American Zeus
Title | American Zeus PDF eBook |
Author | Taso G. Lagos |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2018-02-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1476668388 |
Alexander Pantages was 13 when he arrived in the U.S. in the 1880s, after contracting malaria in Panama. He opened his first motion picture theater in 1902 and went on to build one of the largest and most important independently-owned theater chains in the country. At the height of the Pantages Theaters' reach, he owned or operated 78 theaters across the U.S. and Canada. He amassed a fortune, yet he could not read or write English. In 1929 he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old dancer--a scandal that destroyed his empire and reduced him to a pariah. The day his grandest theater, the Pantages Hollywood, opened in 1930, he lay sick in a jailhouse infirmary. His conviction was overturned a year later after an appeal to the California State Supreme Court, but the question remains: How should history judge this theater pioneer, wealthy magnate and embodiment of the American Dream?
Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association
Title | Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association PDF eBook |
Author | American Philological Association |
Publisher | |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Classical philology |
ISBN |
Bibliographical record of works published by members of the Association, in v. 28- 1897-
Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science, and Art
Title | Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science, and Art PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 710 |
Release | 1853 |
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American Journal of Archaeology
Title | American Journal of Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 642 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | |
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Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors
Title | Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 676 |
Release | 1857 |
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Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 114, No. 6, 1970)
Title | Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 114, No. 6, 1970) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | American Philosophical Society |
Pages | 94 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781422371381 |
My American Harp
Title | My American Harp PDF eBook |
Author | Surazeus Astarius |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 672 |
Release | 2017-03-14 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1365807142 |
"My American Harp" presents 1,169 poems written 2010-2014 by Surazeus that explore what it means to be an American in the modern world of an interconnected global civilization.