books: sleeping car

books: sleeping car

books:

Sleeping car

R Is for Race: A Stock Car Alphabet (Sports)

Brad Herzog

Sleeping Bear Press, 2006

Great Race Facts
This was a great book for the child who loves race cars. It was filled with many different levels of content that could be read to or by many different ages of children. This is an excellent series of books!

George Pullman; Young Sleeping Car Builder.

Elisabeth P. Myers

Atheneum, 1963

Good primer on Pullman
I found this book to be a great primer on George Pullman's life, especially when he was younger. However, given the hatred towards him by his employees, I think some of the content needs to be changed as it depicts he that he was loved by all. Good book, though.

Sleeping Beauties

Halwart Schrader

Edition Olms, 2008

Overpriced, Disappointing
Not up to expectations. No real information on the cars themselves, or even captions for the pictures. Printed on dull paper instead of glossy, the whole book just doesn't deliver. Sort of neat pictures, but after 20 minutes you've read the entire book and looked at ...

KEEPING THE FAITH: A. Philip Randolph, Milton P. Webster, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, ...
William H. Harris

University of Illinois Press, 1991

Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (Working Class in American History)

Melinda Chateauvert

University of Illinois Press, 1997

A classical scholar
I had the honor of taking several classes taught by Dr. Chateauvert at the University of Maryland. I strongly recommend any book that she's authored or contributed to as her insights are always deep and encourage an even deeper exploration of the subject by the ...

Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class

Larry Tye

Henry Holt and Co., 2004

Achievement Lost
Larry Tye tells the fascinating story of African Americans, emancipated after the Civil War, starting a steady climb to civil rights and the middle class by exploiting job opportunity that ironcially was supposed to exploit them. A must read for railroad passenger ...

Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: STORIES OF BLACK PULLMAN PORTERS (Publications of the American Folklore ...

Jack Santino

University of Illinois Press, 1991

Heavy on Racism, Light on Folklore
Based both on its title and on the fact that this book is a publication of the American Folklore Society, I expected to find a collection of first-person reminiscences, perhaps embellished as all effective stories are embellished by their tellers, though retaining ...

A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter (Walker's American History Series for Young People)
Pat McKissack, Fredrick McKissack

Walker & Company, 1995

More than just the story of the Pullman porters, this volume recounts the saga of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, first major black labor union to be admitted to the AFL. Organized by A. Phillip Randolph just after the Civil War, the union brought together many freed slaves who had been hired by George Pullman to pamper the passengers in his ...

The Sleeping Car Murders

Sebastien Japrisot

Plume, 1997

The first clue is in the title....
This masterfully written novel opens with a terrific scene: the train porter wanders through the cars, picking up the detrius of a long night's travel. He finds a scarf, two raincoats, an umbrella, and a leak in the heating system. Then he finds the corpse and his ...

Sleeping Car, The: A General Guide

ACL-SAL Historical Society, 2004

Evolution of Pullmans
This is a great book to have if you are interested in the history of Pullman cars. While mainly dealing with Pullmans, it also touches on the other makers of sleepers as well. It explains how they started and the different styles and how they changed and evolved ...