Boston Boy

Author : Nat Hentoff
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781589882584

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Boston Boy by Nat Hentoff Pdf

Boston Boy is Nat Hentoff's memoir of growing up in the Roxbury section of Boston in the 1930s and 1940s. He grapples with Judaism and anti-Semitism. He develops a passion for outspoken journalism and First Amendment freedom of speech. And he discovers his love of jazz music as he follows, and is befriended by, the great jazz musicians of the day, including Duke Ellington and Lester Young. "Nat Hentoff knows jazz. And it comes alive in this wonderful, touching memoir." —Ken Burns, creator of the PBS series "Jazz" "This memoir of [Hentoff's] youth should be appreciated not only by adults who grew up through the fires of their own youthful rebellion, but by those restless young people who are now bringing their own views and questions to the world they are inheriting. They could learn from this example that rebels can be gentle as well as enraged and compassionate in their commitment." —New York Times Book Review "[A] charmingly bittersweet memoir." —Boston Globe "This is a touching book about a painful, wonderful time in Boston…I loved it." —Anthony Lewis "[A] richly textured, vivid memoir of growing up in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood…It weaves a colorful and varied tapestry." —Senator Paul Wellstone

Author : Louis Henry
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382191030

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The Boston Boy by Louis Henry Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Johnny Diaz
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758258762

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Boston Boys Club by Johnny Diaz Pdf

Flanked by gorgeous brick row houses in the heart of Boston's South End, the Club Café is a bar where everybody knows your name--and who you slept with last. Every night men like Tommy Perez, Rico DiMio, and Kyle Andrews take their place among the glistening crowd sporting chest-defining shirts and lots of smooth, tanned skin, sizing up the regulars and the new blood while TV monitors blare Beyoncé and Missy Elliott. For Tommy, Thursdays at the Club Café in the company of his wingman Rico and a Skinny Black Bitch (vodka and Diet Coke) are unmissable. Recently relocated from Miami to Boston to take a reporting job at The Boston Daily, Tommy is finding it hard to break away from his tight-knit Cuban family, but his homesickness goes into rapid remission when he meets Mikey, a blue-eyed, boyish guidance counselor from Cape Cod. Smart, funny, and wicked cute, Mikey is perfect boyfriend material. . .until his drinking leads Tommy to suspect that he's got some issues of his own. Rico--a tough-talking, Italian-American accountant with a gamma ray smile and mournful green eyes that hint at a past he'll admit to no one--is sure Mikey is bad news, but to Rico any relationship that lasts longer than three hours sounds like bad news. Then there's Kyle, the lean, preening model and former reality show star who makes a red-carpet entrance into the CC every Thursday as if a swarm of cameras still follows his every move, but whose real life is about to take a dramatic turn he never anticipated. Over the course of one unforgettable year, Tommy is forced to rethink everything he's ever believed about life, lust, and love. And in the Club Café, a place filled with endless possibilities--of stumbling upon the perfect partner, the perfect story idea, or just a play buddy for the night--Tommy might finally discover the person he was meant to be. "Make way for the boys of summer! Johnny Diaz has written a sexy beach-read romp you won't be able to put down." --William J. Mann, author of Where the Boys Are and All American Boy

Author : Ann Piper
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781467121064

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Child Labor in Greater Boston: 18801920 by Ann Piper Pdf

From its earliest days, Boston decreed that its children be taught to read and write English and understand the laws. In 1826, free and compulsory education was introduced. The wish to educate the young conflicted with the great need for unskilled labor in the fields and factories. With adult wages low, schoolchildren helped their families by selling newspapers, shining shoes, hawking goods, or scavenging. On reaching 14 years of age, many children left school to find full-time work. Fearing that these children would end up in low-paying, dead-end jobs, Boston Public Schools added trade schools to teach craft skills--carpentry, printing, and metalwork for boys; dressmaking, cooking, and embroidery for girls. The national struggle to ban child labor began in the mid-19th century and ended with the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. This book describes the efforts in Boston and surrounding towns to keep children in school, at least until age 16, before permitting them to start work. The bulk of the images included were taken by Lewis Wickes Hine during his several visits to Boston between 1909 and 1917.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783385213005

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Catalogue of the Beardsley Library by Anonymous Pdf

Author : Thomas H. O'Connor
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1555532462

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Building A New Boston by Thomas H. O'Connor Pdf

