Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series

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The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as "the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America!" First published in 1963, Eight Men Out has become a timeless classic. Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of the fantastic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation's leading gamblers to throw the Series in Cincinnati. Mr. Asinof vividly describes the tense meetings, the hitches in the conniving, the actual plays in which the Series was thrown, the Grand Jury indictment, and the famous 1921 trial. Moving behind the scenes, he perceptively examines the motives and backgrounds of the players and the conditions that made the improbable fix all too possible. Here, too, is a graphic picture of the American underworld that managed the fix, the deeply shocked newspapermen who uncovered the story, and the war-exhausted nation that turned with relief and pride to the Series, only to be rocked by the scandal. Far more than a superbly told baseball story, this is a compelling slice of American history in the aftermath of World War I and at the cusp of the Roaring Twenties.

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The little guys took the fall........2007-05-24

I saw the movie, but the book explains in more detail the tragedy of the 1919 World Series White Sox (or Black Sox). This book details that the gamblers such as the Little Champ were the real villians in this fiasco. Commisky was also a cheap skate who payed his talented players peanuts and then expected them to win pennants. The victims were the ball players who all expected were rich (they were not) and got duped by a bunch of fast talking gamblers. Shoeless Joe Jackson comes across as a decent man trying to make a go of it in life. These talented people were out matched by more brilliant eastern money men.

This is a great read about the All American pastime. I came away with true respect for the ball players, although not the baseball clubs. This is a tragic story of eight talented players being out hustled by gamblers.

ocho men out........2006-03-13

Eliot Asinof does a very good job at retelling this famous world series game. This book grabs you and you stay hooked from the first word to the last, hearing about the day that the White Sox fixed the 1919 World Series. I highly recommend this great capture of the White Sox scandal game, especially for all of the baseball fans, and anyone who is not interested in baseball. It is a great read. This fixation of baseball came to be known "The Black Sox Scandal".
Chick Gandil a tough 31 year old man started this scandal and brought in other baseball team members including; Claude "Lefty" Williams, Fred McMullin, Charles "Swede" Riseberg, "Shoeless Joe Jackson, Oscar "Happy" Felsch, George "Buck" Weaver, and Eddie Cicotte. These 8 baseball players made history in the name of baseball, when getting involved with gamblers. With money on the line all of these baseball players are willing to try anything. The pressure and the pain of this baseball game is very interesting. Did they really think they could get away with this? What were they thinking? Well in this story Asinof tells all that and more. By explaining each intense moment to the next you stay hooked.

Required Reading.......2006-03-09

I teach a course to high school seniors called Baseball in American Society. (2nd semester). We use Eight Men Out as one of the required readings. Comparing controversies that have happened in baseball over the years is part of the syllabus and the 1919 Black Sox scandal fits right in.

Great Book for the Baseball Fan - Everything you wanted to know about The Black Sox Scandal........2005-12-24

I just completed "Eight Men Out" and I thought that the book was very interesting because of its vivid description of the "Black Sox Scandal." Instead of dealing with the use of steroids, early 20th century baseball battled constant corruption through the influence of gambling. "Eight Men Out" describes how gamblers, not the ball players were the most important figures in professional baseball, and how difficult it was for the typical fan to realize their fixes and for professional baseball to eliminate their influence. Today's baseball fans should definitely skim through the book. If you are looking for a sports book to read, and you are particularly interested in baseball, you should try this book because it is a phenomenal story of one of the most important eras in baseball history. Overall, it's a quick read and very informative. I would also suggest "Boys of Summer," and "Ball Four" if you are interested in reading about baseball.

Time to Bury the Black Sox.......2005-10-28

Now White Sox is World Series Champions again, it's time to bury the eight men forever from our memories.

Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898

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Pathbreaking work on race and revolution

Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898
Ada Ferrer
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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ASIN: 0807847836
Release Date: 1999-09-29

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In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of the thirty-year unfolding and undoing of that movement.

