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Wild Horse Media Group Come Have Fun With Frank Rush at Craterville Park and Sandy Lake Amusement Park
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Beard Books Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work
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Beard Books Charles F. Kettering: A Biography
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Smithsonian Books We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race
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Smithsonian Books Magnificent Failure: Free Fall from the Edge of
Book SynopsisLocked in a desperate Cold War race against the Soviets to find out if humans could survive in space and live through a free fall from space vehicles, the Pentagon gave civilian adventurer Nick Piantanida’s Project Strato-Jump little notice until May Day, 1966. Operating in the shadows of well-funded, high-visibility Air Force and Navy projects, the former truck driver and pet store owner set a new world record for manned balloon altitude. Rising more than 23 miles over the South Dakota prairie, Piantanida nearly perished trying to set the world record for the highest free fall parachute jump from that height. On his next attempt, he would not be so lucky. Part harrowing adventure story, part space history, part psychological portrait of an extraordinary risk-taker, this story fascinates and intrigues the armchair adventurer in all of us.
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NewSouth, Incorporated Why Not Win?: Reflections on a Fifty-Year Journey
Book SynopsisAspiring business owners and executives seeking to climb to the next rung, young to mid-career professionals seeking tools for life achievement, and general readers interested in biographies of successful people will like Larry Thornton’s "Why Not Win?". The book is a front-row seat to how one man altered his thinking to transform his life. The book begins with his growing up with brown skin in the 1960s in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. A desegregation school pioneer, Thornton was a classroom failure until a perceptive English teacher showed him he had value and encouraged him to go to college. Like the educator who changed his life, Thornton became a classroom teacher. But budget cuts took his job, and he decided to rewrite his story using his artistic talent. Thornton’s artistry and work ethic got him attention at Coca-Cola, both for the good and the bad. He had to figure out a way to navigate this new world, where higher-ups praised him but co-workers reminded him of his "blackness" by drawing a noose in his workstation. He persevered by learning to appreciate and embrace diversity, people resources, and conflicting opinions. While his success grew at Coca-Cola, Thornton did the unthinkable: set out to be the first African American to own a McDonald’s franchise in Birmingham. This thorny journey was peppered with threats, attempts to thwart his mission and a marriage he could not keep from falling apart. He absorbed the "try, try and try again" motto, and came to see that failure was a prelude to feasting upon the sweet fruit of success. Thornton’s own mother never had a checking account, but years after her passing he found himself on the board of directors for a major financial institution. He slowly became a part of a small fraternity of captains of industry and fought past guilt and insecurity to pave the way for others who look like him to join him at the table. Trying to fit into this new world, he learned that "Thank you," "Please," and "Excuse me" are perhaps three of the most powerful phrases in communication. Thornton made up his mind that he would spend each day on a mission to show his unbending gratitude for his life and its benefits by fostering a supreme attitude and maintaining consistency in vision, purpose, and an unwavering commitment to principles. Thornton’s journey from Madison Park, Montgomery, has been a long one. "Why Not Win?" reflects on his most useful lessons and the anecdotes associated with them. If he were a Zen monk, his koan might well be: "Plan your past." By that he means, think ahead one day, one week, one year, even twenty years out, and decide today your desired outcome, and work for it. "Thank God for memories," he says; "Let’s plan to make them pleasant ones.
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NewSouth, Incorporated Behind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies, and
Book SynopsisBehind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies, and Unsung White Allies of Birmingham’s Civil Rights Days is a remarkable look at a historic city enmeshed in racial tensions, revealing untold or forgotten stories of secret deals, law enforcement intrigue, and courage alongside pivotal events that would sweep change across the nation.Birmingham, Alabama gave birth to momentous events that spawned the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and affected world history. But that is not why it is known as The Magic City. It earned that nickname with its meteoric rise from a cornfield valley to an industrial boomtown in the late 1800s. Images of snarling dogs and fire hoses of the 1960s define popular perception of the city, obscuring the complexity of race relations in a tumultuous time and the contributions of white citizens who quietly or boldly influenced social change. Behind the Magic Curtain peels back history’s veil to reveal little-known or never-told stories of an intriguing cast of characters that include not only progressive members of the Jewish, Christian, and educational communities, but also a racist businessman and a Ku Klux Klan member, who, in an ironic twist, helped bring about justice and forward racial equality and civil rights. Woven throughout the book are the firsthand recollections of a reporter with the state’s major newspaper of the time. Embedded with law enforcement, he reveals the fascinating details of their secret wiretapping and intelligence operations. With a deft hand, Thorne offers the insight that can be gained from understanding little-known but important perspectives, painting a multihued portrait of a city that has figured so prominently in history, but which so few really know.
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NewSouth, Incorporated Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa
Book SynopsisUnmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the 1950s, the North Alabama political firebrand became known across the region for his right-wing radio broadcasts and leadership in the white Citizens’ Council movement. Combining racism and thinly-concealed anti-Semitism, he created a secret Klan strike force that engaged in a series of brutal assaults, including an attack on jazz singer Nat King Cole as well as militant civil rights activists. Exploring his life during these years offers new insights into the legal maneuvers as well as the violence used by white Southern segregationists to derail the civil rights movement in the region. In the early 1960s Carter became a secret adviser to George Wallace and wrote the Alabama governor’s infamous 1963 inauguration speech vowing "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." When Carter disappeared from Alabama in 1972, few knew that he had assumed a new identity in Abilene, Texas, masquerading as a Cherokee American novelist. Using the name "Forrest" Carter, he published three successful Western novels, including The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales that Clint Eastwood made into a widely acclaimed 1976 movie. His last book, The Education of Little Tree (a fake biography of his supposed Indian childhood) posthumously became a number one best-seller in 1991. Author Dan T. Carter uncovered "Forrest" Carter’s true identity while researching his biography of Georgia Wallace and in a New York Times’ op-ed he exposed Carter’s deception. Although the difficulties of uncovering the full story of the secretive Carter initially led him to abandon the project, in 2018 he gained access to more than two hundred interviews by the late Anniston newsman, Fred Burger. These recordings and his two decades of exhaustive research finally brought Asa Carter’s story into focus. Unmasking the Klansman is the result.
