Bricklayer Bill
Title | Bricklayer Bill PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick L. Kennedy |
Publisher | UMass + ORM |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2018-06-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1613765436 |
Two weeks after the United States officially entered World War I, Irish American "Bricklayer Bill" Kennedy won the Boston Marathon wearing his stars-and-stripes bandana, rallying the crowd of patriotic spectators. Kennedy became an American hero and, with outrageous stories of his riding the rails and sleeping on pool tables, a racing legend whose name has since appeared in almost every book written on the Boston Marathon. When journalist Patrick Kennedy and historian Lawrence Kennedy unearthed their uncle's unpublished memoir, they discovered a colorful character who lived a tumultuous life, beyond his multiple marathons. The bricklayer survived typhoid fever, a five-story fall, auto and train accidents, World War action, Depression-era bankruptcy, decades of back-breaking work, and his own tendency to tipple. In many ways, Bill typified the colorful, newly emerging culture and working-class ethic of competitive long-distance running before it became a professionalized sport. Bricklayer Bill takes us back to another time, when bricklayers, plumbers, and printers could take the stage as star athletes.
Parliamentary Papers
Title | Parliamentary Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 1839 |
Genre | Bills, Legislative |
ISBN |
Some Account of a Collection of Several Thousand Bills, Accounts, and Inventories, Illustrating the History of Prices Between the Years 1650 and 1750
Title | Some Account of a Collection of Several Thousand Bills, Accounts, and Inventories, Illustrating the History of Prices Between the Years 1650 and 1750 PDF eBook |
Author | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1852 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Quantity Surveying for the Use of Surveyors, Architects, Engineers and Builders
Title | Quantity Surveying for the Use of Surveyors, Architects, Engineers and Builders PDF eBook |
Author | John Leaning |
Publisher | |
Pages | 956 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Building |
ISBN |
The Instructor; Or Young Man's Best Companion ... The Thirtieth Edition, Corrected and Improved Throughout
Title | The Instructor; Or Young Man's Best Companion ... The Thirtieth Edition, Corrected and Improved Throughout PDF eBook |
Author | George Fisher (Accomptant) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1810 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Treatise on Practical Mensuration in Eight Parts
Title | Treatise on Practical Mensuration in Eight Parts PDF eBook |
Author | A. Nesbit |
Publisher | |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 1838 |
Genre | Measurement |
ISBN |
A Treatise on Practical Mensuration ... Second edition, corrected and improved ... Illustrated by ... wood cuts, etc
Title | A Treatise on Practical Mensuration ... Second edition, corrected and improved ... Illustrated by ... wood cuts, etc PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony NESBIT |
Publisher | |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 1821 |
Genre | |
ISBN |