Gentleman Jimmy Walker, Mayor of the Jazz Age

History

Walsh, George

Americas

Praeger

Mayor Jimmy Walker -- a symbol of the jazz age, head of the city during the age of flappers, Prohibition, great Modernist literary talents and mobster gunmen. This is as much a story of New York in the Roaring Twenties as it is of this rakish man. "George Walsh's biography of Jimmy Walker is lively, funny, trenchant, thorough -- the saga of a charming rogue." -- Stephen Birmingham

Gentleman Jimmy Walker, Mayor of the Jazz Age.

Henry Holt & Company, Inc.

Supplies biographical sketches, lists of exhibitions, critical analyses, and examples of the work of 650 photographers from around the world

Contemporary Photographers (Contemporary Arts Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Saint Martin's Press, Incorporated

Millions of Americans suffer from acute and chronic pain. Often they feel helpless, unable to accurately describe and overcome their suffering. Instead of treating their pain effectively, many are subjected to unnecessary surgery or drugs with damaging side effects. Pain is a real problem. But fortunately, it is also one that can be overcome. The Rusk Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine is known as one of the best pain treatment centers in the world. Now, the Director of the Rusk Institute, Mathew H. M. Lee, M.D., has teamed up with his colleague, Mary F. Bezkor, M.D., to write this easy-to-read and authoritative book on pain. Not only do the doctors correct any misinformation about the various causes of pain, they also bring you up-to-date on the latest pain-reduction techniques. They offer many forms of therapy, from traditional treatments to alternative innovations, that will help you to eliminate suffering. They deal with all types of painful conditions, from long-term physical ailments to sudden and temporary injuries. As you learn about the benefits and drawbacks of each therapy, you and your doctor be able to create a pain management program tailored to your specific needs.

Erasing Pain: New Treatments from the World-Famous Rusk Institute's Medical Specialists

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Bezkor, Mary F.

Lee, Mathew H .M.

Alternative Medicine

Thomas Dunne Books

Millions of Americans suffer from acute and chronic pain. Often they feel helpless, unable to accurately describe and overcome their suffering. Instead of treating their pain effectively, many are subjected to unnecessary surgery or drugs with damaging side effects. The Rusk Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine is known as one of the best pain treatment centers in the world. Now the director of the Rusk Institute, Dr. Mathew H. M. Lee has teamed up with his colleague Dr. Mary F. Bezkor to write this easy-to-read and authoritative book on pain. As you learn about the benefits and drawbacks of each therapy, you and your doctor will be able to create a pain management program tailored to your specific needs.

St. Martin's: Griffin

Damage Them All You Can: Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia

“Damage them all you can,” the patrician Lee exhorts, and his Southern army, ragtag in uniform and elite in spirit, responds ferociously in one battle after another against their Northern enemies—from the Seven Days and the Valley Campaign through Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, from the Wilderness to Spotsylvania to the final siege of Richmond and Petersburg. Lee knows that the South’s five-and-a-half million white population will be worn down in any protracted struggle by the North’s twenty-two million. He is ever offensive-minded, ever seeking the victory that will destroy his enemies’ will to fight. He uses his much shorter interior lines to rush troops to trouble spots by forced marches and by rail. His cavalry rides on raids around the entire union army. Lee divides his own force time and again, defying military custom by bluffing one wing of the enemy while striking furiously elsewhere. But this book is more than military history. Walsh’s narrative digs deeper, revealing the humanity of Lee and his lieutenants as never before—their nobility and their flaws, their chilling acceptance of death, their tender relations with wives and sweethearts in the midst of carnage. Here we encounter in depth the men who still stir the imagination. The dutiful Robert E. Lee, haunted by his father’s failures; stern and unbending Stonewall Jackson, cut down at the moment of his greatest triumph; stolid James Longstreet, who came to believe he was Lee’s equal as a strategist, the enigmatic George Pickett. These men and scores of others, enlisted men as well as officers, carry the ultimately tragic story of the Army of Northern Virginia forward with heart rending force and bloody impact. As the war progresses we wonder above all else, had orders been strictly obeyed here or daylight lasted an extra hour there, what might have been. Only Appomattox brings an end to such speculation, when the tattered remnants of Lee’s army, both the still living and the shadowy dead, stack their arms at last.

