Redneck Boy In The Promised Land

Author : Ben Jones
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307449481

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Redneck Boy in the Promised Land by Ben Jones Pdf

Redneck Boy in the Promised Land is Ben Jones’s hilarious, uplifting life story of escaping the rail yards and finding success in the unlikeliest places. As a child, Jones called a dingy railroad shack with no electricity or indoor plumbing home. An unabashed Southern redneck from a "likker drinkin’, hell-raisin’" family, Jones grew up in the depressed railroad docks outside of Portsmouth, Virginia, and spent most of his days dreaming about where the tracks out of town could take him. That he would go on to become a beloved television icon on The Dukes of Hazzard and a firebrand two-term Congressman is a story that no one could have ever seen coming . . . least of all ol’ "Cooter" himself. Written with naked honesty and wry humor, Redneck Boy in the Promised Land is one good ol’ boy’s remarkable tale of falling flat on his face, picking himself up, and finding his way to the American dream-while fighting for civil rights, the plight of the working class, "real" Southern culture, and the rights of rednecks everywhere. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Scott Crass
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781796078442

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Departures on the House by Scott Crass Pdf

The word “change” stormed onto the political lexicon in 1992 when Democratic Presidential nominee Bill Clinton aimed to deny George H.W. Bush a second term. Often overlooked, however, is that “change” also caused a ruckus in Congress. Redistricting, a check overdraft scandal that consumed the chamber and overall frustration with the system produced a wild and woolly year that sent 110 House members into retirement or defeat. Departures On The House portrays comprehensive biographies of each of those members.

Author : Zachary J. Lechner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820353708

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The South of the Mind by Zachary J. Lechner Pdf

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1799 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Television Series by Warner Bros. Television by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Aaron Pribble
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803235496

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Pitching in the Promised Land by Aaron Pribble Pdf

It was the first (and last) season of professional baseball in Israel. Aaron Pribble, twenty-seven, had been out of Minor League Baseball for three years while he pursued a career in education when, at his coach's suggestion, he tried out for the newly formed Israel Baseball League (IBL). Of Jewish descent (not a requirement, but definitely a plus) and former pro, Pribble was the ideal candidate for the upstart league. In many ways the league resembled the ultimate baseball fantasy camp with its unforgettable cast of characters: the DJ/street artist third baseman from the Bronx, the wildman catcher from Australia, the journeymen Dominicans who were much older than they claimed to be, and, of course, seventy-one-year-old Sandy Koufax, drafted in a symbolic gesture as the last player. After falling in love with a beautiful Yemenite Jew, enduring an alleged terrorist attack on opening day, witnessing a career-ending brain injury caused by improper field equipment, participating in a strike, and venturing into the West Bank despite being strongly advised against it, Pribble must decide whether to forgo a teaching career in order to become the first player from the IBL to sign a pro contract in the United States. His is a story of coming of age spiritually and athletically in one short season in the throes of romance, Middle Eastern politics, and the dreams of America's pastime far, far afield from home.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213188142

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Appalachian Journal by Anonim Pdf

A regional studies review.

Author : Christopher C. Sellers
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820364193

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Race and the Greening of Atlanta by Christopher C. Sellers Pdf

Race and the Greening of Atlanta turns an environmental lens on Atlanta’s ascent to thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the twentieth century. Uniquely wide ranging in scale, from the city’s variegated neighborhoods up to its place in regional and national political economies, this book reinterprets the fall of Jim Crow as a democratization born of two metropolitan movements: a well-known one for civil rights and a lesser known one on behalf of “the environment.” Arising out of Atlanta’s Black and white middle classes respectively, both movements owed much to New Deal capitalism’s undermining of concentrated wealth and power, if not racial segregation, in the Jim Crow South. Placing these two movements on the same historical page, Christopher C. Sellers spotlights those environmental inequities, ideals, and provocations that catalyzed their divergent political projects. He then follows the intermittent, sometimes vital alliances they struck as civil rights activists tackled poverty, as a new environmental state arose, and as Black politicians began winning elections. Into the 1980s, as a wealth-concentrating style of capitalism returned to the city and Atlanta became a national “poster child” for sprawl, the seedbeds spread both for a national environmental justice movement and for an influential new style of antistatism. Sellers contends that this new conservativism, sweeping the South with an antienvironmentalism and budding white nationalism that echoed the region’s Jim Crow past, once again challenged the democracy Atlantans had achieved.

Author : Lewis M. Stern
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476635545

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Tommy Thompson by Lewis M. Stern Pdf

Tommy Thompson arrived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1963, smitten by folk and traditional Appalachian music. In 1972, he teamed with Bill Hicks and Jim Watson to form the nontraditional string band the Red Clay Ramblers. Mike Craver joined in 1973, and Jack Herrick in 1976. Over time, musicians including Clay Buckner, Bland Simpson and Chris Frank joined Tommy, who played with the band until 1994. Drawing on interviews and correspondence, and the personal papers of Thompson, the author depicts a life that revolved around music and creativity. Appendices cover Thompson's banjos, his discography and notes on his collaborative lyric writing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : North Carolina
ISBN : UCR:31210022046237

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The North Carolina Historical Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wesley Whisenhunt
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781973608080

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Quintessential Redneck by Wesley Whisenhunt Pdf

Many books speak of the sixtiespop culture, the Beatles, JFK, Vietnam War, civil rights, walking on the moonbut not from the eyes of an elementary school boy growing up on the prairie in Central Texas. This is a humorous and tear-jerking look back in time, a thought-provoking and entertaining look at history and people.

Author : Diane Pecknold,Kristine M. McCusker
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496804921

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Country Boys and Redneck Women by Diane Pecknold,Kristine M. McCusker Pdf

Country music boasts a long tradition of rich, contradictory gender dynamics, creating a world where Kitty Wells could play the demure housewife and the honky-tonk angel simultaneously, Dolly Parton could move from traditionalist “girl singer” to outspoken trans rights advocate, and current radio playlists can alternate between the reckless masculinity of bro-country and the adolescent girlishness of Taylor Swift. In this follow-up volume to A Boy Named Sue, some of the leading authors in the field of country music studies reexamine the place of gender in country music, considering the ways country artists and listeners have negotiated gender and sexuality through their music and how gender has shaped the way that music is made and heard. In addition to shedding new light on such legends as Wells, Parton, Loretta Lynn, and Charley Pride, it traces more recent shifts in gender politics through the performances of such contemporary luminaries as Swift, Gretchen Wilson, and Blake Shelton. The book also explores the intersections of gender, race, class, and nationality in a host of less expected contexts, including the prisons of WWII-era Texas, where the members of the Goree All-Girl String Band became the unlikeliest of radio stars; the studios and offices of Plantation Records, where Jeannie C. Riley and Linda Martell challenged the social hierarchies of a changing South in the 1960s; and the burgeoning cities of present-day Brazil, where “college country” has become one way of negotiating masculinity in an age of economic and social instability.

Author : Kai Arne Hansen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190938796

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Pop Masculinities by Kai Arne Hansen Pdf

Pop Masculinities explores the many ways in which twenty-first century pop artists perform masculinity through their songs, music videos, and public appearances. This offers a point of entry for addressing broader gender issues in contemporary popular culture and society.

Author : James Webb
Publisher : Random House
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781907195891

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Born Fighting by James Webb Pdf

More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. When hundreds of thousands of Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, they brought with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition; and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working-class America and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself. Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the epic journey of this remarkable ethnic group and the profound but unrecognised role it has played in shaping the social, political and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through to the present day.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822036343069

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433066590070

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Racing Calendar for ... by Anonim Pdf