One of golf’s preeminent commentators with more than fifty years of experience, Ben Wright relates the wealth of experiences he’s gained from writing and broadcasting about the world’s greatest golfers and courses, and his take on the infamous interview that cost him his twenty-three-year career as a golf announcer with CBS Sports. In Good Bounces and Bad Lies, Wright brings the reader into the world of professional golf—and professional golf broadcasting—depicting in equal measure the game’s grace and tradition as well as its often raucous behind-the-scenes character. Wright tells of the ups and downs of his expansive career, relating dozens of funny and outrageous anecdotes along the way. Having known such greats as Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Seve Ballesteros, Tom Watson, and many other prominent figures in the world of golf, Wright gives the true insider’s perspective. Although controversial, Wright is an entertaining and engaging figure who personifies the elegance and audacity of the game of golf. This Bison Books edition features a new afterword by the author.

Good Bounces and Bad Lies

Shiels, Michael Patrick

Wright, Ben

Humor & Entertainment

Bison Books

Ben Wright?s Bonds of Salvation demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American abolitionism during the early years of the republic. From the American Revolution through the eruption of schisms in the three largest Protestant denominations in the 1840s, this comprehensive work lays bare the social and religious divides that culminated in secession and civil war. Historians often emphasize status anxieties, market changes, biracial cooperation, and political maneuvering as primary forces in the evolution of slavery in the United States. Wright instead foregrounds the pivotal role religion played in shaping the ideological contours of the early abolitionist movement. Wright first examines the ideological distinctions between religious conversion and purification in the aftermath of the Revolution, when a small number of white Christians contended that the nation must purify itself from slavery before it could fulfill its religious destiny. Most white Christians disagreed, focusing on visions of spiritual salvation over the practical goal of emancipation. To expand salvation to all, they created new denominations equipped to carry the gospel across the American continent and eventually all over the globe. These denominations established numerous reform organizations, collectively known as the ?benevolent empire,? to reckon with the problem of slavery. One affiliated group, the American Colonization Society (ACS), worked to end slavery and secure white supremacy by promising salvation for Africa and redemption for the United States. Yet the ACS and its efforts drew strong objections. Proslavery prophets transformed expectations of expanded salvation into a formidable antiabolitionist weapon, framing the ACS's proponents as enemies of national unity. Abolitionist assertions that enslavers could not serve as agents of salvation sapped the most potent force in American nationalism?Christianity?and led to schisms within the Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist churches. These divides exacerbated sectional hostilities and sent the nation farther down the path to secession and war. Wright?s provocative analysis reveals that visions of salvation both created and almost destroyed the American nation.

Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)

History

Americas

LSU Press

Kinesthetic Ventures : Informed by the Work of F. M. Alexander, Stanislavski, Peirce & Freud

Bouchard, Ed

MESA Press

Under the leadership of Nehemiah, the Children of Israel rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem. They restored the honor and traditions of a once great city. God wants to build spiritual walls around our lives. He wants to be our refuge. If God can help restore a wall in 52 days, imagine what He can do with you.

52 Days: Rebuilding Our Spiritual Walls

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Enwrightened Publications

Born with a silver knife in his back, Ben Wright's exploits and ordeals in his rites of passage toward self-discovery, range from the extreme to the bizarre. His adventures were enhanced and refined by extraordinary encounters with such Twentieth Century luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Admiral Ruthven Libby, Jonas Salk, G. Gordon Liddy, Ray Charles, Paul Robeson, Colonel Robbie Reisner, Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, "Free-Wheeling" Frank Reynolds, Jim Morrison, Richard Brautigan, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Graves, Juan Goytisolo, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Claribellle Alegria, and cunning Charlie Bludorn. To escape upper-middle class mind-numbing conformity and ennui, Ben joined the U.S. Navy after graduating with honors from an Ivy League university. He served his country as a commissioned line combat naval officer, was involved with the first SEAL team, and became a court martial, Intelligence officer in the Viet Nam era. Following military service, and after failing as an Episcopalian priest, Ben became a blue-water sailor, survived a North Sea mine-field Force 12, and also engaged in working as an archeologist/mythographer. He worked as an actor in American feature films, radio broadcaster and producer, but was redeemed to near bodhisattvahood in Tibetan Buddhism. He also served in prisons for forty-eight years as an alcohol and drug counselor (himself a recovered alcoholic of thirty-one years sobriety), founding Clarion Call, a foundation to end recidivism through education. So indulge yourself within these pages, savoring these true life adventures of this Twenty-first Century Renaissance Man, and you will be asking for more. Reserve the second volume, Authenticity: Inimitable Quintessential.

Flamenco Fugues

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

AuthorHouse

Study of Spanish ideas about poetry and music and life

Duende

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Spirit of Golf

Illustrated with 67 paintings by Ray Ellis.

Sports & Outdoors

Wind, Herbert Warren

Ellis, Ray

Golf

Longstreet Pr

In Ben Wright's autobiography, Good Bounces &amp; Bad Lies, the long-time observer, writer, and commentator presented readers with 45 years of golf experiences. The subjects of his tales included Jack Nicklaus, the Masters, Greg Norman, Cliff Roberts, CBS, Bobby Jones, Ken Venturi, Ireland and the Old Course at St. Andrews. In his new book, Speak Wright, Ben provides his audience with amusing and informative explanations of some of the golf world's most popular and colorful terms, phrases and descriptions. Some you may have already heard of, some you may never hear of. What's for sure, is that only Ben Wright could say them like this.

Speak Wright: The Literate Guide to the Game of Golf

Shiels, Michael

Sleeping Bear Pr

The author describes his career as a golf journalist and broadcaster, and shares ancedotes concerning the professional golfers and golfing celebrities he has known

Good Bounces & Bad Lies: The Autobiography of Ben Wright

Arts & Literature

The BEST & BRIGHTEST is a creative writing competition for student and graduate authors; a competition that isn't just limited to the members of a single University's Students' Union, but one which is open to students and graduates from across the United Kingdom, and beyond If you want to get your work out there, gain some real far-and-wide recognition for your talents in creative writing, and garner some decent prize money, then the BEST & BRIGHTEST competition exists to launch you onwards to fame, acclaim, and those sales that we all know can be achieved, up there among the stars In 2012's BEST & BRIGHTEST Competition, picking out the best student and graduate authors among the blazing cosmos of literary talent that Universities across the World had to offer was a real challenge- but the brightest stars shone through with the most brilliant, intense and vivid entries of all. Here, their short stories have been gathered together into our BEST & BRIGHTEST 2012 Anthology. Which one of these stellar candidates will win the cash prize, and be awarded the title of this year's BEST & BRIGHTEST?

BEST & BRIGHTEST Anthology 2012

Willis, Richard

Publishers Ltd, New Dawn

Burt, Aedan Andrejus

Eades, Charles

Brooke, Julia Lacey

Esau, Samuel

Keys, Lydia

Greatorex, Harry T.

Roberts, Lilly

Short Stories & Anthologies

New Dawn Publishers Ltd

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