This America Of Ours

Author : Gabriela Mistral,Victoria Ocampo
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0292778600

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This America of Ours by Gabriela Mistral,Victoria Ocampo Pdf

2005 — Best Book Translation Prize – New England Council of Latin American Studies Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were the two most influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America. Mistral, a plain, self-educated Chilean woman of the mountains who was a poet, journalist, and educator, became Latin America's first Nobel Laureate in 1945. Ocampo, a stunning Argentine woman of wealth, wrote hundreds of essays and founded the first-rate literary journal Sur. Though of very different backgrounds, their deep commitment to what they felt was "their" America forged a unique intellectual and emotional bond between them. This collection of the previously unpublished correspondence between Mistral and Ocampo reveals the private side of two very public women. In these letters (as well as in essays that are included in an appendix), we see what Mistral and Ocampo thought about each other and about the intellectual and political atmosphere of their time (including the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the dictatorships of Latin America) and particularly how they negotiated the complex issues of identity, nationality, and gender within their wide-ranging cultural connections to both the Americas and Europe.

Author : Nate Schweber
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780358439325

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This America of Ours by Nate Schweber Pdf

Winner of the High Plains Book Award | Best Book of the Year - Outdoor Writers Association of America “A brilliant rendering of what 'the open space of democracy' must be if we are to survive its present state of erosion.” –Terry Tempest Williams The untold and “energetic” history of the extraordinary couple who rescued national parks from McCarthyism—and inspired a future of conservation (Wall Street Journal) In late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of American liberty, free speech, and perhaps our greatest national treasure: public lands. But when a corrupt band of lawmakers, led by Senator Pat McCarran, sought to quietly cede millions of acres of national parks and other western lands to logging, mining, and private industry, the DeVotos entered the fight of their lives. Bernard and Avis built a broad grassroots coalition to sound the alarm—from Julia and Paul Child to Ansel Adams, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Alfred Knopf, Adlai Stevenson, and Wallace Stegner—while the very pillars of American democracy, embodied in free and public access to Western lands, hung in the balance. Their dramatic crusade would earn them censorship and blacklisting by Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, and Roy Cohn, and it even cost Bernard his life. In This America of Ours, award-winning journalist Nate Schweber uncovers the forgotten story of a progressive alliance that altered the course of twentieth-century history and saved American wilderness—and our country’s most fundamental ideals—from ruin.

Author : Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613104491

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This Country of Ours by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall Pdf

ÊH. E. MarshallÕs dedication to the preservation of American history is evident in the details of this text, which features over a hundred different stories divided into seven headings. Despite it being nearly a century old, ÒThis Country of OursÓ is just as readable as it was when originally published. ÊIt presents the facts about history and the lives of the men and women that are often lost in history books in this present day. There are Christian morals and Biblical truths discussed in the lives.

Author : Miroslav Penkov
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374712822

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Stork Mountain by Miroslav Penkov Pdf

Stork Mountain tells the story of a young Bulgarian immigrant who, in an attempt to escape his mediocre life in America, returns to the country of his birth. Retracing the steps of his estranged grandfather, a man who suddenly and inexplicably cut all contact with the family three years prior, the boy finds himself on the border of Bulgaria and Turkey, a stone's throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains. It is a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring, possessed by Christian saints, men and women dance barefoot across live coals in search of rebirth. Here in the mountains, the boy reunites with his grandfather. Here in the mountain, he falls in love with an unobtainable Muslim girl. Old ghosts come back to life and forgotten conflicts, in the name of faith and doctrine, blaze anew. Stork Mountain is an enormously charming, slyly brilliant debut novel from an internationally celebrated writer. It is a novel that will undoubtedly find a home in many readers' hearts.

Author : Penelope Rowlands
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781616200367

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Paris Was Ours by Penelope Rowlands Pdf

Thirty-two writers share their observations and revelations about the world's most seductive city. "Whether you have lived in Paris or not, this captivating collection will transport you there." —National Geographic Traveler Paris is “the world capital of memory and desire,” concludes one of the writers in this intimate and insightful collection of memoirs of the city. Living in Paris changed these writers forever. In thirty-two personal essays—more than half of which are here published for the first time—the writers describe how they were seduced by Paris and then began to see things differently. They came to write, to cook, to find love, to study, to raise children, to escape, or to live the way it’s done in French movies; they came from the United States, Canada, and England; from Iran, Iraq, and Cuba; and—a few—from other parts of France. And they stayed, not as tourists, but for a long time; some are still living there. They were outsiders who became insiders, who here share their observations and revelations. Some are well-known writers: Diane Johnson, David Sedaris, Judith Thurman, Joe Queenan, and Edmund White. Others may be lesser known but are no less passionate on the subject. Together, their reflections add up to an unusually perceptive and multifaceted portrait of a city that is entrancing, at times exasperating, but always fascinating. They remind us that Paris belongs to everyone it has touched, and to each in a different way.

