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Author: John Toland
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0312154909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe result was a series of landmark works such as Infamy; The Rising Sun, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1970 and reflected his ability, with the help of his Japanese wife, to open doors normally closed to Westerners in Japan; In Mortal Combat; The Last 100 Days; and his best-selling biography of Adolf Hitler.
Author: Clayton Patterson
Publisher:
Published: 2005-05-03
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaptured tells the story of film and video in the Lower East Side and the East Village in the artists' own words. It is part formal history and part inspirational text, to remind people on the outside looking in how often their contributions form the invisible pillars of American art and popular life. Movements such as No Wave and the Cinema of Transgression are covered, as is the story of Pull My Daisy, considered among the true progenitors of indie film. Captured is a must-have for fans of independent film and students of cinema everywhere.
Author: Don Nardo
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0756549582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world was shocked and frightened when President John F. Kennedy was gunned down by an assassin's bullet in 1963. What would happen to the government of the most powerful nation on Earth? When Kennedy's vice president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, took the presidential oath of office on Air Force One just hours after the assassination, the White House photographer was there. Cecil Stoughton's iconic photo showed the world that the smooth and orderly transfer of power called for in the U.S. Constitution had occurred. His photo helped ease the shock, tension, and fear in an anxious country.
Author: Scott Zesch
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1429910119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled over his own great-great-great uncle's grave. Determined to understand how such a "good boy" could have become Indianized so completely, Zesch travels across the west, digging through archives, speaking with Comanche elders, and tracking eight other child captives from the region with hauntingly similar experiences. With a historians rigor and a novelists eye, Zesch's The Captured paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier, offering a rare account of captivity. "A carefully written, well-researched contribution to Western history -- and to a promising new genre: the anthropology of the stolen." - Kirkus Reviews
Author: Michael Burgan
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2017-07-01
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 075655618X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresident Theodore Roosevelt called Jacob Riis "the best American I ever knew." The pioneering photojournalist, an immigrant from Denmark, drew attention to the poverty and evils of slum life in the late 1800s. Riis won national acclaim when his photos illustrated his bestselling book How the Other Half Lives. The book focused on the difficult time immigrants faced as thousands of newcomers flooded into the United States each year. Riis called for reform and hoped to prod government officials to help the poor people who were forced to live under horrible conditions. The impact of Riis' photos came from capturing the poor and homeless as they lived and worked, with the subjects' eyes often staring directly into the camera. The great photographer Ansel Adams called them "magnificent achievements in the field of humanistic photography." But the reforms that came from Riis' work have not eliminated urban poverty and homelessness, and important work remains to be done.
Author: Don Nardo
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 0756543975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Dorothea Lange photograph of a migrant mother during the Grea Depression.
Author: Don Nardo
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 0756546931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the Civil War using photographs taken by Mathew Brady and his employees.
Author: Shelley Tougas
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0756543983
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Charles Moore photograph"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Michael Burgan
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2010-12
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0756544491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Joe Rosenthal photograph"--Provided by publisher.
Author: C. Alexander Hortis
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2014-05-06
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1616149248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime. Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s. Based on exhaustive research of archives and secret files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, author and attorney C. Alexander Hortis draws on the deepest collection of primary sources, many newly discovered, of any history of the modern mob. Shattering myths, Hortis reveals how Cosa Nostra actually obtained power at the inception. The author goes beyond conventional who-shot-who mob stories, providing answers to fresh questions such as: * Why did the Sicilian gangs come out on top of the criminal underworld? * Can economics explain how the Mafia families operated? * What was the Mafia's real role in the drug trade? * Why was Cosa Nostra involved in gay bars in New York since the 1930s? Drawing on an unprecedented array of primary sources, The Mob and the City is the most thorough and authentic history of the Mafia's rise to power in the early-to-mid twentieth century.
