Author : Robert E. Conot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010927823
American Odyssey
Robert E. Conot
American Odyssey
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Riverman
Ben McGrath
Author : Ben McGrath
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780451494016
Riverman by Ben McGrath Pdf
“This quietly profound book belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild.” —The New York Times The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles of American rivers—and then disappeared near the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This book “contains everything: adventure, mystery, travelogue, and unforgettable characters” (David Grann, best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon). For decades, Dick Conant paddled the rivers of America, covering the Mississippi, Yellowstone, Ohio, Hudson, as well as innumerable smaller tributaries. These solo excursions were epic feats of planning, perseverance, and physical courage. At the same time, Conant collected people wherever he went, creating a vast network of friends and acquaintances who would forever remember this brilliant and charming man even after a single meeting. Ben McGrath, a staff writer at The New Yorker, was one of those people. In 2014 he met Conant by chance just north of New York City as Conant paddled down the Hudson, headed for Florida. McGrath wrote a widely read article about their encounter, and when Conant's canoe washed up a few months later, without any sign of his body, McGrath set out to find the people whose lives Conant had touched--to capture a remarkable life lived far outside the staid confines of modern existence. Riverman is a moving portrait of a complex and fascinating man who was as troubled as he was charismatic, who struggled with mental illness and self-doubt, and was ultimately unable to fashion a stable life for himself; who traveled alone and yet thrived on connection and brought countless people together in his wake. It is also a portrait of an America we rarely see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river towns, and long-forgotten waterways.
North American Odyssey
Craig E. Colten,Geoffrey L. Buckley
Author : Craig E. Colten,Geoffrey L. Buckley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442215863
North American Odyssey by Craig E. Colten,Geoffrey L. Buckley Pdf
This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh approach to conceptualizing the historical geography of North America by taking a thematic rather than a traditional regional perspective. Leading geographers, building on current scholarship in the field, explore five central themes. Part I explores the settling and resettling of the continent through the experiences of Native Americans, early European arrivals, and Africans. Part II examines nineteenth-century European immigrants, the reconfiguration of Native society, and the internal migration of African Americans. Part III considers human transformations of the natural landscape in carving out a transportation network, replumbing waterways, extracting timber and minerals, preserving wilderness, and protecting wildlife. Part IV focuses on human landscapes, blending discussions of the visible imprint of society and distinctive approaches to interpreting these features. The authors discuss survey systems, regional landscapes, and tourist and mythic landscapes as well as the role of race, gender, and photographic representation in shaping our understanding of past landscapes. Part V follows the urban impulse in an analysis of the development of the mercantile city, nineteenth- and twentieth-century planning, and environmental justice. With its focus on human-environment interactions, the mobility of people, and growing urbanization, this thoughtful text will give students a uniquely geographical way to understand North American history. Contributions by: Derek H. Alderman, Timothy G. Anderson, Kevin Blake, Christopher G. Boone, Geoffrey L. Buckley, Craig E. Colten, Michael P. Conzen, Lary M. Dilsaver, Mona Domosh, William E. Doolittle, Joshua Inwood, Ines M. Miyares, E. Arnold Modlin, Jr., Edward K. Muller, Michael D. Myers, Karl Raitz, Jasper Rubin, Joan M. Schwartz, Steven Silvern, Andrew Sluyter, Jeffrey S. Smith, Robert Wilson, William Wyckoff, and Yolonda Youngs
The African American Odyssey
Bilal R. Muhammad
Author : Bilal R. Muhammad
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467035125
The African American Odyssey by Bilal R. Muhammad Pdf
The African American Odyssey is a literary compilation of a portrait combined with a strong compelling chronological history and discussion of the African American plight, from an African American perspective. It also entails many significant aspects of African American struggles, achievements and wondering about in a country that adamantly refuses to see African Americans. Propelled by enthusiasm, anguish, and deep concern for the magnitude of social and economic despaired conditions African Americans find themselves in today, the author is obsessed with confronting the pervassive challenges of systemic and institutionalized white supremacy, unjustified evil racist oppression, suffering and unnecessary social and economic misery perpetrated against African Americans by a hatefully hostile government determined to marginalize or exterminate them. Exasperatingly, Muhammad expressively takes the reader on a journey through centuries of convoluted wondering while illustrating to them, the events that produced the African American experience. He conclusively shares his hope, skepticism and cautious optimism for the future of African Americans.