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NewSouth, Incorporated A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of
Book SynopsisThere are many different ways to remember the sixties," Frye Gaillard writes, "and this is mine. There was in these years the sense of a steady unfolding of time, as if history were on a forced march, and the changes spread to every corner of our lives. As future generations debate the meaning of the decade, I hope to offer a sense of how it felt to have lived it. A Hard Rain is one writer’s reconstruction and remembrance of a transcendent era—one that, for better or worse, lives with us still." With A Hard Rain Gaillard gives us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller’s eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times: civil rights, black power, women’s liberation, the war in Vietnam, and the protests movements against it. Gaillard also examines the cultural manifestations of change in the era—music, literature, art, religion, and science—and so we meet not only the Brothers Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X, but also Gloria Steinem, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Harper Lee, Mister Rogers, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Billy Graham, Thomas Merton, George Wallace, Richard Nixon, Angela Davis, Barry Goldwater, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Berrigan Brothers. As Gaillard remembers these influential people, he weaves together a compelling story about an iconic American decade of change, conflict, and progress.Trade ReviewA totally absorbing read! Frye Gaillard takes us there and makes it all so real that we forget we're reading. Older readers will feel young, uncertain, and idealistic again. Younger readers will hope to find the courage of the 1960s — in politics, artistic expression, science — to improve the lot of all humankind on this precious earth. Gaillard's A Hard Rain is worthy of the best literary prizes our country can bestow." - Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance"A child of the Sixties and one of the leading civil-rights reporters of his generation, Frye Gaillard has given us a riveting tour along what he calls the fine line between history and journalism. As a reporter, he has witnessed a great deal and interviewed many of the key figures of the decade that shaped America’s future while breaking its heart. As a scholar, he has read widely and thought deeply about our nation’s halting pursuit of justice and mercy for all. A Hard Rain is essential reading for a time when an American president has willfully ignored the hard-earned lessons from our passage through the most tumultuous decade of social change since the Civil War." - Howell Raines, former executive editor of The New York Times"The Sixties had it all — social movements and space exploration, once-in-a-generation musicians and once-in-a-lifetime martyrs, a Cold War and a hot one, too. A Hard Rain beautifully ties it all together in poetic prose that makes the pain and pleasure, tragedy and triumph of these tumultuous years come alive. Whether you came of age during the Sixties like author Frye Gaillard or were born after it like me, A Hard Rain is the new starting point for anyone who wants to understand the most impactful decade of the 20th century." - Hasan Kwame Jeffries, professor of history, Ohio State University, author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt"Frye Gaillard has long been one of the South’s most imaginative popular historians, and his remarkable gift for combining history and memory has never been more apparent than in his new book on the 1960s, A Hard Rain. Of the many books that have tried to capture the spirit and meaning of this tumultuous decade, A Hard Rain is surely among the best. Gaillard’s mastery of the art of storytelling, along with his unerring accuracy in characterizing the era’s leading political and cultural figures, turns his personal reflections into compelling and insightful history." - Raymond Arsenault, author of Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice"A Hard Rain is a smart, readable survey, at once personal and universal, of a decade that is still under debate today. Taking a broadly synoptic view, Frye Gaillard focuses on small moments that yielded huge effects. The battle against racial division quickly emerges as a major theme in Gaillard's narrative, with mileposts such as Thurgood Marshall's key role in Supreme Court decisions about how it wasn't enough simply not to segregate; integration was required, too. An illuminating, you-are-there view of events on the ground in the turbulent 1960s." - Kirkus Reviews"I’m swept away by how comprehensive A Hard Rain is, by its anecdotal style, its readability, the range of topics, ambition of the undertaking, and emotionality and intellectual integrity of the author. There has been a lot of attention these last few years to the 1960s as any number of fiftieth anniversaries have been celebrated. But these have been like drum solos. Frye Gaillard’s book, with its mixture of the personal and scholarly, with its weaving together of so many stories, is simply symphonic. This is great work." - Malcolm Margolin, author and award-winning editor and founder of Heyday and News from Native California"An enlightening picture of America at a historic juncture." - Publishers Weekly Starred Review"As a history, A Hard Rain is exhaustive, recounting not only well-known events such as the Kennedy assassinations and the March on Washington but also dozens of less publicized incidents that spoke to the national mood. Frye Gaillard excels at weaving his own experiences of the decade without distracting from the overall narrative, and his research brings long-forgotten events to the fore. A full-scale, flowing journey through the decade." - Library Journal"A Hard Rain traces the history of the raucous decade in which Frye Gaillard and this writer both grew up. The resulting work is one of those culmination-of-a-life's-work books most non-fiction writers can only dream about. The book is a powerful, engaging mix of concise, hard reporting with a strong narrative thrust and a personal touch. It's also a great read, in Gaillard's trademark knowledgeable but casual, nearly conversational style. A jaw-dropping popular history of the 1960s." - Creative Loafing"The great strength of A Hard Rain is that the author deftly weaves together a narrative of people — some well-known and some less so — and their recollections. A Hard Rain has a broad sweep. It is impressive that the author was able to treat so many topics and details while maintaining a highly readable story. The synthesis here is superb. For those seeking to revisit a formative time in their life, or for others looking for an introduction to a hinge point of history, this is a terrific book." - Washington Independent Review of Books"A Hard Rain vividly conveys the ethical and spiritual dimensions of hope, possibility, and innocence lost during this change-filled decade. An impressive book of cultural criticism." - Spirituality & Practice"If you lived through the 1960s and still don’t have a handle on that kaleidoscopic era, or if you’ve heard about the wacky Sixties and want to understand them, then run, don’t walk, to your nearest bookseller and buy A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility and Innocence Lost." - Martha’s Vineyard Times
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Fredonia Books (NL) Life of Oliver Cromwell: With a Selection from His Letters and Speeches, The
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University of Scranton Press,U.S. Jesus: A Man for Others
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Pelican Publishing Co Leah Chase: Listen, I Say Like This CD
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Pelican Publishing Co Desperadoes of the Ozarks
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Society of Biblical Literature John Rufus: The Lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Monk Romanus
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Hons and Rebels
Book SynopsisJessica Mitford, the great muckraking journalist, was part of a legendary English aristocratic family. Her sisters included Nancy, doyenne of the 1920s London smart set and a noted novelist and biographer; Diana, wife to the English fascist chief Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity, who fell head over in heels in love with Hitler; and Deborah, later the Duchess of Devonshire. Jessica swung left and moved to America, where she took part in the civil rights movement and wrote her classic exposé of the undertaking business, The American Way of Death.Hons and Rebels is the hugely entertaining tale of Mitford's upbringing, which was, as she dryly remarks, “not exactly conventional. . . Debo spent silent hours in the chicken house learning to do an exact imitation of the look of pained concentration that comes over a hen's face when it is laying an egg. . . . Unity and I made up a complete language called Boudledidge, unintelligible to any but ourselves, in which we translated various dirty songs (for safe singing in front of the grown-ups).” But Mitford found her family's world as smothering as it was singular and, determined to escape it, she eloped with Esmond Romilly, Churchill's nephew, to go fight in the Spanish Civil War. The ensuing scandal, in which a British destroyer was dispatched to recover the two truants, inspires some of Mitford's funniest, and most pointed, pages.A family portrait, a tale of youthful folly and high-spirited adventure, a study in social history, a love story, Hons and Rebels is a delightful contribution to the autobiographer's art.