Ada Ferrer examines the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868, when a slaveholder began the revolution by freeing his slaves, until the intervention of racially segregated American forces in 1898. In so doing, she uncovers the struggles over the boundaries of citizenship and nationality that their participation brought to the fore, and she shows that even as black participation helped sustain the movement ideologically and militarily, it simultaneously prompted accusations of race war and fed the forces of counterinsurgency.

Carefully examining the tensions between racism and antiracism contained within Cuban nationalism, Ferrer paints a dynamic portrait of a movement built upon the coexistence of an ideology of racial fraternity and the persistence of presumptions of hierarchy.

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Pathbreaking work on race and revolution.......2000-01-20

Insurgent Cuba tracks the transformation of racial and gendered narratives of the revolution from the abolition of slavery to the war of independence. In this fascinating and pathbreaking book, Professor Ferrer reveals that, with the emergence of late 19th century Cuban nationalism, narratives of race, slavery, and the place of black people in the revolution shift dramatically. Through the voices of leaders like Jose Marti, black insurgents were constructed as color-blind patriots committed to the liberation of Cuba, not slaves and ex-slaves attempting to overthrow the regime of slavery and demand equal rights. Black people were transformed in these three decades from a problem and threat to the republic to the symbols of Cuban nationalism's commitment to multiracial democracy. Anti-racism became a weapon in the hands of Cuban revolutionaries in their battle against Spain, which changed the status of black insurgents, put them on a pedestal in a way, and made their stories fundamental to the narrative of the new republic--one that is colorblind and willing to incorporate everyone as long as they are patriots. For blacks and mulattoes, this discourse gave them a platform to complain about racism in the ranks of the army, in everyday life, everywhere. On the other hand, the ellision of racism in the discourse of Cuban nationalism and the celebration of multiracial republicanism was often used against critics of racism in Cuba. "To speak of race, then," Ferrer writes, "was to challenge the depth of racial and national unity." Any attempts to mobilize on the basis of racial solidarity was then dismissed as divisive and unpatriotic. By reconstructing these different narratives in the context of specific revolts and campaigns, Ferrer offers us a stunning alternative narrative of the struggle for Cuban Independence. Insurgent Cuba is perhaps the best book available on race and Cuba.

Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded

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chicago black sox
the best book on the black sox
Well-researched and informative
The culmination (sort of) of a ton of research
Baseball's Web of Conspiracy

Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded
Gene Carney
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ASIN: 1574889729

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Most fans today know that gamblers and ballplayers conspired to “fix” the 1919 World Series—the Black Sox Scandal. It has been touched upon in classic works of sports history such as Eliot Asinof’s Eight Men Out, referred to in literary classics like W. P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe, and has been central to two of the best baseball movies ever made, John Sayles’s Eight Men Out and Phil Robinson’s Field of Dreams.

Many, however, would be surprised to learn that it took nearly a year to uncover the fix. Burying the Black Sox is the first book to focus on the cover-up that kept the fix from the American public until almost another whole baseball season was played, and to examine in detail the way events unfolded as the deception was unraveled. Unlike Eliot Asinof in Eight Men Out, previously the definitive book on the subject, Carney thoroughly documents his information and brings together evidence from a wide variety of sources, many not available to Asinof or more recent writers.

In Burying the Black Sox, Gene Carney reveals what else happened and answers the questions that fascinate any baseball fan wondering about baseball’s original dilemma over guilt and innocence. Who else in baseball knew that the fix was in? When did they know? And what did they do about it? Carney explores how Charles Comiskey, the owner of the White Sox, and his fellow owners tried to bury the incident and control the damage, how the conspiracy failed, and how “Shoeless” Joe Jackson attempted to clear his name. He uses primary research materials that weren’t available when Asinof wrote Eight Men Out, including the 1920 grand jury statements by Jackson and pitcher Eddie Cicotte, the diary of Comiskey’s secretary, and the transcripts of Jackson’s 1924 suit against the Sox for back pay. Where Asinof told the story of the eight “Black Sox,” Carney explains the baseball industry’s uncertain response to the scandal.

