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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 988 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador). In both regions, the history of civilization goes back thousands of years. ... Read more

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25 hits from this legendary Rat Pack member: The Candy Man * I've Gotta Be Me * Love Me or Leave Me * Something's Gotta Give * That Old Black Magic * Too Close for Comfort * What Kind of Fool Am I? * and more. ... Read more

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(21 Audio CDs/23.5 Hrs.) He was, for decades, one of the most recognizable figures in the cultural landscape, his image epitomizing a golden age of American show business. His career spanned a lifetime, but for years he has remained hidden behind the persona he so vigorously generated, and so fiercely protected. Now we are taken beyond the icon, into the extraordinary, singular life of Sammy Davis, Jr.In scrupulous detail Wil Haygood takes us back to the era of vaudeville, where it all began for four-year-old Sammy who ran out onstage one night and stole the show. From then on it was a motherless childhood on the road, singing and dancing his way across a segregated America with his father and the formidable showman Will Mastin, struggling together to survive the Depression and the demise of vaudeville itself.Haygood brings Sammy's showbiz life into full relief against the backdrop of an America in the throes of racial change. He made his living entertaining white people but was often denied service in the very venues he played. Drafted into a newly integrated U.S. Army in the1940s, he saw up close the fierce tensions that seethed below the surface. Dragged into the civil rights movement, he witnessed a hatred that often erupted into violence. In his broad and varied friendships and alliances (Frank Sinatra; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Richard Nixon; Sidney Poitier; Marilyn Monroe, to name just a few), not to mention his romances he forged uncharted paths across racial lines. Admired and reviled by both blacks and whites, he was tormented all his life by raging insecurities, and never quite came to terms with his own skin. Ultimately, his only true sense of his identity was as a performer.Wil Haygood brings us a sweeping and vivid cultural history of the twentieth century, chronicling black entertainment from its beginnings and the birth of popular culture as we know it. ... Read more

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Chapters: Peter Falk, Dale Chihuly, Raoul Walsh, Charles Krauthammer, Sammy Davis, Jr., Henry Lee Lucas, Wayne Rainey, Sequoyah, Johnny Eck, Leon Fleisher, Melody Gardot, John C. Ostlund, Christine Griffin, Harvey Kuenn, Arthur C. Watson, Joni Eareckson Tada, David Edwards, Susan Audé, John Hockenberry, James Brady, Doug Henry, Bill Sackter, Leonard Trask, Mark Zupan, Michael Zinzun, Harry M. Woods, Josh Blue, Bushwick Bill, Kristen Cox, Roy L. Dennis, Matt Brown, John Porter East, Tom Rafferty, Robert W. "Bo" Williams, Rich Williams, Ted Devita, Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer, Jill Kinmont, Barbara Boggs Sigmund, Serena Waldman, Sunaura Taylor, Fred Fay, Danny Chandler, Tony Distefano, David Ring, Geri Jewell, Genain Quadruplets, Karen Killilea, Jesse Houts, Laz-D, Logan Magazine, Celestine Tate Harrington, Jim Carvin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 246. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Charles Krauthammer (pronounced ; born March 13, 1950) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist and political commentator. His weekly column appears in the The Washington Post and is syndicated in more than 200 newspapers and media outlets. He is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and The New Republic. He is a Fox News contributor, a regular panelist on Foxs evening news program Special Report with Bret Baier and a weekly panelist on Inside Washington. Krauthammer was born on March 13, 1950 in New York City. He was raised in Montreal, Canada, where he attended Herzliah High School and McGill University and obtained an honors degree in political science and economics in 1970. From 1970 to 1971, he was a Commonwealth Scholar in politics at Balliol College, Oxford. He later moved to the United States, where he attended Harvard Medical School. Suffering a paralyzing diving accide...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=530784 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Sammy Davis Jr., Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Colin Powell, Harry Belafonte, Jonone, Tito Puente, Erik Estrada, John Carlos, Jackie Mclean, Taj Mahal, Vanessa Del Rio, Keith David, Yaya Dacosta, Damon Dash, Fiorello Laguardia, Henry Letang, Cam'ron, Mekhi Phifer, Gene Anthony Ray, Scriverius, Rob Brown. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Sammy Davis Jr., de véritable identité Samuel George Davis, Jr., né le 8 décembre 1925 dans le quartier d'Harlem dans la ville New York aux États-Unis et mort le 16 mai 1990 à Beverly Hills, est un artiste américain aux multiples talents comme danseur, chanteur, acteur, imitateur, musicien (vibraphone, trompette et batterie). Samuel George Sammy Davis Jr. naît dans le quartier de Harlem à New York. Il est le fils d'Elvera Sanchez, une danseuse, et de Sammy Davis Sr., un artiste touche-à-tout afro-américain. Le couple gagne sa vie en jouant dans des comédies populaires au théâtre. Nourrisson, il est élevé par sa grand-mère paternelle. Le petit Sammy n'est âgé que de 3 ans lorsque ses parents divorcent. Pour éviter de perdre la garde de son fils, Sammy Sr. l'emmène avec lui en tournée. Au sujet de sa mère, Sammy Davis Jr. prétendra toute sa vie qu'elle était porto-ricaine, mais l'un de ses biographes affirme que celle-ci était en fait d'origine cubaine. Sammy aurait menti pour éviter d'être confronté aux sentiments anti-cubains de l'Amérique des années 60, à leur apogée après la crise des missiles en 1962. Enfant, il apprend la danse grâce à son père et à son « oncle », Will Mastin, le leader de la troupe où danse Sammy Sr. Bientôt, le jeune Sammy Jr. rejoint son père et Will Mastin pour former le Will Mastin Trio. Tout au long de sa carrière, Sammy Davis Jr. reversera une ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr&id=579378 ... Read more