2001, ISBN: 9780385504713

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UsedGood. Hand inspected by live bookworms! No writing or highlighting. Cover shows some wear and may have some bent corners or creases. Ships Fast! Same or next business day. Thanks for supporting a small family business!, 0, New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 1989-03-23. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 272 pages; light edge wear to jacket and boards; Television is the most powerful and pervasive storyteller of our time. The stories it tells--and, equally important, the stories it fails to tell--have a marked impact on how viewers see the world around them. Is it any wonder then that television has become the focal point of bitter struggle, with numerous advocacy groups--from the NAACP to the National Gay Task Force to the Moral Majority--battling with network executives over the content of prime time shows? Target: Prime Time is the first book to explore network television's dealings with political advocacy groups, offering a comprehensive picture of the impact of organized pressure on prime time TV. Montgomery describes, for instance, how the Catholic Church campaign against Maude's abortion caused the withdrawal of almost every sponsor as well as the blackout of the program by 40 affiliates; how the Moral Majority, adopting the tactics originally developed by liberal groups, waged its own "Clean Up TV" campaign by threatening to boycott advertisers ("the soft underbelly of the television industry"); and how the concerns of a few outraged actors mushroomed into a national protest against the portrayal of blacks in the TV miniseries Beulah Land. Of course, as the author shows, some groups have worked very closely with the industry, providing input on such issues as the image of gays, the consumption of alcohol, and the use of birth control. Based on over six years of research in Hollywood, New York, and Washington--including interviews with network executives, producers, writers, advocacy group leaders, and government officials--Target: Prime Time exposes the inner workings of network television as no other book before. It shows how behind-the-scenes struggles profoundly affect the stream of images, messages, and values that enter people's homes every night, and it raises critical questions about the role of the electronic media in American society., Oxford University Press, USA, 1989-03-23, 3, New York, NY: Knopf Publishing Group, 2001. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Ava's Man, 2001--HARDCOVER IN DUST JACKET CONDITION VERY GOOD-PUBLISHED BY ALFRED KNOPF-COPYRIGHT 2001 FIRST EDITION--259 PAGES by Rick Bragg (Author) The Pulitzer Prize winning author of All Over but the Shoutin... Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 259 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Ava's Man, 2001--HARDCOVER IN DUST JACKET CONDITION VERY GOOD-PUBLISHED BY ALFRED KNOPF-COPYRIGHT 2001 FIRST EDITION--259 PAGES by Rick Bragg (Author) The Pulitzer Prize winning author of All Over but the Shoutin continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother s childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her. Charlie Bundrum was a roofer, a carpenter, a whiskey-maker, a fisherman who knew every inch of the Coosa River, made boats out of car hoods and knew how to pack a wound with brown sugar to stop the blood. He could not read, but he asked his wife, Ava, to read him the paper every day so he would not be ignorant. He was a man who took giant steps in rundown boots, a true hero whom history would otherwise have overlooked. In the decade of the Great Depression, Charlie moved his family twenty-one times, keeping seven children one step ahead of the poverty and starvation that threatened them from every side. He worked at the steel mill when the steel was rolling, or for a side of bacon or a bushel of peaches when it wasn t. He paid the doctor who delivered his fourth daughter, Margaret Bragg s mother with a jar of whiskey. He understood the finer points of the law as it applied to poor people and drinking men; he was a banjo player and a buck dancer who worked off fines when life got a little sideways, and he sang when he was drunk, where other men fought or cussed. He had a talent for living. His children revered him. When he died, cars lined the blacktop for more than a mile. Rick Bragg has built a soaring monument to the grandfather he never knew a father who stood by his family in hard times and left a backwoods legend behind in a book that blazes with his love for his family, and for a particular stretch of dirt road along the Alabama-Georgia border. A powerfully intimate piece of American history as it was experienced by the working people of the Deep South, a glorious record of a life of character, tenacity and indomitable joy and an unforgettable tribute to a vanishing culture, Ava s Man is Rick Bragg at his stunning best. The same fierce pride and love that animated All Over but the Shoutin' glow in Rick Bragg's new book. In fact, he informs us in the prologue that it was the readers of his bestselling 1997 memoir about his mother's struggle to raise three sons out of dire poverty who told him what he had to write about next. "People asked me where I believed my own momma's heart and backbone came from...they said I short-shrifted them in the first book." Bragg sets out to make amends in this heartfelt biography of his maternal grandfather, Charlie Bundrum, who with wife Ava nurtured seven children through hard times that never seemed to ease in rural Alabama and Georgia. "He was a tall, bone-thin man who worked with nails in his teeth and a roofing hatchet in a fist as hard as Augusta brick, " writes Bragg, "who inspired backwoods legend and the kind of loyalty that still makes old men dip their heads respectfully when they say his name." Charlie's children adored him so much that 40 years after his premature death in 1958 at age 51, Bragg's elderly aunts and mother began to cry when asked about him. Chronicling Charlie's hardscrabble life in the flinty, expressive cadences of working-class Southern speech, Bragg depicts a rugged individual who would find no place in the homogenized New South. The marvelous stories collected from various relatives--Charlie facing down a truckload of mean drunks with a hammer, hatchet, and 12-gauge shotgun, or brewing illegal white whiskey in the woods ("He never sold a sip that he did not test with his own liver")--are not just snapshots of a colorful character., Knopf Publishing Group, 2001, 3, Doubleday. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Like New dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owners name, short gifters inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included., Doubleday, 3<

