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10161) Villa America: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A tale based on the real-life inspirations for Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night finds expats Sara and Gerald Murphy sharing freewheeling days, hosting parties and hiding heartbreaking secrets in the 1920s French Riviera.
10162) The black man's president: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the pursuit of racial equality
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 313 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This narrative history of Lincoln's personal interchange with Black people over the course his career reveals a side of the sixteenth president that, until now, has not been fully explored or understood. In a little-noted eulogy delivered shortly after Lincoln's assassination, Frederick Douglass called the martyred president 'emphatically the black man's president,' the 'first to show any respect for their rights as men.' To justify that description,...
Author
Series
Sugar plum ballerinas volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Jump at the Sun Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and a host of expert activists, including the valiant Jerome Smith. Michael Eric Dyson examines the sources of America's torturous racial politics by tracing that 1963 meeting, these individuals, and those who followed in...
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
93 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of a slave who suffered mistreatment from her master, spent years as a fugitive from slavery in North Carolina, and was eventually released to freedom with her children.
10170) Medgar Evers
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
548 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author draws on thousands of documents and interviews to examine the myths and achievements marking the life of the iconic Latino labor leader and civil rights activist, portraying him as a flawed but brilliant strategist who was often at odds with himself. Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched a movement, and inspired a generation. He rose from migrant worker to national icon, becoming one of the great charismatic leaders of the 20th century....
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When he was in his early twenties, William Juneboy Outlaw III was sentenced to eighty-five years in prison for homicide and armed assault. The sentence brought his brief but prolific criminal career as the head of a forty-member cocaine gang in New Haven, Connecticut, to a close. But behind bars, Outlaw quickly became a feared prison "shot caller" with 100 men under his sway. Then everything changed: His original sentence was reduced by sixty years....
10177) The foremost good fortune
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 501 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
On August 7, 1930, three black teenagers were dragged from their jail cells in Marion, Indiana, by a howling mob. Two were hanged, the third escaped. A photo taken that night shows the bodies hanging from the tree but focuses on the faces in the crowd. It is only one event in the history of race relations in Marion, a history considered by many to be best forgotten. But 63 years later, journalist Carr met the man who'd survived, which led her to examine...
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