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Paul J Bauer, Mark Dawidziak
Jim Tully describes the hardscrabble life of an Irish American storyteller, from his immigrant roots, rural childhood, and life as a hobo riding the rails to the emergent dream factory…
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Jim Tully
A novel by Jim Tully, a celebrated author of the early 20th century, telling the story of a young boxer from New York City who travels west to pursue his…
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Tully was a novelist, journalist, lecturer, Hollywood columnist of the 1920s and 30s, road kid, chainmaker, boxer, circus handyman, and a tree surgeon. One of his autobiographical works, this book…
A young outlaw’s adventures surviving the turn of the century underworld.
This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
Paul J. Bauer,Mark Dawidziak
The first biography of the vagabond and hard-boiled writer who rocked Hollywood during the Roaring Twenties.
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Circus Parade originally published in 1927, presents the sordid but albeit fascinating side of life traveling with a small-time circus life during the 1920s in America.
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This is the saga of Madame Rosenbloom’s fashionable establishment in Chicago and of the ladies in her domain. And here is the Jim Tully of Circus Parade , the forthright…
Justin Tully
Case Computer Jim Morrison is the story of a specially designed computer that was wrongly sold to a member of the public. Jeremy Sauber received a brand new computer from…
Jim Tully left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country, he spent those years…
The idea of men in jail had interested Jim Tully for years, going back to his youthful reading of Dostoyevsky's The House of the Dead and his own time in…
Blood on the Moon (1931) is Tully's fifth and final book in what he called his Underworld Edition-a series of autobiographical books focusing on different aspects of his childhood and…
Features memories of an Irish-American growing up log-shack poor in small-town Ohio. This autobiography digs into the soil of the author’s native Ohio to show what life was like in…
A riveting picture of life in the boxing ring, originally published in 1936. The boxers populating these briskly paced chapters are drawn from the many ring legends the writer counted…
Koji Takaki,Henry Sakaida
This work focuses on the Japanese bomber killers of World War II. Responsible for shooting B-29s out of the skies of Japan, these pilots used a range of tactics, including…
Peter E. Davies
This book draws us into the dangerous world braved by American and North Vietnamese airmen in the skies over Vietnam. Influential leaders and tacticians are profiled to provide a comparative…
