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17 produkter
Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, And Compromise, 1848-1877
Confidence, Crisis, And Compromise, 1848-1877
Häftad, 2014
183 kr
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Ecstatic Nation
Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877
E-bok, 2013
114 kr
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"From the death of John Quincy Adams through the Civil War to the tragedy of Reconstruction, Wineapple tells the American story brilliantly." —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorA New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Kirkus Best Book of 2013A Bookpage Best Book of 2013Dazzling in scope, …
Fiorello La Guardia
The Insurgent
Inbunden, 2027
283 kr
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From an award-winning author, the story of the man and mayor who, with savvy and grit, fought for honest government and progressive ideals in New York and beyondFiorello La Guardia (1882–1947) is still remembered as one of New York City’s most ambitious, pugnacious, and effective politicians. With …
White Heat
E-bok, 2008
176 kr
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White Heat is the first book to portray the remarkable relationship between America''s most beloved poet and the fiery abolitionist who first brought her work to the public. As the Civil War raged, an unlikely friendship was born between the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth …
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Häftad, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
315 kr
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Hawthorne
A Life
E-bok, 2012
168 kr
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Handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof until he was approached, then playful, cordial, Nathaniel Hawthorne was as mercurial and double-edged as his writing. “Deep as Dante,” Herman Melville said. Hawthorne himself declared that he was not “one of those supremely hospitable people who serve …
Keeping the Faith
God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
Häftad, 1900
321 kr
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Brenda Wineapple’s wonderful account of the Scopes trial sheds light not only on the battles of the past but on the struggles of the present.”—Jon Meacham “History at its most delicious.”— The New York Times Book Review (front page review, Editors’ Choice) The dramatic story …
Sister Brother
Gertrude and Leo Stein
Häftad, 2008
293 kr
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Devoted, eccentric, and compelling, Gertrude and Leo Stein were constant companions, from childhood to adulthood, until, finally, they spoke no more. Americans, expatriates, and virtually orphans, they lived together for almost forty years, collaborating in one of the great artistic and literary …
Genêt
A Biography of Janet Flanner
Häftad, 1992
251 kr
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The daughter of an Indianapolis mortician, Janet Flanner really began to live at the age of thirty, when she fled to Paris with her female lover. That was in 1921, a few years before she signed on as Paris correspondent for the New Yorker, taking the pseudonym Genêt. For half a century she …
Impeachers
The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
Häftad, 2020
281 kr
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Impeachers
The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
E-bok, 2019
272 kr
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“This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and …
Walt Whitman Speaks
His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America
Av Walt Whitman, Brenda Wineapple
Ljudbok, 2020
278 kr
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For the Whitman bicentennial, a delightful keepsake edition of the incomparable wisdom of America’s greatest poet, distilled from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with Horace Traubel Toward the end of his life, Walt Whitman was visited almost daily at his home in Camden, New Jersey, by …
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America
A Library of America Special Publication
Av Walt Whitman, Brenda Wineapple
E-bok, 2019
242 kr
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A delightful keepsake edition of the incomparable wisdom of America''s greatest poet, distilled from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with Horace Traubel. Toward the end of his life, Walt Whitman was visited almost daily at his home in Camden, New Jersey, by the young poet and social …
Walt Whitman Speaks
His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America
Av Walt Whitman, Brenda Wineapple
Häftad, 2019
187 kr
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The young journalist and reformer Horace Traubel visited Whitman nearly every day at his home in Camden, New Jersey. Whitman liked to talk, especially about the big issues, spiritual, political - all he'd learned over seven decades of peace and war. To mark the bicentenary of Walt Whitman's death, …
19th Century American Writers on Writing
Av Brenda Wineapple, Edward Hirsch
Häftad, 2010
193 kr
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Nineteenth-Centuery American Writers on Writing features essays, letters, poems, prose, and excerpts of interviews by fifty-seven leading authors of the century. Each had to figure out what it meant to be a writer within the context of the relatively new nation they spoke to, for, and about. Each …
