Bøger af Donald Spivey

The journey of mind-boggling discovery begins innocently when Ron and Diana decide to submit to a DNA test to learn more about their ancestry. Diana gets her test results back in a few weeks. Ron, on the other hand, only gets a notice that the company is still working on his results. Months later Ron's test results have yet to arrive. In the interim, he notices strange things happening to him. He believes that he is under surveillance whether going to the local grocery store, having coffee at Starbucks, or a hamburger at Five Guys. Who is following him and for what he has no idea. His belief that he is being tailed grows into a paranoia that carries over into disruptions of his workplace as a beloved college professor, unnerving students and colleagues alike. Battling dreams and reality, the paranoia increases to the point that he seeks the professional help of a renown psychiatrist, only to be betrayed. Determined to get to the bottom of all of this and to confirm his true identity, Ron undertakes a suspenseful journey that leads back to his hometown of Chicago in a search for answers in his old neighborhood, which he finds gentrified beyond recognition. Seeking out old friends and acquaintances, visiting his old high school and college, and wrestling with the challenges of the police, FBI, the judicial system, and the medical and scientific establishments, he finally unearths the complex truth of his identity, a revelation with life and death consequences. Donald Spivey has authored and edited non-fiction books. "Ancestry" is his first novel.

The biography of Milton L. Olive, III, the first African American awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War. We learn not just about Milton Olive the individual, but about the special challenges of an African American coming of age in the 1960s, the issue of career choices and the necessity of staying in school and getting an education, about Milton's hometowns of Chicago, Illinois, and Lexington, Mississippi, about military life and training, about Vietnam and the war itself, and concerns about morality, violence, the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship, and about compassion and bravery. It is all here in the Milton Olive story. The book is written to read like an historical novel. However, the information presented about Milton L. Olive, III, and his experiences in and outside of the military and the specifics occurring around him, are all researched and historically grounded.

Explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever - an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizard with a baseball whose artistry and antics on the mound brought fans out in the thousands to ballparks across the country: Leroy 'Satchel' Paige, arguably one of the world's greatest pitchers.

This stimulating anthology provides a scholarly perspective on the history of sport. Race relations and racism in sport, the interaction of sports and politics, sexism and the role of women in sports, and the role that the profit motive plays in sports are among the topics covered.

?In this brief, well-written book, Donald Spivey presents an arresting case for industrial education in the post-Civil War South as being a major force in teaching blacks to remain subservient....it is strongly recommended to anyone concerned with the development of post-Civil War black education.?-The Journal of American History