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The Glitter and Other Stories

Nine Stories and Poems on Human Relationships

By: Maury Curt Maury,Curt Maury

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The Glitter and Other Stories

Nine Stories and Poems on Human Relationships

By: Maury Curt Maury,Curt Maury

The Glitter and Other Stories serves up an offering of ten stories showcasing life's broad palette—from friendships to frustrations, healings, loves, memories, sorrows, and sensitivities. From the interior of a bar to the majesty of a trip to India, author Curt Maury has created a fictional collection ripe with setting and sensory detail. The title story, "The Glitter," finds social services worker Emily Robinson in the lavish home of Trixie Trent, the leading lady of musicals. Here Emily discovers more than she wants to know about this celebrated star. In "The Great Hollow," Greg and Petra, husband and wife, meet in a bar and attempt to come to terms with their childlessness. In Tel Aviv, American David Glick tries to soothe the dying soul of Luigi Roselli, a fellow American injured in a bomb blast in the story "The Blessed." This purposeful collection, with poems included, provides a unique insight into the human condition and its powerful emotions.

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iUniverse

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1450210368

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9781450210362

Days of Defiance

Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War

By: Maury Klein

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Days of Defiance

Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War

By: Maury Klein

“Illuminating and well-written. . . . Deserves a place in the highest ranks of Civil War scholarship.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer In November 1860, telegraph lines carried the news that Abraham Lincoln had been elected president. Over the next five months the United States drifted, stumbled, and finally plunged into the most destructive war this country has ever faced. With a masterful eye for telling detail, Maury Klein provides fascinating new insights into the period from the election of Abraham Lincoln to the shelling of Fort Sumter. Klein brings the key players in the tragedy unforgettably to life: from the vacillating lame-duck President Buchanan, to the taciturn, elusive, and relatively unknown Abraham Lincoln; from Secretary of State Seward carrying on his own private negotiations with the South, to Major Robert Anderson sitting in his island fortress awaiting reinforcements. Never has this immensely significant moment in our national story been so intelligently of so spellbindingly related.

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Vintage

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0679768823

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9780679768821

Union Pacific

1862 - 1893

By: Maury Klein

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Union Pacific

1862 - 1893

By: Maury Klein

Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452908737

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9781452908731

Stealing Games

How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants

By: Maury Klein

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Stealing Games

How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants

By: Maury Klein

The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseball history, but as Maury Klein relates in Stealing Games they also embodied a rapidly changing America on the cusp of a faster, more frenetic pace of life dominated by machines, technology, and urban culture. Baseball, too, was evolving from the dead-ball to the live-ball era--the cork-centered ball was introduced in 1910 and structurally changed not only the outcome of individual games but the way the game itself was played, requiring upgraded equipment, new rules, and new ways of adjudicating. Changing performance also changed the relationship between management and players. The Giants had two stars--the brilliant manager John McGraw and aging pitcher Christy Mathewson--and memorable characters such as Rube Marquard and Fred Snodgrass; yet their speed and tenacity led to three pennants in a row starting in 1911. Stealing Games gives a great team its due and underscores once more the rich connection between sports and culture.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1632860244

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9781632860248

Rainbow's End

The Crash of 1929

By: Maury Klein

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Rainbow's End

The Crash of 1929

By: Maury Klein

Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe. The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls. We meet Sunshine Charley Mitchell, head of the National City Bank, powerful financiers Jack Morgan and Jacob Schiff, Wall Street manipulators such as the legendary Jesse Livermore, and the lavish-living Billy Durant, founder of General Motors. As Klein follows the careers of these men, he shows us how the financial house of cards gradually grew taller, as the irrational exuberance of an earlier age gripped America and convinced us that the market would continue to rise forever. Then, in October 1929, came a "perfect storm"-like convergence of factors that shook Wall Street to its foundations. We relive Black Thursday, when police lined Wall Street, brokers grew hysterical, customers "bellowed like lunatics," and the ticker tape fell hours behind. This compelling history of the Crash--the first to follow the market closely for the two years leading up to the disaster--illuminates a major turning point in our history.

