The Telephone Booth Indian

Author : A.J. Liebling
Publisher : Crown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780307480668

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The Telephone Booth Indian by A.J. Liebling Pdf

A classic work on Broadway sharpers, grifters, and con men by the late, great New Yorker journalist A. J. Liebling. Often referred to as “Liebling lowlife pieces,” the essays in The Telephone Booth Indian boisterously celebrate raffishness. A. J. Liebling appreciated a good scam and knew how to cultivate the scammers. Telephone Booth Indians (entrepreneurs so impecunious that they conduct business from telephone booths in the lobbies of New York City office buildings) and a host of other petty nomads of Broadway—with names like Marty the Clutch and Count de Pennies—are the protagonists in this incomparable Liebling work. In The Telephone Booth Indian, Liebling proves just why he was the go-to man on New York lowlife and con culture; this is the master at the top of his form, uncovering scam after scam and writing about them with the wit and charisma that established him as one of the greatest journalists of his generation and one of New York’s finest cultural chroniclers.

Author : Abbott J. Liebling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Businesspeople
ISBN : OCLC:46977926

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The Telephone Booth Indian by Abbott J. Liebling Pdf

Author : Brenda Jackson,Penguin Books Staff,Ronald L McDonald
Publisher : Signet
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1960-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0451005279

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Telephone Booth Indian by Brenda Jackson,Penguin Books Staff,Ronald L McDonald Pdf

Author : Ariana Kelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628924114

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Phone Booth by Ariana Kelly Pdf

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The phone booth exists as a fond but distant memory for some people, and as a strange and dysfunctional waste of space for many more. Ariana Kelly approaches the phone booth as an entity that embodies diverse attitudes about privacy, freedom, power, sanctuary, and communication in its various forms all around the world. Through portrayals of phone booths in literature, film, personal narrative, philosophy, and religion, Phone Booth offers a definitive account of an object on the cusp of obsolescence. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Author : A. J. Liebling
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1429930675

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Just Enough Liebling by A. J. Liebling Pdf

The restaurants of the Latin Quarter and the city rooms of midtown Manhattan; the beachhead of Normandy and the boxing gyms of Times Square; the trackside haunts of bookmakers and the shadowy redoubts of Southern politicians--these are the places that A.J. Liebling shows to us in his unforgettable New Yorker articles, brought together here so that a new generation of readers might discover Liebling as if for the first time. Born a hundred years ago, Abbott Joseph "Joe" Liebling was the first of the great New Yorker writers, a colorful and tireless figure who helped set the magazine's urbane style. Today, he is best known as a celebrant of the "sweet science" of boxing or as a "feeder" who ravishes the reader with his descriptions of food and wine. But as David Remnick, a Liebling devotee, suggests in his fond and insightful introduction, Liebling was a writer bounded only by his intelligence, taste, and ardor for life. Like his nemesis William Randolph Hearst, he changed the rules of modern journalism, banishing the distinctions between reporting and storytelling, between news and art. Whatever his role, Liebling is a most companionable figure, and to read the pieces in this grand and generous book is to be swept along on a thrilling adventure in a world of confidence men, rogues, press barons and political cronies, with an inimitable writer as one's guide.

Author : Charles Raw,Bruce Page,Godfrey Hodgson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-17
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780767921596

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Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich? by Charles Raw,Bruce Page,Godfrey Hodgson Pdf

In the fall of 1955, Bernard Cornfeld arrived in Paris with scant money in his pocket and a tenuous relationship with a New York firm to sell mutual funds overseas. Cornfeld, a former psychologist and social worker, knew how to make friends fast and soon targeted two groups of people who could help him fulfill his economic ambitions: American expatriates who were looking to build their own fortunes and servicemen abroad who loved to live high-rolling lives and spend money. Using the first group as door-to-door salesmen and the second group as his gullible target, Cornfeld built a multi-billion-dollar and multi-national company, famous for its salesmen’s winning one-line pitch: “Do you sincerely want to be rich?” In this eye-opening yet entertaining book, an award-winning “Insight” team of the London Sunday Times examines Cornfeld’s impressive scheme, a classic example of good, old-fashioned American business gumption and guile.

Author : Kenneth Frank Jenkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Interviewing
ISBN : UOM:39015082056469

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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE TELEPHONE AS A MEDIUM FOR FOLLOW-UP INTERVIEWING. by Kenneth Frank Jenkins Pdf

Author : Nishat Zaidi,Indrani Das Gupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000577747

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Gandhi in India’s Literary and Cultural Imagination by Nishat Zaidi,Indrani Das Gupta Pdf

This book engages with the socio-cultural imaginings of Gandhi in literature, history, visual and popular culture. It explores multiple iterations of his ideas, myths and philosophies, which have inspired the work of filmmakers, playwrights, cartoonists and artists for generations. Gandhi’s politics of non-violent resistance and satyagraha inspired various political leaders, activists and movements and has been a subject of rigorous scholarly enquiry and theoretical debates across the globe. Using diverse resources like novels, autobiographies, non-fictional writings, comic books, memes, cartoons and cinema, this book traces the pervasiveness of the idea of Gandhi which has been both idolized and lampooned. It explores his political ideas on themes such as modernity and secularism, environmentalism, abstinence, self-sacrifice and political freedom along with their diverse interpretations, caricatures, criticisms and appropriations to arrive at an understanding of history, culture and society. With contributions from scholars with diverse research interests, this book will be an essential read for students and researchers of political philosophy, cultural studies, literature, Gandhi and peace studies, political science and sociology.

