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Juan Carlos I (edición actualizada): El rey de un pueblo
by Paul PrestonLa edición actualizada de la gran biografía de Juan Carlos I. Hay dos misterios centrales en la vida de Juan Carlos, uno personal, el otro político. ¿Cómo explicar la aparente serenidad con que Juan Carlos aceptó que su padre lo entregara, a todos los efectos, atado de pies y manos al régimen de Franco? En una familia normal, este acto se habría considerado una especie de crueldad o, como mínimo, una desaprensiva irresponsabilidad. Pero una familia real no es «normal», y la decisión de enviar a Juan Carlos a España respondía a una «superior» lógica dinástica. El segundo misterio estriba en cómo un príncipe procedente de una familia con tradiciones autoritarias, obligado a actuar dentro de unas «normas» franquistas, y educado para ser la piedra angular de un complejo plan para la continuidad de la dictadura, se comprometió firmemente con la democracia. Paul Preston, uno de los historiadores que más luz ha arrojado sobrela historia de España en el siglo XX, ha actualizado su gran obra sobre el rey Juan Carlos, en la que aborda las conflictivas relaciones con su padre, su educación encaminada a perpetuar el régimen de Franco, su apuesta por la democracia, su enfrentamiento al golpismo hasta llegar a la plena consolidación de la monarquía parlamentaria y la evolución de la monarquía desde entonces. El resultado es un libro riguroso y escrito con una prosa vibrante que nos ofrece un retrato humano y político del hombre que se propuso ser el «Rey de todos los españoles». La crítica ha dicho...«Una obra espléndida, que a modo de biografía no autorizada, nos ofrece una visión de la España contemporánea.»Marius Carol, La Vanguardia «De lectura obligada para todos cuantos se interesen por nuestra historia más reciente.»Charles Powell, El cultural «Un libro formidable.» Luis María Anson «Una biografía excelente.»Sunday Times «Una obra rigurosa que además es una historia fascinante. Su gran mérito es recordarnos que en medio de todas las batallas dinásticas, las conspiraciones políticas y la especulación de los medios hay un ser humano que a menudo ha estado muy solo.»The Economist
Juan Carlos. Nueva edición
by Paul PrestonHay dos misterios centrales en la vida de Juan Carlos, uno personal, el otro político.¿Cómo explicar la aparente serenidad con que Juan Carlos aceptó que su padre lo entregara, a todos los efectos, atado de pies y manos al régimen de Franco? En una familia normal, este acto se habría considerado una especie de crueldad o, como mínimo, una desaprensiva irresponsabilidad. Pero una familia real no es «normal», y la decisión de enviar a Juan Carlos a España respondía a una «superior» lógica dinástica. El segundo misterio estriba en cómo un príncipe procedente de una familia con tradiciones autoritarias, obligado a actuar dentro de unas «normas» franquistas, y educado para ser la piedra angular de un complejo plan para la continuidad de la dictadura, se comprometió firmemente con la democracia. Paul Preston, uno de los historiadores que más luz ha arrojado sobre la historia de España en el siglo XX, ha actualizado su gran obra sobre el rey Juan Carlos, en la que aborda las conflictivas relaciones con su padre, su educación encaminada a perpetuar el régimen de Franco, su apuesta por la democracia, su enfrentamiento al golpismo hasta llegar a la plena consolidación de la monarquía parlamentaria y la evolución de la monarquía desde entonces. El resultado es un libro riguroso y escrito con una prosa vibrante que nos ofrece un retrato humano y político del hombre que se propuso ser el «Rey de todos los españoles».«Una obra espléndida, que a modo de biografía no autorizada, nos ofrece una visión de la España contemporánea.»Marius Carol, La Vanguardia«De lectura obligada para todos cuantos se interesen por nuestra historia más reciente.»Charles Powell, El cultural«Un libro formidable.»Luis María Anson«Una biografía excelente.»Sunday Times«Una obra rigurosa que además es una historia fascinante. Su gran mérito es recordarnos que en medio de todas las batallas dinásticas, las conspiraciones políticas y la especulación de los medios hay un ser humano que a menudo ha estado muy solo.»The Economist
Juan Domingo: El mejor legado del gran escritor. Perón detrás del mito
