Last Hayride The

Author : John Maginnis
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1455616273

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Last Hayride, The by John Maginnis Pdf

A wild and hilarious odyssey through Louisiana politics. In 1983 Edwin Edwards, one of the most investigated, reviled, and successful figures in American politics was at top form and wanted to be governor again. The politics of the Cajun governor, who ran the state for eight years with equal parts charm and savvy while leading a personal life as freewheeling and uninhibited as his politics, is exposed in all his glory.

Author : Waldenbooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0681305835

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Last Hayride by Waldenbooks Pdf

Author : Brian Fairbanks
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826505026

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Wizards by Brian Fairbanks Pdf

A corrupt old Democrat. A surging Republican populist. The Democrat, hounded by corruption allegations; the Republican, dogged by business failures and ties to white supremacists. The Republican turned out thousands of screaming supporters for speeches blaming illegal immigrants and crime on the Democrats, and the Democrat plummeted in the polls. Sound familiar? The '91 Louisiana Governor's race was supposed to be forgettable. But when former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke shocked the nation by ousting incumbent Republican Governor Buddy Roemer in the primary, the world took notice. Democrat Edwin Edwards, a former three-term governor and two-time corruption defendant, was left alone to face Duke in the general election—and he was going to lose. Then a little-known state committeewoman stepped in with evidence of Duke's nefarious past. Could her evidence be enough to sway the minds of fired-up voters, or would Louisiana welcome a far-right radical into the highest office in the state? Journalist Brian Fairbanks explores how the final showdown between Duke and Edwards in November 1991 led to a major shift in our national politics, as well as the rise of the radical right and white supremacist groups, and how history repeated itself in the 2016 presidential election. The story of these political "wizards," almost forgotten by history, remains eerily prescient and disturbingly relevant, and a compulsive page-turner.

Author : Stan Berenstain,Jan Berenstain
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062188571

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The Berenstain Bears and the Haunted Hayride by Stan Berenstain,Jan Berenstain Pdf

Farmer Ben's family farm is in trouble, but luckily, he has some great friends in the Berenstain Bear cubs. Sister, Brother, and their friends decide to hold a Halloween Festival to raise money for Farmer Ben, so Farmer Ben doesn't have to sell his farm to a Theme Park developer. Unfortunately, the cubs don't plan on some unexpected visitors showing up—ghosts! Ben's spooky ancestors come back to the farm to join in on the festivities . . . but will their presence frighten the festival guests away and foil the cubs' plan. This chapter book story is the perfect next step for Berenstain Bears fans!

Author : Bill C. Malone
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469616667

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Bill C. Malone Pdf

Southern music has flourished as a meeting ground for the traditions of West African and European peoples in the region, leading to the evolution of various traditional folk genres, bluegrass, country, jazz, gospel, rock, blues, and southern hip-hop. This much-anticipated volume in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates an essential element of southern life and makes available for the first time a stand-alone reference to the music and music makers of the American South. With nearly double the number of entries devoted to music in the original Encyclopedia, this volume includes 30 thematic essays, covering topics such as ragtime, zydeco, folk music festivals, minstrelsy, rockabilly, white and black gospel traditions, and southern rock. And it features 174 topical and biographical entries, focusing on artists and musical outlets. From Mahalia Jackson to R.E.M., from Doc Watson to OutKast, this volume considers a diverse array of topics, drawing on the best historical and contemporary scholarship on southern music. It is a book for all southerners and for all serious music lovers, wherever they live.

Author : Michael L. Kurtz,Morgan D. Peoples
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807154083

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Earl K. Long by Michael L. Kurtz,Morgan D. Peoples Pdf

In a region famous for its flamboyant politicians, Earl K. Long was one of the most flamboyant of them all. This first full-scale biography of the former Louisiana governor explores his controversial life-style and his strong family ties, his raw humor and his political savvy, his abuse of power and his accomplishments in the areas of civil rights and public services. Michael L. Kurtz and Morgan D. Peoples provide new information from recently declassified FBI files concerning Earl's ties with organized crime figures, give the first comprehensive account of his stays in mental institutions in 1959, and offer factual information about his notorious relationship with the stripper Blaze Star. Based on more than two decades of research in a variety of sources, this important biography fills a serious gap in the history of modern Louisiana politics.

Author : Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9798890862778

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Prison Capital by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs Pdf

Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through extensive research, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs illuminates how policy makers enlarged Louisiana's carceral infrastructures with new prisons and jail expansions alongside the bulking up of police and prosecutorial power. At the same time, these infrastructures were the products of multiscalar crises: the swings of global oil capitalism, liberal federal court and policy interventions, the rise of neoliberal governance and law-and-order austerity, and racist and patriarchal moral panics surrounding "crime." However, these crises have also created fertile space for anticarceral social movements. From incarcerated people filing conditions of confinement lawsuits and Angola activists challenging life without parole to grassroots organizers struggling to shrink the New Orleans jail following Hurricane Katrina and LGBTQ youth of color organizing against police sexual violence, grassroots movements stretch us toward new geographies of freedom in the lineage of abolition democracy. Understanding Louisiana's carceral crisis extends our understanding of the interplay between the crises of mass criminalization and racial capitalism while highlighting the conditions of possibility for dismantling carceral power in all its forms.

Author : John Maginnis
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 145561629X

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Cross to Bear by John Maginnis Pdf

A wild ride through Louisiana's tumultuous political landscape. They called it the Race from Hell: Edwin Edwards vs. David Duke vs. Buddy Roemer. For Louisiana voter, it was like watching a train wreck, except they were along for the ride. This exposé provides a clever glimpse behind the scenes of the Louisiana governor's race that had the whole world watching. The current national political phenomena of racial alienation, voter rage, sex-life inspections, and third-party challengers exploded first in Louisiana before rocking the American scene and revealing itself in explicit and colorful details.

