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Slaves in the Family

By: Edward Ball

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Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, with a new preface by the author The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, Slaves in the Family is, in the words of Pat Conroy, "a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word ‘family.

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146689749X

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9781466897496

The Inventor and the Tycoon

A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

By: Edward Ball

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The Inventor and the Tycoon

A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

By: Edward Ball

From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads. One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, whose particular obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the age of visual media. Set in California during its frontier decades, The Tycoon and the Inventor interweaves Muybridge's quest to unlock the secrets of motion through photography, an obsessive murder plot, and the peculiar partnership of an eccentric inventor and a driven entrepreneur. A tale from the great American West, this popular history unspools a story of passion, wealth, and sinister ingenuity.

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038553549X

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9780385535496

Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

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Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security

By: Edward D. Berkowitz

Berkowitz tells the inside story of Social Security politics, including controversies during the 1970s, Congressional rescue of the program in 1983, and the ongoing debates about structure and solvency that have enveloped the program since the 1990s. He looks at how the Social Security Administration gained and nearly lost a reputation for administrative competence, how Medicare was put into operation, and why campaigns to create national health insurance have failed."--Jacket.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299189546

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9780299189549

Life of a Klansman

A Family History in White Supremacy

By: Edward Ball

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Life of a Klansman

A Family History in White Supremacy

By: Edward Ball

A haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today . . . The interconnected strands of race and history give Ball’s entrancing stories a Faulknerian resonance." —Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review A 2020 NPR staff pick | One of The New York Times' thirteen books to watch for in August | One of The Washington Post's ten books to read in August | A Literary Hub best book of the summer| One of Kirkus Reviews' sixteen best books to read in August The life and times of a militant white supremacist, written by one of his offspring, National Book Award–winner Edward Ball Life of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the years after the Civil War. Edward Ball, a descendant of the Klansman, paints a portrait of his family’s anti-black militant that is part history, part memoir rich in personal detail. Sifting through family lore about “our Klansman” as well as public and private records, Ball reconstructs the story of his great-great grandfather, Constant Lecorgne. A white French Creole, father of five, and working class ship carpenter, Lecorgne had a career in white terror of notable and bloody completeness: massacres, night riding, masked marches, street rampages—all part of a tireless effort that he and other Klansmen made to restore white power when it was threatened by the emancipation of four million enslaved African Americans. To offer a non-white view of the Ku-klux, Ball seeks out descendants of African Americans who were once victimized by “our Klansman” and his comrades, and shares their stories. For whites, to have a Klansman in the family tree is no rare thing: Demographic estimates suggest that fifty percent of whites in the United States have at least one ancestor who belonged to the Ku Klux Klan at some point in its history. That is, one-half of white Americans could write a Klan family memoir, if they wished. In an era when racist ideology and violence are again loose in the public square, Life of a Klansman offers a personal origin story of white supremacy. Ball’s family memoir traces the vines that have grown from militant roots in the Old South into the bitter fruit of the present, when whiteness is again a cause that can veer into hate and domestic terror.

