Inherent Vice

2012-06-13 Fiction

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Release : 2012-06-13
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 675/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Inherent Vice written by Thomas Pynchon. This book was released on 2012-06-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The funniest book Pynchon has written." — Rolling Stone "Entertainment of a high order." - Time Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon—private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. Suddenly she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," except that this one usually leads to trouble. Undeniably one of the most influential writers at work today, Pynchon has penned another unforgettable book.

Rainbow's End

2003-05-01 History

Author : Maury Klein
Release : 2003-05-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 904/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Rainbow's End written by Maury Klein. This book was released on 2003-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe. The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls. We meet Sunshine Charley Mitchell, head of the National City Bank, powerful financiers Jack Morgan and Jacob Schiff, Wall Street manipulators such as the legendary Jesse Livermore, and the lavish-living Billy Durant, founder of General Motors. As Klein follows the careers of these men, he shows us how the financial house of cards gradually grew taller, as the irrational exuberance of an earlier age gripped America and convinced us that the market would continue to rise forever. Then, in October 1929, came a "perfect storm"-like convergence of factors that shook Wall Street to its foundations. We relive Black Thursday, when police lined Wall Street, brokers grew hysterical, customers "bellowed like lunatics," and the ticker tape fell hours behind. This compelling history of the Crash--the first to follow the market closely for the two years leading up to the disaster--illuminates a major turning point in our history.

Rainbow Vice

2002 History

Author : Ted Leggett
Release : 2002
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 358/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Rainbow Vice written by Ted Leggett. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing drug culture in the new South Africa is tightly linked to the world of commercial sex and in conflict with a profoundly Christian population. Here, Ted Leggett shows how varied the drug scene is.

Rainbow's End

1990-08-09 History

Author : Steven P. Erie
Release : 1990-08-09
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 621/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Rainbow's End written by Steven P. Erie. This book was released on 1990-08-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unprecedented in its scope, Rainbow's End provides a bold new analysis of the emergence, growth, and decline of six classic Irish-American political machines in New York, Jersey City, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Albany. Combining the approaches of political economy and historical sociology, Erie examines a wide range of issues, including the relationship between city and state politics, the manner in which machines shaped ethnic and working-class politics, and the reasons why centralized party organizations failed to emerge in Boston and Philadelphia despite their large Irish populations. The book ends with a thorough discussion of the significance of machine politics for today's urban minorities.

Signal

2014 Armed Forces

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Release : 2014
Genre : Armed Forces
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Signal written by . This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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