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Book Synopsis Fighting Joe Hawley by : Kevin J. Murphy
Download or read book Fighting Joe Hawley written by Kevin J. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1914-01-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Hartford lawyer Joseph Hawley, an abolitionist and the first Connecticut resident to enlist in the Union Army following the attack on Fort Sumter, who later served as Connecticut's governor, congressman, and U.S. senator. His first wife, Harriet (Hattie) Ward Foote, became a Civil War nurse who served in Washington, D.C. and died shortly after the adoption of their child. Hawley's second wife, Edith Anne Horner, was a British Nightingale nurse who received the Royal Red Cross for her service in the Zulu War in South Africa and after her husband's death became president of the Visiting Nurses Association in Hartford, Connecticut.
Book Synopsis Joseph and Harriet Hawley's Civil War by : Paul E. Teed
Download or read book Joseph and Harriet Hawley's Civil War written by Paul E. Teed and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the remarkable partnership of Joseph and Harriet Hawley, a married couple from Connecticut whose lives were transformed by overlapping experiences in the American Civil War era. When Joseph became the colonel of the 7th Connecticut Infantry Regiment in 1862, Harriet ignored family advice and social convention, and travelled to Union military headquarters at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, where Joseph’s regiment was stationed. From that bold beginning, she spent the next three years as a visitor at field hospitals, a teacher at freedman’s schools, a wartime journalist, a ward nurse, and her husband’s informal advisor and publicist. Moving in and around the scenes of military action, she lived and worked in spaces usually reserved for men and took on responsibilities that implicitly challenged conventional understandings of women’s physical and emotional dependency. While Joseph struggled for recognition and promotion in the brutally competitive environment of Union military politics, Harriet shrewdly used her own personal contacts with power brokers in Hartford and Washington to protect his interests and those of his men. And as the terrible realities of the Civil War pushed them both to the brink of physical and emotional collapse, Harriet and Joseph remained committed to the cause and found ways to sustain their devotion to both Union and emancipation in the very worst moments of the conflict.
Download or read book The Defender written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Tyranny of Big Tech by : Josh Hawley
Download or read book The Tyranny of Big Tech written by Josh Hawley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of Big Tech is here, and Americans’ First Amendment rights hang by a keystroke. Amassing unimaginable amounts of personal data, giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple—once symbols of American ingenuity and freedom—have become a techno-oligarchy with overwhelming economic and political power. Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans’ daily lives than any company or government in the world. In The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that these mega-corporations—controlled by the robber barons of the modern era—are the gravest threat to American liberty in decades. To reverse course, Hawley argues, we must correct progressives’ mistakes of the past. That means recovering the link between liberty and democratic participation, building an economy that makes the working class strong, independent, and beholden to no one, and curbing the influence of corporate and political elites. Big Tech and its allies do not deal gently with those who cross them, and Senator Hawley proudly bears his own battle scars. But hubris is dangerous. The time is ripe to overcome the tyranny of Big Tech by reshaping the business and legal landscape of the digital world.
Download or read book Crowbar Governor written by Kevin Murphy and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While president of Aetna Life from 1879 to 1922, Morgan Bulkeley served four terms as mayor of Hartford, two terms as Connecticut’s governor, and one term as a United States senator. His friends and business and political acquaintances were a who’s who of the Gilded Age: Samuel Clemens, J. P. Morgan, Samuel and Elizabeth Colt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Albert Spalding, General Sherman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Katherine Hepburn, as well as every president from Ulysses Grant to Warren Harding. In 1874 Bulkeley formed the Hartford Dark Blues who soon joined the unruly National Association, antecedent of the National League. He served as the league’s first president for a year, and was later elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. It was during Bulkeley’s controversial “holdover” term as governor that he earned the nickname “Crowbar Governor.” He used a crowbar to remove a lock that had been placed on his office door after refusing to vacate the governor’s chambers on a technicality. Written in classic storyteller fashion, and augmented by copious research, Crowbar Governor offers readers a privileged glimpse into life and politics in Connecticut during the Gilded Age. Ebook Edition Note: Eight images from the Connecticut Historical Society have been redacted.
Book Synopsis Gun Barons by : John Bainbridge, Jr.
Download or read book Gun Barons written by John Bainbridge, Jr. and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bainbridge, Jr.'s Gun Barons is a narrative history of six charismatic and idiosyncratic men who changed the course of American history through the invention and refinement of repeating weapons. Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary. Yet few people are aware of the roles these men played at a crucial time in United States history, from westward expansion in the 1840s, through the Civil War, and into the dawn of the Gilded Age. Through personal drive and fueled by bloodshed, they helped propel the young country into the forefront of the world's industrial powers. Their creations helped save a nation divided, while planting seeds that would divide the country again a century later. Their inventions embodied an intoxicating thread of American individualism—part fiction, part reality—that remains the foundation of modern gun culture. They promoted guns not only for the soldier, but for the Everyman, and also made themselves wealthy beyond their most fevered dreams. Gun Barons captures how their bold inventiveness dwelled in the psyche of an entire people, not just in the minds of men who made firearm fortunes. Whether we revere these larger-than-life men or vilify them, they helped forge the American character.
Download or read book Ainslee's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis A Glance Backward by : Norris Galpin Osborn
Download or read book A Glance Backward written by Norris Galpin Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Palimpsest written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jonas Hawley by : William Wesley Pennell
Download or read book Jonas Hawley written by William Wesley Pennell and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Continent written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Joseph Sloane Publisher :AuthorHouse ISBN 13 :1410758591 Total Pages :338 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book written by Joseph Sloane and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis On Hallowed Ground by : Robert M. Poole
Download or read book On Hallowed Ground written by Robert M. Poole and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the founding of the monument cemetery on the former family plantation of Robert E. Lee, revealing how the site once intended for the burials of indigent soldiers became a national resting place of honor throughout the subsequent century.
Download or read book Lydia Sherman written by Kevin J. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lincoln's Choice by : J. O. Buckeridge
Download or read book Lincoln's Choice written by J. O. Buckeridge and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herein, for the first time, is revealed the impact and scope of the basic repeating rifle in the Civil War. Well documented, and supported by exciting on-the-spot reports, the author presents convincing evidence that the Spencer seven-shooter was a major factor—possibly the major factor in winding up the war which cost far more American lives than World War II. Christopher Spencer, the inventor and manufacturer, personally demonstrated the arm to President Lincoln on the White House lawn. Lincoln himself did considerable shooting with it, and he was so impressed by the performance of the seven-shooter that he directed procurement by the Ordnance Department. Lee is shown losing at Gettysburg, largely through the multiple-firepower of some 3,500 seven-shooters in the hands of the reorganized Federal cavalry. Seven Spencer-armed regiments are described as blasting a path for Grant out of the Wilderness, and a handful of seven-shooting regiments win Cold Harbor for him in a five-minute charge. Much of Sheridan’s glory in the Shenandoah Valley and Appomattox campaigns is herein transferred to Spencer’s gun and the men who fought with it in the front lines. Sherman, herein the hero of Atlanta and villain of the march to the sea, is taken to task for his inadequate use of the precious gift from the gods of war. The obscure Wilson is brought into the limelight for doing more damage with Sherman’s seven-shooting cavalry in two weeks than Sherman accomplished in four months. Withal, this is compact, hard-hitting, easy-to-read history of the five main Union campaigns of 1864 and 1865, well-seasoned with the incidents of soldier life which lend a quaint flavor to a fascinating phase of American history.
