Published by Brand: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0871952750 ISBN 13: 9780871952752
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. For twenty years, Hoosier comic Red Skelton entertained millions of viewers who gathered around their television sets to delight in the antics of such notable characters as Freddie the Freeloader, Clem Kaddiddlehopper, Cauliflower McPugg, and Sheriff Deadeye. Noted film historian Wes D. Gehring examines the man behind the characters--someone who never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Gehring delves into Skelton's hardscrabble life with a shockingly dysfunctional family in the southern Indiana community of Vincennes, his days on the road on the vaudeville circuit, the comedian's early success on radio, his up-and-down movie career with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and his sometimes tragic personal life.
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Published by Brand: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0871952688 ISBN 13: 9780871952684
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Politics has always played an important role in Indiana, and the state itself at one time furnished candidates for national office for an assortment of American political parties. From 1840, when Whig William Henry Harrison captured the White House with his "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" campaign, to 1940, when Wendell Willkie won the Republican presidential nomination and challenged incumbent President Franklin Roosevelt's try for a third term in office, approximately 60 percent of the elections had Hoosiers on a party's national ticket. Seeking political office became so ingrained into the state's character that noted humorist and journalist George Ade once joked--playing off General William Tecumseh Sherman's famous quote--that the first words of every Hoosier child upon birth were: "If nominated I will run, if elected I will serve." Geoff Paddock's "Indiana Political Heroes" takes a contemporary look at those who serve in public office as it includes essays on eight Hoosier politicians that have made a difference in Indiana and in the nation's capital as well. Paddock profiles such distinguished Democratic and Republican lawmakers as Birch Bayh, John Brademas, Richard Hatcher, R. Vance Hartke, William Hudnut, Richard Ristine, J. Edward Roush, and William Ruckelshaus. In these essays readers will learn about national educational reform, opposition to the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the growth of Indianapolis into a nationally respected community.
Published by Brand: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0871952629 ISBN 13: 9780871952622
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In the 1840s and 1850s, thousands of German families left Europe for a new life in America. Hundreds of these immigrants eventually settled in the Dubois County community of Jasper, Indiana, the county seat. Surrounding the town were dense hardwood forests that provided the raw materials for craftsmen to begin the furniture-making firms for which the area became well known. Two of the German families that put down roots in the Jasper area, the Schmitts and the Krapfs, produced a son who today remembers those days of close ties to family and the land. The Ripest Moments: A Southern Indiana Childhood is a memoir by noted Indiana poet and essayist Norbert Krapf of his childhood and growing up in Jasper. In the book Krapf, who was born in 1943 and whose poetry has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, recalls his rural, small-town upbringing in the German-Catholic community and unearths the distinctive place and culture in which he lived. As Krapf observes, "Behind this book and my collections of poetry is a conviction that an awareness of individual and collective origins can enlighten, nourish, guide, and sustain us and those who come after us."
Published by Brand: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0871952602 ISBN 13: 9780871952608
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. Located sixty-five miles northeast of the state capital of Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, has seen a number of notable people pass through the community, including such Indiana legends as Cole Porter and James Dean. It has also, however, been home to racial strife, including the infamous lynching of two African American men in 1930. Marion was also the hometown of a young black man who would do much to help restore harmony among blacks and whites in the community. Going over All the Hurdles: A Life of Oatess Archey, written by John A. Beineke, who lived in Madison and was one of Archey's students, is the fifth volume in the IHS Press's youth biography series. The book explores the career of Archey, the first African American to be elected sheriff in Indiana. Raised in Marion, Indiana, the young Archey and his loving family lived under the cloud of the notorious 1930 lynching. A star athlete, including winning the state championship in the high hurdles in 1955, Archey endured discrimination when he attempted to return to his hometown after college and tried to secure a teaching job with the Marion schools. Instead of teaching in a classroom, Archey was forced to take a janitorial position with the school system. He later rose to become a beloved teacher and coach, before moving on to a career in law enforcement with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He returned to Marion in triumph and served as a popular sheriff for Grant County. As author Beineke notes, the word hurdle is used in this book "both symbolically and athletically. As a symbol, it will embody the barriers that Archey had to overcome throughout his life. The hurdle, as an obstacle in a track-and-field event, will also represent a moment of achievement that exemplified his entire life. Archey not only went over hurdles, but he taught others how to go over them, too. That is how a life truly makes a difference."
Published by Brand: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 0871951126 ISBN 13: 9780871951120
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Published by Brand: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 0871952890 ISBN 13: 9780871952899
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Published by Brand: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2009
ISBN 10: 0871952742 ISBN 13: 9780871952745
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Published by Brand: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0871952556 ISBN 13: 9780871952554
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Published by Brand: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0871952009 ISBN 13: 9780871952004
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Published by Brand: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0871952645 ISBN 13: 9780871952646
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Published by Brand: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 087195284X ISBN 13: 9780871952844
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