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Book The Goldwaters of Arizona

Download or read book The Goldwaters of Arizona written by Dean Smith and published by Northland Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book you'll meet Barry's grandfather, "Big Mike," his uncle Morris, and his father, Baron Goldwater, who, like many on the frontier, came from poverty to indelibly shape our history. This book gives readers a unique local view of the influence of a national politician.

Book Barry Goldwater

Download or read book Barry Goldwater written by Peter Iverson and published by . This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans think of Barry Goldwater in terms of his influence on national politics as a conservative Republican senator and as a candidate for president in 1964. In this examination of Goldwater's life and career, Peter Iverson shows that he should also be understood as a man of his place and time -- as a native Arizonan. Born in 1909, three years before Arizona became a state, Goldwater mirrored the country in which he grew up. His interest in the diverse cultural and geographical terrain of Arizona encouraged him to represent it and its Indian communities in his photography. In his later years he helped lead the fight to save Phoenix's Camelback Mountain from further development. At the same time, however, because Goldwater was involved in aviation and the military and was fascinated with electronics, he strove to develop Arizona and promote its growth in those areas. Occasionally, he experienced "native's remorse" for the dilemmas posed by the demands placed upon the land and sky of his state. Goldwater entered politics as a Phoenix City Council representative and then served his state and the nation as U.S. senator from 1953 through 1964 and again from 1969 through 1986. Returning in 1987 to Phoenix, he has remained an active, vocal participant in the life of his community. This new interpretive biography presents an informed and even-handed analysis of Goldwater that will be of interest to anyone who wants a better understanding of the man, his time, and his place.

Book The Goldwaters of Arizona

Download or read book The Goldwaters of Arizona written by Dean Smith and published by Northland Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book you'll meet Barry's grandfather, "Big Mike," his uncle Morris, and his father, Baron Goldwater, who, like many on the frontier, came from poverty to indelibly shape our history. This book gives readers a unique local view of the influence of a national politician.

Book Barry Goldwater  Portrait of Arizona

Download or read book Barry Goldwater Portrait of Arizona written by Edwin McDowell and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of Murder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dave Wagner
  • Publisher : Gracenote Books
  • Release : 2016-05-12
  • ISBN : 9780692662656
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Politics of Murder written by Dave Wagner and published by Gracenote Books. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Murder is a history of organized crime in Arizona from the heady days of prosperity after World War II to the end of the 20th century. It is a history of unsolved murders that include figures like Willie Bioff, a society gangster who was killed for double-crossing a Tucson kingpin on an unpaid loan. Another was Phoenix crime boss Gus Greenbaum, a friend of the state's most powerful politicians, who helped develop the Las Vegas casino industry. He was rewarded with a grisly murder that is still officially unsolved. Land-fraud king Ned Warren stole nearly a billion dollars from veterans and retirees. The Phoenix political network protected him even as he hired saboteurs and Mafia hit men to eliminate a dozen witnesses. All of these killings remained unsolved at the time of the most notorious murder in the state's history, the 1962 car-bombing death of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles. The newsman was investigating a tip that one of the most powerful businessmen in the state was working with the Chicago Mafia to launder Las Vegas casino skim through Phoenix racetracks. The motive for killing Bolles was directly related to evidence the reporter uncovered about the Las Vegas money laundering, but his murder remained unsolved for other reasons.Solving Bolles? death would have revealed a carefully kept secret: When Bolles was assassinated, Barry Goldwater's political operation was in the process of removing from office by covert means the president of the Navajo Nation. It was a case of domestic regime change imposed on a sovereign Indian government that refused to submit to policies imposed by Washington to benefit non-Indian interests.The connection between the Bolles case and the Navajo plot was a strange and ruthless man, an assassin who made a living by building dynamite bombs. Before he killed Don Bolles, he built a bomb for the Goldwater political operation as it set out to remove the leader of the Navajo Nation. The connection was never revealed to the public. It had to remain a secret at all costs, and it was-- until now.

Book Photographs by Barry M  Goldwater

Download or read book Photographs by Barry M Goldwater written by Robert Stieve and published by Arizona Highways Books. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he's best known nationally as a U.S. senator, Barry Goldwater's love of politics may have been surpassed by his passion for photography. He spent a lifetime carrying around a camera, and, since 1939, hundreds of his photographs have appeared on the pages of Arizona Highways. Many of those photographs appear in this stunning coffee table book, along with profiles of the senator.

Book Barry Goldwater  State Greats Arizona

Download or read book Barry Goldwater State Greats Arizona written by Marilyn Myrick Watson and published by Acacia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of "Mr. Arizona," aka Barry Goldwater, state Senator for thirty years.

Book Goldwater

Download or read book Goldwater written by Lee Edwards and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive biography of Barry Goldwater ever written is back by popular demand with a new foreword by Phyllis Schlafly and an updated introduction by the author. Lee Edwards renders a penetrating account of the icon who put the conservative movement on the national stage. Replete with previously unpublished details of his life, Goldwater established itself as the definitive study of the political maverick who made a revolution.

