The Other Morris Brother

Author : Charles Rappleye
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1416572864

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Robert Morris by Charles Rappleye Pdf

In this biography, the acclaimed author of Sons of Providence, winner of the 2007 George Wash- ington Book Prize, recovers an immensely important part of the founding drama of the country in the story of Robert Morris, the man who financed Washington’s armies and the American Revolution. Morris started life in the colonies as an apprentice in a counting house. By the time of the Revolution he was a rich man, a commercial and social leader in Philadelphia. He organized a clandestine trading network to arm the American rebels, joined the Second Continental Congress, and financed George Washington’s two crucial victories—Valley Forge and the culminating battle at Yorktown that defeated Cornwallis and ended the war. The leader of a faction that included Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and Washington, Morris ran the executive branches of the revolutionary government for years. He was a man of prodigious energy and adroit management skills and was the most successful businessman on the continent. He laid the foundation for public credit and free capital markets that helped make America a global economic leader. But he incurred powerful enemies who considered his wealth and influence a danger to public "virtue" in a democratic society. After public service, he gambled on land speculations that went bad, and landed in debtors prison, where George Washington, his loyal friend, visited him. This once wealthy and powerful man ended his life in modest circumstances, but Rappleye restores his place as a patriot and an immensely important founding father.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Cincinnati (Ohio)
ISBN : NYPL:33433003081324

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The Western Christian Advocate by Anonim Pdf

Author : Julie Klam
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735216440

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The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters by Julie Klam Pdf

A Washington Post best nonfiction book pick of 2021 “It is biography as an expression of love.” – The New York Times New York Times–bestselling author Julie Klam’s funny and moving story of the Morris sisters, distant relations with mysterious pasts. Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. According to family lore, early in the twentieth century the sisters’ parents decided to move the family from Eastern Europe to Los Angeles so their father could become a movie director. On the way, their pregnant mother went into labor in St. Louis, where the baby was born and where their mother died. The father left the children in an orphanage and promised to send for them when he settled in California—a promise he never kept. One of the Morris sisters later became a successful Wall Street trader and advised Franklin Roosevelt. The sisters lived together in New York City, none of them married or had children, and one even had an affair with J. P. Morgan. The stories of these independent women intrigued Klam, but as she delved into them to learn more, she realized that the tales were almost completely untrue. The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters is the revealing account of what Klam discovered about her family—and herself—as she dug into the past. The deeper she went into the lives of the Morris sisters, the slipperier their stories became. And the more questions she had about what actually happened to them, the more her opinion of them evolved. Part memoir and part confessional, and told with the wit and honesty that are hallmarks of Klam’s books, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters is the fascinating and funny true story of one writer’s journey into her family’s past, the truths she brings to light, and what she learns about herself along the way.

Author : Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571265831

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William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy Pdf

Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, and described by A.S.Byatt as 'one of the finest biographies ever published', this is Fiona MacCarthy's magisterial biography of William Morris, legendary designer and father of the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement. 'Thrilling, absorbing and majestic.' Independent 'Wonderfully ambitious ... The definitive Morris biography.' Sunday Times 'Delicious and intelligent, full of shining detail and mysteries respected.' Daily Telegraph ' Oh, the careful detail of this marvellous book! . . . A model of scholarly biography'. New Statesman Since his death in 1896, William Morris has been celebrated as a giant of the Victorian era. But his genius was so multifaceted and so profound that its full extent has rarely been grasped. Many people may find it hard to believe that the greatest English designer of his time - possibly of all time - could also be internationally renowned as a founder of the socialist movement, and ranked as a poet with Tennyson and Browning. In her definitive biography - insightful, comprehensive, addictively readable - the award-winning Fiona MacCarthy gives us a richly detailed portrait of Morris's complex character for the first time, shedding light on his immense creative powers as artist and designer of furniture, fabrics, wallpaper, stained glass, tapestry, and books; his role as a poet, novelist and translator; on his psychology and his emotional life; his frenetic activities as polemicist and reformer; and his remarkable circle of friends, literary, artistic and political, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. It is a masterpiece of biographical art.

Author : Emma Leslie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590597926

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Tom Morris's Error ... and Other Stories. [With Illustrations.] by Emma Leslie Pdf

Author : David Malcolm,Peter E. Crabtree
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857901071

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Tom Morris of St. Andrews by David Malcolm,Peter E. Crabtree Pdf

This is the first biography in over 100 years of the great Tom Morris of St Andrews, who presided over one of the most illustrious periods in the history of golf, who - more than anyone before or since in any game - stamped his individual character upon his sport and how, in large measure, made golf what it is today. Born in a humble weaver's cottage in St Andrews in 1821, by the time of his death in 1908, he had become a figure of international renown. When he was buried with all the pomp and ceremony befitting an eminent Victorian, newspapers around the world reported his funeral, followed by his internment below the effigy of his son, Tommy, amidst the ruins of St Andrews Cathedral. In the course of his long life, he witnessed huge social and scientific changes in the world, none more so than in the game of golf that he had, in many respects, overseen and directed. By the time of his death, the game had expanded to become the most popular and geographically widespread of all sports and the essential recreational pursuit of gentlemen. Tom Morris was a sporting hero in an age of heroes, as well as golf's first iconic figure.

