The True Flag

Author : Stephen Kinzer
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627792172

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The True Flag by Stephen Kinzer Pdf

The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America’s interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond. How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing governments. Then we retreat—until the cycle begins again. No matter how often we debate this question, none of what we say is original. Every argument is a pale shadow of the first and greatest debate, which erupted more than a century ago. Its themes resurface every time Americans argue whether to intervene in a foreign country. Revealing a piece of forgotten history, Stephen Kinzer transports us to the dawn of the twentieth century, when the United States first found itself with the chance to dominate faraway lands. That prospect thrilled some Americans. It horrified others. Their debate gripped the nation. The country’s best-known political and intellectual leaders took sides. Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and William Randolph Hearst pushed for imperial expansion; Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, and Andrew Carnegie preached restraint. Only once before—in the period when the United States was founded—have so many brilliant Americans so eloquently debated a question so fraught with meaning for all humanity. All Americans, regardless of political perspective, can take inspiration from the titans who faced off in this epic confrontation. Their words are amazingly current. Every argument over America’s role in the world grows from this one. It all starts here.

Author : John Henry Fow
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0343618672

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The True Story of the American Flag by John Henry Fow Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : John H. Fow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 064935379X

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The True Story of the American Flag by John H. Fow Pdf

Author : Melissa J. Homestead
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521853826

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American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 by Melissa J. Homestead Pdf

Explores the relationship between copyright laws and women's writing in nineteenth-century America.

Author : John Henry 1851- Fow
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1374581275

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TRUE STORY OF THE AMER FLAG by John Henry 1851- Fow Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Joyce W. Warren
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813517648

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Fanny Fern by Joyce W. Warren Pdf

Fanny Fern is a name that is unfamiliar to most contemporary readers. In this first modern biography, Warren revives the reputation of a once-popular 19th-century newspaper columnist and novelist. Fern, the pseudonym for Sara Payson Willis Parton, was born in 1811 and grew up in a society with strictly defined gender roles. From her rebellious childhood to her adult years as a newspaper columnist, Fern challenged society's definition of women's place with her life and her words. Fern wrote a weekly newspaper column for 21 years and, using colorful language and satirical style, advocated women's rights and called for social reform. Warren blends Fern's life story with an analysis of the social and literary world of 19th-century America.

Author : W. Lawrence Hogue
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785272615

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A Theoretical Approach to Modern American History and Literature by W. Lawrence Hogue Pdf

This book reconfigures the history of modern America, showing how multiple and, at times, vulnerable social, economic, literary, and political movements, levels, divisions, and conditions such as the emergent middle class, the labor movement, the Progressive Movement, the socialist and communist parties, the Women’s movements, the NAACP, the Garvey movement, Asian and Native American resistance movements, writers, artists, and intellectuals seized upon social, gender, economic, and racial inequalities and challenged a singularly defined modern America. This book re-represents the modern American novel, accenting the different critical literary voices that come out of the mainstream consumer society but also out of the various unequal social, economic, gender, and political movements and situations. In including racial, gender, sexual, colonial, class, and ethnic others—who reject the rigidity, the repression, the racial and ethnic stereotyping, the external and internal colonialism, the complication/rejection of the past/nature, and the violence of the institutionalized, conformist norm—in a discussion of the modern American novel, it effects a fundamental recasting of the modern Americanist paradigm, one that is de-centered, richer, more complex, and more diverse.

Author : Mary Gibson
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781621900511

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“Hero Strong” and Other Stories by Mary Gibson Pdf

Challenging traditional gender expectations, thousands of girls of Gibson's generation not only aspired to public careers as writers, artists, educators, and even doctors but also began to experiment with new forms of "female masculinity" in attitude, bearing, behavior, dress, and sexuality--a pattern only gradually domesticated by the nonthreatening image of the "tomboy." Some, such as Gibson, at once realized and reenacted their dreams on the pages of antebellum story papers. This first modern scholarly edition of Mary Gibson's early fiction features ten tales of teenage girls (seemingly much like Gibson herself) who fearlessly appropriate masculine traits, defy contemporary gender norms, and struggle to fulfill high worldly ambitions.

Author : Truth-seeker and present age
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555023136

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The Truth-seeker in philosophy, literature, and religion, ed. by F.R. Lees and G.S. Phillips. [Continued as] The Truth-seeker and present age by Truth-seeker and present age Pdf

Author : David Ray Griffin
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780999874707

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The American Trajectory by David Ray Griffin Pdf

