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Author : Chester Gillette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979644818
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (448 download)
Download or read book The Prison Diary and Letters of Chester Gillette written by Chester Gillette and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lana A. Whited
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476672245
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Murder, in Fact written by Lana A. Whited and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the 1965 publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote declared he broke new literary ground. But Capote's "nonfiction novel" belongs to a long Naturalist tradition originating in the work of 19th-century French novelist Emile Zola. Naturalism offers a particular response to the increasing problem of violence in American life and its sociological implications. This book traces the origins of the fact-based homicide novel that emerged in the mainstream of American literature with works such as Frank Norris's McTeague and flourished in the twentieth century with works such as Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and Richard Wright's Native Son. At their heart is a young man isolated from community who acts out in desperate circumstances against someone who reflects his isolation. A tension develops between how society views this killer and the way he is viewed by the novelist. The crimes central to these narratives epitomize the vast gap between those who can aspire to the so-called "American dream" and those with no realistic chance of achieving it.
Author : Edited by Caryl Hopson and Susan R. Perkins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467144398
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Murder & Mayhem in Herkimer County written by Edited by Caryl Hopson and Susan R. Perkins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herkimer County is steeped in history, from the settlement of the Mohawk Valley by Palatine German settlers to the flood of western migration with the opening of the Erie Canal. But the region also boasts an infamous history of high-profile homicides and crimes. Roxalana Druse murdered her abusive husband and became the last woman to be hanged in New York in 1887. The death of Grace Brown on scenic Big Moose Lake became one of the most famous cases in the country in 1906, inspiring author Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy. Psychological tests of intelligence were admitted into court for the first time in an acquittal of sixteen-year-old Jean Gianini in 1914. Caryl Hopson and Susan R. Perkins collect these historic narratives of murder and mayhem in Herkimer County.
Author : Craig Brandon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Murder in the Adirondacks written by Craig Brandon and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Murder in the Adirondacks is the true story of the Chester Gillette - Grace Brown murder case, which was the basis for Theodore Dreiser's classic novel An American Tragedy and the movie "A Place in the Sun" with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Although the trial in Herkimer, New York was front page news throughout the nation in 1906 and millions of words have been written about Dreiser's novel, this book is the first complete account of the fascinating facts behind the fiction. Gillette, a former prep school student and railroad brakeman, was the nephew of the owner of a skirt factory in Cortland, New York, where he met Grace Brown, the daughter of a Chenango County farmer. Soon after Grace discovered she was pregnant with Gillette's child in 1906, they left on a trip to the Adirondacks. Grace thought it was to be a wedding trip, but Gillette was planning murder, not matrimony. At Big Moose Lake in Herkimer County, Gillette rented a boat and took Grace to a deserted section of the lake called Punky Bay. She ended up at the bottom of the lake and Gillette escaped to Inlet, where he was arrested three days later. The spectators at Gillette's trial sobbed when the district attorney read Grace's letters, but Gillette sat quietly and chewed gum until it was his turn to testify. Then he said Grace jumped out of the boat and committed suicide. The jury didn't believe him and he was sentenced to die in the electric chair in Auburn. Gillette's mother waged a campaign that led all the way to the governor's mansion in Albany and a last minute attempt to save her son's life. By the 1980s, the fiction had overpowered the facts and many people accepted Dreiser's novel as the true story. This book sets the record straight. Meticulously researched, it relies on the original courtroom testimony and the 1906-1908 newspaper articles. It contains letters, documents and photographs that have never before been made public. Facts about Gillette's early life and his family are revealed here for the first time anywhere. After 80 years, readers can finally find out what really happened at Big Moose Lake in 1906. The true story of Upstate New York's most famous murder case can finally be told."--Back cover
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427081271
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Download or read book An American Tragedy written by Theodore Dreiser and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1978 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C.C. Baldwin
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5874721363
Total Pages : 989 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Baldwin genealogy from 1500 to 1881 written by C.C. Baldwin and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1991 with total page 989 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Adirondack Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330418591
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)
Download or read book A Prison Diary written by Jeffrey Archer and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume of Jeffrey Archer's prison diaries covers the period of his transfer from Wayland to his eventual release on parole in July 2003.
Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher : Lucia Marquand
ISBN 13 : 9781555953614
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (536 download)
Download or read book Corcoran Gallery of Art written by Corcoran Gallery of Art and published by Lucia Marquand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Author : FF 8282
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780330418638
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (186 download)
Download or read book A Prison Diary written by FF 8282 and published by . This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486131629
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, and much more.
