Farewell To Flatbush

Author : Ronnie Joyner
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476686785
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell to Flatbush written by Ronnie Joyner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers were past their prime but still boasted a powerful roster with iconic names like Pee Wee Reese, Gil Hodges, Carl Furillo, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Don Newcombe, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale. They did not achieve greatness--they finished third in the National League--but did achieve legendary status as the last of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and marked the end of a fantastic era of baseball, when the New York Yankees, the New York Giants, and the Dodgers were the epicenter of the game's Golden Age. Baseball would never be quite the same. Documenting the fabled team's final season in New York, this book focuses on the games, the player's stories and the down-to-the-wire struggle by Brooklynites and politicians to keep the club from relocating to Los Angeles in 1958. Detailed biographies of each player and coach, and manager Walter Alston are included.

Author : Peter Jones
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 0897332571
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightfly written by Peter Jones and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Fagen will forever be associated with Steely Dan, the band he formed with Walter Becker and four other musicians in 1972. The smooth, radio-friendly veneer of the duo's songs made Steely Dan internationally popular and famous in the 1970s, but the polish glossed over the underlying layers of anger, disappointment, sleaze, and often downright weirdness lurking just beneath the surface. The elliptical lyrics were—and continue to be—an endless source of fascination. What kind of person was capable of writing such songs? Fagen has always kept his true self hidden behind walls of irony, confounding most journalistic enquiries with a mixture of obscurity and sarcasm. Nightfly cracks open the door to reveal the life behind the lyrics and traces Fagen's story from early family life in suburban New Jersey, to his first encounter with Walter Becker at Bard College, their long struggle for recognition as songwriters, and the formation of Steely Dan. The band's break-up in 1981, re-formation in 1993, and Fagen's parallel solo career are covered in detail. Author Peter Jones seeks to explain the public's continuing fascination with Fagen's music, both in collaboration with Becker and as a solo artist.

Author : Stanley Weintraub
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743246543
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Washington's Christmas Farewell written by Stanley Weintraub and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

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Total Pages : 698 pages
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Total Pages : 708 pages
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Author : David Budbill
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320614
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book While We've Still Got Feet written by David Budbill and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Familiar to listeners of National Public Radio, David Budbill is beloved by legions for straightforward poems dispatched from his hermitage on Judevine Mountain. Inspired by classical Chinese hermit poets, he follows tradition but cannot escape the complications and struggles of a modern solitary existence. Loneliness, aging and political outrage are addressed in poems that value honesty and simplicity and deplore pretension. For more than three decades, David Budbill has lived on a remote mountain in northern Vermont writing poems, reading Chinese classics, tending to his garden and, of course, working on his website. Budbill has been featured more than any other author on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac.

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Total Pages : 120 pages
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Total Pages : 174 pages
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Author : Bob Edwards
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ISBN 13 : 9780671500528
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book Fridays with Red written by Bob Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wit, wisdom, a silky southern voice--these were the qualities that captivated millions of faithful Red Barber fans each Friday as he chatted with Morning Edition host Bob Edwards on subjects ranging from gardening to sports to the mysteries of life. This affectionate memoir will delight readers.

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Total Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-04-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.