Memoirs of R. Morris ... Second Edition Revised
Title | Memoirs of R. Morris ... Second Edition Revised PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Godwin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 95 |
Release | 1819 |
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Memoirs of R. Morris
Title | Memoirs of R. Morris PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Godwin (D.D.) |
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Pages | 18 |
Release | 1818 |
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Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson ... [Edited] from the original manuscript by ... Julius Hutchinson ... Tenth edition, etc
Title | Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson ... [Edited] from the original manuscript by ... Julius Hutchinson ... Tenth edition, etc PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy HUTCHINSON |
Publisher | |
Pages | 578 |
Release | 1863 |
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A Complete Catalogue of Books
Title | A Complete Catalogue of Books PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 1887 |
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A Complete Catalogue of Books General, Theological, Historical, Artistic, Educational, and Juvenile
Title | A Complete Catalogue of Books General, Theological, Historical, Artistic, Educational, and Juvenile PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 1886 |
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Works, ed from the original editions and manuscripts by R. Morris, with a memoir by J.W. Hales
Title | Works, ed from the original editions and manuscripts by R. Morris, with a memoir by J.W. Hales PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Spenser |
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The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak
Title | The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak PDF eBook |
Author | Randy Fertel |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2015-07-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 149680113X |
The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is the story of two larger-than-life characters and the son whom their lives helped to shape. Ruth Fertel was a petite, smart, tough-as-nails blonde with a weakness for rogues, who founded the Ruth's Chris Steak House empire almost by accident. Rodney Fertel was a gold-plated, one-of-a-kind personality, a railbird-heir to wealth from a pawnshop of dubious repute just around the corner from where the teenage Louis Armstrong and his trumpet were discovered. When Fertel ran for mayor of New Orleans on a single campaign promise-buying a pair of gorillas for the zoo-he garnered a paltry 308 votes. Then he purchased the gorillas anyway! These colorful figures yoked together two worlds not often connected-lazy rice farms in the bayous and swinging urban streets where ethnicities jazzily collided. A trip downriver to the hamlet of Happy Jack focuses on its French-Alsatian roots, bountiful tables, and self-reliant lifestyle that inspired a restaurant legend. The story also offers a close-up of life in the Old Jewish Quarter on Rampart Street-and how it intersected with the denizens of “Back a' Town,” just a few blocks away, who brought jazz from New Orleans to the world. The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is a New Orleans story, featuring the distinctive characters, color, food, and history of that city-before Hurricane Katrina and after. But it also is the universal story of family and the full magnitude of outsize follies leavened with equal measures of humor, rage, and rue.