The Making Of An Icon

Author : Ekkehart Malotki
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803282957
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kokopelli written by Ekkehart Malotki and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kokopelli the flute player is one of the most popular icons that American culture has adopted from the Native peoples of North America. The Kokopelli name and image are everywhere, adorning everything from jewelry, welcome mats, T-shirts, and money clips to motels, freeway underpasses, nature trails, nightclubs, and string quartets. Kokopelli evokes mystery and wonder, ancient ceremonies andøspirituality, Mother Earth and the purity of nature. But what exactly is Kokopelli? Just how Native American is this ubiquitous flute player? In this fascinating book, the distinguished scholar of Hopi culture and history Ekkehart Malotki describes the development of the Kokopelli phenomenon in American mass culture from its beginning to Kokopelli?s present status as pan-Southwestern icon. He explores the figure?s connections with the Hopi kachina god Kookop”l” and Maahu, the cicada, and discusses how this rock-art image has been appropriated and misunderstood. Kokopelli sheds light on a little-understood aspect of Hopi culture and testifies to the continuing power of Native cultures to spark the popular imagination and interest of outsiders.

Author : Michael Ezra
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592136613
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muhammad Ali written by Michael Ezra and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the commercial intrigue that surrounds Muhammad Ali in and out of the ring.

Author : Christian Salmon
Publisher : Harper Design
ISBN 13 : 9780062026859
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kate Moss written by Christian Salmon and published by Harper Design. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years after her discovery at age fourteen at New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport and her quick ascent to the top of the supermodeling world and choice luxury-brand figurehead, Kate Moss represents an unusual success story: that of a middle-class teenager who became one of the best-paid models in the world with no apparent effort. Hers is a story of endless reinvention: more than twenty years later, despite tabloid scandals, drug use, rehab, and tumultuous high-profile romances, Kate Moss appears before us as a fresh creation each time, an ideal subject able to adapt to any circumstance, recast herself ceaselessly through self-staging and self-narration, and make the world fall in love with her over and over again. In Kate Moss: The Making of an Icon, Christian Salmon’s insightful text, accompanied by more than sixty gorgeous images, explores this phenomenon—the story of an icon, a muse, a legend, an enigma—and how our culture has created the collective Kate Moss myth.

Author : Jim Merkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935806646
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of an Icon written by Jim Merkel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gateway Arch is one of America's most distinctive and beloved national monuments. Much has been written about the Arch, but no book has captured the legend, lore, and spirit behind its conception and construction, until now. The Making of an Icon: The Dreamers, the Schemers, and the Hard Hats Who Built the Gateway Arch compiles well-known, and rare, stories about the visionaries, finaglers, protesters, and fearless-but-skilled hands involved in an incredible undertaking that courted as much controversy as it did enthusiasm. The dreamers included the architect Eero Saarinen, who spent fourteen years tweaking his design for a Gateway Arch but never lived to see it built. Topping the list of schemers was Democratic Mayor Bernard Dickmann, who threatened to throw Missouri to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Republican opponent if the president wouldn't provide money for Smith's memorial. That was left to intrepid workers who walked without lanyards hundreds of feet above the ground. Today, 2.5 million visit the Gateway Arch every year, and more than 100,000 motorists view the 63-story monument daily from miles away and up close. Many already comprehend its symbolic meaning and physical beauty. The Making of An Icon helps us appreciate the relentless pursuit, innovation, and toil that made the Arch happen.