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Conundrum
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Voltaire in Love
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Fear: A Novel of World War I
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The New York Review of Books, Inc The Professor and the Siren
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of
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Long Riders' Guild Press My Life as an Explorer
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Long Riders' Guild Press Travels with Fortune - an African Adventure
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Other Press LLC Raif Badawi, The Voice of Freedom: My Husband,
Book SynopsisA powerful first-person account of Ensaf Haidar’s life wither her husband, Saudi Arabian social activist Raif Badawi, and her worldwide campaign to free him from imprisonment Ensaf Haidar's unforgettable account of her marriage to imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi tells the story of the survival of their love against all odds, and of her courageous fight for her husband’s freedom.When Ensaf and Raif married in 2002 they shed tears of joy; they had overcome the resistance of her family and the rigid conventions of Saudi Arabian culture, and their battle to be together was finally won. But an even greater challenge lay ahead. After the romance of their clandestine courtship, the triumph of their wedding day, and the ups and downs of married life, Ensaf discovers that Raif is becoming active in the liberal movement. Their partnership grows stronger as Raif works tirelessly, daring to question the social order of Saudi Arabia — until his activities attract the attention of the religious police. With Raif under increasing surveillance, Ensaf reluctantly accepts exile as the only way to protect their three young children, hoping that Raif will soon join them.But Raif's arrest and subsequent sentence — to ten years in prison and 1,000 lashes — change everything. Ensaf must take up the fight for her husband’s life, galvanizing global support and campaigning for his freedom — and their right to be reunited as a family again. This profoundly moving memoir is both a love story and an inspiring account of the making of not one but two heroic human rights activists.
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Other Press LLC The Honeymoon
Book SynopsisBased on the life of George Eliot, a captivating account of her passions and tribulations which explores the nature of love in its many guises.
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Other Press LLC At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and
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Other Press LLC All Happy Families: A Memoir
Book SynopsisA prominent French writer delves into his own history in this eloquent reflection on dysfunctional family relationships.
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Lantern Books,US Polar Bear in the Zoo: A Speculation
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Lantern Books,US Wangari Maathai: Visionary, Environmental Leader,
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Select Books Inc Psychedelic Bubble Gum: Boyce & Hart, The
Book SynopsisFrom the man who wrote the songs that outsold the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in 1967-1968, comes the story of the first decades of his life in Hollywood and New York. Immerse yourself in Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Award nominated songwriter Bobby Hart's world as he shares the story behind his success; from humble beginnings comes a musical goliath.Psychedelic Bubble Gum is an exclusive glimpse into Hart's personal journey as he moves on the fast track to fame. This vivid narrative follows Hart's gradual rise in the music industry as half of the duo Boyce and Hart, as he and his friend and partner Tommy Boyce wrote the songs that launched the Monkees to stardom, and eventually reaching over a hundred million in sales. Along the way is all the heartbreak and drama that accompanies fame and fortune—an uprooted life, conflicted morals, and the sacrifice of his wholesome high school sweetheart Becky.With unbending sincerity, Hart details a life of extravagance, betrayal, loss, disillusionment, and an unstoppable personal struggle to find spiritual balance, peace, and love. Psychedelic Bubble Gum is a rollercoaster ride through the 1960s and 1970s during America's whirlwind era of free speech, mysticism, and psychedelic pop culture, and, of course, rock 'n' roll. Packed with intimate behind-the-scenes encounters with pop star royalty, Psychedelic Bubble Gum is tempered by humor, honesty, and a singular understanding of the industry, Trade Review"Hart, in his debut, tells of how his jagged path through the music industry led to heartbreakbut also to happiness. This snappy yet reflective memoir opens with an episode that's emblematic of its narrator. While struggling to make it in Hollywood, Hart listened to the radio and detected an unsatisfying insincerity in the DJ's voice. Hart's desire for authenticity, and his connections in entertainment, would go on to propel him on a remarkable journey through the music world. He left his hometown of Phoenix to start six months of active duty in the U.S. Army Reserve in Monterey, California, and soon found himself entangled in the glamour and grit of Hollywoodthat 'circus of extremes for the senses with its bright lights and colorful characters'while working for a company that manufactured labels for vinyl records. His own recording career, though, began one fateful Saturday, when he booked studio time for himself and became amazed at the possibilities that emerged when he combined his musical background with skillful sound engineering. What followed were years of risk and uncertainty and powerful collaborations with other musiciansas well as love, loss, and friendship. Hart candidly depicts his hyperactive, out-and-about lifestyle as a musician and songwriter who struggled to balance the work that gave his life meaning with his commitment to his family. Sometimes the strain proved too much, and his relationship with his first wife deteriorated as a result. Along the way, countless projects with his songwriting partner, Tommy Boyce, rolled by, as did the tumultuous cultural and historical events of the 1960s. Before long, the duo was writing songs for The Monkees, including '(Theme from) The Monkees ,' 'Last Train to Clarksville,' and 'Valleri.' In the memoir's most captivating pages, Hart recounts the stratospheric rise of that artificially engineered musical group. Particularly engaging are Hart's anecdotes about his own songwriting process; he recounts, for instance, that the song fragment that eventually became 'Last Train to Clarksville' was inspired by a mishearing of the Beatles' 1966 single 'Paperback Writer.' A highly detailed autobiography by a unique figure in American cultural history that will interest historians and pop-culture aficionados alike." Kirkus Reviews
