Author : Gene Fowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0678031541
Beau James
Gene Fowler
Beau James
Beau James Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Beau James book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition
Francesco Landolfi
Author : Francesco Landolfi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000623482
Politics, Police and Crime in New York During Prohibition by Francesco Landolfi Pdf
This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the early nineteenth century, turned into prohibition only after the end of WWI with the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment. By considering the success that war prohibition made to the soldiers' psychophysical condition, Congress aimed to shift this political move even to civil society. So it was that the Italian, Irish and Jewish mobs took the chance to spread their bribe system to local politics due to the lucrative alcohol bootlegging. New York became the core of the national anti-prohibition, where the smuggling from Canada and Europe merged into the legendary Manhattan nightclubs and speakeasies. With the coming of the Great Depression, the Republican Party was aware about the failure of this political measure, leading to the making of a new corporate underworld. The book is addressed to historians of New York, historians of crime and historians of modern America as well as to an audience of readers interested in the history of the Prohibition Era.
Doris Fleeson
Carolyn Sayler
Author : Carolyn Sayler
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611390377
Doris Fleeson by Carolyn Sayler Pdf
"She was my idol," said columnist Mary McGrory. McGrory, in writing of women, referred to Doris Fleeson as "incomparably the first political journalist of her time." Fleeson was, in fact, the first woman in the United States to become a nationally syndicated political columnist. In 1945, with the encouragement of Henry Mencken, she launched her column. In her career she would write some 5,500 columns during the next twenty-two years. Fleeson's appearance could be disarming. Once at a party Lady Bird Johnson exclaimed, "What a gorgeous dress, Doris. It makes you look just like a sweet, old-fashioned girl." The wife of Senator Stuart Symington interjected, "Yes, just a sweet old-fashioned girl with a shiv in her hand." CAROLYN SAYLER lives in Lyons, Kansas, ten miles from the town of Sterling where Doris Fleeson was born in 1901. Knowing members of the Fleeson family, she began researching the life of the columnist whose straightforward take on Washington became a daily fix for newspaper readers across the nation. Sayler has a background in journalism as a member of a Kansas newspaper family. She is the author of a history of Manhattan, Kansas, which tells of the town's founding during the Free State struggle, its strong connections with New England, and its abolitionist college, now Kansas State University.
Supreme City
Donald L. Miller
Author : Donald L. Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416550204
Supreme City by Donald L. Miller Pdf
An award-winning historian surveys the astonishing cast of characters who helped turn Manhattan into the world capital of commerce, communication and entertainment --
Jack Dempsey
Randy Roberts
Author : Randy Roberts
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252071484
Jack Dempsey by Randy Roberts Pdf
A biography of Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight Champion of the World from 1919-1926.
The Road to Comedy
Donald McCaffrey
Author : Donald McCaffrey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313014741
The Road to Comedy by Donald McCaffrey Pdf
Although Bob Hope has been the subject of many biographies, no book yet has fully explored the comic persona he created in vaudeville and radio, brought to fruition in dozens of films from the 1930s through the 1960s, and made a lasting influence on comedians from Woody Allen to Conan O'Brien. Now, in The Road to Comedy: The Films of Bob Hope, noted film comedy authority Donald W. McCaffrey finally places Hope in his well-deserved position among the highest rank of film comedians of his era. Drawing on archival materials and interviews with collaborators, McCaffrey analyzes each major film in depth, with due attention to particular sequences that reveal how Hope created a unique comic personality that lasted over dozens of very popular films, from the Road movies with Bing Crosby through such underrated classics as Son of Paleface, Monsieur Beaucaire, and Casanova's Big Night. In so doing, McCaffrey introduces readers to a Bob Hope now overshadowed by his own reputation. We see here that Hope's significance has been greater than any USO appearance or television special might suggest. Because many of these movies have recently been made available on DVD—the first time in decades that they've been easily available to the general public—the volume will also serve as an excellent introduction for those wanting to see these films for the first time.
The Bishop and the Butterfly
Michael Wolraich
Author : Michael Wolraich
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781454948032
The Bishop and the Butterfly by Michael Wolraich Pdf
The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and led to the end of Tammany Hall’s dominance. Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names—businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury, the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes. Had Vivian Gordon been executed to bury her secrets? As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder, Judge Seabury pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham’s powerful political machine—the infamous Tammany Hall.
The Money Trail
Robert G. Folsom
Author : Robert G. Folsom
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597974882
The Money Trail by Robert G. Folsom Pdf
The untold story of the man who followed the money to bust Al Capone and clean up America's first great crime wave
Nightclub City
Burton W. Peretti
Author : Burton W. Peretti
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812221572
Nightclub City by Burton W. Peretti Pdf
Illustrated with archival photographs of the clubs and the characters who frequented them, this book is a dark and dazzling study of New York's bygone nightlife.
