Download or read book The Day the Whistle Blew written by Marilyn Nesbit Wood and published by . This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1940s coal camp of Stansbury, Wyoming, life revolved around the underground mine, community, and family. In many ways, it was the idyllic model town Union Pacific Coal had built it to be. Families had homes with indoor plumbing, children enjoyed friendship and freedom, and the men had a steady income. But demand for coal waned, and then one day unexpectedly the whistle blew and Wood s life turned upside down. Wood writes honestly and compellingly about mines and miners, coal camp kids, miners wives, company towns, letting go, and acceptance.
Download or read book When the Whistle Blows written by Fran Slayton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Cannon loves trains. And he wants to work on the railroad more than anything when he grows up. After all, his father is the foreman in Rowlesburg, and all the men in his family have worked on the rails. But times are changing in the 1940s, and JimmyÕs father sees a different future for his son. Join Jimmy on the ride of a lifetime, through midnight Halloween romps, the championship football game, and a secret society in this coming-of-age story set during the last of the railroad days.
Download or read book For my Country written by Themba Maseko and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'When I joined the struggle as a 13-year-old boy in Soweto, I would never have imagined that one day I would blow the whistle on a special kind of corruption that was destroying the party and the values I had been fighting for all my life.' In 2010, government spokesperson Themba Maseko was called to the Gupta family's Saxonwold compound and asked by Ajay Gupta to divert the government's entire advertising budget to the family's media company. When Maseko refused to do so, he was removed from his position and forced to leave the public service. The life of this once-proud civil servant would never be the same again. Maseko, whose activism was forged in the Soweto uprising of 1976, is a product of the struggle, and has always been unfailingly loyal to the principles of the ANC. In 2016, when the party called on members with evidence of wrongdoing by the Guptas to step forward, Maseko was the only one to do so. For this courageous act of whistleblowing, he was ostracised, slandered and even threatened. As a former senior state official, Maseko also offers a rare insider's view of the presidencies of Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma and of the inner workings of government. Compelling and revelatory, For My Country shows what it takes to stand up for one's principles and defy the most powerful man in the country.
Download or read book Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow written by Dee Brown and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the best-selling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown's classic account of the building of the transcontinental railroad. In February 1854 the first railroad from the East reached the Mississippi; by the end of the nineteenth century five major transcontinental railroads linked the East Coast with the Pacific Ocean and thousands of miles of tracks criss-crossed in the West, a vast and virginal land just a few years before. The story of this extraordinary undertaking is one of breathtaking technological ingenuity, otherwordly idealism, and all-too-wordly greed. The heroes and villains were Irish and Chineselaborers, intrepid engineers, avaricious bankers, stock manipulators, and corrupt politicians. Before it was over more than 155 million acres (one tenth of the country) were given away to the railroad magnates, Indian tribes were decimated, the buffalo were driven from the Great Plains, millions of immigrants were lured from Europe, and a colossal continental nation was built. Woven into this dramatic narrative are the origins of present-day governmental corruption, the first ties between powerful corporations and politicians who "enjoyed the frequent showers of money that fell upon them from railroad stock manipulators, and gave away America." How the people of that time responded to a sense of disillusionment remarkably similar to our own adds a contemporary dimension to this story.
Download or read book Lonesome Whistle Blow written by James M. Vesely and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-12-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting sequel to Coon Creek, Elias Bunt and his family are once again uprooted from their home - this time by the ravages of the Great Depression. The Bunts leave California after Elias decides to take his wife and family back to Dallas City, the small town in Illinois where they were born. But his youngest son is restless. Pushed by the boredom of the farm, and the grinding reality of hard times, young Rafe Bunt bids his family farewell and leaves Hancock County to make his own way through the grim and uncertain landscape of America in the 1930s.
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Download or read book Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow written by Dee Brown and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating story” of the railways that linked America from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (The Washington Post). Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow unspools the history of the beginnings of the American railroad system. By the mid-nineteenth century, settlers in Missouri and California were separated by a vast landscape that dwarfed and isolated them, conquerable only by “the demonic power of the Iron Horse and its bands of iron track.” Although the building of the great railroad is commonly known as a story of romance, adventure, and progress, it also has a dark side, as profiteers decimated American Indian tribes, exploited workers, and destroyed ecosystems. Despite this, by the turn of the twentieth century, five major railroads would span the continent. This account vividly illustrates the railroad builders’ breathtaking skill, ambition, and ingenuity. . Brown compellingly tells a high-stakes tale, an exhilarating history that still holds lessons for today. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
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Download or read book Can t You Hear the Whistle Blowing written by Bill MacWithey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-08-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy loses his father and his little dog at the same time. Will the ghost of a young Indian girl bring him back from his sadness and despair? Do you believe in angels? The Dove That Saved Charlie will be of special interest. Once a profound druggy and alcoholic, Charlie finds a new life with the help of a simple thing like a dove in his back yard. Do you believe in Ghosts? A young boys ghost is trapped at Barkley Elementary until a kindly school librarian sets him free. Not only does she set him free, but finds love in the doing. When trapped in the desert, how could a helicopter pilot, who died the previous day, come to Bobs rescue? Leftys Ghost must have done it. Is there a place between Heaven and Hell, where we must somehow redeem or condemn ourselves? Wouldnt that be confusing? My Brother, My Haunting will make you laugh, but it will also make you wonder. Will there be human-appearing cyborgs in the future? Can you imagine two cyborgs meeting, each believing the other to be human? (: The stories in Cant You Hear The Whistle Blowing? will entertain in all these areas and more. 25 stories drawn from a repertoire of over a hundred, fifty, by one of todays most entertaining authors. Bill MacWithey receives comments from fans such as, So and so used to be my favorite author until I read your work.
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