From Flappers To Flivvers

Author : Bettina Miller
Publisher : Reiman Media Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Flappers to Flivvers-- written by Bettina Miller and published by Reiman Media Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charged with the pep of changing times, it was an era of real heroes and reckless daredevils, with guys and gals kicking up their heels - all for a good time!.

Author : Karen Stevenson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595620647
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elsie Fox written by Karen Stevenson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Mothers Day of 2006, ninety-eight-year-old Elsie Fox stepped up to a microphone at a park in Bozeman, Montana, and called for people to wake up, remember, act, and make a difference. Spanning a century, this biography of feisty Elsie Fox tells the story of a woman who made activism her life. Born on a remote Eastern Montana ranch, Elsie was nurtured by a strong desire to be self-reliant at a time when women were expected to be good housewives. She came of age in the rip-roaring decade of the twenties and witnessed the Depression in Seattle that led her to discover Marxism and a like-minded husband. The road led to San Francisco, the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union where she worked for twenty-eight years. Elsie spent WWII fighting for her husbands release from a Prisoner of War camp in the United States where he was being held as an illegal German alien. With photos included, Elsie Fox paints a vivid picture of a woman who fights for what she believes. She asks, If we dont take action when there are problems in the world, then what are we?

Author : Benjamin J. Burns
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786487941
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flying Firsts of Walter Hinton written by Benjamin J. Burns and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Hinton was a pilot on the first plane to cross the Atlantic (eight years before Lindbergh)--a four-engine, Navy-Curtiss flying boat with a crew of six, in May 1919. Based on more than 40 hours of personal interviews with Hinton, this volume chronicles that first flight and Hinton's other remarkable adventures in aviation--which include being lost in a downed balloon in the Canadian Arctic and believed dead, making the first flight to Rio de Janeiro from New York, pursuing the first aerial exploration of the Amazon, and undertaking a nationwide promotion of aviation and airports for the Exchange Clubs in the United States. With the dramatic and adventurous story of Hinton, a lost chapter in the history of flight in America is uncovered.

Author : Fred R. Zimmerman
Publisher : Hamilton Books
ISBN 13 : 0761860754
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destiny and Decision written by Fred R. Zimmerman and published by Hamilton Books. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this autobiography of a Christian minister, Fred R. Zimmerman tells the story of his life on the stage of world events that affected him either directly or indirectly. Born to be a minister, he first became aware of his calling early on in his boyhood. Orphaned at eighteen months during the flu pandemic of 1918–19, he was fortunate enough to be adopted by a childless couple. In their capacity as committed church-going Christians, he was wisely nurtured in his mission to become a minister. During his college and seminary years, crises accompanying this destiny began to arise. As his ministry developed through the years, destiny and decision became the yoke (Matthew 11:27–30) under which he exercised the burden of being a pastor. This is therefore a story not primarily of a person but of a God-appointed ministry.

Author : Stephen Ward
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135828954
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garden City written by Stephen Ward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of a phenomenon of 19th century planning traces the origins, implementation, international transference and adoption of the Garden City idea. It also considers its continuing relevance in the late 20th century and into the 21st century.

Author : Kevin Dann
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479860220
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enchanted New York written by Kevin Dann and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York's magical past Manhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour—a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic, literary, and commercial celebrity lends an aura of the fantastic to even its most commonplace locales. Enchanted New York chronicles an alternate history of this magical isle. It offers a tour along Broadway, focusing on times and places that illuminate a forgotten and sometimes hidden history of New York through site-specific stories of wizards, illuminati, fortune tellers, magicians, and more. Progressing up New York’s central thoroughfare, this guidebook to magical Manhattan offers a history you won’t find in your Lonely Planet or Fodor’s guide, tracing the arc of American technological alchemies—from Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton to the Manhattan Project—to Mesmeric physicians, to wonder–working Madame Blavatsky, and seers Helena Roerich and Alice Bailey. Harry Houdini appears and disappears, as the world’s premier stage magician’s feats of prestidigitation fade away to reveal a much more mysterious—and meaningful—marquee of magic. Unlike old-world cities, New York has no ancient monuments to mark its magical adolescence. There is no local memory embedded in the landscape of celebrated witches, warlocks, gods, or goddesses—no myths of magical metamorphoses. As we follow Kevin Dann in geographical and chronological progression up Broadway from Battery Park to Inwood, each chapter provides a surprising picture of a city whose ever-changing fortunes have always been founded on magical activity.

Author : Tony Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199839902
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Country Music Originals written by Tony Russell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graced by more than 200 illustrations, many of them seldom seen and some never before published, this sparkling volume offers vivid portraits of the men and women who created country music, the artists whose lives and songs formed the rich tradition from which so many others have drawn inspiration. Included here are not only such major figures as Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, Fiddlin' John Carson, Charlie Poole, and Gene Autry, who put country music on America's cultural map, but many fascinating lesser-known figures as well, such as Carson Robison, Otto Gray, Chris Bouchillon, Emry Arthur and dozens more, many of whose stories are told here for the first time. To map some of the winding, untraveled roads that connect today's music to its ancestors, Tony Russell draws upon new research and rare source material, such as contemporary newspaper reports and magazine articles, internet genealogy sites, and his own interviews with the musicians or their families. The result is a lively mix of colorful tales and anecdotes, priceless contemporary accounts of performances, illuminating social and historical context, and well-grounded critical judgment. The illustrations include artist photographs, record labels, song sheets, newspaper clippings, cartoons, and magazine covers, recreating the look and feel of the entire culture of country music. Each essay includes as well a playlist of recommended and currently available recordings for each artist. Finally, the paperback edition now features an extensive index.

Author : G. Jeansonne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137111895
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Herbert Hoover written by G. Jeansonne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first definitive study of the presidency of America's least understood and most under-appreciated Chief Executive. Combining government with private resources, Hoover became the first president to pit government action against the economic cycle, setting precedents and spawning ideas employed by his successor and all future presidents.

Author : Michael Mewshaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743213076
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PLAYING AWAY written by Michael Mewshaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-10-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, Playing Away is Michael Mewshaw's experience on Roman holidays as well as other Mediterranean encounters. Playing Away includes a wide variety of chapters, including ones on traveling by train, enjoying summertime and alfresco living, the unique aspects of the different Mediterranean cities, and much more about exploring this magic region.

Author : James Roman
Publisher : Museyon
ISBN 13 : 1938450760
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of Old Los Angeles written by James Roman and published by Museyon. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's more to Los Angeles than lights, camera, action! From the city's early, devilish days populated by missionaries, robber barons, oil wells and orange groves, Chronicles of Old Los Angeles explains how the Wild West became the Left Coast. Learn how Alta California became the 31st state, and how ethnic waves built Los Angeles—from Native Americans to Spaniards, Latinos and Asians, followed by gangsters, surfers, architects and the Hollywood pioneers who brought fame to the City of the Angels. Then, discover the city yourself with six guided walking/driving tours of LA's historic neighborhoods, profusely illustrated with color photographs and period maps.