Download or read book Best Maritime Short Stories written by George Peabody and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maritimes are rich in story-telling traditions, and home to many of Canada's great short story writers. Their strong Maritime voices are collected here in this splendid anthology of short stories. Best Maritime Short Stories is a collection of the work of long-established and lesser-known writers, including stories by Charles Bruce, Ernest Buckler, Lesley Choyce, Susan Kerslake, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Alistair Macleod, Alden Nowlan, J J Steinfeld, Kent Thompson, among others. Best Maritime Short Stories is a wonderful introduction to the exciting contemporary literature of Canada's Maritime Provinces.
Book Synopsis Deeds of the Disturber by : Elizabeth Peters
Download or read book Deeds of the Disturber written by Elizabeth Peters and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join our plucky Victorian Egyptologist, together with her devastatingly handsome and brilliant husband Radcliffe, in another exciting escapade Swapping the stifling heat and dust of Egypt for the cooler climes of London, adventuress Amelia Peabody finds herself plunged into an escapade set in the dignified surroundings of the British Museum, and as ever, she is aided and abetted by her irascible husband Emerson and precocious son Ramses. First of all a night watchman is found dead in the Mummy Room of the museum, a look of horror frozen on his face and very soon panic spreads through the capital while the gutter press ask the question 'Can Fear Kill?'. And before Amelia can respond with an appropriate answer, a pair of dissolute aristocrats with a shady past appear in her life together with supernatural curses, a lady of dubious reputation with a link to Emerson's bachelor past and a homicidal maniac disguised as an ancient Sem priest - but they are only the very tip of this most singular mystery. And as Amelia closes in on the murderer, Emerson and Ramses must try to keep her from adding herself to the list of victims...
Book Synopsis Black and White on Wall Street by : Joseph Jett
Download or read book Black and White on Wall Street written by Joseph Jett and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The firsthand account of a black man's experiences on Wall Street by the person who was wrongly thrust into the center of its biggest scandal in years.
Download or read book Early Man written by F.Clark Howell and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory by : Ethan Thompson
Download or read book Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory written by Ethan Thompson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Television History, The Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory is the product of a multiyear collaboration between the Peabody Awards program and over a dozen media scholars with the intent to uncover, explore, and analyze historical television programming contained in the Peabody Awards archives at the University of Georgia. It is an intentional effort to look both wider and deeper than the well-known canon of U.S. broadcast history that dominates popular memory of the relationship of television to American society. The Peabody Archive is especially suited to this project because it is an archive of programming produced and submitted not just by the big networks in New York or Los Angeles, but by stations and media producers across the nation and, more recently, around the world. This project asks, how might these programs change our understanding of television's past, and impact the ways we think about television's present and future? What new questions can we ask and what new approaches should we take as a result of seeing and experiencing this programming? The contributions in this volume offer a dramatic range of approaches for how scholars can productively engage the archive's media and physical holdings to examine and reconsider television history"--