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McGrath's Detail
  • Language: en

McGrath's Detail

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-04-09
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The War is on Readers who enjoy action authors such as Heller, Griffin, Herman and Flanagan will love Booker. McGrath's mission is vital. It is impossible for General Eisenhower to set in motion the greatest invasion in history against Nazi Germany without knowing the winds, tides, storms and weather lashing Great Britain from the powerful and devious North Sea. A small detachment of seven American sailors, led by Lt. William McGrath, United States Navy, himself of Irish descent and a Boston Blue Blood, arrives on Ireland's west coast near Galway Bay. Their assignment: supply Eisenhower's London Headquarters with crucial meteorological data to support the Normandy landings. Typical Irish life, developing loves, rough fights, the exploits of youth, IRA sympathizers, spies, turncoats, Irish versus American ways, nobility and the common folk all play large parts in this marvelous, action-packed, moving, funny and poignant story. The exciting, engaging and stormy end of the book itself is an adventure to satisfy even the most demanding reader.

Ragged but Right
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 470

Ragged but Right

The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. The biggest hits of the ragtime era weren't Scott Joplin's stately piano rags. "Coon songs," with their ugly name, defined ragtime for the masses, and played a transitional role in the commercial ascendancy of blues and jazz. In Ragged but Right, now in paperback, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff investigate black musical comedy productions, sideshow bands, and itinerant tented minstrel shows. Ragtime history is crowned by the "big shows," the stunning musical comedy successes of Williams and Walker, Bob Cole...

The Good Doctor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

The Good Doctor

“A lovely, lethal, disturbing novel” of the dashed hopes of post-apartheid South Africa and the small betrayals that doom a friendship (The Guardian). An extraordinary parable of the corruption of the flesh and spirit, The Good Doctor has inspired enthusiastic interest around the world and has assured Damon Galgut’s place as a major international talent. When Laurence Waters arrives at his new post at a deserted rural hospital, staff physician Frank Eloff is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not—young, optimistic, and full of big ideas. The whole town is beset with new arrivals and the return of old faces. Frank reestablishes a liaison with a woman, one that will ...

A study guide for Paul Laurence Dunbar's
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 15

A study guide for Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask"

A study guide for Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality

After the Civil War, Emancipation purportedly brought physical freedom to African Americans. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, blacks continued to experience inequality in all phases of American life—social, cultural, political, and economic. In pursuit of equality, African American movements interpreted folklore to reveal in their rhetoric the soul of a race and a path toward civilization. This book provides a comprehensive chronicle of these competing initiatives and their reception starting with the folklore society organized by Hampton Institute in 1893 and continuing through the early 1940s with the American Negro Academy, Fisk University graduates, William Hannibal Thomas, t...

Letters from Black America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Letters from Black America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-01-11
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  • Publisher: Beacon Press

The first-ever narrative history of African Americans told through their own letters Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the spectrum of African American experience in the most intimate way possible—through the heartfelt correspondence of those who lived through monumental changes and pivotal events, from the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, from slavery to the election of Obama.

The Good Doctor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

The Good Doctor

WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE & Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A powerful, taut and intense tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa. When Laurence Waters arrives at his new post at a deserted rural hospital, staff physician Frank Eloff is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not-young, optimistic, and full of big ideas. The whole town is beset with new arrivals and the return of old faces. Frank reestablishes a liaison with a woman, one that will have unexpected consequences. A self-made dictator from apartheid days is rumored to be active in cross-border smuggling, and a group of soldiers has moved in to track him, led by a man from Frank's own dark past. Laurence sees only possibilities-but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last.

The Crisis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 48

The Crisis

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 1912-08
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.

The Crisis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 48

The Crisis

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 1912-09
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.

Mcgrath's Detail
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

Mcgrath's Detail

The Coral Sea, Iwo Jima, Normandy, Palermo, Stalingrad, all of these seminal events happened, not one immediately after the other, but as a series of scenes in a terrible war with the lives of several people and how they managed to cope with the emotions and rigors of wartime Ireland.