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Beyond the Legend

Author : Derek Hunt
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752497340
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Legend written by Derek Hunt and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Legend is the authorised biography of William (Bill) Speakman,who was awarded one of only four Victoria Crosses for action in the Korean War. It covers his sometimes controversial life, from his childhood in Altrincham, Cheshire, to his later life in South Africa – about which little has been known previously. Authors Derek Hunt and John Mulholland also explore the myth of the ‘beer bottle VC’ (in which Speakman was said to have fended off the Chinese Communist Army by throwing empty beer bottles at them after they ran out of grenades), bringing to light what really happened on United Hill in November 1951. Speakman held the attacking Chinese army at bay for over four hours and led a final charge that allowed his company to withdraw from the hill. After Korea, he saw active service in Malaya, Borneo and Aden before retiring from the army, with the rank of sergeant, in 1968. Bill Speakman is one of only two surviving VC holders of the British Army and a true British hero.

Rockabilly

Author :
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 0760340625
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Rockabilly written by and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the twang heard ’round the world: Rockabilly was born out of country, bluegrass, jazz, and the blues in the 1950s, becoming rock ‘n’ roll and ruling the world. Here’s the story of Elvis Presley’s first Sun records that inspired all. And here’s Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and many more rockabillies from the golden years of 1955—1959, in a book chock full of photos, collectible memorabilia, movie posters, rare records, fashion, and rebel lifestyle. The story continues today, with a rockabilly revival that began with stars, such as the Stray Cats and Robert Gordon, spreading around the globe from Europe to Japan. Today, rockabilly is better than ever, with bands like Rev. Horton Heat and others playing the music and living the life from Memphis to Helsinki to Tokyo. There’s still good rockin’ tonight!

David Crockett in Texas

Author : Allen J. Wiener
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1648432166
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book David Crockett in Texas written by Allen J. Wiener and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Crockett in Texas: His Search for New Land, by Allen J. Wiener, takes a fresh look at the well-known figure from the perspective of his quest for land in Texas and the new start it promised for his family. This retelling of what the author terms “the last adventure in the life of a nineteenth-century Tennessee frontiersman who became a national celebrity” presents a picture of Crockett that contrasts with the popular image of the brash adventurer who sought glory on the battlefield as well as that of the bitter, failed politician who came to Texas as a last resort. Wiener presents a nuanced examination of Crockett’s motivations that places them in the context of the full arc of his career and aspirations, starting long before he ventured to the south side of the Red River. Notably, this book devotes a full chapter to the fate of Crockett’s family after his death, contributing perhaps the most complete account to date of the astute legal actions taken by Elizabeth Crockett to secure title to the land obtained by her late husband’s enlistment in the Texian cause. Uniquely to studies of Crockett, Wiener presents Elizabeth Crockett as a shrewd businesswoman who ably managed her husband’s various enterprises at home while he was off campaigning or serving in Washington, DC. David Crockett in Texas offers fascinating new evaluations of what we thought we already knew about one of the most studied and debated figures in Texas and American history.

Baseball History eBook Gift Set

Author : Jonathan Weeks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493017055
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Baseball History eBook Gift Set written by Jonathan Weeks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-in-one holiday gift set is the perfect gift for any baseball fan this season. Each with its own unique story, these books will thrill any fan of America’s favorite pastime. The set includes class tales (At the Old Ballgame: Stories From Baseball's Golden Era), scandals (Mudville Madness: Fabulous Feats, Belligerent Behavior, and Erratic Episodes on the Diamond), and a unique portrait of baseball’s early days (Death Row All Stars: A Story of Baseball, Corruption, and Murder). That’s three strikes for this set!

