Routledge Historical Americans – serie
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61 produkter
Henry Kissinger
Pragmatic Statesman in Hostile Times
Häftad, 2019
671 kr
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Henry Kissinger: Pragmatic Statesman in Hostile Times explores the influence of statesman Henry Kissinger in American foreign relations and national security during 1969 to 1977.Henry Kissinger arrived in the U.S. as a young Jewish refugee and went on to serve as National Security Advisor and …
Clare Boothe Luce
American Renaissance Woman
Av Philip Nash
Häftad, 2022
671 kr
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Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman is a concise and highly readable political biography that examines the life of one of the most accomplished American women of the 20th century.Wife and mother, author, editor, playwright, political activist, war journalist, Congresswoman, ambassador, …
Clare Boothe Luce
American Renaissance Woman
Av Philip Nash
Inbunden, 2022
2662 kr
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Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman is a concise and highly readable political biography that examines the life of one of the most accomplished American women of the 20th century.Wife and mother, author, editor, playwright, political activist, war journalist, Congresswoman, ambassador, …
Thurgood Marshall
Race, Rights, and the Struggle for a More Perfect Union
Inbunden, 2013
2680 kr
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Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991. He was the first African American to hold that position, and was one of the most influential legal actors of his time. Before being appointed to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson, Marshall was a lawyer …
Thurgood Marshall
Race, Rights, and the Struggle for a More Perfect Union
Häftad, 2013
691 kr
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Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991. He was the first African American to hold that position, and was one of the most influential legal actors of his time. Before being appointed to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson, Marshall was a lawyer …
Ronald Reagan
Champion of Conservative America
Inbunden, 2014
3271 kr
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Few politicians in recent American history are as well-known as Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.S. president. An iconic leader, Reagan shifted the direction of American politics toward a newly vigorous conservatism. Though he began his career as a New Deal liberal, by the end of the 1950s, Reagan had …
Ronald Reagan
Champion of Conservative America
Häftad, 2014
676 kr
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Few politicians in recent American history are as well-known as Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.S. president. An iconic leader, Reagan shifted the direction of American politics toward a newly vigorous conservatism. Though he began his career as a New Deal liberal, by the end of the 1950s, Reagan had …
Benjamin Franklin
American Founder, Atlantic Citizen
Inbunden, 2014
2929 kr
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Known for his influential role in the debates that established the founding documents of the United States, Benjamin Franklin was not only an astute politician, but also an Atlantic citizen whose commitment to the American cause was informed by years spent in England and France. The life of this …
Benjamin Franklin
American Founder, Atlantic Citizen
Häftad, 2014
691 kr
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Known for his influential role in the debates that established the founding documents of the United States, Benjamin Franklin was not only an astute politician, but also an Atlantic citizen whose commitment to the American cause was informed by years spent in England and France. The life of this …
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court Justice
Inbunden, 2015
2680 kr
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was one of the most influential jurists of his time. From the antebellum era and the Civil War through the First World War and into the New Deal years, Holmes' long life and career as a Supreme Court Justice spanned an eventful period of American history, as the country …
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court Justice
Häftad, 2015
676 kr
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was one of the most influential jurists of his time. From the antebellum era and the Civil War through the First World War and into the New Deal years, Holmes' long life and career as a Supreme Court Justice spanned an eventful period of American history, as the country …
Elie Wiesel
Humanist Messenger for Peace
Inbunden, 2021
2600 kr
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Elie Wiesel: Humanist Messenger for Peace is part biography and part moral history of the intellectual and spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, human rights activist, author, university professor, and Nobel Peace Prize winner.In this concise text, Alan L. Berger portrays Wiesel’s …
Elie Wiesel
Humanist Messenger for Peace
Häftad, 2021
655 kr
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Elie Wiesel: Humanist Messenger for Peace is part biography and part moral history of the intellectual and spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, human rights activist, author, university professor, and Nobel Peace Prize winner.In this concise text, Alan L. Berger portrays Wiesel’s …
Sojourner Truth
Prophet of Social Justice
Inbunden, 2016
2929 kr
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Although Sojourner Truth was born into bondage and oppression, in liberation she emerged as a leader in the most radical causes of her era. She travelled the country as an outspoken and riveting presence, battling for the abolition of slavery and for women’s suffrage. While her role in these …
Sojourner Truth
Prophet of Social Justice
Häftad, 2016
691 kr
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Although Sojourner Truth was born into bondage and oppression, in liberation she emerged as a leader in the most radical causes of her era. She travelled the country as an outspoken and riveting presence, battling for the abolition of slavery and for women’s suffrage. While her role in these …
John Winthrop
