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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America

By: John F. Kasson

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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America

By: John F. Kasson

[An] elucidating cultural history of Hollywood’s most popular child star…a must-read." —Bill Desowitz, USA Today For four consecutive years she was the world’s box-office champion. With her image appearing in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily, she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers, among them J. Edgar Hoover, Andy Warhol, and Anne Frank. Distinguished cultural historian John F. Kasson shows how, amid the deprivation and despair of the Great Depression, Shirley Temple radiated optimism and plucky good cheer that lifted the spirits of millions and shaped their collective character for generations to come.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393244180

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Along Parallel Lines

A History of the Railways of New South Wales

By: John Gunn

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Along Parallel Lines

A History of the Railways of New South Wales

By: John Gunn

Railways have played an immense part in the history of New South Wales. The parallel lines extended as the population grew and themselves made possible new settlement and new industries. Railways crossed the mountain barriers that surround Sydney and opened up both the vast hinterland and the northern and southern coasts. Railways joined every part of New South Wales to Sydney in a distinctive, centralized pattern. They also joined New South Wales to the neighbouring colonies and states.

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john gunn

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0522843875

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9780522843873

Miss Shirley Bassey

By: John L. Williams

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Miss Shirley Bassey

By: John L. Williams

In 1954, Shirley Bassey was seventeen years old. She had just returned from a cheesy revue tour called 'Hot from Harlem'. Depressed, disillusioned and four months' pregnant, she decided that her dream of being a professional singer was over. A mere ten years later, she was one of the biggest stars in the world. She had sold more records than any other British singer of the day, and was poised to conquer America. Her latest hit, 'Goldfinger', was the theme tune to the year's blockbuster film. No longer the two-bit jazz singer from Cardiff, she was by now an international sex siren, as glamorous and unreal as Bond himself. Miss Shirley Bassey explores this remarkable transformation, both of an individual and of the British society and British psyche that made it possible. From the vibrant, multicultural oasis of Tiger Bay in the Cardiff docklands through the club-lands of Soho and Las Vegas to New York's Carnegie Hall, it is a journey from mere mortal to international icon. Along the way she would encounter homosexual husbands, predatory managers, newspaper scandals, and a range of friends and acquaintances from Sammy Davis Jr to Reggie Kray. John L. Williams draws on original research and interviews to provide a portrait of a young woman on the cusp of stardom, whose rise to fame was in many ways symbolic of a changing world. Brilliantly written non-fiction in the style of David Peace's The Damned Utd or Nick Tosches' Dino, this is the story of a woman who set out to be extraordinary and - against all the odds - succeeded.

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Quercus

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0857383949

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9780857383945

The French & Indian War in North Carolina

The Spreading Flames of War

By: John R Maass

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The French & Indian War in North Carolina

The Spreading Flames of War

By: John R Maass

For eight decades, an epic power struggle raged across a frontier that would become Maine. Between 1675 and 1759, British, French, and Native Americans soldiers clashed in six distinct wars to claim the land that became the Pine Tree State. Though the showdown between France and Great Britain was international in scale, the decidedly local conflicts in Maine pitted European settlers against Native American tribes. Native and European communities from the Penobscot to the Piscataqua Rivers suffered brutal attacks. Countless men, women and children were killed, taken captive or sold into servitude. The native people of Maine were torn asunder by disease, social disintegration and political factionalism as they fought to maintain their autonomy in the face of unrelenting European pressure. This is the dark, tragic and largely forgotten struggle that laid the foundation of Maine.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625846665

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9781625846662

Wanderings of a Vagabond

By: John Morris

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Wanderings of a Vagabond

By: John Morris

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385208904

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9783385208902

The Dartmouth College Causes and the Supreme Court of the United States

By: John Major Shirley

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The Dartmouth College Causes and the Supreme Court of the United States