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0374720266

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9780374720261

The Sweet Hell Inside

A Family History

By: Edward Ball

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The Sweet Hell Inside

A Family History

By: Edward Ball

With the panoramic story of one "colored elite" family who rises from the ashes of the Civil War to create an American cultural dynasty Edward Ball offers the historical and, literary successor to his highly acclaimed Slaves in the Family, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 1998 National Book Award. The Sweet Hell Inside recounts the lives of the Harleston family of South Carolina, the progeny of a Southern gentleman and his slave who cast off their blemished roots and achieved affluence in part through a surprisingly successful funeral parlor business. Their wealth afforded the Harlestons the comfort of chauffeurs, tailored clothes, and servants whose skin was darker than theirs. It also launched the family into a generation of glory as painters, performers, and photographers in the "high yellow" society of America's colored upper class. The Harlestons' remarkable one-hundred-year journey spans the waning days of Reconstruction, the precious art world of the early 1900s, the back alleys of the Jazz Age, and the dawn of the civil rights movement. Enhanced by the recollections of the family's archivist, eighty-four-year-old Edwina Harleston Whitlock -- whose bloodline the author sharesThe Sweet Hell Inside features a portrait artist whose subjects included industrialist Pierre Du Pont; a black classical composer in the Lost Generation of 1920s Paris; an orphanage founder who created a famous brass band from the ranks of his abandoned waifs, a number of whom went on to burgeoning careers in jazz; and a Harleston mistress who doubled as an abortionist. With evocative and engrossing storytelling, Edward Ball introduces a cast of historical characters rarely seen before: cultured, vain, imperfect, rich, and black, a family made up of eccentrics who defied social convention yet whose advantages could not protect them from segregation's locked doors, a plague of early death, and the stigma of children born outside marriage. The Sweet Hell Inside raises the curtain on a unique family drama in the pageant of American life and uncovers a fascinating lost world.

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William Morrow

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068816840X

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9780688168407

39 Things about Life I Learned in Prison

Turn My Mistake Into Your Success

By: Edward Ball

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39 Things about Life I Learned in Prison

Turn My Mistake Into Your Success

By: Edward Ball

Get the Ball Team Enterprise's "bestselling" book!! 39 Things About Life I Learned in Prison. In this book you won't read about the gory details of prison life. Instead you will read about real life stories from prison that result in a positive lesson about life; not just prison life, but life as it relates to YOU! If you buy this book you will get... Motivated "If a convict can take the time to learn and produce an informational product you should be able to get up and make something happen!" ""A demonstration "This book will demonstrate, through narrative, how in everything there are opportunities to learn." ""Over 40 life lessons "These are lessons that can add value to your life" ""Over 80 action steps "Actual steps that if implemented under the right circumstances can make you better" If that isn't enough you will also get... Bonus Content not found in the eBook version To go inside the mind of a person convicted for a felony; meet real life characters like Tom Cat, Grave Yard, Shorty Lott and Footie; and to learn how to make the most out of a mistake and a bad situation... "Buy" 39 Things About Life I Learned in Prison "Today!!!

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098998642X

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9780989986427

Slaves in the Family

By: Edward Ball

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Slaves in the Family

By: Edward Ball

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Register of Carolina Huguenots, Vol. 1, Bacot - Dupont

By: Horry Frost Prioleau,Edward Lining Manigault

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Register of Carolina Huguenots, Vol. 1, Bacot - Dupont

By: Horry Frost Prioleau,Edward Lining Manigault

This book in 4 volumes lists approximately 22,000 descendants of 81 of the original 400 Huguenot immigrants to Carolina, arriving around 1685. For each immigrant, an Individual Summary is provided, and all known descendants are listed by generation for up to 10 generations , showing names and dates. The Index in Volume 4 can be used to find if you are descended from these 81 Huguenot immigrants. No sourcing or documented evidence of relationship is provided and the authors do not guarantee accuracy. However, the data has been carefully checked from many sources and can be used as the basis for further genealogical research and documentation.

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0557242630

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9780557242634

Register of Carolina Huguenots, Vol. 3, Marion - Villepontoux

By: Horry Frost Prioleau,Edward Lining Manigault

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Register of Carolina Huguenots, Vol. 3, Marion - Villepontoux

By: Horry Frost Prioleau,Edward Lining Manigault

This is Volume 3 of 4 volumes. See Volume 1 for a complete book description.

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0557242681

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9780557242689

Winning Racquetball

Skills, Drills, and Strategies

By: Edward T. Turner,Woody Clouse

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Winning Racquetball

Skills, Drills, and Strategies

By: Edward T. Turner,Woody Clouse

Offers drills and advice for players of all levels, including information on selecting equipment, preventing injury, and outthinking opponents.