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Booklocker Inc.,US DON'T CUT ME AGAIN! True Stories About Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)
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Sentient Publications Blowing Zen: Finding an Authentic Life: 2nd
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Temple University Press,U.S. Home Bound: Growing Up With A Disability
Book Synopsis"When I was growing up, I learned that if you were a girl you went to school and college, then you married, became a wife and had a family. . . . When I became disabled, my journey, I was pretty sure, was not going to take me in those directions. What was I supposed to be? What kind of life was I supposed to have?"Once polio had made her a quadriplegic, Cass Irvin didn't know where she fit in or what would become of her. Neither did her parents, teachers, counselors, or rehabilitation therapists. And so began her search for a place to call home.In this memoir, Cass Irvin tells of the remarkable journey that transformed her from a young girl too timid to ask for help to a community activist and writer who speaks forcefully about the needs of people with disabilities. As a young girl she was taken to Warm Springs, Georgia, where she learned about living as a disabled person and found a hero in Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the famously if silently disabled president. Bright and inquisitive, Cass soon began to question the prevailing assumptions of a society that had no place for her and to question her own meekness.In time, her keen sense of injustice gave her the courage to fight for a college education. That personal victory emboldened her to find the means to live independently, but it also persuaded her that political work is the key to enabling all people with disabilities to live fulfilling lives. This book, then, is testimony to the importance of community building and organizing as well as the story of one woman's struggle for independence.Trade Review"Home Bound is a very important book. It's greatest strength is the political message that it delivers about disability. Breaking out of the familiar genres of disability books such as history, autobiography, inspirational, or catastrophe narratives, Irvin's book sets out a rhetoric of protest and consciousness-raising that mobilizes elements from more conventional disability books to create a fresh discourse of disability from inside the movement. She clearly and convincingly lays out the arguments for seeing disability as a sociopolitical issue, for recognizing its connections to the civil rights and women's movements, for disability pride, and for building community and a politicized consciousness. No other book that I know of attempts what this ambitious volume does."—Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, author of Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Literature and Culture"Home Bound delivers a slice of history that is relatively well known to the public-at-large—Roosevelt, Warm Springs, JFK—as well as a slice that is relatively unknown—the disability rights movement. There is a remarkable ring of 'truth' and authenticity. There is also a freshness and honesty. [Irvin] writes with a certain rawness and enthusiasm. I loved the energy of this book and the people I visited and revisited as I read. Home Bound speaks across 'disability lines.' It is powerful, well-written, and hard to put down."—Dr. Fred Hafferty, Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota"The author's courage to overcome obstacles makes this book an inspiration for readers living with any kind of disability, and non-disabled adults will gain increased understanding from her remarkable story."—ForeWord"Home Bound is like no other disability book I've ever read...this book is candid...interesting with the little details that make up the cornerstones of disability culturalization."—Albuquerque Tribune"...more than a life story, [it] is also a meditation on the experience of disability in America....It is not the remarkable life of the author that sets this book apart, it is the unembellished way that she writes about it."—Disabilities Studies Quarterly"A hard life lived well. This is what makes it an important book."—RALPH: The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and the Humanities"...an engaging read."—Quest magazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. From the Kitty Room 2. True Home: Warm Springs 3. Attendant Vibrations 4. The Radicalization of Cass 5. True Hero
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Temple University Press,U.S. Fireweed: A Political Autobiography
Book SynopsisA beautifully written, dramatic memoir from one of women's history's foundersTrade Review"Gerda Lerner's absorbing memoir bears witness to the major events of the twentieth century...[She] is a gifted storyteller who writes with passion and clarity. This political autobiography is a must read!"-Joyce Antler, Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture, Brandeis University "A spirited, eminently readable and unapologetic memoir of leftist life in a rightist era...[L]eaving readers hungry for more[,] Lerner's autobiography also makes a fine contribution to social history."-Kirkus Reviews "Fireweed is made out of courage and wisdom. One of the finest historians of our time has written an eloquent memoir that makes clear how Women's History has grown out of lived experience. Read it as a story of a girl coming of age in dark times; read it as a story of a brave young woman who lives her progressive ideals in cold war America. I simply could not put down this loving, chilling and heartbreaking book."-Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor of History, University of Iowa and author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship "Gerda Lerner, a leading pioneer in Women's History...presents an especially vivid account of the connections between her ambivalent but loving relations with her parents...and her own escape from fascism and quest for both autonomy and a professional career."-Professor David Brion Davis, Director, Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and author of In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery "[A] superb memoir... Lerner's power and precision as a writer makes this story read like a fast-paced novel."-Linda Gordon, Professor of History, NYU "Most people become historians by going to school day and night for years. Gerda Lerner became a historian by working in her youth in social justice and women's rights movements that became history. Then, in middle age, she went to school day and night-finally becoming one of our preeminent writers and teachers of Women's History. Fireweed is a wonderful and inspiring story for young women."-Grace Paley "[Fireweed] reads like a novel..."-The New York Times Book Review "As a work of prose, this autobiography has a peculiar beauty. Some of the lines are magical... Perhaps the most striking aspect of Gerda Lerner's memoir, as of her many other publications, is the lucidity of her vision... But, like the eloquent Simone de Beauvoir, who also told her own life, she has made it difficult for any would-be biographer to do better."-The Women's Review of BooksTable of ContentsA Note on UsageIntroductionPart I: BeginningsPart II: Becoming an AmericanPart III: Becoming an American RadicalPart IV: In the Eye of the StormThanksPhotograph gallery
