Juan In America

Author : Eric Linklater
Publisher : Stacey International
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : United States
ISBN : 0955731240

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Juan in America by Eric Linklater Pdf

Set in the year before the Wall Street crash, Juan in America is a classic evocation of the final mania of prohibition, as seen through equally maverick British eyes. The character Eric Linklater devised to be his unreliable explorer was one capable of absorbing the enormity of the American experience without being overwhelmed by its incongruities. A blithe, bastard descendent of Byrone(tm)s Don Juan, Linklater's Juan is an anti-hero with a taste for the grotesque and the ridiculous, at once both dirty and deity whose response when faced either with sudden catastrophe or miraculous survival is simply to laugh.A novel in the mode of the picaresque, this is a story of erotic discovery in the sense, as Juan puts it, that eoeyour trousers hide not only your nakedness but your kinship to the clown.e A nation emerging as a great power is exalting in absurdist energies. In its last spasms before the great depression, America is revealed through a series of unlikely accidents as Juan stumbles from state to state, somehow evading consequences as he goes. On his first day, he falls for the daughter of a gangster, witnesses a murder in a speakeasy and watches a woman leap to her death in a New York street. He thrills to the bizarreness of each spectacle and moves on to the next in a galloping mood that is part medieval romance, part running commentary on what was still, in the 1920s, the new world.

Author : Eric Linklater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Fiction
ISBN : OSU:32435055110357

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Juan in America by Eric Linklater Pdf

Author : Eric Linklater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106006787128

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Juan in America by Eric Linklater Pdf

Author : Homero Aridjis
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Spanish language materials
ISBN : 0826330967

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1492 by Homero Aridjis Pdf

A best seller in Latin America in the 1980s, this novel of life in fifteenth-century Spain depicts a world in which both the Moors and the Jews are under attack. This is the formative period of the phenomenon known today as Crypto-Judaism, and Aridjis's widely praised book, now available for the first time in an American paperback edition, will find a broad audience among readers fascinated by this aspect of Jewish history. In 1492, the Catholic rulers, Ferdinand and Isabella, expelled the Jews from Spain. In Homero Aridjis' novel, the great saga of the expulsion comes to life with both historical and poetic resonance. A great Mexican poet, Aridjis embraces history and fiction with the warmth and insight of the lyrical vision.--Carlos Fuentes In this highly readable novel which deals with a special and painful chapter in history, Homero Aridjis combines erudition, sensitivity and poetic imagination. I recommend it warmly.--Elie Wiesel A novel of literary subtlety and sensibility. Few contemporary writers have captured so profoundly and with such style this era marked by three essential events: the establishment of the Catholic sovereigns, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and the discovery of America.--El País (Madrid) Among worldwide bestsellers, 1492 is the most similar to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose; both are concerned with the trials of heretics and the violence employed against the dissident. Aridjis gives an encyclopedic vision of catastrophic times.--La Jornada (Mexico City)

Author : Juan Gonzalez
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101589946

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Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez Pdf

A sweeping history of the Latino experience in the United States- thoroughly revised and updated. The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries-from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture-from food to entertainment to literature-is greater than ever. Featuring family portraits of real- life immigrant Latino pioneers, as well as accounts of the events and conditions that compelled them to leave their homelands, Harvest of Empire is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the history and legacy of this increasingly influential group.

Author : Sally Salas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0578162555

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Left in America by Sally Salas Pdf

You are 14 years old, your parents just left you in a foreign country, illegal, no money, few family relations, and in the 10th largest city in America. You Have Been LEFT IN AMERICA. Today, America has over 300,000 illegal children who have been brought to America before they were 16 years old. Many of the parents of these children were forced to leave America, but left their children here. As a Christian, what do you think Jesus would want you to do for these children?

Author : Juan Enriquez
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Alienation (Social psychology)
ISBN : UCSC:32106018535929

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The Untied States of America by Juan Enriquez Pdf

Through a compelling synthesis of factoids illustrated with mind-bending stories, ideas, photographs, and maps, the author conducts a provocative conversation about the future shape of America.

Author : Nataniel Aguirre
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199938872

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Juan de la Rosa by Nataniel Aguirre Pdf

Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, the novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. Juan recreates his childhood in the rebellious town of Cochabamba, and with it a large cast of full bodied, Dickensian characters both heroic and malevolent. The larger cultural dislocations brought about by Bolivia's political upheaval are echoed in those experienced by Juan, whose mother's untimely death sets off a chain of unpredictable events that propel him into the fiery crucible of the South American Independence Movement. Outraged by Juan's outspokenness against Spanish rule and his awakening political consciousness, his loyalist guardians banish him to the countryside, where he witnesses firsthand the Spaniards' violent repression and rebels' valiant resistance that crystallize both his personal destiny and that of his country. In Sergio Gabriel Waisman's fluid translation, English readers have access to Juan de la Rosa for the very first time.

