Tygiel jules (370 risultati)

Condizione: Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. In Los Angeles in the 1920s, C.C. Julian and the Julian Petroleum Corporation were household words, and the Julian Pete swindle ranked with Teapot Dome as one of the great scandals of the era. It symbolized not merely what FDR would call a decade of debauchery of group selfishness, but the failed hopes and dreams of the great boom of the 1920s. Indeed, no single story captures the essence of that decade in America--its boosterism and rampant speculation, its entrepreneurial mania for mergers, its overlap of business and politics, and its infatuation with wealth, whiskey, and Hollywood glamor--quite so well as the Julian Petroleum swindle. The Great Los Angeles Swindle begins with a murder (the sudden courtroom shooting of banker Motley Flint, the debonaire movie financier and city booster), ends with a spectacular suicide in Shanghai (where C.C. Julian downs a vial of poison after a lavish champagne dinner), and, in between, takes as many unexpected twists and turns as any mystery novel. Jules Tygiel offers a gripping account of this wonderfully complex scandal, which features such legendary figures as Louis B. Mayer, Cecil B. DeMille, Charlie Chaplin (who decks Julian in a fistfight in Hollywood's posh Cafe Petroushka), Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler, H.M. Haldeman (grandfather of Watergate's H.R. Haldeman), and pioneer radio evangelist Fighting Bob Shuler. Conmen, bankers, underworld kingpins, political bosses, a corrupt district attorney, bribed jurors, and other colorful characters round out the cast. At the book's center stands the flamboyant C.C. Julian, a likable if unscrupulous promoter, whose life was flavored with controversy. Tygiel follows Julian to Los Angeles, where during the spectacular oil boom of the 1920s, his innovative newspaper advertising and early successes (Julian No. 1 still pumped oil decades after the promoter himself had died) won him a devoted following. Force to cut back production by major oil companies, he created Julian Petroleum, which he promised would soon rival Standard Oil. Dispensing Defiance Gasoline from its pumps, Julian Petroleum fought off the efforts of state regulatory agencies and federal investigators to shut it down, before Julian had to surrender ownership to oilman S.C. Lewis. Lewis and his crafty associate, Jacob Berman, over-issued millions of shares of counterfeit stock while pyramiding stock pools and loan schemes into a $150,000,000 fraud. The infamous Million Dollar Pool (which included Flint, Mayer, Haldeman, and other prominent Los Angeles businessmen) delivered lucrative profits to its elite members, while tens of thousands of small investors lost their nest eggs when Julian Petroleum collapsed in 1927. The aftermath of the scandal included the longest trial in the history of the county (which produced 99 volumes of trial transcripts, cost in excess of $250,000, and convicted no one), unseated a district attorney and a governor, enthroned a former Ku Klux Klansman as mayor of Los Angeles, and filled the courts with related cases and scandalous revelations well into the Depression decade. The Great Los Angeles Swindle is a saga of the roaring twenties, with its glorification of business, its get-rich-quick mentality, and its paucity of government regulation, which bred speculation, corruption, and corporate chaos throughout the nation in a manner not dissimilar to the financial chicanery of our own era. Above all, it is a compelling story and swiftly moving narrative that readers will not soon forget.…

Paperback. Condizione: As New.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Jules Tygiel?s biography of Ronald Reagan engages students with the compelling story of the man who went from Hollywood actor to President of the United States.  This balanced profile considers both the accomplishments and failures of Reagan?s presidency, as well as the contested legacy of his political career even after his death. Incorporating the latest scholarship, Ronald Reagan and the Triumph of American Conservatism examines Reagan both as an individual and in the larger context of the conservative movement.The titles in the Library of American Biography Series make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each interpretative biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Jules Tygiel?s biography of Ronald Reagan engages students with the compelling story of the man who went from Hollywood actor to President of the United States.  This balanced profile considers both the accomplishments and failures of Reagan?s presidency, as well as the contested legacy of his political career even after his death. Incorporating the latest scholarship, Ronald Reagan and the Triumph of American Conservatism examines Reagan both as an individual and in the larger context of the conservative movement.The titles in the Library of American Biography Series make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each interpretative biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Enlarged. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Condizione: Acceptable. Book has minor liquid or water damage on pages. Ships same or next business day with delivery confirmation. Acceptable condition. Contains highlighting. Expedited shipping available.

