Lee Perry's Books

Tyler Perry's America

Inside His Films

By: Shayne Lee

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Tyler Perry is the most successful African-American filmmaker of his generation, garnering both accolades and controversies with each new film. In Tyler Perry’s America, Shayne Lee digs into eleven of Perry’s highest-grossing films to explore key themes of race, gender, class, and religion, and, ultimately, to discuss what Perry’s films reveal about contemporary African-American life. Filled with slapstick humor, musical wizardry, and religious imagery, Tyler Perry’s films have inspired legions of fans, and yet critics often dismiss them or demean their audience. Tyler Perry’s America takes the films seriously in their own right. After providing essential background information on Perry’s life and film career, the book looks at what the films reveal about post–civil rights America and why they inspire so many people. The book examines the way the films explore social class in America—featuring characters from super-rich Wesley Deeds to homeless Lindsey Wakefield—and the way Perry both celebrates upward mobility and critiques soulless wealth. The book discusses the way religion fills the films—from gospel music to biblical quotes, the power of sexuality, and more. Lee also devotes a chapter to Madea, one of Perry’s most controversial and complicated characters. Tyler Perry’s America is a thought-provoking examination of this powerhouse filmmaker which highlights the way Perry’s films appeal to viewers by connecting a rich African-American folk-cultural past with the promise of modern sophistication.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442241861

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9781442241862

Thief River

By: Lee Blessing

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Thief River

By: Lee Blessing

THE STORY: THIEF RIVER is the story of two men and their fifty-three-year relationship. Ray marries and remains closeted in the small town where they grew up. Gil moves to the city to seek his freedom. Throughout their lives they struggle with thei

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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0822218399

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9780822218395

When Blood Flows

By: Clifford Lee

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When Blood Flows

By: Clifford Lee

Come on a journey to a world seen through the eyes of a Blood with the Bloodz behind him. Carrying from Watts to the south side of Phoenix, transitioning through his trials-built character and a love for young Bleds, bloodin’ from start to finish. Roll with Blood as he goes from Bee Gee to Oh Gee to leader. ’Cause here, respect is earned, not given or promised. When Blood Flows tells of growing up in the projects, where a boy had to one, learn how to become a man

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Page Publishing Inc

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1635683734

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9781635683738

A Troubled Peace

U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas

By: Chae-Jin Lee

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A Troubled Peace

U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas

By: Chae-Jin Lee

In A Troubled Peace, Professor Chae-Jin Lee reviews the vicissitudes of U.S. policy toward South and North Korea since 1948 when rival regimes were installed on the Korean peninsula. He explains the continuously changing nature of U.S.-Korea relations by discussing the goals the United States has sought for Korea, the ways in which these goals have been articulated, and the methods used to implement them. Using a careful analysis of declassified diplomatic documents, primary materials in English, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, and extensive interviews with American and Korean officials, Lee draws attention to a number of factors that have affected U.S. policy: the functions of U.S. security policy in Korea, the role of the United States in South Korea's political democratization, President Clinton's policy of constructive engagement toward North Korea, President Bush's hegemonic policy toward North Korea, and the hexagonal linkages among the United States, China, Japan, Russia, and the two Koreas. Drawing on concepts of containment, deterrence, engagement, preemption, and appeasement, Lee's balanced and thoughtful approach reveals the frustrations of all players in their attempts to arrive at a modicum of coexistence. His objective, comprehensive, and definitive study reveals a dynamic—and incredibly complex—series of relationships underpinning a troubled and tenuous peace.