The Golden Age of American Rock 'n Roll: Reelin' & rockin', 1956-1959

Author : Lee Cotten
Publisher : Popular Culture Ink
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of American Rock 'n Roll: Reelin' & rockin', 1956-1959 written by Lee Cotten and published by Popular Culture Ink. This book was released on 1989 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee Cotten's Shake, Rattle & Roll: The Golden Age of American Rock 'n Roll, Volume 1: 1952-1956 (1989), marked the beginning of a journey back to the very roots of rock 'n roll, a pilgrimage to a time filled with the names and matchless music of legendary rhythm and blues performers.

White Terror

Author : Allen W. Trelease
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807180246
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book White Terror written by Allen W. Trelease and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allen W. Trelease’s White Terror, originally published in 1971, was the first scholarly history of the Ku Klux Klan in the South during Reconstruction. With its research rooted in primary sources, it remains among the most comprehensive treatments of the subject. In addition to the Klan, Trelease discusses other night-riding groups, including the Ghouls, the White Brotherhood, and the Knights of the White Camellia. He treats the entire South state by state, details the close link between the Klan and the Democratic party, and recounts Republican efforts to resist the Klan. Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award from the Southern Historical Association

Austin Clarke, 1896-1974

Author : Maurice Harmon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389208648
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Austin Clarke, 1896-1974 written by Maurice Harmon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1989 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This relates Clarke to the Irish Literary Revival and the cultural contexts of his time while tracing that "fine generosity, lavish colour and concrete imagery." Contents: Portrait; Introduction; (i) Austin Clarke (1896-1974), (ii) Contexts, (iii) Catholicism, (iv) The Irish Literary Revival, (v) The Gaelic League, (vi) The Worlds of Austin Clarke, (vii) A New Generation; Part I. Remembering Our Innocence; 1 Short Poems 1916-1925, 2 Epic Narratives 1916-1925, 3 Pilgrimage (1929), 4 Night and Morning (1938), 5 Three Prose Romances, 6 Plays, 7 Conclusion; Part II. Nothing Left to Sing?; 8 Poems and Satires 1955-1962: (i) Short Peoms, (ii) Long Autobiographical Poems; 9 Flight to Africa (1963), 10 Mnemosyne Lay In Dust (1966), 11 Last Poems 1967-1974, 12 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index^R

Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend

Author : James T. Jones
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809322633
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend written by James T. Jones and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noting that even casual readers recognize family relationships as the basis for Kerouac's autobiographical prose, Jones discusses these relationships in terms of Freud's notion of the Oedipus complex."--BOOK JACKET.

Genealogical Patterns in the Old and New Worlds

Author : Carl Schuster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Genealogical Patterns in the Old and New Worlds written by Carl Schuster and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Preparing a Nation?

Author : Brad Underhill
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 176046662X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Preparing a Nation? written by Brad Underhill and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preparing a Nation?, based on extensive archival research, addresses perennial questions of Australian colonialism in Papua New Guinea. To what extent did Australia prepare Papua New Guinea for independence? And what were the policies and the ideologies behind colonial development, implemented after World War II? A key innovation of this book is to take these questions from policy desks in Canberra and Port Moresby to the villages of four administrative areas: Chimbu, Milne Bay, Sepik and New Hanover. How successful were Australian colonial planners in designing and implementing programs that could ameliorate the potential harm of market capitalism and develop ‘new’ socioeconomic structures that would combine a disparate people into an ‘imagined community’, capable of becoming an independent nation-state in the far distant future? Colonial intention is contrasted with Indigenous experience. Bradley Underhill explores an Australian governmental tendency to prioritise colonial control over Indigenous autonomy in circumstances where subjugated people do not necessarily fit within an expected narrative of compliant or westernised ‘native’. ‘I expect it will become the standard reference for its subject, which covers a pivotal aspect of Australia’s colonial administration.’ —Bill Gammage