By: John Major Shirley

Shirley, John M. The Dartmouth College Causes and the Supreme Court of the United States. Chicago: G.I. Jones, 1895. 469 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-337-5. Cloth. * Reprint of the first edition. Dartmouth College vs. Woodward (1816-1819) established significant precedents concerning state authority and the nature of private enterprise. Dartmouth College was incorporated under a royal charter in 1769 as a private corporation. In 1816 the New Hampshire Legislature attempted to transform the college into a state institution. Daniel Webster, representing the college trustees, convinced the Supreme Court that the royal charter was a contract that could not be invalidated by subsequent state legislation. The court concurred. Its decision initiated a significant constitutional limitation on state authority. It also helped to define corporations as relatively unregulated private economic entity that contributed to the public sphere through enlightened self-interest. Shirley offers a vivid account of the case, enriched by extensive quotation of primary archival sources.

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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1584773375

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9781584773375

Fragments

By: John Ellison

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Fragments

By: John Ellison

Fragments is the supposed work of the narrator, Clive Bates, a retired law teacher, who looks back more than four decades from late 2010, as government austerity begins, to his first post-university teaching post taken up in the autumn of 1968.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1800468490

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9781800468498

War on the Run

The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier

By: John F. Ross

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War on the Run

The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier

By: John F. Ross

Often hailed as the godfather of today’s elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on “impossible” missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers’ legend. The child of marginalized Scots-Irish immigrants, Rogers learned to survive in New England’s dark and deadly forests, grasping, as did few others, that a new world required new forms of warfare. John F. Ross not only re-creates Rogers’s life and his spectacular battles with breathtaking immediacy and meticulous accuracy, but brings a new and provocative perspective on Rogers’s unique vision of a unified continent, one that would influence Thomas Jefferson and inspire the Lewis and Clark expedition. Rogers’s principles of unconventional war-making would lay the groundwork for the colonial strategy later used in the War of Independence—and prove so compelling that army rangers still study them today. Robert Rogers, a backwoods founding father, was heroic, admirable, brutal, canny, ambitious, duplicitous, visionary, and much more—like America itself.

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Bantam

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0553906658

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9780553906653

The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts

By: John J. Waters Jr.

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The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts

By: John J. Waters Jr.

The Otis family was largely responsible for committing Barnstable to the revolutionary cause, a move that irrevocably undermined the placid, homogenous nature of their society. As he discusses the reactions of the Otises and their community to this crisis, Waters illuminates the causes of the Revolution itself. Originally published in 1968. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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UNC Press Books

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0807838365

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9780807838365

Nelson

A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797

By: John Sugden

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Nelson

A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797

By: John Sugden

Historian Sugden has penned one of the most authoritative and captivating accounts ever written of legendary British naval commander Horatio Nelson's early career and rise to prominence.

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Macmillan

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0805079343

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9780805079340

Hollywood Through the Back Door

A Journal of Survival

By: Michael St. John

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Hollywood Through the Back Door

A Journal of Survival

By: Michael St. John

Hollywood Through the Backdoor uncovers the story of actor-writer-composer MICHAEL ST. JOHN, arriving in Hollywood, with no great expectations, just to survive. It was a time when artists of color were forced to accept any kind of demeaning role in the business. When not in a class at U.S.C., Michael found on a film set, observing and meeting stars or those who might make it happen for him. He pulled some outlandish stunts to get the job or part he wanted, but managed to garner the respect of some of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry i.e., Dan Dailey, Marlon Brando, Hedda Hopper, and so many other highly respected creative-movers in the industry, who held out their hand, giving him the necessary push needed. The Backdoor? Hell, Michael didn't care, it was an entrance! Segment Film Productions : Michael Plaster - Steven F. Proctor

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796047546

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Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780

A Biographical Dictionary

By: John A. Schutz

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Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780

A Biographical Dictionary

By: John A. Schutz

This single volume contains meticulously researched biographies of the men who served as representatives in the General Court from the Charter of 1691 to the end of the American Revolution. Schutz also provides readers with enlightening essays on the history and workings of the Massachusetts General Court, and its influence in shaping the political and cultural milieux of colonial and revolutionary America.