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JHU Press

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080188330X

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9780801883309

Dill

Tales from Wisconsin: a not-so-long-ago story of a boy, a friend, a farm and the quest for a BB Gun

By: J Lee Fleming

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Dill

Tales from Wisconsin: a not-so-long-ago story of a boy, a friend, a farm and the quest for a BB Gun

By: J Lee Fleming

Dill: Tales from Wisconsin: a not-so long-ago story of a boy, a friend, a farm and the quest for a BB Gun By: J Lee Fleming Donny is a young boy living on a farm. One day, when his mother sends him to the basement to fetch some pickles, he meets a new friend, whom he names Dill. Donny’s friendship with Dill lasts through many adventures and lessons learned, and Donny begins to learn there may be a more to Dill than meets the eye. A fictionalized retelling of real events, Dill: Tales from Wisconsin follows Donny and his family’s generations of boys, all raised on the same farm, and their single, miraculous imaginary friend.

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Dorrance Publishing

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Trail of Shadows

The Unsolved Murders of Prohibition Agents Dale Kearney and Ray Sutton

By: Chuck Hornung,B. Lee Charlton

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Trail of Shadows

The Unsolved Murders of Prohibition Agents Dale Kearney and Ray Sutton

By: Chuck Hornung,B. Lee Charlton

In the summer of 1930, two federal prohibition agents were murdered. The first died in a hail of buckshot on a dark street in Aguilar, Colorado. Six weeks later, the second agent and his vehicle disappeared on a sunny afternoon along a New Mexico state highway south of Raton. During their fifty-year search, the authors sought answers to why no one was ever prosecuted for these crimes. This is the first book to correlate the two murders, identify how and why they occurred, and name the parties involved and the roles they played. Drawing from first-hand interviews and National Archives files, this book lifts the shadows along the trail as the light of truth is shown upon this mystery. Two federal agents can now rest in peace.

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McFarland

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1476635889

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9781476635880

Inherit the Dead

A Novel

By: Lee Child,C. J. Box,Charlaine Harris,John Connolly,Mary Higgins Clark

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Inherit the Dead

A Novel

By: Lee Child,C. J. Box,Charlaine Harris,John Connolly,Mary Higgins Clark

Twenty thrilling writers. One chilling mystery. Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past--a former cop, who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced. When wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. The socialite is looking for her beautiful, aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young woman. But as Christo digs deeper, he discovers there's much more to the lovely "Angel" than meets the eye. Her father, her best friend, her boyfriends all have agendas of their own. Angel, he soon realizes, may be in grave danger. and if Christo gets too close, he just might get caught in the crossfire. This classic noir tale twists and turns down New York's mean streets and along Hamptons' beaches and back roads during a bitterly cold and gray winter where nothing is as it seems and everyone has something to hide.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451684770

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9781451684773

My Last Eight Thousand Days

An American Male in His Seventies

By: Lee Gutkind

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My Last Eight Thousand Days

An American Male in His Seventies

By: Lee Gutkind

As founding editor of Creative Nonfiction and architect of the genre, Lee Gutkind played a crucial role in establishing literary, narrative nonfiction in the marketplace and in the academy. A longstanding advocate of New Journalism, he has reported on a wide range of issues—robots and artificial intelligence, mental illness, organ transplants, veterinarians and animals, baseball, motorcycle enthusiasts—and explored them all with his unique voice and approach. In My Last Eight Thousand Days, Gutkind turns his notepad and tape recorder inward, using his skills as an immersion journalist to perform a deep dive on himself. Here, he offers a memoir of his life as a journalist, editor, husband, father, and Pittsburgh native, not only recounting his many triumphs, but also exposing his missteps and challenges. The overarching concern that frames these brave, often confessional stories, is his obsession and fascination with aging: how aging provoked anxieties and unearthed long-rooted tensions, and how he came to accept, even enjoy, his mental and physical decline. Gutkind documents the realities of aging with the characteristically blunt, melancholic wit and authenticity that drive the quiet force of all his work.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820358061

