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The 22nd Michigan Infantry and the Road to Chickamauga

By: John Cohassey

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The 22nd Michigan Infantry and the Road to Chickamauga

By: John Cohassey

Called upon to take a hill at the 1863 Battle of Chickamauga, the untested 22nd Michigan Infantry helped to save General George H. Thomas' right flank. Formed in 1862, the regiment witnessed slavery and encountered runaways in the border state of Kentucky, faced near starvation during the siege of Chattanooga and marched to Atlanta as General Thomas' provost guard. This history explores the 22nd's day-to-day experiences in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia. The author describes the challenges faced by volunteer farm boys, shopkeepers, school teachers and lawyers as they faced death, disease and starvation on battlefields and in Confederate prisons.

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1476671664

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9781476671666

American Cultural Rebels

Avant-Garde and Bohemian Artists, Writers and Musicians from the 1850s through the 1960s

By: Roy Kotynek,John Cohassey

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American Cultural Rebels

Avant-Garde and Bohemian Artists, Writers and Musicians from the 1850s through the 1960s

By: Roy Kotynek,John Cohassey

Artistic vanguards plot new aesthetic movements, print controversial magazines, hold provocative art shows, and stage experimental theatrical and musical performances. These revolutionaries have often helped create America's countercultural movements, from the early romantics and bohemians to the beatniks and hippies. This work looks at how experimental art and the avant-garde artists' lifestyles have influenced, and at times transformed, American culture since the mid-nineteenth century. The work will introduce readers to these artists and rebels, making a careful distinction between the worlds of the high modern artist (salons and galleries) and the bohemian.

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078643709X

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9780786437092

Hemingway and Pound

A Most Unlikely Friendship

By: John Cohassey

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Hemingway and Pound

A Most Unlikely Friendship

By: John Cohassey

Unique individuals of fiery temperament, Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound made an odd pair on the streets of 1920s Paris. If the elder cane-carrying Pound appeared the out-of-date poet, Hemingway was the epitome of his generation's Flaming Youth. Meeting on the high ground of art, these two literary giants formed a friendship that survived until Hemingway's death. During their short time together in Paris, Pound edited Hemingway's early work. Over decades Hemingway considered Pound a major poet and read The Cantos as they appeared in little magazines and published volumes. Eventually living in countries half a world apart, Hemingway and Pound maintained a lively and sometimes contentious correspondence. When Pound was incarcerated in America for his World War II broadcasts over Radio Rome, Hemingway played a vital role in freeing his old poet friend--the man who edited his early work, the "good game guy" whose wit and brilliance he never forgot. This narrative of a friendship lays bare the triumphs and tragedies of two giants of modern literature.

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1476616477

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9781476616476

Toast of the Town

The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson

By: Sunnie Wilson,John Cohassey

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The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson

By: Sunnie Wilson,John Cohassey

Part oral history, memoir, and biography, Toast of the Town draws from hundreds of hours of taped conversations between Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey, as Wilson reflected on the changes in Detroit over the last sixty years. As part of the great migration of southern blacks to the north, Sunnie Wilson came to Detroit from South Carolina after graduating from college, and soon became a pillar of the local music industry. He started out as a song and dance performer but found his niche as a local promoter of boxing, which allowed him to make friends and business connections quickly in the thriving industrial city of Detroit. Part oral history, memoir, and biography, Toast of the Town draws from hundreds of hours of taped conversations between Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey, as Wilson reflected on the changes in Detroit over the last sixty years. Supported by extensive research, Wilson’s reminiscences are complemented by photographs from his own collection, which capture the spirit of the times. Through Sunnie Wilson’s narrative, Detroit’s glory comes alive, bringing back nights at the hopping Forest Club on Hastings Street, which hosted music greats like Nat King Cole and boasted the longest bar in Michigan, and sunny afternoons at Lake Idlewild, the largest black resort in the United States that attracted thousands every weekend from all over the Midwest. An influential insider’s perspective, Toast of the Townfills a void in the documented history of Detroit’s black and entertainment community from the 1920s to the present.

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197

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Wayne State University Press

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0814343880

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9780814343883

Enterprising Images

The Goodridge Brothers, African American Photographers, 1847-1922

By: John Vincent Jezierski

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The Goodridge Brothers, African American Photographers, 1847-1922

By: John Vincent Jezierski

The story of the most prolific African American photographers in North America. From its beginnings in York, Pennsylvania, in 1847, until the death of Wallace L. Goodridge in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1922, the Goodridge Brothers Studio was the most significant and enduring African American photographic establishment in North America. In Enterprising Images, John Vincent Jezierski tells the story of one of America's first families of photography, documenting the history of the Goodridge studio for three-quarters of a century. The existence of more than one thousand Goodridge photographs in all formats and the family's professional and personal activism enrich the portrait that emerges of this extraordinary family. Weaving photographic and regional history with the narrative of a family whose lives paralleled the social and political happenings of the country, Jezierski provides the reader with a complex family biography for those interested in regional and African American, as well as photographic, history.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814324517

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9780814324516

American Cultural Rebels

Avant-Garde and Bohemian Artists, Writers and Musicians from the 1850s through the 1960s

By: Roy Kotynek,John Cohassey

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Avant-Garde and Bohemian Artists, Writers and Musicians from the 1850s through the 1960s

By: Roy Kotynek,John Cohassey

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Toast of the Town

The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson

By: Sunnie Wilson,John Cohassey

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The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson

By: Sunnie Wilson,John Cohassey

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Hemingway and Pound

A Most Unlikely Friendship

By: John Cohassey

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0786476400

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The 22nd Michigan Infantry and the Road to Chickamauga

The 22nd Michigan Infantry and the Road to Chickamauga

American Cultural Rebels

American Cultural Rebels

Hemingway and Pound

Hemingway and Pound

Toast of the Town

Toast of the Town

Enterprising Images

Enterprising Images

American Cultural Rebels

American Cultural Rebels

Toast of the Town

Toast of the Town

Hemingway and Pound

Hemingway and Pound

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