Download or read book Chronicles of Old Wolcott written by Hiram Church and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Wolcott written by Rose Wakelee Badger and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lucking Out written by James Wolcott and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell.” That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering cultural energy in all spheres as “Downtown” became a category of art and life unto itself, he embarked upon his sentimental education, seventies New York style. This portrait of a critic as a young man is also a rollicking, acutely observant portrait of a legendary time and place. Wolcott was taken up by fabled film critic Pauline Kael as one of her “Paulettes” and witnessed the immensely vital film culture of the period. He became an early observer-participant in the nascent punk scene at CBGB, mixing with Patti Smith, Lester Bangs, and Tom Verlaine. As a Village Voice writer he got an eyeful of the literary scene when such giants as Mailer, Gore Vidal, and George Plimpton strode the earth, and writing really mattered. A beguiling mixture of Kafka Was the Rage and Please Kill Me, this memoir is a sharp-eyed rendering, at once intimate and shrewdly distanced, of a fabled milieu captured just before it slips into myth. Mixing grit and glitter in just the right proportions, suffused with affection for the talented and sometimes half-crazed denizens of the scene, it will make readers long for a time when you really could get mugged around here. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook includes an excerpt from James Wolcott's Critical Mass.
Download or read book Murder Chronicles A Collection of Chilling True Crime Tales written by R. Barri Flowers and published by R. Barri Flowers. This book was released on with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers and the bestselling author of The Sex Slave Murders 1 & 2, Serial Killer Couples, and Murder of the Banker’s Daughter comes Murder Chronicles, a gripping collection of true crime tales. The collection includes ten compelling stories of murder, madness, and mayhem that span more than a century of American history and homicidal criminality that will keep you reading from beginning to end. 1. Murder at the Pencil Factory: The Killing of Mary Phagan - 100 Years Later, the brutal murder of a young girl turn locals into vigilantes out for justice. 2. The "Gold Special" Train Robbery: Deadly Crimes of the D'Autremont Brothers, a daring train robbery by a trio of brother bandits goes wrong and turns deadly. 3. Murder of the Banker's Daughter: The Killing of Marion Parker, a brazen abduction of a schoolgirl turns tragic as authorities hunt for the killer. 4. Mass Murder in the Sky: The Bombing of Flight 629, a mother’s Christmas gift turns deadly, exploding in an airliner above Denver, with a domestic terrorist on loose. 5. The Amityville Massacre: The DeFeo Family's Nightmare, family is shot to death by a killer too close to home. Inspiration for The Amityville Horror movies. 6. The Pickaxe Killers: Karla Faye Tucker & Daniel Garrett, pair of killers seek revenge and pay the price themselves. 7. Murderous Tandem: James Gregory Marlow and Cynthia Coffman, two killers pick off victims one by one till brought to justice. 8. Murder in Mission Hill: The Disturbing Tale of Carol Stuart & Charles Stuart, a wife’s murder draws national attention with an unlikely killer on the loose. 9. Murder in Bellevue: The Killing of Alan and Diane Johnson, in a case of parricide, a teenage girl’s obsession turns deadly. 10. Murder of a Star Quarterback: The Tragic Tale of Steve McNair & Sahel Kazemi, adultery, jealousy, fame, and fortune turn deadly for a well-known ex-football great. Bonus material includes excerpts from bestselling true crime books by R. Barri Flowers, The Sex Slave Murders and Serial Killer Couples. Follow the author in Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Goodreads, LibraryThing, YouTube, Flickr, Wikipedia, and www.rbarriflowers.net and www.rbarriflowers.com.
Download or read book Crime and Punishment in America written by David B. Wolcott and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first incident of petty theft to modern media piracy, crime and punishment have been a part of every society. However, the structure and values of a particular society shape both the incidences of crime and the punishment of criminals. When the United States became an independent nation, politicians and civilians began the process of deciding which systems of punishment were appropriate for dealing with crimea process that continues to this day. Crime and Punishment in America examines the development of crime and punishment in the United Statesfrom the criminal justice practices of American Indians and the influence of colonists to the mistreatment of slaves, as well as such current criminal issues as the response to international terrorism.
Download or read book The Wretched Life of Priscilla Wolcott written by Cheryl Garrison Garrett and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-01-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wretched Life of Priscilla Wolcott Volume 1: Widow Wonderland is the story of Priscilla Wolcott, a sixty-six-year-old woman who faces the challenges that rise up following the sudden death of her husband, Jared. Her faith is tested as she learns how to grieve, be alone, deal with family members, find a church home, and be more outgoing. Shaped by a team of unusual characters, she discovers the supernatural healing power of forgiveness, and the importance of being still, listening, and waiting for God. Through this process, she realizes how much she is loved and discovers that she, too, is capable of loving.
Download or read book The Herron Chronicle written by Harriet Garcia Warkel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the history of the Herron School of Art in its centennial year.
Download or read book Cast of Characters Wolcott Gibbs E B White James Thurber and the Golden Age of The New Yorker written by Thomas Vinciguerra and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Exuberant . . . elegantly conjures an evocative group dynamic.” —Sam Roberts, New York Times From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as the country’s most prestigious, entertaining, and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast of Characters, Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the magazine’s cadre of charming, wisecracking, driven, troubled, brilliant writers and editors. He introduces us to Wolcott Gibbs, theater critic, all-around wit, and author of an infamous 1936 parody of Time magazine. We meet the demanding and eccentric founding editor Harold Ross, who would routinely tell his underlings, "I'm firing you because you are not a genius," and who once mailed a pair of his underwear to Walter Winchell, who had accused him of preferring to go bare-bottomed under his slacks. Joining the cast are the mercurial, blind James Thurber, a brilliant cartoonist and wildly inventive fabulist, and the enigmatic E. B. White—an incomparable prose stylist and Ross's favorite son—who married The New Yorker's formidable fiction editor, Katharine Angell. Then there is the dashing St. Clair McKelway, who was married five times and claimed to have no fewer than twelve personalities, but was nonetheless a superb reporter and managing editor alike. Many of these characters became legends in their own right, but Vinciguerra also shows how, as a group, The New Yorker’s inner circle brought forth a profound transformation in how life was perceived, interpreted, written about, and published in America. Cast of Characters may be the most revealing—and entertaining—book yet about the unique personalities who built what Ross called not a magazine but a "movement."
Download or read book The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches and Chronicles of the Town of Litchfield Connecticut written by Payne Kenyon Kilbourne and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book European and American Family of Wolcott written by Joseph Cooke Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sneaky Kid and Its Aftermath written by Harry F. Wolcott and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brad—a schizophrenic school dropout and 'sneaky kid'—first appeared as a squatter near Harry Wolcott's forest home. He becomes Wolcott's subject in a long-term life history on how the educational system can fail students. Wolcott's trilogy of articles based on their years of interviews were well-received...until he admitted to an intimate relationship with the young man who, two years after leaving his shack, returned and attempted to murder the anthropologist. The Brad Trilogy then became the focus of heated academic discussions of research ethics, validity, intimacy, and the limitations of qualitative research. Here, Wolcott presents the full story of the Sneaky Kid and the firestorm it caused. Written in Wolcott's masterful style, the case offers an ideal starting point for discussing the complex public and personal dimensions of qualitative research with students. Included as an Appendix is the complete script of Johnny Saldana's ethnodrama recounting the story in play form.
Download or read book The Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wolcott on Parade written by Wolcott Historical Society (Wolcott, Conn.) and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index to Historic Preservation Periodicals written by University of Maryland, College Park. National Trust for Historic Preservation Library and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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