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Jack Doyle
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Jack Doyle
This biography rescues a glittering period of social and boxing history from obscurity and restores Jack Doyle and his wife Movita to their rightful place in the showbiz and sporting pantheon.
Ellis Island's Famous Immigrants
Since 1776, millions of immigrants have landed at America's shores. To this day, their practical contributions are still felt in every field of endeavor, including agriculture, industry, and the service trades. But within the great immigrant waves there also came plucky and talented individualists, artists, and dreamers. Many of these exceptional folk went on to win worldly renown, and their names live on in history. Ellis Island's Famous Immigrants tells the story of some of the best known of these legendary characters and highlights their actual immigration experience at Ellis Island. Celebrities featured within its pages include such entrepreneurs as Max Factor, Charles Atlas, and "Chef Boyardee"; Hollywood icons Pola Negri, Bela Lugosi, and Bob Hope; spiritual figures Father Flanagan and Krishnamurti; authors Isaac Asimov and Kahlil Gibran; painters Arshile Gorky and Max Ernst; and sports figures Knute Rockne and Johnny Weissmuller.
All the Year Round
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Jack Doyle - Gorgeous Gael
JACK DOYLE - GORGEOUS GAEL looks at the life and times of Jack Doyle, the legendary Irish boxer and celebrity of the 'thirties and 'forties. Known as "The Gorgeous Gael", Doyle was a larger than life figure who earned enormous sums both as a boxer and entertainer. By the time he was thirty, he had earned and spent more than a quarter-of-a-million pounds - an enormous sum in the nineteen-thirties. When he died in 1978 he was penniless and shoeless. Asked once what his downfall was, he replied "fast women and slow horses".He was an alcoholic, had been in prison, was a wife-beater, mixed with the high and low in society. In this respect there were parallels with Brendan Behan's life. Indeed, th...
Crean
Tom Crean is one of the most iconic figures in Irish history. Born in 1877 in County Kerry, he enlisted in the Royal Navy at the age of sixteen, the start of a career that would bring him to the most extreme environments on Earth. This fascinating account charts Crean’s full naval career in rich new detail, from his initial voyages in the Americas, where he was faced with rebellions and life-threatening storms, to Australasia, where the Black Death in Sydney was a danger to all and his crew was sent to bring to heel the warring tribes of the New Hebrides, some of whom still practised cannibalism. But it was Robert Scott’s decision to employ him that led him to the frozen wastes of Antarc...
Altered Harvest
Zapowiedź wydawnicza książki wyd. w 1985 r. (wg LCC online).
A Wicked Truth
The wedding date is set, and life is magical for Doyle Flanagan and Cady Delafield. Then, honor bound to repay an old debt, Doyle agrees to help an old friend find her sister. As he searches for the girl, painful memories surface, stunning Cady when she discovers facts about Doyle’s hidden past. Now mired in tragedy, can they overcome the turmoil with a fateful decision that changes their future forever?
The Magic Numbers of the Professor
Numerical curiosities ranging from coincidences and the first moon walk, to proposition bets involving dice and cards.
Lion of the League
Robert Dean Emslie spent fifty-six of his eighty-four years in professional baseball, eight as a player and forty-nine as an umpire. His thirty-five seasons as a National League umpire included the three most contentious decades umpires ever faced, the 1890 to 1920 era, when the game transitioned from amateur to professional sport.