by José García HamiltonUna apasionante y lúcida biografía del Perón de carne y hueso: sufamilia, motivaciones, actitudes, gustos, decisiones, su manera de ser yde actuar, los hombres y las mujeres que lo rodearon. Motivado por sus ideales liberales y libertarios, José Ignacio GarcíaHamilton nos acercó la vida de Alberdi, Sarmiento, San Martín y Bolívar.Ahora elige a Juan Domingo Perón. ¿Por qué Perón? Existía en el escritorla íntima y profunda necesidad de investigar sobre la persona que, másde sesenta años después de irrumpir en la vida política argentina eincluso después de su muerte, continúa inspirando y abrigando en unmismo signo político a líderes y seguidores de pensamientos y accionestan disímiles.Desde muy joven, y más aún desde su ingreso al Congreso Nacional comodiputado por su provincia natal, José Ignacio se mostró interesado porentender el movimiento peronista. Las múltiples facetas, muchas de ellasopuestas, enfrentadas o contradictorias, que signan la maquinariajusticialista del poder lo dejaban perplejo. ¿Cómo y por qué losperonistas de las extracciones más diversas pueden sentirse parte de unmismo colectivo y abrazados por una misma praxis? ¿Qué los une? Larespuesta a estos interrogantes no podía sino estar en el origen. Eseorigen es el propio Juan Domingo Perón. El militar, el político, eldeportista, el conductor, el estratega, el seductor, pero, sobre todo,el hombre: la historia de su vida, familia, motivaciones, actitudes,gustos, decisiones, su manera de ser y de actuar, los hombres y lasmujeres que lo rodearon.El autor buscó, como lo hiciera siempre y de manera exitosa, al hombredetrás del mito. Es así como en esta apasionante biografía nos trae,entre tantas otras facetas inéditas, al alumno cuya partida denacimiento es falsificada para ingresar al Colegio Militar, aladolescente que sufre al encontrar a su madre acostada con un peón, aljoven rechazado por su prima Mecha debido a su origen familiar brumoso,además del exitoso político y el líder de las pasiones encontradas.Juan Domingo no es un libro sobre el pasado. La mirada de GarcíaHamilton atraviesa hechos y acciones con una lucidez nueva, producto deaños de intensa búsqueda de la verdad histórica, aquella que permiteiluminar nuestro presente y proyectar un futuro promisorio. Juan Domingoes, sin lugar a dudas, el mejor legado que podía dejarnos el incansableensayista, el divulgador apasionado, el talentoso escritor y el hombreque buscó siempre la verdad.
Juan Domínguez de Mendoza: Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627–1693 (Coronado Historical Series)
by France V. Scholes, Marc Simmons, and José Antonio EsquibelStudies of seventeenth-century New Mexico have largely overlooked the soldiers and frontier settlers who formed the backbone of the colony and laid the foundations of European society in a distant outpost of Spain's North American empire. This book, the final volume in the Coronado Historical Series, recognizes the career of Juan Domínguez de Mendoza, a soldier-colonist who was as instrumental as any governor or friar in shaping Hispano-Indian society in New Mexico. Domínguez de Mendoza served in New Mexico from age thirteen to fifty-eight as a stalwart defender of Spain's interests during the troubled decades before the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. Because of his successful career, the archives of Mexico and Spain provide extensive information on his activities. The documents translated in this volume reveal more cooperative relations between Spaniards and Pueblo Indians than previously understood.
Juan Gregorio Palechor: The Story of My Life
by Andy Klatt Myriam JimenoThe Colombian activist Juan Gregorio Palechor (1923-1992) dedicated his life to championing indigenous rights in Cauca, a department in the southwest of Colombia, where he helped found the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca. Recounting his life story in collaboration with the Colombian anthropologist Myriam Jimeno, Palechor traces his political awakening, his experiences in national politics, the disillusionment that resulted, and his turn to a more radical activism aimed at confronting ethnic discrimination and fighting for indigenous territorial and political sovereignty.Palechor's lively memoir is complemented by Jimeno's reflections on autobiography as an anthropological tool and on the oppressive social and political conditions faced by Colombia's indigenous peoples. A faithful and fluent transcription of Palechor's life story, this work is a uniquely valuable resource for understanding the contemporary indigenous rights movements in Colombia.
