The Story Of Wichita
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The Story Of Wichita
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Author : Carol Brunner Rutledge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Story Of Wichita written by Carol Brunner Rutledge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Wichita (Kan.) categories.
The Story Of Wichita
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Author : John T. Nevill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
The Story Of Wichita written by John T. Nevill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Aircraft industry categories.
Wichita
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Author : Thad Ziolkowski
language : en
Publisher: Europa Editions
Release Date : 2012-04-24
Wichita written by Thad Ziolkowski and has been published by Europa Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-24 with Fiction categories.
“A wild rumpus of a book . . . an exuberant American tale of brothers wrestling demons and each other on opposite poles of their grab bag of a family” (PANK Magazine). Lewis Chopik has just graduated from Columbia University. Having been dumped by his girlfriend and in flight from the pressures exerted by his ambitious professor father, Lewis returns to Wichita in search of respite at the home of his New-Ager mother, Abby. But when Abby picks Lewis up from the airport, she reveals that she’s starting a storm-chasing business and indulging a polyamorous lifestyle. Another unexpected arrival is Seth, Lewis’s bipolar younger brother, who shows off a new tattoo on his chest: In Loving Memory of Seth Chopik. Things begin to resemble the land of Oz more than Wichita when Lewis, while minding Seth, joins Abby in the Flint Hills on a storm-chase with her first client. “[An] honest and raw look at brotherhood and what it means to rediscover your family.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “The world of Wichita is rich, subtle, and funny, . . . This is a truly striking novel.”—Sam Lipsyte, New York Times–bestselling author “Wichita is a novel about expectations and outcomes, about what is open and what is veiled. Its emotional terrain is touching and vast.” —The New York Times Book Review “Ziolkowski’s humor and trenchant observations make for startlingly gorgeous (and often hilarious) prose even in the midst of emergencies.” —Interview Magazine “[A] sparkling debut . . . There’s never a dull moment in a novel which fires us up with snappy and often very funny dialogue.” —Kirkus Reviews
Looking Back Moving Forward
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Author : Bob Hamrick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Looking Back Moving Forward written by Bob Hamrick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Business enterprises categories.
This is the story of a chunk of land and people of dreams. This is a tale of Old Town, Wichita. The beginnings, heyday, downturn, and resurrection of a place that, for all or some of three centuries, has been Wichita's geographic and emotional center. This is not a definitive history. It is a visual journal of how things were and are. It is stories of why and how things changed, told by people who saw it happen, and helped make it happen.
The Story Of Wichita
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Author : Heather A. Herrick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05-14
The Story Of Wichita written by Heather A. Herrick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-14 with categories.
Read about a dog named Wichita and how he went from a lonely shelter dog to a happy and loved therapy dog.
History Of Wichita County Kansas
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Author : Wichita County History Association (Leoti, Kansas)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
History Of Wichita County Kansas written by Wichita County History Association (Leoti, Kansas) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
Kochland
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Author : Christopher Leonard
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 2020-10-06
Kochland written by Christopher Leonard and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-06 with Business & Economics categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 * WINNER OF THE J ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD * FINANCIAL TIMES’ BEST BOOKS OF 2019 * NPR FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 * FINALIST FOR THE FINACIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF 2019 * KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOKS OF 2019 * SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOKS OF 2019 “Superb…Among the best books ever written about an American corporation.” —Bryan Burrough, The New York Times Book Review Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America. The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and US Steel combined. Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers that make our food to the chemicals that make our pipes to the synthetics that make our carpets and diapers to the Wall Street trading in all these commodities. But few people know much about Koch Industries and that’s because the billionaire Koch brothers have wanted it that way. For five decades, CEO Charles Koch has kept Koch Industries quietly operating in deepest secrecy, with a view toward very, very long-term profits. He’s a genius businessman: patient with earnings, able to learn from his mistakes, determined that his employees develop a reverence for free-market ruthlessness, and a master disrupter. These strategies made him and his brother David together richer than Bill Gates. But there’s another side to this story. If you want to understand how we killed the unions in this country, how we widened the income divide, stalled progress on climate change, and how our corporations bought the influence industry, all you have to do is read this book. Seven years in the making, Kochland “is a dazzling feat of investigative reporting and epic narrative writing, a tour de force that takes the reader deep inside the rise of a vastly powerful family corporation that has come to influence American workers, markets, elections, and the very ideas debated in our public square. Leonard’s work is fair and meticulous, even as it reveals the Kochs as industrial Citizens Kane of our time” (Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Private Empire).
Classic Restaurants Of Wichita
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Author : Denise Neil
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2021
Classic Restaurants Of Wichita written by Denise Neil and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
Wichita is the birthplace of Pizza Hut and White Castle. But from its early days as a cattle drive stopover on the Chisholm Trail to its current life as a hub for aviation manufacturing, the city has been filled with hundreds of popular restaurants owned by generations of hardworking entrepreneurs. The 1920s and 1930s were a time for tearooms like Innes and for cafés like Holly Cafe and Fairland Cafe. The '60s and '70s ushered in swanky private nightclubs like Abe's. And there are classics like NuWay Cafe, Old Mill Tasty Shop and Angelo's that are still around today. Author Denise Neil details the rich history of Wichita's favorite classic eateries.
Looking Back Moving Forward
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Looking Back Moving Forward written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Historic districts categories.
A visual history of Old Town : "The beginnings, heyday, downturn and resurrection of a place that, for all or some of three centuries, has been Wichita's geographic and emotional center". The book includes historic plans and photographs of the Old Town area, and features selected businesses, sites and events.
Dissent In Wichita
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Author : Gretchen Cassel Eick
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2023-12-11
Dissent In Wichita written by Gretchen Cassel Eick and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-11 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the Richard L. Wentworth Prize in American History, Byron Caldwell Smith Book Prize, and the William Rockhill Nelson Award On a hot summer evening in 1958, a group of African American students in Wichita, Kansas, quietly entered Dockum's Drug Store and sat down at the whites-only lunch counter. This was the beginning of the first sustained, successful student sit-in of the modern civil rights movement, instigated in violation of the national NAACP's instructions. Dissent in Wichita traces the contours of race relations and black activism in this unexpected locus of the civil rights movement. Based on interviews with more than eighty participants in and observers of Wichita's civil rights struggles, this powerful study hones in on the work of black and white local activists, setting their efforts in the context of anticommunism, FBI operations against black nationalists, and the civil rights policies of administrations from Eisenhower through Nixon. Through her close study of events in Wichita, Eick reveals the civil rights movement as a national, not a southern, phenomenon. She focuses particularly on Chester I. Lewis, Jr., a key figure in the local as well as the national NAACP. Lewis initiated one of the earliest investigations of de facto school desegregation by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and successfully challenged employment discrimination in the nation's largest aircraft industries. Dissent in Wichita offers a moving account of the efforts of Lewis, Vivian Parks, Anna Jane Michener, and other courageous individuals to fight segregation and discrimination in employment, public accommodations, housing, and schools. This volume also offers the first extended examination of the Young Turks, a radical movement to democratize and broaden the agenda of the NAACP for which Lewis provided critical leadership. Through a close study of personalities and local politics in Wichita over two decades, Eick demonstrates how the tenor of black activism and white response changed as economic disparities increased and divisions within the black community intensified. Her analysis, enriched by the words and experiences of men and women who were there, offers new insights into the civil rights movement as a whole and into the complex interplay between local and national events.