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Oxford University Press

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0198030908

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9780198030904

All Roads Lead to October

Boss Steinbrenner's 25-Year Reign Over the New York Yankees

By: Maury Allen

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All Roads Lead to October

Boss Steinbrenner's 25-Year Reign Over the New York Yankees

By: Maury Allen

All Roads Lead to October presents an up close and personal look at the New York Yankees under legendary owner George Steinbrenner. George Herman Ruth was the Babe. Lou Gehrig was the Iron Horse. Joe DiMaggio was the Yankee Clipper. George Steinbrenner is the Boss. On a rainy January morning, 1973, a press conference is called that will change the face of the Yankees forever. A young Cleveland Industrialist by the name of Steinbrenner stands at New York's famed 21 Club and announces his new ownership of the Yankees. And so begins the Steinbrenner era, the era of the Boss. Now with five World Championships to his name, Steinbrenner is not only the owner of one of the past century's winningest baseball teams, but a legendary figure in his own right. Both eccentric and egocentric, Steinbrenner's unique approach to the game turned a not-so-good 1973 Yankees squad into World Champions just five years later. As integral to the history of the Yankees as DiMaggio or Ruth, All Road Lead to October examines the team under Steinbrenner's reign. Having covered the Yankees since Steinbrenner came aboard, acclaimed sports journalist and noted author Maury Allen examines the complex and often fiery relationships the owner had with the likes of Billy Martin, Reggie Jackson, Yogi Berra, Joe Torre, Darryl Strawberry and many others. Here are the first hand, insider's accounts of the pivotal events in the Yankees rise to power. Covering both off the field and on the field controversies like Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich's wife swapping, the angry tirades, fights and often brilliant coaching moves of the misunderstood Billy Martin, the inside story of the signing of Reggie Jackson whose ego was as big as his bat, and the Yankees rise to baseball dominance with the likes of Jeter, Williams, El Duque, Clemens, Rivera and Torre, Maury Allen give an exclusive look at all the action. Allen was there through it all, from Steinbrenner's first press conference, through the death of Catfish Hunter, the World Series wins, the controversial trades and firings, and even when a drunk Billy Martin banged on his hotel room door one night madder than hell. This is the definitive look at not only the Boss, the but the New York Yankees, the most celebrated team of the twentieth century.

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Macmillan + ORM

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0312271638

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9780312271633

Rock N Roll Gold Rush

A Singles Un-Cyclopedia

By: Maury Dean

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Rock N Roll Gold Rush

A Singles Un-Cyclopedia

By: Maury Dean

An appreciation of Rock-n-Roll, song by song, from its roots and its inspriations to its divergent recent trends. A work of rough genius; DeanOCOs attempt to make connections though time and across genres is laudable.

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Algora Publishing

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0875862276

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9780875862279

Yankees World Series Memories

By: Maury Allen,Bruce Markusen

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Yankees World Series Memories

By: Maury Allen,Bruce Markusen

The most successful franchise in American sports history, the New York Yankees have won 26 World Series titles. Allen recalls the Yankees' greatest Series' events of the last 60 years, starting in 1947 and moving through the Bronx Bombers' most recent appearance in 2003.

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Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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1613210957

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9781613210956

Dixie Walker of the Dodgers

The People's Choice

By: Maury Allen,Susan Walker

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Dixie Walker of the Dodgers

The People's Choice

By: Maury Allen,Susan Walker

A biography of Fred "Dixie" Walker, a gifted ballplayer who played in the majors for 18 seasons and in 1,905 games, assembling a career batting average of .306 while playing for the Yankees, White Sox, Tigers, Dodgers, and Pirates.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817355995

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9780817355999

History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad

By: Maury Klein

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History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad

By: Maury Klein

After the Civil War, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transcontinental travel. Through two world wars, federal government control, internal crises, external dissension, the Depression, and the great Ohio River flood of 1937, the L&N Railroad remained one of the country's most efficient lines. It is a southern institution and a railroad buff's dream. When eminent railroad historian Maury Klein's definitive History of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was first published in 1972, it quickly became one of the most sought after books on railroad history. This new edition both restores a hard-to-find classic to print and provides a new introduction by Klein detailing the L&N's history in the thirty years since the book was first published.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813146755

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9780813146751

The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman

By: Maury Klein

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The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman

By: Maury Klein

To Americans living in the early twentieth century, E. H. Harriman was as familiar a name as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. Like his fellow businessmen, Harriman (1847-1909) had become the symbol for an entire industry: Morgan stood for banking, Rockefeller for oil, Carnegie for iron and steel, and Harriman for railroads. Here, Maury Klein offers the first in-depth biography in more than seventy-five years of this influential yet surprisingly understudied figure. A Wall Street banker until age fifty, Harriman catapulted into the railroad arena in 1897, gaining control of the Union Pacific Railroad as it emerged from bankruptcy and successfully modernizing every aspect of its operation. He went on to expand his empire by acquiring large stakes in other railroads, including the Southern Pacific and the Baltimore and Ohio, in the process clashing with such foes as James J. Hill, J. P. Morgan, and Theodore Roosevelt. With its new insights into the myths and controversies that surround Harriman's career, this book reasserts his legacy as one of the great turn-of-the-century business titans. Originally published 2000. 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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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807860778

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9780807860779

The Power Makers

Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America

By: Maury Klein

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The Power Makers

Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America

By: Maury Klein

Maury Klein is one of America's most acclaimed historians of business and society. In The Power Makers, he offers an epic narrative of his greatest subject yet - the "power revolution" that transformed American life in the course of the nineteenth century. The steam engine; the incandescent bulb; the electric motor-inventions such as these replaced backbreaking toil with machine labor and changed every aspect of daily life in the span of a few generations. The cast of characters includes inventors like James Watt, Elihu Thomson, and Nikola Tesla; entrepreneurs like George Westinghouse; savvy businessmen like J.P. Morgan, Samuel Insull, and Charles Coffin of General Electric. Striding among them like a colossus is the figure of Thomas Edison, who was creative genius and business visionary at once. With consummate skill, Klein recreates their discoveries, their stunning triumphs and frequent failures, and their unceasing, bare-knuckled battles in the marketplace. In Klein's hands, their personalities and discoveries leap off the page. The Power Makers is a dazzling saga of inspired invention, dogged persistence, and business competition at its most naked and cutthroat--a biography of America in its most astonishing decades.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1596918349

