An Autobiography The Story Of My Life And Work

Author : Booker T. Washington
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781602068698

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The Story of My Life and Work by Booker T. Washington Pdf

He is one of the great voices in African-American history: Booker T. Washington rose from a boyhood in shackles in West Virginia-he was eight when the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution freed all slaves in 1865-to the status of national hero. In this autobiography of his career, Washington details his struggles as head of the school in Alabama that eventually became Tuskegee University, the honors he received from Harvard University, his many public speeches, and his other professional endeavors. A replica of the 1901 edition, this volume is complete with the original photos and illustrations, and remains an invaluable firsthand document of 19th-century America. American author BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856-1915) was born to a white father and black slave mother in Virginia. His Atlanta Address of 1895 brought him great acclaim, and for the rest of his life he remained a respected figure in the African American community. Among his most influential writings is an article for Atlantic Monthly called "The Awakening of the Negro" (1896).

Author : Booker T. Washington
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783849644024

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An Autobiography - The Story of My Life and Work by Booker T. Washington Pdf

Mr. Washington, more than any other writer or lecturer, has solved the "race problem." The historical value of the book, and its uplifting influence give ''The Story Of My Life And Work'' a prominent place in modern literature. It is a volume for the family library along with the Life of Franklin, Emerson's Essays and the great autobiographies. There is no greaterstimulus for self-help, for Mr. Washington forged his way to the front by his own efforts.

Author : George Sand
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 079140580X

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Story of My Life by George Sand Pdf

Author : Mary Fox
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1550179381

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My Life As a Potter by Mary Fox Pdf

Acclaimed potter Mary Fox, known for creating stunning gravity-defying decorative vessels as well as contemporary functional ware, tells the story of her life as an artist.

Author : Albert "Prodigy" Johnson,Prodigy (Musician)
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439103197

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My Infamous Life by Albert "Prodigy" Johnson,Prodigy (Musician) Pdf

"A memoir about a life almost lost and a revealing look at the dark side of hip hop's golden era ... a story of struggle, survival, and hope down the mean streets of New York City"--Dust flap jacket.

Author : Kevin Quirk
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781936780211

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Your Life Is a Book - And It's Time to Write It! by Kevin Quirk Pdf

Do you have a story that you just have to tell? Do you seek to preserve your life history as a gift for loved ones, or to pay tribute to those who have meant the most to you? Do you yearn to write about one major life experience to inspire others? You're not alone. The desire to write our life story is a timeless, universal urge. Somewhere inside us we know that writing a book about our life will touch those we love, while enriching our lives in today's cell phone-laptop lifestyle. Life is a book, and women and men from 19 to 99 are hearing the call to write it. Someone is waiting to hear you tell your life story: who you are, how you've lived, what you've learned. They want to hear all the stories that have shaped your life. Your Life Is a Book - And It's Time to Write It! An A-to-Z Guide to Help Anyone Write Their Life Story will take you on the journey of creating your memoir, autobiography, or life story. It doesn't matter how old or how young you are, or whether you've written a lot, a little, or not at all. Through practical tools, lively writing exercises, engaging questions, and helpful illustrations, you'll receive the guidance and encouragement you need from an expert life-writing teacher. Start writing your life story today! Kevin Quirk, M.A., has been helping ordinary people of all ages and backgrounds write their life stories as ghostwriter, personal historian, and Writing Your Life Story teacher since 1998. A former journalist and founder of Life Is a Book, he is coauthor of Brace for Impact: Miracle on the Hudson Survivors Share Their Stories of Near Death and Hope for New Life.

Author : Keith Richards
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316178723

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Life by Keith Richards Pdf

The long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever. With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.

Author : David Marshall,Carl Marshall
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0316534498

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The Book of Myself by David Marshall,Carl Marshall Pdf

Have you ever wanted to create your own autobiography or wished you could read about the life of a relative or friend? The Book of Myself is a do-it-yourself memoir that helps you record and preserve the experiences, relationships, and lessons that define you. Created by a grandson who wanted to capture his grandfather's life story for future generations, The Book of Myself offers 201 memory-evoking prompts on family, friends, and the journey you take through all of life's stages. It is the perfect way for you -- or someone close to you -- to record life's highlights and everyday moments that can slip through your fingers if not written down.

