![]() Walking into the company’s office building involved passing through security checkpoints, Leonard explains, so numerous that one investigator later told Leonard that it “reminded him of traveling to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.” Koch Industries was under investigation for theft of oil from the Osage and other Indigenous nations. Christopher Leonard’s new book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, begins, appropriately enough, with an FBI agent, who is investigating criminal activity by the company, standing in a field with a pair of binoculars, trying to catch a glimpse of the daily operations of a company that prizes secrecy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The last pictures show him as a young man, perched on his scaffolding, brushes in hand, beckoning viewers on with his ardent glance. Praise for DIEGO (1991):"An accessible picture book about the life and work of Diego Rivera sounds like an oxymoron, but Winter. Publishers WeeklyA good, highly accessible introduction to a group of athletes who deserve to be as well known as their white counterparts. This picture book [will help set some records straight. Balancing stats with engaging trivia and anecdotes, the author will open readers' eyes to the injustices of segregated baseball. ![]() handsome volume devotes a spread each to 14 stars of the Negro Leagues. ![]() Readers will wish they could follow." - School Library Journal"An excellent beginning biography." - Kirkus* One of The Ruminator Review's 100 Best Children's Books of the Twentieth Century * A Reading Rainbow Review book* A 1991 Parents' Choice Award Honor winnerPraise for FAIR BALL! (1997):Certain to be a hit with kids who take baseball history seriously, Winter's. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She eventually made her way to Los Angeles, where she joined the famed comedy improv group, The Groundlings, and worked alongside Phil Hartman and Paul “Pee-wee” Reubens, honing her comedic skills. Then a chance encounter with her idol Elvis Presley, changed the course of her life forever, and led her to Europe where she worked in film and traveled Italy as lead singer of an Italian pop band. Run-ins with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tom Jones helped her grow up fast. While her sisters played with Barbie dolls, Cassandra built model kits of Frankenstein and Dracula, and idolized Vincent Price.ĭue to a complicated relationship with her mother, Cassandra left home at 14, and by age 17 she was performing at the famed Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. Feeling like a misfit led to her love of horror. Burned and scarred, the impact stayed with her and became an obstacle she was determined to overcome. ![]() Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn’t good. On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells, told by the bombshell herself. ![]() |