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Book The Blue Coats  and how They Lived  Fought and Died for the Union  with Scenes and Incidents in the Great Rebellion  Comprising Narratives of Personal Adventure  Thrilling Incidents    Life in the Camp  Field and Hospital    Songs  Ballads  Anecdotes and Humorous Incidents of the War  by Captain John Truesdale

Download or read book The Blue Coats and how They Lived Fought and Died for the Union with Scenes and Incidents in the Great Rebellion Comprising Narratives of Personal Adventure Thrilling Incidents Life in the Camp Field and Hospital Songs Ballads Anecdotes and Humorous Incidents of the War by Captain John Truesdale written by John Truesdale and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Regimental Publications   Personal Narratives of the Civil War

Download or read book Regimental Publications Personal Narratives of the Civil War written by Charles Emil Dornbusch and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Macoupin County  Illinois

Download or read book History of Macoupin County Illinois written by Charles A. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rochester

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jenny Marsh Parker
  • Publisher : Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore
  • Release : 1884
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 538 pages

Download or read book Rochester written by Jenny Marsh Parker and published by Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore. This book was released on 1884 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Barbarians at the Gate

Download or read book Barbarians at the Gate written by Bryan Burrough and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a buyout from investment firm KKR. A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that created a genre of its own, and a book that gets at the heart of Wall Street and the '80s culture it helped define, Barbarians at the Gate is a modern classic—a masterpiece of investigatory journalism and a rollicking book of corporate derring-do and financial swordsmanship. The fight to control RJR Nabisco during October and November of 1988 was more than just the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Marked by brazen displays of ego not seen in American business for decades, it became the high point of a new gilded age and its repercussions are still being felt. The tale remains the ultimate story of greed and glory—a story and a cast of characters that determined the course of global business and redefined how deals would be done and fortunes made in the decades to come. Barbarians at the Gate is the gripping account of these two frenzied months, of deal makers and publicity flaks, of an old-line industrial powerhouse (home of such familiar products a Oreos and Camels) that became the victim of the ruthless and rapacious style of finance in the 1980s. As reporters for The Wall Street Journal, Burrough and Helyar had extensive access to all the characters in this drama. They take the reader behind the scenes at strategy meetings and society dinners, into boardrooms and bedrooms, providing an unprecedentedly detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era. At the center of the huge power struggle is RJR Nabisco's president, the high-living Ross Johnson. It's his secret plan to buy out the company that sets the frenzy in motion, attracting the country's leading takeover players: Henry Kravis, the legendary leveraged-buyout king of investment firm KKR, whose entry into the fray sets off an acquisitive commotion; Peter Cohen, CEO of Shearson Lehman Hutton and Johnson's partner, who needs a victory to propel his company to an unchallenged leadership in the lucrative mergers and acquisitions field; the fiercely independent Ted Forstmann, motivated as much by honor as by his rage at the corruption he sees taking over the business he cherishes; Jim Maher and his ragtag team, struggling to regain credibility for the decimated ranks at First Boston; and an army of desperate bankers, lawyers, and accountants, all drawn inexorably to the greatest prize of their careers—and one of the greatest prizes in the history of American business. Written with the bravado of a novel and researched with the diligence of a sweeping cultural history, Barbarians at the Gate is present at the front line of every battle of the campaign. Here is the unforgettable story of that takeover in all its brutality. In a new afterword specially commissioned for the story's 20th anniversary, Burrough and Helyar return to visit the heroes and villains of this epic story, tracing the fallout of the deal, charting the subsequent success and failure of those involved, and addressing the incredible impact this story—and the book itself—made on the world.

Book ZaSu Pitts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Stumpf
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2010-04-13
  • ISBN : 0786460237
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book ZaSu Pitts written by Charles Stumpf and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most often remembered for her gestures, expressive eyes, and body language on the screen, ZaSu Pitts was an unusual actress (and also an excellent cook: she often gave homemade candies to her coworkers, and her collection of candy recipes was published posthumously). This affectionate study of both her private life off-screen and her public persona details how the multi-talented actress become one of filmdom's favorite comediennes and character players. The book includes many rare photographs.

Book The Consumption of Inequality

Download or read book The Consumption of Inequality written by K. Halnon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fads, fashions, and media in popular consumer culture frequently make recreational and ideological "fun" of poverty and lower class living. In this book, Halnon delineates how incarceration, segregation, stigmatization, cultural and social consecration, and carnivalization work in the production and consumption of inequality.

Book Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family

Download or read book Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family written by James Edward Greenleaf and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Bret Harte

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry C. Merwin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book The Life of Bret Harte written by Henry C. Merwin and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Idlewild

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronald J. Stephens
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2013-09-30
  • ISBN : 0472029207
  • Pages : 421 pages

Download or read book Idlewild written by Ronald J. Stephens and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town became one of the country’s foremost vacation destinations for the black middle class, during its peak drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually and hosting the era’s premier entertainers, such as The Four Tops, Della Reese, Brook Benton, and George Kirby. With the civil rights movement and the resulting expansion of recreation options available to African Americans, Idlewild suffered a sharp social and economic decline, and by the early 1980s the town had become a struggling retirement community in the midst of financial and political crises. Meticulously researched and unearthing never-before-seen historical material, Ronald J. Stephens’s book examines the rapid rise and decline of this pivotal landmark in African American and leisure history, in the process exploring intersections among race, class, tourism, entertainment, and historic preservation in the United States. Featuring a wealth of fieldwork on contemporary Idlewild, the book also takes a candid look at recent revitalization efforts and analyzes the possibilities for a future resurgence of this national treasure.

Book History of Windham County  Connecticut  1600 1760

Download or read book History of Windham County Connecticut 1600 1760 written by Ellen Douglas Larned and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: