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The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters

Author : Julie Klam
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735216444
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters written by Julie Klam and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post best nonfiction book pick of 2021 “It is biography as an expression of love.” – The New York Times New York Times–bestselling author Julie Klam’s funny and moving story of the Morris sisters, distant relations with mysterious pasts. Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. According to family lore, early in the twentieth century the sisters’ parents decided to move the family from Eastern Europe to Los Angeles so their father could become a movie director. On the way, their pregnant mother went into labor in St. Louis, where the baby was born and where their mother died. The father left the children in an orphanage and promised to send for them when he settled in California—a promise he never kept. One of the Morris sisters later became a successful Wall Street trader and advised Franklin Roosevelt. The sisters lived together in New York City, none of them married or had children, and one even had an affair with J. P. Morgan. The stories of these independent women intrigued Klam, but as she delved into them to learn more, she realized that the tales were almost completely untrue. The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters is the revealing account of what Klam discovered about her family—and herself—as she dug into the past. The deeper she went into the lives of the Morris sisters, the slipperier their stories became. And the more questions she had about what actually happened to them, the more her opinion of them evolved. Part memoir and part confessional, and told with the wit and honesty that are hallmarks of Klam’s books, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters is the fascinating and funny true story of one writer’s journey into her family’s past, the truths she brings to light, and what she learns about herself along the way.

Genealogy of the Morris family : descendants of Thomas Morris of Connecticut

Author : Lucy Ann Morris Carhart
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genealogy of the Morris family : descendants of Thomas Morris of Connecticut written by Lucy Ann Morris Carhart and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1911-01-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Families

Author : Ann Morris
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0688171982
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Families written by Ann Morris and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some children live with their mothers and fathers. Others have stepparents or live with just one parent. Still others live with grandparents or foster parents who chose them specially. But all children all around the world, are part of families--big and small, loving, sharing, and caring for one another. This look at all kinds of families from all over the world helps young children begin to think about families they belong to, as it gives them a glimpse into the rich variety of world cultures.

Death in the Delta

Author : Molly Walling
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617036102
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Death in the Delta written by Molly Walling and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up, Molly Walling could not fathom the source of the dark and intense discomfort in her family home. Then in 2006 she discovered her father's complicity in the murder of two black men on December 12, 1946, in Anguilla, deep in the Mississippi Delta. Death in the Delta tells the story of one woman's search for the truth behind a closely held, sixty-year old family secret. Though the author's mother and father decided that they would protect their three children from that past, its effect was profound. When the story of a fatal shoot-out surfaced, apprehension turned into a devouring need to know. Each of Walling's trips from North Carolina to the Delta brought unsettling and unexpected clues. After a hearing before an all-white grand jury, her father's case was not prosecuted. Indeed, it appeared as if the incident never occurred, and he resumed his life as a small-town newspaper editor. Yet family members of one of the victims tell her their stories. A ninety-three-year-old black historian and witness gives context and advice. A county attorney suggests her family's history of commingling with black women was at the heart of the deadly confrontation. Firsthand the author recognizes how privilege, entitlement, and racial bias in a wealthy, landed southern family resulted in a deadly abuse of power followed by a stifling, decades-long cover up. Death in the Delta is a deeply personal account of a quest to confront a terrible legacy. Against the advice and warnings of family, Walling exposes her father's guilty agency in the deaths of Simon Toombs and David Jones. She also exposes his gift as a writer and creative thinker. The author, grappling with wrenching issues of family and honor, was long conflicted about making this story public. But her mission became one of hope that confronting the truth might somehow move others toward healing and reconciliation.

