Lew for the Red, White, and Blue
Lew for the Red, White, and Blue

Author: Natalie Popp

Publisher: Never Forgotten Books

Published: 2024-09-16

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13:

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"Lew for the Red, White, and Blue" by Natalie Popp, Illustrated by Anna Kreutz Discover the inspiring true life journey of Dr. Lew Harned, born in 1924, who exemplifies that adventure and patriotism know no age limits. Lew dedicated his life to serving his country and is a WWII, Korean War, and Operation Desert Storm Veteran. At 99 years old, Lew embarked on over 100 thrilling experiences, proving that a vibrant spirit and love for one’s country remain strong no matter the years. This true story is a celebration of living life to the fullest and embracing every moment with courage and joy. Through heartfelt storytelling by Natalie Popp and engaging illustrations by Anna Kreutz, readers of all ages will be inspired by Lew's remarkable life and boundless enthusiasm. Perfect for young readers and adults alike, "Lew for the Red, White, and Blue" is a tribute to resilience, adventure, and the unbreakable bond of patriotism. (Printed paperback book, 32 pages in full color) www.neverforgottenbooks.com ISBN: 979-8-218-49271-7

The Red, White and Blue
The Red, White and Blue

Author: John Gregory Dunne

Publisher: Zola Books

Published: 2013-12-12

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 1939126215

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“Crackling dialogue, gritty characters, a fierce, unblinking stare at acts of brutality.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review. A brilliantly panoramic novel spanning a quarter-century of American life, John Gregory Dunne’s The Red White and Blue tells the story of California's high-profile Broderick family, a tale beginning in the tumult of the 1960s. The clan includes a billionaire San Francisco patriarch, his sons the celebrity priest and Hollywood screenwriter, and his daughter, wife to the brother of the American president. Rounding out the front-line cast is Leah Kaye, a politically radical lawyer once married to the screenwriter Jack Broderick, an ex-newspaperman and the book's narrator. The influence of wealth in American politics. A California agricultural strike. A South American election. The black-power movement. Hollywood movers and shakers. All of this and more is deftly navigated as Dunne sets his main characters and big-canvas forces in motion. Jack himself is pulled into the swirl, his ironic detachment proving insufficient bulwark against dramas that grow darker, more dangerous and more personal as Dunne’s epic unfolds. A robust, bitterly comic portrait of America in the Viet Nam era and after, with a storyline headed towards tragedy, The Red White and Blue — appearing here in digital format for the first time — is John Gregory Dunne at his most ambitious and far-seeing, his gaze sweeping from coast to coast and from decade to American decade.

Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys
Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys

Author: D. M. S. Fick

Publisher: CamCat Publishing, LLC

Published: 2023-04-11

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0744308879

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A missing brooch. A face set in cement. This is not your average music festival. Lewis Sinclair, a stalwart and tender country musician, is about to take the stage with his band, the Gentlemen Cowboys, at the premier U.S. country music festival when his girl dumps him for the Cowboys’ shifty manager. When that same manager ends up at FallFest’s walk of fame with his handprints—and his head—in cement, Lew finds himself on the top ten most wanted list instead of the music charts. With the help of his loyal Cowboys and the close-knit festival staff, Lew must clear his name before the killer gets away—or strikes again.

The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer

Author: Johnny Mercer

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2009-10-20

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 0307273229

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The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” and “That Old Black Magic.” During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Warren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (music by Carmichael), and “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” (music for both by Henry Mancini). You’ve probably fallen in love with more than a few of Mercer’s songs–his words have never gone out of fashion–and with this superb collection, it’s easy to see that his lyrics elevated popular song into art.

Under the Red White and Blue
Under the Red White and Blue

Author: Greil Marcus

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0300228902

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A deep dive into how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted, misused, and kept alive Renowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. An enthralling parable (or a cheap metaphor) of the American Dream as a beckoning finger toward a con game, a kind of virus infecting artists of all sorts over nearly a century, Fitzgerald’s story has become a key to American culture and American life itself. Marcus follows the arc of The Great Gatsby from 1925 into the ways it has insinuated itself into works by writers such as Philip Roth and Raymond Chandler; found echoes in the work of performers from Jelly Roll Morton to Lana Del Rey; and continued to rewrite both its own story and that of the country at large in the hands of dramatists and filmmakers from the 1920s to John Collins’s 2006 Gatz and Baz Luhrmann’s critically reviled (here celebrated) 2013 movie version—the fourth, so far.

Ipso Fatso - A Shortcut Man Novel
Ipso Fatso - A Shortcut Man Novel

Author: p.g. sturges

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2015-12-17

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13:

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When the legal system has disappointed, humbled, and humiliated you, there is still one arrow in your quiver. Call the Shortcut Man. Dick Henry, the Shortcut Man, is a purveyor of unlicensed, unofficial, and unauthorized justice. In IPSO FATSO, Dick follows the breadcrumbs leading into the lofty halls of power and influence in Los Angeles. Once there, Dick achieves the unexpected, but along the way settles a variety of scores and puts a number of bad guys in touch with their Inner Child.