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The Autobiography of Quincy Jones

By: Quincy Jones

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The Autobiography of Quincy Jones

By: Quincy Jones

Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived large and worked for five decades alongside the superstars of music and entertainment -- including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ray Charles, Will Smith, and dozens of others. Q is his glittering and moving life story, told with the style, passion, and no-holds-barred honesty that are his trademarks. Quincy Jones grew up poor on the mean streets of Chicago’s South Side, brushing against the law and feeling the pain of his mother’s descent into madness. But when his father moved the family west to Seattle, he took up the trumpet and was literally saved by music. A prodigy, he played backup for Billie Holiday and toured the world with the Lionel Hampton Band before leaving his teens. Soon, though, he found his true calling, inaugurating a career whose highlights have included arranging albums for Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie; composing the scores of such films as The Pawnbroker, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, and The Color Purple, and the theme songs for the television shows Ironside, Sanford and Son, and The Cosby Show; producing the bestselling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and the bestselling single “We Are the World”; and producing and arranging his own highly praised albums, including the Grammy Award—winning Back on the Block, a striking blend of jazz, African, urban, gospel, and hip-hop. His musical achievements, in a career that spans every style of American popular music, have yielded an incredible seventy-seven Grammy nominations, and are matched by his record as a pioneering music executive, film and television producer, tireless social activist, and business entrepreneur–one of the most successful black business figures in America. This string of unbroken triumphs in the entertainment industry has been shadowed by a turbulent personal life, a story he shares with eloquence and candor. Q is an impressive self-portrait by one of the master makers of American culture, a complex, many-faceted man with far more than his share of talents and an unparalleled vision, as well as some entirely human flaws. It also features vivid testimony from key witnesses to his journey–family, friends, and musical and business associates. His life encompasses an astonishing cast of show business giants, and provides the raw material for one of the great African American success stories of this century.

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Crown

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0385504748

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9780385504744

Argument of John Quincy Adams, Before the Supreme Court of the United States

By: John Quincy Adams

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Argument of John Quincy Adams, Before the Supreme Court of the United States

By: John Quincy Adams

Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.

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138

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368882570

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Cutting Along the Color Line

Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America

By: Quincy T. Mills

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Cutting Along the Color Line

Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America

By: Quincy T. Mills

Examines the history of black-owned barber shops in the United States, from pre-Civil War Era through today.

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337

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812245415

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9780812245417

Edison

By: Quincy Shaw

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Edison

By: Quincy Shaw

We remember Thomas Alva Edison as the craggy, rumpled inventor of the light bulb and the phonograph - a prodigy, the affable "Wizard of Menlo Park." But he also was a visionary entrepreneur who changed the world. What Edison invented was the modern age. Here is his unforgettable story.

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137

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New Word City

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1612309704

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9781612309705

Tales of John Wood and His Adams County

Observing the Bicentennial

By: Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County

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Tales of John Wood and His Adams County

Observing the Bicentennial

By: Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County

Enter the leather-hinged door of the dirt-floored, one-room log cabin that John Wood built in October 1822 near the Mississippi River on Illinois’ westernmost shore. Two months later, Wood, a New Yorker in the vanguard of pioneers into the West, threw the first Christmas party there. A local historian wrote that Wood provided the whiskey, and the guests stayed all night. It was a standard of hospitality that John Wood set for all who followed. And his community responded. Here they provided refuge to 5,700 Mormons facing death, organized Illinois’ first antislavery society, comforted Potawatomi Indians forced over a “Trail of Death” into the West. Here Adams County’s pioneer men and women brought ideals and dreams. They built a powerful, river-based economy, became inventors and industrialists, doctors and lawyers, artists and soldiers, saints and sinners, living an enduring spirit made clear in these stories of 19th century Adams County, Illinois.

