Remembering Len Berg's Restaurant

Remembering Len Berg's Restaurant
Author: Marie Amerson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019-09-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9780989411653

Author revised edition of book originally published in 2012 by Mercer University Press.

Remembering Len Berg's Restaurant

Remembering Len Berg's Restaurant
Author: Marie J. Amerson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780881463873

Len Berg's Restaurant was an institution in Macon, Georgia, for almost a century. In later years, when owner Jeff Amerson ordered the annual billboard that simply said, "H.M.F.P.I.C. You Know Where," customers knew. They knew where to find "home made fresh peach ice cream" on June 1. Throughout the year, they knew where to find black-eyed peas, salmon croquettes, turnip greens, cornbread, lemon meringue pie, and more. They knew where to find classic Southern food that was good for the soul. Thirty beloved recipes appear in this text, but Remembering Len Berg's Restaurant is more about the place and about the people who kept the establishment a favourite destination for good food for almost 100 years. Leonard Berg, son of a German Jewish immigrant, created a restaurant in the early part of the twentieth century at a time when public dining served the needs of weary travellers. Berg adapted and grew his business as the industry evolved, and by the time he sold it to Arthur Barry in 1943, Len Berg's Restaurant was a well-known part of the Macon community serving lunch and dinner to businessmen, families, and travellers. From his earliest days as a restaurateur, Arthur Barry employed a young Jeff Amerson, the man who took over as proprietor in 1969. Amerson, and then his son Jerry, ushered the iconic Southern restaurant into the twenty-first century before passing the torch to new owners. Years after the Amerson family sold Len Berg's Restaurant, and years after it closed, former patrons still recall favorites from the menu and express a fondness for the sweet tastes of a place in memory. Like a tall, cool glass of sweet iced tea or a "little bit" of H.M.F.P.I.C., Remembering Len Berg's Restaurant will help satisfy their hunger for a piece of Macon history.

A Night to Remember

A Night to Remember
Author: Walter Lord
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2005-01-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780805077643

A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title.

The Cultural Cold War

The Cultural Cold War
Author: Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher: New Press, The
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1595589147

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.

The Un-Americans

The Un-Americans
Author: Joseph Litvak
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2009-11-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0822390841

In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part of the earnest, patriotic American. While many scholars have noted the anti-Semitism underlying the House Un-American Activities Committee’s (HUAC’s) anti-Communism, Litvak draws on the work of Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Alain Badiou, and Max Horkheimer to show how the committee conflated Jewishness with what he calls “comic cosmopolitanism,” an intolerably seductive happiness, centered in Hollywood and New York, in show business and intellectual circles. He maintains that HUAC took the comic irreverence of the “uncooperative” witnesses as a crime against an American identity based on self-repudiation and the willingness to “name names.” Litvak proposes that sycophancy was (and continues to be) the price exacted for assimilation into mainstream American culture, not just for Jews, but also for homosexuals, immigrants, and other groups deemed threatening to American rectitude. Litvak traces the outlines of comic cosmopolitanism in a series of performances in film and theater and before HUAC, performances by Jewish artists and intellectuals such as Zero Mostel, Judy Holliday, and Abraham Polonsky. At the same time, through an uncompromising analysis of work by informers including Jerome Robbins, Elia Kazan, and Budd Schulberg, he explains the triumph of a stoolpigeon culture that still thrives in the America of the early twenty-first century.

Down the Columbia

Down the Columbia
Author: Lewis R. Freeman
Publisher: Dixon Price Pub
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2001
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781929516186

Originally published in 1921, Freeman's account of his journey down the Columbia river depicts in detail the natural beauty of the area and provides a glimpse at life along the river during the 1920's. The narrative traces his voyage from the headwaters of the Columbia to the run past Palisade Rock

Meadowvale

Meadowvale
Author: Kathleen A. Hicks
Publisher: Mississauga, Ont. : Friends of the Mississauga Library System
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Meadowvale (Mississauga, Ont.)
ISBN: 9780969787358

A History of Army Communications and Electronics at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, 1917-2007

A History of Army Communications and Electronics at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, 1917-2007
Author:
Publisher: Department of the Army
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

A History of Army Communications and Electronics at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, 1917-2007 chronicles ninety years of communications-electronics achievements carried out by the scientists, engineers, logisticians and support staff at Fort Monmouth, NJ. From homing pigeons to frequency hopping tactical radios, the personnel at Fort Monmouth have been at the forefront of providing the U.S. Army with the most reliable systems for communicating battlefield information. Special sections of the book are devoted to ground breaking achievements in "Famous Firsts", as well as "Celebrity Notes", a rundown on the notable and notorious figures in Fort Monmouth history. The book also includes information on commanding officers, tenants and post landmarks.

The Gay Preacher's Wife

The Gay Preacher's Wife
Author: Lydia Meredith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476788936

The deeply personal memoir of Lydia Meredith, a woman who spent almost thirty years married to a preacher—only to have her husband leave her for a man—and how her life becomes a testimony of tolerance and a theology of love and acceptance. After being married to Reverend Dennis A. Meredith for almost thirty years, Lydia Meredith discovers a shocking truth: the love of her life left her for a man. Now, Lydia opens up for the first time about how that revelation shattered her world—and strengthened her faith. With her life turned upside down, Lydia struggled to put the pieces of her broken heart back together and that led her to pursue understanding through an accredited theological education. She wanted a way to put her family back together and she found Jesus’ ministry and teachings were “actually” about teaching tolerance and love for people who are labeled different. Candid, honest, and incredibly touching, Lydia Meredith shows that faith and perseverance can get you through any challenge life throws your way.

U.S. Marines In Vietnam: Vietnamization And Redeployment, 1970-1971

U.S. Marines In Vietnam: Vietnamization And Redeployment, 1970-1971
Author: Dr. Graham A. Cosmas
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 1564
Release: 2016-08-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1787200795

This publication represents the eighth volume in an operational and chronological series covering the Marine Corps’ participation in the Vietnam War. This particular volume details the gradual withdrawal in 1970-1971 of Marine combat forces from South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps, as part of an overall American strategy of turning the ground war against the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong over to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Vietnam. Although written from the perspective of III MAF and the ground war in I Corps, the volume treats the activities of Marine advisors to the South Vietnamese Armed Forces, the Seventh Fleet Special Landing Force, and Marines on the staff of the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, in Saigon. There are separate chapters on Marine air, artillery, and logistics. An attempt has been made to place the Marine role in relation to the overall effort.