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UPNE

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1555533043

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9781555533045

The Buildings of Peter Harrison

Cataloguing the Work of the First Global Architect, 1716-1775

By: John Fitzhugh Millar

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The Buildings of Peter Harrison

Cataloguing the Work of the First Global Architect, 1716-1775

By: John Fitzhugh Millar

Perhaps the most important architect ever to have worked in America, Peter Harrison's renown suffers from the destruction of most of his papers when he died in 1775. He was born in Yorkshire, England in 1716 and trained to be an architect as a teenager. He also became a ship captain, and soon sailed to ports in America, where he began designing some of the most iconic buildings of the continent. In a clandestine operation, he procured the plans for the French Canadian fortress of Louisbourg, enabling Massachusetts Governor William Shirley to capture it in 1745. This setback forced the French to halt their operation to capture all of British America and to give up British territory they had captured in India. As a result, he was rewarded with commissions to design important buildings in Britain and in nearly all British colonies around the world, and he became the first person ever to have designed buildings on six continents. He designed mostly in a neo-Palladian style, and invented a way of building wooden structures so as to look like carved stone--"wooden rustication." He also designed some of America's most valuable furniture, including inventing the coveted "block-front," and introducing the bombe motif. In America, he lived in Newport, Rhode Island, and in New Haven, Connecticut, where he died at the beginning of the War of Independence.

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McFarland

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0786479620

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9780786479627

The Eclipse Trilogy

Eclipse, Eclipse: Penumbra, and Eclipse: Corona

By: John Shirley

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The Eclipse Trilogy

Eclipse, Eclipse: Penumbra, and Eclipse: Corona

By: John Shirley

The complete trilogy in one volume: Tech-savvy resistance fighters battle a twenty-first-century fascist takeover that threatens the entire planet—and beyond . . . In the near future, Russia invades Western Europe, crisis envelops the United States—and a mercenary army overseen by power-hungry theocrats and authoritarians takes advantage of the chaos. But a band of resistance fighters, technologically skilled and as dedicated to freedom as they are to sex, drugs, and rock and roll, intend to do what needs to be done to save humanity from mass-scale genocide—including those humans living in the world’s first orbiting space colony . . . This volume includes Eclipse, Eclipse: Penumbra, and Eclipse: Corona Praise for The Eclipse Trilogy “[An] apocalyptic, pop-inflected, rock-driven vision.” —William Gibson, New York Times–bestselling author of Neuromancer “Hard to put down.” —The Washington Post “John Shirley’s prophet-in-the-cyberwilderness voice deserves high billing among the best.” —Roger Zelazny, Nebula Award-winning author of Nine Princes in Amber “A Goya-esque vision of war-torn western Europe, bombed out and unstable . . . from a resurgence of Russian militarism and the collapse of NATO.” —Publishers Weekly “A kaleidoscopic mix of politics, pop, and paranoia.” —Bruce Sterling, author of Heavy Weather “Chillingly plausible.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Open Road Media

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150409512X

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9781504095129

Book's by John Major Shirley

The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America

The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America

Along Parallel Lines

Along Parallel Lines

Miss Shirley Bassey

Miss Shirley Bassey

The French & Indian War in North Carolina

The French & Indian War in North Carolina

Wanderings of a Vagabond

Wanderings of a Vagabond

The Dartmouth College Causes and the Supreme Court of the United States

The Dartmouth College Causes and the Supreme Court of the United States

Fragments

Fragments

War on the Run

War on the Run

The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts

The Otis Family in Provincial and Revolutionary Massachusetts

Nelson

Nelson

Hollywood Through the Back Door

Hollywood Through the Back Door

Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780

Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780

The Buildings of Peter Harrison

The Buildings of Peter Harrison

The Eclipse Trilogy

The Eclipse Trilogy

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