Author : Matt Shepherd
Publisher : Libri Publishing Limited
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781912969692

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The Big Elvis Quiz Volume One by Matt Shepherd Pdf

The Big Elvis Quiz Volume One, from the author of Elvis Presley: Stories Behind the Songs, offers a variety of questions to test the knowledge of new and casual fans, as well as lifelong followers of The King. The quiz begins with questions from Elvis’ childhood and also tests the reader’s knowledge on Elvis’ parents, The King’s early recordings, Colonel Parker, Graceland as well as the big hits and early movies. Author Matt Shepherd says: “I hope this will provide fans with a quiz over the festive period about their favourite idol, the one and only Elvis. I had great fun putting the various quizzes together and I discovered things I didn’t know about Elvis. I hope this quiz book will also double up as a fact-finding mission for those wanting to learn more about one of the world’s greatest ever performers.” The Big Elvis Quiz Volume One features 250 questions. It is the first of a two-volume quiz book, which tackles questions on Elvis’ early life, first recordings, big hits from the 1950s, TV appearances and his earliest and some say best movies. The book ends in 1962 with two additional mixed quizzes tackling other highlights from Elvis’ career.

Author : Bennett H. Wall,John C. Rodrigue
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118619292

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Louisiana by Bennett H. Wall,John C. Rodrigue Pdf

Covering the lively, even raucous, history of Louisiana from before First Contact through the Elections of 2012, this sixth edition of the classic Louisiana history survey provides an engaging and comprehensive narrative of what is arguably America’s most colorful state. Since the appearance of the first edition of this classic text in 1984, Louisiana: A History has remained the best-loved and most highly regarded college-level survey of Louisiana on the market Compiled by some of the foremost experts in the field of Louisiana history who combine their own research with recent historical discoveries Includes complete coverage of the most recent events in political and environmental history, including the continued aftermath of Katrina and the 2010 BP oil spill Considers the interrelationship between Louisiana history and that of the American South and the nation as a whole Written in an engaging and accessible style complemented by more than a hundred photographs and maps

Author : Ron Yule,Bill Burge
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781604732962

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Louisiana Fiddlers by Ron Yule,Bill Burge Pdf

Louisiana Fiddlers shines light on sixty-two of the bayou state's most accomplished fiddlers of the twentieth century. Author Ron Yule outlines the lives and times of these performers, who represent a multitude of fiddling styles including Cajun, country, western swing, zydeco, bluegrass, Irish, contest fiddling, and blues.Featuring over 150 photographs, this volume provides insight into the fiddlin' grounds of Louisiana. Yule chronicles the musicians' varied appearances from the stage of the Louisiana Hayride, honky tonks, dancehalls, house dances, radio and television, and festivals, to the front porch and other more casual venues. The brief sketches include observations on musical travels, recordings, and family history.Nationally acclaimed fiddlers Harry Choates, Dewey Balfa, Dennis McGee, Michael Doucet, Rufus Thibodeaux, and Hadley Castille share space with relatively unknown masters such as Mastern Brack, Cheese Read, John W. Daniel, and Fred Beavers. Each player has helped shape the region's rich musical tradition.

Author : B. B. Haywood
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101623664

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Town in a Pumpkin Bash by B. B. Haywood Pdf

In the quaint seaside village of Cape Willington, Maine, Candy Holliday has a mostly idyllic life, tending to the Blueberry Acres farm she runs with her father and occasionally stepping in to solve a murder or two… Halloween is fast approaching, and preparations for the Pumpkin Bash, Cape Willington’s annual autumn festival, are well underway. Candy is running this year’s haunted hayride, in the hopes of making some extra cash. But when she discovers a real dead body near some fake tombstones, Candy’s side job becomes a full-blown investigation to find out who turned a holiday attraction into a real horror show. Will Candy’s keen eye for detail unearth buried town secrets? As her search leads her through old graveyards and a haunted house, Candy will discover that not all of the skeletons hidden in this small town’s closets are Halloween decorations… INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES!

Author : Susan Masino
Publisher : Backbeat Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617131073

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Family Tradition - Three Generations of Hank Williams by Susan Masino Pdf

(Book). Covering three generations of Hank Williams, Family Tradition is both unique and vast in scope. Beginning in the present day with Hank III who gave the author unprecedented access and time-traveling across the years, this examines just what kind of rebel mojo inspired this crazed family of country music, from Hank Sr. often regarded as one of the most influential of American musicians to Hank Jr., to this year's model, Hank III, who has somehow found a way to reconcile his legacy's deep-rooted twang and high-lonesome sound with particularly searing strains of punk and heavy metal, launching an all-out war with traditional Nashville in the process.

Author : Tracey E. W. Laird
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195167511

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Louisiana Hayride by Tracey E. W. Laird Pdf

Provides an examination of northwest Louisiana's unique musical milieu, home to the Louisiana Hayride, a radio barn dance between 1948 and 1960. The region's history, geography, race relations, media, and other forces set the stage for the Hayride's critical role in both country music and rock-and-roll.

Author : John W. Sutherlin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780761873518

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Garbage Gumbo by John W. Sutherlin Pdf

Garbage Gumbo is an account of what can go wrong when incompetence, corruption, and greed replace environmental protection. This is another example of what makes Louisiana politics so intriguing to some and disappointing to others.