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Author: Michael Strecker Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1540260801 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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In this comic novel set in New Orleans in the late 1980s, an inveterate lottery player will risk everything--except gainful employment--to strike it rich. Filled with local-flavored humor, it features engaging, unforgettable characters and a unique plot that offers insights into fate, faith, and the vagaries of life.
Author: Michael Strecker Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1540260801 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
In this comic novel set in New Orleans in the late 1980s, an inveterate lottery player will risk everything--except gainful employment--to strike it rich. Filled with local-flavored humor, it features engaging, unforgettable characters and a unique plot that offers insights into fate, faith, and the vagaries of life.
Author: J. Wade Publisher: ISBN: 9781699191248 Category : Languages : en Pages : 216
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Sometimes, history just forgets people. Jefferson J. Standifer is one such person whom history has forgotten, but in the mid 19th century, his exploits were well known throughout the Western United States. He prospected for gold in California, British Columbia, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, and Montana. He spent time in Hawaii and made a very mysterious trip to Mexico. The man fought many engagements with natives, was shot several times, and even had time to own a saloon in an ill-fated railroad town. He traveled thousands of miles on horseback and helped men get from California to join the Confederate army during the War Between the States. Jeff was called the "Kit Carson of the Northwest", the "Daniel Boone of the mines", and a "Builder of Idaho." Despite these high praises, his name disappeared from discussions on western history in the 1950s. Perhaps it was his membership in the ultrasecret "Knights of the Golden Circle" that has helped erase his name from our memory. This is the first time Jeff's story has been told, a story that was almost lost to time. In part due to another shadowy organization known as the 21st Century Confederate Legion. Is this just a Southern heritage group, or is something more sinister afoot in the modern day?
Author: Michael Newton Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786477741 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 315
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With its fiery crosses and nightriders in pointed hoods and flowing robes, the Ku Klux Klan remains a recurring nightmare in American life. What began in the earliest post-Civil War days as a social group engaging in drunken hijinks at the expense of perceived inferiors soon turned into a murderous paramilitary organization determined to resist the "evils" of radical Reconstruction. For six generations and counting, the Klan has inflicted misery and death on countless victims nationwide and since the early 1920s, has expanded into distant corners of the globe. From the Klan's post-Civil War lynchings in support of Jim Crow laws, to its bloody stand against desegregation during the 1960s, to its continued violence in the militia movement at the turn of the 21st century, this revealing volume chronicles the complete history of the world's oldest surviving terrorist organization from 1866 to the present. The story is told without embellishment because, as this work demonstrates, the truth about the Ku Klux Klan is grim enough.
Author: David A. Lossos Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439614814 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 132
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It's quite unlikely that Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau could have comprehended the scope of their undertaking in 1764 when they laid out the settlement on the western banks of the Mississippi that was to become the metropolis of St. Louis. Founded by the French, governed by the Spanish, and heavily populated by the English and Germans, the role that the Irish had in making St. Louis what it is today is often overlooked. The Irish are steeped in tradition, and that trait did not leave the Irish immigrants when they arrived in St. Louis and called this place home. Like many other cities in America, the heritage of Ireland is alive and well in St. Louis. This book visually captures their Irish spirit, and portrays a few of the Irish "movers and shakers" alongside the "Irish commoner" in their new and challenging lives here in St. Louis.
Author: Frank L. Klement Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813194792 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 488
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Every American war has brought conflict over the extent to which national security will permit protesters to exercise their constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression. The most famous case was that of Clement L. Vallandigham, the passionate critic of Lincoln's Civil War policies and one of the most controversial figure in the nation's history. In the great crisis of his time, he insisted that no circumstance, even war, could deprive a citizen of his right to oppose government policy freely and openly. The consequence was a furor which shook the nation's legislative halls and filled the press with vituperation. The ultimate fate for Vallandigham was arrest, imprisonment, and exile. The burning issues raised by his case remain largely unresolved today. Mr. Klement follows the tragic irony of Vallandigham's career and reassesses the man and history's judgment of him. After his death, "Valiant Val'' became a symbol of the dissenter in wartime whose case continues to have relevance in American democracy.
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