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Author : John A. Garraty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258959577
This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
Author : John Arthur Garraty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015014615143
Distinguished American historians, including Bruce Catton, Howard Mumford Jones, and Allan Nevins, have contributed to this volume devoted to Americans who were not necessarily great but who made significant contributions to this country's development. ().
Author : Jean Fritz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101075920
Today's preeminent biographer for young people brings to life our colorful 26th president. Conservationist, hunter, family man, and politician, Teddy Roosevelt commanded the respect and admiration of many who marveled at his energy, drive and achievements. An ALA Notable Book. A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.
Author : Jean Fritz
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03
Category : Generals
ISBN : 0613360303
Traces the life of the French nobleman who fought for democracy in revolutions in both the United States and France
Author : Jean Fritz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781101128039
In the days before microphones and TV interviews, getting people to listen to you was not an easy task. But James Madison used his quiet eloquence, intelligence and passion for unified colonies to help shape the Constitution, steer America through the turmoil of two wars, and ensure that our government, and nation, remained intact. "An excellent, fascinating, indispensable resource." —Kirkus Reviews, pointer review "The book is rich in the sort of detail that illuminates the man, but is not limited to personal information; a great deal of government history is woven into the biography." —Horn Book, starred review "Fritz has given a vivid picture of the man and an equally vivid picture of the problems that faced the leaders of the new nation in the formative years." —The Bulletin of the Center for Children?s Books, starred review "Young readers will feel like they know the 'Great Little Madison' very well." —School Library Journal
Author : Jean Fritz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : American Confederate voluntary exiles
ISBN : 0786241322
A study of the life and character of the brilliant Revolutionary War general who deserted to the British for money.
Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429954303
A glorious, sweeping new novel from the bestselling author of The Volcano Lover. The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag's bestselling 1992 novel, retold the love story of Emma Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson with consummate power. In her enthralling new novel--once again based on a real story--Sontag shows us our own country on the cusp of modernity. In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travel to California to found a "utopian" commune. Maryna, who has renounced her career, is accompanied by her small son and husband; in her entourage is a rising young writer who is in love with her. The novel portrays a West that is still largely empty, where white settlers confront native Californians and Asian coolies. The image of America, and of California--as fantasy, as escape, as radical simplification--constantly meets a more complex reality. The commune fails and most of the émigrés go home, but Maryna stays and triumphs on the American stage. In America is a big, juicy, surprising book--about a woman's search for self-transformation, about the fate of idealism, about the world of the theater--that will captivate its readers from the first page. It is Sontag's most delicious, most brilliant achievement. In America is the winner of the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction.
Author : Laila Lalami
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524747152
***2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST*** Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction Finalist for the California Book Award Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize A Los Angeles Times bestseller Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dallas Morning News, The Guardian, Variety, and Kirkus Reviews Late one spring night in California, Driss Guerraoui—father, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrant—is hit and killed by a speeding car. The aftermath of his death brings together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer returning to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; her mother, Maryam, who still pines for her life in the old country; Efraín, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Nora’s and an Iraqi War veteran; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son’s secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself. As the characters—deeply divided by race, religion, and class—tell their stories, each in their own voice, connections among them emerge. Driss’s family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love—messy and unpredictable—is born. Timely, riveting, and unforgettable, The Other Americans is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
Author : Charles C. Eldredge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520385559
"In the past, histories of American art have traditionally highlighted the work of a familiar roster of artists, often white and male. Over time the achievements of others worthy of attention, including numerous women and artists of color, as well as white men, have gone uncelebrated and fallen into obscurity. In this collection of essays, sixty-three scholars from various institutions, specialties, and locales respond to the challenge to nominate one maker deserving remembrance and detail the reasons for their choice. The collection is headed by a preface from editor Charles C. Eldredge, explaining the genesis of the anthology, and an introduction by Dr. Kirsten Pai Buick, promoting the value of recovered reputations and oeuvres in the training of future art experts and audiences"--
Author : Jean Fritz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781101078303
This biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton is as spirited as the women's rights pioneer herself. Who says women shouldn't speak in public? And why can't they vote? These are questions Elizabeth Cady Stanton grew up asking herself. Her father believed that girls didn't count as much as boys, and her own husband once got so embarrassed when she spoke at a convention that he left town. Luckily Lizzie wasn't one to let society stop her from fighting for equality for everyone. And though she didn't live long enough to see women get to vote, our entire country benefited from her fight for women's rights. "Fritz imparts not just a sense of Stanton's accomplishments but a picture of the greater society Stanton strove to change. Highly entertaining and enlightening." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This objective depiction of Stanton's life and times makes readers feel invested in her struggle." — School Library Journal (starred review) "An accessible, fascinating portrait." — The Horn Book
Author : William Sarabande
Publisher : Domain
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553268898
Stunningly visual, extraordinarily detailed, powerfully dramatic, here is the first volume of a remarkable new series . . . The First Americans. When humans first walked the world, when nature ruled the earth and sky, a proud tribe is threatened by a series of natural disasters. A bold young hunter named Torka, who lost his wife and child to a killer mammoth, leads the survivors over the glacial tundra on a desperate eastward odyssey to the save their clan. Through attacks of savage animals and encounters with strangers not unlike themselves, they must brave the hardships of a foreign landscape and learn to live in an exotic new world of mystery and danger. They must travel toward the land where the sun rises for a new day for their clan—and an awesome future for the American.