The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak

Author : Randy Fertel
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 149680113X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak written by Randy Fertel and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is the story of two larger-than-life characters and the son whom their lives helped to shape. Ruth Fertel was a petite, smart, tough-as-nails blonde with a weakness for rogues, who founded the Ruth's Chris Steak House empire almost by accident. Rodney Fertel was a gold-plated, one-of-a-kind personality, a railbird-heir to wealth from a pawnshop of dubious repute just around the corner from where the teenage Louis Armstrong and his trumpet were discovered. When Fertel ran for mayor of New Orleans on a single campaign promise-buying a pair of gorillas for the zoo-he garnered a paltry 308 votes. Then he purchased the gorillas anyway! These colorful figures yoked together two worlds not often connected-lazy rice farms in the bayous and swinging urban streets where ethnicities jazzily collided. A trip downriver to the hamlet of Happy Jack focuses on its French-Alsatian roots, bountiful tables, and self-reliant lifestyle that inspired a restaurant legend. The story also offers a close-up of life in the Old Jewish Quarter on Rampart Street-and how it intersected with the denizens of “Back a' Town,” just a few blocks away, who brought jazz from New Orleans to the world. The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is a New Orleans story, featuring the distinctive characters, color, food, and history of that city-before Hurricane Katrina and after. But it also is the universal story of family and the full magnitude of outsize follies leavened with equal measures of humor, rage, and rue.

Abraham's Family

Author : John D. Morris
Publisher : Master Books
ISBN 13 : 9780890512432
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Abraham's Family written by John D. Morris and published by Master Books. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the awesome story of how Abraham became the ancestors of Christianity.

Close Kin and Distant Relatives

Author : Susana M. Morris
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813935512
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Close Kin and Distant Relatives written by Susana M. Morris and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "black family" in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it is a site of love, strength, and support; on the other hand, it is a site of pathology, brokenness, and dysfunction that has frequently called forth an emphasis on conventional respectability if stability and social approval are to be achieved. Looking at the ways in which contemporary African American and black Caribbean women writers conceptualize the black family, Susana Morris finds a discernible tradition that challenges the politics of respectability by arguing that it obfuscates the problematic nature of conventional understandings of family and has damaging effects as a survival strategy for blacks. The author draws on African American studies, black feminist theory, cultural studies, and women’s studies to examine the work of Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, and Sapphire, showing how their novels engage the connection between respectability and ambivalence. These writers advocate instead for a transgressive understanding of affinity and propose an ethic of community support and accountability that calls for mutual affection, affirmation, loyalty, and respect. At the core of these transgressive family systems, Morris reveals, is a connection to African diasporic cultural rites such as dance, storytelling, and music that help the fictional characters to establish familial connections.

We Were the Morris Orphans

Author : Kathi Morris
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1637581270
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book We Were the Morris Orphans written by Kathi Morris and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “They’re not dead, are they?” The officer’s body visibly slumped as he delivered his final nod. From that July day in 1968 on, the Morris family became the Morris orphans: ten children who attracted nationwide attention, and a trust fund that didn’t bring out the best in those who fostered them. Kathi, the oldest, was only seventeen when her parents were killed by a drunk driver. This is her story—behind the headlines—of when the Morris orphans only had their mutual loss and each other.

The Routledge Companion to William Morris

Author : Florence S. Boos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351859005
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to William Morris written by Florence S. Boos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice. This Companion draws together historical and critical responses to the impressive range of Morris’s multi-faceted life and activities: his homes, travels, family, business practices, decorative artwork, poetry, fantasy romances, translations, political activism, eco-socialism, and book collecting and design. Each chapter provides valuable historical and literary background information, reviews relevant opinions on its subject from the late-nineteenth century to the present, and offers new approaches to important aspects of its topic. Morris’s eclectic methodology and the perennial relevance of his insights and practice make this an essential handbook for those interested in art history, poetry, translation, literature, book design, environmentalism, political activism, and Victorian and utopian studies.