The Battle over America's Origin Story

Author : Brian Regal
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030995380
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Battle over America's Origin Story written by Brian Regal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the legends of who ‘really’ discovered America. It argues that histories of America's origins were always based less on empirical evidence and more on social, political, and cultural wish fulfillment. Influenced by a complex interplay of Nativist hatred of immigrants and Aboriginal people, as well as distrust of academic scholarship, these legends ebbed and flowed with changing conditions in wider American society. The book focuses on the actions of a collection of quirky, obsessed amateur investigators who spent their lives trying to prove their various theories by promoting Welsh princes, Vikings, Chinese admirals, Neo-lithic Europeans, African explorers, and others who they say arrived centuries before Columbus. These myths acted as mitigating agencies for those who embraced them. Along with recent scholarship, this book makes extensive use of archival materials—some of which have never been employed before. It covers the period from the sixteenth century to the present. It brings together separate historiographic ideas to create a unified history rather than focusing on one particular legend as most books on the subject do. It shows how questions of who discovered America helped create the field of historical scholarship in this country. This book does not attempt to prove who discovered America, rather it tells the story of those who think they did.

Chase's Calendar of Events 2014

Author : Editors of Chase's Calendar of Events
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 007183091X
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Chase's Calendar of Events 2014 written by Editors of Chase's Calendar of Events and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As featured on The Today Show! 12,500 entries. 196 countries. 365 days. Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe! If you're looking to tie a promotional event to a special month, create a suggested reading list based on a literary birth anniversary, travel to a music festival halfway around the world, blog about a historical milestone or do a celebrity birthday round-up on your radio show or Twitterfeed, Chase's Calendar of Events is the one resource that has it all. For broadcasters, journalists, event planners, public relations professionals, librarians, editors, writers or simply the curious, this is one reference you can't do without! Chase's Calendar of Events 2014 brings you: Major sporting events such as the Games of the XXII Winter Olympiad at Sochi, Russia (Feb 7-23), and the FIFA World Cup in Brazil (June 12-July 13). Milestones such as the 450th birth anniversary of William Shakespeare; the 200th anniversary of "The Star- Spangled Banner"; the 100th anniversaries of the beginning of World War I and the opening of the Panama Canal; the 75th anniversary of the beginning of World War II; the 50th anniversaries of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Beatlemania and much more. New birthday entries for sports stars such as Mo Farah (Mar 23), Ryan Lochte (Aug 3) and Gabrielle Douglas (Dec 31); actors such as Kerry Washington (Jan 31), Lena Dunham (May 13) and Mads Mikkelsen (Nov 22); musical artists such as Carly Rae Jepsen (Nov 21) and Psy (Dec 31); and authors such as Téa Obreht (Sept 30) and Ann Patchett (Dec 2) and many others. Special days such as National Ferret Day (Apr 2), World Lindy Hop Day (May 26), Extra Mile Day (Nov 1), Lost and Found Day (Dec 12) and more. Search Chase's Any Way You Want! Whether you want to target a specifi c date, location or subject, our fully searchable CD-ROM (PCand MAC-compatible) makes your research quick and easy. Also included is a free installer, so you can load Chase’s directly to your hard drive.

Future History

Author : Kristina Bross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190665157
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Future History written by Kristina Bross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world. The book builds on new transoceanic scholarship and recent calls to approach early American studies from a global perspective. Such scholarship has largely focused on the early national period; Bross's work begins earlier and considers the intertwined identities of America, other English colonial sites and metropolitan England during a period before nation-state identities were hardened into the forms we know them today, when an English empire was nascent, not realized, and when a global perspective such as we might recognize it was just coming into focus for early modern Europeans. The author examines works that imagine England on a global stage in the Americas and East Indies just as--and in some cases even before--England occupied such spaces in force. Future History considers works written from the 1620s to the 1670s, but the center of gravity of Future History is writing at the mid-century, that is, writings coincident with the Interregnum, a time when England plotted and launched ambitious, often violent schemes to conquer, colonize or otherwise appropriate other lands, driven by both mercantile and religious desires.

