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Hissing Cousins

Author : Marc Peyser
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1101971622
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Hissing Cousins written by Marc Peyser and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Richmond Times-Dispatch Best Book of the Year When Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, his beautiful and flamboyant daughter was transformed into “Princess Alice,” arguably the century’s first global celebrity. Thirty-two years later, Alice’s first cousin Eleanor moved into the White House as First Lady. The two women had been born eight months and twenty blocks apart in New York City, spent much of their childhoods together, and were far more alike than most historians acknowledge. But their politics and personalities couldn’t have been more distinct. Democratic icon Eleanor was committed to social justice and hated the limelight; Republican Alice was an opponent of big government who gained notoriety for her cutting remarks. The cousins liked to play up their rivalry—in the 1930s they even wrote opposing syndicated newspaper columns and embarked on competing nationwide speaking tours. When the family business is politics, winning trumps everything. Lively, intimate, and stylishly written, Hissing Cousins is a double biography of two extraordinary women whose entwined lives give us a sweeping look at the twentieth century in America.

His Final Battle

Author : Joseph Lelyveld
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 034580659X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book His Final Battle written by Joseph Lelyveld and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Foreign Affairs, Bloomberg In March 1944, as World War II raged and America’s next presidential election loomed, Franklin D. Roosevelt was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Driven by a belief that he had a duty to see the war through to the end, Roosevelt concealed his failing health and sought a fourth term—a term that he knew he might not live to complete. With unparalleled insight and deep compassion, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Joseph Lelyveld delves into Roosevelt’s thoughts, preoccupations, and motives during his last sixteen months, which saw the highly secretive Manhattan Project, the roar of D-Day, the landmark Yalta Conference and FDR’s hopes for a new world order—all as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem to their climax. His Final Battle delivers an extraordinary portrait of this famously inscrutable man, who was full of contradictions but a consummate leader to the very last.

Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

Author : Ira Katznelson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871404508
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time written by Ira Katznelson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the New Deal era highlights the politicians and pundits of the time, many of whom advocated for questionable positions, including separation of the races and an American dictatorship.

Autumn in Venice

Author : Andrea Di Robilant
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101970383
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Autumn in Venice written by Andrea Di Robilant and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illuminating story of writer and muse—which also examines the cost to a young woman of her association with a larger-than-life literary celebrity—Autumn in Venice is an intimate look at Hemingway’s final years. In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called “absolutely god-damned wonderful.” A year shy of his fiftieth birthday, Hemingway hadn’t published a novel in nearly a decade when he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a striking Venetian girl just out of finishing school. Here Andrea di Robilant re-creates with sparkling clarity this surprising, years-long relationship, during which Adriana inspired a man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work. Hemingway used Adriana as the model for Renata in Across the River and into the Trees, and continued to visit Venice to see her; when the Ivanciches traveled to Cuba, Adriana was there as he wrote The Old Man and the Sea.

Pierpont Morgan and Friends

Author : George Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pierpont Morgan and Friends written by George Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conversations on the Hudson

Author : Nick Hand
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616893109
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Conversations on the Hudson written by Nick Hand and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One spring day in 2012, fresh from his circumnavigation of the British Isles, English designer Nick Hand set off on his bicycle from Brooklyn, New York, and pedaled north along the Hudson River toward its source in the Adirondack Mountains. His leisurely pace suited his simple agenda—to talk to the artists and craftspeople he met along the way. Conversations on the Hudson is a visual record of his five-hundred-mile journey through the hills, mountains, and countryside of the Hudson Valley. Hand's casual approach brings out the best in people, who eagerly open up their studios and workshops and share their personal stories. This one-of-a-kind collection pairs Hand's beautiful photographs alongside visits to a seed librarian, a printer and publisher, a brewer, a stone sculptor, a sheep farmer, a distiller, a maple syrup producer, and a boat restorer, among others.