Juan Luis Vives: Politics, Rhetoric, and Emotions (Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge)
by Kaarlo HavuBy looking at rhetoric and politics, this book offers a novel account of Juan Luis Vives’ intellectual oeuvre. It argues that Vives adjusted rhetorical theory to a monarchical context in which direct speech was not a possibility, demonstrated how Erasmian languages of ethical self-government and political peace were actualized rhetorically and critically in a princely environment and, finally, rethought the cognitive and emotional foundations of humanist rhetoric in his late and famous De anima et vita (1538). Ultimately, towards the end of his life, Vives epitomized a distinctively cognitive view of politics; he maintained that political concord was not a direct outcome of institutional or legal reform or of the spiritual transformation of the Christian world (an optimistic Erasmian interpretation), but that concord could only be upheld once the dynamics of emotions that motivated political action were understood and controlled through responsible rhetoric that respected decorum and civility.
Juan Manuel de Rosas: El maldito de la historia oficial
by Pacho O'DonnellAborrecido por la historiografía liberal argentina, Juan Manuel de Rosas sigue representando aún hoy, para muchos, el atraso, el populismo, el totalitarismo y la barbarie. Aborrecido por la historiografía liberal argentina, Juan Manuel de Rosas sigue representando aún hoy, para muchos, el atraso, el populismo, el totalitarismo y la barbarie. Pero la Historia es tenaz, y lo que se trata de ignorar, ocultar o corromper termina saliendo a la luz. Rosas, que al asumir su primera gobernación era el hacendado más poderoso de Buenos Aires, supo hacer de la estancia una moderna unidad productiva capaz de competir de manera ventajosa en el capitalismo naciente. A las "minorías ilustradas", que llegaron a apoyar la fragmentación territorial y una invasión imperialista con tal de librarse del "tirano", Rosas les opuso la adhesión masiva de los sectores populares tradicionalmente postergados. A tal punto fue querido por el pueblo, que hasta su acérrimo enemigo Sarmiento tuvo que afirmar que "nunca hubo un gobierno más popular y deseado ni más sostenido por la opinión que el de Don Juan Manuel de Rosas". Hombre al fin, cometió errores y tomó medidas reprobables, en el contexto de una época novedosa, en la que los errores y las medidas reprobables eran, a veces, más norma que excepción, y principalmente, práctica común entre todos, amigos o enemigos. Para Rosas, la función pública estuvo lejos de ser una herramienta de enriquecimiento personal. El estanciero rico que había asumido el gobierno salió del país exiliado y en la pobreza material, pero dueño de uno de los tesoros más grandes de la Patria: el sable de la Independencia que José de San Martín le había legado como gratitud por la firmeza con la que había sostenido "el honor de la República contra las injustas pretensiones de los extranjeros que trataron de humillarnos".
Juan Marichal: My Journey from the Dominican Republic to Cooperstown
by Lew Freedman Juan MarichalThe groundbreaking superstar tells his story: “To look at the MLB career of Hall of Fame pitcher Marichal is to look at another era . . . a solid hit.” —Library JournalIn a decade that featured such legendary hurlers as Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Don Drysdale, and other Hall of Famers, no pitcher won more games than Juan Marichal in the 1960s. His unique high-kick pitching style was imitated by kids from New York to San Francisco to Santo Domingo, and is immortalized in a bronze statue outside of the Giants’ current ballpark. Marichal was the first Dominican-born player to play in an All-Star Game and the first elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and he won more games than any of his countrymen. And while Dominican and other Latino players have come to dominate many aspects of baseball in recent years, Marichal was a trailblazer in his day, entering the league at a time when Latin American players were routinely discriminated against, underpaid, and presented with numerous obstacles on their journey to the big leagues.Now, Marichal tells the story of his rise from living on a rural farm as a young boy in the Dominican Republic to his status as one of the greatest pitchers of all time. Along the way, he was enlisted by the son of the country’s dictator to play for the national team, was threatened at gunpoint to throw a game during a tournament in Mexico, fought homesickness as a minor leaguer in rural Indiana, and went head-to-head with some of the best pitchers and hitters the game has ever seen.For the first time, Marichal gives his perspective on life as a Latino ballplayer in the 1960s, describes the highs and lows of a sixteen-year major league career, and explores what the recent influx of Dominicans in the majors has meant to baseball and to his home country—and also offers reflections on lingering stereotypes, the impact of steroids, and the general state of the game in the twenty-first century.
Juan Ponce De Leon: A Primary Source Biography
by Lynn HoogenboomDetails the life and exploits of the Spanish explorer who sailed among the islands of the Caribbean.
Juan Rena and the Frontiers of Spanish Empire, 1500–1540 (Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts)
by Jose M. Escribano-PáezThis book explores the political construction of imperial frontiers during the reigns of Ferdinand the Catholic and Charles V in the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean. Contrary to many studies on this topic, this book neither focuses on a specific frontier nor attempts to provide an overview of all the imperial frontiers. Instead, it focuses on a specific individual: Juan Rena (1480–1539). This Venetian clergyman spent 40 years serving the king in several capacities while travelling from the Maghreb to northern Spain, from the Pyrenees to the western fringes of the Ottoman Empire. By focusing on his activities, the book offers an account of the Spanish Empire’s frontiers as a vibrant political space where a multiplicity of figures interacted to shape power relations from below. Furthermore, it describes how merchants, military officers, nobles, local elites and royal agents forged a specific political culture in the empire’s liminal spaces. Through their negotiations and cooperation, but also through their competition and clashes, they created practices and norms in areas like cross-cultural diplomacy, the making of the social fabric, the definition of new jurisdictions, and the mobilization of resources for war.
Juan de Fuca's Strait
by Barry GoughThe tale begins in sixteenth-century Venice, when explorer Juan de Fuca encountered English merchant Michael Lok and relayed a fantastic story of a marine passageway that connected the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. This tale would be the catalyst for centuries of dreaming, and exacerbate English and Spanish rivalry.The search for the fabled Northwest Passage inspired explorers to seek out fame, adventure, knowledge and riches. Likewise, the empires of Spain and Great Britain were impelled by the hopes of finding a naval trade route that would connect Europe to Asia, thus securing their dominance over the other as an economic power. The story of the Northwest Passage is one of significant figures and great empires, jostling for a distant corner of North America.Gough provides meticulously researched insight, delving into diplomatic records, narratives of explorers and commercial aspirants, legal affidavits and court records to illuminate the journeys of Martin Frobisher, James Cook, Francis Drake, Manuel Quimper, José María Narváez, George Vancouver and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, among others.A sea venture tied up with piracy, political loyalty and betrayal, all bound up in a web of international intrigue, Juan de Fuca's Strait is an indispensable contribution to the history of discovery on the Northwest Coast.
Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700)
by Harald E. BraunThe Jesuit Juan de Mariana (1535-1624) is one of the most misunderstood authors in the history of political thought. His treatise De rege et regis institutione libri tres (1599) is dedicated to Philip III of Spain. It was to present the principles of statecraft by which the young king was to abide. Yet soon after its publication, Catholic and Calvinist politiques in France started branding Mariana a regicide. De rege was said to empower the private individual to kill a legitimate king. Its 'pernicious doctrines' were blamed for the murder of Henry IV in 1610, and it was burned at the order of the parlement of Paris. Modern historians have tended to build on this interpretation and consider De rege a stepping stone towards modern pluralist and democratic thought. Nothing could be further from the truth. The notion of Mariana as an uncompromising theorist of resistance is in fact based on the distorted reading of a few select sentences from the first book of the treatise. This study offers a radical departure from the old view of Mariana as an early modern constitutionalist thinker and advocate of regicide. Thorough analysis of the text as a whole reveals him to be a shrewd and creative operator of political language as well as a champion of the church and bishops of Castile. The argument as a whole is informed by a Catholic-Augustinian view of human nature. Mariana's bleak, at times downright cynical view of man imparts focus and coherence to a text that challenges well established terminological boundaries and political discourses. In the first instance, his deeply pessimistic appraisal of human virtue justifies his disregard of positive law. He is thus able to mould diverse elements extracted from Roman and canon law, scholastic theology and humanist literature into a deliberately equivocal discourse of reason of state. Finally, this secular interpretation of the world of politics is cleverly yoked to a thoroughly clerical agenda of reform. In fact, reason of state is made to propagate an episcopal monarchy. De rege is exceptional in that it strings together a curious scholastic theory of the origins of society, a conservative ideology of absolute monarchy and a breathtakingly radical vision of theocratic renewal of Spanish government and society. Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Political Thought elucidates the differentiated nature of political debate in Habsburg Spain. It confirms the complexity of Spanish political life in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Complementing recent work on Catholic political thought, the European reception of Machiavelli, and Spanish Habsburg government, this study offers a more complete and holistic picture of early modern Spanish political culture.
