Download or read book James Mason in America written by Joost van Winsen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few men are prominent chess players as well as esteemed chess writers. James Mason, in his lifetime, had the reputation of being both. This book chronicles Mason's early career in the United States, providing many details on his writings and annotations for The Spirit of the Times and The American Chess Journal, his participation in the Cafe Europa and Cafe International tournaments, his win in 1876's Fourth American Chess Congress, and his matches against chess greats like George H. Mackenzie, Eugene Delmar, Dion M. Martinez, Edward Alberoni, and Henry E. Bird. Mason's efforts to establish an American Chess Association and to arrange an international centennial congress in 1876 are also explored. In addition to the general index, the work also includes indexes of games, annotators, and openings.
Download or read book The Making of Yosemite written by Jen A. Huntley and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leader of the first tourist expedition into Yosemite in 1855, James Mason Hutchings became a tireless promoter of the valley-and of himself. Seeking to create an alternative to California's Gold Rush social chaos, Hutchings whetted the public enthusiasm for this unspoiled land by mass producing a lithograph of Yosemite Falls, while his Hutchings' California Magazine beat the drum for tourism. But because of his later legal imbroglios over the park, Hutchings was effectively written out of its history, and today he is largely viewed as an opportunist who made a career out of exploiting Yosemite. Now Jen Huntley removes the tarnish from Hutchings's image. She portrays him instead as a "connector" who brought artists to Yosemite and Yosemite to Americans, and uses his career as a lens through which to view the contests and debates surrounding the creation of Yosemite, and, by extension, America's emerging ethic of land conservation. Blending environmental and cultural history, she tracks Hutchings's professional trajectory amidst significant changes in nineteenth-century America, from technological advances in printing to the growth of tourism, from the birth of modern environmental movements to battles over public lands. Huntley uses Hutchings's legal battles with the government over ownership of land in the Yosemite Valley to analyze larger battles over public land management and national identity. She also explores the role of urban San Francisco in designating Yosemite a public park, shows how the Civil War transformed Yosemite from a regional icon to a national symbol of post-war redemption, and takes a closer look at Hutchings's relationship with John Muir. Making Yosemite sheds light on the role of power, class dynamics, and the late-century ideal of individualism in the shaping of modern America's sacred landscapes. Hutchings emerges here as a visionary communicator who cleverly tapped into midcentury Americans' attitudes toward spectacular scenery to create a sense of place-based identity in the American Far West. Huntley's revisionist approach rediscovers Hutchings as a key player in the histories of American media, tourism, and environmentalism, and suggests new terrain for scholars to consider in writing the histories of our national parks, conservation, and land policy.
Download or read book James Mason written by Sarah Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Thomas's study moves beyond the image of the brooding, destructive man at odds with employers and his own star status to explore the complexity of Mason's career and star persona. Her analysis is structured around three strands central to understanding stardom: the star persona, industry and power, and screen performance. Thomas addresses the incredible range of Mason's star career – 1930s 'quota quickies'; 1940s Gainsborough melodramas; the desperate IRA man in Carol Reed's 'Odd Man Out' (1947); from the 1950s onwards, Hollywood classics including starring in Hitchcock's 'North by Northwest' (1959) and playing Humbert Humbert in Kubrick's 'Lolita' (1962). She also considers in depth his undervalued post-1962 career, off-screen celebrity status, non-film work, comic and vocal performances, and the star's own self-commentary. In doing so, she offers a new perspective on such subjects as power and powerlessness; public image and national identity, contextualizing Mason's career in wider histories of British, American and European transnational filmmaking.
Download or read book The Constitutions of the Free masons written by James Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1723 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Senator James Murray Mason written by Robert W. Young and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, in chronicling Mason's disappointment in the face of the Confederacy's defeat, Young evokes the enormous sense of loss that accompanied the passing of the Old South's way of life.
Download or read book James Mason written by Sheridan Morley and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Fuehrer written by Frederick James Simonelli and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founder of the American Nazi party and its leader until he was murdered in 1967,George Lincoln Rockwell was one of the most significant extremist strategists and ideologists of the postwar period. His influence has only increased since his death. A powerful catalyst and innovator, Rockwell broadened his constituency beyond the core Radical Right by articulating White Power politics in terms that were subsequently appropriated by the one-time klansman David Duke. He played a major role in developing Holocaust revisionism, now an orthodoxy of the Far Right. He also helped politicize Christian Identity, America's most influential right-wing religious movement, and welded together an international organization of neo-Nazis. All of these extremist movements continue to thrive today. Frederick Simonelli's biography of this powerful and enigmatic figure draws on primary sources of extraordinary depth, including declassified FBI files and manuscripts and other materials held by Rockwell's family and associates. The first objective assessment of the American Nazi party and an authoritative study of the roots of neo-nazism, neo-fascism, and White Power extremism in postwar America, American Fuehrer is shocking and absorbing reading.
