Stars And Strikes

Author : Dan Epstein
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781250034373

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Dan Epstein scored a cult hit with Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s. Now he returns with Stars and Strikes, a riotous look at the most pivotal season of the decade. America, 1976: colorful, complex, and combustible. It was a year of Bicentennial celebrations and presidential primaries, of Olympic glory and busing riots, of "killer bees" hysteria and Pong fever. For both the nation and the national pastime, the year was revolutionary, indeed. On the diamond, Thurman Munson led the New York Yankees to their first World Series in a dozen years, but it was Joe Morgan and Cincinnati's "Big Red Machine" who cemented a dynasty with their second consecutive World Championship. Sluggers Mike Schmidt and Dave Kingman dominated the headlines, while rookie sensation Mark "The Bird" Fidrych started the All-Star Game opposite Randy "Junkman" Jones. The season was defined by the outrageous antics of team owners Bill Veeck, Ted Turner, George Steinbrenner, and Charlie Finley, as well as by several memorable bench-clearing brawls, and a batting title race that became just as contentious as the presidential race. From Dorothy Hamill's "wedge" haircut to Kojak's chrome dome, American pop culture was never more giddily effervescent than in this year of Jimmy Carter, CB radios, AMC Pacers, The Bad News Bears, Rocky, Taxi Driver, the Ramones, KISS, Happy Days, Hotel California, and Frampton Comes Alive!--it all came alive in '76! Meanwhile, as the nation erupted in a red-white-and-blue explosion saluting its two- hundredth year of independence, Major League Baseball players waged a war for their own liberties by demanding free agency. From the road to the White House to the shorts-wearing White Sox, Stars and Strikes tracks the tumultuous year after which the sport--and the nation--would never be the same.

Author : Louis B. Perry,Richard S. Perry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A History of the Los Angeles Labor Movement, 1911-1941 by Louis B. Perry,Richard S. Perry Pdf

Author : Emilie Raymond
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813171494

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From My Cold, Dead Hands by Emilie Raymond Pdf

Charlton Heston is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of Moses in Cecil B. DeMille’s epic The Ten Commandments and for his Academy Award–winning performance in the 1959 classic Ben-Hur. Throughout his long career, Heston used his cinematic status as a powerful moral force to effect social and political change. Author Emilie Raymond examines Heston’s role as a crusader for individual rights and his evolution into a major American political figure with a pivotal role in the conservative movement. Heston’s political activities were as varied as they were time consuming. He worked with the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and first Bush administrations. He marched in support of black civil rights, served as the president of the Screen Actors Guild, and helped shape policy for the National Endowment for the Arts before taking on his most high-profile position—president of the National Rifle Association. Over the course of his career, Heston became disillusioned with the Democrats; he formally registered with the Republican Party in the 1980s, arguing that the decision was in keeping with his longtime advocacy of individual rights. From My Cold, Dead Hands is far more than a biography—it is a chronicle of the resurgence of American conservative thought and, in particular, the birth of neoconservatism. Heston’s brand of neoconservatism differed from that of the exclusively intellectual wing, and he came to represent a previously ignored segment of neoconservatives operating on the basis of more common, emotionally oriented concerns. The neocons brought new life to the GOP, and Raymond convincingly argues that Heston revitalized conservatism in general: his image of morality, individualism, and masculinity lent the conservative movement credibility with a larger public. He effectively campaigned for conservative candidates and causes, using his popularity and image to fuel and legitimize his political activities. Heston’s high degree of political engagement not only paved the way for many of today’s Hollywood activists but also helped popularize many of the beliefs of the neoconservative movement. A balanced look at Heston and his offscreen work, From My Cold, Dead Hands explains how this charismatic man of conviction propelled his personal beliefs into the political mainstream of America.

Author : Aaron Brenner,Benjamin Day,Immanuel Ness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1442 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317457060

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The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History by Aaron Brenner,Benjamin Day,Immanuel Ness Pdf

Strikes have been part of American labor relations from colonial days to the present, reflecting the widespread class conflict that has run throughout the nation's history. Against employers and their goons, against the police, the National Guard, local, state, and national officials, against racist vigilantes, against their union leaders, and against each other, American workers have walked off the job for higher wages, better benefits, bargaining rights, legislation, job control, and just plain dignity. At times, their actions have motivated groundbreaking legislation, defining new rights for all citizens; at other times they have led to loss of workers' lives. This comprehensive encyclopedia is the first detailed collection of historical research on strikes in America. To provide the analytical tools for understanding strikes, the volume includes two types of essays - those focused on an industry or economic sector, and those focused on a theme. Each industry essay introduces a group of workers and their employers and places them in their economic, political, and community contexts. The essay then describes the industry's various strikes, including the main issues involved and outcomes achieved, and assesses the impact of the strikes on the industry over time. Thematic essays address questions that can only be answered by looking at a variety of strikes across industries, groups of workers, and time, such as, why the number of strikes has declined since the 1970s, or why there was a strike wave in 1946. The contributors include historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, as well as current and past activists from unions and other social movement organizations. Photos, a Topic Finder, a bibliography, and name and subject indexes add to the works appeal.

