Lamar S Gamble

Author : Billy O'Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948901765

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Lamar's Gamble by Billy O'Connor Pdf

In 1957 the United States was still in the midst of a post-World War II euphoria. General Dwight Eisenhower, leader of the allied troops in the war was a popular bi-partisan President. Returning veterans were getting reestablished in civilian life. Baby boomers and the economy were well: booming. Sports were all the rage. Baseball, boxing and horse racing ruled the roost but soon they all would have another sport to content with, football. Within 15 years, football would leave them all in the dust. Looking back and wondering what the lords of football did so right, Lamar's Gamble tells the story of those men, and how the foresight of one exceptional man, Lamar Hunt, forged a merger between the growing National Football League and his own upstart American Football League. Lamar Hunt didn't know what he was getting into when he tried to buy into the more established NFL in 1957. Lamar's Gamble: A Tale of the AFL-NFL Merger is a story rife with gamblers, and hard drinkers who were womanizers, racists, misogynists and maybe -- just maybe - even murderers. Many team owners were in it for the money, and there was plenty of that to go around. Lamar Hunt persevered against the wishes of his father: oil barron, H.L Hunt, and the skepticism of the media who labeled Lamar Hunt and the other AFL co-owners, The Losers Club. Still, Lamar Hunt persevered. Just how he did it, well, that is our story.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bank failures
ISBN : PSU:000017176798

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Effectiveness of Law Enforcement Against Financial Crime by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs Pdf

Author : Lynette J. Engelke,Kimberly M. Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : NWU:35556034564260

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Planning and Environmental Resources Catalog by Lynette J. Engelke,Kimberly M. Fisher Pdf

Author : Lamar Giles
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545812511

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Overturned by Lamar Giles Pdf

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Especially murder. Nikki Tate is infamous, even by Las Vegas standards. Her dad is sitting on death row, convicted of killing his best friend in a gambling dispute turned ugly. And for five years, he's maintained his innocence. But Nikki wants no part of that. She's been working on Operation Escape Vegas: playing in illegal card games so she can save up enough money to get out come graduation day.Then her dad's murder conviction is overturned. The new evidence seems to come out of nowhere and Nikki's life becomes a mess when he's released from prison. Because the dad who comes home is not the dad she remembers. And he's desperately obsessed with finding out who framed him-and why.As her dad digs into the seedy underbelly of Vegas, the past threatens everything and Nikki is drawn into his deadly hunt for the truth. But in the city of sin, some sinners will do anything to keep their secrets, and Nikki soon finds herself playing for the biggest gamble ever-her life.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : PURD:32754071531739

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Internet Gambling Prohibition Act of 1997 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime Pdf

Author : Adrian Wojnarowski
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781440626937

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The Miracle of St. Anthony by Adrian Wojnarowski Pdf

In a city mired in endless decay, where the youth suffer through all the horrors of urban blight, hope comes in a most unassuming form: a tiny brick schoolhouse run by two Felician nuns where a singular basketball genius takes teenagers from the mean streets of Jersey City and turns them into champions on the hardcourt. Coach Bob Hurley had been working miracles at St. Anthony High School for over thirty years, winning state and national championships and offering his players rescue from their surroundings through college scholarships, when he met his most dysfunctional team yet. In The Miracle of St. Anthony Adrian Wojnarowski follows Hurley through a gripping and heartrending season as he struggles to lead a troubled team to glory through his unparalleled understanding of the game and his ceaseless determination to see no more children lost to these streets. In The Miracle of St. Anthony, acclaimed sports journalist Adrian Wojnarowski follows Hurley through a gripping and heartrending season, as he struggles to lead a troubled team to glory through his unparalleled understanding of the game and his ceaseless determination to see no more children lost to the city streets.

Author : R.L. Polk & Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1398 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Memphis (Tenn.)
ISBN : HARVARD:HN4HHC

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R.L. Polk & Co.'s Memphis City Directory by R.L. Polk & Co Pdf

Author : Nick Braae,Kai Arne Hansen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783030180997

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On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements by Nick Braae,Kai Arne Hansen Pdf

On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements comprises eleven essays that explore the myriad ways in which popular music is entwined within social, cultural, musical, historical, and media networks. The authors discuss genres as diverse as mainstream pop, hip hop, classic rock, instrumental synthwave, video game music, amateur ukelele groups, and audiovisual remixes, while also considering the music’s relationship to technological developments, various media and material(itie)s, and personal and social identity. The collection presents a range of different methodologies and theoretical positions, which results in an eclecticism that aptly demonstrates the breadth of contemporary popular music research. The chapters are divided into three major sections that address: wider theoretical and analytical issues (“Broad Strokes”), familiar repertoire or concepts from a new perspective (“Second Takes”), and the meanings to arise from music’s connections with other media forms (“Audiovisual Entanglements”).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Toll roads
ISBN : NWU:35556038304804

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Trinity Parkway, from IH-35E/SH-183 to US-175/SH-310, Dallas County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jim Jordan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820351957

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The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book by Jim Jordan Pdf

Long-lost letters tell the story of an illegal slave shipment, a desperate Savannah businessman, and the lead-up to the Civil War. In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades, and it shocked a nation already on the path to civil war. Nearly thirty years later, the North American Review published excerpts from thirty of Lamar’s letters, reportedly taken from his letter book, which describe his criminal activities. However, the authenticity of the letters was in doubt until very recently. In the twenty-first century, researcher Jim Jordan found a cache of private papers belonging to Charles Lamar’s father, stored for decades in an attic in New Jersey. Among the documents was Charles Lamar’s letter book—confirming him as the author. The first part of this book recounts the flamboyant and reckless life of Lamar himself, including involvement in southern secession, the slave trade, and a plot to overthrow the government of Cuba. A portrait emerges at odds with Lamar's previous image as a savvy entrepreneur and principled rebel. Instead, we see a man who was often broke and whose volatility sabotaged him at every turn. His involvement in the slave trade was driven more by financial desperation than southern defiance. The second part presents the “Slave-Trader's Letter-Book.” Together with annotations, these seventy long-lost letters shed light on the lead-up to the Civil War from the remarkable perspective of a troubled, and troubling, figure.

Author : William Cornelius Reichel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Women
ISBN : PRNC:32101068145562

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A History of the Rise, Progress, and Present Condition of the Bethlehem Female Seminary by William Cornelius Reichel Pdf

Author : Ryan Benjamin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450082792

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All About the Benjamins by Ryan Benjamin Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Alaska
ISBN : UVA:X000448683

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Who's who in the West by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Adjutant-General's Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015049916862

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U. S. Army Register by United States. Adjutant-General's Office Pdf

Author : Phi Delta Phi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1504 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Greek letter societies
ISBN : IND:30000004215806

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Directory of the International Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi by Phi Delta Phi Pdf