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Temple University Press,U.S. Surviving Mexico's Dirty War: A Political
Book SynopsisA riveting memoir of Mexico's "dirty wars"Trade Review"The book's particular strengths lie in the author's ability to recreate, often in great detail, the environment and lived experiences of a young, idealistic member of the left-wing guerrilla movement that exploded on the Mexican political scene in the early-to-mid 1970s." Eric Zolov, Franklin and Marshall College "This translation of the Spanish-language Sendenero en tenieblas (2004) is a welcome addition to the near-empty shelf of contemporary studies of Mexico's dirty war, and on modern Guerrero more specifically...The memoir will also serve as a valuable primary source for scholars examining this period of Guerrerense activism...and it provides an important personal component that contributes to humanizing and complicating often agonizing decisions and their ramifications." The Americas "An inside story of guerrilla activities and a gripping tale of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Mexican government" Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education "Ulloa Bornemann's accessible memoir is an intensely self-reflective, critical and sometimes even ironic account of the life of an engaged but naive young man from the upper middle classes, who plunged into a world of armed resistance and ideological factionalism, and struggled his way through the dungeons of an authoritarian state...[T]his book [is] a revealing and horrifying document." Bulletin of Latin American Research "Alberto Ulloa Bornemann's testimonial account of his disappearance, imprisonment and torture--the first significant memoir of a political prisoner from Mexico's 'dirty war' of the 1970s--is so important, for it should remind us, and Mexicans themselves, not to forget a past that was both so sinister yet so recent...As the Schmidts point out in their introduction, this work is an important contribution to the genre of testimonial literature that has emerged in Latin America in the late 20th century that is distinguished, above all, by the moral force of the accounts related. Temple University Press must be praised for publishing this book: it makes an important contribution to our understanding of Mexico in the 1970s and gives us a unique insight into the activities and ideas prevalent within the guerrilla organizations of the period, and into the character of figures such as Cabanas." Latin American Review of Books "Ulloa's account of his capture, torture, and imprisonment is harrowing...The book offer[s] great insights into the weakness of the Mexican revolutionary left during the 1960s and 1970s and the barbarism of the PRI government." Latin American Politics and Society "The translation of Alberto Ulloa Bornemann's highly personal testimony, originally published in Mexico as Sendero de tinieblas (2004), is quite timely. Reminiscent of Jacobo Timerman's searing account of his detention by the Argentine military (Preso sin nombre, celda sin numero, 1981), Ulloa's narrative chronicles in labyrinthine fashion the experiences that led to his arrest and imprisonment as a subversive... Ulloa offers a critical insider's view of the armed left, which was thoroughly balkanized and riven by divisions regarding ideology, strategy, and leadership... Ably translated, and enhanced by an excellent introduction and glossary, Ulloa's candid memoir is obligatory reading for anyone interested in the dark history of the Cold War in Latin America." The Hispanic American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsI. A Sad and Cruel Underground II. The Long March III. In the Kingdom of Necessity IV. The Roads of Freedom
£69.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Surviving Mexico's Dirty War: A Political
Book SynopsisA riveting memoir of Mexico's "dirty wars"Trade Review"The book's particular strengths lie in the author's ability to recreate, often in great detail, the environment and lived experiences of a young, idealistic member of the left-wing guerrilla movement that exploded on the Mexican political scene in the early-to-mid 1970s." Eric Zolov, Franklin and Marshall College "This translation of the Spanish-language Sendenero en tenieblas (2004) is a welcome addition to the near-empty shelf of contemporary studies of Mexico's dirty war, and on modern Guerrero more specifically...The memoir will also serve as a valuable primary source for scholars examining this period of Guerrerense activism...and it provides an important personal component that contributes to humanizing and complicating often agonizing decisions and their ramifications." The Americas "An inside story of guerrilla activities and a gripping tale of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Mexican government" Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education "Ulloa Bornemann's accessible memoir is an intensely self-reflective, critical and sometimes even ironic account of the life of an engaged but naive young man from the upper middle classes, who plunged into a world of armed resistance and ideological factionalism, and struggled his way through the dungeons of an authoritarian state...