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Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Uncommon Scold written by and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1989 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1,000 quotable quotes on subjects from the preposterous to the divine, uttered by history's more witty & wicked women. --Front cover.
Author : Abby Adams
Publisher : Fireside Books
ISBN 13 : 9780671885267
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (852 download)
Download or read book An Uncommon Scold written by Abby Adams and published by Fireside Books. This book was released on 1994-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gathers nearly a thousand witty and acerbic sayings from such diverse women as Clare Boothe Luce and Bette Midler, arranged alphabetically by subject."--Amazon.com
Author : Jeff Biggers
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN 13 : 1466871598
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Trials of a Scold written by Jeff Biggers and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trials of a Scold, by American Book Award-winning author Jeff Biggers, is a well-researched and passionate biography of Anne Royall, one of America's first female muckrakers, who was convicted as a "common scold" in 1829 in one of the most bizarre trials in the nation's history. Anne Royall was an American original, a stranger to fear, and one of the nation's most daring, impassioned, and indomitable social critics. A servant in the house of the man she would later marry, Royall read constantly and pursued an education that few women at that time had access to. When fifteen years later she was left widowed and destitute after her husband's family declared their marriage invalid, she turned to her writing, and to her political interests. Travelling from Alabama to Washington DC to Pennsylvania, Royall was a fiercely dedicated journalist. Her tenacity earned her the first presidential interview ever granted to a woman, but she acquired enemies for her scathing denouncement of the increasingly blurry lines between church and state. Royall's pioneering role as a chronicler, publisher, muckraker, and social commentator brought to light the timeless issues that still define the great American experience: religion and politics.
Author : J. D. Dickey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493013939
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Empire of Mud written by J. D. Dickey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington, DC, gleams with stately columns and neoclassical temples, a pulsing hub of political power and prowess. But for decades it was one of the worst excuses for a capital city the world had ever seen. Before America became a world power in the twentieth century, Washington City was an eyesore at best and a disgrace at worst. Unfilled swamps, filthy canals, and rutted horse trails littered its landscape. Political bosses hired hooligans and thugs to conduct the nation's affairs. Legendary madams entertained clients from all stations of society and politicians of every party. The police served and protected with the aid of bribes and protection money. Beneath pestilential air, the city’s muddy roads led to a stumpy, half-finished obelisk to Washington here, a domeless Capitol Building there. Lining the streets stood boarding houses, tanneries, and slums. Deadly horse races gouged dusty streets, and opposing factions of volunteer firefighters battled one another like violent gangs rather than life-saving heroes. The city’s turbulent history set a precedent for the dishonesty, corruption, and mismanagement that have led generations to look suspiciously on the various sin--both real and imagined--of Washington politicians. Empire of Mud unearths and untangles the roots of our capital’s story and explores how the city was tainted from the outset, nearly stifled from becoming the proud citadel of the republic that George Washington and Pierre L'Enfant envisioned more than two centuries ago.
Author : Elizabeth J. Clapp
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813938376
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book A Notorious Woman written by Elizabeth J. Clapp and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During her long career as a public figure in Jacksonian America, Anne Royall was called everything from an "enemy of religion" to a "Jackson man" to a "common scold." In her search for the source of such strong reactions, Elizabeth Clapp has uncovered the story of a widely read woman of letters who asserted her right to a political voice without regard to her gender. Widowed and in need of a livelihood following a disastrous lawsuit over her husband’s will, Royall decided to earn her living through writing--first as a travel writer, journeying through America to research and sell her books, and later as a journalist and editor. Her language and forcefully expressed opinions provoked people at least as much as did her inflammatory behavior and aggressive marketing tactics. An ardent defender of American liberties, she attacked the agents of evangelical revivals, the Bank of the United States, and corruption in government. Her positions were frequently extreme, directly challenging the would-be shapers of the early republic’s religious and political culture. She made many enemies, but because she also attracted many supporters, she was not easily silenced. The definitive account of a passionate voice when America was inventing itself, A Notorious Woman re-creates a fascinating stage on which women’s roles, evangelical hegemony, and political involvement were all contested.
Author : Bahman Dehgan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476614822
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book America in Quotations written by Bahman Dehgan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.... No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do”—Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835). “Americans will pay a big price for an invention that will help them save time they don’t know what to do with”—Anonymous. This collection of quotations—both serious and humorous—about America is divided into 19 main topics: The Nation, The American People, Places, Nature, Mind, The Individual, Human Relations, Social Life, Culture and Media, Literature and Language, Religion and Belief, Past and Future, History, War and the Military, International Relations, Politics and Government, Law and Order, Business and Economy, and Food. Each main topic is divided into subtopics; for example, “Culture and Media” has these: Architecture, Art, Charlie Chaplin, Dance, Fashion, Intellectuals, Marilyn Monroe, Movies, Music, Elvis Presley, and Television. The author attributes each quote to its speaker, author or composer, and wherever possible, provides the date of the quote and the name of the work in which it was published. In the case of uncertainty about the exact date of a quote, the author provides the birth and death dates of the person to whom the quote is attributed. Also included are a keyword and subject index and a speaker index.
