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Author : John West
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Oral History of the Life of John B. Miller written by John West and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John B. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781648263583
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (635 download)
Download or read book The Trees Grew Tall written by John B. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book consolidating the oral history of the beginnings of the town of Bovill, Idaho and the surrounding area.
Author : Barbara A. Perry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190644869
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Edward M. Kennedy written by Barbara A. Perry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Kennedy devotees, as well as readers unfamiliar with the "lion of the Senate," this book presents the compelling story of Edward Kennedy's unexpected rise to become one of the most consequential legislators in American history and a passionate defender of progressive values, achieving legislative compromises across the partisan divide. What distinguishes Edward Kennedy: An Oral History is the nuanced detail that emerges from the senator's never-before published, complete descriptions of his life and work, placed alongside the observations of his friends, family, and associates. The senator's twenty released interviews reveal, in his own voice, the stories of Kennedy triumph and tragedy from the Oval Office to the waters of Chappaquiddick. Spanning the presidencies of JFK to Barack Obama, Edward Kennedy was an iconic player in American political life, the youngest sibling of America's most powerful dynasty; he candidly addresses this role: his legislative accomplishments and failures, his unsuccessful run for the White House, his impact on the Supreme Court, his observations on Washington gridlock, and his personal faults. The interviews and introductions to them create an unsurpassed and illuminating volume. Gathered as part of the massive Edward Kennedy Oral History Project, conducted by the University of Virginia's Miller Center, the senator's interviews allow readers to see how oral history can evolve over a three-year period, drawing out additional details as the interviewee becomes increasingly comfortable with the process and the interviewer. Yet, given the Kennedys' well-known penchant for image creation, what the senator doesn't say or how he says what he chooses to include, is often more revealing than a simple declarative statement.
Author : John Tuttle Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (347 download)
Download or read book John T. Miller written by John Tuttle Miller and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transcript of an interview conducted as part of the Wilmette Public Library District's Oral History program.
Author : Lenoir Hood Miller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Lenoir Hood Miller written by Lenoir Hood Miller and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transcript of an interview conducted for the Center for Oral History of Washington, D.C. and given to the Wilmette Public Library District's Oral History program by the John Miller family.
Author : Alvin M. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (844 download)
Download or read book History of John B. Miller and Lydia D. Troyer and Descendants 1873-2004 written by Alvin M. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald A. Ritchie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195154344
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (543 download)
Download or read book Doing Oral History written by Donald A. Ritchie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains chapters on the discipline of oral history, especially as it relates to public history; starting an oral history project, including funding, staffing, equipment, processing, and legal concerns; conducting interviews; using oral history in research and writing, including publishing; videotaping oral history; and more.
Author : Randall Woods
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416593314
Total Pages : 1043 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book LBJ written by Randall Woods and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 1043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost forty years, the verdict on Lyndon Johnson's presidency has been reduced to a handful of harsh words: tragedy, betrayal, lost opportunity. Initially, historians focused on the Vietnam War and how that conflict derailed liberalism, tarnished the nation's reputation, wasted lives, and eventually even led to Watergate. More recently, Johnson has been excoriated in more personal terms: as a player of political hardball, as the product of machine-style corruption, as an opportunist, as a cruel husband and boss. In LBJ, Randall B. Woods, a distinguished historian of twentieth-century America and a son of Texas, offers a wholesale reappraisal and sweeping, authoritative account of the LBJ who has been lost under this baleful gaze. Woods understands the political landscape of the American South and the differences between personal failings and political principles. Thanks to the release of thousands of hours of LBJ's White House tapes, along with the declassification of tens of thousands of documents and interviews with key aides, Woods's LBJ brings crucial new evidence to bear on many key aspects of the man and the politician. As private conversations reveal, Johnson intentionally exaggerated his stereotype in many interviews, for reasons of both tactics and contempt. It is time to set the record straight. Woods's Johnson is a flawed but deeply sympathetic character. He was born into a family with a liberal Texas tradition of public service and a strong belief in the public good. He worked tirelessly, but not just for the sake of ambition. His approach to reform at home, and to fighting fascism and communism abroad, was motivated by the same ideals and based on a liberal Christian tradition that is often forgotten today. Vietnam turned into a tragedy, but it was part and parcel of Johnson's commitment to civil rights and antipoverty reforms. LBJ offers a fascinating new history of the political upheavals of the 1960s and a new way to understand the last great burst of liberalism in America. Johnson was a magnetic character, and his life was filled with fascinating stories and scenes. Through insights gained from interviews with his longtime secretary, his Secret Service detail, and his closest aides and confidants, Woods brings Johnson before us in vivid and unforgettable color.
Author : David T. McNab
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889204608
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Walking a Tightrope written by David T. McNab and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most we can hope for is that we are paraphrased correctly.” In this statement, Lenore Keeshig-Tobias underscores one of the main issues in the representation of Aboriginal peoples by non-Aboriginals. Non-Aboriginal people often fail to understand the sheer diversity, multiplicity, and shifting identities of Aboriginal people. As a result, Aboriginal people are often taken out of their own contexts. Walking a Tightrope plays an important role in the dynamic historical process of ongoing change in the representation of Aboriginal peoples. It locates and examines the multiplicity and distinctiveness of Aboriginal voices and their representations, both as they portray themselves and as others have characterized them. In addition to exploring perspectives and approaches to the representation of Aboriginal peoples, it also looks at Native notions of time (history), land, cultures, identities, and literacies. Until these are understood by non-Aboriginals, Aboriginal people will continue to be misrepresented—both as individuals and as groups. By acknowledging the complex and unique legal and historical status of Aboriginal peoples, we can begin to understand the culture of Native peoples in North America. Until then, given the strength of stereotypes, Native people have come to expect no better representation than a paraphrase.