[T]his book [is] a revealing and horrifying document." Bulletin of Latin American Research "Alberto Ulloa Bornemann's testimonial account of his disappearance, imprisonment and torture--the first significant memoir of a political prisoner from Mexico's 'dirty war' of the 1970s--is so important, for it should remind us, and Mexicans themselves, not to forget a past that was both so sinister yet so recent...As the Schmidts point out in their introduction, this work is an important contribution to the genre of testimonial literature that has emerged in Latin America in the late 20th century that is distinguished, above all, by the moral force of the accounts related. Temple University Press must be praised for publishing this book: it makes an important contribution to our understanding of Mexico in the 1970s and gives us a unique insight into the activities and ideas prevalent within the guerrilla organizations of the period, and into the character of figures such as Cabanas." Latin American Review of Books "Ulloa's account of his capture, torture, and imprisonment is harrowing...The book offer[s] great insights into the weakness of the Mexican revolutionary left during the 1960s and 1970s and the barbarism of the PRI government." Latin American Politics and Society "The translation of Alberto Ulloa Bornemann's highly personal testimony, originally published in Mexico as Sendero de tinieblas (2004), is quite timely. Reminiscent of Jacobo Timerman's searing account of his detention by the Argentine military (Preso sin nombre, celda sin numero, 1981), Ulloa's narrative chronicles in labyrinthine fashion the experiences that led to his arrest and imprisonment as a subversive... Ulloa offers a critical insider's view of the armed left, which was thoroughly balkanized and riven by divisions regarding ideology, strategy, and leadership... Ably translated, and enhanced by an excellent introduction and glossary, Ulloa's candid memoir is obligatory reading for anyone interested in the dark history of the Cold War in Latin America." The Hispanic American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsI. A Sad and Cruel Underground II. The Long March III. In the Kingdom of Necessity IV. The Roads of Freedom
£26.09
Temple University Press,U.S. The Philadelphia Reader
Book SynopsisDo you love Philadelphia? Do you love good writing? Well, this is the book for you. It's about the people of Philadelphia--the good, the fine, and the imperfect. Yes, the sports heroes are here--Mike Schmidt, Julius (\u0022Dr. J.\u0022) Erving. And the politicians--Ed Rendell, John Street. And the moguls--Brian Roberts, Comcast honcho. And the would-be moguls--Mark Yagalla, world-class embezzler. And so many more, including--writing in their own words--Terry Gross, Patti LaBelle, W. Wilson Goode, Sr., Judy Wicks, Judith Rodin, and Smarty Jones (proving that this horse is no one-trick pony). And so many more--25 of them in all. The people--and the horse--who have meant something to this city during the last 20 years. Ripped from the pages of Philadelphia magazine (well, OK, carefully removed and lovingly pasted into this book), here are profiles of the people who made an era.Trade Review"The sensory experience of Philadelphia comes every time I walk through it or ride through it. It's exciting and refreshing, but it's still not enough. I want secrets both delicious and dark. I want the intimacies of the people who make this city so unlike any other. Which is where Philadelphia magazine comes in... Its journalism is the best of any urban magazine in the country, tough when it has to be, unflinching when it has to be, compassionate when it has to be... If you want to know the heart of Philadelphia, the complete heart with all the different veins, sit back and enjoy and read these wonderful pieces..."-Buzz Bissinger, from the Foreword "In the 1960s and 1970s, Philadelphia magazine was a pioneer of the so-called New Journalism and largely defined the template of what a city or regional magazine can be. At a time when most city magazines were Bibles of Babbitt, peddling gaseous boosterism and selling content to advertisers, Philadelphia was breaking china in Main Line drawing rooms, shining light into the smoky back rooms of Old Philadelphia power, and writing unflinchingly about the city's seamy underbelly... One of the staples of the magazine has always been the profile, an in-depth prose portrait of a newsmaker or larger-than-life character who in some way defines Philadelphia. This volume brings together, for the first time, some of the best of these pieces. The subjects are among the brightest lights in the recent history of Philadelphia-with a handful of infamous charmers and oddballs included for good measure-captured with a greater depth and intimacy than in any other medium."-Robert Huber and Benjamin Wallace, from the IntroductionTable of ContentsCONTENTS Foreword by Buzz Bissinger Introduction by the Editors 1986 - 1994 Sandra Newman (1988)-by Lisa DePaulo Arlen Specter (1992)-by Alicia Mundy Mumia Abu-Jamal (1993)-by Devin Leonard Bobby Simone (1993)-by Lisa DePaulo Mayor Ed Rendell (1994)-by Lisa DePaulo My Philadelphia Story: W. Wilson Goode, Sr. 1994 - 1999 Robert Montgomery Scott (1995)-by Mark Kram, Jr. Senator Rick Santorum (1995)-by Eric Konigsberg Mike Schmidt (1995)-by Larry Platt Anne d'Harnoncourt (1996)-by Amy Donohue My Philadelphia Story: Judy Wicks Brian Roberts (1997)-by Larry Platt Frank Bender (1997)-by Sabrina Rubin Erdely Richard Glanton (1997)-by Mark Cohen My Philadelphia Story: Judith Rodin Harry Jay Katz (1997)-by Stephen Rodrick Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (1997)-by Jim Quinn Richard Sprague (1998)-by Buzz Bissinger Mike Teti (1999)-by Christopher McDougall My Philadelphia Story: Terry Gross 2000 - 2004 Mayor John Street (2000)-by Christopher McDougall M. Night Shyamalan (2000)-by Maximillian Potter Vernon Hill (2001)-by Larry Platt My Philadelphia Story: Smarty Jones Mark Yagalla (2001)-by Benjamin Wallace Kenny Gamble (2001)-by Elizabeth Gold Julius Erving (2003)-by Robert Huber My Philadelphia Story: Patti LaBelle David Brooks (2004)-by Sasha Issenberg Dr. William Norwood (2004)-by Jason Fagone Lang Lang (2004)-by Christopher McDougall
£43.70
Temple University Press,U.S. The Philadelphia Reader
Book SynopsisDo you love Philadelphia? Do you love good writing? Well, this is the book for you. It's about the people of Philadelphia--the good, the fine, and the imperfect. Yes, the sports heroes are here--Mike Schmidt, Julius (\u0022Dr. J.\u0022) Erving. And the politicians--Ed Rendell, John Street. And the moguls--Brian Roberts, Comcast honcho. And the would-be moguls--Mark Yagalla, world-class embezzler. And so many more, including--writing in their own words--Terry Gross, Patti LaBelle, W. Wilson Goode, Sr., Judy Wicks, Judith Rodin, and Smarty Jones (proving that this horse is no one-trick pony). And so many more--25 of them in all. The people--and the horse--who have meant something to this city during the last 20 years. Ripped from the pages of Philadelphia magazine (well, OK, carefully removed and lovingly pasted into this book), here are profiles of the people who made an era.Trade Review"The sensory experience of Philadelphia comes every time I walk through it or ride through it. It's exciting and refreshing, but it's still not enough. I want secrets both delicious and dark. I want the intimacies of the people who make this city so unlike any other. Which is where Philadelphia magazine comes in... Its journalism is the best of any urban magazine in the country, tough when it has to be, unflinching when it has to be, compassionate when it has to be... If you want to know the heart of Philadelphia, the complete heart with all the different veins, sit back and enjoy and read these wonderful pieces..."