A portrait of country-music legend Patsy Cline traces the singer's life and career, from her Shenandoah Valley childhood, through her grueling rise to success in the music world and tumultuous private life, to her tragic death. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Patsy: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline

Jones, Margaret

Humor & Entertainment

Harpercollins

The story of this compelling woman, from her Shenandoah Valley childhood to the many grueling years of one-night road stands to the international stardom that reached beyond country audiences, Patsy reveals both the triumphs and pitfalls of Cline's extraordinary life, providing a fascinating biography and a history of country music. Photos.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Pub Overstock Unlimited Inc

More than thirty-five years after her tragic death in a plane crash at age thirty, Patsy Cline (19321963)remains one of the greatest voices of this century. Her soulful torch-song balladsWalkin' After Midnight,” I Fall to Pieces,” Crazy,” and Sweet Dreams”bought her worldwide fame as both a country and pop star, while her life and career were immortalized in the 1985 film, Sweet Dreams. InPatsy, Margaret Jones chronicles the life of Patsy Cline (nee Virginia Hensley) from her impoverished childhood and abuse by her father, through the struggle for her success and her exploitation by record producers to her phenomenal but short-lived recording career. The book is based on extensive interviews with country music's greatestLoretta Lynn, June Carter, Dottie West, Barbara Mandrell, Faron Young, Roy Clark, Jimmy Dean, Johnny Western, Tompall Glaser, songwriters Harlan Howard and Donn Hecht, and record men Owen Bradley and Don Pierce. The result is the first fully drawn portrait of this crossover superstar, as well as a vivid picture of the ever-expanding country music world. Hard-living and hard-loving, bawdy and ballsy, Patsy Cline surmounted unimaginable odds in a male-dominated industry to become the most popular female country singer in recording history.

Patsy: The Life And Times Of Patsy Cline

Da Capo Press

The haunting of Sarah Lessingham

The Haunting of Sarah Lessingham

Dell Publishing

Feeling more and more isolated at the farm they bought with her inheritance, Della begins to feel her memories of a brief first marriage more real than her present life with Tom Rixon

Snow

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Academy Chicago Pub

The Life and Times of Patsy Cline (Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press)

University of Illinois Press

Tale of Twm Sion Cati (Welsh Edition)

Children's Books

Isaac, Margaret Rose

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Apecs Press Caerleon

Researching into Student Learning and Support in Colleges and Universities

Siraj-Blatchford, John (both Lecturers, Westminster College, Oxford University)

Routledge

Reading Peter Handke: Frustration, Fascination, Fantasy

History & Criticism

VDM Verlag Dr. Müller

Using a range of primary sources from imperial, colonial and local government records, Rockefeller Foundation Archives, memoirs and reports, this study provides the most comprehensive account to date of public health in Jamaica in the post-emancipation colonial period to the onset of the Second World War. The account is framed by two pivotal Jamaican experiences that were vital in precipitating significant policy changes at the imperial centre. An examination of the development of the part-time colonial medical service reveals it to be underresourced and inadequate. Most Jamaicans accessed Western medical aid through the Poor Law, a distinguishing feature of the British West Indian colonies, and the issues around the intermeshing of medical and Poor Law aid is a vital contextual question. Chapters on the epidemic and endemic diseases of smallpox and malaria expose the attitudes and the nature of the responses of government, elites and the medical services to such threats. The International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation was active in Jamaica from 1919 until 1950. A detailed analysis of their hookworm campaign, public health education programme and tuberculosis work contributes to a critical understanding of this philanthropic endeavour. The contribution of Jamaica to a new imperial development policy, as exemplified in the 1940 Colonial Development and Welfare Act, is also assessed. A story of government and elite reluctance to finance public health services emerges in which Jamaicans were frequently blamed for their own ill health. Socio-economic causation was sidestepped as class and race perceptions, underpinned by the legacy of slavery, held sway.

Public Health in Jamaica, 1850-1940: Neglect, Philanthropy and Development

History

Americas

University Press of the West Indies

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