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chicago black sox.......2007-09-21

very interesting it had a lot of new material but not what im looking for. i want to find out more on possible gambeling on college football 1925 1940. more information on jake lingle and his killer leo v brothers and notre dame football.

the best book on the black sox.......2007-08-04

Gene Carney has done a first-rate job not only mining previous research but finding new material on baseball's blackest moment. While he concedes that not everything will ever be known about the scandal, given the difficulties of time and memory, this book reads with authority. Its special strength, as the title hints, is in the detail about organized baseball's attempt to bury the scandal. Thanks to Carney, more of this part of the story is now known than ever before. Highly recommended.

Well-researched and informative .......2007-06-21

Author Gene Carney carefully examines the sordid doings of players, gamblers, and baseball officials in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. The players include the guilty (Eddie Ciccotte, Lefty Williams, Chick Gandil, etc.), the essentially innocent Buck Weaver, and the possibly complicit Shoeless Joe Jackson. But Carney is more concerned with the scandalous activities of White Sox owner Charles Comiskey and other self-serving baseball officials. To begin, Comiskey inspired the scandal by under-paying his talented athletes. Carney shows that Comiskey almost certainly knew that the World Series was fixed while it was ongoing, covering it up for nearly a year before the story broke. Readers see how Comiskey and his attorney manipulated events and even illegally hid court documents. Finally, we see how after the eight players were acquitted in trial, newly-appointed commissioner Kenesaw Landis banned them from baseball, thus neatly diverted attention from the many sordid ties then existing between gamblers, players, and baseball officials. As many know, the players were punished (at least one unfairly), while the gamblers and baseball officials got off practically unscathed.

Carney has done an impressive and scholarly job, though his prose never attains the poetry of EIGHT MEN OUT, Elliot Asinof's also-impressive 1963 effort. Still, there is much to learn here from an author who did his homework and answers as many perplexing questions as seems possible.

The culmination (sort of) of a ton of research.......2007-02-06

I have been a regular reader of Gene Carney's online column for some time, though my reading his column was one of the casualties of the circumstances of my overly-busy life for a while. So I was glad when the book came out and purchased it as soon as was convenient. I almost literally couldn't put it down. I knew from his column that he was making every attempt to give all parties the fairest treatment possible from the distance of 85+ years, so no aspect of the book surprised me much. Still, the depth of the research is impressive, and it was nice to have it all in one place rather than spread over dozens of online columns. Kudos to Carney for putting the finishing touches on this new, fresh look at a controversy that far too many people think was settled with Landis's "eight men out" verdict. Yet, I also am aware that Carney's research continues even beyond the book. If a second edition comes out at some point that includes things that Carney has learned since the publishing of this volume, I'll be up for purchasing that, too.