Download or read book Solomon s Builders written by Christopher Hodapp and published by Ulysses Press. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the perfect primer for Dan Brown's next novel. It clearly explains the people, places and historical background that is the Freemasons in Washington DC. Reading this book first will greatly enhance the experience of reading the Dan Brown novel.
Download or read book Community Memories written by Winona L. Fletcher and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2003-11-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While this is a glimpse of Frankfort's African American community, it has much in common with other Black communities, especially those in the South. Although much in the collection that produced this work - both photographic and oral history - is nostalgic, it ultimately demonstrates that change is constant, producing both negative and positive results."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Reminiscences of James Mason written by James Mason and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education at Cambridge University; early interest in acting; decision to come to America; 1982: Night of a Hundred Stars, THE VERDICT, work as a producer; comments on filmmaking.
Download or read book George Mason written by William G. Hyland and published by Regnery History. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Mason was a short, bookish man who was a friend and neighbor of athletic, broad-shouldered George Washington. Unlike Washington, Mason has been virtually forgotton by history. But this new biography of forgotten patriot George Mason makes a convincing case that Mason belongs in the pantheon of honored Founding Fathers. Trained in the law, Mason was also a farmer, philosopher, botanist, and musician. He was one of the architects of the Declaration of Independence, an author of the Bill of Rights, and one of the strongest proponents of religious liberty in American history. In fact, both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison may have been given undue credit for George Mason's own contributions to American democracy.
Download or read book Disney Connections and Collections written by James R. Mason and published by Theme Park Press. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Definitive Guide to Disney Films From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, through the films Disney plans to release through 2019 and early 2020, Professor James Mason delivers a cinemaphile's treasure trove of pertinent and often hard-to-find information about each of Disney's animated and live-action films. Mason's chronological, cross-referenced collector's companion to Disney theatrical features is unmatched in its detail, providing not just release dates, cast and crew, and literary sources, but also the film's connections to comic strip adaptations, soundtrack albums, and non-fiction books, with cross-references to relevant Disney theme park rides, sequels, TV shows, and other media. In this comprehensive all-in-one guide--over 500 pages!-- you'll have at your fingertips up-to-date information about not just the classic and modern Disney films, but Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars releases, as well. Want to know comic strips and comic books feature Dumbo? Which TV series and video games star the Avengers? Where to find obscure features like Condorman or The Littlest Outlaw on DVD, Blu-ray, or Laserdisc? It's in here! For Disney fans, collectors, and historians alike, this is your front-row ticket to the cinematic magic of Disney.
Download or read book The Theocrat written by James Mason and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the first to be released of five essays written inside prison, James Mason definitively and from a non-religious viewpoint unravels the Bible. The goal was to once and for all either debunk or validate the greatest of all the West's books of wisdom. Next to the Bible as being the world's most well-known but least read or understood book is Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. Mason again does the work for you and condenses them both. Bringing out the most relevant and astounding passages.The end result of this research is nothing short of devastating.
Download or read book On Board the USS Mason written by James A. Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equally interesting, the diary reveals what it meant to be an African American in a white navy within a segregated American society, the shipboard tensions and the shipboard cooperation and sense of unity.
Download or read book Slavery and Public History written by James Oliver Horton and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating collection of essays” by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery (Booklist Online). In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America’s history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of slavery, this unique collection of essays looks at recent controversies that have played out in the public arena, with contributions by such noted historians as Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, and Gary B. Nash. From the cancellation of the Library of Congress’s “Back of the Big House” slavery exhibit at the request of the institution’s African American employees, who found the visual images of slavery too distressing, to the public reaction to DNA findings confirming Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with his slave Sally Hemings, Slavery and Public History takes on contemporary reactions to the fundamental contradiction of American history—the existence of slavery in a country dedicated to freedom—and offers a bracing analysis of how Americans choose to remember the past, and how those choices influence our politics and culture. “Americans seem perpetually surprised by slavery—its extent (North as well as South), its span (over half of our four centuries of Anglo settlement), and its continuing influence. The wide-ranging yet connected essays in [this book] will help us all to remember and understand.” —James W. Loewen, author of Sundown Towns