Author : Assa Doron,Robin Jeffrey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674074248

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The Great Indian Phone Book by Assa Doron,Robin Jeffrey Pdf

In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affluent entrepreneurs in Mumbai alike. The Great Indian Phone Book investigates the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history, one which has disrupted more people and relationships than the printing press, wristwatch, automobile, or railways, though it has qualities of all four. In this fast-paced study, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey explore the whole ecosystem of the cheap mobile phone. Blending journalistic immediacy with years of field-research experience in India, they portray the capitalists and bureaucrats who control the cellular infrastructure and wrestle over bandwidth rights, the marketers and technicians who bring mobile phones to the masses, and the often poor, village-bound users who adapt these addictive and sometimes troublesome devices to their daily lives. Examining the challenges cell phones pose to a hierarchy-bound country, the authors argue that in India, where caste and gender restrictions have defined power for generations, the disruptive potential of mobile phones is even greater than elsewhere. The Great Indian Phone Book is a rigorously researched, multidimensional tale of what can happen when a powerful and readily available technology is placed in the hands of a large, still predominantly poor population.

Author : James Traub
Publisher : Random House
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307432131

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The Devil's Playground by James Traub Pdf

As Times Square turns 100, New York Times Magazine contributing writer James Traub tells the story of how this mercurial district became one of the most famous and exciting places in the world. The Devil’s Playground is classic and colorful American history, from the first years of the twentieth century through the Runyonesque heyday of nightclubs and theaters in the 1920s and ’30s, to the district’s decline in the 1960s and its glittering corporate revival in the 1990s. First, Traub gives us the great impresarios, wits, tunesmiths, newspaper columnists, and nocturnal creatures who shaped Times Square over the century since the place first got its name: Oscar Hammerstein, Florenz Ziegfeld, George S. Kaufman, Damon Runyon, Walter Winchell, and “the Queen of the Nightclubs,” Texas Guinan; bards like A. J. Liebling, Joe Mitchell, and the Beats, who celebrated the drug dealers and pimps of 42nd Street. He describes Times Square’s notorious collapse into pathology and the fierce debates over how best to restore it to life. Traub then goes on to scrutinize today’s Times Square as no author has yet done. He writes about the new 42nd Street, the giant Toys “R” Us store with its flashing Ferris wheel, the new world of corporate theater, and the sex shops trying to leave their history behind. More than sixty years ago, Liebling called Times Square “the heart of the world”—not just the center of the world, though this crossroads in Midtown Manhattan was indeed that, but its heart. From the dawn of the twentieth century through the 1950s, Times Square was the whirling dynamo of American popular culture and, increasingly, an urban sanctuary for the eccentric and the untamed. The name itself became emblematic of the tremendous life force of cities everywhere. Today, Times Square is once again an awe-inspiring place, but the dark and strange corners have been filled with blazing light. The most famous street character on Broadway, “the Naked Cowboy,” has his own website, and Toys “R” Us calls its flagship store in Times Square “the toy center of the universe.” For the giant entertainment corporations that have moved to this safe, clean, and self-consciously gaudy spot, Times Square is still very much the center of the world. But is it still the heart?

Author : Abbott Joseph Liebling
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005885168

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Liebling at Home by Abbott Joseph Liebling Pdf

Author : Ghosh Shopna
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131722503

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Introducing Geography 3 (Revised Edition), 2/E by Ghosh Shopna Pdf

Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480457188

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The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Pdf

“Stunning” short stories by the National Book Award–winning author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). In this bestselling volume of stories, National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie challenges readers to see Native American Indians as the complex, modern, real people they are. The tender and tenacious tales of The Toughest Indian in the World introduce us to the one-hundred-eighteen-year-old Etta Joseph, former co-star and lover of John Wayne, and to the unnamed narrator of the title story, a young Indian journalist searching for togetherness one hitchhiker at a time. Countless other brilliant creations leap from Alexie’s mind in these nine stories. Upwardly mobile Indians yearn for a more authentic life, married Indian couples push apart while still cleaving together, and ordinary, everyday Indians hunt for meaning in their lives. The Toughest Indian in the World combines anger, humor, and beauty into radiant fictions, fiercely imagined, from one of America’s greatest writers. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Author : J.R. Weil,W.T. Brannon
Publisher : Crown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-13
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780767917377

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Con Man by J.R. Weil,W.T. Brannon Pdf

The story of Joseph “Yellow Kid” Weil, a man who could—and often did—pull off scams to outshine The Sting. In his long career as a confidence man, Joseph “Yellow Kid” Weil swindled the public of more than eight million dollars and established the reputation for robbery and trickery. Always beating the police at their own game, “Yellow Kid” used phony oil deals, women, fixed races, and an endless list of other tricks to best an increasingly gullible public. One day, he was Dr. Henri Reuel, a noted geologist who traveled around and told his hosts that he was a representative for a big oil company—all the while draining them of the cash they gave him to “invest in fuel.” The next day, he was director of the Elysium Development Company, promising land to innocent believers while robbing them in recording and abstract fees. Or he was a chemist par excellence who had discovered how to copy dollar bills; promising to increase your fortune, he would multiply your bills—then take the booty once the police arrived. Originally published in 1948, here is Weil’s true and amazing story, with a smart and witty Afterword by none other than Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, who profiled “Yellow Kid” for The Reporter in 1956. It is undeniable proof that “Yellow Kid” was the con man par excellence—the virtuoso scam artist, bar none.

Author : Burton W. Peretti
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812221572

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Nightclub City by Burton W. Peretti Pdf

Illustrated with archival photographs of the clubs and the characters who frequented them, this book is a dark and dazzling study of New York's bygone nightlife.