Author : Larry Tye
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812983505
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bobby Kennedy written by Larry Tye and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A multilayered, inspiring portrait of RFK . . . [the] most in-depth look at an extraordinary figure whose transformational story shaped America.”—Joe Scarborough, The Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu original series starring Chris Pine. Larry Tye appears on CNN’s American Dynasties: The Kennedys. “We are in Larry Tye’s debt for bringing back to life the young presidential candidate who . . . almost half a century ago, instilled hope for the future in angry, fearful Americans.”—David Nasaw, The New York Times Book Review Bare-knuckle operative, cynical White House insider, romantic visionary—Robert F. Kennedy was all of these things at one time or another, and each of these aspects of his personality emerges in the pages of this powerful and perceptive biography. History remembers RFK as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight of a bygone era of American politics. But Kennedy’s enshrinement in the liberal pantheon was actually the final stage of a journey that began with his service as counsel to the red-baiting senator Joseph McCarthy. In Bobby Kennedy, Larry Tye peels away layers of myth and misconception to capture the full arc of his subject’s life. Tye draws on unpublished memoirs, unreleased government files, and fifty-eight boxes of papers that had been under lock and key for forty years. He conducted hundreds of interviews with RFK intimates, many of whom have never spoken publicly, including Bobby’s widow, Ethel, and his sister, Jean. Tye’s determination to sift through the tangle of often contradictory opinions means that Bobby Kennedy will stand as the definitive biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family. Praise for Bobby Kennedy “A compelling story of how idealism can be cultivated and liberalism learned . . . Tye does an exemplary job of capturing not just the chronology of Bobby’s life, but also the sense of him as a person.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Captures RFK’s rise and fall with straightforward prose bolstered by impressive research.”—USA Today “[Tye] has a keen gift for narrative storytelling and an ability to depict his subject with almost novelistic emotional detail.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Nuanced and thorough . . . [RFK’s] vision echoes through the decades.”—The Economist

Author : Leon A. Gorman
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 9781578511839
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book L.L. Bean written by Leon A. Gorman and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of the successful mail-order company, the challenges it faces, and its evolution since its start in 1912.

Author : Philip B. Kunhardt
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 030726713X
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking for Lincoln written by Philip B. Kunhardt and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2008 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In honor of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth comes this sequel to the enormously successful "Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography." This work picks up where the previous book left off, and examines how the 16th president's legend came into being.

Author : Bryce G. Hoffman
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
ISBN 13 : 0307886050
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Icon written by Bryce G. Hoffman and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the near collapse of the Ford Motor Company, which in 2008 was close to bankruptcy, and CEO Alan Mulally's hard-fought effort and bold plan--including his decision not to take federal bailout money--to bring Ford back from the brink.

Author : Douglas Gomery
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426960123
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patsy Cline: the Making of an Icon written by Douglas Gomery and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patsy Cline remains a much beloved singer, even though she died in 1963. By 1996, Patsy Cline had become such an icon that The New York Times magazine positioned her among a pantheon of women celebrities who transcended any single cultural genre. A series of essays on "Heroine Worship" included Patsy Cline with such "feminine icons" as Eleanor Roosevelt, Martha Graham, Indira Gandhi, Aretha Franklin, and Jackie Onassis. The making of an icon is a cultural process that transcends traditional biographical analysis. One does not need to know the whole life story of the subject to understand how the subject became an icon. This book explores how Patsy Cline transcended class and poverty to become the country music singer that non-country music fans embraced. It goes beyond a traditional biography to explore the years beyond her death. This is the first thoroughly researched book on Patsy Cline. It is true to Patsy and her legacy. Judy Sue Huyett-Kempf President, Celebrating Patsy Cline The Patsy Cline Historic House Winchester, Virginia Douglas Gomery taught mass media history at the University of Wisconsin, Northwestern University, New York University, the University of Utrecht the Netherlands), and the University of Maryland. He retired in 2005 to become the Official Historian for Celebrating Patsy Cline and Resident Scholar at the Library of American Broadcasting.

Author : ChatStick Team
Publisher : ChatStick Team
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kate Winslet: The Making of an Icon written by ChatStick Team and published by ChatStick Team. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 🎬🌟 Discover the Inspiring Journey of Kate Winslet 🌟🎬 Dive deep into the heart of Hollywood with "Kate Winslet: The Making of an Icon – From Early Ambitions to Hollywood Legend." This captivating biography, brought to life by the ChatStick Team, charts the extraordinary path of one of the most beloved and acclaimed actresses of our era. 🌈✨ From her modest beginnings in Reading, England, to her unforgettable role in "Titanic" and beyond, this book unveils the resilience, talent, and determination of Kate Winslet. Explore the roles that defined a career, the challenges overcome, and the victories celebrated. 🏆🎥 Featuring exclusive insights, heartfelt anecdotes, and a look at Winslet's impact off-screen, this biography is not just a recount of a stellar career but a source of inspiration. It's a testament to the power of staying true to oneself while navigating the spotlight. 📘💖 Perfect for fans of Winslet, cinema enthusiasts, and anyone looking for a story of ambition, creativity, and courage. Download "Kate Winslet: The Making of an Icon" today and let the journey of a lifetime inspire your own. 📚🌟