Author : Jay Caspian Kang
Publisher : Crown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525576235
A “provocative and sweeping” (Time) blend of family history and original reportage that explores—and reimagines—Asian American identity in a Black and white world “[Kang’s] exploration of class and identity among Asian Americans will be talked about for years to come.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Mother Jones In 1965, a new immigration law lifted a century of restrictions against Asian immigrants to the United States. Nobody, including the lawmakers who passed the bill, expected it to transform the country’s demographics. But over the next four decades, millions arrived, including Jay Caspian Kang’s parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. They came with almost no understanding of their new home, much less the history of “Asian America” that was supposed to define them. The Loneliest Americans is the unforgettable story of Kang and his family as they move from a housing project in Cambridge to an idyllic college town in the South and eventually to the West Coast. Their story unfolds against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding Asian America, as millions more immigrants, many of them working-class or undocumented, stream into the country. At the same time, upwardly mobile urban professionals have struggled to reconcile their parents’ assimilationist goals with membership in a multicultural elite—all while trying to carve out a new kind of belonging for their own children, who are neither white nor truly “people of color.” Kang recognizes this existential loneliness in himself and in other Asian Americans who try to locate themselves in the country’s racial binary. There are the businessmen turning Flushing into a center of immigrant wealth; the casualties of the Los Angeles riots; the impoverished parents in New York City who believe that admission to the city’s exam schools is the only way out; the men’s right’s activists on Reddit ranting about intermarriage; and the handful of protesters who show up at Black Lives Matter rallies holding “Yellow Peril Supports Black Power” signs. Kang’s exquisitely crafted book brings these lonely parallel climbers together and calls for a new immigrant solidarity—one rooted not in bubble tea and elite college admissions but in the struggles of refugees and the working class.
Author : Michael L. Berger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313016066
This comprehensive reference guide reviews the literature concerning the impact of the automobile on American social, economic, and political history. Covering the complete history of the automobile to date, twelve chapters of bibliographic essays describe the important works in a series of related topics and provide broad thematic contexts. This work includes general histories of the automobile, the industry it spawned and labor-management relations, as well as biographies of famous automotive personalities. Focusing on books concerned with various social aspects, chapters discuss such issues as the car's influence on family life, youth, women, the elderly, minorities, literature, and leisure and recreation. Berger has also included works that investigate the government's role in aiding and regulating the automobile, with sections on roads and highways, safety, and pollution. The guide concludes with an overview of reference works and periodicals in the field and a description of selected research collections. The Automobile in American History and Culture provides a resource with which to examine the entire field and its structure. Popular culture scholars and enthusiasts involved in automotive research will appreciate the extensive scope of this reference. Cross-referenced throughout, it will serve as a valuable research tool.
Author : Jean Fritz
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0812476824
An accurate and detailed account of the Confederate generalÑStonewall Jackson.
Author : Clement A. Sinclair
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480912144
The Unforgettable Journey by Clement A. Sinclair Who: climbed over hills and valleys Who: was faced with difficult days Who: was victimized on many occasions Who: was burned by fire Who: crossed many rivers Who: saw the beating of his mom Who: suffered the hands of employers Who: was belittled by his teacher Who: was marked for death Whose: house was riddled with bullets Who: had to run for his life Whose: documents were destroyed by INS Who was cheated on, by his attorneys, but glory to God, has made it through fire and trails and is still alive.