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Bootlegger of the Soul

Author: Suzanne Lance

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2019-02-06

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 143847332X

A celebration of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist who put Albany on the world’s literary map. The award-winning novelist William Kennedy is perhaps best known for his Albany Cycle, a series of novels that put Albany on the world’s literary map alongside James Joyce’s Dublin, Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo, and William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. Bootlegger of the Soul offers a fresh and authoritative overview of Kennedy’s long literary career and his astonishing trajectory from journalist to struggling novelist to Pulitzer Prize winner. Included here are reviews, interviews, and scholarly essays on Kennedy’s work, as well as essays, speeches, a play, and a short story by the author himself, together with more than fifty historical and personal photographs. Lively, readable, and brimming with the infectious wit and lyrical prose that animates Kennedy’s novels, Bootlegger of the Soul is a celebration of a writer still working hard at his craft at age ninety. Suzanne Lance is Associate Director of the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Paul Grondahl is Director of the New York State Writers Institute and is the author of several books, including Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma and I Rose Like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt.

Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era

Author: J. Anne Funderburg

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-04-30

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 0786479612

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This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, it offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime--outrageous stories of America's most notorious liquor lords, including Al Capone and Dutch Schultz. Readers will find the lesser known Volstead outlaws to be as fascinating as their more famous counterparts. The riveting tales of Max Hassel, Waxy Gordon, Roy Olmstead, the Purple Gang, the Havre Bunch, and the Capitol Hill Bootlegger will be new to most readers. Likewise, the exploits of women bootleggers and flying bootleggers are unknown to most Americans. Books about Prohibition usually note that Canadian liquor exporters abetted the U.S. bootleggers, but they fail to go into detail. Bootleggers and Beer Barons examines the major cross-border routes for smuggling liquor from Canada into the U.S.: Quebec to Vermont and New York, Ontario to Michigan, Saskatchewan to Montana, and British Columbia to Washington.

Soul of the River

Author: Shawn Thompson

Publisher: GeneralStore PublishingHouse

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781896182551

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Son of a Bootlegger

Author: Cathy Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-15

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13:

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From childhood to adulthood Charles (Hardrock) Smith has never met a stranger and never will. Folks are drawn to his friendliness and sense of humor. He loves the Lord and is a most loving husband, father, and grandfather. He is a remarkable man who overcame a difficult childhood, being raised in a bootlegger's home. The family endured hardships such as running from the law, living in shacks, plus enduring mental and physical abuse. Hardrock and his two sisters could never have friends over to spend the night and were taught to lie and, at times, steal corn for their daddy's still. His daddy made moonshine, and his mother sold it in their kitchen, nightly, by the glass. Hardrock and his mother were physically abused by his father. Through it all, though, he never lost his sense of humor which helped his mother and sisters get through tough times. So, in these little pages are memories of his life, living with a bootlegger. Some memories, sealed forever in his mind, are difficult to say the least; some, for a child's recollection, are great memories of family and friends who made this journey joyful and good and helped shape the man Hardrock became, hoping to help others with their journey, adding laughter along the way...grow old, just never grow up!

Spirit and Soul

Author: Theodore Kirkland

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 1469186268

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Spirit and Soul: Odyssey of a Black Man in America, Volume One, an engaging, edifying autobiography by Theodore Kirkland, offers critical insight and politically cognizant commentary on the past, future and real-time reality of race relations in America. His long career in law enforcement some 39 years total as a military police officer, Buffalo police officer, New York State parole board commissioner and adjunct professor begins by happenstance in the Air Force. Instead of being sent to gunnery school as he requested, he is ordered to report to the Army Military Police Academy in Camp Gordon, Georgia. Kirkland's narrative voice in this page turner is clear, self-effacing and relentlessly candid unapologetic for the black and white of his experience, and cautionary in his instruction for navigation through the gray. Yet in every syllable, there is a remarkable, palpable love for his family, friends and community and unyielding commitment to upholding the Constitutional promise that "all men are created equal." Spirit and Soul: Odyssey of a Black Man in America, Volume One is at once witty and wise; poignant, wistful and meticulously illustrative of an American perspective too often shadowed by stereotypes that contend that Black men contribute primarily to the prison population. It also is an important chronology of the evolution of African American life and experience from Jim Crow to contemporary "Post-racial America."

The Bootlegger

Author: Karl Phillips

Publisher:

Published: 2022-03

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781912631377

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Social-media sensation Bootlegger has 330K Twitter followers hooked on his humorous musings on working class life. With his beloved soccer team Wrexham AFC's recent takeover by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney and a documentary spin-off on Disney Plus, the world will be watching the club - and the Bootlegger, their most famous fan.

The Bootlegger's Dance

Author: Rosemary Jones

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2023-11-21

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1839082526

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Christmas comes to Arkham Horror in this action-packed eldritch adventure full of secret whispers, haunted streets, and a lost actor falling through time Raquel Malone Gutierrez is running away, although she won’t admit that to herself. Suffering from hearing loss after an illness, the former music teacher wants to find a way to retain her independence, but only a wealthy relative offers any hope of that. Put to work in her aunt Nova’s Kingsport dance hall, Raquel stumbles upon a mystery when her new hearing aids begin picking up conversations that no one else can hear. As Christmas draws closer, Raquel realizes the voice comes from a hunted man lost in time. Now she must do everything she can to free him before the monsters chasing him can catch up and break through.

Monk to Bootlegger

Author: Joseph Jerry Levesque

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-11-07

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781500519100

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When Joseph Jerry Levesque gazes out the window, he never sees ugliness-only the beautiful, blue sky filled with soaring birds. This view of the world is what allows him to live such a rare and remarkable life and accomplish all that he has. After coming of age and developing into an elite athlete, Joseph embarks on what he believes will be a lifelong devotion to Catholic monasticism. Written as a documentary-styled look at a monastery's inner workings, Joseph first shares sketches of the various brothers and events that may be surprising and unconventional. Then comes his shocking transition from monk to world traveler, spending a decade touring Europe on a moneymaking endeavor based on his passion for liquor. He becomes the sole US producer of the illegal Viper Brandy and smuggles various alcoholic beverages between Andorra, France, and back again. This revealing book is much more than a memoir-it is a transparent and candid telling of a free, wandering spirit's lifelong journey from birth in prohibition America, to joining the monastic life, to becoming one of the greatest alcohol bootleggers in the world.

Safe in the Arms of Croesus

Author: Owen Wister

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13:

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The Real Story of a Bootlegger

Author: Reginald Wright Kaufmann

Publisher:

Published: 1923

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13:

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A film about a Hamburg picture framer who is suffering from a rare and fatal blood disease. His peace and sanity are upset when he is offered money to assassinate a Mafia figure in Paris.