[PDF] Bootlegger Of The Soul eBook

Author : Suzanne Lance
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,90 MB
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 143847332X

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A celebration of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist who put Albany on the world’s literary map. The award-winning novelist William Kennedy is perhaps best known for his Albany Cycle, a series of novels that put Albany on the world’s literary map alongside James Joyce’s Dublin, Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo, and William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. Bootlegger of the Soul offers a fresh and authoritative overview of Kennedy’s long literary career and his astonishing trajectory from journalist to struggling novelist to Pulitzer Prize winner. Included here are reviews, interviews, and scholarly essays on Kennedy’s work, as well as essays, speeches, a play, and a short story by the author himself, together with more than fifty historical and personal photographs. Lively, readable, and brimming with the infectious wit and lyrical prose that animates Kennedy’s novels, Bootlegger of the Soul is a celebration of a writer still working hard at his craft at age ninety. Suzanne Lance is Associate Director of the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Paul Grondahl is Director of the New York State Writers Institute and is the author of several books, including Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma and I Rose Like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt.

Author : Shawn Thompson
Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9781896182551

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Author : J. Anne Funderburg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0786479612

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This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, it offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime--outrageous stories of America's most notorious liquor lords, including Al Capone and Dutch Schultz. Readers will find the lesser known Volstead outlaws to be as fascinating as their more famous counterparts. The riveting tales of Max Hassel, Waxy Gordon, Roy Olmstead, the Purple Gang, the Havre Bunch, and the Capitol Hill Bootlegger will be new to most readers. Likewise, the exploits of women bootleggers and flying bootleggers are unknown to most Americans. Books about Prohibition usually note that Canadian liquor exporters abetted the U.S. bootleggers, but they fail to go into detail. Bootleggers and Beer Barons examines the major cross-border routes for smuggling liquor from Canada into the U.S.: Quebec to Vermont and New York, Ontario to Michigan, Saskatchewan to Montana, and British Columbia to Washington.

Author : Cathy Smith
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
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From childhood to adulthood Charles (Hardrock) Smith has never met a stranger and never will. Folks are drawn to his friendliness and sense of humor. He loves the Lord and is a most loving husband, father, and grandfather. He is a remarkable man who overcame a difficult childhood, being raised in a bootlegger's home. The family endured hardships such as running from the law, living in shacks, plus enduring mental and physical abuse. Hardrock and his two sisters could never have friends over to spend the night and were taught to lie and, at times, steal corn for their daddy's still. His daddy made moonshine, and his mother sold it in their kitchen, nightly, by the glass. Hardrock and his mother were physically abused by his father. Through it all, though, he never lost his sense of humor which helped his mother and sisters get through tough times. So, in these little pages are memories of his life, living with a bootlegger. Some memories, sealed forever in his mind, are difficult to say the least; some, for a child's recollection, are great memories of family and friends who made this journey joyful and good and helped shape the man Hardrock became, hoping to help others with their journey, adding laughter along the way...grow old, just never grow up!

Author : Philip Metcalfe
Publisher : Inkwater Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592992528

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After Agatha Clay's locket is stolen, which is the only link to her parents, it sparks a series of events that lead to revenge, kidnappings, and death.

Author : Theodore Kirkland
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 2012-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1469186276

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Spirit and Soul: Odyssey of a Black Man in America, Volume One, an engaging, edifying autobiography by Theodore Kirkland, offers critical insight and politically cognizant commentary on the past, future and real-time reality of race relations in America. His long career in law enforcement – some 39 years total as a military police officer, Buffalo police officer, New York State parole board commissioner and adjunct professor – begins by happenstance in the Air Force. Instead of being sent to gunnery school as he requested, he is ordered to report to the Army Military Police Academy in Camp Gordon, Georgia. Kirkland’s narrative voice in this page turner is clear, self-effacing and relentlessly candid – unapologetic for the black and white of his experience, and cautionary in his instruction for navigation through the gray. Yet in every syllable, there is a remarkable, palpable love – for his family, friends and community – and unyielding commitment to upholding the Constitutional promise that “all men are created equal.” Spirit and Soul: Odyssey of a Black Man in America, Volume One is at once witty and wise; poignant, wistful and meticulously illustrative of an American perspective too often shadowed by stereotypes that contend that Black men contribute primarily to the prison population. It also is an important chronology of the evolution of African American life and experience from Jim Crow to contemporary “Post-racial America.”

Author : John E. Hallwas
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 1999-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252068447

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This extraordinary account of a struggling midwestern coal town profiles small-time bootlegger Kelly Wagle, whose mysterious career--and suspected involvement with two unsolved murder cases--had a profound and lasting impact on his community. In unraveling the process by which Colchester, Illinois, lost its grip on the American promise, John Hallwas reveals this remote corner of the Midwest as a true reflection of the quintessential American experience.

Author : Joseph Jerry Levesque
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Canadian Americans
ISBN : 9781500519100

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When Joseph Jerry Levesque gazes out the window, he never sees ugliness-only the beautiful, blue sky filled with soaring birds. This view of the world is what allows him to live such a rare and remarkable life and accomplish all that he has. After coming of age and developing into an elite athlete, Joseph embarks on what he believes will be a lifelong devotion to Catholic monasticism. Written as a documentary-styled look at a monastery's inner workings, Joseph first shares sketches of the various brothers and events that may be surprising and unconventional. Then comes his shocking transition from monk to world traveler, spending a decade touring Europe on a moneymaking endeavor based on his passion for liquor. He becomes the sole US producer of the illegal Viper Brandy and smuggles various alcoholic beverages between Andorra, France, and back again. This revealing book is much more than a memoir-it is a transparent and candid telling of a free, wandering spirit's lifelong journey from birth in prohibition America, to joining the monastic life, to becoming one of the greatest alcohol bootleggers in the world.

Author : Joanne Maguire Robinson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791490696

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This first book-length study of Marguerite Porete's important mystical text, The Mirror of Simple Souls, examines Porete's esoteric and optimistic doctrine of annihilation—the complete transformative union of the soul into God—in its philosophical and historical contexts. Porete was burned at the stake as a relapsed heretic in 1310. Her theological treatise survived the flames, but it circulated anonymously or under male pseudonyms until 1946, and her message endures as testament to a distinctive form of medieval spirituality. Robinson begins by focusing on traditional speculations regarding the origin, nature, limitations, and destiny of humankind. She then examines Porete's work in its more immediate historical and literary contexts, focusing on the ways in which Porete conceptualizes and expresses her radical doctrine of annihilation through contemporary metaphors of lineage and nobility.