Download or read book Doheny Crazed written by Chuck Bassett and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 1903 World Series written by Andy Dabilis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first World Series was a best-of-nine series between the Boston Americans and the Pittsburg Pirates, with the first three games to be played in Boston starting at the Huntington Avenue Grounds on October 1, 1903. The series started with baseball's winningest pitcher, Cy Young, throwing the first pitch, and ended with baseball's greatest hitter, Honus Wagner, striking out on the last pitch. Boston won the series, five games to three. Each game of the 1903 World Series and its key plays and players are thoroughly covered here, and the authors also pay special attention to the great significance that first World Series held for the future of baseball. Not only was the survival of the American League at stake, but baseball's place as the preeminent sport in America. The 1903 World Series drew more than 100,000 people to the ballparks, and there was no doubt about the popularity of the game. It was, as the authors point out, played by men, who, had they not been baseball players, would have been among the working class that made up most of the audience.
Download or read book A Bright and Guilty Place written by Richard Rayner and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Book of the Year The Los Angeles Times • The Washington Post Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, and celebrity scandals. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor in the pocket of the syndicates and a DA taking bribes to throw trials. In A Bright and Guilty Place, Richard Rayner narrates the entwined lives of two men, Dave Clark and Leslie White, who were caught up in the crimes, murders, and swindles of the day. Over a few transformative years, as the boom times shaded into the Depression, the adventures of Clark and White would inspire pulp fiction and replace L.A.’s reckless optimism with a new cynicism. Together, theirs is the tale of how the city of sunshine went noir.
Download or read book Dark Side of Fortune written by Margaret Leslie Davis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-05-22 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doheny built was one of the early oil barons in Mexico and the United States before becoming embroiled in the Teapot Dome scandal.
Download or read book The 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates written by Ronald T. Waldo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After many years of being an also-ran in the National league, the Pittsburgh Pirates' fortunes changed dramatically following the 1899 season after a monumental deal with the Louisville Colonels. The addition of star players such as Fred Clarke, Honus Wagner, Tommy Leach and Deacon Phillippe allowed Pittsburgh to become the first baseball dynasty of the twentieth century as they won National League pennants in 1901, 1902 and 1903. Without question, the 1902 Pirates aggregation was the greatest of those three squads. This definitive historical account examines the record-breaking 1902 Pittsburgh season, the politics that shaped baseball's landscape during that era and the players responsible for that squad's claiming its rightful place in baseball history.
Download or read book The Pittsburgh Pirates Encyclopedia written by David Finoli and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2003 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neutrino Drag written by Paul Di Filippo and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story collection “showcases that lighter side of Paul Di Filippo . . . with some memorable moments of brilliant wit and storytelling” (Infinity Plus). With twenty tales, a bold lack of restraint, and amazing stylistic diversity, Di Filippo makes strange bedfellows of a range of characters—from Jayne Mansfield to Pythagoras to Disney “imagineers” to the Virgin Mary—fit together inside a bountiful collection of surprises, humor, and the very, very strange. William Gibson has identified his writing as “spooky, haunting, and hilarious,” and after you absorb all the shocks, you will inevitably agree.
Download or read book Crazy Messy Beautiful written by Carrie Arcos and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From National Book Award finalist Carrie Arcos--a fresh take on happily ever after, and friendship, that is anything but a love story. When your namesake is Pablo Neruda—the greatest love poet of all time—finding “the one” should be easy. After all, sixteen-year-old aspiring artist Neruda Diaz has been in love many times before. So it’s only a matter of time before someone loves him back. Callie could be that someone. She’s creative and edgy, and nothing like the girls Neruda typically falls for, so when a school assignment brings them together, he is pleasantly surprised to learn they have a lot in common. With his true love in reach and his artistic ambitions on track, everything is finally coming together. But as Neruda begins to fall faster and harder than ever before, he is blindsided by the complicated nature of love—and art—in more ways than one. And when the relationships he’s looked to for guidance threaten to implode, Neruda must confront the reality that love is crazier, messier, and more beautiful than he ever realized—and riskier, too, than simply saying the words. Praise for Crazy Messy Beautiful: "This satisfying and unconventional love story explores the various meanings of the word." --Kirkus Reviews "Arcos has written a classic story of a budding artist finding out the reality behind the artifice, and does sowhile keeping a wonderful sense of humor." --Booklist "Arcos capably probes the mysterious without attempting to solve it as Neruda discovers the difference between crushing on someone he doesn’t know and loving someone he does, learning that friendship, too, is a kind of love." --Publishers Weekly "With readily relatable characters who, nonetheless, surprise readers as they tackle life’s many challenges and gifts, Crazy Messy Beautiful . . . explores the complexities of human emotions, aspirations, creativity, and relationships. This eminently readable book will appeal to male and female readers alike." --VOYA "The thematic thread of love as work between flawed people is woven through both language and situations, its subtlety affording different readings; romantics like Neruda will empathize with his frustration and failures, while more pragmatic readers may feel wryly superior and even slightly amused at the ways his heightened expectations butt up against modern high school life and characters."--BCCB
Download or read book What Drives Men Crazy written by Norman Nelson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Drives Men Crazy By: Norman Nelson Meet Norman Nelson. He was a cop for 23 years, most of it with LAPD and the LA Sheriff's Department and with the ladies. He has learned what makes women crazy and what they love, along with peculiar and eccentric stories to back him up. The story of Norman Nelson is a story based in some truths of being an LA cop turned bull rider. It’s one story you must hold onto your hat while reading. Between Norm's women there's a police story of the brutal streets of South Central LA, where cops live and die by their wits and the job they love. Lastly, the toll it takes on Officer Nelson and other officers who watch and deal with the slaughter every night on the ugly streets of LA.
