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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433000047393
Author : Marc Leepson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Jean Stein
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Robert M. Neer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674075474
Napalm, incendiary gel that sticks to skin and burns to the bone, came into the world on Valentine’s Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. On March 9, 1945, it created an inferno that killed over 87,500 people in Tokyo—more than died in the atomic explosions at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It went on to incinerate sixty-four of Japan’s largest cities. The Bomb got the press, but napalm did the work. After World War II, the incendiary held the line against communism in Greece and Korea—Napalm Day led the 1950 counter-attack from Inchon—and fought elsewhere under many flags. Americans generally applauded, until the Vietnam War. Today, napalm lives on as a pariah: a symbol of American cruelty and the misguided use of power, according to anti-war protesters in the 1960s and popular culture from Apocalypse Now to the punk band Napalm Death and British street artist Banksy. Its use by Serbia in 1994 and by the United States in Iraq in 2003 drew condemnation. United Nations delegates judged deployment against concentrations of civilians a war crime in 1980. After thirty-one years, America joined the global consensus, in 2011. Robert Neer has written the first history of napalm, from its inaugural test on the Harvard College soccer field, to a Marine Corps plan to attack Japan with millions of bats armed with tiny napalm time bombs, to the reflections of Phan Thi Kim Phuc, a girl who knew firsthand about its power and its morality.
Author : Tony Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Scott E. Casper
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469649047
Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity. In an age predating radio and television, biography was not simply a genre of writing, says Scott Casper; it was the medium that allowed people to learn about public figures and peer into the lives of strangers. In this pioneering study, Casper examines how Americans wrote, published, and read biographies and how their conceptions of the genre changed over the course of a century. Campaign biographies, memoirs of pious women, patriotic narratives of eminent statesmen, "mug books" that collected the lives of ordinary midwestern farmers--all were labeled "biography," however disparate their contents and the contexts of their creation, publication, and dissemination. Analyzing debates over how these diverse biographies should be written and read, Casper reveals larger disputes over the meaning of character, the definition of American history, and the place of American literary practices in a transatlantic world of letters. As much a personal experience as a literary genre, biography helped Americans imagine their own lives as well as the ones about which they wrote and read.
Author : American Council Learned Soc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1415188089
Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015033871933
Author : Mary Stoyell Stimpson
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 935511902X
The Child's Book of American Biography, is many of the old classic books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is never forgotten we republish these books in high quality, using the original text and artwork so that they can be preserved for the present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X004614099
Author : Mary Stoyell Stimpson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664638205
This informational work covers the lives of Americans who made favorable contributions to society. Moreover, it contains several unknown facts about many personalities who shaped the history of America and is suitable for children as well as adults. These stories of historical figures are written brilliantly to keep children entertained and curious while educating them.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : African American scientists
ISBN : OCLC:900844102
Author : James W. Baker
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781584658740
The origins and ever-changing story of America's favorite holiday
Author : American Council of Learned Societies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:796047011
Author : Allen Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:132992441
