Download or read book Verne Sankey written by Timothy W. Bjorkman and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late January of 1934, as authorities delivered John Dillinger to an Indiana jail, the United States Justice Department announced, for the first time, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had just captured America’s Public Enemy No. 1. It was not Dillinger the Justice Department was referring to, but an affable railroader turned outlaw, Verne Sankey. Now Timothy W. Bjorkman has written the first full-length biography of this overlooked criminal, relating how a South Dakota family man became a bootlegger, a bank robber, and eventually, a kidnapper whose deeds heralded a nationwide crime spree. In the early days of Prohibition, Sankey, then a locomotive engineer, was drawn to the easy money he could make bootlegging. When crime syndicates monopolized the trade and Prohibition’s end was in sight, he turned to the occasional bank robbery and eventually to a ransom scheme. In tracing the life of Sankey—and his demure wife, Fern—Bjorkman depicts a good-natured man, friendly neighbor, and gentleman rumrunner catering to the banker and broker trade. He also explores Sankey’s motivations, his identification as America’s first Public Enemy, and his ultimate descent into oblivion. Verne Sankey: America’s First Public Enemy is a riveting narrative set amid the Great Depression. Bjorkman’s research painstakingly reveals the life of Verne Sankey and his times, delving into the intriguing story of the family of his kidnapping victim, Charles Boettcher II, and the stark contrast between wealth and poverty during some of America’s most harrowing days.
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Download or read book The American Evangelists D L Moody and Ira D Sankey written by John Hall and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Evangelists Dwight L Moody and Ira D Sankey written by Elias Nason and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Narrative of Messrs Moody and Sankey s Labors in Scotland and Ireland written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book Scotland and America c 1600 c 1800 written by Alexander Murdoch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the literature relating to Scottish contact with America has grown significantly in recent years, the influence of America on Scotland and its early modern history has been neglected in favour of a preoccupation with Scottish influence on the formation of North American national identities. Alexander Murdoch's fascinating new study explores Scottish interactions with North America in a desire to open up fresh perspectives on the subject. Scotland and America, c.1600-c.1800 - Surveys the key centuries of economic, migratory and cultural exchange, including Canada and the Caribbean - Discusses Scottish participation in the Atlantic slave trade and the debate over its abolition - Considers the Scottish experience of British unionism with respect to developing American traditions of unionism in the U.S. and Canada Incorporating the latest research, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the dynamic relationship between Scotland and America during a key period in history.
Download or read book American Religious Leaders written by Timothy L. Hall and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the lives and achievements of more than 270 spiritual leaders, arranged alphabetically, who made major contributions to the history of American religious life.
Download or read book A Full History of the Wonderful Career of Moody and Sankey in Great Britain and America Embracing Also Mr Moody s Sermons as Preached in this Country and Abroad Mr Sankey s Songs and Everything of Interest Connected with the Work Illustrated with Steel Plate Portrait of Mr Moody and Twelve Other Engravings from Original Drawings written by Edgar Johnson Goodspeed and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Full History of the Wonderful Career of Moody and Sankey in Great Britain and America written by Edgar Johnson Goodspeed and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carriacou String Band Serenade written by Rebecca S. Miller and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, on a weekend before Christmas, the small Caribbean island of Carriacou, Grenada, holds its annual Parang Festival, featuring concerts, performances of local quadrille dance, Hosannah band (a cappella singing) competitions, and the climactic string band competition. Born in the years leading up to Grenada's 1979 Socialist Revolution, the Parang Festival today offers a vehicle for Carriacouans to articulate and assert a progressive understanding of local cultural identity as well as a regional, pan-Caribbean belonging. Rebecca S. Miller examines the varying impact that factors such as cultural ambivalence, globalization, and technology have had on the performance of Carriacou's folk and traditional music and dance forms. Using archival sources and current ethnography, she illuminates the enduring significance of the Parang Festival to illustrate the social and political history of Carriacou as well as this culture's contemporary process of modernization. The book includes a web link allowing the reader to listen to a variety of musical examples.
Download or read book Moody and Sankey the new evangelists their lives and labours written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music written by W. K. McNeil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music is the first comprehensive reference to cover this important American musical form. Coverage includes all aspects of both African-American and white gospel from history and performers to recording techniques and styles as well as the influence of gospel on different musical genres and cultural trends.
Download or read book The Wonderful Career of Moody and Sankey in Great Britain and America written by Robert Boyd and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
