Two Buck Chuck The Marlboro Man
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Two Buck Chuck The Marlboro Man
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Author : Frank Bergon
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2019-03-06
Two Buck Chuck The Marlboro Man written by Frank Bergon and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-06 with Literary Collections categories.
Frank Bergon’s astonishing portrayals of people in California’s San Joaquin Valley reveal a country where the culture of a vanishing West lives on in many twenty-first-century Westerners, despite the radical technological transformations around them. All are immigrants, migrants, their children, or their grandchildren whose lives intertwine with the author’s, including several races and ethnicities: Chicanos, Mexicans, African Americans, Italians, Asians, Native Americans, Scots-Irish descendants of Steinbeck’s Okies, and Basques of the author’s own heritage. Bergon presents a powerful array of rural and small-town Westerners who often see themselves as part of a region and a way of life most Americans aren’t aware of or don’t understand, their voices unheard, their stories untold. In these essays, Westerners from the diverse heritage of the San Joaquin Valley include California’s legendary Fred Franzia, the maker of the world’s best-selling Charles Shaw wines dubbed “Two-Buck Chuck,” and Darrell Winfield, a Dust Bowl migrant and lifelong working cowboy who for more than thirty years reigned as the iconic Marlboro Man. Their voices help us understand the complexities of today’s rural West, where Old West values intersect with New West realities. This is the West (and America today)—a region in conflict with itself.
The North American West In The Twenty First Century
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Author : Brenden W. Rensink
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2022-11
The North American West In The Twenty First Century written by Brenden W. Rensink 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 2022-11 with History categories.
In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the generational process of meeting and conquering the supposedly uncivilized western frontier is what forged American identity. In the late twentieth century, “new western” historians dissected the mythologized western histories that Turner and others had long used to embody American triumph and progress. While Turner’s frontier is no more, the West continues to present America with challenging processes to wrestle, navigate, and overcome. The North American West in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Brenden W. Rensink, takes stories of the late twentieth-century “modern West” and carefully pulls them toward the present—explicitly tracing continuity with or unexpected divergence from trajectories established in the 1980s and 1990s. Considering a broad range of topics, including environment, Indigenous peoples, geography, migration, and politics, these essays straddle multiple modern frontiers, not least of which is the temporal frontier between our unsettled past and uncertain future. These forays into the twenty-first-century West will inspire more scholars to pull histories to the present and by doing so reinsert scholarly findings into contemporary public awareness.
The Toughest Kid We Knew
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Author : Frank Bergon
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2020-06-15
The Toughest Kid We Knew written by Frank Bergon and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-15 with Literary Collections categories.
From critically acclaimed author Frank Bergon comes a new personal narrative about the San Joaquin Valley in California. This intimate companion to Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man brings us back to an Old West at odds with New West realities where rapid change is a common trait and memories are of rural beauty. Despite the physical transformations wrought by technology and modernity in the twenty-first century, elements of an older way of thinking still remain, and Bergon traces its presence using experiences from his own family and friends. Communal camaraderie, love of the land and its food, and joy in hard work done well describe Western lives ignored or misrepresented in most histories of California and the West. Yet nostalgia does not drive Frank Bergon’s intellectual return to that world. Also prevalent was a culture of fighting, ignorance about alcoholic addiction, brutalizing labor, and a feudal mentality that created a pain better lost and bid good riddance. Through it all, what emerges from his portraits and essays is a revelation of small-town and ranch life in the rural West. A place where the American way of extirpating the past and violently altering the land is accelerated. What Bergon has written is a portrayal of a past and people shaping the country he called home.
The Journals Of Lewis And Clark 1804 1806
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Author : Meriwether Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-11-17
The Journals Of Lewis And Clark 1804 1806 written by Meriwether Lewis and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-17 with Literary Collections categories.