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Human Kinetics

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0873227212

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9780873227216

Setup Reduction Through Effective Workholding

By: Edward G. Hoffman

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Setup Reduction Through Effective Workholding

By: Edward G. Hoffman

For engineers designing manufacturing processes, addresses the most time-consuming stage in operations: holding the item or material in place while something is done to it. Overviews the basic principles, options, and economics; then details alternatives for locating, clamping, chucks and collets,

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Industrial Press Inc.

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0831130679

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9780831130671

Power Plyometrics

The Complete Program

By: Edward McNeely,David Sandler

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Power Plyometrics

The Complete Program

By: Edward McNeely,David Sandler

Statement of responsibility from p. [4] of cover.

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Meyer & Meyer Verlag

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1841262005

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9781841262000

Pioneering with Taconite

By: Edward W. Davis

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Pioneering with Taconite

By: Edward W. Davis

With humor and insight, E. W. Davis tells the story that begins with the discovery of then-valueless taconite on Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range in 1870 and several decades of attempts to process taconite commercially. Davis details the ups and downs of the exciting, decades-long research effort that resulted in a workable extraction method, followed by frustrating attempts to form the concentrate into small pellets. Finally, Davis describes building the first successful commercial processing plant at Silver Bay in the 1950s and the contributions by various companies to the birth of the industry. Along the way insider Davis recounts the founding of the three new northern Minnesota taconite towns, Babbitt, Silver Bay, and Hoyt Lakes.

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Minnesota Historical Society Press

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0873514963

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9780873514965

Take My Advise

By: Edward Charles Buck

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Take My Advise

By: Edward Charles Buck

Originally published circa 1875, this guide provides a comprehensive insight into Victorian life. With 70 illustrations. it illustrates the domestic arrangements of the Victorian upper and middle classes and provides a window into the social structure and stability.

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OTCEditions

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1849860106

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9781849860109

Coaching Youth Baseball - The Right Way

By: Edward DeVries

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Coaching Youth Baseball - The Right Way

By: Edward DeVries

You have volunteered to coach a youth baseball team, but are you ready? How will you teach the fundamental skills, run effective practices, and harness the energy of your young team? Fear not: Coaching Youth Baseball the Right Way has the answers. Youth baseball coach Ed DeVries shares his experiences and provides advice you can rely on from the first practice to the final game. From establishing realistic goals, to practice plans, to drills, strategies, coaching tips, how to make it fun - it's all here. Develop your kid's fielding, catching, throwing, pitching, and hitting skills with Coaching Youth Baseball the Right Way's age specific (ages 4-12) practice plans and drills that young players can actually use. Coaching Youth Baseball the Right Way has everything you need to successfully coach T-ball or any age division of youth baseball through age 15.

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1365308731

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9781365308734

The Complete Baseball Player

By: Jacob Edward Corney Jr publishing Company

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The Complete Baseball Player

By: Jacob Edward Corney Jr publishing Company

This book contains many tips on hitting,pitching ,fielding,coaching,and sport's medicine. This book would benefit all baseball players including major league baseball players.This book took me sixty years to complete.

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Slaves in the Family

Slaves in the Family

The Inventor and the Tycoon

The Inventor and the Tycoon

Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security

Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security

Life of a Klansman

Life of a Klansman

The Sweet Hell Inside

The Sweet Hell Inside

39 Things about Life I Learned in Prison

39 Things about Life I Learned in Prison

Slaves in the Family

Slaves in the Family

Register of Carolina Huguenots, Vol. 1, Bacot - Dupont

Register of Carolina Huguenots, Vol. 1, Bacot - Dupont

Register of Carolina Huguenots, Vol. 3, Marion - Villepontoux

Register of Carolina Huguenots, Vol. 3, Marion - Villepontoux

Winning Racquetball

Winning Racquetball

Setup Reduction Through Effective Workholding

Setup Reduction Through Effective Workholding

Power Plyometrics

Power Plyometrics

Pioneering with Taconite

Pioneering with Taconite

Take My Advise

Take My Advise

Coaching Youth Baseball - The Right Way

Coaching Youth Baseball - The Right Way

The Complete Baseball Player

The Complete Baseball Player

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