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9781596918344

Center Hill

By: Maury M. Haraway

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Center Hill

By: Maury M. Haraway

The Henshaw family moved to the wild country of Desoto County, Mississippi with the departure of the Chickasaws in 1836. They farmed the rich land, hunted the rivers and streams, and struggled against slave robbers and outlaws. They were aided by their fast friend Push-pun-tubby, a member of the Chickasaw nation who remained behind after the migration of his people to Oklahoma. Hern fell in love with the beautiful daughter of a neieghboring family. They had a beautiful courtship before they were seperated by circumstances they failed to control--(from back jacket). Much of the action is fiction but the places are factual ( --from Author note).

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AuthorHouse

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1456765523

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9781456765521

Unfinished Business

The Railroad in American Life

By: Maury Klein

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Unfinished Business

The Railroad in American Life

By: Maury Klein

A lively survey of the railroad industry by the field's leading historian.

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UPNE

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0874516919

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9780874516913

The Change Makers

From Carnegie to Gates, How the Great Entrepreneurs Transformed Ideas Into Industries

By: Maury Klein

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The Change Makers

From Carnegie to Gates, How the Great Entrepreneurs Transformed Ideas Into Industries

By: Maury Klein

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Macmillan

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0805069143

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9780805069143

Comparative Psychology

A Handbook

By: Gary Greenberg,Maury M. Haraway

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Comparative Psychology

A Handbook

By: Gary Greenberg,Maury M. Haraway

This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.

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Taylor & Francis

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0815312814

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9780815312819

After Promontory

One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading

By: Keith L. Bryant,Drake Hokanson,Don L. Hofsommer,Maury Klein

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After Promontory

One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading

By: Keith L. Bryant,Drake Hokanson,Don L. Hofsommer,Maury Klein

“Some of the most accomplished scholars of railroad history…tell the story of these enterprises which totally re-shaped the western landscape.”—The Michigan Railfan After Promontory profiles the history and heritage behind the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. Starting with the original Union Pacific—Central Pacific lines that met at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, the book expands the narrative by considering all of the transcontinental routes in the United States and examining their impact on building this great nation. Exquisitely illustrated with full color photographs, After Promontory divides the western United States into three regions—central, southern, and northern—and offers a deep look at the transcontinental routes of each one. Included are contributions by such renowned railroad historians as Maury Klein, Keith Bryant, Don Hofsommer, H. Roger Grant, and Rob Krebs. Includes photos

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Indiana University Press

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0253039630

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9780253039637

Forging a New South

The Life of General John T. Wilder

By: Maury Nicely

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Forging a New South

The Life of General John T. Wilder

By: Maury Nicely

On the morning of August 21, 1861, John T. Wilder, a brash young colonel of a Union mounted infantry unit nicknamed the “Lightning Brigade” ordered his men to open fire on the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, damaging buildings, sinking steamboats along the riverfront, and injuring men, women, and children. In the midst of Reconstruction and an emerging new South a mere eight years later, Wilder was elected mayor of Chattanooga. While Wilder is most closely associated with the Lightning Brigade, which helped to pioneer the use of both mounted infantry and repeating firearms during the American Civil War, his military accomplishments occupied only five years of his eighty-seven year life. His immense postwar success, however, left a permanent mark on the industrial development of the war-torn South in the second half of the nineteenth century. It is the comprehensive picture of Wilder’s nearly nine decades that Maury Nicely seeks to capture in Forging a New South: The Life of General John T. Wilder. “For many war heroes, there was not much beyond the war worth telling,” Nicely writes. “Such was not the case with Wilder.” A successful entrepreneur and industrialist, after the war Wilder relocated to East Tennessee, where he created dozens of businesses, factories, mines, hotels, and towns; was elected mayor of the city he had shelled during the war; and cultivated close personal and business relationships with Federal and Confederate veterans alike, helping to create a new South in the wake of a devastating conflict. Presented in two parts and accompanied by more than sixty detailed photographs and maps, Nicely’s balanced study fills a significant void—the first complete biography of General John T. Wilder.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1621908011

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9781621908012

Baseball

The Lives Behind the Seams

By: Maury Allen

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Baseball

The Lives Behind the Seams

By: Maury Allen

Scouts, coaches, minor league managers, front office personnel, groundskeepers, batting practice pitchers. The people who made baseball happened on a day-to-day basis, tell their own unique stories.

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Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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0025013416

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9780025013414

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