Maverick
Title | Maverick PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis F. Fisher |
Publisher | Maverick Books |
Total Pages | 181 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781595348388 |
A lively history of Maverick family and a cultural exploration of the iconic word
Maverick Marine
Title | Maverick Marine PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Schmidt |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2014-04-23 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0813146259 |
Smedley Butler's life and career epitomize the contradictory nature of American military policy through the first part of this century. Butler won renown as a Marine battlefield hero, campaigning in most of America's foreign military expeditions from 1898 to the late 1920s. He became the leading national advocate for paramilitary police reform. Upon his retirement, however, he renounced war and imperialism and devoted his energy and prestige to various dissident and leftist political causes.
American Rhone
Title | American Rhone PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick J. Comiskey |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2016-10-11 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 0520965140 |
"Thoughtfully conceived and very well written, this is essential somm reading."—The Somm Journal "This is the most important wine book of the year, perhaps in many years."—The Seattle Times "Crisply written, impeccably researched, balanced if fundamentally enthusiastic, scholarly but accessible, and full of unexpected details and characters."—The World of Fine Wine No wine category has seen more dramatic growth in recent years than American Rhône–variety wines. Winemakers are devoting more energy, more acreage, and more bottlings to Rhône varieties than ever before. The flagship Rhône red, Syrah, is routinely touted as one of California’s most promising varieties, capable of tremendous adaptability as a vine, wonderfully variable in style, and highly expressive of place. There has never been a better time for American Rhône wine producers. American Rhône is the untold history of the American Rhône wine movement. The popularity of these wines has been hard fought; this is a story of fringe players, unknown varieties, and longshot efforts finding their way to the mainstream. It’s the story of winemakers gathering sufficient strength in numbers to forge a triumph of the obscure and the brash. But, more than this, it is the story of the maturation of the American palate and a new republic of wine lovers whose restless tastes and curiosity led them to Rhône wines just as those wines were reaching a critical mass in the marketplace. Patrick J. Comiskey’s history of the American Rhône wine movement is both a compelling underdog success story and an essential reference for the wine professional.
American Mavericks
Title | American Mavericks PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Key |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 170 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520233058 |
Inspired by the San Francisco Symphony's highly successful American music festival last June, this book and its accompanying CD provide an entertaining survey of some of America's best-known composers--all of them controversial in their day.
John McCain
Title | John McCain PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine S. Povich |
Publisher | Union Square & Company |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781454930679 |
Chronicles the life of John McCain, discussing his childhood, military service, years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, marriage, political career, and campaign for president.
A Maverick American
Title | A Maverick American PDF eBook |
Author | Maury Maverick |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 1937 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music
Title | Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Broyles |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 397 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0300127898 |
From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts and about American society itself. Broyles starts by examining the careers of three notably unconventional composers: William Billings in the eighteenth century, Anthony Philip Heinrich in the nineteenth, and Charles Ives in the twentieth. All three had unusual lives, wrote music that many considered incomprehensible, and are now recognized as key figures in the development of American music. Broyles goes on to investigate the proliferation of eccentric individualism in all types of American music—classical, popular, and jazz—and how it has come to dominate the image of diverse creative artists from John Cage to Frank Zappa. The history of the maverick tradition, Broyles shows, has much to tell us about the role of music in American culture and the tension between individualism and community in the American consciousness.