Friends of Liberty

Author : Gary Nash
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786746483
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Friends of Liberty written by Gary Nash and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends of Liberty tells the remarkable story of three men whose lives were braided together by issues of liberty and race that fueled revolutions across two continents. Thomas Jefferson wrote the founding documents of the United States. Thaddeus Kosciuszko was a hero of the American Revolution and later led a spectacular but failed uprising in Poland, his homeland. Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black New Englander, volunteered at eighteen to join the Continental Army. During the Revolution, Hull served Kosciuszko as an orderly, and the two became fast friends. Kosciuszko's abhorrence of bondage shaped histhinking about the oppression in his own land. When Kosciuszko returned to America in the 1790s, bearing the wounds of his own failed revolution, he and Jefferson forged an intense friendship based on their shared dreams for the global expansion of human freedom. They sealed their bond with a blood compact whereby Jefferson would liberate his slaves upon Kosciuszko's death. But Jefferson died without fulfilling the promise he had made to Kosciuszko-and to a fledgling nation founded on the principle of liberty and justice for all.

Busing Brewster

Author : Richard Michelson
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375985557
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Busing Brewster written by Richard Michelson and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book A New York Times Book Review Notable Children’s Book Brewster is excited about starting first grade . . . until Mama announces that he'll be attending Central—a school in the white part of town. Mama says they have art and music and a library bursting with books, but Brewster isn't so sure he'll fit in. Being black at a white school isn't easy, and Brewster winds up spending his first day in detention at the library. But there he meets a very special person: Miss O'Grady. The librarian sees into Brewster's heart and gives him not only the gift of books but also the ability to believe in himself. This powerful and tender story of desegregation in the 1970s introduces readers to the brave young heroes who helped to build a new world. From the Hardcover edition.

The Wars of the Roosevelts

Author : William J. Mann
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062383353
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Wars of the Roosevelts written by William J. Mann and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America’s greatest and most influential families—the Roosevelts—exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic flair. Drawing on previously hidden historical documents and interviews with the long-silent "illegitimate" branch of the family, William J. Mann paints an elegant, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking group portrait of this legendary family. Mann argues that the Roosevelts’ rise to power and prestige was actually driven by a series of intense personal contest that at times devolved into blood sport. His compelling and eye-opening masterwork is the story of a family at war with itself, of social Darwinism at its most ruthless—in which the strong devoured the weak and repudiated the inconvenient. Mann focuses on Eleanor Roosevelt, who, he argues, experienced this brutality firsthand, witnessing her Uncle Theodore cruelly destroy her father, Elliott—his brother and bitter rival—for political expediency. Mann presents a fascinating alternate picture of Eleanor, contending that this "worshipful niece" in fact bore a grudge against TR for the rest of her life, and dares to tell the truth about her intimate relationships without obfuscations, explanations, or labels. Mann also brings into focus Eleanor’s cousins, TR’s children, whose stories propelled the family rivalry but have never before been fully chronicled, as well as her illegitimate half-brother, Elliott Roosevelt Mann, who inherited his family’s ambition and skill without their name and privilege. Growing up in poverty just miles from his wealthy relatives, Elliott Mann embodied the American Dream, rising to middle-class prosperity and enjoying one of the very few happy, long-term marriages in the Roosevelt saga. For the first time, The Wars of the Roosevelts also includes the stories of Elliott’s daughter and grandchildren, and never-before-seen photographs from their archives. Deeply psychological and finely rendered, illustrated with sixteen pages of black-and-white photographs, The Wars of the Roosevelts illuminates not only the enviable strengths but also the profound shame of this remarkable and influential family.

The Roosevelt Women

Author : Betty Boyd Caroli
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541672763
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Roosevelt Women written by Betty Boyd Caroli and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roosevelt name conjures up images of powerful Presidents and dashing men of high society. But few people know much about the extraordinary network of women that held the Roosevelt clan together through war, scandal, and disease. In The Roosevelt Women, Betty Boyd Caroli weaves together stories culled from a rich store of letters, memoirs, and interviews to chronicle nine extraordinary Roosevelt women across a century and a half of turbulent history.She examines the Roosevelt women as mothers, daughters, wives, and, beyond that, as world travelers, authors, campaigners, and socialites—in short, as themselves. She reveals how they demonstrated the energy and intellectual curiosity that defined their famous family, as well as the roles they played in the intrigues, scandals, and accomplishments that were hallmarks of the Roosevelt clan. From the much maligned Sara Delano (who sired Franklin and by turns terrified and supported Eleanor) to Theodore's irrepressible daughter, Alice (”I can either rule the country or control Alice,” Teddy once said) to the beloved Bamie, who was the only mother Alice ever knew, and the model of everything she never was in life, to the exceptionally beautiful but ultimately overwhelmed Mittie, Theodore's mother, The Roosevelt Women is an intricate portrait of bold and talented women, a grand tale of both unbearable tragedies and triumphant achievements.

Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder

Author : Mountain Wolf Woman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472061099
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder written by Mountain Wolf Woman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic ethnography of continuing importance

The Pocket Mommy

Author : Rachel Eugster
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 1770494987
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Pocket Mommy written by Rachel Eugster and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saying goodbye to Mom at the kindergarten door can be tough. Samuel hates it and wishes he could have a tiny, pocket-sized mommy to carry around with him all day. His mom slips a pretend mommy into his pocket, and when she comes to life, Samuel is delighted . . . at first. But he soon discovers that having a mom along in kindergarten isn't as much fun as he thought it would be. Sure, she helps him remember the words to songs and keeps him company. But she also rearranges the bookshelf, corrects his artwork, and tries to clean out the guinea pig cage--all with disastrous (and comic) results. An energetic romp with a sweet core, The Pocket Mommy follows one little boy as he navigates the age-old conflict between the comfort of the familiar and the joy of letting go.

Princess Alice

Author : Carol Felsenthal
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312302221
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Princess Alice written by Carol Felsenthal and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in the United States by G.P. Putnam's Sons, under the title Alice Roosevelt Longworth"--T.p. verso.

American Princess

Author : Stephanie Marie Thornton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451490908
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book American Princess written by Stephanie Marie Thornton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As juicy and enlightening as a page in Meghan Markle's diary.”—InStyle “Presidential darling, America’s sweetheart, national rebel: Teddy Roosevelt’s swashbuckling daughter Alice springs to life in this raucous anthem to a remarkable woman.”—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Huntress A sweeping novel from renowned author Stephanie Marie Thornton... Alice may be the president's daughter, but she's nobody's darling. As bold as her signature color Alice Blue, the gum-chewing, cigarette-smoking, poker-playing First Daughter discovers that the only way for a woman to stand out in Washington is to make waves—oceans of them. With the canny sophistication of the savviest politician on the Hill, Alice uses her celebrity to her advantage, testing the limits of her power and the seductive thrill of political entanglements. But Washington, DC is rife with heartaches and betrayals, and when Alice falls hard for a smooth-talking congressman it will take everything this rebel has to emerge triumphant and claim her place as an American icon. As Alice soldiers through the devastation of two world wars and brazens out a cutting feud with her famous Roosevelt cousins, it's no wonder everyone in the capital refers to her as the Other Washington Monument—and Alice intends to outlast them all.

The Other Dark Matter

Author : Lina Zeldovich
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022661557X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Other Dark Matter written by Lina Zeldovich and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of human waste. How I learned to love the excrement; The early history of human excreta; Treasure nigh soil as if it were gold!; The water closet dilemma and the sewage farm paradigm; Germs, fertilizer, and the poop police -- The present: a sludge revolution in progress. The great sewage time bomb and the redistribution of nutrients on the planet; Loowatt, a loo that turns waste into watts; The crap that cooks your dinner and container-based sanitation; HomeBiogas : your personal digester in a box; Made in New York; Lystek, the home of sewage smoothies; How DC water makes biosolids BLOOM; From biosolids to biofuels -- The future of medicine and other things; Poop : the best (and cheapest medicine; Looking where the sun doesn't shine; From the kindness of one's gut : an insider look into stool banks -- Afterword : breathing poetry into poop.

A Hiss-tory of Magic

Author : Harper Lin
Publisher : Harper Lin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hiss-tory of Magic written by Harper Lin and published by Harper Lin Books. This book was released on with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757

Author : Esther Edwards Burr
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300029004
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757 written by Esther Edwards Burr and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1754, Esther Burr began to keep an almost daily record of her thoughts and activities, a practice she continued for nearly three years. She wrote the journal as a series of letters, which she gathered up every few weeks and sent off in packets to Boston to Sarah Prince, her closest friend.