Author : Robert John Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Robert J. Miller written by Robert John Miller and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clark Davis
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801862755
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Company Men written by Clark Davis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-10-12 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the early decades of American big business, when white-collar jobs were new and their future uncertain America's white-collar workers form the core of the nation's corporate economy and its expansive middle class. But just a century ago, white-collar jobs were new and their future anything but certain. In Company Men Clark Davis places the corporate office at the heart of American social and cultural history, examining how the nation's first generation of white-collar men created new understandings of masculinity, race, community, and success—all of which would dominate American experience for decades to come. Company Men is set in Los Angeles, the nation's "corporate frontier" of the early twentieth century. Davis shows how this California city—often considered on the fringe of American society for the very reason that it was new and growing so rapidly—displayed in sharp contours how America's corporate culture developed. The young men who left their rural homes for southern California a century ago not only helped build one of the world's great business centers, but also redefined middle-class values and morals. Of interest to students of business history, gender studies, and twentieth-century culture, this work focuses on the "company man" as a pivotal actor in the saga of modern American history.
Author : Geoffrey D. T. Shaw
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681496860
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)
Download or read book The Lost Mandate of Heaven written by Geoffrey D. T. Shaw and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ngo Dinh Diem, the first president of the Republic of Vietnam, possessed the Confucian "Mandate of Heaven", a moral and political authority that was widely recognized by all Vietnamese. This devout Roman Catholic leader never lost this mandate in the eyes of his people; rather, he was taken down by a military coup sponsored by the U.S. government, which resulted in his brutal murder. The commonly held view runs contrary to the above assertion by military historian Geoffrey Shaw. According to many American historians, President Diem was a corrupt leader whose tyrannical actions lost him the loyalty of his people and the possibility of a military victory over the North Vietnamese. The Kennedy Administration, they argue, had to withdraw its support of Diem. Based on his research of original sources, including declassified documents of the U.S. government, Shaw chronicles the Kennedy administration's betrayal of this ally, which proved to be not only a moral failure but also a political disaster that led America into a protracted and costly war. Along the way, Shaw reveals a President Diem very different from the despot portrayed by the press during its coverage of Vietnam. From eyewitness accounts of military, intelligence, and diplomatic sources, Shaw draws the portrait of a man with rare integrity, a patriot who strove to free his country from Western colonialism while protecting it from Communism. "A candid account of the killing of Ngo Dinh Diem, the reasons for it, who was responsible, why it happened, and the disastrous results. Particularly agonizing for Americans who read this clearly stated and tightly argued book is the fact that the final Vietnam defeat was not really on battle grounds, but on political and moral grounds. The Vietnam War need not have been lost. Overwhelming evidence supports it." - From the Foreword by James V. Schall, S.J., Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University "Did I find a veritable Conradian 'Heart of Darkness'? Yes, I did, but it was not in the quarter to which all popular American sources were pointing their accusatory fingers; in other words, not in Saigon but, paradoxically, within the Department of State back in Washington, D.C., and within President Kennedy's closest White House advisory circle. The actions of these men led to Diem's murder. And with his death, nine and a half years of careful work and partnership between the United States and South Vietnam was undone." - Geoffrey Shaw, from the Preface
Author : Erin Miller
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476631611
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Wisconsin's 37 written by Erin Miller and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 signified the end of the Vietnam War. American personnel returned home and the 591 American prisoners held captive in North Vietnam were released. Still, 2,646 individuals did not come home. Thirty-seven of those missing in action were from Wisconsin. Their names appear on the largest object--a motorcycle (now part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection)--ever left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Using the recollections of the soldiers' families, friends and fellow servicemen, the author tells the story of each man's life.
Author : Merle Miller
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795351283
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Plain Speaking written by Merle Miller and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Never has a President of the United States, or any head of state for that matter, been so totally revealed, so completely documented” (Robert A. Arthur). Plain Speaking is the bestselling book based on conversations between Merle Miller and the thirty-third President of the United States, Harry S. Truman. From these interviews, as well as others who knew him over the years, Miller transcribes Truman’s feisty takes on everything from his personal life, military service, and political career to the challenges he faced in taking the office during the final days of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. Using a series of taped discussions from 1962 that never aired on television, Plain Speaking takes an opportunity to deliver exactly how Mr. Truman felt about the presidency, and his thoughts in his later years on his accomplishments and the legacy he left behind. “The values of Plain Speaking, on the whole, are those of the highest form of political communication: the bull session. As with all good bull sessions, what is said here ranges widely in quality and seriousness, as one should expect when dealing with a complex man.” —The New York Times “Plain Speaking has a nostalgic, downhome quality of good friends gossiping over the back fence, or saying their piece of a twilight eve rocking on the porch—and if those fellas back in Washington have their secret machines running, well, they won’t like what they overhear. Not one little bit.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author : Michael R. Beschloss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743257448
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Presidential Courage written by Michael R. Beschloss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author "Newsweek" called the nations leading presidential historian comes an inspiring narrative chronicling the crucial moments when a courageous president has dramatically changed the future of the United States. of full-color photos.
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Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Oral History Interview with John Paul Miller written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interview of John Paul Miller conducted 2004 August 22-23, by Jan Yager, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in Brecksville, Ohio.
Author : Margaret Esbenshade Tate Lefever
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book A John Miller Family History written by Margaret Esbenshade Tate Lefever and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
