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Book Synopsis Who was King Carter, the Man? by : Lloyd T. Smith
Download or read book Who was King Carter, the Man? written by Lloyd T. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis King Carter, the Man by : James Wharton
Download or read book King Carter, the Man written by James Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Robert "King" Carter by : Katharine L. Brown
Download or read book Robert "King" Carter written by Katharine L. Brown and published by Foundation for Historic Christ Church. This book was released on 2001 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Carter, son of John Carter (ca. 1613-1669) and arah Ludlow, was born in 1663 in Virginia. He married Judith Armistead (1666-1699), daughter of John Armistead and Judith, in 1688. They had five children. He married Betty Landon (1683/4-1719), daughter of Thomas Landon and Mary, in 1701. They had ten children. He died in 1732.
Book Synopsis The First Emancipator by : Andrew Levy
Download or read book The First Emancipator written by Andrew Levy and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Andrew Levy] brings a literary sensibility to the study of history, and has written a richly complex book, one that transcends Carter’s story to consider larger questions of individual morality and national memory.” –The New York Times Book Review In 1791, Robert Carter III, a pillar of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy, broke with his peers by arranging the freedom of his nearly five hundred slaves. It would be the largest single act of liberation in the history of American slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation. Despite this courageous move–or perhaps because of it–Carter’s name has all but vanished from the annals of American history. In this haunting, brilliantly original work, Andrew Levy explores the confluence of circumstance, conviction, war, and emotion that led to Carter’s extraordinary act. As Levy points out, Carter was not the only humane master, nor the sole partisan of emancipation, in that freedom-loving age. So why did he dare to do what other visionary slave owners only dreamed of? In answering this question, Levy reveals the unspoken passions that divided Carter from others of his class, and the religious conversion that enabled him to see his black slaves in a new light. Drawing on years of painstaking research and written with grace and fire, The First Emancipator is an astonishing, challenging, and ultimately inspiring book. “A vivid narrative of the future emancipator’s evolution.” –The Washington Post Book World “Highly recommended . . . a truly remarkable story about an eccentric American hero and visionary . . . should be standard reading for anyone with an interest in American history.” –Library Journal (starred review) “Absorbing. . . Well researched and thoroughly fascinating, this forgotten history will appeal to readers interested in the complexities of American slavery.” –Booklist (starred review)
Book Synopsis Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom by : Rhys Isaac
Download or read book Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom written by Rhys Isaac and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long-awaited work, Isaac mines the diary of a Revolutionary War-era Virginia planter--and many other sources--to reconstruct his interior world as it plunged into turmoil.
Book Synopsis A "topping People" by : Emory G. Evans
Download or read book A "topping People" written by Emory G. Evans and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "Topping People" is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. Evans studies twenty-one leading families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. These families represented the upper echelons of power, serving in the upper and lower houses of the General Assembly, often as speaker of the House of Burgesses. Their names--Randolph, Robinson, Byrd, Carter, Corbin, Custis, Nelson, and Page, to note but a few--are still familiar in the Old Dominion some three hundred years later. Their decline was due to a variety of factors--economic, social, and demographic. The third generations showed an inability to adapt their business philosophies to the changing economic climate. Their inclination was to mirror the English landed gentry, living off the income of their landed estates. Economic diversification was the norm early on, but it became less effective after 1730. Scots traders, for example, introduced chain stores, making it more difficult to continue family-run stores. And land speculation was no substitute for diversification. An increase in population resulted in the creation of new counties, which weakened the influence of the Tidewater region. These leading families began to spend more than they earned and became heavily indebted to British mercantile firms. The Revolution only served to make matters worse, and by 1790 these families had lost their political and economic status, although their social status remained. A "Topping People" is a thorough and engrossing study of the way families came to gain and, eventually, lose great power in this turbulent and progressive period in American history.
Book Synopsis The Descendants of Capt. Thomas Carter of "Barford", Lancaster County, Virginia, 1652-1912 by : Joseph Lyon Miller
Download or read book The Descendants of Capt. Thomas Carter of "Barford", Lancaster County, Virginia, 1652-1912 written by Joseph Lyon Miller and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book His Very Best written by Jonathan Alter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Drawing on fresh archival material and extensive access to Carter and his family, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of a man of faith and his improbable journey from barefoot boy in the vicious Jim Crow South to global icon. We learn how Carter evolved from a timid child into an ambitious naval nuclear engineer and an indefatigable born-again governor; how as a president he failed politically amid the bad economy of the 1970s and the seizure of hostages in Iran but succeeded in engineering peace between Israel and Egypt, amassing a historic environmental record, moving the government from tokenism to diversity, setting a new global standard for human rights, and normalizing relations with China, among dozens of other unheralded achievements. After leaving office, Carter revolutionized the postpresidency with the bold global accomplishments of the Carter center”--Cover.
