GREG DOWNS has been the least successful high school varsity basketball coach in Tennessee, the editor of a muckraking weekly newspaper on Chicago”s South Side, a karaoke performer profiled in the Boston Phoenix, and a reporter on the tail of a fugitive cult leader. A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers” Workshop, he is an assistant professor of history at the City College of New York. Downs”s stories have appeared in such publications as Glimmer Train, Meridian, Chicago Reader, and Sycamore Review.
7 Ebooks by Greg Downs
Greg Downs: Spit Baths
With a reporter’s eye for the inside story and a historian’s grasp of the ironies in our collective past, Greg Downs affectionately observes some of the last survivors of what Greil Marcus has called …
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€25.99
David W. Blight & Jim Downs: Beyond Freedom
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to ninetee …
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€92.99
Beverly Greene Bond & Susan Eva O’Donovan: Remembering the Memphis Massacre
On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder and mayhem. Changes wrought by the Civil War and African American …
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€114.99
Orville Vernon Burton & Peter Eisenstadt: Lincoln’s Unfinished Work
In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation’s sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a “new birth of freedom.” Lincoln’s Unfinished Work analyzes how the United States …
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€21.99
Ethan Laughman: Changes
These stories are enveloped by change and the changes that shift the trajectories of our lives: change that shatters us, change that opens the world, and change from which we can never come back. …
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€28.99
Orville Vernon Burton & Peter Eisenstadt: Lincoln’s Unfinished Work
In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation’s sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a "new birth of freedom." Lincoln’s Unfinished Work analyzes how the …
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€24.98
