Zelig S Odyssey

Author : Shimon Camiel
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595368273

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Zelig's Odyssey by Shimon Camiel Pdf

In 1926, eighteen-year-old Zelig Camiel, a Polish Jew and natural-born mischief-maker, leaves his village and heads for the United States. Unfortunately, President Coolidge has no interest in Jews, and Zelig picks the next best place-Cuba. He ekes out a living painting Catholic saints in the streets of Havana. When he runs out of holy men, he creates his own. In this engaging biography, author Shimon Camiel shares the heartwarming story of his father's journey from Poland to America. After his escapades in Cuba, Zelig moves on to Mexico City, and a whole set of entrepreneurial endeavors as he teams with two Jewish women of the street. Constantly restless, Zelig travels toward Baja, California, trying to get as close as possible to his family in the United States. He leaves Mexico City for Tijuana, working his way up from bottle washer to head croupier in a lush gambling casino. Time passes, and Zelig answers fortune's call again, searching for his rightful place in the world. With wit and wisdom, Camiel explores his father's adventurous life in a unique and entertaining style, drawing you into an exciting, forgotten time.

Author : Whittaker Chambers,William F. Buckley, Jr.
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCSC:32106007970269

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Odyssey of a Friend by Whittaker Chambers,William F. Buckley, Jr. Pdf

Chambers emerged from the communist Party, but did not surrender the conviction, by which his very bones had been virtually irradiated, that apocalypse menaced. Hugh Kenner

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Odyssey of a Friend by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ted Sennett
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015061160647

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Ted Sennett's On-screen/off-screen Movie Guide by Ted Sennett Pdf

Film historian and critic Ted Sennett presents the ultimate extravaganza for moviegoers, video fans, and TV film fanatics. Covering more than six decades of film history, he provides a fresh and comprehensive look at more than 1,000 films both old and new.

Author : Ben McGrath
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780451494016

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Riverman by Ben McGrath Pdf

“This quietly profound book belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild.” —The New York Times The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles of American rivers—and then disappeared near the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This book “contains everything: adventure, mystery, travelogue, and unforgettable characters” (David Grann, best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon). For decades, Dick Conant paddled the rivers of America, covering the Mississippi, Yellowstone, Ohio, Hudson, as well as innumerable smaller tributaries. These solo excursions were epic feats of planning, perseverance, and physical courage. At the same time, Conant collected people wherever he went, creating a vast network of friends and acquaintances who would forever remember this brilliant and charming man even after a single meeting. Ben McGrath, a staff writer at The New Yorker, was one of those people. In 2014 he met Conant by chance just north of New York City as Conant paddled down the Hudson, headed for Florida. McGrath wrote a widely read article about their encounter, and when Conant's canoe washed up a few months later, without any sign of his body, McGrath set out to find the people whose lives Conant had touched--to capture a remarkable life lived far outside the staid confines of modern existence. Riverman is a moving portrait of a complex and fascinating man who was as troubled as he was charismatic, who struggled with mental illness and self-doubt, and was ultimately unable to fashion a stable life for himself; who traveled alone and yet thrived on connection and brought countless people together in his wake. It is also a portrait of an America we rarely see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river towns, and long-forgotten waterways.

Author : Allen Weinstein
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817912260

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Perjury by Allen Weinstein Pdf

When the Hiss-Chambers case first burst on the scene in 1948, its main characters and events seemed more appropriate to spy fiction than to American reality. The major historical authority on the case, Perjury was first published in 1978. Now, in its latest edition, Perjury links together the old and new evidence, much of it previously undiscovered or unavailable, bringing the Hiss-Chambers's amazing story up to the present.

Author : Graham Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136475764

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Race, Racism and Psychology by Graham Richards Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which Psychology has engaged with 'race' and racism issues since the late 19th century. It emphasizes the complexities and convolutions of the story and attempts to elucidate the subtleties and occasional paradoxes that have arisen as a result. This new edition updates the research contained in the first edition and includes brand new chapters. These additional chapters draw attention to the importance of the South African Black Consciousness movement and ‘Post-colonial’ Psychology, explore recent additional historical research on the fears of ‘hybridisation’, contain new material on French colonial psychiatry, and discuss the awkward status of virtually all the language and terms currently used for discussion of the topic. This important and controversial book has proved to be a vital text, both as a point of departure for more in-depth inquiries, and also as an essential reference tool.The additional up-to-date material included in this new edition makes the book an even more valuable resource to those working in and studying psychology, and also for anyone concerned with the ‘race’ issue either professionally or personally.

