The Complex World Of Abigail Mccarthy

Author : Gary L. Brenden
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524699680

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The Complex World of Abigail Mccarthy by Gary L. Brenden Pdf

Tragedy often strikes when least expected, as was the case with Abigail McCarthy. It was during the prosperous fifties when disaster struck, when life should have been filled with optimism and joyous possibilities. It was a time when Abigail was just beginning to enter midlife, a peaceful time, before unwelcome signs of what was to come would make themselves known. But little did she know how tragedy can alter a persons life, forcing them to take journeys they never would have thought possible, searching for answers that are very difficult to find. From having lived a sheltered life on a small prairie farm, Abigail ventured to the great cities of Paris and Rome and on to the desert countries of North Africa, searching for an understanding. What she discovered along the way would change her life forever in ways she never thought possible.

Author : Dominic Sandbrook
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307425775

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Eugene McCarthy by Dominic Sandbrook Pdf

Eugene McCarthy was one of the most fascinating political figures of the postwar era: a committed liberal anti-Communist who broke with his party’s leadership over Vietnam and ultimately helped take down the political giant Lyndon B. Johnson. His presidential candidacy in 1968 seized the hearts and fired the imaginations of countless young liberals; it also presaged the declining fortunes of liberalism and the rise of conservatism over the past three decades. Dominic Sandbrook traces Eugene McCarthy’s rise to prominence and his subsequent failures, and makes clear how his story embodies the larger history of American liberalism over the last half century. We see McCarthy elected from Minnesota to the House and then to the Senate, part of a new liberal movement that combined New Deal domestic policies and fierce Cold War hawkishness, a consensus that produced huge electoral victories until it was shattered by the war in Vietnam. As the situation in Vietnam escalated, many liberals, like McCarthy, found themselves increasingly estranged from the anti-Communism that they had supported for nearly two decades. Sandbrook recounts McCarthy’s growing opposition to President Johnson and his policies, which culminated in McCarthy’s stunning near-victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary and Johnson’s subsequent withdrawal from the race. McCarthy went on to lose the nomination to Hubert Humphrey at the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which secured his downfall and led to Richard Nixon’s election, but he had pulled off one of the greatest electoral upsets in American history, one that helped shape the political landscape for decades. These were tumultuous times in American politics, and Sandbrook vividly captures the drama and historical significance of the period through his intimate portrait of a singularly interesting man at the center of it all.

Author : Linda Kulzer,Roberta C. Bondi
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814625711

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Benedict in the World by Linda Kulzer,Roberta C. Bondi Pdf

Benedict in the World presents biographical sketches of nineteen men and women who were oblates of the Order of St. Benedict, that is, members of the Benedictine family of a given monastery who lived in the world, observing the Rule of St. Benedict as they raised families and pursued professions and careers. Dorothy Day, Rumer Godden, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, Walker Percy, H. A. Reinhold, and Elena Cornaro are among the oblate subjects of this book.

Author : Abby McCarthy
Publisher : A Bleeding Scars MC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798223124450

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Cut Wide Open by Abby McCarthy Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812212738

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Clara Barton by Elizabeth Brown Pryor Pdf

In Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior and reveals a complex and often trying woman.

Author : Vineta Colby
Publisher : New York : H.W. Wilson Company
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015002917434

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World Authors, 1980-1985 by Vineta Colby Pdf

Biographical/critical sketches of 320 contemporary writers who have come to prominence among readers of English in the early 1980s. Although most of the authors profiled are imaginative writers, sketches of biographers, scientists, historians, philosophers, and critics who have made significant contributions to literature are included as well. Each sketch combines the important details of the subject's life and career with a fair representation of critical commentary. Nearly one-third of the authors profiled have included autobiographical passages to supplement their sketches. Most biographies are accompanied by a portrait; all include a bibliography of works by and about the subject. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Albert E. Stone
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1982-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812211278

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Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts by Albert E. Stone Pdf

Stone rescues autobiography from the thickets of recent critical theory, in which the life portrayed has often seemed less important than the inventive literary techniques. He argues that the techniques are important because knowledge of the life is important to our culture. Restricting himself primarily to 16 writers of the 20th century, Stone juxtaposes two or three figures in given chapters, such as "Becoming a Woman in Male America: Margaret Mead and Anais Nin" and "Two Recreate One: The Act of Collaboration in Recent Black Autobiography -- Ossie Guffy, Nate Shaw, Malcolm X." Other writers considered are W.E.B. DuBois, Henry Adams, Black Elk, Thomas Merton, Louis Sullivan, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Frank Conroy, and Lillian Hellman.

Author : Paul A. Djupe,Laura R. Olson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Religion and politics
ISBN : 9781438130200

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Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics by Paul A. Djupe,Laura R. Olson Pdf

Presents an encyclopedia of religion and politics in America including short biographies of important political and religious figures like Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer, and synopses of religious entities like the Branch Davidians and the Episcopal church as well as important court cases of relevancy like Epperson et al. v. Arkansas having to do with evolution.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN : UCSD:31822020522355

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Current World Affairs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Hopper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351906258

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Rebuilding Communities in an Age of Individualism by Paul Hopper Pdf

As modern societies become increasingly individualistic, this fascinating book examines how we can maintain and revive local communities and community life. It demonstrates how the major developments and processes of our time, notably globalization, post-industrialism and de-traditionalization, contribute to this individualism to the detriment of community life. The author examines how community is a necessary and important component of human life and discusses possible ways in which to arrest its decline. In this regard, strategies geared to fostering trust and social capital are outlined as the basis for reinvigorating community life. The volume provides a coherent and distinct analysis of community as well as offering concrete policy prescriptions to counter the excessive individualism of our times. In both the nature and scope of its analysis, it offers a unique contribution to an extremely important issue in the contemporary period, one that increasingly preoccupies politicians, academics and ordinary citizens.

Author : Robert A. Divine
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700604647

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The Johnson Years, Volume Two by Robert A. Divine Pdf

Stretching from November 1963 to January 1969, the administration of Lyndon Baines Johnson was marked both by division and tumult and by significant accomplishments. In this volume, Robert Divine has brought together seven senior scholars who, in new essays, explore aspects of domestic and foreign policy during the Johnson years. This collection is a sequel to Divine’s earlier volume (originally published as Exploring the Johnson Years). The seven essays that compose Volume Two, together with Divine’s incisive and perceptive historiographical overview, offer new insights into Johnson’s complex character and leadership style. The LBJ that emerges from these pages is a very human figure who understands the corrosive, pervasive impact of the Vietnam War on his administration and who struggles to try to preserve the domestic programs he fought so long and hard to achieve. In exploring the antiwar movement, tax and foreign economic policies, environmental and health care questions, and the space program, these essays demonstrate how domestic issues were critically affected by the Vietnam War and provide a fuller understanding of Johnson’s vital but flawed legacy to the nation.

Author : Daniel G. Marowski
Publisher : Contemporary Literary Criticis
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1987-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081034419X

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Contemporary Literary Criticism by Daniel G. Marowski Pdf

Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.

Author : Briton Hadden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : IND:30000080765427

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Time by Briton Hadden Pdf

Author : Lewis L Gould
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786735372

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The Most Exclusive Club by Lewis L Gould Pdf

The Senate was originally conceived by the Founding Fathers as an anti-democratic counterweight to the more volatile House of Representatives, but in the twentieth century it has often acted as an impediment to needed reforms. A hundred years ago, senators were still chosen by state legislatures, rather than by direct elections. Now, in the wake of the 2004 elections, and the consolidation of Republican control, the Senate is likely to become a crucible of power shifts that will have enormous impact on American politics in the twenty-first century. In The Most Exclusive Club , acclaimed political historian Lewis Gould puts the debates about the Senate's future into the context of its history from the Progressive Era to the war in Iraq. From charges of corruption to the occasional attempt at reform, Gould highlights the major players, issues, and debates (including the League of Nations, the McCarthy hearings, and the Iran-Contra affair) that have shaped the institution. Beyond the usual outsized figures such as Lyndon Johnson, Strom Thurmond, and Barry Goldwater, Gould also tells the story of the lesser-known Senate leaders who have played a vital role in America's upper house. Filled with colorful anecdotes, this is a long-awaited history of one of the most powerful political bodies in the world, written by a master. Gould's sweeping narrative combines deft storytelling with a fresh look at the crucible of contemporary political debate and decision-making.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556027101005

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The Commonweal by Anonim Pdf