Helen Morgan

Author : Christopher S. Connelly
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 1985900610
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Helen Morgan written by Christopher S. Connelly and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotive soprano, heartrending melodies about unrequited love, and a draped-over-the-piano persona made Helen Morgan (1902–1941) the original torch singer, but she was so much more. The versatile actress appeared on Broadway, in film, and on radio. In a number of stage revues, she danced, sang, and excelled in sketch comedy. She played Julie in Kern and Hammerstein's Broadway musical Show Boat (1927) and also starred in the duo's Sweet Adeline in 1929. That same year, Morgan appeared in Rouben Mamoulian's classic film Applause. When the Great Depression made theater roles scarce, she headed the CBS radio program Broadway Melodies and worked in the emerging medium of television. Yet Morgan's life was one of extremes. She earned a million dollars throughout her career but remained in constant debt. She was one of the most universally beloved people in her profession, but a stable romantic relationship eluded her until the very end of her life. She was a protofeminist who aided women facing unplanned pregnancies, yet she also sought respite in a man whose financial support would allow her to retire from the stage. Through it all, she battled alcoholism; brandy would eventually extinguish her flame in 1941. Helen Morgan: The Original Torch Singer and Ziegfeld's Last Star is the first biography of the gifted performer since 1974. Author Christopher Connelly utilizes interviews, newspaper articles, and family scrapbooks to present an honest and unflinching look at Morgan's life. Connelly's meticulous research addresses Morgan's troubled childhood, including her mother's six marriages, and the trauma of her stepfather's arrest and conviction for manslaughter in 1913. Also revealed are details regarding her early career in vaudeville and silent film, insights into the speakeasy and supper-club culture that served as a backdrop to Morgan's career, and accounts of her outstanding accomplishments, philanthropic actions, and enduring popularity. This gripping narrative presents the brief but brilliant life of a complex, talented, and iconic entertainer.

Cuthbert Grant of Grantown

Author : Margaret MacLeod
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773591567
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Cuthbert Grant of Grantown written by Margaret MacLeod and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1963-01-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Métis settlement of Grantown, the controversial "massacre" of Seven Oaks, the Siouan wars and the Red River settlement's fight for survival.

Illinois Technograph

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Illinois Technograph written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alamo Defenders

Author : James W Bancroft
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1399009923
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Alamo Defenders written by James W Bancroft and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a critical stage of the Texas Revolution a large Mexican army surrounded a makeshift fortification known locally as the Alamo. It was there that a small defensive force of mostly Texans had become holed up, and where they vowed to ‘never surrender or retreat’. After a siege lasting thirteen days, the Mexicans assaulted the fortification during the early hours of Sunday, 6 March 1836. Except for a few women and children, and one male slave, everyone inside was killed. All this is well known, and to this day the Alamo Mission is an American national monument sacred to the people of Texas. The Battle of Alamo sits alongside such dramatic last stands as Little Big Horn and Rorke’s Drift as one of the most heroic and sacrificial battles against the odds in military history. But what few realise is that a large number of those who fought and died for Texas at the Alamo were British. For the first time, the stories of these men, their lives and their deaths at the Alamo, are revealed. They include an Englishman named William Blazeby, who led a troop of New Orleans Greys; a Scotsman named John McGregor, who took to his bagpipes and accompanied Davy Crockett on the fiddle to keep up the spirits of the defenders; and an Irishman named Robert Evans, who, as Master of Ordnance was shot down while trying to set light to the gunpowder in the chapel when the battle was lost. Through men such as these, the full story of this iconic encounter in the history of the United States of America is told in detail by the author. The roles of the opposing commanders, the infamous General Santa Anna and Lieutenant Colonel William ‘Buck’ Travis, are also examined. At the same time, James Bancroft also investigates the death of James Bowie, renowned, of course, for his large hunting knife, and Davy Crockett. Exactly how the so called ‘King of the Wild Frontier’ met his end has been the subject of controversial debate ever since Texas fought off its Mexican shackles – thanks in no small measure to those Britons who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with their American comrades on the crumbling walls of the Alamo more than 185 years ago.