-Buzz Bissinger, from the Foreword "In the 1960s and 1970s, Philadelphia magazine was a pioneer of the so-called New Journalism and largely defined the template of what a city or regional magazine can be. At a time when most city magazines were Bibles of Babbitt, peddling gaseous boosterism and selling content to advertisers, Philadelphia was breaking china in Main Line drawing rooms, shining light into the smoky back rooms of Old Philadelphia power, and writing unflinchingly about the city's seamy underbelly... One of the staples of the magazine has always been the profile, an in-depth prose portrait of a newsmaker or larger-than-life character who in some way defines Philadelphia. This volume brings together, for the first time, some of the best of these pieces. The subjects are among the brightest lights in the recent history of Philadelphia-with a handful of infamous charmers and oddballs included for good measure-captured with a greater depth and intimacy than in any other medium."-Robert Huber and Benjamin Wallace, from the IntroductionTable of ContentsCONTENTS Foreword by Buzz Bissinger Introduction by the Editors 1986 - 1994 Sandra Newman (1988)-by Lisa DePaulo Arlen Specter (1992)-by Alicia Mundy Mumia Abu-Jamal (1993)-by Devin Leonard Bobby Simone (1993)-by Lisa DePaulo Mayor Ed Rendell (1994)-by Lisa DePaulo My Philadelphia Story: W. Wilson Goode, Sr. 1994 - 1999 Robert Montgomery Scott (1995)-by Mark Kram, Jr. Senator Rick Santorum (1995)-by Eric Konigsberg Mike Schmidt (1995)-by Larry Platt Anne d'Harnoncourt (1996)-by Amy Donohue My Philadelphia Story: Judy Wicks Brian Roberts (1997)-by Larry Platt Frank Bender (1997)-by Sabrina Rubin Erdely Richard Glanton (1997)-by Mark Cohen My Philadelphia Story: Judith Rodin Harry Jay Katz (1997)-by Stephen Rodrick Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (1997)-by Jim Quinn Richard Sprague (1998)-by Buzz Bissinger Mike Teti (1999)-by Christopher McDougall My Philadelphia Story: Terry Gross 2000 - 2004 Mayor John Street (2000)-by Christopher McDougall M. Night Shyamalan (2000)-by Maximillian Potter Vernon Hill (2001)-by Larry Platt My Philadelphia Story: Smarty Jones Mark Yagalla (2001)-by Benjamin Wallace Kenny Gamble (2001)-by Elizabeth Gold Julius Erving (2003)-by Robert Huber My Philadelphia Story: Patti LaBelle David Brooks (2004)-by Sasha Issenberg Dr. William Norwood (2004)-by Jason Fagone Lang Lang (2004)-by Christopher McDougall
£20.69
Temple University Press,U.S. Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle
Book Synopsis Octavius Valentine Catto was an orator who shared stages with Frederick Douglass, a second baseman on Philadelphia’s best black baseball team, a teacher at the city’s finest black school and an activist who fought in the state capital and on the streets for equal rights. With his racially-charged murder, the nation lost a civil rights pioneer—one who risked his life a century before Selma and Birmingham. In Tasting Freedom Murray Dubin and Pulitzer Prize winner Dan Biddle painstakingly chronicle the life of this charismatic black leader—a “free” black whose freedom was in name only. Born in the American south, where slavery permeated everyday life, he moved north where he joined the fight to be truly free—free to vote, go to school, ride on streetcars, play baseball and even participate in July 4th celebrations. Catto electrified a biracial audience in 1864 when he proclaimed, “There must come a change,” calling on free men and women to act and educate the newly freed slaves. With a group of other African Americans who called themselves a “band of brothers,” they challenged one injustice after another. Tasting Freedom presents the little-known stories of Catto and the men and women who struggled to change America.Trade Review"Daniel Biddle and Murray Dubin have brought to life a leader of the Civil War-era struggle against slavery and for equal rights for blacks. This dramatic book not only rescues the intrepid Octavius Catto from obscurity but reminds us that this struggle—and the violent opposition to it—long predated the modern civil rights era."—Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University"[A] marvelous historical feast for lovers of Afro-American, Philadelphia, and American history alike.... The book's particular magic is that it shows how real people, black and white, rich and poor, were tossed about in the historical currents that flowed through Philadelphia.... One would have to search far and wide to find a better-researched and more compellingly readable biography." —The Philadelphia Inquirer"This is a great story and a compelling history of the original civil rights movement—with its own Dr. King. In Tasting Freedom, Biddle and Dubin bring to light a hero whose footprints helped lead America through the challenges of racial injustice: Octavius Catto. The story is both riveting and elucidative"—Juan Williams, author of Eyes on the Prize and Thurgood Marshall"Tasting Freedom is masterfully researched and cogently written. Biddle and Dubin transport us to yesteryear, profiling some of the central figures of the Civil War era and revealing the birth and rise of the black intelligentsia in this country. Tasting Freedom is a valuable triumph—and a work of importance."—Elijah Anderson, Yale University"Tasting Freedom is required reading for anyone who thinks the civil rights movement started in the 1950s, with Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks (hint: you're off by a full century). This is a revelation for those of us who grew up being fed morality tales about righteous Northern free staters standing against Southern slaveholders (hint: neither offered real freedom). Biddle and Dubin’s book is for all of us who love a story about baseball and war, about race and the making of America."—Larry Tye, author of Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend"If you fancy knowing about growing up black in mid-nineteenth-century Philadelphia, there is no better place to start than with Biddle and Dubin's powerful and poignant biography of Octavius V. Catto. For those who believe that post–Civil War Reconstruction was only a Southern affair, this book is an eye-opener."—Gary B. Nash, Director of the National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA, and author of The Liberty Bell"An entrancing portrait of a leading Renaissance man for equal rights. . . . Nothing matches it at the moment as a prequel to Thomas J. Sugrue’s much-noted Sweet Land of Liberty."—Library Journal"This rich biography...restores Catto to his important place in the pantheon of civil rights heroes."—ForeWordTable of ContentsPreface Introduction “A Hundred O. V. Cattos” 1. Charleston 2. Arm in Arm 3. “Keep the Flame Burning . . .” 4. With Giants 5. Lessons 6. The Irish, the Killers, and Squire McMullen 7. “Arise, Young North” 8. How Much I Yearn to Be a Man” 9. A Chance on the Pavement 10. The Wolf Killers 11. Manhood 12. The Battle for the Streetcars 13. Baseball 14. The Hide of the Rhinoceros 15. Election Day 16. The Venus of the High Trapeze Epilogue The Legacy Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£16.14
