A Spectacular Secret - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Spectacular Secret write by Jacqueline Goldsby. This book was released on 2020-09-15. A Spectacular Secret available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life—the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishment of African Americans. Jacqueline Goldsby shows that lynching cannot be explained away as a phenomenon peculiar to the South or as the perverse culmination of racist politics. Rather, lynching—a highly visible form of social violence that has historically been shrouded in secrecy—was in fact a fundamental part of the national consciousness whose cultural logic played a pivotal role in the making of American modernity. To pursue this argument, Goldsby traces lynching's history by taking up select mob murders and studying them together with key literary works. She focuses on three prominent authors—Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Stephen Crane, and James Weldon Johnson—and shows how their own encounters with lynching influenced their analyses of it. She also examines a recently assembled archive of evidence—lynching photographs—to show how photography structured the nation's perception of lynching violence before World War I. Finally, Goldsby considers the way lynching persisted into the twentieth century, discussing the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 and the ballad-elegies of Gwendolyn Brooks to which his murder gave rise. An empathic and perceptive work, A Spectacular Secret will make an important contribution to the study of American history and literature.
The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World
The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World write by Tom Roston. This book was released on 2019-09-10. The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An “engrossing” history of the restaurant atop the World Trade Center “that ruled the New York City skyline from April 1976 until September 11, 2001” (Booklist, starred review). In the 1970s, New York City was plagued by crime, filth, and an ineffective government. The city was falling apart, and even the newly constructed World Trade Center threatened to be a fiasco. But in April 1976, a quarter-mile up on the 107th floor of the North Tower, a new restaurant called Windows on the World opened its doors—a glittering sign that New York wasn’t done just yet. In The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World, journalist Tom Roston tells the complete history of this incredible restaurant, from its stunning $14-million opening to 9/11 and its tragic end. There are stories of the people behind it, such as Joe Baum, the celebrated restaurateur, who was said to be the only man who could outspend an unlimited budget; the well-tipped waiters; and the cavalcade of famous guests as well as everyday people celebrating the key moments in their lives. Roston also charts the changes in American food, from baroque and theatrical to locally sourced and organic. Built on nearly 150 original interviews, The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World is the story of New York City’s restaurant culture and the quintessential American drive to succeed. “Roston also digs deeply into the history of New York restaurants, and how Windows on the World was shaped by the politics and social conditions of its era.” —The New York Times “The city’s premier celebration venue, deeply woven into its social, culinary and business fabrics, deserved a proper history. Roston delivers it with power, detail, humor and heartbreak to spare.” ?New York Post “A rich, complex account.” ?Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A Secret Atlas
A Secret Atlas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Secret Atlas write by Michael A. Stackpole. This book was released on 2006. A Secret Atlas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of bestselling "Star Wars" novels follows his acclaimed original DragonCrown War Cycle with the first in a dazzling new trilogy. Stackpole's original fantasy novels have won fans and acclaim from coast to coast.
The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man
The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man write by James Weldon Johnson. This book was released on 2021-01-01. The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in the year 1912, 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to as the "Ex-Colored Man", living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Fancy Nancy: Spectacular Spectacles
Fancy Nancy: Spectacular Spectacles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fancy Nancy: Spectacular Spectacles write by Jane O'Connor. This book was released on 2010-06-22. Fancy Nancy: Spectacular Spectacles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nancy thinks that Bree's new glasses are simply spectacular. After all, they are lavender. They are glittery. And best of all, they come in a silver case. So when Bree tells Nancy all about her trip to the eye doctor, Nancy can't help but wonder if her own eyesight is perhaps getting a little blurry too. . . . With a glossary of Fancy Nancy's Fancy Words in the back, this addition to the Fancy Nancy I Can Read series is sure to delight young readers everywhere!
