In this fascinating biography, Albert Lannon, son of Al Lannon, offers a scholarly look at his father's life and development as an American Communist. Beginning with Al Lannon's days as a teenage runaway and following his career in the Party, the author utilizes primary and secondary sources to document this extraordinary life in depth. Concluding the book with his own perspectives on his father's life, Lannon presents a unique and personal view of this important figure in American labor history. Second String Red will be of great interest to scholars of American trade unionism and communism.
So what exactly fuels the popularity of the Red String, seen on the left wrists of so many celebrities? With the official Red String provided in the back of The Red String Book we offer everyone the opportunity to discover it for themselves. Rooted in the ancient, timeless wisdom of Kabbalah, this simple tool holds the power of protection. No matter what race, religion, faith, or gender, anyone can experience transformation and ignite self-fulfillment as a result of reading The Red String Book.
Slimmed down and in great shape, Dunk is thrilled to make the school basketball team as a secondstring center. Jared, the starting center, is the best player on the team. But when Jared begins missing practice as well as the shots he used to make, Dunk is on the court more than he expected. He’s playing better than ever, but will that jeopardize his friendship with Jared?
Second String, by Anthony Hope,brings to mind a new tendency in British fiction which has quite been creeping in during the last years of the 19th century; namely, the tendency to concern itself more and more with the social life of middle class people rather than the upper circles. Second String deals with the extremely mixed society of a small English town, in which the hero, Andy Hayes, upon returning home after some years in the Canadian lumber district, finds it somewhat embarrassing to steer successfully between the distinctly "high-life" people on his father's side of the house and Jack Rock, the village butcher, with whom he is connected through his mother's second marriage. There is nothing of great importance in the main thread of the story; it is a tranquil chronicle of how Vivian Welgood, a frail, timid sort of girl, while engaging herself to another man, discovers that there is something in the physical presence of strong, big Andy Hayes that gives her a certain borrowed courage and self-reliance. And of courseit is no surprise to the reader when the other man finally elopes with Vivian's hired companion that she promptly and indeed gladly turns to Andy as second string. The value of the book lies in the deft portrayal of present-day manners, and as such, slight and modest as it is, it rings true.
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Four friends, four coaches, a football team, and a vendetta. An afternoon ride solidified the alliance among the four captains of the Last Creek Lobos, who called themselves the Four Horsemen, and started the football season of a lifetime. Jackson McCullen, Bobby Surges, Nick Hartford, and Joe Blackfeather looked forward to their senior season playing side by side as first-string players, but Coach Burton had other plans for Jackson, who would always be second string in Burton’s mind. But who, or what, really determined who was first string or second string? The roster, the coach, or the player? No one understood Burton’s prejudice against Jackson…not Coach Morrison, his friend and colleague; not Tricia, his daughter who had a crush on Jackson; and especially not Jackson himself. Week after week, tension and frustration built; stakes became higher; and the question of “why” remained unanswered. Follow the Lobos throughout their season and find out who really was second string.
