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If He Hollers Let Him Go

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Author : Chester Himes
language : en
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2010-12-02

If He Hollers Let Him Go written by Chester Himes and has been published by Serpent's Tail this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-02 with Fiction categories.

Robert Jones is a crew leader in a naval shipyard in Los Angeles in the 1940s. He should have a lot going for him, being educated, with a steady job and a steady relationship. But in the four days covered in this novel, the impossibility of life as a black man in a white world is made devastatingly clear. Jones is surrounded by prejudice, suspicion and paranoia, and his daily experiences influence his thoughts, dreams and behaviour. Immediately recognised as a masterful expose of racism in everyday life, If He Hollers Let Him Go is Chester Himes' first book, originally published in 1945.

The Several Lives Of Chester Himes

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Author : Edward Margolies
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1997

The Several Lives Of Chester Himes written by Edward Margolies and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A critical biography that reveals the varied profiles of the expatriate author

If He Hollers Let Him Go

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Author : Chester Himes
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2024-11-28

If He Hollers Let Him Go written by Chester Himes and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-28 with Fiction categories.

The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, ‘written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger’ (Observer) Robert ‘Bob’ Jones – crew leader, shipyard worker, educated, employed – is finding life impossible. Though he’s recently been promoted to supervisor, he is disrespected and resented by white colleagues; and despite his relationship with the high-class Alice, he is crudely baited by the manipulative Madge. Over the course of four fraught days in Los Angeles, he is plagued with increasingly violent urges as the bigotry and cruelty he faces day-in-day-out become unbearable. Chester Himes’s shattering debut is a masterful reckoning with the poisonous effects of racism, and a monumental protest novel. ‘A relentless, gripping, classic novel, one of the most powerful exposés of what it is like to be black in America’ LA Times

Basic Brown

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Author : Willie L. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-02-05

Basic Brown written by Willie L. Brown and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

To The Washington Post, he's "The Last Political Showman of the 20th Century." Bill Clinton has called him "the real Slick Willie." Ronald Reagan's secretary of state George Shultz called this famously liberal politician "a man of his word" and endorsed his successful candidacy for mayor of San Francisco. Indeed Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both called upon him for advice and help. He is Willie L. Brown, Jr., and he knows how to get things done in politics, how to work both sides of the aisle to get results. Compared to him, Machiavelli looks meek. And drab. In Basic Brown, this product of rural, segregated Texas and the urban black neighborhoods of San Francisco tells how he rose through the civil rights movement to become the most potent black politician in America through his shrewd understanding and use of political power and political money. He adapts the lessons he has learned so they can be used by anyone -- black, female, male -- intent on acquiring political power. And this master of the political deal demonstrates why deals are not enough, and that political power grows only when public good is being done. Willie Brown shows how some of the most far-reaching and socially advanced legislation in American history -- like gun control, legalized abortion, gay rights, and school funding -- was carried out under his guidance and on his watch, and tells of the ingenuity, the political machinations, and the personal perseverance that were required to enact what now seems to many to be obvious legislation. These are stories of breathtaking, sometimes hilarious ruses and gambits that show that even the most high-minded legislation needs the assistance of the skills of a shark, which is what Willie Brown often sees himself as. Basic Brown is a compendium of insights and stories on the real forces governing power in American political life that will leave you looking at politics anew. It is also the inspiring and funny story of the rise of a gawky teenager in mail-order shoes and trousers who rose to entertain royalty and schoolchildren, superstars and supersize egos, the saintly and the scholarly, while working to transform and open American politics. If you ever wanted to learn how to be slick, a shark, a do-gooder, and a man of your word, Willie L. Brown, Jr., is the storyteller for you.

Chester B Himes

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Author : Lawrence P. Jackson
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2017-07-25

Chester B Himes written by Lawrence P. Jackson and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work Finalist for the PEN America/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography The definitive biography of the groundbreaking African American author who had an extraordinary legacy on black writers globally. Chester B. Himes has been called “one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition” (Henry Louis Gates Jr.), “the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler” (San Francisco Chronicle), and “a quirky American genius” (Walter Mosely). He was the twentieth century’s most prolific black writer, captured the spirit of his times expertly, and left a distinctive mark on American literature. Yet today he stands largely forgotten. In this definitive biography of Chester B. Himes (1909–1984), Lawrence P. Jackson uses exclusive interviews and unrestricted access to Himes’s full archives to portray a controversial American writer whose novels unflinchingly confront sex, racism, and black identity. Himes brutally rendered racial politics in the best-selling novel If He Hollers Let Him Go, but he became famous for his Harlem detective series, including Cotton Comes to Harlem. A serious literary tastemaker in his day, Himes had friendships—sometimes uneasy—with such luminaries as Ralph Ellison, Carl Van Vechten, and Richard Wright. Jackson’s scholarship and astute commentary illuminates Himes’s improbable life—his middle-class origins, his eight years in prison, his painful odyssey as a black World War II–era artist, and his escape to Europe for success. More than ten years in the writing, Jackson’s biography restores the legacy of a fascinating maverick caught between his aspirations for commercial success and his disturbing, vivid portraits of the United States.

Hate Speech On Campus

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Author : Milton Heumann
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 1997

Hate Speech On Campus written by Milton Heumann and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Education categories.

A cogent, objective, and in-depth exploration of the legal, political, and social complexities of the decision to ban hate speech.

Blood Makes The Grass Grow Green

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Author : Johnny Rico
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2007-04-24

Blood Makes The Grass Grow Green written by Johnny Rico and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Outrageous, hilarious, and absolutely candid, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green is Johnny Rico’s firsthand account of fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, a memoir that also reveals the universal truths about the madness of war. No one would have picked Johnny Rico for a soldier. The son of an aging hippie father, Johnny was overeducated and hostile to all authority. But when 9/11 happened, the twenty-six-year-old probation officer dropped everything to become an “infantry combat killer.” But if he’d thought that serving his country would be the kind of authentic experience a reader of The Catcher in the Rye would love, he quickly realized he had another thing coming. In Afghanistan he found himself living a Lord of the Flies existence among soldiers who feared civilian life more than they feared the Taliban–guys like Private Cox, a musical prodigy busy “planning his future poverty,” and Private Mulbeck, who didn’t know precisely which country he was in. Life in a combat zone meant carnage and courage–but it also meant tedious hours standing guard, punctuated with thoughtful arguments about whether Bea Arthur was still alive. Utterly uncensored and full of dark wit, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green is a poignant, frightening, and heartfelt view of life in this and every man’s army.

A Case Of Rape

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Author : Chester B. Himes
language : en
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Release Date : 1994

A Case Of Rape written by Chester B. Himes and has been published by Carroll & Graf Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.

Four Black American men living in Paris are charged with the rape of a white woman

The Counting Out Rhymes Of Children

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Author : Henry Carrington Bolton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888

The Counting Out Rhymes Of Children written by Henry Carrington Bolton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Children categories.

If He Hollers Let Him Go

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Author : Chester B. Himes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967

If He Hollers Let Him Go written by Chester B. Himes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with categories.