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Biography
An interdisciplinary quarterly.
Conscience of the Company
Grady is a product of Augusta, Georgia. He attended C. T. Walker Grammar School and the Lucy C. Laney High School; he graduated from Paine College with a degree in mathematics. He taught at Laney for four years. After leaving Laney in 1965, he worked at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Augusta until 1970. While at Metropolitan, he earned the distinction of being the first black to be hired in the local area and became a member of the Millionaire ́s Club. Following this distinction, he was promoted to manager. He was also elected to Augusta ́s city council at the age of 29 while working for Metropolitan. He left Metropolitan and went to work for Xerox Corporation in Richmond, Virginia. He ended his working career at Savannah River Site, where he spent 27 years working his way up from an apprentice ironworker to a labor relations manager. He now spends time doing what God gave him a talent to do: painting and drawing. Other Books Published by the Author: • I’m Still Standing Thank God! • The Evolution Of A Negro Into An Integrated Society
Music for the Common Man
In the 1930s, Aaron Copland began to write in an accessible style he described as "imposed simplicity." Works like El Salón México, Billy the Kid, Lincoln Portrait, and Appalachian Spring feature a tuneful idiom that brought the composer unprecedented popular success and came to define an American sound. Yet the cultural substance of that sound--the social and political perspective that might be heard within these familiar pieces--has until now been largely overlooked. While it has long been acknowledged that Copland subscribed to leftwing ideals, Music for the Common Man is the first sustained attempt to understand some of Copland's best-known music in the context of leftwing social, poli...
The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II
How did Nicholas II, Russia’s last Tsar, meet his death? This book recounts the horrific details of his death and the thrilling discovery of the bones, and also investigates the alternative narratives that have grown up around these events.
Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present
An introductory textbook charting a global history of modern Britain from 1750 to the present.
