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| Author | : Juan A. SepÏlveda, Jr. |
| Publisher | : Arte Publico Press |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2005-08-31 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781611922066 |
William C. "Willie" Velásquez Jr. founded the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project (SVREP) and was an influential participant in other leading Latino rights and justice groups, including the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) and the Mexican American Unity Council (MAUC). From the late 1960s until his untimely death in 1988, Velásquez helped Mexican Americans and other Hispanics become active participants in American political life. Though still insufficiently appreciated, Velásquez holds a unique status in the pantheon of modern American civil rights figures. This critical biography features an introduction by Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Former Rhodes Scholar and Velásquez protégé Juan A. Sepúlveda Jr.'s biography of the man provides a first, definitive glimpse into his life and times. Based on Sepúlveda's close personal relationship and exchanges with Velásquez during the SVREP founder's final years, and over a dozen years of research and writing, the book chronicles Velásquez's influences, his landmark contributions to American civic culture, and his enduring legacy. This is the story of both parts of the man: the public and the private. Velásquez's biography sheds light on the nature and price of public leadership in American politics.
| Author | : Essie Luella Nelson |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 494 |
| Release | : 2001-09-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0595198767 |
Stack Hayward has spent much of his life entertaining people he meets everywhere with his tales of the "good old days". He finds humor in most of the events of his daily life. He has a special way of injecting a double dose of his "miracle medicine - humor" into the veins of friends or foes alike who find themselves out of humor and in need of a good uplift. His motto is - "Laughter is good for the soul".
| Author | : Marguerite Albana Mignaty |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 1865 |
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| Author | : Maynard J. Geiger |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 496 |
| Release | : 1959 |
| Genre | : California |
| ISBN | : |
Biography of Serra, from his birth in Mallorca, his early work in Mexico, and the establishing of the missions in California.
| Author | : Earl Shorris |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 801 |
| Release | : 2005-12-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0393327671 |
Reveals the long, tumultuous history of Mexico in a narrative account of its historical changes, art, politics, religion, and people.
| Author | : Ed Cray |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 529 |
| Release | : 2006-03-17 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0393327361 |
A patriot and a political radical, Woody Guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs. Ed Cray, the first biographer to be granted access to the Woody Guthrie Archive, has created a haunting portrait.
| Author | : Friedrich Katz |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1022 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780804730464 |
Based on archival research, this study of Pancho Villa aims to separate myth from history. It looks at Villa's early life as an outlaw and his emergence as a national leader, and at the special considerations that transformed the state of Chihuahua into a leading centre of revolution.
| Author | : Barbara Balter Kahn |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2010-02-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1450204589 |
Sam Balter was a pioneer in the field of sports broadcasting. He had the first coast-to-coast radio sportscast and televised the first football game in the Southern California area, as well as baseball and basketball games. He was a newscaster during WWII and was the independent radio pool correspondent for the "birth" of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945. Along with a nightly sports program, a daily sports newspaper column, he was cast in frequent movies in like roles. But, all these activities took a back seat to his most treasured sobriquet: "Olympian." He was a gold medal winner in basketball in the 1936 "Hitler" Olympics. And, he was a Jew.
| Author | : Thomas Aiello |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2021-02-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 147801315X |
Syndicated television and radio host. Serial liar. Pioneering journalist. Convicted criminal. Close ally of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Publicity-seeking provocateur. Louis Lomax's life was a study in contradiction. In this biography, Thomas Aiello traces the complicated and fascinating arc of Lomax's life and career, showing how the contradictions, tumult, and inconsistencies that marked his life reflected those of 1960s America. Aiello takes readers from Lomax's childhood in the Deep South to his early confidence schemes to his emergence as one of the loudest and most influential voices of the civil rights movement. Regardless of what political position he happened to take at any given moment, Lomax preached “the art of deliberate disunity,” in which the path to democracy could only be achieved through a diversity of opinions. Engaging and broad in scope, The Life and Times of Louis Lomax is the definitive study of one of the civil rights era's most complicated, important, and overlooked figures.
| Author | : Bill Bryson |
| Publisher | : Anchor Canada |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2010-04-30 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0307373622 |
From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is “laugh-out-loud funny.” Some say that the first hints that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came from his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweater, but young Bryson knew better. It was obviously the Sacred Jersey of Zap, and proved that he had been placed with this innocuous family in the middle of America to fly, become invisible, shoot guns out of people’s hands from a distance, and wear his underpants over his jeans in the manner of Superman. Bill Bryson’s first travel book opened with the immortal line, “I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.” In this hilarious new memoir, he travels back to explore the kid he once was and the weird and wonderful world of 1950s America. He modestly claims that this is a book about not very much: about being small and getting much larger slowly. But for the rest of us, it is a laugh-out-loud book that will speak volumes – especially to anyone who has ever been young.
