In this surprising new look at how clothing, style, and commerce came together to change American culture, Jennifer Le Zotte examines how secondhand goods sold at thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales came to be both profitable and culturally influential.
In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul.
Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha cha.
Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change.
Joe Garbas LegacySelected Speeches and Lectures On National Governance, ConfrontingApartheid and Foreign PolicyJoseph Nanven Garba came to international attention in July 1975, as a member of Supreme Military Council in Nigerias new military government.
He skipped his senior year at college to go to Europe, where he was befriended by a Countess, was kept a prisoner in a castle by a mad Count, and almost met Mussoliniclose enough to land him in an Italian jail.
This novel catalogs the development and escapades of 2 brothers: It contains exciting events which occurred between 1930 and today, events which are sometimes history making, and always either contain Hilarity or sadness.
While on a safari in Africa, the story's main character realizes that zebras have become invisible to their main adversary, the lion, through the benefit of an evolutionary process that has produced their striped-skin pattern which for the lions is indiscernible from the surrounding tall grasses and bushes.
Lew Resseguie has known Presidents, worked professionally as an actor in theater,film and television , a songwriter, newspaperman,and theatrical director and producer.
Whenever I mention my Frankie Laine association to someone for the first time, two questions always come up: "e;Why are you interested in Frankie Laine and his music?
Amid a childhood steeped in tragedy, murder, and abuse clouded by the familys alcoholism and inner demons, one boy, crowned with an innate gift imposed on him by the miracle of human creation, at the age of fourteen, separates himself from the family ignominies and to stave off poverty.
Running with the Wind is a chronicle of the many and varied adventures of famed executive producer, Dennis Kane, as he circled the globe in search of exotic and informative subjects for the world of the National Geographic Society TV Specials.
After a lifetime full of adventure, travel and meeting celebrities and fascinating people all over the world, Estelle Craig has selected a few people, places and things from her memories.
This book is a story in two,a story that brings back those days cherished by loved ones, remembered by old times that are never forgotten by generations that come and go throughout the years.
This book contains Twelve Hymns Plus Additional Verses written by the author of this book as inspired by GOD ALMIGHTY, to further and deepen the worship experience, enlightened and ignited by these traditional hymns.
This is the true story of Peggy Batchelor, whose first performance was as Baby Peggy of the Wembley Tattoo in 1925, who went on to entertain the troops in ENSA during the Second World War, who pursued a varied acting career, involving broadcasting at the Olympics of 1948, working for the BBC and in theatre, and who then had a successful career in education.
The Life of a Loner has alwaysbeen the life I lived since I never had any close friends I hardly ever even go to a Restaurant to eat, I usually go get something and come back to my Apartment and eat where I can eat in peace and write my books, I do go out once in a while but I always take my Computers with mejust in casean idea comes to mind I can put it down beforeI forget it, Ilive the life of a loner and I guess I will die a loner, with no friends or family it is a very lonely life but I will live through it all being a loner and writing my books which I hope helps someone as it has helped me.
With his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, smoking a cigar and sipping a glass of wine, George Stewart, a 25-year veteran of the news business discusses history, fantasy, politics and most of all friendship and love of life in his adopted home town of Tustin, CA, small town U.
The story in this book is about a young man who left his home and family in Tyler, Texas at the age of twenty three and moved to Los Angeles to follow his dream of becoming a big band singer or to be another Nat King Cole or Billy Esktine.
"e;Love Sick"e; is one of the first break through poetry books of its kind that breaks free of traditional writing stanzas and just unleashes the true passion of the poetess.
