The Cincinnati Kid
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Author | : Richard Jessup |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2019-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1789129354 |
The Cincinnati Kid, first published in 1963 (and made into a feature film starring Steve McQueen in 1965), is a gritty novel of smoky back-rooms and centered on a young card-shark (“The Kid”) who eventually finds himself in a stud-poker game against the undisputed master (“The Man”). From the dust-jacket: “By the time he was twenty-one, he was a full rambling-gambling man, a three river man... . From Jolly’s Omaha Card Club on the Missouri, to Sprügi’s Emporium in Wheeling on the Ohio, down to Memphis on the Mississippi, he was known as The Cincinnati Kid, a comer, with a way about him.” The Kid first saw Lancey Hodges in a game in Kentucky, and he did not have to be told that Lancey was The Man, the number one player who ruled the stud poker circuit from Vegas to Miami. An old pro warned him about Lancey: “You growd some, Cincinnata. You kin make his stomik ulcer bleed, but I ain’t got much faith in nothin’ that will take him.”
Author | : Ring Lardner (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Gamblers |
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Author | : Martin Harris |
Publisher | : D&B Publishing |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 2019-06-23 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 191286200X |
Introduced shortly after the United States declared its independence, poker’s growth and development has paralleled that of America itself. As a gambling game with mass appeal, poker has been played by presidents and peasants, at kitchen tables and final tables, for matchsticks and millions. First came the hands, then came the stories – some true, some pure bluffs, and many in between. In Poker & Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America’s Favorite Card Game, Martin Harris shares these stories while chronicling poker’s progress from 19th-century steamboats and saloons to 21st-century virtual tables online, including: Poker on the Mississippi Poker in the Movies Poker in the Old West Poker on the Newsstand Poker in the Civil War Poker in Literature Poker on the Bookshelf Poker in Music Poker in the White House Poker on Television Poker During Wartime Poker on the Computer From Mark Twain to “Dogs Playing Poker” to W.C. Fields to John Wayne to A Streetcar Named Desire to the Cold War to Kenny Rogers to ESPN to Star Trek: The Next Generation and beyond, Poker & Pop Culture provides a comprehensive survey of cultural productions in which poker is of thematic importance, showing how the game’s portrayal in the mainstream has increased poker’s relevance to American history and shaped the way we think about the game and its significance.
Author | : Judi Barrett |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2012-10-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1442429941 |
Everything you ever wanted to know about Santa, as told to the author of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by the big guy himself. This eBook edition includes audio! As you might imagine, the early life of Santa Claus was a liiiiiiiittle different from the childhood of your average kid. His first words were “ho ho ho!” By five he was wearing a fake beard and mustache, and could rarely be found without his favorite stuffed reindeer. It was clear from a very young age that he was destined for uniqueness.... Despite this, his parents went to great lengths to keep the normalcy in his life. They had him learn guitar (he was in a rock band!), and play baseball (he had quite an arm), and even do chores (okay—here he was like any other kid on earth—he hated chores). But there was no stopping Santa from being Santa, and one winter, he began to make his lists. He checked them twice, and delivered toys to children all over Cincinnati. Then, all over Ohio. Then—the world. Compiled from his baby book, family photos, and report cards, Santa from Cincinnati provides a full-spectrum view of the boy who grew to be the man who grew to be Santa.
Author | : Richard Jessup |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Gambling |
ISBN | : |
A 26-year-old rambling-gambling man stakes all he has in a stud poker game with "The Man", number one player of the midwest.
Author | : Norman Jewison |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2005-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780312328689 |
One of Hollywood's most celebrated directors captures the excitement and success of his four decades in filmmaking in this funny, absorbing memoir.
Author | : Andrew Antoniades |
Publisher | : Dalton Watson |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-12-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781854432537 |
Steve McQueen: The Actor and his Films, is the definitive account of every film that the iconic actor made. This lavishly illustrated book devotes nearly 500 pages to Steve McQueen’s career and tracks his journey from juvenile delinquent, to Marine, to an aspiring actor breaking into Hollywood, until he became a global superstar and the highest-paid actor of his era. Included are numerous behind the scenes tales of events that occurred leading up to and during filming, and fascinating insights into McQueen’s acting techniques and motivations.
Author | : Christopher Sandford |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2003-02-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1461732522 |
The biography of the original Mr. Cool, Steve McQueen. The actor who perhaps, first epitomised the Action Hero; a complex man, prone to casual affairs and violence, yet capable of helping those more unfortunate than him.
Author | : Richard Jessup |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783990181966 |
Author | : Pete Rose |
Publisher | : Penguin Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0525558675 |
The inside story of how Pete Rose became one of the greatest and most controversial players in the history of baseball.