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Harvard University.
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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
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"A lively and engaging chronicle that adds yet another dimension to the historical record." -The Boston Globe When George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in his luxurious new sleeping cars, the former slaves suffering under Jim Crow laws found his offer of a steady job and worldly experience irresistible. They quickly signed up to serve as maid, waiter, concierge, nanny, and occasionally doctor and undertaker to cars full of white passengers, making the Pullman Company the largest employer of African Americans in the country by the 1920s. Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Larry Tye reconstructs the complicated world of the Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic roles they played as forerunners of the modern black middle class. Rising from the Rails provides a lively and enlightening look at this important social phenomenon.
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by Larry Tye Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend(text only) Paperback2010
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SATCHEL: The Life and Times of an American Legend by Tye, Larry (June 9, 2009) Hardcover
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Larry Tye: Satchel : The Life and Times of an American Legend (Paperback); 2010 Edition
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The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations
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Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend (Hardcover)
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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class by Larry Tye (2005-06-01)
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The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations by Tye, Larry (July 13, 1998) Hardcover
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The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations by Larry Tye (2002-09-01)
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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
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(The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & the Birth of Public Relations ) Author: Larry Tye Sep-2002
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By Larry Tye - Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class (1st Edition) (5.2.2005)
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Larry Tye: Rising from the Rails : Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class (Paperback); 2005 Edition
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Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
(He is that rare American icon who has never been captured...)
He is that rare American icon who has never been captured in a biography worthy of him. Now, at last, here is the superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige. Through dogged research and extensive interviews, award-winning author and journalist Larry Tye has tracked down the truth about this majestic and enigmatic pitcher. Here is the stirring account of the child born to a poor Alabama washerwoman, the boy who earned his nickname from his enterprising work as a railroad porter, and the young man who took up baseball on the streets and in reform school before becoming the superstar hurler of the Negro Leagues. In unprecedented detail, Tye reveals how Paige, hurt and angry when Jackie Robinson beat him in breaking the Majors’ color barrier, emerged at the improbable age of forty-two to help propel the Cleveland Indians to the World Series. (“Age is a case of mind over matter,” he said. “If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”) Rewriting our history of baseball’s integration with Paige in the starring role and separating truth from legend, Satchel is a story as large as this larger-than-life man.
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Larry Tye
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From 1986 to 2001, Tye worked as a journalist at The Boston Globe, covering medicine, the environment, sports and national news. Before that he covered business and government at The Anniston Star in Anniston, Alabama, then was the environmental reporter at The Courier Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. Two of Tye"s books, one on the Pullman porters and another on electroconvulsive therapy, have been adapted into documentary films.
Tye additionally is director of the Boston-based Health Coverage Fellowship, which each year trains 10 American medical journalists on better covering issues in this field
2010 Seymour Medal for Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend.
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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
( "A lively and engaging chronicle that adds yet another ...)
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Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
(He is that rare American icon who has never been captured...)
- Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
- by Larry Tye Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend(text only) Paperback2010
- SATCHEL: The Life and Times of an American Legend by Tye, Larry (June 9, 2009) Hardcover
- Larry Tye: Satchel : The Life and Times of an American Legend (Paperback); 2010 Edition
- The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations
- Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend (Hardcover)
- Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class by Larry Tye (2005-06-01)
- The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations by Tye, Larry (July 13, 1998) Hardcover
- The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations by Larry Tye (2002-09-01)
- Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
- (The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & the Birth of Public Relations ) Author: Larry Tye Sep-2002
- By Larry Tye - Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class (1st Edition) (5.2.2005)
- Larry Tye: Rising from the Rails : Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class (Paperback); 2005 Edition
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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
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