Alessio vinci biography of mahatma gandhi
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Angela Alioto (Creator of Piazza Italia in San Francisco)
There's a family that runs its history through the decades serving the town of San Francisco: before Joseph, then his daughter Angela, now her son Joseph. There's a project called Porziuncola Nuova that connected San Francisco to Saint Francis' town, Assisi. There's a square in front of a church in the North Beach, San Francisco's Little Italy, that is about to become a true Italian Piazza.
All these stories have someone in common: a force of nature, Angela Alioto.
Angela, you come from a very important Italian American family: your father Joseph L. Alioto has been Mayor of San Francisco from 1968 to 1976, continuing a tradition of Italian Mayors that dates back to the glorious times of Angelo Rossi. You yourself were elected as President of the Board of Supervisors and you have even written a book about your experiences in San Francisco politics, called "Straight to the Heart". Now your son, Joseph Alioto Veronese serves as a San Francisco Police commissioner ... family, service, tradition, it is a typical Italian American story, right?
Yes, my father, Joseph Alioto, was mayor in San Francisco from 1968 to 1976. I have five brothers, no other sisters.
He was the son of a Sici
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Louie Henri (older)
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From time to time, if only to amuse and challenge myself, I buy cartoon books sight unseen. Generally, there is something about their description I find alluring enough to be willing to take a risk. Don't try this at home unless you're willing to face possible disappointment.
In the case of a copy of George Booth's now classic Think Good Thoughts About a Pussycat (1975), bookseller John K. King offered an inscribed copy with drawings by Marvin Tannenberg, Sam Gross, Bill Woodman, and Booth. That's a great combination of cartoonists usually found in signed copies of the The Art in Cartooning (1975) from the Cartoonists' Guild. Perhaps Raymond, the book's original recipient, carried his copy of the Booth book into the signing, or perhaps it was also available for purchase at whatever venue the signing was held. The seller speculates that Raymond was cartoonist Raymond Thayer, which is interesting, but there's no clear evidence for this one way or the other.
The price of $224.25 is admittedly pricey for a book one hasn't seen. One always worries that a suite of drawings such as this one hasn't been imaged because it just doesn't look quite as good as it sounds. But the bookseller threw in an unrelated letter he received from Booth in response, apparently, to a qu