Download or read book The Magazine of Wall Street written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The White Plague written by Frank Herbert and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping novel of global disaster—by the visionary creator of Dune.
Download or read book West of Eden written by Jean Stein and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim – all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew up in the Forties in a fairytale mansion in the Hollywood Hills. The book takes us from the discovery of oil in the Twenties with the story of the tycoon Edward Doheny (There Will Be Blood) and traces the growth of corruption through the syndicates, the mob, and the movie studios – from the beginnings of the film industry to the end, with News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch (who bought the Stein mansion in 1985). West of Eden is about money, power, fame and terrible secrets: the doomed Hollywood of the late Fifties, early Sixties – ‘the rotten heart of paradise’. Like her last book, the best-selling Edie, this is an oral history told through brilliantly edited interviews. As this is Hollywood, it’s a book full of sex, drugs and celebrity glamour; but because it’s built from the firsthand accounts of people who were actually there, many of them writers, actors and artists, it’s also strangely claustrophobic, seductive, and completely compelling.
Download or read book Hollywood Horrors written by Andrea Van Landingham and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name “Hollywood” conjures up fantastical images of bright lights, glamorous dreams, and impossible riches. From its humble beginnings as a ranch sprawling northwest of Los Angeles in the late 1800s, Hollywood has spanned lifetimes as a factory of dreams, a dazzling place where all things are possible. This collection of stories takes you on a journey into the golden age, illuminating the space between the airy fantasy and the gritty reality of life in Hollywood. In a transient city where nothing lasts, thousands of stories have taken place in their time here. From the offscreen debauchery of the silent era, to countless dramatic and mysterious deaths, to the sinister past lives of world-famous LA landmarks, vestiges of Hollywood’s checkered past can still be found all over the city. With generations of Tinseltown’s luminaries living and working under the sunny guise of paradisal prosperity, their real stories reveal the sordid underbelly lurking directly beneath the surface. A dangerous collusion between the studios, the press, the mob, and the LAPD forms an impenetrable behind-the-scenes network of corruption, power and control, where the truth is always up for sale. A network in which the most glamorous and well-known figures are merely players in this elaborate charade. It’s magical and gritty, it’s ugly and dirty, it’s the land of dreams...it’s Hollywood.
Download or read book Leases Upon Naval Oil Reserves written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Little Crazy Children are Jangling the Keys of the Kingdom The Estrangement Epidemic in America written by Richard P. Sinay and published by richardpsinay.com. This book was released on 2024-07-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estrangement is the banning of a family member from the family. It is like shunning and equally as devastating. Parents or parents can be banned from seeing their children and grandchildren. A sibling might never communicate with another sibling. A father can be banned from the family for divorcing the mother. Disagreements over the grandchildren can be the source of an estrangement. Whatever the reason, the estrangement epidemic in America is affecting many Baby Boomers. The angst between Generation X, Generation Y, and the Baby Boomers over many issues is a major cause of the epidemic. Psychologists are partially responsible for this epidemic by advising their clients to “get rid of toxic people in your life,” and that includes parents. Estrangement is the ousting of a family member from the core group. Parents and grandparents have become victims of estrangement from their children. People are silent about their situations because of the shame and embarrassment associated with this phenomenon. Although psychologists have written several books for the estranged to help them with their situation, few have been written by the persons who have been estranged and the effects of that estrangement on them. Crazy Little Children are Jangling the Keys of the Kingdom is written by one who has been estranged, and it is a personal account of the effects of that estrangement. It is also written to the estrangers, those who do the estranging, and those who have suffered the same fate. It is a heartbreaking story that is being duplicated throughout the country. Most psychologists cannot get their heads around the explosion of estrangement in American Society, especially to those considered great parents. This is an account for those who have found themselves in an estrangement situation and will help them find a way to heal.
Download or read book The Magazine of Wall Street and Business Analyst written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California Gold written by John Jakes and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “riveting . . . sweeping epic” of one man driven by gold fever, by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of North and South (Richmond Times-Dispatch). At the height of California’s Gold Rush, men left everything behind for the chance at striking it rich. Now, some thirty years after its peak, gold fever still entices adventurous Easterners like James Macklin Chance, a poor Pennsylvanian who is drawn to California by the dream of lasting wealth—a dream so powerful he’ll stop at nothing to see it through. Along the way he’ll encounter grand passion, ruthless enemies, and larger-than-life titans like Leland Stanford, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Randolph Hearst, who helped shape a country’s destiny. “The best historical novelist of our time” (Patricia Cornwell) once again spins a sweeping tale of power and passion, as he did so masterfully in the Crown Family Saga, the Kent Family Chronicles, and the North and South trilogy. This ebook features an illustrated biography of John Jakes including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
