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Author | : Terrell Dempsey |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2003-03-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0826215939 |
Searching for Jim is the untold story of Sam Clemens and the world of slavery that produced him. Despite Clemens’s remarks to the contrary in his autobiography, slavery was very much a part of his life. Dempsey has uncovered a wealth of newspaper accounts and archival material revealing that Clemens’s life, from the ages of twelve to seventeen, was intertwined with the lives of the slaves around him. During Sam’s earliest years, his father, John Marshall Clemens, had significant interaction with slaves. Newly discovered court records show the senior Clemens in his role as justice of the peace in Hannibal enforcing the slave ordinances. With the death of his father, young Sam was apprenticed to learn the printing and newspaper trade. It was in the newspaper that slaves were bought and sold, masters sought runaways, and life insurance was sold on slaves. Stories the young apprentice typeset helped Clemens learn to write in black dialect, a skill he would use throughout his writing, most notably in Huckleberry Finn. Missourians at that time feared abolitionists across the border in Illinois and Iowa. Slave owners suspected every traveling salesman, itinerant preacher, or immigrant of being an abolition agent sent to steal slaves. This was the world in which Sam Clemens grew up. Dempsey also discusses the stories of Hannibal’s slaves: their treatment, condition, and escapes. He uncovers new information about the Underground Railroad, particularly about the role free blacks played in northeast Missouri. Carefully reconstructed from letters, newspaper articles, sermons, speeches, books, and court records, Searching for Jim offers a new perspective on Clemens’s writings, especially regarding his use of race in the portrayal of individual characters, their attitudes, and worldviews. This fascinating volume will be valuable to anyone trying to measure the extent to which Clemens transcended the slave culture he lived in during his formative years and the struggles he later faced in dealing with race and guilt. It will forever alter the way we view Sam Clemens, Hannibal, and Mark Twain.
Author | : Michael J Bollinger |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2012-02-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 146691100X |
Jim Morrison, in all his sensitivity and bombast blast into stardom in the late 1960s as the lead singer of The Doors. Were the beams of his star manipulated and mastered by sinister forces while he stood by rejecting authority? Did the turmoil inside the poet drive him into the spotlight only to leave him questioning its validity while secretly reaching for the hand of all he'd rejected? Michael J Bollinger examines the singers rise and fall and delves into Jim Morrison's search for what awaited him beyond deaths door.
Author | : Nancy Krulik |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2001-10-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0743422198 |
Kidding Around with the King of Comedy Jim Carrey is used to being laughed at. In fact, he thrives on entertaining others. As a precocious young boy, he practiced pulling faces in the bathroom mirror -- a talent that would later prove to be instrumental in his success -- and performed self-created skits for his family. Unfortunately, his life wasn't one smooth cruise to the top. The Canadian-born funnyman's rags-to-riches tale is the stuff dreams are made of. Since his early smash hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, the blockbuster movie roles just keep on coming. But Carrey isn't content simply to play it safe and stick with the slapstick comedy roles he knows and performs so confidently. In fact, with releases such as The Truman Show and Man on the Moon, Carrey has challenged himself creatively and shown audiences that he is capable of demonstrating sensitivity and immense dramatic range. With his latest hit move, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, this shooting star's future just keeps getting brighter!
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Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1913 |
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Author | : Rich Maloof |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780879308032 |
And so Marshall's tone obsession began, with Jim constantly improving his amp designs, listening to players' needs, and inventing new ways to satisfy them. Since the '60s, his amps have attracted some of the greatest guitarists in rock history, from Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page to Billy Gibbons, Eddie Van Halen, Slash, and Zakk Wylde."
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Assassinations |
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Total Pages | : 390 |
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Author | : Urs Gretler |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2019-02-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0244155798 |
After the outbreak of the zombie apocalypse, an elderly Swiss tourist finds himself stranded in America. Unable to go home, he and other survivors set up a small agricultural settlement in Alabama and defend it against marauders. After more than one year he manages to return to Europe, thanks to the French Navy. A few European countries, although severely affected by the zombie pandemic, had managed to hang on. He returns to America as advisor to a French scientific expedition. Their road trip takes them to the Gulf coast, West Texas, Kansas and the Appalachians. They return with important information about the zombies and about the few survivors in America. An alarming incident with a zombie brought back from America leads to one more trip across the ocean, this time as advisor to a battalion-sized French army unit. In the end the scientists succeed in finding the origin of the zombie pandemic.
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Author | : Marian T. Call |
Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2019-07-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1644269325 |
In Solidarity, Rev. Jim Flynn By: Marian T. Call Reverend James Flynn has worked tirelessly on behalf of immigrants and other dispossessed people for almost the entirety of his Roman Catholic priesthood. Along the way, he’s been a harbinger of hope and touched many lives. This is his story.