Baseball's Web of Conspiracy.......2007-01-31

A review by Pete Cava:
The Web of Conspiracy, Theodore Roscoe's meticulously researched 1959 book, left many readers wondering if the complete truth about the Lincoln assassination would ever be known. Gene Carney's tome about the fixing of the 1919 World Series, Burying the Black Sox, reaches a similar conclusion.
Over the decades, some of the best and brightest have taken a whack at undoing the Gordian knot of gamblers, corruption and dubiously motivated magnates involved in the Black Sox scandal. Since 1963 the definitive work has been Eliot Asinov's Eight Men Out. But Carney gleaned evidence that wasn't available to Asinov, including court transcripts of a 1924 trial in Milwaukee (where Joe Jackson, in a lawsuit against the White Sox, maintained his innocence); excerpts from the personal diary of Harry Grabiner (de facto general manager of the White Sox in 1919) and a gambling publication called Collyer's Eye, which accurately identified seven of the eight Black Sox (all but Buck Weaver) in November 1919 - ten months before the story of the fix made headlines.
Exploring degrees of guilt, Carney points out how Jackson, Weaver, Chick Gandil and Swede Risberg didn't play equal parts in the fix. Weaver's greatest sin appears to be a reluctance to squeal on teammates - ironically, the same course of action followed by several `clean' Chicago players.
Carney takes a hard look at the actions and motives of major league baseball owners in the wake of the scandal. "Justice was judged to be less important than the game's image," he writes - an unsettling reminder of the current moguls' attitude at the outset of the recent steroid flap. Carney charges baseball with trying to ignore (and subsequently cover up) the story of the scandal - perhaps as great a sin as the Series fix itself.
If the book has a fault, it's an occasional didactic tone that could have been tempered by more careful editing. But Carney (who is also a poet and playwright) more than atones with a wonderfully creative recap of the scandal that takes the format of Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First" routine.
As Leonard Koppett pointed out, baseball, like life, prefers simple stories to complicated explanations. And while Burying the Black Sox provides new details, the book raises even more questions on the scandal and subsequent cover-up. Carney tempers this honest (albeit frustrating) conclusion with the hope that somewhere - in the recesses of a dusty storeroom, or perhaps tucked among some forgotten and misplaced file - are documents that will shed further light on one of the most unsavory, yet irresistible, chapters of baseball history.
- Pete Cava

Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)

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Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)

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Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as slaves and scholars, guest workers and refugees. After Germany became a unified nation in 1871, it acquired several African colonies but lost them after World War I. Children born of German mothers and African fathers during the French occupation of Germany were persecuted by the Nazis. After World War II, many children were born to African American GIs stationed in Germany and German mothers. Today there are 500,000 Afro-Germans in Germany out of a population of 80 million. Nevertheless, German society still sees them as "foreigners," assuming they are either African or African American but never German. In recent years, the subject of Afro-Germans has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for several reasons. Looking at Afro-Germans allows us to see another dimension of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ideas of race that led to the Holocaust. Furthermore, the experience of Afro-Germans provides insight into contemporary Germany's transformation, willing or not, into a multicultural society. The volume breaks new ground not only by addressing the topic of Afro-Germans but also by combining scholars from many disciplines. Patricia Mazon is associate professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Reinhild Steingrover is assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.

Building Green in a Black and White World

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Good for contractors, not for home buyers
Incredible resource for building smart!
Building Green in a Black and White World
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Building Green in a Black and White World
David Robert Johnston
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Building Green in a Black and White World transforms the rising interest in living in green homes into practical ways to satisfy the environmentally conscious homebuyer. Drawing on over 30 years in the building industry, the author provides a guide for both builders and buyers to everything from the home design process through to green substitutes for products ranging from foundations to roofs, along with case studies of successful green companies and useful resources.

David R. Johnston was named one of the top 50 remodelers in the U.S. by Remodeling Magazine in 1990, developed the first green remodeling program in the country in Boulder, Colorado, and is creating a national green certification program for the National Association of the Remodeling Industry.

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Good for contractors, not for home buyers.......2001-07-10

I purchased this book thinking that it would be a good resource for remodelling a home, I was wrong. The information contained is good for a contractor that wants to develop a "green building" image, complete with advise for dealing with media, marketing strategies and sales. It appears to have very little practical advise with regard to green building techniques and supplies. It might be a good reference for a contractor but not very helpful for the ecologically minded home buyer.

Incredible resource for building smart!.......2001-05-17

I sat down with this book and read it in one sitting. This is an enormous amount of research and practical experience in one volume. It's appropriate not only for builders that want to go "green", but for environmentally conscious folks looking to build. The book is filled with loads of information on making the "right" choices in building, and most of these choices do not cost more, in fact, many save money in years to come. As a novice, I found the information to be easy to understand, and have come away with a real plan on the building of my next house. Having read this book, it's hard to understand how anyone could not choose to build green. It's just plain smart! I think every builder looking for a competitive edge, should read this book, it's filled with marketing & sales strategies. In Building Green, David Johnston shares a lifetime of experience in the business of building environmentally smart.

