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Jazz Age Giant
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Author : Robert F. Garratt
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2023-04
Jazz Age Giant written by Robert F. Garratt and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the early 1920s, when the New York Yankees’ first dynasty was taking shape, they were outplayed by their local rival, the New York Giants. Led by manager John McGraw the Giants won four consecutive National League pennants and two World Series, both against the rival Yankees. Remarkably, the Giants succeeded despite a dysfunctional and unmanageable front office. And at the center of the turmoil was one of baseball’s more improbable figures: club president Charles A. Stoneham, who had purchased the Giants for $1 million in 1919, the largest amount ever paid for an American sports team. Short, stout, and jowly, Charlie Stoneham embodied a Jazz Age stereotype—a business and sporting man by day, he led another life by night. He threw lavish parties, lived extravagantly, and was often chronicled in the city tabloids. Little is known about how he came to be one of the most successful investment brokers in what were known as “bucket shops,” a highly speculative and controversial branch of Wall Street. One thing about Stoneham is clear, however: at the close of World War I he was a wealthy man, with a net worth of more than $10 million. This wealth made it possible for him to purchase majority control of the Giants, one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. Stoneham, an owner of racehorses, a friend to local politicians and Tammany Hall, a socialite and a man well placed in New York business and political circles, was also implicated in a number of business scandals and criminal activities. The Giants’ principal owner had to contend with federal indictments, civil lawsuits, hostile fellow magnates, and troubles with booze, gambling, and women. But during his sixteen-year tenure as club president, the Giants achieved more success than the club had seen under any prior regime. In Jazz Age Giant Robert Garratt brings to life Stoneham’s defining years leading the Giants in the Roaring Twenties. With its layers of mystery and notoriety, Stoneham’s life epitomizes the high life and the changing mores of American culture during the 1920s, and the importance of sport, especially baseball, during the pivotal decade.
Jazz Age Giant
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Author : Robert F. Garratt
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2023
Jazz Age Giant written by Robert F. Garratt and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A biography of Charles A. Stoneham's years owning and running the New York Giants in the 1920s.
The Jazz Age
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Author : Arnold Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1989
The Jazz Age written by Arnold Shaw and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Music categories.
F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in The Jazz Age. Spicing his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of significant musical innovations that emerged during the "Roaring Twenties"--including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas and musicals--and sets them against the background of the Prohibition world of the Flapper.
May Day By F Scott Fitzgerald Super Large Print Edition Of The Jazz Age Classic Specially Designed For Low Vision Readers With A Giant Easy To Read
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Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-03
May Day By F Scott Fitzgerald Super Large Print Edition Of The Jazz Age Classic Specially Designed For Low Vision Readers With A Giant Easy To Read written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03 with Fiction categories.
== Special Edition for Low Vision Readers == The May Day Riots of 1919 are the backdrop for this story of a group of privileged Yale alumni who meet for a dance. About Super Large Print All our books are published with a font designed for maximum readability at twice the size of traditional Large Print books. You can see a sample of Super Large Print at superlargeprint.com KEEP ON READING!
Giants Of Jazz
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Author : S. Terkel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Giants Of Jazz written by S. Terkel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
Giants Of Jazz
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Author : Studs Terkel
language : en
Publisher: New Press
Release Date : 1957
Giants Of Jazz written by Studs Terkel and has been published by New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The true giants of jazz are remembered in these brief biographies of thirteen jazz musicians. Now reissued in the original illustrated edition, the stars portrayed include John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday & Fats Waller.
The Jazz Age
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language : en
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The Jazz Age written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Nineteen twenties categories.
Before John Was A Jazz Giant
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Author : Carole Boston Weatherford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-04-05
Before John Was A Jazz Giant written by Carole Boston Weatherford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Before John Was a Jazz Giant is a 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book.
1929
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Author : Frederick W. Turner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-01-03
1929 written by Frederick W. Turner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-03 with Fiction categories.
By 1929, the brief, brilliant career of Bix Beiderbecke -- self-taught cornetist, pianist, and composer -- had already become legend. As his genius blazed forth with a strange, doomed incandescence, Bix's career tragically reflected the chaotic impulses of a country suddenly awash in wealth, power, and a profound cynicism. Shy and inarticulate, Bix was beloved by both the raccoon-coated campus crowd and the men who nightly played alongside him. He is still celebrated in a yearly festival in his hometown of Davenport, Iowa. And that is where this novel begins, Davenport at the Bix Fest. Then it travels back in time to focus on the highlights of a meteoric career: at a Capone-controlled nightclub in 1926; the grueling cross-country tours with Paul Whiteman's "Symphonic Jazz" orchestra; the disastrous Whiteman trip to California to make the first all-color musical talkie; the stock market crash of 1929, which finds Bix in an asylum, victim of the era's signature product, bootleg gin; and finally, Bix's dying efforts to combine his piano compositions into a suite that would be the pinnacle of his life's work. Colored by some of the age's most popular characters -- Maurice Ravel, Bing Crosby, Al Capone, Duke Ellington and Clara Bow -- 1929 brilliantly illuminates a period in history, personified in the gifted, compelling and melancholy figure of Bix Beiderbecke. Book jacket.
1929
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Author : Frederick Turner
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2004-04-21
1929 written by Frederick Turner and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
By 1929, the brief, brilliant career of Bix Beiderbecke––self–taught cornetist, pianist, and composer––had already become legend. From the summer of '26 at Hudson Lake, Indiana, when his genius blazed forth with a strange, doomed incandescence, Bix's career tragically reflected the chaotic impulses of a country suddenly awash in wealth, power, and a profound cynicism. Shy, elusive, inarticulate, Bix was beloved by both the raccoon–coated campus crowd and the men who nightly played alongside him. He is still celebrated in a yearly festival in his hometown of Davenport, Iowa.And that is where the novel begins, Davenport and the Bix Fest. Then it travels back in time to focus on the highlights of a meteoric career: a Capone–controlled nightclub in 1926; the grueling cross–country tours with Paul Whiteman's Symphonic Jazz orchestra; the disastrous Whiteman trip to California to make the first all–color talkie musical; the stock market crash of 1929 that finds Bix in an asylum, victim of the era's signature product, bootleg gin; and finally, Bix's dying efforts to combine his piano compositions into a suite that would be the pinnacle of his life's work and his evocation of his time and place.Colored by some of the age's most popular characters––Maurice Ravel, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Clara Bow–– 1929 brilliantly illuminates a period in history, personified in the gifted, compelling, and melancholy figure of Bix Beiderbecke.