The Bradys In Washington Or Working For The President

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The Dime Novel Detective

Gary Hoppenstand
The Dime Novel Detective Book PDF

Author : Gary Hoppenstand
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0879722134

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The Dime Novel Detective by Gary Hoppenstand Pdf

Provides reprints of the texts of 5 detective dime novels, and lists of all the titles in the series published by the five publishers.

Mathew Brady

Robert Wilson
Mathew Brady Book PDF

Author : Robert Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620402047

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Mathew Brady by Robert Wilson Pdf

The first narrative biography of the Civil War's pioneering visual historian, Mathew Brady, known as the “father of American photography.” Mathew Brady's attention to detail, flair for composition, and technical mastery helped establish the photograph as a thing of value. In the 1840s and '50s, “Brady of Broadway” photographed such dignitaries as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Dolley Madison, Horace Greeley, the Prince of Wales, and Jenny Lind. But it was during the Civil War that Brady's photography became an epochal part of American history. The Civil War was the first war in history to leave a detailed photographic record, and Brady knew better than anyone the dual power of the camera to record and excite, to stop a moment in time and preserve it. More than ten thousand war images are attributed to the Brady studio. But as Wilson shows, while Brady himself accompanied the Union army to the first major battle at Bull Run, he was so shaken by the experience that throughout the rest of the war he rarely visited battlefields except well before or after a major battle, instead sending teams of photographers to the front. Mathew Brady is a gracefully written and beautifully illustrated biography of an American legend-a businessman, a suave promoter, a celebrated portrait artist, and, most important, a historian who chronicled America during the gravest moments of the nineteenth century.