Worst Seat In The House

Author : Caleb Jenner Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Post-traumatic stress disorder
ISBN : 1939688507

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Worst Seat in the House by Caleb Jenner Stephens Pdf

On April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth changed the world with a single bullet. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln had many repercussions and for Henry Rathbone they were profound. Henry was the only man to confront Booth and attempt to apprehend the assassin. Henry was also the man that let Booth escape. While Henry wasn't officially blamed for allowing John Wilkes Booth to kill Abraham Lincoln, he blamed himself. After the assassination the vivid memories of Lincoln's death and failure to capture Booth caused Henry's mind to unravel. He traveled the world with his young family looking for an escape from his past. In 1883, eighteen years after the assassination, Henry's tortured mind reached its limit. In the early hours of Christmas Eve Henry murdered his wife, shooting and stabbing her multiple times in a fashion reminiscent of Lincoln's assassination. In Worst Seat in the House follow the life of Henry Rathbone from his childhood through the Civil War, the assassination and his final years in a German insane asylum. In this biography and case study of a man dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, see how the events of Henry's life created the man he finally became. Place yourself into the mind of Henry Rathbone and ask yourself how you would cope with failing the world?

Author : Edward P. Moser
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476674865

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The White House's Unruly Neighborhood by Edward P. Moser Pdf

Chronicling the sometimes outlandish, often tragic history of the environs of the White House, this book covers two centuries of assassinations, slave escapes, deadly duels, sex scandals, battles, brawls and spy intrigues that took place in the presidential neighborhood, Lafayette Square. The author recounts the triumphs and catastrophes of heroes and villains both famous and unsung, placing them in the context of contemporary world events of the day.

Author : Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : OXFORD:600060919

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The Americans at home; or, Byeways, backwoods, and prairies, ed. by the author of 'Sam Slick'. by Thomas Chandler Haliburton Pdf

Author : Diane Jacobs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520371989

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Christmas in July by Diane Jacobs Pdf

In this first critical biography of Preston Sturges, Diane Jacobs brings to life the great comic filmmaker whose career Andrew Sarris described as "one of the most brilliant and bizarre bursts of creation in the history of the American cinema." Jacobs uses letters and manuscripts never before revealed, as well as interviews with people who knew Sturges—including three of his wives—to portray this fascinating, contradictory man. In addition to discussing his major films, she also examines heretofore unknown work and shows that Sturges was highly creative even near the end of his life, a time when many believed he had lost his touch. Sturges secured his place in film history as the creator of such classic films as The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, and The Palm Beach Story. In 1939 he became the first screenwriter to win the right to direct his own script—the result was the Oscar-winning The Great McGinty. Creator of Unfaithfully Yours, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, and Hail the Conquering Hero, he was the third highest-paid man in the United States by the late 1940s. He owned a swank Hollywood restaurant and was known as an ebullient raconteur as well as a world-famous filmmaker. A little over a decade later, Sturges died in New York, impoverished and rejected by Hollywood. The euphoria of success, the fitfulness of luck, the promise and poignancy of the American Dream—the themes of Sturges's work also marked the man. Diane Jacobs achieves a singular success in illuminating his extraordinary life. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Author : Perian Conerly
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Football
ISBN : 1604735902

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Backseat Quarterback by Perian Conerly Pdf

Witty take-off on professional football by a sportswriter - the wife of one of the game's greatest players.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : American literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112110809842

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The Atlantic Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Art criticism
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030038725455

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Atlantic Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anthony Germanotta
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762767557

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Insiders' Guide® to Hampton Roads by Anthony Germanotta Pdf

A first edition, Insiders' Guide to Hampton Roads is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to this storied Virginia metropolitan area. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Hampton Roads and its surrounding environs.

Author : Eliza Leslie
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803238091

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Selections from Eliza Leslie by Eliza Leslie Pdf

Best known for her culinary and domestic guides and the award-winning short story “Mrs. Washington Potts,” Eliza Leslie deserves a much more prominent place in contemporary literary discussions of the nineteenth century. Her writing, known for its overtly moralistic and didactic tones—though often presented with wit and humor—also provides contemporary readers with a nuanced perspective for understanding the diversity among American women in Leslie’s time. Leslie’s writing serves as a commentary on gender ideals and consumerism; presents complicated constructions of racial, national, and class-based identities; and critiques literary genres such as the Gothic romance and the love letter. These criticisms are exposed through the juxtaposition of her fiction and nonfiction instructive texts, which range from lessons on literary conduct to needlework; from recipes for American and French culinary dishes to travel sketches; from songs to educational games. Demonstrating the complexity of choices available to women at the time, this volume enables readers to see how Leslie’s rhetoric and audience awareness facilitated her ability to appeal to a broad swath of the nineteenth-century reading public.

