Derby Magic

Author : Jim Bolus
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 145560349X

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Derby Magic by Jim Bolus Pdf

" . . . absorbing chapters trace the history of shipping horses by air and equine personalities from the lovable Buckpasser to the vious Nevele Pride . . . A delight for racing fans." -Publishers Weekly No one was more knowledgeable about the Kentucky Derby than Jim Bolus, Kentucky Derby curator of the Kentucky Derby Museum, which is located on the grounds of Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. In this, his fifth Pelican book on the Derby, Bolus examines the mystique, the majesty, and the magic of the most popular horse race in the world through various essays. "The Bull and the Sunshine Boys" recalls the 1986 Derby, which was won by Ferdinand. On that magical day, Charlie Whittingham, seventy-three, and Bill Shoemaker, fifty-four, became the oldest trainer and jockey, respectively, to win the Kentucky Derby. Readers will learn the exciting story of the first Derby winner in the essay "Assault: The Little Horse with the Heart of a Giant." The essays, including "Horses Have Their Own Personalities" and "Diary of a Champion: Skip Away," all convey the magic of the Derby, somehow captured by author Jim Bolus.

Author : Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691188393

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A Tale of Two Cities by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof Pdf

In the second half of the twentieth century Dominicans became New York City's largest, and poorest, new immigrant group. They toiled in garment factories and small groceries, and as taxi drivers, janitors, hospital workers, and nannies. By 1990, one of every ten Dominicans lived in New York. A Tale of Two Cities tells the fascinating story of this emblematic migration from Latin America to the United States. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof chronicles not only how New York itself was forever transformed by Dominican settlement but also how Dominicans' lives in New York profoundly affected life in the Dominican Republic. A Tale of Two Cities is unique in offering a simultaneous, richly detailed social and cultural history of two cities bound intimately by migration. It explores how the history of burgeoning shantytowns in Santo Domingo--the capital of a rural country that had endured a century of intense U.S. intervention and was in the throes of a fitful modernization--evolved in an uneven dialogue with the culture and politics of New York's Dominican ethnic enclaves, and vice versa. In doing so it offers a new window on the lopsided history of U.S.-Latin American relations. What emerges is a unique fusion of Caribbean, Latin American, and U.S. history that very much reflects the complex global world we live in today.

Author : Alan McPherson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195343038

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The Invaded by Alan McPherson Pdf

In 1912 the United States sent troops into a Nicaraguan civil war, solidifying a decades-long era of military occupations in Latin America driven by the desire to rewrite the political rules of the hemisphere. In this definitive account of the resistance to the three longest occupations-in Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic-Alan McPherson analyzes these events from the perspective of the invaded themselves, showing why people resisted and why the troops eventually left. Confronting the assumption that nationalism primarily drove resistance, McPherson finds more concrete-yet also more passionate-motivations: hatred for the brutality of the marines, fear of losing land, outrage at cultural impositions, and thirst for political power. These motivations blended into a potent mix of anger and resentment among both rural and urban occupied populations. Rejecting the view that Washington withdrew from Latin American occupations for moral reasons, McPherson details how the invaded forced the Yankees to leave, underscoring day-to-day resistance and the transnational network that linked New York, Havana, Mexico City, and other cities. Political culture, he argues, mattered more than military or economic motives, as U.S. marines were determined to transform political values and occupied peoples fought to conserve them. Occupiers tried to speed up the modernization and centralization of these poor, rural societies and, ironically, to build nationalism where they found it lacking. Based on rarely seen documents in three languages and five countries, this lively narrative recasts the very nature of occupation as a colossal tragedy, doomed from the outset to fail. In doing so, it offers broad lessons for today's invaders and invaded.

Author : Albert Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Ethnic groups
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002099120

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A Pioneer Pastorate and Times by Albert Williams Pdf

Albert Williams (1809-1893) was pastor of a church in Clifton, New Jersey, when the Presbyterian Board of Missions sent him to California via Panama in February 1849. A pioneer pastorate (1879) recalls his five years in San Francisco, 1849-1854, in which he organized the First Presbyterian Church and witnessed fires, earthquakes, and cholera epidemics. He offers vignettes of other clergy in the San Francisco area, missionary work among the Chinese, and accounts of visits to San José, Sacramento, and Oregon.

