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The Enders Hotel

A Memoir

By: Brandon R. Schrand

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An evocative memoir of growing up in the rural town of Soda Springs, Idaho, describes life in the dilapidated if historic Enders Hotel, Caf, and Bar, the colorful and and haunted characters who passed through its doors, and the author's own struggle to find his own identity in the faces of a never-seen father and desperate boarders. Winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize. Original.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803217692

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An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem and Misbehavior

By: Brandon R. Schrand

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An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem and Misbehavior

By: Brandon R. Schrand

Doing things by the book" acquires a whole new meaning in Brandon R. Schrand's memoir of coming of age in spite of himself. The "works cited" are those books that serve as Schrand's signposts as he goes from life as a hormone-crazed, heavy-metal wannabe in the remotest parts of working-class Idaho to a reasonable facsimile of manhood (with a stop along the way to buy a five-dollar mustard-colored M. C. Hammer suit, so he'll fit in at college). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn informs his adolescent angst over the perceived injustice of society's refusal to openly discuss boners. The Great Gatsby serves as a metaphor for his indulgent and directionless college days spent in a drunken stupor (when he wasn't feigning interest in Mormonism to attract women). William Kittredge's Hole in the Sky parallels his own dangerous adulthood slide into alcoholism and denial. With a finely calibrated wit, a good dose of humility, and a strong supporting cast of literary characters, Schrand manages to chart his own story--about a dreamer thrown out of school as many times as he's thrown into jail--until he finally sticks his landing.

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Psychiana Man

A Mail-Order Prophet, His Followers, and the Power of Belief in Hard Times

By: Brandon R. Schrand

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Psychiana Man

A Mail-Order Prophet, His Followers, and the Power of Belief in Hard Times

By: Brandon R. Schrand

Six weeks after the 1929 stock market crash, Frank Bruce Robinson created a self-help religion he called Psychiana. An ingenious mass-marketing pioneer, he sold a correspondence course promising health, wealth, and happiness to those who believed in the “God Power.” In the midst of the Great Depression, his mail-order religion with a money-back guarantee swept the United States and spread to some sixty-seven countries--or so its founder claimed--to become one of the most successful twentieth century New Thought religions. Facing charges of passport fraud in May 1936, an immaculately dressed Robinson arrived at the federal building in rural Moscow, Idaho. A person of considerable local and regional significance, he was Latah County’s largest private employer. Throngs lined the streets and sidewalks waiting for him. He exited his sleek green Duesenberg, waved to the crowd, and smiled for pictures. His son later wrote that the charismatic leader possessed “an insatiable appetite for publicity.” Central to the investigation was Robinson’s true identity. He was not all he claimed to be, and his small-town trial captivated the country and made national headlines. A full-length biography of Robinson combined with an in-depth historical examination of Psychiana, this book traces the improbable rise and fall of a master charlatan while also giving voice to his unwavering followers--from a dust bowl farmer to a former heavyweight boxing champion--who clung to their beliefs despite ongoing financial and emotional costs. Their stories reveal how adversity can galvanize faith in a false prophet, and paint an intriguing, intimate portrait of a nation challenged by a brutal depression and war.

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Washington State University Press

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1636820794

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The Enders Hotel

A Memoir

By: Brandon R. Schrand

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A Memoir

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An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem and Misbehavior

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An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem and Misbehavior

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