"Here is one of the great stories in American urban history told by a great historian. In 1949, Boston was 'a hopeless backwater' . . . by 1970, a 'New Boston' had been created . . . Thomas O'Connor, the dean of Boston historians, brings to this tale of transformation rich learning, intimate familiarity with his subject, and a lucid sometimes witty pen." -- Jack Beatty, Senior Editor, Atlantic Monthly

Author : Heather Gordon
Publisher : First Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 0912301546

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Newcomer's Handbook for Moving to and Living in Boston by Heather Gordon Pdf

Author : Eric Hinderaker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674979123

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Boston's Massacre by Eric Hinderaker Pdf

An in-depth history of the pivotal event in Colonial America, as well as its causes, competing narratives, and evolving memories. On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston’s Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most familiar incidents in American history, yet one of the least understood. Eric Hinderaker revisits this dramatic episode, examining in forensic detail the facts of that fateful night, the competing narratives that molded public perceptions at the time, and the long campaign afterward to transform the tragedy into a touchstone of American identity. When Parliament stationed two thousand British troops in Boston beginning in 1768, resentment spread rapidly among the populace. Steeped in traditions of self-government and famous for their Yankee independence, Bostonians were primed to resist the imposition. Living up to their reputation as Britain’s most intransigent North American community, they refused compromise and increasingly interpreted their conflict with Britain as a matter of principle. Relations between Britain and the North American colonies deteriorated precipitously after the shooting at the Custom House, and it soon became the catalyzing incident that placed Boston in the vanguard of the Patriot movement. Fundamental uncertainties about the night’s events cannot be resolved. But the larger significance of the Boston Massacre extends from the era of the American Revolution to our own time, when the use of violence in policing crowd behavior has once again become a pressing public issue. Praise for Boston’s Massacre George Washington Prize Finalist Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati Prize “Fascinating . . . Hinderaker’s meticulous research shows that the Boston Massacre was contested from the beginning . . . [Its] meanings have plenty to tell us about America’s identity, past and present.” —Wall Street Journal “Hinderaker brilliantly unpacks the creation of competing narratives around a traumatic and confusing episode of violence. With deft insight, careful research, and lucid writing, he shows how the bloodshed in one Boston street became pivotal to making and remembering a revolution that created a nation.” —Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions “Seldom does a book appear that compels its readers to rethink a signal event in American history. It’s even rarer . . . to accomplish so formidable a feat in prose of sparkling clarity and grace. Boston’s Massacre is a gem.” —Fred Anderson, author of Crucible of War

Author : Ronald P. Formisano
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 080785526X

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Boston Against Busing by Ronald P. Formisano Pdf

Perhaps the most spectacular reaction to court-ordered busing in the 1970s occurred in Boston, where there was intense and protracted protest. Ron Formisano explores the sources of white opposition to school desegregation. Racism was a key factor, Formisa

Author : Canadian Shorthorn Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Cattle
ISBN : CORNELL:31924078833179

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Canadian Shorthorn Herd Book by Canadian Shorthorn Association Pdf

Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Education
ISBN : UIUC:30112054217119

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Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education by United States. Office of Education Pdf

Author : Steven J. L. Taylor
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438421896

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Desegregation in Boston and Buffalo by Steven J. L. Taylor Pdf

Desegregation in Boston and Buffalo examines how the citizens and the political leadership of the two cities dealt with controversial court orders to end the segregation of public schools. Although the cities shared many similarities, they witnessed very dissimilar outcomes. Taylor covers key factors such as inter-ethnic relations and the struggle of various ethnic groups for political empowerment, and focuses on the political development of African American communities in urban environments and the role of Black elected leadership in helping to diffuse potentially volatile situations.

Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2570 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351269636

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Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties by Paul Finkelman Pdf

Originally published in 2006, the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, is a comprehensive 3 volume set covering a broad range of topics in the subject of American Civil Liberties. The book covers the topic from numerous different areas including freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition. The Encyclopedia also addresses areas such as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, slavery, censorship, crime and war. The book’s multidisciplinary approach will make it an ideal library reference resource for lawyers, scholars and students.

Author : William Warland Clapp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Theater
ISBN : UOMDLP:ack0544:0001.001

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A Record of the Boston Stage by William Warland Clapp Pdf

Author : William Warland Clapp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590236041

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A record of the Boston stage. (Orig. publ. in the Boston evening gazette). by William Warland Clapp Pdf