The Education of Ernie Dumas

The Education of Ernie Dumas
Author: Ernest Dumas
Publisher: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781945624209

Beginning with the defeat of Governor Francis Cherry by Orval Faubus, the son of a hillbilly socialist, at the end of the Joseph McCarthy era, Dumas traces the development of a modern political cast that eventually produced Arkansas's first president of the United States--also exploring what brought about the second-ever impeachment of an American president. Journalist Ernest Dumas has written about politics for more than sixty years, since 1954, the year that the stolid Cherry fell to Faubus. The book is also a political memoir that describes not only Dumas's education in the ways of politicians but also the politicians' own education and miseducation in how to win voters and then how to get things done. Through the eyes of a journalist, this book collects the mostly untold stories, often deeply personal, that reveal the inner struggles and sometimes the tribulations of the state's leaders--Cherry, Faubus, Winthrop Rockefeller, Dale Bumpers, David Pryor, John McClellan, J. William Fulbright, Bill Clinton, Jim Guy Tucker, and others.

Tell Them We Are Rising

Tell Them We Are Rising
Author: Ruth Wright Hayre
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0471673900

"The inspiring story of how one woman gave back."--Ed Bradley "This is a heartwarming story about struggle, survival, and achieve ment. If we didn't know people like this in our lives, we would want to invent them. What more could one ask? A good story told with a deft hand."--William H. Gray III President, United Negro College Fund "An inspiring account of an African American educator determined to make a difference in the lives of indifferent students."--Kirkus Reviews "Tell Them We Are Rising is a wonderful, inspiring story of service, commitment, generosity, love, and hope. It is written with the humor, wisdom, and grace of a bygone era, yet spiced with the ultramodern savvy and the future-oriented vision of a twenty-year-old. What an extraordinary woman! What an extraordinary life!"--Chaka Fattah, U.S. Representative (Pennsylvania)

An Arkansas History for Young People

An Arkansas History for Young People
Author: T. Harri Baker
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2002-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781557287236

ADOPTED BY THE STATE OF ARKANSAS FOR 2003. Once again, the State of Arkansas has adopted An Arkansas History for Young People as an official textbook for junior-high-school-Arkansas-history classes. This third edition incorporates the fruits of new research and of extensive consultations with teachers, curriculum supervisors, and students themselves. It includes many new features while preserving popular and useful aspects of previous editions. This edition has an entirely new format, clear and friendly to the student reader. The text has been re-set in double-column pages, with wider margins and more white space setting off text and illustrations. A preview section at the beginning of each chapter (What to Look For) and study questions at the end now guide students' reading. Vocabulary words appear in boldface in the text and then are listed with definitions at the end of each chapter. The updated text incorporates new material on the Clinton presidency, the Huckabee governorship, term limits, the 2000 census, demographic changes, recent scholarship on Arkansas history, updated terminology, and corrections of factual errors. Sidebars still highlight special material, and the many illustrations appear in full color and in black and white.

Slavery and Secession in Arkansas

Slavery and Secession in Arkansas
Author: James J. Gigantino
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1557286760

Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
Author: Jenny Wingfield
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2011-07-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007355033

A bewitching debut novel in the vein of the much-loved classic Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café.

Arkansas Beer

Arkansas Beer
Author: Brian Sorensen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1467137553

Arkansas's booze scene had a promising start, with America's biggest brewing families, Busch and Lemp, investing in Little Rock just prior to Prohibition. However, by 1915, the state had passed the Newberry Act, banning the manufacturing and selling of alcohol. It was not until sixty-nine years later that the state welcomed its first post-temperance brewery, Arkansas Brewing Company. After a few false starts, brewpubs in Fayetteville, Fort Smith and Little Rock found success. By 2000, the industry had regained momentum. An explosion of breweries around the state has since propelled Arkansas into the modern beer age.

Incident at Devils Den: A True Story, by Terry Lovelace, Esq

Incident at Devils Den: A True Story, by Terry Lovelace, Esq
Author: Terry Lovelace
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-03-10
Genre:
ISBN: 0578420325

A true story of the 1977 alien abduction as told by a former Assistant Attorney General and USAF veteran. He and a friend were taken while remote camping in an Arkansas State Park. Includes the 2012 x-rays of an alien implant discovered on a routine x-ray. It was the catalyst to tell the story he had to retire before he could tell.

Turn Away Thy Son

Turn Away Thy Son
Author: Elizabeth Jacoway
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781557288783

A historical account of the efforts of nine African-American students to integrate Central High School draws on interviews to offer insight into the behind-the-scenes experiences of the students and members of their community.

Five Days in November

Five Days in November
Author: Clint Hill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476731519

Secret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the five tragic days surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in this 60th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller. On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for four days. For an entire generation, it was the end of an age of innocence. That evening, a photo ran on the front pages of newspapers across the world, showing a Secret Service agent jumping on the back of the presidential limousine in a desperate attempt to protect the President and Mrs. Kennedy. That agent was Clint Hill. Now Hill commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the tragedy with this stunning book containing more than 150 photos, each accompanied by his incomparable insider account of those terrible days. A story that has taken Hill half a century to tell, this is a “riveting, stunning narrative” (Herald & Review, Illinois) of personal and historical scope. Besides the unbearable grief of a nation and the monumental consequences of the event, the death of JFK was a personal blow to a man sworn to protect the first family, and who knew, from the moment the shots rang out in Dallas, that nothing would ever be the same.