In The American Trajectory: Divine or Demonic? David Ray Griffin traces the trajectory of the American Empire from its founding through to the end of the 20th century. A prequel to Griffin's Bush and Cheney, this book demonstrates with many examples the falsity of the claim for American exceptionalism, a secular version of the old idea that America has been divinely founded and guided. "Supported by extensive research, Griffin thoroughly debunks the myth of an American Empire as a benign, exceptionalist, divinely ordained historical agent. Instead of Manifest Destiny, what reality- based Griffin charters is the ‘malign’ ways of US foreign policy since the 19th century; a trajectory founded by slavery and genocide of indigenous peoples and then imperially expanded, non-stop. ‘Malign’ happens to be a term currently very much in vogue across the Beltway—but always to designate US competitors Russia and China. Griffin consistently challenges Beltway gospel, demonstrating that if the US had not entered WWI, there may have been no WWII. He unmasks the lies surrounding the true story of the Pearl Harbor attacks. He asks: If the US was really guided by God, how could it ‘choose’ to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, knowing that ‘the atomic bombs were not necessary to end the war?’ Griffin also shows how the Cold War was actually conceptualized several years before the 1950 National Security Council paper 68 (NSC- 68). He revisits the origins of irrational hatred of Iran; the demonization of Cuba; the lies surrounding the Vietnam debacle; the false flags across Europe via Operation Gladio; the destruction of Yugoslavia; the decades-long evisceration of Iraq; and the ramifications of the Full Spectrum Dominance doctrine. This sharp, concise history of the American Empire ultimately demonstrates, in Griffin’s analysis, the ‘fraud’ of endorsing self- praising American Exceptionalism. A must read.” —Pepe Escobar, Asia Times/Hong Kong;

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465615534

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American War Ballads and Lyrics: A Collection of the Songs and Ballads of the Colonial wars, the Revolutions, the War of 1812-15, the War with Mexico, and the Civil War (Complete) by Various Authors Pdf

In the preparation of these volumes there has been no attempt at completeness. The literature from which the materials are drawn is much too vast to be compressed into two little volumes like these. The aim has been simply to make the collection fairly representative in character, and to include in it those pieces relating to our several wars which best reflect the spirit of the times that produced them. The work of selection in such a case must always be difficult and the result more or less unsatisfactory. There are many reasons for this, some of which no one who has not undertaken a task of this kind can fully appreciate. There is no fixed standard of judgment by which to make a certainly just comparative estimate of the quality of several poems, some of which must be taken and the others left. Merit, in the case of war poems, is the composite result of so many different things that no criticism can hope to make an entirely satisfactory qualitative analysis of such literature. The poetic quality of some pieces entitles them to editorial acceptance, quite irrespective of other considerations, while there are other pieces having very little poetic quality, or none at all, whose claim to consideration on other grounds is incontestable. Mr. Stedman's "Wanted—A Man," Mr. William Winter's exquisitely tender poem "After All," Miss Osgood's "Driving Home the Cows," and Mr. George Parsons Lathrop's "Keenan's Charge," may serve as examples of pieces which no editor with the least capacity of poetic appreciation would hesitate to include in such a collection on the ground of merit even if their character were somewhat at variance, as in this case it is not, with the scheme of the collection. On the other hand there are such things as "Three Hundred Thousand More," several of the rude songs of the war of 1812, and many other pieces, which make equally imperative claims to favor on grounds that have no relation to the question of poetic merit. The song concerning the "Constitution and Guerrière," for example, is very nearly as destitute of poetic quality as metrical writing can be, and yet no editor of a collection like this would think of omitting a piece that had for so many years stirred the hearts of patriots and moved them to rejoice in the achievements of their country's heroes. The complex nature of the considerations that must determine the choice of poems for inclusion is but one of several difficulties encountered in the execution of such a task as this. In any event, many things must be omitted which merit insertion, and the reader who misses a favorite piece is prompt to point to others which seem to him less worthy, and to ask why these were not made to give place to the one omitted. There are three answers to be made to the challenge of such a reader: first, that his judgment in the matter may be wrong; second, that the editor, being human, may have erred in his choice; and third, that in a collection intended to be broadly representative rather than complete, preference must sometimes be given to the less worthy piece which happens to reflect some phase of sentiment not otherwise presented, even at the cost of sacrificing the worthier one which illustrates aspects otherwise sufficiently shown.

Author : Fanny Fern
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0813511682

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Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fanny Fern Pdf

Fanny Fern was one of the most popular American writers of the mid-nineteenth century, the first woman newspaper columnist in the United States, and the most highly paid newspaper writer of her day. This volume gathers together for the first time almost one hundred selections of her best work as a journalist. Writing on such taboo subjects as prostitution, venereal disease, divorce, and birth control, Fern stripped the façade of convention from some of society's most sacred institutions, targeting cant and hypocrisy, pretentiousness and pomp.

Author : George Cary Eggleston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : American poetry
ISBN : NYPL:33433075815518

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American War Ballads and Lyrics by George Cary Eggleston Pdf

Author : G.C. Eggleston
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : History
ISBN : 9785875726699

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American war ballads and lyrics by G.C. Eggleston Pdf

A collection of the songs and ballads of the colonial wars, the revolution, the war of 1812-15, the war with Mexico, and the civil war.

Author : Fanny FERN (pseud. [i.e. Sarah Payson Willis, afterwards Eldredge, afterwards Parton])
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026381530

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The Life and Beauties of F. F. by Fanny FERN (pseud. [i.e. Sarah Payson Willis, afterwards Eldredge, afterwards Parton]) Pdf