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James Jacoby, one of the world's foremost bridge players, now explains the winning tactics behind the famous Jacoby method of top bridge play. Shows readers the art of effective bidding and reveals invaluable strategies for smart defensive play.
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Since childhood, Susan Jacoby, the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason, was sure that her father was keeping a secret. At age twenty, just before beginning her writing career as a reporter for the Washington Post, she learned the truth: Robert Jacoby, a Catholic convert with a Catholic wife, was also a Jew. In Half-Jew, Jacoby grapples with the hidden identity cloaked by the persona of a successful accountant and member of St. Thomas Aquinas Church in East Lansing, Michigan—and with the secrets and lies that had marked her family’s history for three generations on two continents. Beginning in 1849 when her great-grandfather arrived in America as a political ...
Ralph Beane (d.1655/1656) immigrated from England to Maryland in 1633, later moving to Virginia, and then moving to St. Mary's County, Maryland. He died in England, and left the Maryland land to his nephew, Walter Bayne (1616-1670). Walter had immigrated to Virginia in the 1630s, and moved to St. Mary's County, Maryland in 1641. Descendants and relatives lived in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.
Texas Biographical Dictionary contains biographies on hundreds of persons from diverse vocations that were either born, achieved notoriety and/or died in the state of Texas. Prominent persons, in addition to the less eminent, that have played noteworthy roles are included in this resource. When people are recognized from your state or locale it brings a sense of pride to the residents of the entire state.