Author : Tom Flynn
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615922806
Total Pages : 911 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)
Download or read book The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief written by Tom Flynn and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successor to the highly acclaimed Encyclopedia of Unbelief (1985), edited by the late Gordon Stein, the New Encyclopedia of Unbelief is a comprehensive reference work on the history, beliefs, and thinking of America''s fastest growing minority: those who live without religion. All-new articles by the field''s foremost scholars describe and explain every aspect of atheism, agnosticism, secular humanism, secularism, and religious skepticism. Topics include morality without religion, unbelief in the historicity of Jesus, critiques of intelligent design theory, unbelief and sexual values, and summaries of the state of unbelief around the world.In addition to covering developments since the publication of the original edition, the New Encyclopedia of Unbelief includes a larger number of biographical entries and much-expanded coverage of the linkages between unbelief and social reform movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, including the labor movement, woman suffrage, anarchism, sex radicalism, and second-wave feminism.More than 130 respected scholars and activists worldwide served on the editorial board and over 100 authoritative contributors have written in excess of 500 entries. The distinguished advisors and contributors--philosophers, scientists, scholars, and Nobel Prize laureates--include Joe Barnhart, David Berman, Sir Hermann Bondi, Vern L. Bullough, Daniel Dennett, Taner Edis, the late Paul Edwards, Antony Flew, Annie Laurie Gaylor, Peter Hare, Van Harvey, R. Joseph Hoffmann, Susan Jacoby, Paul Kurtz, Gerd Lüdemann, Michael Martin, Kai Nielsen, Robert M. Price, Peter Singer, Victor Stenger, Ibn Warraq, George A. Wells, David Tribe, Sherwin Wine, and many others. With a foreword by evolutionary biologist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins, this unparalleled reference work provides comprehensive knowledge about unbelief in its many varieties and manifestations.
Author : Sandra L. Ballard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813143586
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Listen Here written by Sandra L. Ballard and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A comprehensive and unsurpassed anthology of women writers from Appalachia . . . Exceptional in diversity and scope.” —Southern Historian Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia is a landmark anthology that brings together the work of 105 Appalachian women writers, including Dorothy Allison, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Annie Dillard, Nikki Giovanni, Denise Giardina, Barbara Kingsolver, Jayne Anne Phillips, Janice Holt Giles, George Ella Lyon, Sharyn McCrumb, and Lee Smith. Editors Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson offer a diverse sampling of time periods and genres, established authors and emerging voices. From regional favorites to national bestsellers, this unprecedented gathering of Appalachian voices displays the remarkable talent of the region’s women writers who’ve made their mark at home and across the globe. “A giant step forward in Appalachian studies for both students and scholars of the region and the general reader . . . Nothing less than a groundbreaking and landmark addition to the national treasury of American literature.” —Bloomsbury Review “A remarkable accomplishment, bringing together the work of 105 female Appalachian writers saying what they want to, and saying it in impressive bodies of literature.” —Lexington Herald-Leader “One of the keenest pleasures in Listen Here lies in its diversity of voices and genres.” —Material Culture “Besides introducing readers to many new voices, the anthology provides a strong counterpart to the stereotype of hillbillies that have cursed the region.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Full of welcome surprises to those new to this regional literature: specifically, it includes particularly strong selections from children’s fiction and a substantial number of African American writers.” —Choice
Author : Adams/Westlake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671941987
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (419 download)
Download or read book An Uncommon Scold 6 Cpy Pack written by Adams/Westlake and published by . This book was released on 1989-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas J. Kirkland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Historic Camden: Nineteenth century written by Thomas J. Kirkland and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Mechanics magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Perry Fairfax Nursey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Iron written by Perry Fairfax Nursey and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Royal Victoria Keepsake; Or, Souvenir of Literature and Art .. written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 474 pages
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Download or read book Mechanic's Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal & Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Mechanics' Magazine and Journal of Science, Arts, and Manufactures written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irving Wallace
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Square Pegs written by Irving Wallace and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2021-03-20 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irving Wallace herein presents the stories of “some Americans who dared to be different”— crackpots, perhaps, all of them, but also exceedingly diverting people to meet, know, and watch as they pursue their peculiar activities. This picturesque and wacky crew is brilliantly dealt with in these nine chapters: In Defense of the Square Peg Wherein we meet Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who believed the Earth was flat, and wherein we learn the need for encouraging individualism and nonconformity. The King of Thirty-Sixth Street Wherein we meet Baron James A. Harden-Hickey, American ruler of Trinidad, who became an authority on the art of suicide. The Man Who Was Phileas Fogg Wherein we meet George Francis Train, millionaire member of the Commune, who was the first man to travel around the world in eighty days. The Free Lover Who Ran for President Wherein we meet Victoria Woodhull, stockbroker, spiritualist, and prostitute, who competed with Ulysses S. Grant for tenancy of the White House. The Forty-Niner Who Abolished Congress Wherein we meet Joshua Norton, self-appointed Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, who issued orders to Abraham Lincoln. The Lady Who Moved Shakespeare’s Bones Wherein we meet Delia Bacon, schoolteacher frustrated in love, who became the implacable enemy of the Bard of Avon. The Explorer of the Hollow Earth Wherein we meet John Cleves Symmes, hero of the War of 1812, who planned an expedition into the interior world through holes in the North and South poles. The Editor Who Was a Common Scold Wherein we meet Anne Royall, widow and author, who interviewed a Chief Executive while he was in the nude. The First in the East Wherein we meet Timothy Dexter, merchant prince and foe of grammar, who sent coals to Newcastle and published a book without punctuation.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Album, and Ladies' Weekly Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