2018, ISBN: 9780385504713

Sports Publishing, 2018. Hardcover. New/New. A clean crisp well preserved 2018 Sports Publishing hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of m… Mehr…

Sports Publishing, 2018. Hardcover. New/New. A clean crisp well preserved 2018 Sports Publishing hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. With 363 victories, Warren Spahn is the winningest lefty in baseball history. Over 21 years, he won 20 or more games 13 times, was a 17-time All Star, won a Cy Young-award, then, of course, was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Spahn was also a war hero, serving in World War II and awarded the Purple Heart. To say Spahn lived a storied life is an understatement. In Warren Spahn, author Lew Freedman tells the story of this incredible lefty. Known for his supremely high leg kick, Spahn became one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history. However, the road wasn't as easy as it would seem. Struggling in his major-league debut at age twenty, manager Casey Stengel demoted the young left. It would be four years before Spahn would return to the diamond, as he received a calling of a different kind--one from his country. Enlisting in the Army, Spahn would serve with distinction, seeing action in the Battle of the Bulge and the Ludendorff Bridge, and was awarded a battlefield commission, along with a Purple Heart. Upon his return to the game, he would take the league by storm. Spahn dominated for over two decades, spending twenty years with the Braves (both Boston and Milwaukee), as well as a season with the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants. Pitching into his mid-forties, he would throw two no-hitters at the advanced ages of thirty-nine and forty. From his early days in Buffalo and young career, through his time and the military and all the way to the 1948 Braves and "Spahn and Sain and Pray for Rain," author Lew Freedman leaves no stone unturned in sharing the incredible life of this pitching icon, who is still considered the greatest left-handed pitcher to ever play the game., Sports Publishing, 2018, 6, New York: Doubleday, 2002. 339 pages. Illustrated. Previous owner sticker on reverse side of frton cover marked through.. 1st Ed.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Ronald Reagan., Doubleday, 2002, 3<

2008, ISBN: 9780385504713

Stagedoor Publishing, 2008. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the… Mehr…

Stagedoor Publishing, 2008. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9780952162070, Stagedoor Publishing, 2008, 0, Ata Books, Berkeley, California, 1978.. Unknown/Unknown. Octavo, softcover, b and w wraps shwoing San Francisco High School on cover. When Anna Giardino wakes up in the hospital she can't remember who she is. She had taught at SF high school for 40 years. During the next week she solves the mystery, regains her memory, relives past struggles and emerges free to pass through the doorway to her future. 160 pp., Ata Books, Berkeley, California, 1978., 0, Paperback. Very Good., 3, Paperback. Like New., 5, Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, The. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, The, 2.5<

1978, ISBN: 9780385504713

Ata Books, Berkeley, California, 1978.. Unknown/Unknown. Octavo, softcover, b and w wraps shwoing San Francisco High School on cover. When Anna Giardino wakes up in the hospital she can… Mehr…

Ata Books, Berkeley, California, 1978.. Unknown/Unknown. Octavo, softcover, b and w wraps shwoing San Francisco High School on cover. When Anna Giardino wakes up in the hospital she can't remember who she is. She had taught at SF high school for 40 years. During the next week she solves the mystery, regains her memory, relives past struggles and emerges free to pass through the doorway to her future. 160 pp., Ata Books, Berkeley, California, 1978., 0, Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, The. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, The, 2.5<