Building Green in a Black and White World.......2000-03-14

I've known the author David Johnson for years. He knows more about Green construction than anyone else I know. David knows what works and what doesn't, because he's tried things himself and collected thousands of stories from builders, homeowners and city officials who've put to the test all manner of building techniques, materials, installations and standards.

In some ways, this book is David's life story about his personal evolution as an environmental builder from the "passive solar" 70's to the green 90's. This book summarizes all his collected knowledge in a well-organized manner. You can use it as a reference to find specifically what you want to know, or you can read it all the way through and enjoy the story as well as the meaty content.

If you're a builder looking for a new niche or already doing green construction, this book can reallly help you. The book is loaded with information aabout the market for green construction and the values that underlie people's desire4s for indoor air quality, energy effiency, durability and planetary respect. It also has nuts and boolts information about what really works when handled by average subs.

Building Green in a Black and White World.......2000-03-11

I've known the author David Johnston for years. He knows more about green construction than anyone else I know. David knows what works and doesn't work, because he's tried things himself and collected thousands of stories from builders, homeowners and city officials who've put to the test all manner of building techniques, materials, installations and standards.

In some ways, this book is David's life story about his personal evolution as an environmental builder from the "passive solar" 70's to the "green" 90's. This book summarizes all his collected knowledge in a well-organized manner. You can use it as a reference to find specifically what you want to know, or you can read it all the way through and enjoy the story, as well as the meaty content.

If you're a builder looking for a new niche or already doing green construction, this book can really help you. The book is loaded with information about the market for green construction and the values that underlie peoples' desires for indoor air quality, energy effiency, durability and planetary respect. It also has nuts and bolts information about what really works when handled by average subs. As a builder who works in environmentally friendly ways, I mostly work with clients who hold similar values. This book will be very useful to loan as a reference to potential clients.

If you're a homeowner thinking of remodeling or new construction, this book will really help you. It is full of case histories and lessons learned. It gives lots of real world, practical examples of green materials and specifications. It is a nuts and bolts book that explains options, things to consider and logical choices.

The author also provides a rich compendium of state-of-the-art resources in the Appendicies. At least as valuable as the book itself, the Appendicies provide comprehensive, annotated lists of experts in Green Building, Municipal and Homebuilder sponsored Green Builder Programs, Green construction standards and state-of-the-art Green construction information(with how-to-contact details).

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Written by highly acclaimed historian Gary B. Nash, this book presents an interpretive account of the interactions between Native Americans, African Americans, and Euroamericans during the colonial and revolutionary eras. It reveals the crucial interconnections between North America's many peoples– illustrating the ease of their interactions in the first two centuries of European and African presence–to develop a fuller, deeper understanding of the nation's underpinnings.

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As Serious As They Are Hilarious
These guys are great
Sharp, smart, funny, and always to the point!

Black & White World III
John, Cox , and Allen, Forkum
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This book is the thrid volume of Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons, covering from November 2004 to October 2006. Introduction by Mark Steyn. Special secitions include the "Cartoon Jihad," John Cox caricatures and commentary by the authors.

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As Serious As They Are Hilarious.......2006-11-22

Being a political cartoonist must be nice. Like comedians, they can basically ridicule people with impunity while the subjects of their mockeries, if they complain, look like they have no sense of humor. What a deal. In this, the third collection of Cox and Forkum's works, the artists are at the top of their game. The drawings themselves are extremely good and very powerful while the commentary is cutting and direct. Of course, a good political cartoon is something more than just a good drawing about a relevant subject. It distills not only a large topic, but often an entire aspect of a cultural zeitgeist, into one picture that says it all. Using that standard, there are many, many good cartoons in this book.