Author : Lucy Fischer,Marcia Landy
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fame
ISBN : 0415278937

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Stars by Lucy Fischer,Marcia Landy Pdf

From two distinguished academics, this book includes contributions from top scholars such as Richard Dyer, and brings together key writings and new perspectives on stars and stardom in cinema across the world.

Author : David F. Prindle
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0299118134

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The Politics of Glamour by David F. Prindle Pdf

Rarely are the off-screen lives of actors examined for evidence of deep thinking or good citizenship. Still more rarely do the internal workings of labor unions attract public scrutiny. Nevertheless, as David Prindle shows in his examination of democracy in the Screen Actors Guild, this actors’ union has for over 50 years been an arena for idealistic, yet intense and hardboiled political maneuvering. In The Politics of Glamour, readers become aware of the seriousness and political commitment displayed by people whom the general public has generally admired more for their artistic skills. After reading this account of politics among America’s screen royalty, no one could wonder about where Ronald Reagan, a former SAG president, received his political training. Besides analyzing the politics of SAG, however, the author follows a good story wherever it leads. The reader can expect to learn something about the political economy of Hollywood and the American labor movement, the value of celebrity within the acting community, the impact of technological change, and even a bit of gossip.

Author : Helen Hanson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838716226

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Hollywood Soundscapes by Helen Hanson Pdf

The technical crafts of sound in classical Hollywood cinema have, until recently, remained largely 'unsung' by histories of the studio era. Yet film sound – voice, music and sound effects – is a crucial aspect of film style and has been key to engaging and holding audiences since the transition to sound by Hollywood's major studios in 1929. This innovative new text restores sound technicians to Hollywood's creative history. Exploring a range of films from the early sound period (1931) through to the late studio period (1948), and drawing on a wide range of archival sources, the book reveals how Hollywood's sound designers worked and why they worked in the ways that they did. The book demonstrates how sound technicians developed conventions designed to tell stories through sound, placing them within the production cultures of studio era filmmaking, and uncovering a history of collective and collaborative creativity. In doing so, it traces the emergence of a body of highly skilled sound personnel, able to apply expert technical knowledge in the science of sound to the creation of cinematic soundscapes that are alive with mood and sensation.

Author : Jon Lewis
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814751435

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Hollywood V. Hard Core by Jon Lewis Pdf

An intriguing look at how the American film industry imposed the rating system upon itself to control competition from films independently produced and distributed.

Author : Sean P. Holmes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252094682

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Weavers of Dreams, Unite! by Sean P. Holmes Pdf

Published to coincide with the centenary of the founding of the Actors' Equity Association in 1913, Weavers of Dreams, Unite! explores the history of actors' unionism in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the onset of the Great Depression. Drawing upon hitherto untapped archival resources in New York and Los Angeles, Sean P. Holmes documents how American stage actors used trade unionism to construct for themselves an occupational identity that foregrounded both their artistry and their respectability. In the process, he paints a vivid picture of life on the theatrical shop floor in an era in which economic, cultural, and technological changes were transforming the nature of acting as work. The engaging study offers important insights into the nature of cultural production in the early twentieth century, the role of class in the construction of cultural hierarchy, and the special problems that unionization posed for workers in the commercial entertainment industry.

Author : John Pringle Nichol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Physics
ISBN : NLS:V000648464

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A Cyclopaedia of the Physical Sciences ... Maps, Engravings, and ... Woodcuts by John Pringle Nichol Pdf

Author : John Pringle NICHOL (Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018326763

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A Cyclopædia of the Physical Sciences ... Maps, engravings, etc by John Pringle NICHOL (Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.) Pdf

Author : John Pringle Nichol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Physics
ISBN : UOM:39015039546646

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A Cyclopædia of the Physical Sciences by John Pringle Nichol Pdf

Author : Elias LOOMIS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018276181

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An Introduction to Practical Astronomy, with a collection of astronomical tables ... Fifth edition by Elias LOOMIS Pdf

Author : Elias Loomis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590618451

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An introduction to practical astronomy by Elias Loomis Pdf

Author : Elias Loomis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Spherical astronomy
ISBN : PRNC:32101017395540

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An Introduction to Practical Astronomy and with a Collection of Astronomical Tables by Elias Loomis Pdf