Book Synopsis Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? by : Mark Zwonitzer
Download or read book Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? written by Mark Zwonitzer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major biography of the Carter Family, the musical pioneers who almost single-handedly created the sounds and traditions that grew into modern folk, country, and bluegrass music. Meticulously researched and lovingly written, it is a look at a world and a culture that, rather than passing, has continued to exist in the music that is the legacy of the Carters—songs that have shaped and influenced generations of artists who have followed them. Brilliant in insight and execution, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? is also an in-depth study of A.P., Sara, and Maybelle Carter, and their bittersweet story of love and fulfillment, sadness and loss. The result is more than just a biography of a family; it is also a journey into another time, almost another world, and theirs is a story that resonates today and lives on in the timeless music they created.
Book Synopsis Blooding at Great Meadows by : Alan Axelrod
Download or read book Blooding at Great Meadows written by Alan Axelrod and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know George Washington as the Father of the American Nation; few know him as a 22-year-old Virginia lieutenant colonel who led three-hundred of his soldiers to fight a far-more-experienced French army-and paid a high price. Historian Alan Axelrod brings this little-known story to life in his riveting account of the key battle that launched the French and Indian War-and Washington's role in the loss of that pivotal fight. Published in hardcover in 2007, Blooding at Great Meadows is sure to find a new audience in paperback.
Book Synopsis George, Nicholas and Wilhelm by : Miranda Carter
Download or read book George, Nicholas and Wilhelm written by Miranda Carter and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years before World War I, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Tsar Nicholas II. Carter uses the cousins' correspondence and a host of historical sources to tell their tragicomic stories.
Book Synopsis Robert Carter of Nomini Hall by : Louis Morton
Download or read book Robert Carter of Nomini Hall written by Louis Morton and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sharing Good Times by : Jimmy Carter
Download or read book Sharing Good Times written by Jimmy Carter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his New York Times bestselling classics comes this sparkling account of the joys of sharing the simple pleasures of life from Jimmy Carter. In this wonderfully evocative volume, Jimmy Carter writes about the things that matter most, the simple relaxed days and nights that he has enjoyed with family and friends through the years and across the generations. Here are lively, witty accounts of exploring the outdoors with his father and with black playmates; making furniture; painting; pursuing new adventures and going places with children, grandchildren, and friends; and sharing life with his wife, Rosalynn. Sharing Good Times is an inspirational guide for anyone desiring to stretch mind and heart and to combine work and pleasure.
Download or read book White House Diary written by Jimmy Carter and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The edited, annotated New York Times bestselling diary of President Jimmy Carter--filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world. Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter made several entries in a private diary, recording his thoughts, impressions, delights, and frustrations. He offered unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders; he narrated the progress of secret negotiations such as those that led to the Camp David Accords. When his four-year term came to an end in early 1981, the diary amounted to more than five thousand pages. But this extraordinary document has never been made public--until now. By carefully selecting the most illuminating and relevant entries, Carter has provided us with an astonishingly intimate view of his presidency. Day by day, we see his forceful advocacy for nuclear containment, sustainable energy, human rights, and peace in the Middle East. We witness his interactions with such complex personalities as Ted Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Joe Biden, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin. We get the inside story of his so-called "malaise speech," his bruising battle for the 1980 Democratic nomination, and the Iranian hostage crisis. Remarkably, we also get Carter's retrospective comments on these topics and more: thirty years after the fact, he has annotated the diary with his candid reflections on the people and events that shaped his presidency, and on the many lessons learned. Carter is now widely seen as one of the truly wise men of our time. Offering an unprecedented look at both the man and his tenure, White House Diary is a fascinating book that stands as a unique contribution to the history of the American presidency.
Book Synopsis Robert "King" Carter by : Edmund Berkeley
Download or read book Robert "King" Carter written by Edmund Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Searching for the Franklin Expedition by : Robert Randolph Carter
Download or read book Searching for the Franklin Expedition written by Robert Randolph Carter and published by Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without intruding on Carter's rousing tale of adventure, the editors shrewdly employ their own extensive knowledge of the subject to place the events fully in their historical context and inject critical background information. They also explain contemporary terms and practices and offer unforgettable portraits of the many characters involved. Togetherwith Carter's journals, they solve many lingering mysteries about both the British and the American Expeditions.
Book Synopsis New England White by : Stephen L. Carter
Download or read book New England White written by Stephen L. Carter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Lemaster Carlyle, the president of the country's most prestigious university, and his wife, Julie, the divinity school's deputy dean, are America's most prominent and powerful African American couple. Driving home through a swirling blizzard late one night, the couple skids off the road. Near the sight of their accident they discover a dead body. To her horror, Julia recognizes the body as a prominent academic and one of her former lovers. In the wake of the death, the icy veneer of their town Elm Harbor, a place Julie calls "the heart of whiteness," begins to crack, having devastating consequences for a prominent local family and sending shock waves all the way to the White House.