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Author : Frances FitzGerald
Release : 1972
Genre : History
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fire in the Lake by : Frances FitzGerald
Download or read book Fire in the Lake written by Frances FitzGerald. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam"--Jacket subtitle.
Author : Rosellen Brown
Release : 2018-10-16
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 249/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Lake on Fire by : Rosellen Brown
Download or read book The Lake on Fire written by Rosellen Brown. This book was released on 2018-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lake on Fire is an epic narrative that begins among 19th century Jewish immigrants on a failing Wisconsin farm. Dazzled by lore of the American dream, Chaya and her strange, brilliant, young brother Asher stowaway to Chicago; what they discover there, however, is a Gilded Age as empty a façade as the beautiful Columbian Exposition luring thousands to Lake Michigan’s shore. The pair scrapes together a meager living—Chaya in a cigar factory; Asher, roaming the city and stealing books and jewelry to share with the poor, until they find different paths of escape. An examination of family, love, and revolution, this profound tale resonates eerily with today’s current events and tumultuous social landscape. The Lake on Fire is robust, gleaming, and grimy all at once, proving that celebrated author Rosellen Brown is back with a story as luminous as ever.
Author : Kate Gale
Release : 2000
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 790/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lake of Fire by : Kate Gale
Download or read book Lake of Fire written by Kate Gale. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Sixties, the Flower Children were making love not war, the Hippies were dropping acid and protesting Vietnam and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was demanding civil rights. Cults, communes and live-ins sprang up around the country. One charismatic leader started a cult in New England that continues to this day. This shocking true story tells of one girl's life in that cult. Brought there as a three year old, cut off from all contact with the outside world, the young Andie struggles to survive in a world that is both claustrophobic and frightening. In the wake of Jonestown, Waco and Heaven's Gate, we see a closeup view of life in a cult and a young girl's escape from one brave new world to another.
Author : Maureen Crane Wartski
Release : 1981
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 876/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Lake is on Fire by : Maureen Crane Wartski
Download or read book The Lake is on Fire written by Maureen Crane Wartski. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blind boy and his dog are alone when their cabin catches fire.
Author : Paul Vanderwood
Release : 2003-06-23
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 39X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Night Riders of Reelfoot Lake by : Paul Vanderwood
Download or read book Night Riders of Reelfoot Lake written by Paul Vanderwood. This book was released on 2003-06-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A notable and tragic case of the struggle between legal and social justice Reelfoot Lake has been a hunting and fishing paradise from the time of its creation in 1812, when the New Madrid earthquake caused the Mississippi River to flow backward into low-lying lands. Situated in the northwestern corner of the state of Tennessee, it attracted westward-moving pioneers, enticing some to settle permanently on its shores. Threatened in 1908 with the loss of their homes and livelihoods to aggressive, outsider capitalists, rural folk whose families had lived for generations on the bountiful lake donned hoods and gowns and engaged in “night riding,” spreading mayhem and death throughout the region as they sought vigilante justice. They had come to regard the lake as their own, by “squatters’ rights,” but now a group of entrepreneurs from St. Louis had bought the titles to the land beneath the shallow lake and were laying legal claim to Reelfoot in its entirety. People were hanged, beaten, and threatened and property destroyed before the state militia finally quelled the uprising. A compromise that made the lake public property did not entirely heal the wounds which continue to this day. Paul Vanderwood reconstructs these harrowing events from newspapers and other accounts of the time. He also obtained personal interviews with participants and family members who earlier had remained mum, still fearing prosecution. The Journal of American History declares his book “the complete and authentic treatment” of the horrific dispute and its troubled aftermath.