Founding the City Upon a Hill
Inbunden, 2013
2680 kr
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Puritan politician, lawyer, and lay theologian John Winthrop fled England in 1630 when it looked like Charles I had successfully blocked all hopes of passing Puritan-inspired reforms in Parliament. Leading a migration, he came to New England in the hopes of creating an ideal Puritan community and …
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American Writer on the Prairie
Inbunden, 2014
3173 kr
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Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote stories that have defined the American frontier for generations of readers. As both author and character in her own books, she became one of the most famous figures in American children’s literature. Her famous Little House on the Prairie series, based on her childhood in …
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American Writer on the Prairie
Häftad, 2014
850 kr
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Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote stories that have defined the American frontier for generations of readers. As both author and character in her own books, she became one of the most famous figures in American children’s literature. Her famous Little House on the Prairie series, based on her childhood in …
Harriet Tubman
Slavery, the Civil War, and Civil Rights in the 19th Century
Inbunden, 2015
2929 kr
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Escaped slave, Civil War spy, scout, and nurse, and champion of women's suffrage, Harriet Tubman is an icon of heroism. Perhaps most famous for leading enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad, Tubman was dubbed "Moses" by followers. But abolition and the close of the Civil War …
Harriet Tubman
Slavery, the Civil War, and Civil Rights in the 19th Century
Häftad, 2015
676 kr
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Escaped slave, Civil War spy, scout, and nurse, and champion of women's suffrage, Harriet Tubman is an icon of heroism. Perhaps most famous for leading enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad, Tubman was dubbed "Moses" by followers. But abolition and the close of the Civil War …
Henry Kissinger
Pragmatic Statesman in Hostile Times
Inbunden, 2019
2600 kr
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Henry Kissinger: Pragmatic Statesman in Hostile Times explores the influence of statesman Henry Kissinger in American foreign relations and national security during 1969 to 1977.Henry Kissinger arrived in the U.S. as a young Jewish refugee and went on to serve as National Security Advisor and …
Theodore Roosevelt
A Manly President’s Gendered Personal and Political Transformations
Av Neil Cogan
Inbunden, 2020
2680 kr
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Theodore Roosevelt explores the personal and political life of the 26th President of the United States. It considers among other things his "manliness," a gendered framework of traits for the Gilded Age and Progressive Period guiding him and other men in business, politics, and war, and shows how …
Theodore Roosevelt
A Manly President’s Gendered Personal and Political Transformations
Av Neil Cogan
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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Theodore Roosevelt explores the personal and political life of the 26th President of the United States. It considers among other things his "manliness," a gendered framework of traits for the Gilded Age and Progressive Period guiding him and other men in business, politics, and war, and shows how …
Brigham Young
Sovereign in America
Inbunden, 2014
2929 kr
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Brigham Young was one of the most influential—and controversial—Mormon leaders in American history. An early follower of the new religion, he led the cross-continental migration of the Mormon people from Illinois to Utah, where he built a vast religious empire that was both revolutionary and …
Brigham Young
Sovereign in America
Häftad, 2014
691 kr
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Brigham Young was one of the most influential—and controversial—Mormon leaders in American history. An early follower of the new religion, he led the cross-continental migration of the Mormon people from Illinois to Utah, where he built a vast religious empire that was both revolutionary and …
Andrew Jackson
Principle and Prejudice
Inbunden, 2016
2842 kr
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Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. Known as "Old Hickory," he was the first President who championed the rights of the 'common man'. Originally from the frontier, he was known for being rough in speech and mannerisms and his fierce temper. After making his name as a …
Andrew Jackson
Principle and Prejudice
Häftad, 2016
671 kr
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Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. Known as "Old Hickory," he was the first President who championed the rights of the 'common man'. Originally from the frontier, he was known for being rough in speech and mannerisms and his fierce temper. After making his name as a …
Frederick Douglass
Reformer and Statesman
Inbunden, 2012
2600 kr
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Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, in February, 1818. From these humble beginnings, Douglass went on to become a world-famous orator, newspaper editor, and champion of the rights of women and African Americans. He was the most prominent African American activist of the …
Frederick Douglass
Reformer and Statesman
Häftad, 2012
671 kr
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Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, in February, 1818. From these humble beginnings, Douglass went on to become a world-famous orator, newspaper editor, and champion of the rights of women and African Americans. He was the most prominent African American activist of the …
Bill Clinton
Building a Bridge to the New Millennium
Inbunden, 2014
2680 kr
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In 1993, William J. Clinton began his eight year stint as forty-second president of the United States. A key figure of change in the Democratic Party, Clinton's political and personal actions ensured his lasting status as an important if controversial leader at a critical moment in recent American …