Forge Books

Both William O'Dwyer, the 104th mayor of New York City, and Frank Costello, prime minister of the underworld, were immigrants, and there the similarity might have ended, except for the televised Kefauver hearings on organized crime in 1951 that linked them forever.
The smiling gregarious O'Dwyer, Irish to his toes, walked a policeman's beat while studying law and became the crusading district attorney who broke up Murder Inc.
Cotsello, the son of Calabrian peasants, turned early to crime in the streets of East Harlem, and never turned back. He and other young hoods--Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Joe Adonis--built a national crime network that extended from numbers to narcotics, from New York to California.
A part of the syndicate's fiefdom was Tammany Hall. Only Tammany could crown a mayor. William O'Dwyer profoundly wished to be mayor of New York and in 1945 his wish came true. Then wide open gambling had a hey-day--numbers, race track wire services, crooked cops, a mob-controlled Tammany hall. And in the midst of it all, a burdened O'Dwyer, unwisely trusting in Tammany and his own subordinates, much beleaguered by gossip and by fact, was driven from office. Soon after, Senator Kefauver rode in on an electronic horse, and the scandals involving the mayor and the mob became public property.
George Walsh has written a very American story of two men who took different roads to the same destination, of two "Public Enemies" and the crime that was.

Public Enemies: The Mayor, The Mob and The Crime That Was

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Public Enemies: The Mayor, The Mob, and the Crime That Was

Historical

W.W.Norton&Company

Whip the Rebellion: Ulysses S. Grant's Rise to Command

How the unprepossessing Ulysses S. Grant, whose military genius ultimately preserved the Union, came to the forefront in the Civil War is a story as surprising as it is compelling. Forced to resign his commission in the peacetime army for drinking, and thereafter reduced to eking out a living for himself and his family with hardscrabble jobs, at the outbreak of hostilities he suddenly found himself a colonel, and then a general, of volunteers. Grant made the most of unexpected commands. what he knew best, it turned out, was how to wage war, relentlessly and with irresistible force. Early in 1862, with the conflict a year old and both sides in the West relunctant to fight, Grant seized the iniative and took Forts Henry and Donelson, capturing an entire rebel army. Later, in Mississippi, he conducted the ardous campaign against Vicksbug, cutting the confederacy in half and capturing a second army. All the time Grant was forced to cope with jealous superiors, like General Henry Halleck, while finding staunch allies in General William Sherman and Admiral David Dixon Porter, and dealing with disloyalty, like that of General John McClernard, who actually came close to replacing him.But for his many victories Grant was named commander in the West, and sent to relieve the seige of Chattanooga, which earned him his promotion to general-in-chief. "Whip the Rebellion" was Grant's watchword every day of the war. This dramatic narrative---peopled with the heroics of hundreds of officers and enlisted men, crammed with first-hand accounts of battles, tactics, and civilian hardships---offers fresh insights into both the public and personal lives of Grant and his immediate circle.

How the unprepossessing Ulysses S. Grant, whose military genius ultimately preserved the Union, came to the forefront in the Civil War is a story as surprising as it is compelling. Forced to resign his commission in the peacetime army for drinking, and thereafter reduced to eking out a living for himself and his family with hardscrabble jobs, at the outbreak of hostilities he suddenly found himself a colonel, and then a general, of volunteers. Grant made the most of unexpected commands. What he knew best, it turned out, was how to wage war, relentlessly and with irresistible force.
Early in 1862, with the conflict a year old and both sides in the West reluctant to fight, Grant seized the initiative and took Forts Henry and Donelson, capturing an entire rebel army. Later, in Mississippi, he conducted the arduous campaign against Vicksburg, cutting the confederacy in half and capturing a second army. All the time Grant was forced to cope with jealous superiors, like General Henry Halleck, while finding staunch allies in General William Sherman and Admiral David Dixon Porter, and dealing with disloyalty, like that of General John McClernard, who actually came close to replacing him. But for his many victories Grant was named commander in the West, and sent to relieve the siege of Chattanooga, which earned him his promotion to general-in-chief.
"Whip the Rebellion" were Grant's watchwords every day of the war. This dramatic narrative--peopled with the heroics of hundreds of officers and enlisted men, crammed with first-hand accounts of battles, tactics, and civilian hardships--offers fresh insights into both the public and personal lives of Grant and his immediate circle.

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Gentleman Jimmy Walker, Mayor of the Jazz Age

Gentleman Jimmy Walker, Mayor of the Jazz Age.

Contemporary Photographers (Contemporary Arts Series)

Erasing Pain: New Treatments from the World-Famous Rusk Institute's Medical Specialists

Erasing Pain: New Treatments from the World-Famous Rusk Institute's Medical Specialists

Damage Them All You Can: Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia

Public Enemies: The Mayor, The Mob and The Crime That Was

Public Enemies: The Mayor, The Mob, and the Crime That Was

Whip the Rebellion: Ulysses S. Grant's Rise to Command

Whip the Rebellion: Ulysses S. Grant's Rise to Command