Author : United States. Tax Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Taxation
ISBN : UOM:49015002895499

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Reports of the Tax Court of the United States by United States. Tax Court Pdf

Author : Arley Kenneth Fadness
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439675304

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Capturing the Younger Brothers Gang in the Northern Plains by Arley Kenneth Fadness Pdf

Capturing the Younger Brothers Gang in the Northern Plains: The Untold Story of Heroic Teen Asle Sorbel is a historic tale of vigilante valor Near sleepy Hanska slough, September 21, 1876, Norwegian teen Asle Sorbel made a daring "Paul Revere ride" into Madelia, Minnesota. His efforts, and those of the Madelia Magnificent Seven, led to the capture of the Younger Brothers of the Jesse James-Younger Gang. The gang's botched Northfield bank raid and infamous Madelia Shoot Out were well reported. But, Alse's story was lost to history. Friends of the outlaws planned reprisals. Alse changed his name, his persona and his location. He kept his mount shut. In 1883, he quietly reestablished himself in Dakota Territory. As years passed, he became the premier horse doctor in the Webster, South Dakota area, all the while haunted by vigilant fear. Author Arley K. Fadness uncovers the lost secrets and remarkable life of valiant Asle Oscar Sobel.

Author : Isaac Raboy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015013306256

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Nine Brothers by Isaac Raboy Pdf

Author : David Towsey
Publisher : Jo Fletcher Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782064343

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Your Brother's Blood by David Towsey Pdf

An action-packed, post-apocalyptic adventure for fans of The Walking Dead, World War Z and Feed. The dead don't always die. Those who rise again are the Walkin' . . . Thomas is thirty-two. He comes from the small town of Barkley. He has a wife there, Sarah, and a child, Mary; good solid names from the Good Book. And he is on his way home from the war, where he has been serving as a conscripted soldier. Thomas is also dead - risen again, he is one of the Walkin'. And Barkley does not suffer the wicked to live. And Barkley does not suffer the wicked to live.

Author : Ryan K. Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300206975

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Robert Morris's Folly by Ryan K. Smith Pdf

In 1798 Robert Morris—“financier of the American Revolution,” confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator—plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors' prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the United States, one of only two founders who signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, suffer such a downfall? This book examines for the first time the extravagant Philadelphia town house Robert Morris built and its role in bringing about his ruin. Part biography, part architectural history, the book recounts Morris’s wild successes as a merchant, his recklessness as a land speculator, and his unrestrained passion in building his palatial, doomed mansion, once hailed as the most expensive private building in the United States but later known as “Morris’s Folly.” Setting Morris’s tale in the context of the nation’s founding, this volume refocuses attention on an essential yet nearly forgotten American figure while also illuminating the origins of America’s ongoing, ambivalent attitudes toward the superwealthy and their sensational excesses.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords,Charles Clark,William Finnelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062747485

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Reports of Cases Heard and Decided in the House of Lords on Appeals and Writs of Error by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords,Charles Clark,William Finnelly Pdf

Author : United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015000225428

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Report of the National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders by United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders Pdf

Author : Florence S. Boos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351859004

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The Routledge Companion to William Morris by Florence S. Boos Pdf

William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice. This Companion draws together historical and critical responses to the impressive range of Morris’s multi-faceted life and activities: his homes, travels, family, business practices, decorative artwork, poetry, fantasy romances, translations, political activism, eco-socialism, and book collecting and design. Each chapter provides valuable historical and literary background information, reviews relevant opinions on its subject from the late-nineteenth century to the present, and offers new approaches to important aspects of its topic. Morris’s eclectic methodology and the perennial relevance of his insights and practice make this an essential handbook for those interested in art history, poetry, translation, literature, book design, environmentalism, political activism, and Victorian and utopian studies.

Author : William Morris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400856183

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The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume I by William Morris Pdf

The life of William Morris (1834-1896) is revealed in significant new detail by his complete surviving correspondence, brought together here for the first time and including many previously unpublished letters. This collection not only bears witness to Morris's day-to-day activities and friendships, but also reflects his keen response to landscape and architecture, his sense of social responsibility, and his interest in the techniques of the applied arts. Volume I covers Morris's student days at Oxford and marriage to Jane Burden; the first twenty years of Morris and Co.; his success as a poet with the publication of The Earthly Paradise; his two trips to Iceland; the moves to Kelmscott Manor and Kelmscott House; and the start of his socialist career. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.