Sharkey

Sharkey
Author :
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 431
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781438487137
ISBN-13 : 1438487134
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Sharkey by : Gary Bohan Jr.

Download or read book Sharkey written by Gary Bohan Jr. and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Winner for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Performing Arts & Music Category "Sharkey is the natural artist, performing his magic for nothing but love." — Wolcott Gibbs, the New Yorker Sharkey tells the compelling story of an unusually gifted, trained sea lion who shared the stage with practically every important performer of the first half of the twentieth century—from Bob Hope to Ella Fitzgerald, from Broadway to Hollywood and beyond. Readers follow Sharkey and his flippered colleagues as they travel the world with stops at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, vaudeville houses, Manhattan during the Harlem Renaissance, burlesque nightclubs, movie palaces, Radio City Music Hall, and the legendary studios of early radio, movies, and television, meeting a who's who of showbiz entertainers, sports superstars, and even a US president. Meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated, Sharkey is a quirky slice of New York and entertainment history sure to delight fans of vintage pop culture and Americana, as well as animal lovers.


Sharkey Related Books

Sharkey
Language: en
Pages: 431
Authors: Gary Bohan Jr.
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Gold Winner for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Performing Arts & Music Category "Sharkey is the natural artist, performing his magic for
Stuck in Place
Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: Patrick Sharkey
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement’s successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of
Uneasy Peace
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Patrick Sharkey
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-05 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the late ’90s to the mid-2010s, American cities experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime, dramatically changing urban life. In many cases, places
Above Suspicion
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Joe Sharkey
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-17 - Publisher: Open Road Media

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The “uncommonly trenchant account of the only known FBI agent to confess to murder” (Kirkus Reviews). When rookie FBI agent Mark Putnam received his first a
The Tales of the Walrus
Language: en
Pages: 151
Authors: Richard Sharkey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-30 - Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Richard Sharkey THE TALES OF THE WALRUS The time has come, the Walrus said. To talk of many things: Of shoesand shipsand sealing wax Of cabbagesand Kings And wh