Author : Matthew Sullivan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501116841

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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan Pdf

Lydia Smith, a clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, calls the lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store's overwhelmed shelves "BookFrogs." When Joey Molina, a young BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore's upper room, he bequeaths his meager worldly possessions to her. Trinkets and books; the detritus of a lonely, uncared for man. But they seem to contain a hidden message. As Lydia untangles the mystery of Joey's suicide, she unearths a long buried memory from her own violent childhood.

Author : Andrew W. Kahrl
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469628738

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The Land Was Ours by Andrew W. Kahrl Pdf

The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans. Blending social and environmental history, Andrew W. Kahrl tells the story of African American–owned beaches in the twentieth century. By reconstructing African American life along the coast, Kahrl demonstrates just how important these properties were for African American communities and leisure, as well as for economic empowerment, especially during the era of the Jim Crow South. However, in the wake of the civil rights movement and amid the growing prosperity of the Sunbelt, many African Americans fell victim to effective campaigns to dispossess black landowners of their properties and beaches. Kahrl makes a signal contribution to our understanding of African American landowners and real-estate developers, as well as the development of coastal capitalism along the southern seaboard, tying the creation of overdeveloped, unsustainable coastlines to the unmaking of black communities and cultures along the shore. The result is a skillful appraisal of the ambiguous legacy of racial progress in the Sunbelt.

Author : Diego Trelles Paz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 193482464X

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The Future is Not Ours by Diego Trelles Paz Pdf

An exciting anthology which brings together 23 Latin American writers who were born between 1970 and 1980. Introducing a range of writers who were born in the time of military dictatorships, witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War, the murders of Ciudad Jurarez, the birth of the internet and the terrorist attacks in New York.

Author : Maya Crosby-Emery
Publisher : Maya Crosby-Emery
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781982957728

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His, Hers, Ours by Maya Crosby-Emery Pdf

Everleigh is a 24-year-old single mum from Australia. She moved to America with her 3-year-old daughter Rose and her boyfriend Dan. Things don't exactly go as she plans but she does everything in her power to protect her daughter at all costs. But that one night, she is saved. That night changes her life, she becomes his angel and Rose his princess... of the one and only Ash Mortimer, the leader of the Dark Snakes. Secrets, love and much more will be revealed. Can you really trust all that you see? Follow Everleigh and Asher as well as the Whole Gang... He was hers... She was his... Together they were one.

Author : Hilda Bernstein
Publisher : Persephone Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Anti-apartheid movements
ISBN : IND:30000110616442

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The World that was Ours by Hilda Bernstein Pdf

An intimate memoir about the 1964 Rivonia Trial in South Africa during Apartheid.

Author : Vera M. Kutzinksi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801466250

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The Worlds of Langston Hughes by Vera M. Kutzinksi Pdf

The poet Langston Hughes was a tireless world traveler and a prolific translator, editor, and marketer. Translations of his own writings traveled even more widely than he did, earning him adulation throughout Europe, Asia, and especially the Americas. In The Worlds of Langston Hughes, Vera Kutzinski contends that, for writers who are part of the African diaspora, translation is more than just a literary practice: it is a fact of life and a way of thinking. Focusing on Hughes's autobiographies, translations of his poetry, his own translations, and the political lyrics that brought him to the attention of the infamous McCarthy Committee, she shows that translating and being translated-and often mistranslated-are as vital to Hughes's own poetics as they are to understanding the historical network of cultural relations known as literary modernism. As Kutzinski maps the trajectory of Hughes's writings across Europe and the Americas, we see the remarkable extent to which the translations of his poetry were in conversation with the work of other modernist writers. Kutzinski spotlights cities whose role as meeting places for modernists from all over the world has yet to be fully explored: Madrid, Havana, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and of course Harlem. The result is a fresh look at Hughes, not as a solitary author who wrote in a single language, but as an international figure at the heart of a global intellectual and artistic formation.

Author : Cecil Byron Read,John Rydjord,Leo William Allman,Lloyd McKinley,Martin Franklin Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Books
ISBN : OSU:32435023007586

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Content of Reviews of Mathematics Books by Cecil Byron Read,John Rydjord,Leo William Allman,Lloyd McKinley,Martin Franklin Palmer Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1550 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Jury
ISBN : UCBK:C061420919

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Improvement of the Jury System by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4 Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1744 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Communism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006300094

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Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944) Pdf

Author : William White
Publisher : Litres
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785041206147

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In the Heart of a Fool by William White Pdf

"In the Heart of a Fool" by William Allen White. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.