Billy Lee

Billy Lee

Billy Lee (William Lee Schlensker) (March 12, 1929 November 17, 1989) was a child actor who appeared in many films from the mid-1930s through the early...

William Lee (valet)

William "Billy" Lee (1750 1828), also known as Will Lee, was George Washington's personal servant and the only one of Washington's slaves freed outright by...

Billy Lee

Billy Lee (William Lee Schlenaker) (March 12, 1929 November 17, 1989) was a child actor who appeared in many films from the mid-1930s through the early...

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Murder Was Bad

The Ballad of Billy Lee -- The Story of George Washington's Favorite Slave

"One of the most poignant untold stories in American history." -- Joseph J.Ellis, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner. Billly Lee, an African-American slave, was at George Washington's side for over 30 years. Although never a relationship between equals, it was an intimate and enduring co...

The Ballad of Billy Lee - George Washington's Favorite Slave

"One of the most poignant untold stories in American history" - Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award bestselling historian. The novel has recently been optioned by prominent, multiple Emmy winning Producer-Director, Mark Stouffer, for a feature/mini-series on a major cable-televis...

George Washington's Mulatto Man: Who was Billy Lee ?

In "George Washington's Mulatto Man - Who was Billy Lee ?", author James Thompson re-weaves a fabric of events that began more than twenty-five years before the Declaration of Independence was written and ended more than twenty-five years after its ratification. Most of these events are known only t...

The Wrong Stuff

The return of a sports classic with a new foreword by the authorFinally back in print after many years, here is Bill Lee’s classic tale of his renegade life on and off the mound. Whether walking out on the Montreal Expos to protest the release of a valued teammate or telling sportswriters eager for ...

The Gay Place (Texas Classics)

Set in Texas, The Gay Place consists of three interlocking novels, each with a different protagonist—a member of the state legislature, the state's junior senator, and the governor's press secretary. The governor himself, Arthur Fenstemaker, a master politician, infinitely canny and seductive, remai...

Gay Place, Being Three Related Novels: The Flea Circus, Room Enough to Caper, Country Pleasures. Reprint of the 1961 Ed

Book by Brammer, Billy Lee

Billy

Albert French lights up the monstrous face of American racism in this harrowing tale of ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner, who is convicted of and executed for murdering a white girl in Banes County, Mississippi in 1937. Billy is about the deaths of two children, one girl, one boy, the girl's death an a...