Author : Eric Linklater
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448210831

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Juan in China by Eric Linklater Pdf

The earlier adventures of Juan Mosely – a lineal descendant of Byron's Don Juan – continue on an amorous adventure to China where he becomes involved in politics and welfare and deals with them in his own practical and fantastic way. "Witty and amusing...Brilliant at times -- erratic -- original -- and for a somewhat sophisticated taste." -Kirkus Review

Author : Eric Linklater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:977308891

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Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846036385

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San Juan Hill 1898 by Angus Konstam Pdf

Labelled a 'splendid little war' by Senator John Hay, the Spanish American War was a peculiar event in America's history, provoked as much by the press as by political pressures. Here, aided by superbly detailed maps and artwork, the author deals with the clashes at Las Guasimas and El Caney, the capture of San Juan Hill, and the naval battle and siege of Santiago. The war was to mark the end of Spanish sovereignty in her 'New World', and the establishment of the United States of America as a world power.

Author : Juan González,Joseph Torres
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844676873

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News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media by Juan González,Joseph Torres Pdf

A landmark narrative history of American media that puts race at the center of the story. Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America’s racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country’s media system, just as the media has contributed to—and every so often, combated—racial oppression. News for All the People reveals how racial segregation distorted the information Americans received from the mainstream media. It unearths numerous examples of how publishers and broadcasters actually fomented racial violence and discrimination through their coverage. And it chronicles the influence federal media policies exerted in such conflicts. It depicts the struggle of Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American journalists who fought to create a vibrant yet little-known alternative, democratic press, and then, beginning in the 1970s, forced open the doors of the major media companies. The writing is fast-paced, story-driven, and replete with memorable portraits of individual journalists and media executives, both famous and obscure, heroes and villains. It weaves back and forth between the corporate and government leaders who built our segregated media system—such as Herbert Hoover, whose Federal Radio Commission eagerly awarded a license to a notorious Ku Klux Klan organization in the nation’s capital—and those who rebelled against that system, like Pittsburgh Courier publisher Robert L. Vann, who led a remarkable national campaign to get the black-face comedy Amos ’n’ Andy off the air. Based on years of original archival research and up-to-the-minute reporting and written by two veteran journalists and leading advocates for a more inclusive and democratic media system, News for All the People should become the standard history of American media.

Author : Juan Pablo Villalobos
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780374305741

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The Other Side by Juan Pablo Villalobos Pdf

Award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos explores illegal immigration with this emotionally raw and timely nonfiction book about ten Central American teens and their journeys to the United States. You can't really tell what time it is when you're in the freezer. Every year, thousands of migrant children and teens cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The journey is treacherous and sometimes deadly, but worth the risk for migrants who are escaping gang violence and poverty in their home countries. And for those refugees who do succeed? They face an immigration process that is as winding and multi-tiered as the journey that brought them here. In this book, award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos strings together the diverse experiences of eleven real migrant teenagers, offering readers a beginning road map to issues facing the region. These timely accounts of courage, sacrifice, and survival—including two fourteen-year-old girls forming a tenuous friendship as they wait in a frigid holding cell, a boy in Chicago beginning to craft his future while piecing together his past in El Salvador, and cousins learning to lift each other up through angry waters—offer a rare and invaluable window into the U.S.–Central American refugee crisis. In turns optimistic and heartbreaking, The Other Side balances the boundless hope at the center of immigration with the weight of its risks and repercussions. Here is a necessary read for young people on both sides of the issue.

Author : Juan Williams
Publisher : Crown
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307786128

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Thurgood Marshall by Juan Williams Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice, from the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize “Magisterial . . . in Williams’ richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel.”—Jack E. White, Time Thurgood Marshall was the twentieth century’s great architect of American race relations. His victory in the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the landmark Supreme Court case outlawing school segregation in the United States, would have made him a historic figure even if he had never been appointed as the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court. He had a fierce will to change America, which led to clashes with Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and Robert F. Kennedy. Most surprising was Marshall’s secret and controversial relationship with the FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. Based on eight years of research and interviews with over 150 sources, Thurgood Marshall is the sweeping and inspirational story of an enduring figure in American life who rose from the descendants of slaves to become an American hero.

Author : Juan Williams
Publisher : Crown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307952059

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We the People by Juan Williams Pdf

Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and Fox political analyst Juan Williams takes readers into the life and work of a new generation of American Founders, from Rev. Billy Graham to Martin Luther King, Jr., who honor the original Founders’ vision, even as they have quietly led revolutions in American politics, immigration, economics, sexual behavior, and reshaped the landscape of the nation. What would the Founding Fathers think about America today? Over 200 years ago the Founders broke away from the tyranny of the British Empire to build a nation based on the principles of freedom, equal rights, and opportunity for all men. But life in the United States today is vastly different from anything the original Founders could have imagined in the late 1700s. The notion of an African-American president of the United States, or a woman such as Condoleezza Rice or Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, would have been unimaginable to the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, or who ratified the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Among the modern-day pioneers Williams writes about in this compelling new book are the passionate conservative President Reagan; the determined fighters for equal rights, Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King, Jr.; the profound imprint of Rev. Billy Graham’s evangelism on national politics; the focus on global human rights advocated by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt; the leaders of the gay community who refused to back down during the Stonewall Riots and brought gay life into America’s public square; the re-imagined role of women in contemporary life as shaped by Betty Friedan. Williams reveals how each of these modern-day founders has extended the Founding Fathers original vision and changed fundamental aspects of our country, from immigration, to the role of American labor in the economy, from modern police strategies, to the importance of religion in our political discourse. America in the 21st Century remains rooted in the Great American experiment in democracy that began in 1776. For all the changes our economy and our cultural and demographic make-up, there remains a straight line from the first Founders’ original vision, to the principles and ideals of today’s courageous modern day pioneers.