Juan de Valdés and the Italian Reformation (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700)
by Massimo FirpoJuan de Valdés played a pivotal role in the febrile atmosphere of sixteenth-century Italian religious debate. Fleeing his native Spain after the publication in 1529 of a book condemned by the Spanish Inquisition, he settled in Rome as a political agent of the emperor Charles V and then in Naples, where he was at the centre of a remarkable circle of literary and spiritual men and women involved in the religious crisis of those years, including Peter Martyr Vermigli, Marcantonio Flaminio, Bernardino Ochino and Giulia Gonzaga. Although his death in 1541 marked the end of this group, Valdés’ writings were to have a decisive role in the following two decades, when they were sponsored and diffused by important cardinals such as Reginald Pole and Giovanni Morone, both papal legates to the Council of Trent. The most famous book of the Italian Reformation, the Beneficio di Cristo, translated in many European languages, was based on Valdés’ thought, and the Roman Inquisition was very soon convinced that he had ’infected the whole of Italy’. In this book Massimo Firpo traces the origins of Valdés’ religious experience in Erasmian Spain and in the movement of the alumbrados, and underlines the large influence of his teachings after his death all over Italy and beyond. In so doing he reveals the originality of the Italian Reformation and its influence in the radicalism of many religious exiles in Switzerland and Eastern Europe, with their anti-Trinitarians and finally Socinian outcomes. Based upon two extended essays originally published in Italian, this book provides a full up-dated and revised English translation that outlines a new perspective of the Italian religious history in the years of the Council of Trent, from the Sack of Rome to the triumph of the Roman Inquisition, reconstructing and rethinking it not only as a failed expansion of the Protestant Reformation, but as having its own peculiar originality. As such it will be welcomed by all scholars wishin
Juan in a Hundred: The Representation of Latinos on Network News
by Otto Santa AnaLatinos constitute the fastest-growing and largest ethnic minority in the United States, yet less than one percent of network news coverage deals with Latinos as the focus of a story. Out of that one percent, even fewer stories are positive in either content or tone. Author of the acclaimed Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse, Otto Santa Ana has completed a comprehensive analysis of this situation, blending quantitative research with semiotic readings and ultimately applying cognitive science and humanist theory to explain the repercussions of this marginal, negative coverage. Santa Ana's choice of network evening news as the foundation for Juan in a Hundred is significant because that medium is currently the single most authoritative and influential source of opinion-generating content. In his 2004 research, Santa Ana calculated that among approximately 12,000 stories airing across four networks (ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC), only 118 dealt with Latinos, a ratio that has remained stagnant over the past fifteen years. Examining the content of the stories, from briefs to features, reveals that Latino-tagged events are apparently only broadcast when national politics or human calamity are involved, and even then, the Latino issue is often tangential to a news story as a whole. On global events involving Latin America, U.S. networks often remain silent while BBC correspondents prepare fully developed, humanizing coverage. The book concludes by demonstrating how this obscurity and misinformation perpetuate maligned perceptions about Latinos. Santa Ana's inspiring calls for reform are poised to change the face of network news in America.
