Taps for Private Tussie

Taps for Private Tussie
Author: Jesse Stuart
Publisher: Jesse Stuart Foundation
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Teenage Sid Tussie sees big changes in his poor Kentucky family when they receive $10,000 insurance money for the death of his uncle in World War II and other greedy relatives scramble to share the wealth.

Taps for Private Tussie

Taps for Private Tussie
Author: Jesse Stuart
Publisher: Jesse Stuart Foundation
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Teenage Sid Tussie sees big changes in his poor Kentucky family when they receive $10,000 insurance money for the death of his uncle in World War II and other greedy relatives scramble to share the wealth.

Thread that Runs So True

Thread that Runs So True
Author: Jesse Stuart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1958
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0684719045

A personal narrative of the author's experiences as a teacher in the mountain region of Kentucky. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Old Ben

Old Ben
Author: Jesse Stuart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992
Genre: Authors, American
ISBN: 9780945084228

When young Shan befriends a bull black snake, his Kentucky mountain family decides that perhaps the only good snake isn't a dead snake after all.

The Best-Loved Short Stories of Jesse Stuart

The Best-Loved Short Stories of Jesse Stuart
Author: Jesse H. Stuart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2010-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781931672658

The thirty-four stories in this collection, selected from Stuart's 460 published stories, reveal the variety and range of his fictional world. Some reflect the wonder of growing up, while others portray the comedy and tragedy in the lives of the strong, rough-hewn characters of his world. Running through most of them like a golden thread is Staurt's celebration of the strength and affirmative view of life of his people, and their love for the land. Stuart's own love for the land and its rhythyms of life also comes through clearly.

A Penny's Worth of Character

A Penny's Worth of Character
Author: Jesse Stuart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Authors, American
ISBN: 9780945084327

Shan is dishonest with the storekeeper in his rural Kentucky community, but he feels better about himself after his mother forces him to put things right.

The Beatinest Boy

The Beatinest Boy
Author: Jesse Stuart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1989-08
Genre: Appalachian Region, Southern
ISBN: 9780945084136

Relates the adventures of an orphan named David who lives with his grandmother in the mountains of Kentucky.

Why Democracies Flounder and Fail

Why Democracies Flounder and Fail
Author: Michael Haas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2018-06-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319740709

Democracy is in crisis because voices of the people are ignored due to a politics of mass society. After demonstrating how the French Fourth Republic failed, wherein Singapore’s totalitarianism is a dangerous model, Washington is enmeshed in gridlock, and there is a global democracy deficit, solutions are offered to revitalize democracy as the best form of government. The book demonstrates how mass society politics operates, with intermediate institutions of civil society (media, pressure groups, political parties) no longer transmitting the will of the people to government but instead are concerned with corporate interests and have developed oligarchical mindsets. Rather than micro-remedy bandaids, the author focuses on the need to transform governing philosophies from pragmatic to humanistic solutions.

The Appalachian Photographs of Earl Palmer

The Appalachian Photographs of Earl Palmer
Author: Jean Haskell Speer
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813149304

For more than fifty years mountain-born Earl Palmer traveled the Southern Appalachians with his camera, recording his personal vision of the mountain people and their heritage. Over these year he created, in several thousand photographs, a distinctive body of work that affirms a traditional image of Appalachia—a region of great natural beauty inhabited by a self-sufficient people whose lives are notable for simplicity and harmony. For this book, Jean Haskell Speer has selected more than 120 representative photographs from Palmer's collection and has written a biographical and critical commentary based on extensive interviews with the photographer. Palmer's photographs, Speer argues, are significant cultural statements that depict not so much a geographical region as a particular idea of Appalachia.