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9780820358062

The 14th Denial

By: Lee Cody

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The 14th Denial

By: Lee Cody

In 1964, in the midst of the volatile times surrounding the Civil Rights Movement, Sergeants C. Lee Cody, Jr. and Donald R. Coleman, Sr., solved one of our nation's worst hate crimes and paid for it with their careers. In the years since, Cody has collected and catalogued a mountain of documents providing irrefutable evidence that exposes blatant racism prevalent in high places--in both federal and state offices--and he has created a horrifying tale of coverups and corruption resulting in flagrant violations of the 14th Amendment and a disregard for the Civil Rights guaranteed citizens under our nation's Constitution for equal protection under the laws. As told in part on Oprah, the History Channel, Court TV, and Dateline, this is the tragic story of the premeditated murder of Johnnie Mae Chappell, a thirty-five-year-old law-abiding black mother of ten and after her murder, the decades long criminal obstruction of justice. It is a story of racism and public corruption at its ugliest. In addition to the racism, Cody's expose also reveals the persecution of the Duval County detectives who solved the Chappell homicide and their attempts to bring the guilty to justice. Cody details the massive conspiracy on the part of law enforcement and government officials and prosecutors orchestrated by both state and federal officials--including even members of the FBI, who were determined to cover up for those responsible for the Criminal obstruction of justice in Johnnie Mae Chappell's murder"--Cover, p. 4.

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Lulu.com

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0557599679

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9780557599677

Revealing the Unseen Hand

God’S Providence Documented

By: Lee R. Clendenning

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Revealing the Unseen Hand

God’S Providence Documented

By: Lee R. Clendenning

God does have a purpose and plan for the life of the person trying to be an obedient follower of Christ. His Unseen Hand is always working in the background to fulfill the scriptural promise that All things work together for good to them who love God. Revealing the Unseen HandGods Providence Documented is an inspiring testimony of this truth throughout a lifetime of career preparation, service, and marital blessings. Revealing the Unseen HandGods Providence Documented is the testimony of a poor farm boy who, through faith and the help of God, overcame personal and financial difficulties, ...married his childhood sweetheart, and together launched a career of Christian service and academic success. The journey is described as a series of life situations in which the Unseen Hand controlled immediate and long-range solutions through interventions, revelations, divine appointments, and miracles. The journey included service as an American delegate on a People to People tour of European nations and the former USSR, as well as the leadership of a scientific exchange behind the Bamboo Curtain of the Peoples Republic of China. Over fifty years of a God-blessed marriage and the raising of two fine sons is also described. The firm commitment to the truth that, All things work together for good to them that love God is reinforced.

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WestBowPress

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1490803378

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9781490803371

Mary Austin Holley

A Biography

By: Rebecca Smith Lee

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Mary Austin Holley

A Biography

By: Rebecca Smith Lee

Mary Austin Holley found life challenging and made it interesting for others. As wife and widow of Horace Holley, eminent orator, clergyman, and educator, and as cousin and friend of Stephen F. Austin, founder of the first Texas colony, she formed friendships among important people. From New Haven to New Orleans and Brazoria, Texas, she was beloved. The panorama of her life, described in vivid detail by a former head of the English Department at Texas Christian University, transports the reader to the tempestuous early years of the American Republic and, finally, to Texas during its colonization and early Republic years. Throughout this charming book Mrs. Holley's "intuition for important people" brings the reader into the company of many of America's great and accomplished: Noah Webster, John Quincy Adams, President and Mrs. Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, and many others.

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University of Texas Press

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0292786360

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9780292786363

Noir Fiction and Film

Diversions and Misdirections

By: Lee Clark Mitchell

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Noir Fiction and Film

Diversions and Misdirections

By: Lee Clark Mitchell

The argument of Noir Fiction and Film is curiously counterintuitive: that in a century of hard-boiled fiction and detective films, characteristics that at first seemed trivial swelled in importance, flourishing into crucial aspects of the genre. Among these are aimless descriptions of people and places irrelevant to plot, along with detectives consisting of little more than sparkling dialogue and flippant attitudes. What weaves together such features, however, seems to be a paradox: that a genre rooted in solving a mystery, structured around the gathering of clues, must do so by misdirecting our attention, even withholding information we think we need to generate the suspense we also desire. Yet successful noir stories and films enhance that suspense through passing diversions (descriptive details and eccentric perspectives) rather than depending on the center pieces of plot alone (suspected motives or incriminating traces). As the greatest practitioners of the genre have realized, the "how" of detective fiction (its stylistic detours) draws us in more insistently than the "what" or the "who" (its linear advance). And the achievement of recent film noir is to make that "how" become the tantalizing object of our entire attention, shorn of any pretense of reading for the plot, immersing us in the diversionary delight that has animated the genre from the beginning.