Descendants of Hans Hildebrand Ziegenfuss
Marco Born
Author : Marco Born
Publisher : epubli
Page : 5862 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9783754932773
Descendants of Hans Hildebrand Ziegenfuss by Marco Born Pdf
Collection of descendants of Hans Hildebrand Ziegenfuss who lived around 1650 in the Eichsfeld area in Thuringia, Germany. This 3rd Edition contains the data of about 22,000 individuals (as of December 2021). The most recent Data you always can find at my homepage at https://www.ziegenfuss-genealogy.de Keywords: Genealogy, Family tree, Ziegenfuss, Ziegenfuss, Eichsfeld, Ancestry, Marco Born
Beau's Baby
A.C. Katt
Author : A.C. Katt
Publisher : JMS Books LLC
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781646564477
Beau's Baby by A.C. Katt Pdf
Right after Jack Romano kills in man in the line of duty, he finds out his bemoaned first love's wife has died in childbirth and his ex-lover killed himself, leaving their sickly newborn to Jack. Carlo Del Monte has been chasing Jack for nine months and sees the baby -- Isabella, Bella for short -- as an opportunity to get Jack in his house, as well as his bed, permanently. The two men set up housekeeping with the help of friends and Carlo's big Italian family. Then little Bella ends up in the intensive care since she lacks immunity to childhood diseases. Can Jack and Carlo find their way in this new relationship? As partners, husbands, fathers? Will the two be able to form a strong bond ... and an even stronger family?
Dry Manhattan
Michael A. Lerner
Author : Michael A. Lerner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674040090
Dry Manhattan by Michael A. Lerner Pdf
In 1919, the United States made its boldest attempt at social reform: Prohibition. This "noble experiment" was aggressively promoted, and spectacularly unsuccessful, in New York City. In the first major work on Prohibition in a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city, Lerner describes a battle between competing visions of the United States that encompassed much more than the freedom to drink.
Engulfed
Bernard F. Dick
Author : Bernard F. Dick
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813152684
Engulfed by Bernard F. Dick Pdf
From Double Indemnity (1944) to The Godfather (1972), the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that made them. In the golden age of Hollywood, Paramount was one of the Big Five studios. Gulf + Western's 1966 takeover of the studio signaled the end of one era and heralded the arrival of a new way of doing business in Hollywood. Bernard F. Dick reconstructs the battle that reduced the studio to a mere corporate commodity and traces Paramount's devolution from freestanding studio to subsidiary—first of Gulf + Western, then of Paramount Communications, and currently, of Viacom-CBS. Dick portrays the new Paramount as a paradigm of today's Hollywood, where the only real art is the art of the deal. In modern Hollywood, former merchandising executives find themselves in charge of production on the assumption that anyone who can sell a movie can make one. CEOs exit in disgrace from one studio, only to emerge in triumph at another. Corporate raiders vie for power and control, purchasing and selling film libraries, studio property, television stations, book publishers, and more. The history of Paramount is filled with larger-than-life people, including Billy Wilder, Adolph Zukor, Sumner Redstone, Shari Redstone, Sherry Lansing, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and more.
American Light Trucks and Utility Vehicles, 1967-1989
J. “Kelly” Flory, Jr.
Author : J. “Kelly” Flory, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 1472 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780786475407
American Light Trucks and Utility Vehicles, 1967-1989 by J. “Kelly” Flory, Jr. Pdf
The truck's role in American society changed dramatically from the 1960s through the 1980s, with the rise of off-roaders, the van craze of the 1970s and minivan revolution of the 1980s, the popularization of the SUV as family car and the diversification of the pickup truck into multiple forms and sizes. This comprehensive reference book follows the form of the author's popular volumes on American cars. For each year, it provides an industry overview and, for each manufacturer, an update on new models and other news, followed by a wealth of data: available powertrains, popular options, paint colors and more. Finally, each truck is detailed fully with specifications and measurements, prices, production figures, standard equipment and more.
The Whippoorwill Trilogy
Sharon Shala
Author : Sharon Shala
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795351488
The Whippoorwill Trilogy by Sharon Shala Pdf
Experience the New York Times–bestselling author “at top form”—includes Whippoorwill, The Amen Trail, and The Hen House, all in one volume (Debbie Macomber). From bestselling author Sharon Sala comes the trilogy following Leticia Murphy on her adventures that take her from the Kansas Territories to Denver City, and from reluctant saloon girl to happily married woman. Orphaned at age twelve, all Leticia Murphy wants is love, a family, and a happily ever after. But the Kansas territories are a difficult place, and Letty has to do what it takes to survive. Now, she’s the last saloon girl in the rough-and-tumble town of Lizard Flats, a place where happily ever afters are nothing but a dream. Praise for The Whippoorwill Trilogy “Sharon Sala has created a one-of-a-kind, unforgettable character in Letty Murphy. Her rags-to-riches story is a mythic journey filled with moments of devastating emotional truth and soaring triumph.” —Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “No one does love and laughter like Sala. You’ll definitely want to take a journey down The Amen Trail.” —Joan Johnston, New York Times–bestselling author “Sharon Sala works her familiar magic and creates a story line that grabs your attention, along with a cast of unlikely characters who work their way right into your heart.” —Jasmine Cresswell, USA Today-bestselling author “Wear a corset because your sides will hurt from laughing! . . . You’re going to love this touching and memorable book.” —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times–bestselling author