Although the cartoons are fresh as of this writing, spanning from November 2004 to October 2006, one is struck by how often, even with only a bit of time in retrospect, they got it right. To take a couple of my favorite examples, John Bolton portrayed as a bull tapping on the window of the United Nations china shop absolutely hit it on the head as to how Bolton has actually acted as U.S Ambassador there - and let us all be very thankful for it! Continuing with the same theme, portraying Bolton as Darth Vader scaring the wits out of a couple of fleeing donkeys (Democrats) perfectly captures the Left's feelings of intimidation regarding the man and the ideas he represents, as is currently being demonstrated by Democrats in their attempt to prevent Bolton from returning to the U.N. despite having done an excellent job there.

As Cox and Forkum acknowledge, the big events between their last book and this one that makes political cartooning all the more relevant were the worldwide protests over drawings of Mohammed. Maybe political cartoonists do not have the cushiest job after all. Cox and Forkum devote an entire section to the controversy and appropriately recognize it for what it is - not simply a disagreement, even a nasty one, about a few cartoons; but rather an attempt by Islamists to impose their views on everyone contrary to the standards of the Western Enlightenment.

The section on the Mohammed cartoon controversy is just one of the special sections of the book. Equally interesting was the section on the Iranian cartoon contest regarding the Holocaust. Cox and Forkum entered a drawing with a hidden message in an attempt to jab at and make a significant point about Iranian President Ahmadinejad. Too bad they lost but it was a nice try.

Despite the seriousness of the messages, BLACK & WHITE WORLD III is laugh out loud funny time and time again. Often the best way to illuminate a grim situation is to ridicule it and few can beat Cox and Forkum at that. A great job.

These guys are great.......2006-11-21

Their work should be syndicated all over the country. They provide sharp, biting commentary that cuts through the BS the media tries to force on us. They also happen to be very good artists.

Sharp, smart, funny, and always to the point!.......2006-11-16

A must-have for any supporter of American values!

Eight Men Out: The Black Socks and the 1919 World Series

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Eight Men Out: The Black Socks and the 1919 World Series
Eliot Asinof
Manufacturer: Ace Books
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If White Kids Die: Memories of a Civil Rights Movement Volunteer

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A Moment in Time

If White Kids Die: Memories of a Civil Rights Movement Volunteer
Dick J. Reavis
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A Moment in Time.......2001-07-08

This book was recommended by a friend who is mentioned in the book. Otherwise I probably would not have bought it. However I found it easy to read and very enlightening. I graduated from high school in 1962 from a small town in the South. Although my path took me a different direction; I was fascinated by Dick Reavis' accounts of his experiences at voter registration in a small Southern town. He is certainly very honest in his portrayal of his contributions to the movement. Learning more about the struggles of the college students and the people in the city where they worked helped me have a better understanding of the issues they were trying to help change. I was very naive back then and quite frankly unaware of some of the restrictions that were imposed on African Americans at that time. Thanks for enlightening me. I intend to do more reading on this important chapter in American history.

Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball

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great gossipy goodness
Peering at the peerless
wrong info....about Mrs. Gloria Guinness
Great Read
Fun and interesting, not stuffy!

Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball
Deborah Davis
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ASIN: 047009821X

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In 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote's "Black and White Dance" in New York, and guests included Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer, C. Z. Guest, Kennedys, Rockefellers, and more. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and drawings of the guests, this portrait of revelry at the height of the swirling, swinging sixties is a must for anyone interested in American popular culture and the lifestyles of the rich, famous, and talented.

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great gossipy goodness.......2007-08-18

a great, fun read. a nice look into truman capote's life, the social scene of nyc in the 60s and this fabulous par-tay!

