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Author : Stephen Fiske
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book Off-hand Portraits of Prominent New Yorkers written by Stephen Fiske and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1884 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank A Ninkovich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674054377
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Global Dawn written by Frank A Ninkovich and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the United States become a global power? Frank Ninkovich shows that a cultural predisposition for thinking in global terms blossomed in the late nineteenth century, making possible the rise to world power as American liberals of the time took a wide-ranging interest in the world. Of little practical significance during a period when isolationism reigned supreme in U.S. foreign policy, this rich body of thought would become the cultural foundation of twentieth-century American internationalism.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caryn Hannan
Publisher : State History Publications
ISBN 13 : 1878592459
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (785 download)
Download or read book New Jersey Biographical Dictionary written by Caryn Hannan and published by State History Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Jersey Biographical Dictionary contains biographies on hundreds of persons from diverse vocations that were either born, achieved notoriety and/or died in the state of New Jersey. Prominent persons, in addition to the less eminent, that have played noteworthy roles are included in this resource. When people are recognized from your state or locale it brings a sense of pride to the residents of the entire state.
Author : John Dizikes
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826214478
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Sportsmen and Gamesmen written by John Dizikes and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : Anthony W. Robins
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1613123876
Total Pages : 1148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Grand Central Terminal written by Anthony W. Robins and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with extraordinary photos, illustrations, and historical facts, a celebration of the legendary Manhattan rail terminal’s first century. Opened in February 1913, Grand Central Terminal—one of the country's great architectural monuments—helped create Midtown Manhattan. Over the next century, it evolved into an unofficial town square for New York. Today, it sits astride Park Avenue at 42nd Street in all its original splendor, attracting visitors by the thousands. This book celebrates Grand Central’s Centennial by tracing the Terminal’s history and design, and showcasing 200 photographs of its wonders—from the well-trodden Main Concourse to its massive power station hidden ten stories below. The stunning photographs, some archival and some taken by Frank English, official photographer of Metro-North Railroad for more than twenty-five years, capture every corner of this astonishing complex.
Author : Shawn Francis Peters
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807179612
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book When Bad Men Combine written by Shawn Francis Peters and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Star Route scandal captured the nation’s attention for more than a decade, with newspapers throughout the United States characterizing it as an unprecedented case of Gilded Age graft. Shawn Francis Peters’s When Bad Men Combine provides a glimpse into this uniquely tumultuous period marked by brazen greed and duplicity. In the first book to offer a full recounting of the Star Route maelstrom, which roiled American politics during the 1870s and 1880s, Peters reveals how postal service corruption resulted in a remarkable legal case that featured jury bribery and document theft. When Bad Men Combine follows the saga to its culmination as two sensational criminal trials presented evidence implicating some of the most prominent men in America and, perhaps, led to the assassination of President James Garfield.
Author : Jill Jonnes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101052511
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Eiffel's Tower written by Jill Jonnes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world’s fair that introduced it, by the author of Conquering Gotham and Urban Forests In this first general history of the Eiffel Tower in English, Jill Jonnes-acclaimed author of Conquering Gotham-offers an eye- opening look not only at the construction of one of the modern world's most iconic structures, but also the epochal event that surrounded its arrival as a wonder of the world. In this marvelously entertaining portrait of Belle Époque France, fear and loathing over Eiffel's brash design share the spotlight with the celebrities that made the 1889 Exposition Universelle an event to remember-including Buffalo Bill and his sharpshooter Annie Oakley, Thomas Edison, and artists Whistler, Gauguin, and van Gogh. Eiffel's Tower is a richly textured portrait of an era at the dawn of modernity, reveling in the limitless promise of the future.
Author : Julie Ferry
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781318204
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book The Million Dollar Duchesses written by Julie Ferry and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 6 November 1895 Consuelo Vanderbilt married Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough. Though the preceding months had included spurned loves, unexpected deaths, scandal and illicit affairs, the wedding was the crowning moment for the unofficial marriage brokers, Lady Minnie Paget and Consuelo Yzanga, Dowager Duchess of Manchester, the original buccaneers who had instructed, cajoled and manipulated wealthy young heiresses into making the perfect match. Fame, money, power, prestige, perhaps even love – these were some of the reasons for the marriages that took place between wealthy American heiresses and the English aristocracy in 1895. For a few, the marriages were happy but for many others, the matches brought loneliness, infidelity, bankruptcy and divorce. Focusing on a single year, The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau tells the story of a group of wealthy American heiresses seeking to marry into the English aristocracy. From the beautiful and eligible debutante Consuelo Vanderbilt, in love with a dashing older man but thwarted by her controlling mother, Washington society heiress Mary Leiter who married the pompous Lord Curzon and became the Vicereine of India, Maud Burke, vivacious San Francisco belle with a questionable background, this book uncovers their stories. Also revealed is the hidden role played Lady Minnie Paget and Consuelo Yzanga, Dowager Duchess of Manchester, two unofficial marriage brokers who taught the heiresses how to use every social trick in the book to land their dream husband. The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau dashes through the year to uncover the seasons, the parties, the money, the glamour, the gossip, the scandal and the titles, always with one eye on the two women who made it all possible.
Author : Frederick Converse Beach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Americana written by Frederick Converse Beach and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2716 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Who's who in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 2716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Turner Library (Randolph, Mass.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Turner Free Library, Randolph, Mass written by Turner Library (Randolph, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randall E. Stross
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1400047633
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wizard of Menlo Park written by Randall E. Stross and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Edison’s greatest invention? His own fame. At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as “the Napoleon of invention” and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and extending through the development of incandescent light and the first motion picture cameras, Edison’s name became emblematic of all the wonder and promise of the emerging age of technological marvels. But as Randall Stross makes clear in this critical biography of the man who is arguably the most globally famous of all Americans, Thomas Edison’s greatest invention may have been his own celebrity. Edison was certainly a technical genius, but Stross excavates the man from layers of myth-making and separates his true achievements from his almost equally colossal failures. How much credit should Edison receive for the various inventions that have popularly been attributed to him—and how many of them resulted from both the inspiration and the perspiration of his rivals and even his own assistants? This bold reassessment of Edison’s life and career answers this and many other important questions while telling the story of how he came upon his most famous inventions as a young man and spent the remainder of his long life trying to conjure similar success. We also meet his partners and competitors, presidents and entertainers, his close friend Henry Ford, the wives who competed with his work for his attention, and the children who tried to thrive in his shadow—all providing a fuller view of Edison’s life and times than has ever been offered before. The Wizard of Menlo Park reveals not only how Edison worked, but how he managed his own fame, becoming the first great celebrity of the modern age.
Author : Henri Pène du Bois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Library & Art Collection of Henry de Pene Du Bois, of New York. B written by Henri Pène du Bois and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Converse Beach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1006 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia Americana written by Frederick Converse Beach and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh ... written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