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494

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iUniverse

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1663265917

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9781663265913

Earl the Pearl

My Story

By: Earl Monroe,Quincy Troupe

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Earl the Pearl

My Story

By: Earl Monroe,Quincy Troupe

Earl "The Pearl" Monroe is a basketball legend whose impact on the game transcends statistics, a player known as much for his unorthodox, "playground" style of play as his championship pedigree. Observers said that watching him play was like listening to jazz, his moves resembling freefloating improvisations. "I don't know what I'm going to do with the ball," Monroe once admitted, "and if I don't know, I'm quite sure the guy guarding me doesn't know either." Traded to the New York Knicks before the 1971–72 season, Monroe became a key member of the beloved, star-studded 1972–73 Knicks team that captured the NBA title. And now, on the 40th anniversary of that championship season—the franchise's last—Monroe is finally ready to tell his remarkable story. Written with bestselling author Quincy Troupe (Miles, The Pursuit of Happyness) Earl the Pearl will retrace Monroe's life from his upbringing in a tough South Philadelphia neighborhood through his record-setting days at Winston-Salem State, to his NBA Rookie of the Year season in 1967, his tremendous years with the Baltimore Bullets and ultimately his redemptive, championship glory with the New York Knicks. The book will culminate with a revealing epilogue in which Monroe reflects on the events of the past 40 years, offers his insights into the NBA today, and his thoughts on the future of the game he loves.

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Rodale Books

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160961562X

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9781609615628

The Union Must Stand

The Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry

By: John Quincy Adams Campbell

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The Union Must Stand

The Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry

By: John Quincy Adams Campbell

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter buckling on the harness of war: sojourn in Missouri, July 9, 1861-January 30, 1862 -- "Our turn to send compliments": the Island no. 10 Campaign, January 31-April 16, 1862 -- "Upholding Uncle Sam's authority": the siege of Corinth and after, April 17-September 17, 1862 -- "Nobly the boys stood up to the work": fighting in Mississippi, September 18, 1862-March 1, 1863 -- "Glorious victory": the Vicksburg Campaign, March 2-July 12, 1863 -- "The hand of God is in this": Vicksburg to Chattanooga, July 13-December 2, 1863 -- "What can't be cured, must be endured": in garrison and on furlough, December 3, 1863-May 13, 1864 -- Yankee vandals and Rebel guerrillas: guarding Sherman's rear, May 14-September 14, 1864 -- "There is hope yet for America": final.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572330694

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9781572330696

Problems of Stability and Progress in International Relations

By: Quincy Wright

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Problems of Stability and Progress in International Relations

By: Quincy Wright

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1954.

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Univ of California Press

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0520330994

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9780520330993

John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 1 1779-1821 (LOA #293)

By: John Quincy Adams

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John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 1 1779-1821 (LOA #293)

By: John Quincy Adams

A landmark edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of John Quincy Adams and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature. Begun in 1779 at the age of twelve and kept more or less faithfully until his death almost 70 years later, and totaling some fifteen thousand closely-written manuscript pages, it is both an unrivaled record of historical events and personalities from the nation's founding to the antebellum era and a masterpiece of American self-portraiture, tracing the spiritual, literary, and scientific interests of an exceptionally lively mind. Now, for the 250th anniversary of Adams's birth, Library of America and historian David Waldstreicher present a two-volume reader's edition of diary selections based for the first time on the original manuscripts, restoring personal and revealing passages suppressed in earlier editions. Volume I begins during the American Revolution, with Adams's first entry, as he prepares to embark on a perilous wartime voyage to Europe with his father, diplomat John Adams, and records his early impressions of Franklin and Jefferson and of Paris on the eve of revolution; it details his abbreviated but eventful years of study at Harvard and his emergence into the world of politics in his own right, as American minister to the Netherlands and to Prussia, and then as a U. S. senator from Massachusetts; and it reveals a young man at war with his passions, before finding love with the remarkable Louisa Catherine Johnson. In passages that form a kind of real-world War and Peace, the diary follows the young married couple to St. Petersburg, where as U.S. minister Adams is a witness to Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Its account of the negotiations at Ghent to end the War of 1812, where Adams leads the American delegation, is the perhaps the most detailed and dramatic picture of a diplomatic confrontation ever recorded. Volume 1 concludes with his elevation as Secretary of State under James Monroe, as he takes the fore in a fractious cabinet and emerges as the principal architect of what will become known as the Monroe Doctrine.

