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Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2539649
Author : David Hill
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250086129
A 2020 New York Times notable book | One of the Chicago Tribune's best nonfiction books of 2020 "Complex, turbulent, as haunting as a pedal steel solo" —Jonathan Miles, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "One of 21 books we can't wait to read in 2020" —Thrillist | A New York Times Book Review summer reading pick | A GQ best book of 2020 | Named one of the 10 best July books by The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor | A Kirkus Reviews hottest summer read | A Publishers Weekly summer reads staff pick The incredible true story of America's original—and forgotten—capital of vice Back in the days before Vegas was big, when the Mob was at its peak and neon lights were but a glimmer on the horizon, a little Southern town styled itself as a premier destination for the American leisure class. Hot Springs, Arkansas was home to healing waters, Art Deco splendor, and America’s original national park—as well as horse racing, nearly a dozen illegal casinos, countless backrooms and brothels, and some of the country’s most bald-faced criminals. Gangsters, gamblers, and gamines: all once flocked to America’s forgotten capital of vice, a place where small-town hustlers and bigtime high-rollers could make their fortunes, and hide from the law. The Vapors is the extraordinary story of three individuals—spanning the golden decades of Hot Springs, from the 1930s through the 1960s—and the lavish casino whose spectacular rise and fall would bring them together before blowing them apart. Hazel Hill was still a young girl when legendary mobster Owney Madden rolled into town in his convertible, fresh off a crime spree in New York. He quickly established himself as the gentleman Godfather of Hot Springs, cutting barroom deals and buying stakes in the clubs at which Hazel made her living—and drank away her sorrows. Owney’s protégé was Dane Harris, the son of a Cherokee bootlegger who rose through the town’s ranks to become Boss Gambler. It was his idea to build The Vapors, a pleasure palace more spectacular than any the town had ever seen, and an establishment to rival anything on the Vegas Strip or Broadway in sophistication and supercharged glamour. In this riveting work of forgotten history, native Arkansan David Hill plots the trajectory of everything from organized crime to America’s fraught racial past, examining how a town synonymous with white gangsters supported a burgeoning black middle class. He reveals how the louche underbelly of the South was also home to veterans hospitals and baseball’s spring training grounds, giving rise to everyone from Babe Ruth to President Bill Clinton. Infused with the sights and sounds of America’s entertainment heyday—jazz orchestras and auctioneers, slot machines and suited comedians—The Vapors is an arresting glimpse into a bygone era of American vice.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066343892
Author : Ernest Guenther
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781447496540
It is the plan of this volume to describe, from a general point of view, the history, chemistry, biological origin and functions of the essential oils, method of production and analysis. This is the author’s motive for the present treatise on the production, chemistry, analysis and application of these interesting and important products. It has been the author’s rare privilege to witness most of these developments first hand in his travels that have lasted for more than twenty years. They have taken him the length and breadth of Europe, through Africa, Asia, Australia, into the new producing centres of North, Central and South America—in all of which places he surveyed the production of essential oils at their source.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057003515969
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057002677520
Author : Richard S. Cristiani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Candles
ISBN : HARVARD:HB9JSG
Author : Uncle Hector
Publisher : Author House
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781463408039
This book will help better understand the different relationships with ones family, friends and supervisors in life. To understand that there are problems that happen without a purpose and one must deal with one situation after the other and still keep positive to continue your travels through life.
Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1494 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Patents
ISBN : WISC:89046925764
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1114 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Gas manufacture and works
ISBN : UOM:39015085552951
Author : Vangelder
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 1884 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781284109955
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Author : Daryl Gregory
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984898487
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • The dark, gripping tale of a 1930’s family in the remote hills of the Smoky Mountains, their secret religion, and the daughter who turns her back on their mysterious god—from the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders. “Gods and moonshine in the Great Depression, written with a tenderness and brutality … this is as good as novels get.” —Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians In 1933, nine-year-old Stella is left in the care of her grandmother, Motty, in the backwoods of Tennessee. The mountains are home to dangerous secrets, and soon after she arrives, Stella wanders into a dark cavern where she encounters the family's personal god, an entity known as the Ghostdaddy. Years later, after a tragic incident that caused her to flee, Stella—now a professional bootlegger—returns for Motty's funeral, and to check on the mysterious ten-year-old girl named Sunny that Motty adopted. Sunny appears innocent enough, but she is more powerful than Stella could imagine—and she’s a direct link to Stella's buried past and her family's destructive faith. Haunting and wholly engrossing, summoning mesmerizing voices and giving shape to the dark, Revelator is a southern gothic tale for the ages.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Labor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006316488
Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Mineral industries
ISBN : SRLF:A0003416591
Author : United States. Federal Energy Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : UOM:39015084840175