Condizione: good. Fast Free Shipping â" Good condition. It may show normal signs of use, such as light writing, highlighting, or library markings, but all pages are intact and the book is fully readable. A solid, complete copy that's ready to enjoy.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Enlarged. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Enlarged. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. In Past Time, Jules Tygiel provides baseball history with a difference. Instead of a pitch-by-pitch account of great games, in this groundbreaking book, the field is American history and baseball itself is the star.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. In Past Time, Jules Tygiel provides baseball history with a difference. Instead of a pitch-by-pitch account of great games, in this groundbreaking book, the field is American history and baseball itself is the star.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. In Past Time, Jules Tygiel provides baseball history with a difference. Instead of a pitch-by-pitch account of great games, in this groundbreaking book, the field is American history and baseball itself is the star.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. 25th anniversary. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. 25th anniversary. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Condizione: Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. When it was first published in 1983, Baseball's Great Experiment received glowing praise from virtually all quarters. The Chicago Sun-Times called it "a thumpingly good baseball book," and Red Barber wrote in The New Republic that it was "by far the most comprehensive single book on the subject." "Eminently readable," added Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post Book World, "not only is this a book that is long overdue, but it turns out to be a book that was well worth the wait." Baseball's Great Experiment tells the story of one of the most explosive and far-reaching episodes in American sports history, an event now enshrined in folklore. Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier in 1946 shook America almost as profoundly as the Supreme Court's decision upholding desegregation in public schools a few years later. But this book doesn't end with Robinson: Baseball's Great Experiment follows the entire saga of baseball integration through 1959, when the Boston Red Sox--the last all-white Major League team--brought up the black infielder "Pumpsie" Green from the minors. As Tygiel makes clear, the integration of baseball transformed not only American athletics, but American society as well. Two characters tower above all others: Robinson the gifted athlete, and Branch Rickey, then president of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Tygiel goes behind the scenes to recount Rickey's meticulous planning--his motives, his search for the right player, even his handling of sportscasters. Against the backdrop of a postwar America unprepared for the Civil Rights struggle, the story proceeds from Robinson's chilly reception among teammates and opponents alike, through his daily ordeal of taunts and death threats both on and off the field, to his triumph as rookie-of-the-year, when he led the Dodgers to the 1947 World Series, and ultimate recognition as one of the greatest players of all time. Robinson, however, was only the first of many blacks to play in the Majors, and Baseball's Great Experiment traces the complete, painfully slow process of desegregation, in the process telling the often neglected stories of men like Larry Doby, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and many other pioneers. Tygiel also offers a unique look at integration in the minor leagues, and the role that the lifting of the color barrier played in the battle against Jim Crow in the South. Based on interviews with dozens of players and baseball executives, contemporary newspaper accounts, and the personal papers of those who were there, this is the moving story of true courage--an unforgettable re-creation of a bygone era in America.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. When it was first published in 1983, Baseball's Great Experiment received glowing praise from virtually all quarters. The Chicago Sun-Times called it "a thumpingly good baseball book," and Red Barber wrote in The New Republic that it was "by far the most comprehensive single book on the subject." "Eminently readable," added Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post Book World, "not only is this a book that is long overdue, but it turns out to be a book that was well worth the wait." Baseball's Great Experiment tells the story of one of the most explosive and far-reaching episodes in American sports history, an event now enshrined in folklore. Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier in 1946 shook America almost as profoundly as the Supreme Court's decision upholding desegregation in public schools a few years later. But this book doesn't end with Robinson: Baseball's Great Experiment follows the entire saga of baseball integration through 1959, when the Boston Red Sox--the last all-white Major League team--brought up the black infielder "Pumpsie" Green from the minors. As Tygiel makes clear, the integration of baseball transformed not only American athletics, but American society as well. Two characters tower above all others: Robinson the gifted athlete, and Branch Rickey, then president of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Tygiel goes behind the scenes to recount Rickey's meticulous planning--his motives, his search for the right player, even his handling of sportscasters. Against the backdrop of a postwar America unprepared for the Civil Rights struggle, the story proceeds from Robinson's chilly reception among teammates and opponents alike, through his daily ordeal of taunts and death threats both on and off the field, to his triumph as rookie-of-the-year, when he led the Dodgers to the 1947 World Series, and ultimate recognition as one of the greatest players of all time. Robinson, however, was only the first of many blacks to play in the Majors, and Baseball's Great Experiment traces the complete, painfully slow process of desegregation, in the process telling the often neglected stories of men like Larry Doby, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and many other pioneers. Tygiel also offers a unique look at integration in the minor leagues, and the role that the lifting of the color barrier played in the battle against Jim Crow in the South. Based on interviews with dozens of players and baseball executives, contemporary newspaper accounts, and the personal papers of those who were there, this is the moving story of true courage--an unforgettable re-creation of a bygone era in America.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 25th anniversary. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. In Los Angeles in the 1920s, C.C. Julian and the Julian Petroleum Corporation were household words, and the Julian Pete swindle ranked with Teapot Dome as one of the great scandals of the era. It symbolized not merely what FDR would call a decade of debauchery of group selfishness, but the failed hopes and dreams of the great boom of the 1920s. Indeed, no single story captures the essence of that decade in America--its boosterism and rampant speculation, its entrepreneurial mania for mergers, its overlap of business and politics, and its infatuation with wealth, whiskey, and Hollywood glamor--quite so well as the Julian Petroleum swindle. The Great Los Angeles Swindle begins with a murder (the sudden courtroom shooting of banker Motley Flint, the debonaire movie financier and city booster), ends with a spectacular suicide in Shanghai (where C.C. Julian downs a vial of poison after a lavish champagne dinner), and, in between, takes as many unexpected twists and turns as any mystery novel. Jules Tygiel offers a gripping account of this wonderfully complex scandal, which features such legendary figures as Louis B. Mayer, Cecil B. DeMille, Charlie Chaplin (who decks Julian in a fistfight in Hollywood's posh Cafe Petroushka), Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler, H.M. Haldeman (grandfather of Watergate's H.R. Haldeman), and pioneer radio evangelist Fighting Bob Shuler. Conmen, bankers, underworld kingpins, political bosses, a corrupt district attorney, bribed jurors, and other colorful characters round out the cast. At the book's center stands the flamboyant C.C. Julian, a likable if unscrupulous promoter, whose life was flavored with controversy. Tygiel follows Julian to Los Angeles, where during the spectacular oil boom of the 1920s, his innovative newspaper advertising and early successes (Julian No. 1 still pumped oil decades after the promoter himself had died) won him a devoted following. Force to cut back production by major oil companies, he created Julian Petroleum, which he promised would soon rival Standard Oil. Dispensing Defiance Gasoline from its pumps, Julian Petroleum fought off the efforts of state regulatory agencies and federal investigators to shut it down, before Julian had to surrender ownership to oilman S.C. Lewis. Lewis and his crafty associate, Jacob Berman, over-issued millions of shares of counterfeit stock while pyramiding stock pools and loan schemes into a $150,000,000 fraud. The infamous Million Dollar Pool (which included Flint, Mayer, Haldeman, and other prominent Los Angeles businessmen) delivered lucrative profits to its elite members, while tens of thousands of small investors lost their nest eggs when Julian Petroleum collapsed in 1927. The aftermath of the scandal included the longest trial in the history of the county (which produced 99 volumes of trial transcripts, cost in excess of $250,000, and convicted no one), unseated a district attorney and a governor, enthroned a former Ku Klux Klansman as mayor of Los Angeles, and filled the courts with related cases and scandalous revelations well into the Depression decade. The Great Los Angeles Swindle is a saga of the roaring twenties, with its glorification of business, its get-rich-quick mentality, and its paucity of government regulation, which bred speculation, corruption, and corporate chaos throughout the nation in a manner not dissimilar to the financial chicanery of our own era. Above all, it is a compelling story and swiftly moving narrative that readers will not soon forget.…

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Condizione: good. Fast Free Shipping â" Good condition. It may show normal signs of use, such as light writing, highlighting, or library markings, but all pages are intact and the book is fully readable. A solid, complete copy that's ready to enjoy.

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Concise and engaging, Ronald Reagan and the Triumph of Conservatism immerses students in the life of one of the most important figures of the Twentieth Century, paralleling the key events of that century. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each of the titles in the Library of American Biography series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American History and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.