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Author: Luis J. Rodriguez
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2005-04-26
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0060560762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of "Always Running: La Vida Loca" comes an epic novel about three generations of an American family who have built their lives around the decaying steel industry of the late 20th century.
Author: Douglas E. Friedman
Publisher: Booklocker.com
Published: 2016-07-20
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780971397941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFOUR BOYS AND A GUITAR: The Story and Music of the Mills Brothers is the only biography of this famous American singing group. 70 Chart hits over a 37-year period! The book tells the group's story from their humble beginnings in Piqua, Ohio to their rise to international stardom. The racial aspects of their story are also covered, especially as they mirrored the racial history of the country over the course of the group's career.
Author: Steve Dunwell
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPortrait of the human, mechanical and environmental determinants of New England's textile industry, the social, technological, cultural, and economic factors that perpetrated its creation, consolidation and decline and the remaining legacy.
Author: Riccardo Bacchelli
Publisher:
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe work, considered Bacchelli's masterpiece, dramatizes the conflicts and struggles of several generations of a family of millers.
Author: Kerri Arsenault
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1250155959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Finalist for the 2021 New England Society Book Award Finalist for the 2021 New England Independent Booksellers Association Award A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Chicago Tribune top book for 2020 “Mill Town is the book of a lifetime; a deep-drilling, quick-moving, heartbreaking story. Scathing and tender, it lifts often into poetry, but comes down hard when it must. Through it all runs the river: sluggish, ancient, dangerous, freighted with America’s sins.” —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland Kerri Arsenault grew up in the small, rural town of Mexico, Maine, where for over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that provided jobs for nearly everyone in town, including three generations of her family. Kerri had a happy childhood, but years after she moved away, she realized the price she paid for that childhood. The price everyone paid. The mill, while providing the social and economic cohesion for the community, also contributed to its demise. Mill Town is a book of narrative nonfiction, investigative memoir, and cultural criticism that illuminates the rise and collapse of the working-class, the hazards of loving and leaving home, and the ambiguous nature of toxics and disease with the central question; Who or what are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?
Author: David Macaulay
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1989-10-30
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 0547348363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis illustrated look at nineteenth-century New England architecture was named a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. This book, from the award-winning author of The Way Things Work, takes readers of all ages on a journey through a fictional mill town called Wicksbridge. With words and pictures, David Macaulay reveals fascinating details about the planning, construction, and operation of the mills—and gives us a powerful sense of the day-to-day lives of Americans in this era. “His imaginary mills in an imaginary town in Rhode Island, and the generations of people who built and ran them, come to life.” —The New York Times
Author: Patrick Huber
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 0807832251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the origins and development of American country music in the Piedmont's mill villages celebrates the colorful cast of musicians and considers the impact that urban living, industrial music, and mass culture had on their lives and music.
Author: David Hanson
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2014-07-17
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1472220420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChannel 4's The Mill captivated viewers with the tales of the lives of the young girls and boys in a northern mill. Focusing on the lives of the apprentices at Quarry Bank Mill, David Hanson's book uses a wealth of first-person source material including letters, diaries, mill records, to tell the stories of the children who lived and worked at Quarry Bank throughout the nineteenth century. This book perfectly accompanies the television series, satisfying viewers' curiosity about the history of the children of Quarry Bank. It reveals the real lives of the television series' main characters: Esther, Daniel, Lucy and Susannah, showing how shockingly close to the truth the dramatisation is. But the book also goes far beyond this to create a full and vivid picture of factory life in the industrial revolution. David Hanson has written an accessible narrative history of Victorian working children and the conditions in which they worked.
Author: Luis J. Rodriguez
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2003-03-04
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 006093686X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the award-winning author of Always Running comes a brilliant collection of short stories about life in East Los Angeles. Whether hilariously capturing the voice of a philosophizing limo driver whose dream is to make the most of his rap-metal garage band in "My Ride, My Revolution," or the monologue-styled rant of a tes-ti-fy-ing! tent revivalist named Ysela in "Oiga," Rodriguez squeezes humor from the lives of people who are not ready to sacrifice their dreams due to circumstance. In these stories, Luis J. Rodriguez gives eloquent voice to the neighborhood where he spent many years as a resident, a father, an organizer, and, finally, a writer: a neighborhood that offers more to the world than its appearance allows.
Author: John Masefield
Publisher:
Published: 1941
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMemories of two years in the author's life, during which he was employed in a carpet mill in Yonkers, New York.
