Willy Thorn

His Name Was Washington. His Name Was Lee. (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

His name was Washington, his name was Lee ... & he was definitely a general.

This is the story of Raymond Lee Washington founder of the Crips street gang.

It is not a biography, so much as a theatrical re-creation of events which took place in Los Angeles in the late 1960s & early 197os.

The story follows Raymond Lee from his early days as a 15-year old street fighter, to & thru his time in high school during which he founded an organization which would go on to become world famous.

Washington ended up in prison just a few years later, before ultimately re-emerging onto Los Angeles' streets with an even grander plan.

The way these events unfolded & the power of the characters involved, incl. J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, Bunchy Carter, Huey Newton, Ron Karenga, John Huggins Jr., Elaine Brown, Geronimo Pratt, Michael 'Shaft' Conception, Jimel 'Godfather' Barnes, Mac Thomas, Tookie Williams, Greg 'Batman' Davis, Curtis 'Buddha' Morrow & more completely changed the face of Los Angeles ... & nearly every major city in America today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Willy Thorn
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463984932
• Artikelnr.: 72406602

Autorenporträt

Willy Thorn is a communications expert & artistic renaissance man. He is a journalist & copywriter, teacher, author & artist. He has lived many places, beginning with Milwaukee & Rome & Minnesota & central Wisconsin. Among his other homes are Washington DC & Baltimore, Chicago & the Twin Cities, St. Francis South Dakota, the Bay Area & Shanghai. He currently lives & works in Bangkok. Thorn has a Masters Degree in Journalism & has spent time as a Capitol Hill reporter & wire editor, sports writer, political columnist & arts critic. Other media endeavors include public relations campaigns, magazine feature writing, ghostwritten biographies & time on the radio as a DJ & on-air host, play-by-play sports announcer & music promoter. He has spent nearly a decade as a language specialist for Craft Worldwide & as a copywriter & creative for McCann Worldgroup. He currently works as senior copywriter at Quo Global branding agency in Bangkok. He has won awards at Cannes Lions & been recognized for sports writing & political columns, magazine features, theatre scripts, religious publications & photography. Thorn is also a photographer & classical oil painter, trained thru the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. His artistic c.v. includes photography gallery shows; sculpting in Mamallapuram, India; concrete statuary at Wat Xieng Mouane, in Luang Prabang, Laos; and flower petal mosaics in Cagli, Italy. He is a Buddhist meditation instructor; trained thru Thailand's renowned Willpower Institute. And he was even the rare foreigner to complete the entire six month course in spoken & written Thai. He currently sits as an advisor on the institute's English Foreign Language subcommittee where he translates books, helps develop outreach programs & occasionally lectures. He proudly notes a Master's Degree from Marquette University & books in both Washington's Library of Congress & the Vatican Archives in Rome. His catalog is varied & he has written extensively about a number of subjects including sports, politics, religion, Buddhist philosophy & Asian history & art. One of his largest endeavors was documenting & cataloguing several hundred temples in Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Yangon, Vientiane & Kuala Lumpur. His catalog is available thru the following distributors: Am...