Author : Lara Prior-Palmer
Publisher : Ebury Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Endurance riding (Horsemanship)
ISBN : 1785038850

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Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL PRIZE 2019 'Such an addictive and likeable book...One of this year's best memoirs' The Telegraph 'It's the resistance to the obvious narratives that makes Rough Magic so appealing: the book undermines lazy women-in-the-wilderness tropes at every turn.' Sarah Moss, Guardian 'A heroic tale beautifully told' TLS 'Rough Magic is transporting, beguiling and terrifically entertaining' Daily Mail The Mongol Derby is the world's toughest horse race. A feat of endurance across the vast Mongolian plains once traversed by the people of Genghis Khan, competitors ride 25 horses across a distance of 1000km. Many riders don't make it to the finish line. In 2013 Lara Prior-Palmer - nineteen, underprepared but seeking the great unknown - decided to enter the race. Driven by her own restlessness, stubbornness, and a lifelong love of horses, she raced for seven days through extreme heat and terrifying storms, catching a few hours of sleep where she could at the homes of nomadic families. Battling bouts of illness and dehydration, exhaustion and bruising falls, she found she had nothing to lose, and tore through the field with her motley crew of horses. In one of the Derby's most unexpected results, she became the youngest-ever champion and the first woman to win the race. A tale of adventure, fortitude and poetry, Rough Magic is the extraordinary story of one young woman's encounter with oblivion, and herself.

Author : John E. Kleber
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813159010

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The Kentucky Encyclopedia by John E. Kleber Pdf

The Kentucky Encyclopedia's 2,000-plus entries are the work of more than five hundred writers. Their subjects reflect all areas of the commonwealth and span the time from prehistoric settlement to today's headlines, recording Kentuckians' achievements in art, architecture, business, education, politics, religion, science, and sports. Biographical sketches portray all of Kentucky's governors and U.S. senators, as well as note congressmen and state and local politicians. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in the lives of such figures as Carry Nation, Henry Clay, Louis Brandeis, and Alben Barkley. The commonwealth's high range from writers Harriette Arnow and Jesse Stuart, reformers Laura Clay and Mary Breckinridge, and civil rights leaders Whitney Young, Jr., and Georgia Powers, to sports figures Muhammad Ali and Adolph Rupp and entertainers Loretta Lynn, Merle Travis, and the Everly Brothers. Entries describe each county and county seat and each community with a population above 2,500. Broad overview articles examine such topics as agriculture, segregation, transportation, literature, and folklife. Frequently misunderstood aspects of Kentucky's history and culture are clarified and popular misconceptions corrected. The facts on such subjects as mint juleps, Fort Knox, Boone's coonskin cap, the Kentucky hot brown, and Morgan's Raiders will settle many an argument. For both the researcher and the more casual reader, this collection of facts and fancies about Kentucky and Kentuckians will be an invaluable resource.

Author : Sir Humphrey Francis De Trafford (3d bart.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Horse breeds
ISBN : CHI:098475964

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The Horses of the British Empire by Sir Humphrey Francis De Trafford (3d bart.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Current events
ISBN : UCD:31175023676078

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Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Magic tricks
ISBN : NYPL:33433010308108

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The Linking ring by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Sports
ISBN : SRLF:A0008507527

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Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tresham Gilbey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Recreation
ISBN : UIUC:30112112129652

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Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes by Tresham Gilbey Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Entertainers
ISBN : NYPL:33433019396690

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Goodliffe's Abracadabra by Anonim Pdf

Author : John E. Kleber
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780813121000

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The Encyclopedia of Louisville by John E. Kleber Pdf

This ultimate reference to Kentucky's first chartered city is "an absolute must for anyone interested in Kentucky, regional, or urban history" (James C. Klotter). Readers learn about the inspiration for the city's name (King Louie XVI of France), its former famous residents (John James Audubon and Muhammad Ali), facts about the Kentucky Derby, and much more. 306 photos. 79 maps.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Children's clothing
ISBN : NYPL:33433108201942

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Earnshaw's Infants', Children's & Girls's Wear by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Sports
ISBN : OSU:32435022388128

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Sports Illustrated by Anonim Pdf