Juan the Chamula: An Ethnological Re-creation of the Life of a Mexican Indian
by Lysander Kemp Ricardo PozasThis book concerns an indigenous group of Tzotzil-speaking Indians living in the mountain highlands in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. It has been recognized as one of the most skillful handlings of Indian themes in Mexican literature.
Juan y Eva: El amor, el odio y la revolución. La historia de amor jamás contada
by Jorge CosciaEn palabras del autor: "Esa historia de amor fue el big bang de unmovimiento político cuyas consecuencias aún perduran con inusitadovigor". La relación amorosa entre Juan Domingo Perón y Eva Duarte fue a menudoomitida en los análisis tradicionales de la historia argentina. Estamaravillosa novela que escribió Jorge Coscia está basada en los hechosreales del período en el que Perón y Evita consolidaron su romance,entre enero de 1944 -cuando un terremoto destruyó la ciudad de San Juany en la colecta por los damnificados se encuentran por primera vez laactriz de radio y un coronel de la revolución de 1943- y la madrugadadel 18 de octubre de 1945. Por eso, El texto funciona también como undocumento histórico sorprendente y rescata la perspectiva humana de lospersonajes, sus temores, sus emociones.
Juana Azurduy
by Pacho O'DonnellLa figura fascinante de Juana Azurduy, guerrera del Alto Perú, heroína de la independencia, fue largamente relegada por la historia oficial. Pacho O'Donnell reivindica aquí su lucha, llena de coraje, astucia y entrega. En este libro Pacho O'Donnell rescata a una figura injustamente postergada: la de Juana Azurduy. Repasar la vida de la heroína independentista que combatió en el Alto Perú y que entonces alcanzó el grado de teniente coronela (no hace mucho fue ascendida a generala) cumple con una doble reivindicación. En primer lugar la de las mujeres que, armas en mano, combatieron por nuestra libertad a la par de los hombres. Su figura desmiente el rol secundario que pretendió atribuirles la machista historia oficial, que las retrató dedicadas a coser banderas, donar alhajas y, sobre todo, esperar pacientemente el regreso de sus esposos del campo de batalla. Por el otro lado, O'Donnell pone de relieve la valiente acción de los caudillos altoperuanos, a quienes aún se les debe un merecido reconocimiento por su fundamental aporte a la emancipación de nuestros pueblos. El coraje, la astucia y la generosidad con los que Juana Azurduy llevó adelante la lucha contra el ejército realista no solo son los valores que realzan la proeza independentista, sino aquellos que nuestra Patria hoy nos reclama para superar las épocas de crisis.
Juana I: Legitimacy And Conflict In Sixteenth-century Castile (Queenship and Power)
by Gillian B. FlemingThis book examines the deep and lengthy crisis of legitimacy triggered by the death of Prince Juan of Castile and Aragon in 1497 and the subsequent ascent of Juana I to the throne in 1504. Confined by historiography and myth to the madwoman’s attic, Juana emerges here as a key figure at the heart of a period of tremendous upheaval, reaching its peak in the war of the Comunidades, or comunero uprising of 1520–1522. Gillian Fleming traces the conflicts generated by the ambitions of Juana’s father, husband and son, and the controversial marginalisation and imprisonment of Isabel of Castile’s legitimate heir. Analysing Juana’s problems and strategies, failures and successes, Fleming argues that the period cannot be properly understood without taking into account the long shadow that Juana I cast over her kingdoms and over a crucial period of transition for Spain and Europe.
Juana Lucero
by Augusto D'HalmarEn 1902 se publicó La Lucero (Los Vicios de Chile). Más tarde, La Lucero pasó a llamarse simplemente Juana Lucero, obra que se transformó en un hito en la literatura nacional. Por una parte se trataba de la expresión más directa de la influencia de Emile Zolá en la producción literaria de la época, por otra se trataba de la obra a la que la historia le otorgaría el rol de precursora del realismo en Chile. Novela costumbrista chilena, ambientada en Santiago. Juana Lucero, una adolescente, hija de una costurera muy humilde y un diputado que brilla por su ausencia, queda huérfana y debe aprender a vivir la vida sola. Tras la muerte de la madre es víctima de abusos, menosprecio en su condición de mujer y obrera y las personas que la rodean la utilizan y engañan. Las circunstancias la conducen a un abismo del que no sabe como salir, y acepta la prostitución como alternativa. La trama transcurre en el Barrio Yungay, a principios del siglo XX.