Temple University Press,U.S. Hapa Girl: A Memoir
Book SynopsisA vivid depiction of the racism suffered by a mixed-race family in rural South DakotaTrade Review"A tour-de-force sojourn into a never-before-told zone of small town American bigotry. Hapa Girl is consistently stylish, permanently courageous, bitingly tragic, but always rationally detached with a Marx Brothers' wit. This is May-lee Chai's best comment yet about America."—Anthony B. Chan, author of Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May WongTable of ContentsPrologueChapter 1: The Wearing of the GreenChapter 2: The Sexy Artist Meets the Boy From New York CityChapter 3: How to Charm a Mother-in-LawChapter 4: California Dreamin'Chapter 5: The BananaChapter 6: The Banana's RevengeChapter 7: Autumn in the CountryChapter 8: Hunting SeasonChapter 9: The Little ThingsChapter 10: The ClosetChapter 11: My Last ConfessionChapter 12: BugsChapter 13: The Fall of the PrinceChapter 14: The Jade TreeChapter 15: The Nights of Many PrayersChapter 16: What You Don't Know Can Hurt YouChapter 17: Stephen King HighChapter 18: BarbariansChapter 19: Glamour PussChapter 20: The CannibalsChapter 21: The Fine Art of Denial
£54.00
Temple University Press,U.S. Hapa Girl: A Memoir
Book SynopsisA vivid depiction of the racism suffered by a mixed-race family in rural South DakotaTrade Review"A tour-de-force sojourn into a never-before-told zone of small town American bigotry. Hapa Girl is consistently stylish, permanently courageous, bitingly tragic, but always rationally detached with a Marx Brothers' wit. This is May-lee Chai's best comment yet about America."—Anthony B. Chan, author of Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May WongTable of ContentsPrologueChapter 1: The Wearing of the GreenChapter 2: The Sexy Artist Meets the Boy From New York CityChapter 3: How to Charm a Mother-in-LawChapter 4: California Dreamin'Chapter 5: The BananaChapter 6: The Banana's RevengeChapter 7: Autumn in the CountryChapter 8: Hunting SeasonChapter 9: The Little ThingsChapter 10: The ClosetChapter 11: My Last ConfessionChapter 12: BugsChapter 13: The Fall of the PrinceChapter 14: The Jade TreeChapter 15: The Nights of Many PrayersChapter 16: What You Don't Know Can Hurt YouChapter 17: Stephen King HighChapter 18: BarbariansChapter 19: Glamour PussChapter 20: The CannibalsChapter 21: The Fine Art of Denial
£20.69
Temple University Press,U.S. Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith
Book SynopsisThe story of the most famous protest in sports history, written by one of the men who staged itTrade Review"An important entry in the history of track and field and African American studies." Library Journal "The book offers insights into Smith's athletic prowess...When he describes the physical sensations of running -- the paradoxical relaxation of muscles required to explode out of the blocks, the adrenaline that floods the body as a sprinter takes the get-set position and the stride-by-stride account of the 1968 gold medal race -- Smith's narrative surges to life. A major aim of the book is to explain the motivation behind the silent gesture, but Smith isn't interested in trenchant political analysis...Readers of Silent Gesture will be left with a stark impression of the toll Smith paid for speaking out against racism. He views his autobiography as his last, desperate chance to pull himself out of the 'muck and mire he's been stuck in since the Mexico City Olympics.' Smith never expresses regret for having taken his controversial stand." The Washington Post "Smith's account is told in simple but eloquent fashion, tempered by a healthy dose of irony and humor. He never romanticizes his actions, but rightfully acknowledges their powerful social impact." Smooth "Read Silent Gesture for the story of an athlete who grabbed a chance to make a difference." The Seattle Medium "The reader is given a good sense of his family's small-town home in Texas...Smith's book doesn't lack for honesty." Bookforum "Smith's candid reflections on life after Mexico City is compelling...Most striking, though, are revelations about the stresses he endured before the 1968 race...For Smith, at 24, to have not only won the gold, but to have issued his anything-but-silent gesture from the world's biggest stage, makes his story all the more extraordinary." Black Issues Book Review "With the help of Steele, Smith offers a well-documented and clearly written story behind the memorable 1968 Olympic moment...Extensive background information about Smith's life before, during and after the 'silent gesture' provides understanding and insight about an Olympic image that will endure forever. Clearly presenting the fears, the disappointments, the triumphs, and the hopes, then and now, that the raised black fists represented in 1968, this book offers a wealth of information that will help the reader understand the deep-rooted meaning of the gesture and the impact it continues to have almost 40 years later. CHOICE August 2007 "What is the worth of this book? I believe it to be one that accurately portrays Tommie Smith's life and Olympic ordeal...We have waited a long time for this book. The result is worth the delay...Silent Gesture provides, by far, the most powerful punctuation mark in explaining one of the most historic of all Olympic moments." Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies "Smith's stories of his ostracized life post-1968 Olympics offer historians another opportunity to consider the multiple ways memory shapes the popular narrative... Smith uses his book as an opportunity to tell his truth...[which is] engaging." The Journal of Sport HistoryTable of ContentsForeword1: Welcome Home - 1 2: October 16, 1968 - 26 3: Out of the Fields - 55 4: The Biggest City I've Ever Seen - 95 5: Run Before You Walk - 123 6: The Coach and the Professor - 147 7: Linked Forever - 147 8: No Gold, No Glove - 190 9: Paying the Price - 220 10: Going Underground - 247 11: Families Lost, and Found - 268 12: It Will Outlive Me - 296 Epilogue: Silent and Eternal - 324 Acknowledgements About the Authors
£21.59
Africa World Press Blending Colors From Life: Trenton's Own
Book SynopsisConversations with civil rights activist, Methodist lay minister and celebrated African American artist, Tom Malloy.
£21.21
Gotham Books Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play
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£12.60
Gotham Books Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton
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£17.85