Author : Joseph W. Brownell
Publisher : Nicholas K Burns Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780971306912
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Adirondack Tragedy written by Joseph W. Brownell and published by Nicholas K Burns Pub. This book was released on 2003 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive the heart-wrenching story of one of the most famous crimes in New Yorks history; the murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette at Big Moose Lake. Made famous by a media frenzy fueled by the sensational newspaper reporting of 1906, this crime of the century seeped into the American culture. The story of Chester and Grace was the inspiration for Theodore Dreisers novel An American Tragedy and the Hollywood movie A Place in the Sun. Brownell and Enos deliver a fascinating day-by-day account of the events leading to the death of Grace Brown, the media hyped, sensational trial of Chester Gillette, and the cultural immortalization of an Adirondack Tragedy.
Author : Jim Cullen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195173252
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The American Dream written by Jim Cullen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cullen particularly focuses on the founding fathers and the Declaration of Independence ("the charter of the American Dream"); Abraham Lincoln, with his rise from log cabin to White House and his dream for a unified nation; and Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial equality. Our contemporary version of the American Dream seems rather debased in Cullen's eyes-built on the cult of Hollywood and its outlandish dreams of overnight fame and fortune.
Author : Gary Lee Gillett
Publisher : Gary Lee Gillett
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Gillett Family History & Memoir written by Gary Lee Gillett and published by Gary Lee Gillett. This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Gilletts & my story. . . by default, this writing has come to me curse that graduate writing assistant at the University of Michigan in the fall of 1971 for suggesting that I could write I’ve struggled with it from the nod and probably before But she was cute... who else is going to delve back into the Gillett family Clan & write my memoir? It isn't my fault that family name is passed down from the male - just the way it's been firstborn Kay is matriarch of a large Catholic Family and celebrating 50 years of marriage to my Pollock brother-in-law second born Stan is continuing to lick his wounds from the Vietnam War fourth born in Lar newly retired and as usual, walking his life away I'm retired and have time to document and more importantly, have an interest in the shared-legacy that is ours inspired early Memorial Day 2019 I've no idea why It wakes me in the morin’...kicking my ass out of bed. This is basically for my sons - though they’ve never asked for it! It’s sorta chronologically organized; family…..me from whence we came to where we are A Gillett book (aunt Ginny covered the Miller's side of the family) I wrote a real book once, this isn’t it. Some writing within is borrowed (stolen) without citations! You’ll know it’s not mine by it’s correct punctuation & formality. It’s more important to get the info out rather than to own. I tend to be too consistent (I prefer ‘true’), so this lack of uniformity might keep this from being too boring. I’ll probably use a capital to start and a period at the end...everything else is off! I write the way I speak; in fits and starts, phrases, dangling things, slang . . . Some editing to help the clarity - to ‘clean up’ my appearance - if you don’t like it, don’t read! Even though I taught music for 41 years, this dribble isn’t about teaching. Thanks to Susan Hintz for invaluable researching.
Author : Craig Brandon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982985328
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Good Night Irene written by Craig Brandon and published by . This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Homer N. Wallin
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ISBN 13 : 9780898755657
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Pearl Harbor written by Homer N. Wallin and published by . This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl Harbor will long stand out in mens minds as an example of the results of basic unpreparedness of a peace loving nation, of highly efficient treacherous surprise attack and of the resulting unification of America into a single tidal wave of purpose to victory. Therefore, all will be interested in this unique narrative by Admiral Wallin. The Navy has long needed a succinct account of the salvage operations at Pearl Harbor that miraculously resurrected what appeared to be a forever shattered fleet. Admiral Wallin agreed to undertake the job. He was exactly the right man for it _ in talent, in perception, and in experience. He had served intimately with Admiral Nimitz and with Admiral Halsey in the South Pacific, has commanded three different Navy Yards, and was a highly successful Chief of the Bureau of Ships. On 7 December 1941 the then Captain Wallin was serving at Pearl Harbor. He witnessed the events of that shattering and unifying "Day of Infamy." His mind began to race at high speeds at once on the problems and means of getting the broken fleet back into service for its giant task. Unless the United States regained control of the sea, even greater disaster loomed. Without victory at sea, tyranny soon would surely rule all Asia and Europe. In a matter of time it would surely rule the Americas. Captain Wallin salvaged most of the broken Pearl Harbor fleet that went on to figure prominently in the United States Navys victory. So the account he masterfully tells covers what he masterfully accomplished. The United States owes him an unpayable debt for this high service among many others in his long career.
Author : Edward Hooker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908 written by Edward Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