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Library of America

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1598535234

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9781598535235

John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 2 1821-1848 (LOA #294)

By: John Quincy Adams

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John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 2 1821-1848 (LOA #294)

By: John Quincy Adams

A landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature. Begun in 1779 at the age of twelve and kept more or less faithfully until his death almost 70 years later, and totaling some fifteen thousand closely-written manuscript pages, it is both an unrivaled record of historical events and personalities from the nation's founding to the antebellum era and a masterpiece of American self-portraiture, tracing the spiritual, literary, and scientific interests of an exceptionally lively mind. Now, for the 250th anniversary of Adams's birth, Library of America and historian David Waldstreicher present a two-volume reader's edition of diary selections based for the first time on the original manuscripts, restoring personal and revealing passages suppressed in earlier editions. Volume 2 opens with Adams serving as Secretary of State, amid political maneuverings within and outside James Monroe's cabinet to become his successor, a process that culminates in Adams's election to the presidency by the House of Representatives after the deadlocked four-way contest of 1824. Even as Adams takes the oath of office, rivals Henry Clay, his Secretary of State, John C. Calhoun, his vice president, and an embittered Andrew Jackson, eye the election of 1828. The diary records in candid detail his frustration as his far-sighted agenda for national improvement founders on the rocks of internecine political factionalism, conflict that results in his becoming only the second president, with his father, to fail to secure reelection. After a short-lived retirement, Adams returns to public service as a Congressman from Massachusetts, and for the last seventeen years of his life he leads efforts to resist the extension of slavery and to end the notorious "gag rule" that stifles debate on the issue in Congress. In 1841 he further burnishes his reputation as a scourge of the Slave Power by successfully defending African mutineers of the slave ship Amistad before the Supreme Court. The diary achieves perhaps its greatest force in its prescient anticipation of the Civil War and Emancipation, an “object,” as Adams described it during the Missouri Crisis, “vast in its compass, awful in its prospects, sublime and beautiful in its issue.”

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Library of America

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1598535242

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Miles

By: Miles Davis,Quincy Troupe

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Miles

By: Miles Davis,Quincy Troupe

Miles discusses his life and music from playing trumpet in high school to the new instruments and sounds from the Caribbean.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671725823

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9780671725822

Race in the Machine

A Novel Account

By: Quincy Thomas Stewart

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Race in the Machine

A Novel Account

By: Quincy Thomas Stewart

An intelligent machine built to study methods of social warfare struggles to understand and communicate the lived experience of race In a narrative full of social significance and poetically decorated with monks, vampires, and mythical statistics, Race in the Machine presents a world where the stories we use to explain race all simultaneously exist, within and around us, dictating our interactions and innermost beliefs. The nameless protagonist, an enigmatic social mechanic at Nearbay Institute, living in a population of socially connected intelligent machines, encounters a simple query in the context of an introductory lecture: "What exactly is race? And what is it in the context of the social machine?" This prompt guides the protagonist along a twisting intellectual tale surrounding a series of experiments which explore: How many racists does it take to create systems of inequality? What role do non-racists actors play in upholding them? How is bias learned? How does it spread? The narrator develops a distinct understanding of race through the figurative bending of time, dreams of a "race code" and by confronting a series of mysterious communications that remain just outside comprehension. Over the course of this journey, the answers to important questions about racial inequality quietly emerge for the protagonist. Scholarly encounters with both antagonistic colleagues and unexpected allies, culminate when the hero is forced to reach a devastating conclusion about themself and the world. Stirring and luminous, Race in the Machine deftly oscillates between the allegorically simplified and the impossibly complex to weave an utterly unique and nuanced portrait of race in the modern world.

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Stanford University Press

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1503633659

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9781503633650

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Argument of John Quincy Adams, Before the Supreme Court of the United States

Argument of John Quincy Adams, Before the Supreme Court of the United States

Cutting Along the Color Line

Cutting Along the Color Line

Edison

Edison

Tales of John Wood and His Adams County

Tales of John Wood and His Adams County

Earl the Pearl

Earl the Pearl

The Union Must Stand

The Union Must Stand

Problems of Stability and Progress in International Relations

Problems of Stability and Progress in International Relations

John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 1 1779-1821 (LOA #293)

John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 1 1779-1821 (LOA #293)

John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 2 1821-1848 (LOA #294)

John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 2 1821-1848 (LOA #294)

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Race in the Machine

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