Tales Of A Footloose American 1941 1951

Author : Warren Rovetch
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ISBN 13 : 9780615517070
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of a Footloose American: 1941-1951 written by Warren Rovetch and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After running a Detroit grocery store at 14 and a high school night club at 17, Warren Rovetch found his way to Europe as a delegate to the 1946 World Student Congress in Prague. In a world of freshly drawn borders and shifting rules, Rovetch was ready for any opportunity that came his way. His footloose adventures took him from Prague to Budapest, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb, Trieste, Rome, Leuca, Naples, Paris, London and Oxford. Tales included interviewing an archbishop in his jail cell; asking Tito unscripted questions; escaping Yugoslavia out a train window in Ljubljana; refusing a request from the general's mistress and posing as an ASPCA foreign correspondent in Trieste; living with El Greco; tossing a vodka-laden Russian ambassador in the air; mastering teatime on a British auto assembly line; and taking an unorthodox route to Oxford. With his trademark wit and astute observation, Rovetch illuminates the post-war world and shows what can happen when you approach life asking, "Why not?" Rovetch also provides illuminating background including the liberation of Paris, Churchill's many facets, the Truman Doctrine, and the birth of Israel.

Author : Patricia Loughlin
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826338020
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Treasures of the American West written by Patricia Loughlin and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of two women historians and one anthropologist of the 1930s and '40s and their work in Oklahoma and the Southwest.

Author : Joel Waldo Finler
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364666
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hollywood Story written by Joel Waldo Finler and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised and updated edition of an award-winning classic traces the history of Hollywood from the silent era to the present day. The Hollywood Storycomprehensively covers every aspect of movie-making in America, taking in nickelodeans, drive-ins and multiplexes; the transition from silent to sound, black and white to color; the relationships of producers, directors, stars and technicians; and the function and output of the studios - their major hits and most expensive flops.

Author : William Allen White Memorial Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
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Download or read book Books Added Recently written by William Allen White Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1948-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Angie Debo
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806115320
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Disappearance written by Angie Debo and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1941 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Creek Indians.

Author : Elizabeth Leese
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048626548X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Costume Design in the Movies written by Elizabeth Leese and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1991-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive, lavishly illustrated reference work provides biographical/career data for major designers (Adrian, Jean Louis, Edith Head, more). Updated to 1988, with over 400 new film credits. 177 illustrations. Index of 6,000 films.

Author : Alan Goble
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110951940
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film written by Alan Goble and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9780900997143
Total Pages : 1610 pages
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Download or read book The Blue Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Angie Debo
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806179554
Total Pages : 477 pages
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Download or read book A History of the Indians of the United States written by Angie Debo and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument with an account of Indian history from the time of Columbus, "for, of course, a thing has to have a root before it can grow." Yet even today most intelligent non-Indian Americans have little knowledge of Indian history and affairs those lessons have not taken root. This book is an in-depth historical survey of the Indians of the United States, including the Eskimos and Aleuts of Alaska, which isolates and analyzes the problems which have beset these people since their first contacts with Europeans. Only in the light of this knowledge, the author points out, can an intelligent Indian policy be formulated. In the book are described the first meetings of Indians with explorers, the dispossession of the Indians by colonial expansion, their involvement in imperial rivalries, their beginning relations with the new American republic, and the ensuing century of war and encroachment. The most recent aspects of government Indian policy are also detailed the good and bad administrative practices and measures to which the Indians have been subjected and their present situation. Miss Debo's style is objective, and throughout the book the distinct social environment of the Indians is emphasized—an environment that is foreign to the experience of most white men. Through ignorance of that culture and life style the results of non-Indian policy toward Indians have been centuries of blundering and tragedy. In response to Indian history, an enlightened policy must be formulated: protection of Indian land, vocational and educational training, voluntary relocation, encouragement of tribal organization, recognition of Indians' social groupings, and reliance on Indians' abilities to direct their own lives. The result of this new policy would be a chance for Indians to live now, whether on their own land or as adjusted members of white society. Indian history is usually highly specialized and is never recorded in books of general history. This book unifies the many specialized volumes which have been written about their history and culture. It has been written not only for persons who work with Indians or for students of Indian culture, but for all Americans of good will.

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Total Pages : 1334 pages
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