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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433000047393
Author : Jean Stein
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802190635
The “exceptionally seductive biography” of the 1960s icon as told by those who knew her (Los Angeles Times Book Review). In the 1960s, actress and model Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet. She seemed to have it all: she was aristocratic and glamorous, vivacious and young, Andy Warhol’s superstar. But within a few years she flared out as quickly as she had appeared, and before she turned twenty-nine she was dead from a drug overdose. In a dazzling tapestry of voices—family, friends, lovers, rivals—the entire meteoric trajectory of Edie Sedgwick’s life is brilliantly captured. And so is the Pop Art world of the ‘60s: the sex, drugs, fashion, music—the mad rush for pleasure and fame. All glitter and flash on the outside, it was hollow and desperate within—like Edie herself, and like her mentor, Andy Warhol. Alternately mesmerizing, tragic, and horrifying, this book shatters many myths about the ‘60s experience in America. “This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for.” —Norman Mailer
Author : Marc Leepson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429906470
The thirteen-stripe, fifty-star flag is as familiar an American icon as any that has existed in the nation's history. Yet the history of the flag, especially its origins, is cloaked in myth and misinformation. Flag: An American Biography rectifies that situation by presenting a lively, comprehensive, illuminating look at the history of the American flag from its beginnings to today. Journalist and historian Marc Leepson uncovers scores of little-known, fascinating facts as he traces the evolution of the American flag from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. Flag sifts through the historical evidence to---among many other things---uncover the truth behind the Betsy Ross myth and to discover the true designer of the Stars and Stripes. It details the many colorful and influential Americans who shaped the history of the flag. "Flag," as the novelist Nelson DeMille says in his preface, "is not a book with an agenda or a subjective point of view. It is an objective history of the American flag, well researched, well presented, easy to read and understand, and very informative and entertaining." "Our love for the flag may be incomprehensible to others, but at least we now have a comprehensive guide to its unfolding." ---The Wall Street Journal "The fascination of history is in its details, and the author of Flag: An American Biography knows how to find them and turn them into compelling reading.... This book brings out the irony, humor, myth, and behind-the-scenes happenings that make our flag's 228-year history so fascinating." ---The Saturday Evening Post "Timely and insightful." ---The Dallas Morning News
Author : Jeremy Belknap
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : America
ISBN : WISC:89077023232
Author : Amos Blanchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : United States
ISBN : CHI:36274369
Author : James Grant Wilson,John Fiske
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : America
ISBN : BSB:BSB11480497
Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004813226
Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:RSLGDL
Author : Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781524619879
As the Czech ambassador to the United States, H. E. Petr Gandalovic noted in his foreword to this bookMla Rechcgl has written a monumental workrepresenting a culmination of his life achievement as a historian of Czech America. The Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech-American Biography is a unique and unparalleled publication. The enormity of this undertaking is reflected in the fact that it covers a universe, starting a few decades after the discovery of the New World, through the escapades and significant contributions of Bohemian Jesuits and Moravian Brethren in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the mass migration of the Czechs after the revolutionary year of 1848 up to the early years of the twentieth century and the influx of refugees from Nazism and Communism. The encyclopedia has been planned as a representative, comprehensive, and authoritative reference tool, encompassing over 7,500 biographies. This prodigious and unparalleled encyclopedic vademecum, reflecting enduring contributions of notable Americans with Czech roots, is not only an invaluable tool for all researchers and students of Czech-American history, but also a cart blanche for the Czech Republic, which considers Czech Americans as their own and as a part of its magnificent cultural history.
Author : James Grant Wilson,John Fiske
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : America
ISBN : WISC:89006819023
Author : James Grant Wilson,John Fiske
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015071163656
Author : James Grant Wilson,John Fiske
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024576857
Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023651688
Author : Tony Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538100189
The award-winning, smash Broadway hit, Hamilton: An American Musical,continues to captivate sold-out audiences and has sparked unprecedented interest in its historical protagonist. In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides readers with a concise biography that traces the events and values that enabled Hamilton to rise from his youth as a dispossessed orphan to Revolutionary War hero and Founding Father, a life uniquely shaped by America and who, in turn, contributed to the creation of the American regime of liberty and self-government. He was one of key leaders in the American Revolution, a chief architect of America’s constitutional order of self-government, and the key figure in Washington’s administration creating the institutions that governed America. Williams expertly weaves together biography with historical events to place Hamilton as one of the most important founding fathers. For readers just discovering Hamilton for the first time or those with an insatiable appetite for books on the Founders and the American Founding, Hamilton: An American Biography will shed new light on this American icon now experiencing a remarkable second act.
Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B5308001