A Chinese American Odyssey
John Jung
Author : John Jung
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312590687
A Chinese American Odyssey by John Jung Pdf
African-American Odyssey
Albert S. Broussard
Author : Albert S. Broussard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047117455
African-American Odyssey by Albert S. Broussard Pdf
This book illuminates the professional career and private lives of J. McCants Stewart--a Reconstruction-era lawyer, minister, politician, and political activist--and his descendants over three generations, providing an epic account of an African-American family in America. (Adapted from book jacket)
Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey
Edward J. O’Shea
Author : Edward J. O’Shea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000816648
Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey by Edward J. O’Shea Pdf
Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey describes, with a new archive of correspondence, interviews, and working drafts, the some 40 years that Seamus Heaney spent in the United States as a teacher, lecturer, friend, and colleague, and as an active poet on the reading circuit. It is anchored by Heaney’s appointments at Berkeley and Harvard, but it also follows Heaney’s readings “on the road” at three important points in his career. It argues that Heaney was initially receptive to American poetry and culture while his career was still plastic, but as he developed more assurance and fame, he became much more critical of America as a superpower, especially in the military reaction to 9/11. This study emphasizes “the heard Heaney” as much as the “writerly Heaney” by listening in on key poetry readings at different times and to recorded but unpublished lectures on American and British poets at Harvard. It includes accounts by his creative writing students, aspiring poets, who testify to his mentoring as well as modeling for them how one can be “a poet in the world” as he was most strikingly.
The American Odyssey
William James Linton
Author : William James Linton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Austria
ISBN : IOWA:31858041628508
The American Odyssey by William James Linton Pdf
An Irish-American Odyssey
Colum Kenny
Author : Colum Kenny
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826273208
An Irish-American Odyssey by Colum Kenny Pdf
The O’Shaughnessy brothers’ story takes place between 1860 and 1950 in Illinois, Missouri, New York, and Ireland. They were the children of an impoverished immigrant who fled the famine in Ireland and his Irish-American wife.An Irish-American Odysseyis the tale of this first-generation immigrant family’s struggle to assimilate into American society, highlighting their perseverance and determination to seize opportunities and surmount obstacles, all the while establishing a legacy for their own descendants in American art, advertising, journalism, and public service. TIME magazine called James O’Shaughnessy “the best in the business” of advertising, and he became the first chief executive of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. Earlier, he was a “star” reporter at the Chicago Tribune, and James and Francis were centrally involved in founding and maintaining the Irish Fellowship Club. Francis was also the first graduate of the University of Notre Dame to be invited to deliver its annual commencement address, while Martin was the first captain of Notre Dame’s official basketball team. An attorney, John represented the alleged victim in a notorious “white slavery” case. Thomas (“Gus”) became the leading Gaelic Revival artist in America as well as a promoter of Italian-American heritage, campaigning successfully to have Columbus Day enacted a public holiday. The remarkable rise of the O’Shaughnessy brothers proves the American dream is attainable.
American Odyssey
Gary B. Nash
Author : Gary B. Nash
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : ARCHITECTURE
ISBN : 0028221540
American Odyssey by Gary B. Nash Pdf
A history of the United States in the twentieth century, featuring sociological and cultural events, as well as strictly historical, and using many pertinent literary excerpts.