Gouverneur Morris

Author : William Howard Adams
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127049
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Gouverneur Morris written by William Howard Adams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plainspoken, racy patrician who distrusted democracy but opposed slavery and championed freedom for all minorities, an important player in the American Revolution, later an astute critic of the French Revolution, Gouverneur Morris remains an enigma among the founding generation. This comprehensive, engrossing biography tells his robust story, including his celebrated love affairs during his long stay in Europe. Morris’s public record is astonishing. One of the leading figures of the Constitutional Convention, he put the Constitution in its final version, including its opening Preamble. As Washington’s first minister to Paris, he became America’s most effective representative in France. A successful, international entrepreneur, he understood the dynamics of commerce in the modern world. Frankly cosmopolitan, he embraced city life as a creative center of civilization and had a central role in the building of the Erie Canal and in laying out the urban grid plan of Manhattan. William Howard Adams describes Morris’s many contributions, talents, sophistication, and wit, as well as his romantic liaisons, free habits, and free speech. He brings to life a fascinating man of great stature, a founding father who receives his due at last.

The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume I

Author : William Morris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400856183
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume I written by William Morris and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of William Morris (1834-1896) is revealed in significant new detail by his complete surviving correspondence, brought together here for the first time and including many previously unpublished letters. This collection not only bears witness to Morris's day-to-day activities and friendships, but also reflects his keen response to landscape and architecture, his sense of social responsibility, and his interest in the techniques of the applied arts. Volume I covers Morris's student days at Oxford and marriage to Jane Burden; the first twenty years of Morris and Co.; his success as a poet with the publication of The Earthly Paradise; his two trips to Iceland; the moves to Kelmscott Manor and Kelmscott House; and the start of his socialist career. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Ella Morris

Author : John David Morley
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297871390
Total Pages : 1051 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Ella Morris written by John David Morley and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 1051 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the decades from WWII to the Yugoslav conflict, Ella Morris is the story of a continent, and of a woman torn between two men. Born in Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise to power, Ella Andrzejewski escapes Soviet-occupied europe and finds a safe haven in England. Here, she marries George Morris but falls passionately in love with a French student ten years her junior. The ramifications of this love triangle and of Ella's traumatic past will reverberate through the generations, as her children try to find their own troubled peace in a continent still scarred by war.

The Case of the Missing Morris Dancer

Author : Cathy Ace
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178010717X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Case of the Missing Morris Dancer written by Cathy Ace and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Women of the WISE Enquiries Agency are back in a witty and intriguing new mystery. The Anwen Morris Dancers are to play a pivotal role in the imminent nuptials of Henry, eighteenth Duke of Chellingworth. But it looks as though the wedding plans might go awry unless Mavis, Annie, Carol and Christine can help Althea, the Dowager Duchess, by finding a missing Morris man and a set of ancient and valuable artefacts in time for her son’s wedding. Anwen-by-Wye might look like an idyllic Welsh village where family values reign and traditions still mean something in a modern world, but what will the WISE women find when they peer behind the respectable net curtains?

Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania

Author : John Woolf Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania written by John Woolf Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dai Morris

Author : Dai & Williams Morris, Martyn
Publisher : Y Lolfa
ISBN 13 : 1847716539
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Dai Morris written by Dai & Williams Morris, Martyn and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of legendary Welsh rugby player Dai Morris, a member of the successful 1970s squad - a man who worked shifts in the coal mine in the morning and played for his country in the afternoon.

Simply Simpático

Author : Junior League of Albuquerque
Publisher : Flavors of Home (Hardcover)
ISBN 13 : 9780960927807
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Simply Simpático written by Junior League of Albuquerque and published by Flavors of Home (Hardcover). This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simply Simpatico is dedicated to New Mexico's heritage and to the congenial style of living that has emerged from its unique cultural matrix. It focuses on the cornucopia of foods which so vividly reflect the lifestyles and culinary traits of modern-day New Mexicans - foods that have roots in New Mexico's past, but which are a contemporary expression of today's gracious, casual simpatico living.

Annual Report of the American Historical Association

Author : American Historical Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1390 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the American Historical Association written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: