Showing results for title "What It Was" in Biographies & Memoirs

Of all the groups to emerge during the folk era of the 1960's, The Chad Mitchell Trio was unequivocally the best. Their complex harmonies, sense of comedic timing and stage presence were unique to the folk movement. They didn't enjoy the commercial success of some other groups because their material made political and social statements that radio and television refused to air. They were wildly popular, though, on college campuses through America during this turbulent time and fostered political and social awareness among thousands of young men and women as they faced the tumultuous era ahead.

For fifty years, bestselling author Peter Golenbock has been interviewing some of the most fascinating figures in baseball. Their conversations are a journey back in time to the days of Ruth and Gehrig, Gehringer and Greenberg, Robinson and Reese, and Howard and Mantle, as they reflect on the sport's greatest moments and biggest issues.

Dotson Rader arrived in New York in 1963, a young stranger to the city, knowing no one, owning nothing - until a few lucky events opened up an extraordinary new world for him. Through his words, we enter this ardent, unforgettable world of writers, artists, radicals, and sexual rebels in a time of unprecedented cultural freedom and defiance. Against the backdrop of the women's rights, gay liberation, civil rights, and anti-war movements, a singular new period of experimentation and liberation is born. 

In the summer of 1967, Mark Garrison had dropped out of college at Southern Illinois University just before entering his third year. He had run out of money and had to work for a while. These were the days before the lottery and the draft soon came calling. In order to somewhat control his own future, he enlisted in the US Army's helicopter flight school program. Little did he know that this adventure would be the most profound experience of his life.

This is the never-before-told true story of the Gotti family, as told by John Gotti's daughter, Victoria. Brutally honest and packed with explosive revelations, this powerful memoir chronicles an American family saga like no other.

Rachel Lewett - Seeker | Feeler | Relational Neuroscience Enthusiast | Ready to live in a world where feelings are honored, not medicated.

Am 17. April 1978 ist Wenpo Lee Anfang vierzig und Leiter der Forschungsabteilung bei Volkswagen in Wolfsburg. Hinter ihm liegt ein langer Weg: Als Kind floh er aus China nach Taiwan, lebte dort auf der Straße, bis ihn ein Lehrerehepaar aufnahm und er schließlich zum Studium nach Deutschland ging. Mit China hatte er abgeschlossen–bis zu dem Tag, an dem eine chinesische Delegation vor dem VW-Werk steht. In der Folge wird Wenpo Lee zu einem der Architekten des China-GeschAfts von VW und trAgt damit maßgeblich zum Aufstieg des Landes zur Wirtschaftsmacht bei.

While the elders and adults struggled to keep secrets in the midst of stolen shoes, stolen dreams, and misbehavior, the four-year-old professor desperately held onto his desire for the future and urgency to be an adult. The older the professor got the stronger his vision became and it wasn't long before hidden secrets were exposed. Although the names have been changed the people are real and the story is true right down to the little professor's vision of Esta.

This story is for all those who have ever wanted to see President Obama in person but couldn't. It tells what it was actually like to be there among the 50,000 or so other people that day, March 7, 2015, when the first black president of the United States of America came to speak at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.