Author : Mary Howitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600052752

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A treasury of new favourite tales, for young people, ed. and written by M. Howitt by Mary Howitt Pdf

Author : Sam. C. Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11571148

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Retrospect of a long Life: from 1815 to 1883 by Sam. C. Hall Pdf

Author : Randy Cohen
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Chief executive officers
ISBN : 9781934572283

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Ticket to the Limit by Randy Cohen Pdf

The story of the founder and CEO of TicketCity who talks about the importance of work/life balance as part of any successful life.

Author : Leigh Montville
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780525567318

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Tall Men, Short Shorts by Leigh Montville Pdf

This "part memoir, part sports story" (Wall Street Journal) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Bam chronicles the clash of NBA titans over seven riveting games—Celtics versus Lakers, Russell versus Chamberlain—covered by one young reporter. Welcome to the 1969 NBA Finals! They don’t set up any better than this. The greatest basketball player of all time - Bill Russell - and his juggernaut Boston Celtics, winners of ten (ten!) of the previous twelve NBA championships, squeak through one more playoff run and land in the Finals again. Russell’s opponent? The fearsome 7’1” next-generation superstar, Wilt Chamberlain, recently traded to the LA Lakers to form the league’s first dream team. Bill Russell and John Havlicek versus Chamberlain, Jerry West and Elgin Baylor. The 1969 Celtics are at the end of their dominance. The 1969 Lakers are unstoppable. Add to the mix one newly minted reporter. Covering the epic series is a wide-eyed young sports writer named Leigh Montville. Years before becoming an award-winning legend himself at The Boston Globe and Sports Illustrated, twenty-four-year-old Montville is ordered by his editor at the Globe to get on a plane to L.A. (first time!) to write about his luminous heroes, the biggest of big men. What follows is a raucous, colorful, joyous account of one of the greatest seven-game series in NBA history. Set against a backdrop of the late sixties, Montville’s reporting and recollections transport readers to a singular time – with rampant racial tension on the streets and on the court, with the emergence of a still relatively small league on its way to becoming a billion-dollar industry, and to an era when newspaper journalism and the written word served as the crucial lifeline between sports and sports fans. And there was basketball – seven breathtaking, see-saw games, highlight-reel moments from an unprecedented cast of future Hall of Famers (including player-coach Russell as the first-ever black head coach in the NBA), coast-to-coast travels and the clack-clack-clack of typewriter keys racing against tight deadlines. Tall Men, Short Shorts is a masterpiece of sports journalism with a charming touch of personal memoir. Leigh Montville has crafted his most entertaining book yet, richly enshrining luminous players and moments in a unique American time.

Author : Joe Namath
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316421096

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All the Way by Joe Namath Pdf

The NFL icon who first brought show business to sports shares his life lessons on fame, fatherhood, and football. Three days before the 1969 Super Bowl, Joe Namath promised the nation that he would lead the New York Jets to an 18-point underdog victory against the seemingly invincible Baltimore Colts. When the final whistle blew, that promise had been kept. Namath was instantly heralded as a gridiron god, while his rugged good looks, progressive views on race, and boyish charm quickly transformed him - in an era of raucous rebellion, shifting social norms, and political upheaval - into both a bona fide celebrity and a symbol of the commercialization of pro sports. By 26, with a championship title under his belt, he was quite simply the most famous athlete alive. Although his legacy has long been cemented in the history books, beneath the eccentric yet charismatic personality was a player plagued by injury and addiction, both sex and substance. When failing knees permanently derailed his career, he turned to Hollywood and endorsements, not to mention a tumultuous marriage and fleeting bouts of sobriety, to try and find purpose. Now 74, Namath is ready to open up, brilliantly using the four quarters of Super Bowl III as the narrative backbone to a life that was anything but charmed. As much about football and fame as about addiction, fatherhood, and coming to terms with our own mortality, All the Way finally reveals the man behind the icon.

Author : Mike Bonem,Roger Patterson
Publisher : Wiley + ORM
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118429556

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Leading from the Second Chair by Mike Bonem,Roger Patterson Pdf

This book addresses the unique challenges faced by secondary Church leaders, offering practical advice on fulfilling and successful service. Church leaders who hold second chair positions are under tremendous pressure. They are expected to do their jobs and provide leadership while deferring to the top leader’s decisions and preferences. It's a constant balancing act where the challenges often go unrecognized. Leading from the Second Chair offers an invaluable resource to leaders who serve in second (and third or fourth) chair roles, enabling them to become more productive, proactive, and fulfilled. Mike Bonem and Roger Patterson share their own and others' experiences of failure and success in these vital roles. They offer support and practical advice for reshaping the way second chair leaders can serve well and improve the overall performance of their church or organization. Leading from the Second Chair equips readers with the positive attitudes, skills, and strategies needed to become powerful leaders who will survive and thrive in God's service.