Tag: Collectors

The Collectors Stories [Audiobook]


Free Download The Collectors: Stories (Audiobook)
English | September 19, 2023 | ASIN: B0BS9ZBRCH | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 15m | 354 MB
Editor: A.S. King | Narrators: Becca Q. Co, Frankie Corzo, Vas Eli, Nicky Endres, Guy Lockard, Alex McKenna, Anthony Rey Perez, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Victoria Villarreal
From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, an anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange and surprising collections.

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The Vote Collectors The True Story of the Scamsters, Politicians, and Preachers behind the Nation’s Greatest Electoral


Free Download Michael Graff, "The Vote Collectors: The True Story of the Scamsters, Politicians, and Preachers behind the Nation’s Greatest Electoral "
English | ISBN: 1469665565 | 2021 | 296 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae Dowless. Dowless had learned the ins and outs of the absentee ballot system from Democrats before switching over to the Republican Party. Bladen County’s vote-collecting cottage industry made national headlines, led to multiple election fraud indictments, toppled North Carolina GOP leadership, and left hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians without congressional representation for nearly a year.

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Collectors, Commissioners, Curators Studies in Medieval Art Inspired by Stephen Fliegel


Free Download Elina Gertsman, "Collectors, Commissioners, Curators: Studies in Medieval Art Inspired by Stephen Fliegel "
English | ISBN: 1501521101 | 2023 | 280 pages | EPUB | 22 MB
This volume celebrates Stephen N. Fliegel, the former Robert Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Leading curators in their fields offer perspectives on the histories of collecting and display, artistic identity, and patronage by highlighting key objects in some of the most famous collections of medieval art, among others: the British Museum, the CMA, the Getty, the Louvre, the Met, the Morgan, and the V&A.

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