Peering at the peerless.......2007-08-11

If you're fascinated by the 1960s, you'll love Davis's take of Truman Capote's legendary black and white ball held in the Grand Ballroom at the Plaza Hotel in November 1966. Davis has a gift for not patronizing her readers. To those readers who were living, thinking, socially conscious adults in the 60s and can personally recall Capote's self-aggrandizing antics, she retells the familiar story in a unique and lively manner. For those readers coming to this story very much after-the-fact, she succinctly provides all the necessary background information without overloading the story with unnecessary details. What I enjoyed most was Davis's ability to convey the tone and mood of the era she's describing. Nineteen sixty-six, in retrospect, seems to have been a pivotal year. Positioned as it was at the virtual midpoint between the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, it is neither a time of great optimism (American jingoism) nor a time of open rebellion. But clearly, the old order is beginning to fray at the seams. The anxiety people felt over not being invited to what promised to be "the party of the century" is hard to fathom today and is almost touching in its pathos. And to read over the list of "the invited" (which Davis provides as an appendix) is in a strange way somewhat comforting. Whatever their faults, these people (with the possible exception of Lee Radziwill) were at least famous because of their accomplishments or social status. But clearly the era of celebrities who would be "famous solely for being famous" was not far off, and Davis does a good job of suggesting its immanence. One can't help wondering if Capote's party didn't in some way help to bring it about. The last two chapters ("Hangover" and "Afterword") close the story with sobering accounts of Capote's artistic decline and of what eventually happened to some of Capote's famous guests. As social history or memento mori, THE PARTY OF THE CENTURY is a thoroughly satisfying read.

wrong info....about Mrs. Gloria Guinness.......2007-05-22

Ms.Davis yes,give us suppostly a good title,but inmediatly when I read the first 4 chapters...ohhh big dissapointment...no big research,about
the "ball of the siècle"...either her "swans"..for example..Mrs.Gloria
Guinness was born in Guadalajara,capital of the Jalisco,the richest and
more snobish place in all Mexico,for more detail in a patio downtown house
between the El Carmen and El Pilar churches in that city...then,one of
the most elegants areas in all Guadalajara.
In honor to the truth there is a big difference between born and grew in
Guadalajara(considerated in Mexico as Boston or Philadelphia are in USA)..¡¡to born and grew up in a ugly cargo ships port as Veracruz¡¡
Her`s mother was a very well know Hat designer...witch its not the same a "seamstress"...the family Rubio-Alatorre still living in Guadalajara
and are very well know people on the very close circle of the old
names of the higth society in the capital of the State of Jalisco,mostly
of those families trace his lineage to the XVI century...¡¡and the most
"news" on the beginning of the XVIII siècle¡¡
The world famous classical look of Mrs.Guinness,was and still very usual in Guadalajara:a twin set cardigan...black little dress and pearls...always pearls...in a city famous for the extraordinary beauty
and charm and natural elegance of the womans,the elegance of Mrs.Guinness was normal...another example was the recently death Countess de Teba y Baños(neè Elena Verea y Corcuera)another extraordinary women born and raised in Guadalajara,who` was married in Paris and living in Madrid and Guadalajara(her mother was painted for Lazslo in Paris)...she was very close friend and muse of
Cristobal Balenciaga,the king of the Haute Couture in Paris for many
years...Thats for sure Ms.Deborah Davis,author of this book maybe needs more exactly information about the "swans" of Mr. Capote..¡¡ not only go to the Wikipedia..¡¡
best regards
Fernando Partida Rocha

Great Read.......2007-02-19

If you're a Truman Capote fan, I thoroughly recommend this book. I enjoyed my encounter with Truman and his ascendence into society. An easy read,and fascinating to read about his never to be repeated, Black and White Ball.

Fun and interesting, not stuffy!.......2007-02-12

Great Book! Great semi-biography on Capote, really looks at the society side of his life, which in my opinion is pretty interesting. It's a good reminder of the way society used to be and the granduer that can't be recaptured again. It's pretty light and easy to pick up and put down. Would be an excellent beach read or vacation read, without the feeling of a trashy novel.

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