The Sixteenth Round

Author : Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781569768617

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The Sixteenth Round by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter Pdf

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was riding a wave of success. The survivor of a difficult youth, he rose to become a top contender for the middleweight boxing crown. But his career crashed to a halt on May 26, 1967, when he and another man were found guilty of the murder of three white people and sentenced to three consecutive life terms. Written from prison and first published in 1974, The Sixteenth Round chronicles Hurricane's journey from the ring to solitary confinement. The book was his cry for help to the public, an attempt to set the record straight and force a new trial. Bob Dylan wrote his classic anthem "Hurricane" about his struggle, and Muhammad Ali and thousands of others took up his cause. The power of Carter's voice, as well as his ironic humor, makes this an eloquent, soul-stirring account of a remarkable life.

Author : Rubin "Hurricane" Carter,Ken Klonsky,Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781569768228

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Eye of the Hurricane by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter,Ken Klonsky,Nelson Mandela Pdf

Onetime seemingly unstoppable boxing champion, victim of a false conviction for a triple homicide, and spokesperson for the wrongfully incarcerated, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter is a controversial twentieth century icon. In this moving narrative, Dr. Carter tells of the metaphoric and physical prisons he has survived: his poverty-stricken childhood, his troubled adolescence and early adulthood, his 19-year imprisonment with 10 years in solitary confinement, and the knowledge that his life was forever altered by injustice. A spiritual as well as factual autobiography, his is not a comfortable story or a comfortable philosophy, but he offers hope for those who have none, and his words are a call to action for those who abhor injustice. Eye of the Hurricane may well change the way we view crime and punishment in the twenty-first century.

Author : James S. Hirsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618087281

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Hurricane by James S. Hirsch Pdf

The inspiration for the recent film starring Denzel Washington, "Hurricane" recounts the miraculous journey of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter--a boxer wrongly jailed for three murders--from fierce despair to freedom and enlightenment. of photos.

Author : Michelle Dalton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781665953115

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Sixteenth Summer by Michelle Dalton Pdf

Sixteen-year-old Anna falls for Will, a New Yorker visiting her resort island for the summer, but she isn't sure if one summer of love will be worth her heart breaking when he leaves at the end of August.

Author : Laurence Fontaine
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857450081

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Alternative Exchanges by Laurence Fontaine Pdf

Exchanges have always had more than economic significance: values circulate and encounters become institutionalized. This volume explores the changing meaning of the circulation of second-hand goods from the Renaissance to today, and thereby examines the blurring of boundaries between market, gifts, and charity. It describes the actors of the market - official entities such as corporations, recognized professions, and established markets but also the subterranean circulation that develops around the need for money. The complex layers that not only provide for numerous intermediaries but also include the many men and women who, as sellers or buyers, use these circulations on countless occasions are also examined.

Author : Mrs. Pember Reeves
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547217527

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Round about a Pound a Week by Mrs. Pember Reeves Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Round about a Pound a Week" by Mrs. Pember Reeves. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : K. J. Parker
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316270809

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Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K. J. Parker Pdf

K. J. Parker's new novel is the remarkable tale of the siege of a walled city, and the even more remarkable man who had to defend it. A siege is approaching, and the city has little time to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy has sworn to slaughter them all. To save the city will take a miracle, but what it has is Orhan. A colonel of engineers, Orhan has far more experience with bridge-building than battles, is a cheat and a liar, and has a serious problem with authority. He is, in other words, perfect for the job. Sixteen Ways To Defend a Walled City is the story of Orhan, son of Siyyah Doctus Felix Praeclarissimus, and his history of the Great Siege, written down so that the deeds and sufferings of great men may never be forgotten.

Author : James McDermott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300083807

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Martin Frobisher by James McDermott Pdf

Details the life and exploits of the privateer who served Elizabeth I, battled against the Spanish Armada, and attempted to find the Northwest Passage.

