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Author : Murray Pomerance
Release : 2005
Genre : Boys in motion pictures
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 156/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Where the Boys are by : Murray Pomerance
Download or read book Where the Boys are written by Murray Pomerance. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative, contemporary anthology examining the construction of boys' identity in modern cinema.
Author : Van Gosse
Release : 1993-12-17
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 901/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Where the Boys Are by : Van Gosse
Download or read book Where the Boys Are written by Van Gosse. This book was released on 1993-12-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ignominious failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 marked the culmination of a curious episode at the height of the Cold War. At the end of the fifties, restless and rebellious youth, avant-garde North American intellectuals, old leftists, and even older liberals found inspiration in the images and achievements of Fidel Castro’s revolutionary guerrillas. Fidelismo swept across the US, as young North Americans sought to join the 26th of July Movement in the Sierra Maestra. Drawing equally on cultural and political materials, from James Dean and Desi Arnaz to C. Wright Mills and Studies on the Left, Gosse explains how the peculiar conjuncture of 1950s America produced the first great Third World solidarity movement, the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which became a locus for the New Left emerging from the ashes of Kennedy’s New Frontier. Where the Boys Are captures the strange essence of that much-abused decade, the 1950s, at once demonstrating the perfidy of Cold War American liberal opinion towards Cuba and its revolution while explaining why Fidel and his compañeros made such appealing idols for the young, the restless, and the politically adventurous.
Author : Daniel James Brown
Release : 2023-12-05
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 308/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Boys in the Boat (Movie Tie-In) by : Daniel James Brown
Download or read book The Boys in the Boat (Movie Tie-In) written by Daniel James Brown. This book was released on 2023-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney—exclusively in theaters December 25, 2023! The #1 New York Times bestselling true story about the American rowing triumph of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin—from the author of Facing the Mountain For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not only to regain his shattered self-regard but also to find a real place for himself in the world. Drawing on the boys’ own journals and vivid memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, Brown has created an unforgettable portrait of an era, a celebration of a remarkable achievement, and a chronicle of one extraordinary young man’s personal quest.
Author : John Hall
Release : 1998
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 602/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Where the Boys Are by : John Hall
Download or read book Where the Boys Are written by John Hall. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When seventeen-year-old Ben Harris meets a beautiful guest at the summer resort where he works, in secret shame, as a cleaning "maid," he wonders if telling her the truth about his summer job will mean losing her forever.
Author : Roger Kahn
Release : 2013-08-01
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 079/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Boys of Summer by : Roger Kahn
Download or read book The Boys of Summer written by Roger Kahn. This book was released on 2013-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the colour barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short, it is a book fathers and sons and about the making of modern America. 'At a point in life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams.' Sentimental because it holds such promise, and bittersweet because that promise is past, the first sentence of this masterpiece of sporting literature, first published in the early '70s, sets its tone. The team is the mid-20th-century Brooklyn Dodgers, the team of Robinson and Snyder and Hodges and Reese, a team of great triumph and historical import composed of men whose fragile lives were filled with dignity and pathos. Roger Kahn, who covered that team for the New York Herald Tribune, makes understandable humans of his heroes as he chronicles the dreams and exploits of their young lives, beautifully intertwining them with his own, then recounts how so many of those sweet dreams curdled as the body of these once shining stars grew rusty with age and battered by experience.
