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Ending British rule in Africa

Writers in a common cause

By: Carol Polsgrove

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Ending British rule in Africa

Writers in a common cause

By: Carol Polsgrove

On the eve of World War II, a small, impoverished group of Africans and West Indians in London dared to imagine the unimaginable: the end of British rule in Africa. In books, pamphlets, and periodicals, they launched an anti-colonial campaign that used publishing as a pathway to liberation. West Indians George Padmore, C. L. R. James, and Ras Makonnen; Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta and Sierra Leone’s I. T. A. Wallace Johnson –made their point: that colonial rule was oppressive and inconsistent with the democratic ideals Britain claimed at home. Ending British Rule in Africa draws on previously unexplored manuscript and archival collections to trace the development of this publishing community from its origins in George Padmore’s American and Comintern years through the independence of Ghana in the 1957. This original study will be of interest to scholars and general readers interested in social movements, diaspora studies, empire and African history, publishing history, literary history, and cultural studies.

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Manchester University Press

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1526118513

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It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun?

Surviving the '60s with Esquire's Harold Hayes

By: Carol Polsgrove

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Surviving the '60s with Esquire's Harold Hayes

By: Carol Polsgrove

Possibly the best book ever written about an American magazine editor, this biography offers a 3-D view of the assassinations, the student riots, the counterculture, the politicians, the pop icons and the war that made the 60s America's unforgettable decade. Under the aegis of former Marine Harold Hayes, Esquire helped turn journalists, editors and photographers like Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Raymond Carver, Michael Herr, John Berendt and Diane Arbus into celebrities in their own right. Polsgrove's brilliant book, often resembling an Esquire cover story, offers a warts and all portrait of Hayes. Afterword by Ben Bagdikian.

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340

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RDR Books

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1571430911

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9781571430915

When We Were Young in Africa

By: Carol Claxon Polsgrove

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When We Were Young in Africa

By: Carol Claxon Polsgrove

Imagine you are watching a movie and suddenly the action stops and the credits begin to roll. Leaving Africa was like that. I had been going along in my African story, full of its sights and sounds and smells'children balancing kerosene tins on their heads, drums rumbling at night, air scented by smoke from charcoal and wood fires. . . And then: Cut. It was over. After twelve years of growing up mostly in West Africa, I was back in the United States, where people thought growing up in Africa was strange and growing up the daughter of missionaries was even stranger. I learned to avoid mentioning that part of my life at all, because if I did, I would feel the stereotypes close round me. I did my best to pass as American without ever quite succeeding. When my mother asked me in her last days, ?Do you appreciate your African childhood? I replied with cruel honesty, ?Yes, but now I don't belong in America.' Just weeks after her death at the age of 96, I sat myself down in a state of survivor's freedom to explore the childhood I had tried to put behind me. I poured out memories across a yellow notepad and began reading the letters Mother had passed on to me'intimate letters she and Daddy had written back to family from Africa, letters I myself had written from my boarding school in Nigeria my last three years there. As a historian I already understood the richness of life told in letters: the way secrets spring from their pages. Thus innocently (if any historian can be said to be innocent) I began'and found myself tangled up in a story I had not just forgotten but had never known.

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Lulu.com

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1941892167

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9781941892169

Raymond Carver

A Writer's Life

By: Carol Sklenicka

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Raymond Carver

A Writer's Life

By: Carol Sklenicka

The first biography of america’s best-known short story writer of the late twentieth century. The London Times called Raymond Carver "the American Chekhov." The beloved, mischievous, but more modest short-story writer and poet thought of himself as "a lucky man" whose renunciation of alcohol allowed him to live "ten years longer than I or anyone expected." In that last decade, Carver became the leading figure in a resurgence of the short story. Readers embraced his precise, sad, often funny and poignant tales of ordinary people and their troubles: poverty, drunkenness, embittered marriages, difficulties brought on by neglect rather than intent. Since Carver died in 1988 at age fifty, his legacy has been mythologized by admirers and tainted by controversy over a zealous editor’s shaping of his first two story collections. Carol Sklenicka penetrates the myths and controversies. Her decade-long search of archives across the United States and her extensive interviews with Carver’s relatives, friends, and colleagues have enabled her to write the definitive story of the iconic literary figure. Laced with the voices of people who knew Carver intimately, her biography offers a fresh appreciation of his work and an unbiased, vivid portrait of the writer.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439160589

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When We Were Young in Africa

By: Carol Claxon Polsgrove

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Ending British rule in Africa

Writers in a common cause

By: Carol Polsgrove

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Divided Minds

Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement

By: Carol Polsgrove

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Divided Minds

Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement

By: Carol Polsgrove

This history of the climatic years of the civil rights movement depicts the reluctance of American intellectuals to participate in its efforts or adopt its cause. Based on unpublished archival material and new interviews, the book presents a portrait of leading writers and scholars responding with ambivalence to the movement. Polsgrove (journalism, Indiana University at Bloomington) contrasts the moderate voices of Faulkner, Ellison, Woodward, and Warren with their more radical counterparts, represented by Wright, Du Bois, Reddick, Zinn, and Silver. c. Book News Inc.

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W. W. Norton

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0393020134

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9780393020137

It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun?

Surviving the '60s with Esquire's Harold Hayes

By: Carol Polsgrove

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Surviving the '60s with Esquire's Harold Hayes

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Ending British rule in Africa

Ending British rule in Africa

It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun?

It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun?

When We Were Young in Africa

When We Were Young in Africa

Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver

When We Were Young in Africa

When We Were Young in Africa

Ending British rule in Africa

Ending British rule in Africa

Divided Minds

Divided Minds

It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun?

It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun?

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