Book Goldwaters of Arizona

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dean Smith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988-08-01
  • ISBN : 9780873584791
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Goldwaters of Arizona written by Dean Smith and published by . This book was released on 1988-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Glorious Disaster

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  • Author : J. William Middendorf II
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2008-04-01
  • ISBN : 0465003885
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book A Glorious Disaster written by J. William Middendorf II and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1964 presidential campaign lives on in conservative circles as an origin myth for the modern conservative movement. Even though their preferred (and now revered) candidate lost to Lyndon B. Johnson by a landslide, Barry Goldwater's failed presidential run was a major turning point of the twentieth century. Without Goldwater's philosophy to pave the way -- and, just as importantly, without the strategic and political infrastructure created by the "Draft Goldwater" movement that preceded it -- there likely would have been no Reagan or Bush administrations, and possibly no Nixon administration either. The policy positions and electoral strategies of the Goldwater campaign became standard tenets of Republican politics. William Middendorf had better than a ringside seat for this pivotal campaign. A key member of the "Draft Goldwater" movement as early as 1962, he was Goldwater's campaign treasurer and, afterwards, a major force within the Republican Party. No one knows the real inside story better, and A Glorious Disaster tells that story in all its rollicking, agonizing, and never-before-published detail.

Book Before the Storm

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rick Perlstein
  • Publisher : Bold Type Books
  • Release : 2009-03-17
  • ISBN : 0786744154
  • Pages : 705 pages

Download or read book Before the Storm written by Rick Perlstein and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed federal government, despised liberals, and mocked "peaceful coexistence" with the USSR. Perlstein's narrative shines a light on a whole world of conservatives and their antagonists, including William F. Buckley, Nelson Rockefeller, and Bill Moyers. Vividly written, Before the Storm is an essential book about the 1960s.

Book Arizona Gold

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  • Author : Maggie James
  • Publisher : Signet Book
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780451407993
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Arizona Gold written by Maggie James and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GIVE READERS WHAT THEY DESIRE...Three full-length novels. Three major authors. One special price.LORDS OF DESIREOnly $3.99 each!

Book Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of Arizona

Download or read book Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of Arizona written by W. C. Jameson and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arizona's history is liberally seasoned with legends of lost mines, buried treasures, and significant deposits of gold and silver. The famous Lost Dutchman Mine has lured treasure hunters for over a century into the remote, treacherous, and reportedly cursed Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix. Gold and silver bars discovered in Huachuca Canyon by a soldier stationed at nearby Fort Huachuca just before World War II remain inaccessible despite years of laborious attempts at recovery. Outside the town of Yucca, bandits eager to make a fast getaway buried a strongbox filled with gold, unaware they wouldn't survive the pursuit of a law-enforcing posse to recover their plunder. And somewhere in the Little Horn Mountains northeast of Yuma lies an elusive wash containing hundreds of odd gold-filled rocks. Selected from hundreds of tales passed down from generation to generation since the days of the gold-seeking Spanish explorers, the tales included here are among the most compelling that Arizona has to offer.

Book Thunder Gods Gold

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  • Author : Barry Storm
  • Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Release : 2016-10-27
  • ISBN : 1787201929
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Thunder Gods Gold written by Barry Storm and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing true story of America’s most famed lost gold mines and epitome of Western traditions, this book tells the tale about the Lost Dutchman gold mine in the Superstition Mountains in Arizona during the late 1930s and 1940s. Based on author Barry Storm’s travels over the mountains in search for lost Spanish treasures, this book was the inspiration behind Lust for Gold, a 1949 American western film about the legendary Lost Dutchman, starring Glenn Ford. Contains lots of on-the-spot work in the mountains reading treasure signs, trail markers, maps and great photographs.

Book Arizona Biographies

Download or read book Arizona Biographies written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vengeance Road

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  • Author : Erin Bowman
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0544466381
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book Vengeance Road written by Erin Bowman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her father is murdered for a journal revealing the location of a hidden gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers -- and justice. What she finds are untrustworthy strangers, endless dust and heat, and a surprising band of allies, among them a young Apache girl and a pair of stubborn brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. But as Kate gets closer to the secrets about her family, a startling truth becomes clear: some men will stop at nothing to get their hands on gold, and Kate's quest for revenge may prove fatal.

Book Arizona Gold Placers and Placering

Download or read book Arizona Gold Placers and Placering written by Eldred D. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arizona Gold Placers and Placering was published by the Arizona Bureau of Mines in conjunction with University of Arizona as Bulletin 118 in 1922 and eventually became what it is today as bulletin 142 in 1937 fourth revised edition. This book covers all of the known Placers in Arizona by county. Additional information on the placers, their formation, History, Geology, production and locations are included. In addition, best types of recovery for these placers are discussed.