Mcfarland: 2486 books
by Chris Coelho
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to a crowd gathered outside the Pennsylvania State House. It was engrossed on vellum later in the month, and delegates began signing the finely penned document in early August. The man who read the Declaration and later embossed it—the...
The Loyalist Conscience
Principled Opposition to the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British crown were persecuted with loss of employment, eviction from their homes, heavy taxation, confiscation of property and imprisonment. Loyalist Americans from...
American Work-Sports
A History of Competitions for Cornhuskers, Lumberjacks, Firemen and Others
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
For more than a century the American farm, factory and frontier provided opportunities for physical workers to display their skill, win a bet, brag or perhaps just have some fun. Competitions that emphasized useful skills, like plowing, corn-husking, rock drilling, typesetting, and tree cutting, were...
by Paul Reeths
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
One of the most ambitious (and short-lived) endeavors in professional sports history, the United States Football League was founded in 1982. Premiering with a spring schedule and an abundance of talent that included top rookies and National Football League veterans, the USFL gained national attention...
The Women Who Got America Talking
Early Telephone Operators, 1878-1922
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
When the need for telephone operators arose in the 1870s, the assumption was that they should all be male. Wages for adult men were too high, so boys were hired. They proved quick to argue with the subscribers, so females replaced them. Women were calmer, had reassuring voices and rarely talked back....
Tony Hulman
The Man Who Saved the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Almost unknown when in 1945 he purchased the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and its famous race, Tony Hulman soon became a household name in auto racing circles. He is credited not only with saving the Speedway from becoming a residential housing development but also with reinvigorating auto racing in...
Goon
Memoir of a Minor League Hockey Enforcer, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Directionless yet driven by a fervent desire to make something of himself, Doug "The Thug" Smith took his only marketable job skill—amateur boxing—and followed an unlikely career path to become a hockey enforcer, a.k.a. “goon.” Entrusted with aggressively protecting his teammates...
Peg Entwistle and the Hollywood Sign Suicide
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
This is the first complete biography of actress Peg Entwistle, known as the “Hollywood Sign Girl” because of her suicide fall from the HOLLYWOODLAND sign in 1932. It details her childhood, stage and film career, marriage and divorce, and her suicide and almost cult-like pop culture status today....
Hollywood's Second Sex
The Treatment of Women in the Film Industry, 1900-1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
“Women stars in Hollywood were invariably in two categories,” said director Otto Preminger. “One group was of women who were exploited by men, and the other, much smaller group was of women who survived by acting like men.” Beginning with silent film vamp Theda Bara and continuing with icons...
Art Market Research
A Guide to Methods and Sources, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This book is for art market researchers at all levels. A brief overview of the global art market and its major stakeholders precedes an analysis of the various sales venues (auction, commercial gallery, etc.). Library research skills are reviewed, and advanced methods are explored in a chapter devoted...
Scrappy
Memoir of a U.S. Fighter Pilot in Korea and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
From World War II to high above the Earth to Vietnam, this memoir tells the story of fighter pilot Howard C. “Scrappy” Johnson. Beginning with his early years in Knoxville, Tennessee, the book follows Johnson through his career at the University of Louisville and his enlistment as an Air Force...
"From Beautiful Downtown Burbank"
A Critical History of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, 1968-1973
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In was one of the most unusual programs on television, defying definition as simply comedy, variety, or burlesque. The show had audiences laughing for six seasons and continues to make appearances in revivals, reunions, and salutes. This critical history of Laugh-In includes...
Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom
Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Sequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have to interpret the images with the writing. Comics make a good fit with education because students are using a format that provides active engagement. This collection of essays is a wide-ranging look at current practices...
The 9/11 Novel
Trauma, Politics and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
This is a comprehensive study of the first decade of literary representations of 9/11, moving from Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers (2003) to Amy Waldman’s The Submission (2012). It traces the way literature has dealt with an event that continues to shape world conflict and resonate...