This original biography of Edgar Cayce tells the complete story of America's most well-documented psychic. Explores Cayce's life, work, psychic readings, and phenomenal medical cures. Photos. Index.
Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit over the last fifty years has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of racial and economic inequality in modern America, Thomas Sugrue explains how Detroit and many other once prosperous industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He ...
Setting the record straight about the struggle for racial equality in the North, Sugrue delivers an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South.
THERE IS A RIVER The Story of Edgar Cayce by THOMAS SUGRUE Revised Edition New York HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY PREFACE HE story of Edgar Cayce properly belongs in the I history of hypnosis, as a chapter in evidence for 1 the theories of Armand Marc Jacques de Chaste net, Marquis de Puysegur. It was de Puysegur, not Mesmer, who in 1784 discovered ...
In 1896 W. E. B. Du Bois began research that resulted three years later in the publication of his great classic of urban sociology and history, The Philadelphia Negro. Today, a group of the nation's leading historians and sociologists celebrate the centenary of his project through a reappraisal of his book. Motivated by Du Bois's deeply humane ...
Eddie Condon (19051973) pioneered a kind of jazz popularly known as Chicago-Dixieland, though musicians refer to it simply as Condon style. Played by small ensembles with driving beat, it was and is an informal, exciting music, slightly disjointed and often mischievous. The same could be said of Condon's autobiography, We Called It Music, a book ...
America has become a nation of suburbs. Confronting the popular image of suburbia as simply a refuge for affluent whites, "The New Suburban History" rejects the stereotypes of a conformist and conflict-free suburbia. The seemingly calm streets of suburbia were, in fact, battlegrounds over race, class, and politics. With this collection, Kevin ...
1946. The story of the man whose Secret Service detail guarded five presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Contents: Kentucky Babe; Gentleman Bandit; The White House-1914; Wilson-The Courtship; Wilson-Re-Election; The War; The Armistice; Paris; Versailles; Wilson-The Tragedy; The Harding Honeymoon; Disillusion; A President Dies; ...
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Paperback Library
Date Published: 1971
Description: Very Good. Moderate corner, edge wear. Pages very good, clean. Sugrue's story of his many years of collaboration and assistance to Cayce. 367 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Paperback Library
Date Published: 1971
Description: Like New. Like new, near perfect paperback, first paperback printing. Has fine crease on spine from being read maybe once, so I can't say brand new, but it's close. No markings, no wear to covers, just like new. Mendopower Employment Services carefully and promptly packs each book in high-quality bubble lined, envelopes. We commence all orders immediately and appreciate your business and welcome any questions. read more
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Edition: First Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Paperback Library
Date Published: 1971
Description: Good+ with no dust jacket. Pb, light wear/soil, crease at spine/lower front near spine, nick at lower spine, name on 1st pg, pgs starting to darken; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 367 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Peoples Book Club, Chicago
Date Published: 1969
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Many Mansions: The Edgar Cayce Story on Reincarnation
