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Fifty years ago, three hundred teachers and students in Florida vanished. No storm troopers. No mass graves. Who were they? Just wasted lives from blackmail, coercion, entrapment-tactics of state senator Charlie Johns and his covert investigations of homosexuals in Florida's universities. The Sin Warriors is a novel inspired by those actual events. David Ashton has struggled for self-acceptance and identity his entire life. David's estrangement from a dysfunctional family childhood, his sexual awakening and bonding with his gay professor places them in the crosshairs of state senator Billy Sloat, an ambitious, country politician obsessed with ridding the university of subversives-homosexuals...
The first feminist analysis of some of the most performed works in the American-opera canon, emphasizing the voices and perspectives of the sopranos who brought these operas to life. In the 1950s, composers and librettists in the United States were busy seeking to create an opera repertory that would be deeply responsive to American culture and American concerns. They did not break free, however, of the age-old paradigm so typically expressed in European opera: that is, of women as either saintly and pure or sexually corrupt, with no middle ground. As a result, in American opera of the 1950s, women risked becoming once again opera's inevitable victims. Yet the sopranos who were tasked with p...
Descripción del libro: Horatio T. Burdette, un ex esclavo que ahora vive en Chartres, Francia, recuerda cuando era un niño en Mississippi y finalmente ganó en un juego de blackjack el senador de Luisiana Judah P. Benjamin. Un apostador antiesclavista no sabía qué hacer con un sirviente con la clavícula rota, pero, cuando el Capitán Eagleton se está muriendo por envenenamiento en la Plantación Omega, manipuló las cartas para que el joven Horatio tuviera un futuro digno. Años antes, en la plantación Burdette, lo obligaron a permanecer en el aula mientras el tutor de los niños Burdette intentaba enseñarles Shakespeare, francés, retórica, etc. Irónicamente, Horatio terminó abso...
William Boucher was born in about 1765. He married Ameila Faris, daughter of Michael Faris and Phebe Dudley, 1 March 1791 in Madison County, Kentucky. They had ten children. William died 30 June 1848. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Kentucky and Missouri.
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