Juba!: A Novel
by Walter Dean MyersIn New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers's last novel, he delivers a gripping story based on the life of a real dancer known as Master Juba, who lived in the nineteenth century. <P><P>This engaging historical novel is based on the true story of the meteoric rise of an immensely talented young black dancer, William Henry Lane, who influenced today's tap, jazz, and step dancing. With meticulous and intensive research, Walter Dean Myers has brought to life Juba's story.The novel includes photographs, maps, and other images from Juba's time and an afterword from Walter Dean Myers's wife about the writing process of Juba!red in the North and sent down South as slaves. England offers freedoms that Juba could only dream of in the States, and returning home may prove a dangerous decision. <P><P>This novel is based on a true story, the intricacies of Juba's meteoric rise as an explosive young black dancer brought to life by Walter Dean Myers through meticulous and intensive research.
Jubal Sackett (Sacketts #4)
by Louis L'AmourIn Jubal Sackett, the second generation of Louis L'Amour's great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Jubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party and its leader, Itchakomi. It is she who will rule her people when their aging chief dies, but first she must vanquish her rival, the arrogant warrior Kapata. Sackett's quest will bring him danger from an implacable enemy . . . and show him a life--and a woman--worth dying for.From the Paperback edition.
Jubal and the Prophet
by Frieda Clark Hyman Bernard KrigsteinJubal is the son of an important priest in the First Temple; the prophet is Jeremiah; and the time is Jerusalem under siege by the Babylonian Army. Jubal’s father leads the struggle against Babylon. Jeremiah pleads for submission to Babylon.Jubal, of course, would rather follow his father, but in spite of this natural desire, he is convinced by the message and personality of Jeremiah. His struggles lead him directly into adventure. With his friend Ezra he outwits the commander of the gates of Jerusalem, the jailer who would torture the prophet, and then this boy of courage and wisdom fights heroically in the final battle.All this, and more is the theme of the book, a story that is filled with constant action, colorful background and human as well as spiritual emotion.“Jeremiah was the most disquieting of all the prophets. To this day there are some who call him traitor. If, however, a prophet is—as I believe he is—God’s instrument, a man who speaks because a Power greater than he compels him to speak, there can be no question about Jeremiah’s integrity. Nevertheless, the human being is also present; and it is the tension between the prophet’s function as God’s mouthpiece, and his humanity as a patriot, that constitutes the theme of this book: he must condemn his people and his country even while he loves them.”—Frieda Clark Hyman
Jubilee
by Margaret WalkerHistorical novel exploring the struggles of a Black family freed from slavery in Civil War era Georgia..
Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed
by Joe AndoeJoe Andoe is an internationally exhibited painter. His work, hailed by The New Yorker as "cowboy noir with a fashionista twist," is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, and countless other locations. He is a father. He is a writer. He is sober. That's now.Once upon a time, though, way back in the '70s, Joe Andoe was a delinquent bad boy growing up wild in Tulsa, Oklahoma—drinking, drugging, and driving too fast down a dead-end road. He was one car crash, one overdose away from head-on disaster. His art saved him.A life story told in discrete, arresting snapshots of despair, resilience, creativity, and hope, Joe Andoe's raw, vivid, and utterly original memoir is as striking as his painting. With echoes of Jim Carroll poetic insight and Charles Bukowski grit, yet still uniquely the artist's own, Andoe's literary portrait of his time to date on earth is as powerful as a heavyweight's hook and as spellbinding as a major crack-up on the opposite side of the highway. It is an important work of curiosity and grandiosity; a testament to a young man's resilience and genius and luck that enabled him to survive a life lived wildly out of control; an unparalleled adventure, a rocket ride from the sordid depths of self-destruction to the glorious pinnacles of…Jubilee City
Jubilee Trail
by Gwen BristowIn a moment of ecstasy, Garnet Cameron decides to leave New York and go with Oliver Hale to the far-off place called California. Historical romance set in the 1840s.