Author : John Chabot Smith
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015000075052

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Alger Hiss by John Chabot Smith Pdf

Author : Sam Tanenhaus
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307789266

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Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus Pdf

Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy Long Island village to center stage in America's greatest political trial and then, in his last years, to a unique role as the godfather of post-war conservatism. This biography is rich in startling new information about Chambers's days as New York's "hottest literary Bolshevik"; his years as a Communist agent and then defector, hunted by the KGB; his conversion to Quakerism; his secret sexual turmoil; his turbulent decade at Time magazine, where he rose from the obscurity of the book-review page to transform the magazine into an oracle of apocalyptic anti-Communism. But all this was a prelude to the memorable events that began in August 1948, when Chambers testified against Alger Hiss in the spy case that changed America. Whittaker Chambers goes far beyond all previous accounts of the Hiss case, re-creating its improbably twists and turns, and disentangling the motives that propelled a vivid cast of characters in unpredictable directions. A rare conjunction of exacting scholarship and narrative art, Whittaker Chambers is a vivid tapestry of 20th century history.

Author : Roy Gleason
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : 1582619441

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Lost in the Sun by Roy Gleason Pdf

Based on extensive research, this book chronicles the story of the only person who, after playing successfully in baseball's Major Leagues, was drafted by the American military and served with honor and distinction in the Vietnam War. According to baseball and military records--including various accounts and articles--Roy Gleason is the only one. Why was this fantastic prospect the only man among thousands of others with major league experience sent into the front lines of combat in Southeast Asia? Perhaps more startling, how did those men avoid this fate? Even Gleason didn't know the answer for more than 40 years until a detailed four-year investigation shed light on the situation. What he learned was shocking. Gleason signed his first professional contract with what was reported to be a six-figure signing bonus. In today's market, that would be worth several million dollars. His career was remarkable and he boasts a career batting average of 1.000 (no one in MLB history, living or dead, matches this mark). He also enjoyed a brief career in film and television, highlighted in the book. Was it merely bad luck that placed Gleason into a war? Was it unfortunate circumstances? After being severely wounded, did he recover to play again? Why didn't he play more, especially with a perfect record at the plate? Roy Gleason's life is an endless list of questions that have gone unanswered--until now. Lost in the Sun is narrated from Gleason's point of view, and opens with a near-fatal experience he endured in a Vietnamese jungle. Providing a first-hand account, he shares tales of how the human mind works when death is all that surrounds it. Throughout each chapter, readers will meet the man wholeft potential success on the playing fields of Major League Baseball for the killing fields of Vietnam. This humble man recognizes, however, that he was only one of thousands who were sent so far away from home, to that place none of us wanted to go and that place where many never left and that place where we were all lost in the sun.

Author : Paul W. Kahn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231164382

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Finding Ourselves at the Movies by Paul W. Kahn Pdf

Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy—love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith—remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, Paul W. Kahn argues philosophy must be brought to bear on contemporary discourse surrounding these primal concerns, and he shows how this can be achieved through a turn to popular film. In such well-known movies as Forrest Gump (1994), The American President (1995), The Matrix (1999), Memento (2000), The History of Violence (2005), Gran Torino (2008), The Dark Knight (2008), The Road (2009), and Avatar (2009), Kahn explores powerful archetypes and their hold on us, and he treats our present-day anxieties over justice, love, and faith as signs these traditional imaginative structures have failed. His inquiry proceeds in two parts. First, he uses film to explore the nature of action and interpretation, and narrative, not abstraction, emerges as the critical concept for understanding both. Second, he explores the narratives of politics, family, and faith as they appear in popular films. Engaging with genres as diverse as romantic comedies, slasher films, and pornography, Kahn gains access to the social imaginary, through which we create and maintain a meaningful world.

Author : Cyrus Herzl Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015049708913

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A Scholar's Odyssey by Cyrus Herzl Gordon Pdf

Author : Richard K. Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Journalism
ISBN : WISC:89014962880

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Syntactic Organization as a Factor in Journalistic Style by Richard K. Brewer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015079608553

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New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1178 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Books
ISBN : MINN:31951D00115970W

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The New York Times Book Review Index, 1896-1970: Subject index by Anonim Pdf