"The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806" stands as a seminal historical work documenting the pioneering expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark across the uncharted expanses of the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. Through detailed entries, the journals vividly portray the expedition's challenges, triumphs, and encounters with Native American tribes, offering invaluable insights into the exploration of the American West. Written with a keen eye for detail and a profound appreciation for the natural world, Lewis and Clark's observations of geography, flora, and fauna remain unparalleled, providing a comprehensive record of the era. A cornerstone of American history and adventure literature, this work embodies the spirit of exploration and serves as a timeless testament to human perseverance.
Football For A Buck
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Author : Jeff Pearlman
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Release Date : 2018
Football For A Buck written by Jeff Pearlman and has been published by Houghton Mifflin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Business & Economics categories.
From a multiple New York Times best-selling author, the rollicking, outrageous story of the United States Football League, a bona fide professional sports phenomenon full of larger-than-life characters and you-can't-make-this-up stories featuring some of the biggest celebrities and buffoons in the game.
Wild Game
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Author : Frank Bergon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Wild Game written by Frank Bergon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.
Frank Bergon returns to the region he knows best in this novel based on actual events that took place in Nevada during the 1980s. When Jack Irigaray, a biologist for the Division of Wildlife, agrees to go along as backup on what should be a routine arrest of a poacher in the Black Rock Desert, he has no way of knowing that the decision will irrevocably alter his life. In the space of a few hours he will see two men die, one a close friend; he will come near death himself; and he will plunge into a world of obsession, self-destruction, and vengeance that will consume years of his life.
Confessions Of A Recovering Environmentalist And Other Essays
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Author : Paul Kingsnorth
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2017-08-01
Confessions Of A Recovering Environmentalist And Other Essays written by Paul Kingsnorth and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-01 with Literary Collections categories.
A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in “an age of ecocide” Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist—an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on “sustainability” rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth’s thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls “dark ecology,” which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic, fearless, and ultimately hopeful book, which includes the much-discussed “Uncivilization” manifesto, asks hard questions about how we’ve lived and how we should live.
Visions Of A Basque American Westerner
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Author : Frank Bergon
language : en
Publisher: Basque
Release Date : 2021-06-30
Visions Of A Basque American Westerner written by Frank Bergon and has been published by Basque this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-30 with History categories.
A book analyzing the work of writer Frank Bergon
The Cigarette
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Author : Sarah Milov
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-02
The Cigarette written by Sarah Milov and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-02 with History categories.
The story of tobacco’s fortunes seems simple: science triumphed over addiction and profit. Yet the reality is more complicated—and more political. Historically it was not just bad habits but also the state that lifted the tobacco industry. What brought about change was not medical advice but organized pressure: a movement for nonsmoker’s rights.
Reefer Madness
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Author : Eric Schlosser
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2004-04-01
Reefer Madness written by Eric Schlosser and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-01 with Business & Economics categories.
New York Times Bestseller: The shadowy world of “off the books” businesses—from marijuana to migrant workers—brought to life by the author of Fast Food Nation. America’s black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids’ nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness, the award-winning investigative journalist Eric Schlosser turns his exacting eye to the underbelly of American capitalism and its far-reaching influence on our society. Exposing three American mainstays—pot, porn, and illegal immigrants—Schlosser shows how the black market has burgeoned over the past several decades. He also draws compelling parallels between underground and overground: how tycoons and gangsters rise and fall, how new technology shapes a market, how government intervention can reinvigorate black markets as well as mainstream ones, and how big business learns—and profits—from the underground. “Captivating . . . Compelling tales of crime and punishment as well as an illuminating glimpse at the inner workings of the underground economy. The book revolves around two figures: Mark Young of Indiana, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his relatively minor role in a marijuana deal; and Reuben Sturman, an enigmatic Ohio man who built and controlled a formidable pornography distribution empire before finally being convicted of tax evasion. . . . Schlosser unravels an American society that has ‘become alienated and at odds with itself.’ Like Fast Food Nation, this is an eye-opening book, offering the same high level of reporting and research.” —Publishers Weekly