[PDF] Brooklyn Hellfire eBook

Author : Jake Tapper
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316472336

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A young Congressman stumbles on the powerful political underworld of 1950's D.C. in this "potent thriller" (David Baldacci) and New York Times bestseller from CNN correspondent Jake Tapper. Charlie Marder is an unlikely Congressman. Thrust into office by his family ties after his predecessor died mysteriously, Charlie is struggling to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, DC, alongside his young wife Margaret, a zoologist with ambitions of her own. Amid the swirl of glamorous and powerful political leaders and deal makers, a mysterious fatal car accident thrusts Charlie and Margaret into an underworld of backroom deals, secret societies, and a plot that could change the course of history. When Charlie discovers a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of governance, he has to fight not only for his principles and his newfound political career...but for his life.

Author : Nick Tosches
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802135667

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A portrait of singer Jerry Lee Lewis details his early life, music, controversial marriage, problems and decline, endurance, and revival in popularity.

Author : Thomas L. Lawrence
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 2024-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1977275087

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Old South Brooklyn Entrepreneur is far more than a financial and commercial biography of Anson Blake 1789-1868. It provides many details of local history, not only of South Brooklyn (today’s Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Boerum Hill and Gowanus) before the Civil War, but of New York City’s economic history, including Anson Blake’s speculation in Wall Street area lands and buildings. Blake also speculated in Upstate New York’s Black River Canal region of Oneida, Hamilton and Herkimer counties where Anson Blake wanted a railroad to be built through his lots. Many interesting illustrations and photographs depict facets of Manhattan and Brooklyn history — including Blake’s early land and building speculation enterprises in South Brooklyn adjacent to the terminus of the original Long Island Railroad, and the Atlantic Street and Hamilton Avenue ferries. This book describes New York’s and Brooklyn’s history during the second quarter of America’s 19th century.

Author : Anna Deavere Smith
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822213291

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THE STORY: In 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, an Hasidic man's car jumped a curb, killing Gavin Cato, a seven-year-old black child. Later, in what appears to have been an act of retaliation on the part of a faction of the black comm

Author : Stephen Prothero
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2001-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520929746

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Just one hundred years ago, Americans almost universally condemned cremation. Today, nearly one-quarter of Americans choose to be cremated. The practice has gained wide acceptance as a funeral rite, in both our private and public lives, as the cremations of icons such as John Lennon and John F. Kennedy Jr. show. Purified by Fire tells the fascinating story of cremation's rise from notoriety to legitimacy and takes a provocative new look at important transformations in the American cultural landscape over the last 150 years. Stephen Prothero synthesizes a wide array of previously untapped source material, including newspapers, consumer guides, mortician trade journals, and popular magazines such as Reader's Digest to provide this first historical study of cremation in the United States. He vividly describes many noteworthy events—from the much-criticized first American cremation in 1876 to the death and cremation of Jerry Garcia in the late twentieth century. From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era to the baby boomers of today, this book takes us on a tour through American culture and traces our changing attitudes toward death, religion, public health, the body, and the environment.

Author : Jake Logan
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Slocum (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9780872167957

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Slocum is trapped between a gang of kill-crazed outlaws and a band of screaming scalp hunters. He has an empty holster, a battered body, and a desperate woman. Odds were against him.

Author : Barbara Cawthorne Crafton
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0819224928

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In these insightful essays, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton reflects on a broad range of experiences ministering among merchant seafarers, the homeless, the bereaved, AIDS patients, and others in need of personal and spiritual help. She shares honestly her own emotions as she grapples with the harsh realities of the world, while delighting in the humor and joy found in everyday living. Crafton compassionately recounts the unique stories of the men, women, and children she worked with during her service as a port chaplain in New York and New Jersey and as a minister at Trinity Church on Wall Street. In doing so, she weaves together threads of the mundane and the traumatic, the lovely and the ugly, and the down to earth and the holy, creating an original tapestry of the richness of life.

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : Booksllc.Net
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230775586

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Battle of Long Island, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Theater Fire, Fort Brooklyn, Fort Lafayette, Heights of Guan, Hendrick I. Lott House, Jans Martense Schenck house, List of New York State Historic Markers in Kings County, New York, Mapleton Park, Brooklyn, National Register of Historic Places listings in Kings County, New York, Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Red Lion Inn (Brooklyn), Steven Van Voorhees, Timeline of Brooklyn history. Excerpt: The Brooklyn Theater Fire was a catastrophic theater fire that broke out on the evening of December 5, 1876 in the city of Brooklyn, New York, United States. The conflagration claimed the lives of at least 278 individuals, with some accounts reporting more than 300 dead. One hundred and three unidentified victims were interred in a common grave at Green-Wood Cemetery. An obelisk near the main entrance at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street marks the burial site. More than two dozen identified victims were interred individually in separate sections at the Cemetery of the Evergreens in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Theater Fire ranks third in fatalities, among fires occurring in theaters and other public assembly buildings in the United States, falling behind the 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire and the 1903 Iroquois Theater Fire. Fatalities mainly arose in the family circle, a gallery of inexpensive seats high in the auditorium. Only one stairway serviced this gallery, which sustained extreme temperatures and dense, suffocating smoke early in the conflagration. The stairway jammed with people, cutting off the escape of more than half of the gallery's occupants who quickly succumbed to smoke inhalation. Theater before the fire, Washington Street entrance. Camera is looking north toward Johnson Street. The theater is distinguished by its mansard roof. Its 'L' shape lot wrapped...