Author : David Milch
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525510765

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Life's Work by David Milch Pdf

The creator of Deadwood and NYPD Blue reflects on his tumultuous life, driven by a nearly insatiable creative energy and a matching penchant for self-destruction. Life’s Work is a profound memoir from a brilliant mind taking stock as Alzheimer’s loosens his hold on his own past. “This is David Milch’s farewell, and it will rock you.”—Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, USA Today, Kirkus Reviews “I’m on a boat sailing to some island where I don’t know anybody. A boat someone is operating and we aren’t in touch.” So begins David Milch’s urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch’s life seems destined to echo that of his father, a successful if drug-addicted surgeon. Almost every achievement is accompanied by an act of self-immolation, but the deepest sadnesses also contain moments of grace. Betting on racehorses and stealing booze at eight years old, mentored by Robert Penn Warren and excoriated by Richard Yates at twenty-one, Milch never did anything by half. He got into Yale Law School only to be expelled for shooting out streetlights with a shotgun. He paused his studies at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop to manufacture acid in Cuernavaca. He created and wrote some of the most lauded television series of all time, made a family, and pursued sobriety, then lost his fortune betting horses just as his father had taught him. Like Milch’s best screenwriting, Life’s Work explores how chance encounters, self-deception, and luck shape the people we become, and wrestles with what it means to have felt and caused pain, even and especially with those we love, and how you keep living. It is both a master class on Milch’s unique creative process, and a distinctive, revelatory memoir from one of the great American writers, in what may be his final dispatch to us all.

Author : Norm Macdonald
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781443414319

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Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald Pdf

Wild, dangerous, and flat-out unbelievable, here is the incredible #1 bestselling memoir of the Canadian actor, gambler, and raconteur, and one of the greatest stand-up comedians of all time. A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year As this book’s title suggests, Norm Macdonald tells the story of his life—more or less—from his origins on a farm in the backwoods of Ontario and an epically disastrous appearance on Star Search to his account of auditioning for Lorne Michaels and his memorable run as the anchor of Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live—until he was fired because a corporate executive didn’t think he was funny. But Based on a True Story is much more than just a memoir; it’s the hilarious, inspired epic of Norm’s life. In dispatches from a road trip to Las Vegas (part of a plan hatched to regain the fortune he’d lost to sports betting and other vices) with his sidekick and enabler, Adam Eget, Norm recounts the milestone moments, the regrets, the love affairs, the times fortune smiled on his life, and the times it refused to smile. As the clock ticks down, Norm’s debt reaches record heights, and he must find a way to evade the hefty price that’s been placed on his head by one of the most dangerous loan sharks in the country. As a comedy legend should, Norm peppers these pages with classic jokes and long-mythologized Hollywood stories. This wildly adventurous, totally original, and absurdly funny saga turns the conventional “comic’s memoir” on its head and gives the reader an exclusive pass inside the mad, glorious mind of Norm Macdonald.

Author : David Ogilvy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000064474

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Blood, Brains and Beer by David Ogilvy Pdf

Author : Moshe Dayan
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992-08-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000026413457

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Moshe Dayan by Moshe Dayan Pdf

Moshe Dayan is the autobiography of a soldier who never forgot his roots as a farmer, a loner who rose to the highest echelons of government. Here he describes his kibbutz childhood, his involvement in the Jewish underground, the battles he fought as the head of a commando unit in the War of Independence, his experiences as chief of staff and mastermind of the 1956 Sinai Campaign, and his tenure as Minister of Defence during the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars. One of the greatest generals in modern history, Dayan was also a man who hated the suffering that war brings, and who loved the land of Israel more than himself. He writes of his heroes, friends and enemies, providing candid portraits of Kissinger, Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir and other notables. This is a story of a brilliant soldier who grew up to be one of the most respected and heroic figures in the Middle East.

Author : Tristine Rainer
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : 0874778611

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Your Life as Story by Tristine Rainer Pdf

Forgotten, how to unify a story with thematic conflict, how to write scenes with dialogue and employ other fictional devices, how to use humor and perspective, and how to move through time. The author shares her remarkable techniques for finding the essentials of story structure within your life's scattered experiences. She also shows that autobiography need not be a linear, heroic quest, but may be assembled like a quilt, the pattern gradually emerging.

Author : Sunny Morton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440347146

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Story of My Life by Sunny Morton Pdf

Capture the stories of a lifetime Record the stories of your life--or a loved one's--for posterity! The Story of My Life workbook makes it easy: Simply follow the prompts to preserve memories from your entire life. The book includes sections on parents, siblings, childhood, high school, career, and adulthood. There’s also space to note vital statistics about yourself and immediate family members as a genealogical record. The workbook features: • Fill-in pages with thought-provoking prompts to capture key moments that define your life • Advice and exercises to reconstruct memories from long ago • Interactive pages for family and friends to share their own stories • Special forms for spotlighting important people, places and times A great gift for your children to learn about their parents' lives or the jumping-off point for writing a memoir, the Story of My Life workbook will help you preserve your memories for generations to come.-

Author : Booker T. Washington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:503462953

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The Story of My Life and Work by Booker T. Washington Pdf