"A haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today . . . The interconnected strands of race and history give Ball's entrancing stories a Faulknerian resonance." —Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book ReviewA 2020 NPR staff pick | One of The New York Times' thirteen books to watch for in August | One of ...

Decades after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family is reissued by FSG Classics, with a new preface by the author.The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery u...

From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and scre...

**This program is read by the author.Decades after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family makes its audio debut, with a new preface by the author.**The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people ...

Named a best book of the summer by Literary HubThe life and times of a militant white supremacist, written by one of his offspring, National Book Award–winner Edward BallLife of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the years after the Civil War. Edward Ball, a descendant of the Klansman, paints a portrait of his family’s anti-...

From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and scre...

The 1998 National Book Award winner in the nonfiction category was Edward Ball for his book, Slaves in the Family. It's about the lives of his slave-owning ancestors on their rice plantations near Charleston, South Carolina. The book also tells the story of some of the thousands of slaves the Ball family once owned.

Edward S. Bicker is inspired to help undo problems caused by mass deception, offering this book as a contribution to the indomitable spirit of the truth movement. Pandora's Ball takes readers on a necessary journey down the metaphorical rabbit hole of corruption, which, according to the author, can only exist in the absence of truth. Drawing on more than three decades of research into society's political fringe, Bicker guides readers toward recognizing and stepping beyond the powerful infl...

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The study of astronomy, in the sense in which we understand the word, may be said to have commenced under the reign of the Ptolemies at Alexandria...Ptolemy is, without doubt, the greatest figure in ancient astronomy. He gathered up the wisdom of the philosophers who had preceded him. He incorporated this with the results of his own observations, and illumined it with his theories...It is somewhat strange that Ptolemy did not advance one step further, as by so doing he woul...

In "The History of Ancient Greek Sports and Athletic Festivals," Edward Norman Gardiner meticulously explores the significance of athletic competitions in ancient Greek society. Through a blend of literary analysis and historical context, Gardiner examines the origins and evolution of sports in Greece, focusing on the Olympic Games, the Pythian Games, and other regional festivals. His scholarly approach elucidates the sociopolitical ramifications of these events, detailing how they influen...

When Stewart Colley left the US Air Force, he submitted an application to become an espionage agent with the CIA. Nothing came of it. So, he accepted a job as a research/writer/analyst with the World News Organization in New York City. Seventeen years later, he is summoned to Washington, D.C., where he meets with E.F. Wright, a mysterious man who claims to be an administrator in the CIA. Wright tells Colley about a possible terrorist threat to the United States that may be brewing on a rem...