My Enormous Book of Town - 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 My Enormous Book of Town write by BOY FITZHAMMOND. This book was released on 2018-06-07. My Enormous Book of Town available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
My Enormous Book of Colours
My Enormous Book of Colours - 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 My Enormous Book of Colours write by . This book was released on 2016-11-07. My Enormous Book of Colours available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Refinery Town
Refinery Town - 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 Refinery Town write by Steve Early. This book was released on 2017-01-17. Refinery Town available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The People vs. Big Oil—how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their community With a foreword by Bernie Sanders Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of 100,000 suffered from poverty, pollution, and poorly funded public services. It had one of the highest homicide rates per capita in the country and a jobless rate twice the national average. But when veteran labor reporter Steve Early moved from New England to Richmond in 2012, he discovered a city struggling to remake itself. In Refinery Town, Early chronicles the 15 years of successful community organizing that raised the local minimum wage, defeated a casino development project, challenged home foreclosures and evictions, and sought fair taxation of Big Oil. A short list of Richmond’s activist residents helps to propel this compelling chronicle: • 94 year old Betty Reid Soskin, the country’s oldest full-time national park ranger and witness to Richmond’s complex history • Gayle McLaughlin, the Green Party mayor who challenged Chevron and won • Police Chief Chris Magnus, who brought community policing to Richmond and is now one of America’s leading public safety reformers Part urban history, part call to action, Refinery Town shows how concerned citizens can harness the power of local politics to reclaim their community and make municipal government a source of much-needed policy innovation. “Refinery Town provides an inside look at how one American city has made radical and progressive change seem not only possible but sensible.”—David Helvarg, The Progressive
My Daddy is a Giant
My Daddy is a Giant - 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 My Daddy is a Giant write by Carl Norac. This book was released on 2005. My Daddy is a Giant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A little boy's father seems so large to him that he needs a ladder to cuddle him and birds nest in his father's hair.
Big Trouble
Big Trouble - 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 Big Trouble write by J. Anthony Lukas. This book was released on 2012-07-17. Big Trouble available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the politics and passions of an entire nation at century's turn. After Idaho's former governor is blown up by a bomb at his garden gate at Christmastime 1905, America's most celebrated detective, Pinkerton James McParland, takes over the investigation. His daringly executed plan to kidnap the radical union leader "Big Bill" Haywood from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho sets the stage for a memorable courtroom confrontation between the flamboyant prosecutor, progressive senator William Borah, and the young defender of the dispossessed, Clarence Darrow. Big Trouble captures the tumultuous first decade of the twentieth century, when capital and labor, particularly in the raw, acquisitive West, were pitted against each other in something close to class war. Lukas paints a vivid portrait of a time and place in which actress Ethel Barrymore, baseball phenom Walter Johnson, and editor William Allen White jostled with railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, socialist Eugene V. Debs, gunslinger Charlie Siringo, and Operative 21, the intrepid Pinkerton agent who infiltrated Darrow's defense team. This is a grand narrative of the United States as it charged, full of hope and trepidation, into the twentieth century.