Author : Sam Chaiton,Terry Swinton
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312253974

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Lazarus and the Hurricane by Sam Chaiton,Terry Swinton Pdf

A true story in which an African-American teen tries to help Rubin "Hurricane" Carter receive a fair trial for the murder of three men in 1966.

Author : Christopher H. Browne
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470105498

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The Little Book of Value Investing by Christopher H. Browne Pdf

There are many ways to make money in today’s market, but the one strategy that has truly proven itself over the years is value investing. Now, with The Little Book of Value Investing, Christopher Browne shows you how to use this wealth-building strategy to successfully buy bargain stocks around the world.

Author : Doreen Rappaport
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0763619272

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Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'round by Doreen Rappaport Pdf

This final installment in the powerful nonfiction trilogy about the African-American experience introduces readers to the people, armed with the songs and strength passed down from their ancestors, who profoundly impacted the American civil rights movement.

Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803272189

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Trappers of the Far West by LeRoy Reuben Hafen Pdf

In the early 1800s vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded upon the effort of a few hundred trappers scattered across the American West. From their ranks came men who still command respect for their daring, skill, and resourcefulness. This volume brings together brief biographies of seventeen leaders of the western fur trade, selected from essays assembled by LeRoy R. Hafen in The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West (ten volumes, 1965–72). The subjects and authors are: Etienne Provost (LeRoy R. Hafen); James Ohio Pattie (Ann W. Hafen); Louis Robidoux (David J. Weber); Ewing Young (Harvey L. Carter); David F. Jackson (Carl D. W Hays); Milton G. Sublette (Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.); Lucien Fontenelle (Alan C. Trottman); James Clyman (Charles L. Camp); James P. Beckwourth (Delmot R. Oswald); Edward and Francis Ermatinger (Harriet D. Munnick); John Gantt (Harvey L. Carter); William W. Bent (Samuel P. Arnold); Charles Autobees (Janet Lecompte); Warren Angus Ferris (Lyman C. Pederson, Jr.); Manuel Alvarez (Harold H. Dunham); and Robert Campbell (Harvey L. Carter). Trappers of the Far West is the companion to Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West.

Author : James Anthony Froude
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030015758461

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English seamen in the sixteenth century by James Anthony Froude Pdf

Author : Sophie Jordan
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780358206217

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Sixteen Scandals by Sophie Jordan Pdf

The youngest of four daughters, Primrose Ainsworth is used to getting lost in the shuffle. When her parents decide to delay her debut into English society, Prim hatches a plan to go rogue on the night of her sixteenth birthday. She dons a mask and escapes to Vauxhall Gardens for one wild night-- and finds a masked stranger who becomes her partner in mischief and romance. -- adapted from jacket

Author : Ken Kesey,Ken Babbs
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140176674

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Last Go Round by Ken Kesey,Ken Babbs Pdf

It was around a sagebrush campfire in eastern Oregon that Kesey first heard the tale from his father - about the legendary "last go round" that took place at the original Pendleton Round Up in 1911. Hundreds of riders were competing for the first World Championship Broncbusting title, but it was one special trio of buckeroos that provided the drama: a popular black cowboy, George Fletcher; a Nez Perce Indian cowboy, Jackson Sundown; and a fresh-faced kid from Tennessee name of Johnathan E. Lee Spain. Who would walk away with the prize money and the silver-studded saddle? When the dust cleared, everyone knew they'd witnessed something extraordinary. Kesey has journeyed back into Oregon history to reclaim this long-remembered moment, beefed up the bare bones of fact, and whipped them into a full-blown rip-snorting Tale of the True West. Sixteen pages of rare Round Up photographs provide graphic testimony of the time. The tiny town of Pendleton is swollen to bursting that memorable weekend and bristling with colorful characters like Buffalo Bill Cody, wrestler Frank "The Cruel Crusher" Gotch, cowgirl Prairie Rose Henderson, and a formidable medicine man named Parson Montanic. From the teepees along the river to the teeming saloons on Main Street, Round Up fever blazes like a prairie fire. This story of love, sweat, and horseflesh is a unique Western, wild and wooly and full of fleas. Let 'er buck!