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Oxford University Press

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0192659154

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9780192659156

The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853

Personalities, Profits and Politics

By: Robert C. Lee,Robert Charles Lee

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The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853

Personalities, Profits and Politics

By: Robert C. Lee,Robert Charles Lee

The Canada Company, with its base in England, was responsible for settling over two million acres of land in Upper Canada. Author Robert C. Lee focuses on the Huron Tract and on the dominant personalities (many of them Scottish-born) ranging from John Galt and Tiger Dunlop to the bishops Macdonell and Strachan, who had an impact on the company's operations. The politics of the day, coupled with the diversity of the players, create an astounding blend of vision, intrigue and mischief as a backdrop to the bottom-line profit aspirations of the company's shareholders. The founding of towns - Guelph, Goderich, Stratford, St. Marys and others in the area - is one of the legacies of the company. Lee's extensive research reveals a significant period in Ontario's history.

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Dundurn

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1896219942

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9781896219943

Old Southern Bible Records: Transcriptions of Births, Deaths, and Marriages from Family Bibles, Chiefly of the 18th and 19th Centuries

By: Memory Aldridge Lester

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Old Southern Bible Records: Transcriptions of Births, Deaths, and Marriages from Family Bibles, Chiefly of the 18th and 19th Centuries

By: Memory Aldridge Lester

Here is a collection of genealogical records from 581 Southern family Bibles, providing data on more than 15,000 individuals. The Bible records have been reassembled here and integrated into a single alphabetical sequence under the names of the principal families."--Amazon.

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0806306173

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Eastern Air Lines

A History, 1926-1991

By: David Lee Russell

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Eastern Air Lines

A History, 1926-1991

By: David Lee Russell

Eastern Air Lines began in 1926 when aviation pioneer Harold Pitcairn started the first carrier air mail route from New York to Atlanta under his company, Pitcairn Aviation. Clement Keys of National Air Transport bought the company in 1929, changed the name to Eastern Air Transport and began passenger service the next year on daily round trips between New York and Richmond. The growing airline was purchased by General Motors and became Eastern Air Lines in 1934. World War I flying ace Edward V. Rickenbacker purchased the airline four years later and led it to become by the 1950s the most profitable airline in the United States. Former astronaut Frank Borman became president of Eastern in 1975 and tried to manage the airline through deregulation, labor union conflict, and heavy debt, ending with the sale of Eastern to Frank Lorenzo and Texas Air in 1986. The airline entered bankruptcy in March 1989 and ended service in less than two years. This detailed history follows Eastern from start to finish, studying such corporate decision-making as aircraft purchases and route expansions, as well as the personalities that shaped the airline throughout its history.

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1476601968

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Book's by Lee Perry

Tyler Perry's America

Tyler Perry's America

Thief River

Thief River

When Blood Flows

When Blood Flows

A Troubled Peace

A Troubled Peace

Dill

Dill

Trail of Shadows

Trail of Shadows

Inherit the Dead

Inherit the Dead

My Last Eight Thousand Days

My Last Eight Thousand Days

The 14th Denial

The 14th Denial

Revealing the Unseen Hand

Revealing the Unseen Hand

Mary Austin Holley

Mary Austin Holley

Noir Fiction and Film

Noir Fiction and Film

The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853

The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853

Old Southern Bible Records: Transcriptions of Births, Deaths, and Marriages from Family Bibles, Chiefly of the 18th and 19th Centuries

Old Southern Bible Records: Transcriptions of Births, Deaths, and Marriages from Family Bibles, Chiefly of the 18th and 19th Centuries

Eastern Air Lines

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