Hooligan To Historian

Author : Joe Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780955916533
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hooligan to Historian written by Joe Baker and published by . This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having been accused of being a Satanist, a millionaire and a foreign intelligence officer for the FSB (KGB), Joe Bakers life has been anything but boring.

Author : Joe Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781291987560
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hooligan to Historian written by Joe Baker and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Baker is one of the most prominent local historians in the whole of Ireland. Many people believe that he is university educated but this book tells the true story of how this came to be and from the man himself.

Author : Joanna Kelly
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462058248
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hooligan’S Alley written by Joanna Kelly and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fueled with in-depth research and personal recollections, Hooligans Alley presents a historic novel embracing generations of early European immigrants and their amazing struggles. In the style of a novel, author Joanna Kelly tells the true story of Wilhelmina Huebner Metting, an orphaned farm girl who uprooted her life in Germany to search for an aunt living far away in America. Her quest took her to New Yorks infamous Hells Kitchen, an area of overcrowded slums, lumberyards, slaughterhouses, factories, and immigrants troubled by poverty and violence. There, seventeen-year-old Wilhelmina started a seamstress business and kept cows on a vacant city lot. Wilhelmina was, above all things, a passionate social reformer. She encountered American society first during the Civil War, a time of great social unrest. Her involvement with the Colored Orphan Asylum put her in the center of the New York City Draft Riots, the largest uprising in the history of the United States. Wilhelminas story inspired Kelly, who fleshed out the few hard facts she could find with a lovingly researched fictional visit to a long-lost time and place in Americas history. Joanna Kellydraws special strength from her Quaker faith as well as her insatiable thirst for history in writing her first novel, Hooligans Alley. She is a gifted writer who explores her love of music, wildflowers, and passion for family in weaving this remarkable series of adventures that will set your heart to racing, while stretching your own recollections and imagination. Hooligans Alley is a must-read for New Yorkers and history lovers, and everyone who cares about origins and family. E. Barrie Kavasch best-selling author of The Medicine Wheel Garden

Author : Norman Manea
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300206321
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hooligan's Return written by Norman Manea and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romanian exile Norman Manea’s internationally acclaimed memoir/novel, now available to English-language readers At the center of The Hooligan’s Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea’s book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative work, traversing time and place, life and literature, dream and reality, past and present. Autobiographical events merge with historic elements, always connecting the individual with the collective destiny. Manea speaks of the bloodiest time of the twentieth century and of the emergence afterward of a global, competitive, and sometimes cynical modern society. Both a harrowing memoir and an ambitious epic project, The Hooligan’s Return achieves a subtle internal harmony as anxiety evolves into a delicate irony and a burlesque fantasy. Beautifully written and brilliantly conceived, this is the work of a writer with an acute understanding of the vast human potential for both evil and kindness, obedience and integrity.

Author : Robert C. Harvey
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626743541
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insider Histories of Cartooning written by Robert C. Harvey and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many fans and insiders alike have never heard of Bill Hume, Bailin’ Wire Bill, Abe Martin, AWOL Wally, the Texas History Movies, or the Weatherbird at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. And many insiders do not know why we call comic books “comics” even though lots of them are not at all funny. Robert C. Harvey, cartoonist and a veteran comics critic, author of several histories of comics and biographies of cartoonists, tells forgotten stories of a dozen now obscure but once famous cartoonists and their creations. He also includes accounts of the cartooning careers of a groundbreaking African American and a woman who broke into an industry once dominated by white men. Many of the better known stories in some of the book’s fourteen chapters are wrapped around fugitive scraps of information that are almost unknown. Which of Bill Mauldin’s famous duo is Willie? Which is Joe? What was the big secret about E. Simms Campbell? Who was Funnyman? And why? And some of the pictures are rare, too. Hugh Hefner’s cartoons, Kin Hubbard’s illustrations for Short Furrows, Betty Swords’ pictures for the Male Chauvinist Pig Calendar of 1974, the Far East pin-up cartoon character Babysan, illustrations for Popo and Fifina, and Red Ryder’s last bow.

Author : Kenneth Howard Goldman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476682607
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Yachts in Naval Service written by Kenneth Howard Goldman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before there was a U.S. Navy, several Colonial navies were all-volunteer--both the crews and the vessels. From its beginnings through World War II, the Navy has relied on civilian sailors and their fast vessels to fill out its ranks of small combatants. Beginning with the birth of the yacht in the Netherlands in the 17th century , this illustrated history traces the development of yacht racing, the advent of combustion-engine power and the contribution privately owned vessels have made to national defense. Vessels conscripted during the Civil War served both the Union and Confederacy--sometimes changing sides after capture. The first USS Wanderer saw the slave trade from both sides of the law. Aboard the USS Sylph, Oscar-winning actor Ernest Borgnine fought the Third Reich's U-boats under sail. USS Sea Cloud made history as the first racially integrated ship in the Navy, three years before President Truman desegregated the military.

Author : Betty G. Russell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136592784
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Sisters written by Betty G. Russell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work on homelessness amongst women investigates how far it is a gender- based condition. Describing the lives of women without homes, and drawing upon homeless women's views of themselves and society, the book offers a cultural analysis which contains elements of an answer to the problem.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in the History of Cape Town written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ted Yeatman
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781581823257
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frank and Jesse James written by Ted Yeatman and published by Cumberland House Publishing. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yeatman has created a thorough narrative that will be satisfying to readers who know little about the James brothers and those who have read everything about them. Included are 32 pages of rare illustrations and photos of the people, places, and artifacts associated with the notorious James bandits.

Author : Steve Redhead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317411552
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football and Accelerated Culture written by Steve Redhead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Football and Accelerated Culture, Steve Redhead offers a new and challenging theorisation of global football culture, exploring the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world. Incorporating cutting-edge concepts, from accelerated culture and claustropolitanism to non-postmodernity, he reflects on the demise of working class football cultures and the rapid media globalisation of ‘the people’s game’. Drawing on international empirical research and a unique and ground-breaking study of football hooligan memoirs, the book delves into a wide array of disciplines, examining fascinating topics such as the relationship between music and football; hooligans and ultras; the rise of social media and anti-modern football movements; and ultra-realist criminology. Football and Accelerated Culture offers a new way of thinking about sporting cultures that expands the boundaries of physical cultural studies. As such, it is important reading for anybody with an interest in the culture of sport and leisure, social theory, communication studies, criminology or socio-legal studies.