Myer for Hire
Myer for Hire

Author: Lester S. Taube

Publisher: CCB Publishing

Published: 2014-09-18

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1771431687

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Myer Ronis is a law-abiding citizen, a lover of poetry and peace, a man of duty who respects his sister and is polite to his brother-in-law and loves his mother. Can this same Myer Ronis be the hired killer, the merciless butcher of untold victims? Can Myer Ronis be the Assassin? The Assassin travels to Los Angeles to make a hit, in other words, to fill some person with lead jujubes. The West Coast mob tries to stop him. They send Bogar, who eliminates people for practice, but the Assassin turns even him into goulash. They send a helicopter, with twelve gunmen and thirty-four cases of nitroglycerine, but after the bang there is no helicopter and no gunmen. They send sixty top guns to meet him in Los Angeles, but somehow he walks right through them. Can a good boy like Myer Ronis be this Assassin? And if he isn’t, who is?

Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency

Publisher:

Published: 1947

Total Pages: 1908

ISBN-13:

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Syndicated Television
Syndicated Television

Author: Hal Erickson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2024-10-09

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1476613818

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Here is an excellent reference book on "first run" syndication--the distribution of programs either made exclusively for non-network play, or of programs intended for network telecasts but ultimately making their debuts in syndication. Bringing together information not easily found, this work covers the classics such as Sea Hunt, Highway Patrol, The Merv Griffin Show and the Muppet Show, as well as such once-popular but now obscure productions as China Smith, Ripcord and The Littlest Hobo. Coverage goes back to 1947 and the book includes a number of series ignored in other works. The first section is an overview of the concept of syndication from its earliest application in the newspaper world to the attempt by Fox Television to become a fourth network. The next four sections each cover ten years of syndication, listing the shows (with full background--who produced them and why, who liked them and why, etc.) alphabetically by title under the following genres: Adventure/Mystery, Children's, Comedy, Drama, Game/Quiz, Informational, Music/Variety, Religious, Sports, Talk/Interview, Travel/Documentary, Westerns, and Women's.

Serving Their Country
Serving Their Country

Author: Paul C Rosier

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2012-09-03

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0674066235

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Over the twentieth century, American Indians fought for their right to be both American and Indian. In an illuminating book, Paul C. Rosier traces how Indians defined democracy, citizenship, and patriotism in both domestic and international contexts. Battles over the place of Indians in the fabric of American life took place on reservations, in wartime service, in cold war rhetoric, and in the courtroom. The Society of American Indians, founded in 1911, asserted that America needed Indian cultural and spiritual values. In World War II, Indians fought for their ancestral homelands and for the United States. The domestic struggle of Indian nations to defend their cultures intersected with the international cold war stand against terminationÑthe attempt by the federal government to end the reservation system. Native Americans seized on the ideals of freedom and self-determination to convince the government to preserve reservations as places of cultural strength. Red Power activists in the 1960s and 1970s drew on Third World independence movements to assert an ethnic nationalism that erupted in a series of protestsÑin Iroquois country, in the Pacific Northwest, during the occupation of Alcatraz Island, and at Wounded Knee. Believing in an empire of liberty for all, Native Americans pressed the United States to honor its obligations at home and abroad. Like African Americans, twentieth-century Native Americans served as a visible symbol of an America searching for rights and justice. American history is incomplete without their story.

Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed.
Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed.

Author: Vincent Terrace

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 1331

ISBN-13: 0786486414

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This fully updated and expanded edition covers over 10,200 programs, making it the most comprehensive documentation of television programs ever published. In addition to covering the standard network and cable entertainment genres, the book also covers programs generally not covered elsewhere in print (or even online), including Internet series, aired and unaired pilot films, erotic series, gay and lesbian series, risque cartoons and experimental programs from 1925 through 1945.

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps

Author: Otto Penzler

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 2008-12-24

Total Pages: 1170

ISBN-13: 0307494160

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The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled. Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train—a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as a dagger to the chest; and gin-soaked hideouts where conversations are just preludes to murder. This is crime fiction at its gritty best. Including: • Three stories by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Dashiell Hammett. • Complete novels from Carroll John Daly, the man who invented the hard-boiled detective, and Fredrick Nebel, one of the masters of the form. • A never before published Dashiell Hammett story. • Every other major pulp writer of the time, including Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, and many many more of whom you’ve probably never heard. • Three deadly sections–The Crimefighters, The Villains, and Dames–with three unstoppable introductions by Harlan Coben, Harlan Ellison, and Laura Lippman Featuring: • Plenty of reasons for murder, all of them good. • A kid so smart–he’ll die of it. • A soft-hearted loan shark’s legman learning–the hard way–never to buy a strange blonde a hamburger. • The uncanny “Moon Man” and his mad-money victims.