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Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes cumulative subject index of the entire set. 1 v.
Author : Karen Fox
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760462756
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)
Download or read book ‘True Biographies of Nations?’ written by Karen Fox and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionaries of national biography are a long-established and significant genre of biographical and historical writing, existing in many forms across the globe. This book brings together practitioners from around the English‑speaking world to reflect on national biographical dictionary projects’ recent cultural journeys, and the challenges presented to them by such developments as the transition to a digital environment, a new alertness to the need to represent diversity, and the rise of transnationalism. Exploring their paths forward, the chapters of this book collectively make a powerful argument for the continued value and importance of large‑scale collaborative biographical dictionary research.
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Total Pages : 486 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Stephen
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Total Pages : 1360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Stephen
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Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Smith
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Total Pages : 650 pages
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Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by George Smith and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Stephen
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Total Pages : 1418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019988286X
Total Pages : 1055 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book African American Lives written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 1055 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography, illuminate African-American history through the immediacy of individual experience. From Esteban, the earliest known African to set foot in North America in 1528, right up to the continuing careers of Venus and Serena Williams, these stories of the renowned and the near forgotten give us a new view of American history. Our past is revealed from personal perspectives that in turn inspire, move, entertain, and even infuriate the reader. Subjects include slaves and abolitionists, writers, politicians, and business people, musicians and dancers, artists and athletes, victims of injustice and the lawyers, journalists, and civil rights leaders who gave them a voice. Their experiences and accomplishments combine to expose the complexity of race as an overriding issue in America's past and present. African American Lives features frequent cross-references among related entries, over 300 illustrations, and a general index, supplemented by indexes organized by chronology, occupation or area of renown, and winners of particular honors such as the Spingarn Medal, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize.
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Total Pages : 1510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dictionary of National Biography
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Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Dictionary of National Biography and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Polito
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679733523
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Savage Art written by Robert Polito and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche, Savage Art is an exemplary homage to an American original. A National Book Critics Circle Award winner. 57 photos.
Author : Arnold Rampersad
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375707980
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Ralph Ellison written by Arnold Rampersad and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literature. But Ellison’s strange inability to finish a second novel, despite his dogged efforts and soaring prestige, made him a supremely enigmatic figure. Arnold Rampersad skillfully tells the story of a writer whose thunderous novel and astute, courageous essays on race, literature, and culture assure him of a permanent place in our literary heritage. Starting with Ellison’s hardscrabble childhood in Oklahoma and his ordeal as a student in Alabama, Rampersad documents his improbable, painstaking rise in New York to a commanding place on the literary scene. With scorching honesty but also fair and compassionate, Rampersad lays bare his subject’s troubled psychology and its impact on his art and on the people about him.This book is both the definitive biography of Ellison and a stellar model of literary biography.
Author : Dictionary of National Biography, the Concise Dictionary
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Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography, the Concise Dictionary. Oxford U.P. written by Dictionary of National Biography, the Concise Dictionary and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Fraser
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1627792775
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)
Download or read book Prairie Fires written by Caroline Fraser and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls—the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser—the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series—masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder’s biography. Revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder's tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books. The Little House books, for all the hardships they describe, are paeans to the pioneer spirit, portraying it as triumphant against all odds. But Wilder’s real life was harder and grittier than that, a story of relentless struggle, rootlessness, and poverty. It was only in her sixties, after losing nearly everything in the Great Depression, that she turned to children’s books, recasting her hardscrabble childhood as a celebratory vision of homesteading—and achieving fame and fortune in the process, in one of the most astonishing rags-to-riches episodes in American letters. Spanning nearly a century of epochal change, from the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl, Wilder’s dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. With fresh insights and new discoveries, Prairie Fires reveals the complex woman whose classic stories grip us to this day.
Author : Albert Woodfox
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802146902
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Solitary written by Albert Woodfox and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An uncommonly powerful memoir about four decades in confinement . . . A profound book about friendship [and] solitary confinement in the United States.” —New York Times Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement—in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, twenty-three hours a day, in Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison—all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived at all was a feat of extraordinary endurance. That he emerged whole from his odyssey within America’s prison and judicial systems is a triumph of the human spirit. While behind bars in his early twenties, Albert was inspired to join the Black Panther Party because of its social commitment and code of living. He was serving a fifty-year sentence in Angola for armed robbery when, on April 17, 1972, a white guard was killed. Albert and another member of the Panthers were accused of the crime and immediately put in solitary confinement. Without a shred of evidence against them, their trial was a sham of justice. Decades passed before Albert was finally released in February 2016. Sustained by the solidarity of two fellow Panthers, Albert turned his anger into activism and resistance. The Angola 3, as they became known, resolved never to be broken by the corruption that effectively held them for decades as political prisoners. Solitary is a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the United States and around the world.