The American Odyssey. Adventures of Ulysses ... Exposed, in Modest Hudibrastic Measure by A. Reid and A. N. Broome [or Rather, by W. J. Linton]. To which is Appended an Allegory of King Augeas
William James Linton
Author : William James Linton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026856873
The American Odyssey. Adventures of Ulysses ... Exposed, in Modest Hudibrastic Measure by A. Reid and A. N. Broome [or Rather, by W. J. Linton]. To which is Appended an Allegory of King Augeas by William James Linton Pdf
An American Odyssey
Mary Schmidt Campbell
Author : Mary Schmidt Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199723645
An American Odyssey by Mary Schmidt Campbell Pdf
By the time of his death in 1988, Romare Bearden was most widely celebrated for his large-scale public murals and collages, which were reproduced in such places as Time and Esquire to symbolize and evoke the black experience in America. As Mary Schmidt Campbell shows us in this definitive, defining, and immersive biography, the relationship between art and race was central to his life and work -- a constant, driving creative tension. Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college years, but in the later 1930s turned to painting and became part of a community of artists supported by the WPA. As his reputation grew he perfected his skills, studying the European masters and analyzing and breaking down their techniques, finding new ways of applying them to the America he knew, one in which the struggle for civil rights became all-absorbing. By the time of the March on Washington in 1963, he had begun to experiment with the Projections, as he called his major collages, in which he tried to capture the full spectrum of the black experience, from the grind of daily life to broader visions and aspirations. Campbell's book offers a full and vibrant account of Bearden's life -- his years in Harlem (his studio was above the Apollo theater), to his travels and commissions, along with illuminating analysis of his work and artistic career. Campbell, who met Bearden in the 1970s, was among the first to compile a catalogue of his works. An American Odyssey goes far beyond that, offering a living portrait of an artist and the impact he made upon the world he sought both to recreate and celebrate.
American Odyssey
Max McCoy
Author : Max McCoy
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786046966
American Odyssey by Max McCoy Pdf
Max McCoy, the Spur Award-winning author of Damnation Road, continues his American Western saga of the Ghost Rifle as the violence and bloodshed the weapon caused return to haunt the man who created it . . . THE WEAPON AND THE WILDERNESS Ten years have passed since Jack Picaro lost his Ghost Rifle—the firearm he invented, the one that never missed its target. The loss of the rifle calmed the hellraiser in his soul. Instead of returning to the gambling halls and whiskey bars of St. Louis, Jack has spent the last decade as a fur trapper in Wyoming’s Wild River Range, married to Sky, the daughter of an Arikara war chief. Then, after helping rescue U.S. soldiers captured by Crow Indians in the Rocky Mountains, Jack hears the familiar bell-like report of his Ghost Rifle. Determined to retrieve his deadly property, he travels deep into Lakota territory, facing down old enemies—and resuming old sinful habits—unaware of what awaits him when he eventually returns home to his family. “Few Western writers today can spin a tale with style, wit, and rawness better than Max McCoy.” —Johnny D. Boggs, Western Heritage and Spur Award-winning author of West Texas Kill
A Hope in the Unseen
Ron Suskind
Author : Ron Suskind
Publisher : Crown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307763082
A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind Pdf
The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair. In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate was well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1,350 boasted an average of B or better. At Ballou, Cedric had almost no friends. He ate lunch in a classroom most days, plowing through the extra work he asked for, knowing that he was really competing with kids from other, harder schools. Cedric Jennings’s driving ambition—which was fully supported by his forceful mother—was to attend a top college. In September 1995, after years of near superhuman dedication, he realized that ambition when he began as a freshman at Brown University. But he didn't leave his struggles behind. He found himself unprepared for college: he struggled to master classwork and fit in with the white upper-class students. Having traveled too far to turn back, Cedric was left to rely on his intelligence and his determination to maintain hope in the unseen—a future of acceptance and reward. In this updated edition, A Hope in the Unseen chronicles Cedric’s odyssey during his last two years of high school, follows him through his difficult first year at Brown, and tells the story of his subsequent successes in college and the world of work. Eye-opening, sometimes humorous, and often deeply moving, A Hope in the Unseen weaves a crucial new thread into the rich and ongoing narrative of the American experience.
American Odyssey
Michel Laguerre
Author : Michel Laguerre
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501727498
American Odyssey by Michel Laguerre Pdf
Caribbean immigrants have now become part of the social landscape of many American cities. Few studies, however, have treated in detail the process of their integration in American society. American Odyssey assesses the development and adaptation, in both human and socio-economic terms, of the Haitian immigrant community in three boroughs of New York City. An informed and well-rounded portrayal of a Caribbean community in New York, this book offers a fresh theoretical view of the structuring of urban ethnicity and provides the ethnographic background essential to understanding the problems of the Haitian population in the United States.