Redneck Boy In The Promised Land
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Redneck Boy In The Promised Land
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Author : Ben Jones
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2008-06-03
Redneck Boy In The Promised Land written by Ben Jones and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Redneck Boy in the Promised Land is Ben Jones’s hilarious, uplifting life story of escaping the rail yards and finding success in the unlikeliest places. As a child, Jones called a dingy railroad shack with no electricity or indoor plumbing home. An unabashed Southern redneck from a "likker drinkin’, hell-raisin’" family, Jones grew up in the depressed railroad docks outside of Portsmouth, Virginia, and spent most of his days dreaming about where the tracks out of town could take him. That he would go on to become a beloved television icon on The Dukes of Hazzard and a firebrand two-term Congressman is a story that no one could have ever seen coming . . . least of all ol’ "Cooter" himself. Written with naked honesty and wry humor, Redneck Boy in the Promised Land is one good ol’ boy’s remarkable tale of falling flat on his face, picking himself up, and finding his way to the American dream-while fighting for civil rights, the plight of the working class, "real" Southern culture, and the rights of rednecks everywhere. From the Hardcover edition.
Departures On The House
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Author : Scott Crass
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2020-01-09
Departures On The House written by Scott Crass and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-09 with Political Science categories.
The word “change” stormed onto the political lexicon in 1992 when Democratic Presidential nominee Bill Clinton aimed to deny George H.W. Bush a second term. Often overlooked, however, is that “change” also caused a ruckus in Congress. Redistricting, a check overdraft scandal that consumed the chamber and overall frustration with the system produced a wild and woolly year that sent 110 House members into retirement or defeat. Departures On The House portrays comprehensive biographies of each of those members.
The South Of The Mind
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Author : Zachary J. Lechner
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2018-09-15
The South Of The Mind written by Zachary J. Lechner and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-15 with History categories.
Focus On 100 Most Popular Television Series By Warner Bros Television
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Author : Wikipedia contributors
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow sro
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Focus On 100 Most Popular Television Series By Warner Bros Television written by Wikipedia contributors and has been published by e-artnow sro this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Pitching In The Promised Land
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Author : Aaron Pribble
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2011
Pitching In The Promised Land written by Aaron Pribble 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 2011 with Sports & Recreation categories.
It was the first (and last) season of professional baseball in Israel. Aaron Pribble, twenty-seven, had been out of Minor League Baseball for three years while he pursued a career in education when, at his coach's suggestion, he tried out for the newly formed Israel Baseball League (IBL). Of Jewish descent (not a requirement, but definitely a plus) and former pro, Pribble was the ideal candidate for the upstart league. In many ways the league resembled the ultimate baseball fantasy camp with its unforgettable cast of characters: the DJ/street artist third baseman from the Bronx, the wildman catcher from Australia, the journeymen Dominicans who were much older than they claimed to be, and, of course, seventy-one-year-old Sandy Koufax, drafted in a symbolic gesture as the last player. After falling in love with a beautiful Yemenite Jew, enduring an alleged terrorist attack on opening day, witnessing a career-ending brain injury caused by improper field equipment, participating in a strike, and venturing into the West Bank despite being strongly advised against it, Pribble must decide whether to forgo a teaching career in order to become the first player from the IBL to sign a pro contract in the United States. His is a story of coming of age spiritually and athletically in one short season in the throes of romance, Middle Eastern politics, and the dreams of America's pastime far, far afield from home.
Appalachian Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Appalachian Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Appalachian Region, Southern categories.
A regional studies review.
Race And The Greening Of Atlanta
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Author : Christopher C. Sellers
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2023-08-15
Race And The Greening Of Atlanta written by Christopher C. Sellers and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-15 with History categories.
Race and the Greening of Atlanta turns an environmental lens on Atlanta’s ascent to thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the twentieth century. Uniquely wide ranging in scale, from the city’s variegated neighborhoods up to its place in regional and national political economies, this book reinterprets the fall of Jim Crow as a democratization born of two metropolitan movements: a well-known one for civil rights and a lesser known one on behalf of “the environment.” Arising out of Atlanta’s Black and white middle classes respectively, both movements owed much to New Deal capitalism’s undermining of concentrated wealth and power, if not racial segregation, in the Jim Crow South. Placing these two movements on the same historical page, Christopher C. Sellers spotlights those environmental inequities, ideals, and provocations that catalyzed their divergent political projects. He then follows the intermittent, sometimes vital alliances they struck as civil rights activists tackled poverty, as a new environmental state arose, and as Black politicians began winning elections. Into the 1980s, as a wealth-concentrating style of capitalism returned to the city and Atlanta became a national “poster child” for sprawl, the seedbeds spread both for a national environmental justice movement and for an influential new style of antistatism. Sellers contends that this new conservativism, sweeping the South with an antienvironmentalism and budding white nationalism that echoed the region’s Jim Crow past, once again challenged the democracy Atlantans had achieved.
Tommy Thompson
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Author : Lewis M. Stern
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2019-03-28
Tommy Thompson written by Lewis M. Stern and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-28 with Music categories.
Tommy Thompson arrived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1963, smitten by folk and traditional Appalachian music. In 1972, he teamed with Bill Hicks and Jim Watson to form the nontraditional string band the Red Clay Ramblers. Mike Craver joined in 1973, and Jack Herrick in 1976. Over time, musicians including Clay Buckner, Bland Simpson and Chris Frank joined Tommy, who played with the band until 1994. Drawing on interviews and correspondence, and the personal papers of Thompson, the author depicts a life that revolved around music and creativity. Appendices cover Thompson's banjos, his discography and notes on his collaborative lyric writing.
The North Carolina Historical Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The North Carolina Historical Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with North Carolina categories.
Quintessential Redneck
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Author : Wesley Whisenhunt
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2017-12-08
Quintessential Redneck written by Wesley Whisenhunt and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Many books speak of the sixtiespop culture, the Beatles, JFK, Vietnam War, civil rights, walking on the moonbut not from the eyes of an elementary school boy growing up on the prairie in Central Texas. This is a humorous and tear-jerking look back in time, a thought-provoking and entertaining look at history and people.