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Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 1556094043
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Louisiana and Other State Greats (Biographies) written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 1556094035
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Louisiana State Greats! written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 0793318793
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Oklahoma and Other State Greats (Biographies) written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-format, multi-cultural biographies which focus on the early childhood, school years and goals of famous and infamous people from the state of Oklahoma.
Author : A. J. Liebling
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807133439
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Earl of Louisiana written by A. J. Liebling and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Governor Earl K. Long's commitment to a mental institution. Captivated by his subject, Liebling remained to write the fascinating yet tragic story of Uncle Earl's final year in politics. First published in 1961, The Earl of Louisiana recreates a stormy era in Louisiana politics and captures the style and personality of one of the most colorful and paradoxical figures in the state's history. This updated edition of the book includes a foreword by T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Huey Long: A Biography, and a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jonathan Yardley that discusses Liebling's career and his most famous book from a twenty-first-century perspective.
Author : Thomas A. Becnel
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807119785
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Senator Allen Ellender of Louisiana written by Thomas A. Becnel and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allen J. Ellender, born in 1890 on a sugar plantation in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, rose to become one of the most dominant men in the U.S. Senate. This biography, based on prolonged examination of the voluminous Ellender Papers and extensive research in other primary and secondary sources, including interviews with people who knew Ellender during various stages of his lengthy career, makes an important contribution to our understanding of Louisiana and national politics during much of this century. Ellender began life in a farm family and never lost his close ties to rural Louisiana. Still, he sought a career as a lawyer and served as city attorney and district attorney before being elected to the Louisiana state legislature in 1924. Originally an opponent of Huey Long, Ellender converted to Longism after Huey was elected governor in 1928. But because he refused to condone questionable oil-leasing practices on state lands, he was bypassed as Long’s state political heir in the thirties. He was elected instead to the U.S. Senate, where he served until his death in 1972. In Senator Allen Ellender of Louisiana, Thomas A. Becnel methodically traces the extended career of this contradictory politician—a man who, though essentially a conservative, was surprisingly liberal on many issues. He supported progressive legislation in areas such as education, public housing, censorship, and the separation of church and state. He was also one of the first senators to criticize his colleague Joseph McCarthy. Yet throughout his career he remained a staunch advocate of racial segregation. During Ellender’s long tenure in the Senate, in which he served under Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, through the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, McCarthyism, the Korean conflict, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War, he was intimately involved in decisions and debates that have shaped the recent history of the country. Becnel astutely places Ellender in the context of the history of his time and the social, economic, and political milieu of his state. The result is a careful, balanced portrait of one of the most influential legislators of this century.
Author : Elizabeth M. Williams
Publisher : AltaMira Press
ISBN 13 : 0759121389
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)
Download or read book New Orleans written by Elizabeth M. Williams and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beignets, Po’ Boys, gumbo, jambalaya, Antoine’s. New Orleans’ celebrated status derives in large measure from its incredibly rich food culture, based mainly on Creole and Cajun traditions. At last, this world-class destination has its own food biography. Elizabeth M. Williams, a New Orleans native and founder of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum there, takes readers through the history of the city, showing how the natural environment and people have shaped the cooking we all love. The narrative starts with the indigenous population, resources and environment, then reveals the contributions of the immigrant populations, major industries, marketing networks, and retail and major food industries and finally discusses famous restaurants and signature dishes. This must-have book will inform and delight food aficionados and fans of the Big Easy itself.
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 0793320984
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Texas and Other State Greats written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl J. Ekberg
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826263445
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book François Vallé and His World written by Carl J. Ekberg and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Francois Valle and His World, Carl Ekberg provides a fascinating biography of Francois Valle (1716-1783), placing him within the context of his place and time. Valle, who was born in Beauport, Canada, immigrated to Upper Louisiana (the Illinois Country) as a penniless common laborer sometime during the early 1740s. Engaged in agriculture, lead mining, and the Indian trade, he ultimately became the wealthiest and most powerful individual in Upper Louisiana, although he never learned to read or write. Ekberg focuses on Upper Louisiana in colonial times, long before Lewis and Clark arrived in the Mississippi River valley and before American sovereignty had reached the eastern bank of the Mississippi. He vividly captures the ambience of life in the eighteenth-century frontier agricultural society that Valle inhabited, shedding new light on the French and Spanish colonial regimes in Louisiana and on the Mississippi River frontier before the Americans arrived. Based entirely on primary source documents wills and testaments, parish registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials, and Spanish administrative correspondence found in archives ranging from St. Louis and Ste. Genevieve to New Orleans and Seville, Francois Valle and His World traces not only the life of Francois Valle and the lives of his immediate family members, but also the lives of his slaves. In doing so, it provides a portrait of Missouri's very first black families, something that has never before been attempted. Ekberg also analyzes how the illiterate Valle became the richest person in all of Upper Louisiana, and how he rose in the sociopolitical hierarchy to become an important servant of the Spanish monarchy. Francois Valle and His World provides a useful corrective to the fallacious notion that Missouri's history began with the arrival of Lewis and Clark at the turn of the nineteenth century. Anyone with an interest in colonial history or the history of the Mississippi River valley will find this book of great value.
Author : Tom Aswell
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455607835
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Louisiana Rocks! written by Tom Aswell and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth history of rock and roll's Louisiana roots. Taking the position that rock and roll started in New Orleans in 1947 when Roy Brown recorded "Good Rockin' Tonight," Aswell provides an expansive history of this beloved American music form. By looking at the Louisianan influences of swamp pop, Cajun, zydeco, R&B, rockabilly, country, and blues music, the author explores the way these musical forms gave birth to rock and roll as we know it today.
Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Gorton McBride
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807132349
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana written by Mary Gorton McBride and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana offers the first biography of one of Louisiana's most intriguing nineteenth-century politicians and a founder of Tulane University. Gibson (1832--1892) grew up on his family's sugar plantation in Terrebonne Parish and was educated at Yale University before studying law at the University of Louisiana in New Orleans. He purchased a sugar plantation in Lafourche Parish in 1858 and became heavily involved in the pro-secession faction of the Democratic Party. Elected colonel of the Thirteenth Louisiana Volunteer Regiment at the start of the Civil War, he commanded a brigade in the Battle of Shiloh and fought in all of the subsequent campaigns of the Army of Tennessee, concluding in 1865 with the Battle of Spanish Fort. As Gibson struggled to establish a law practice in postwar New Orleans, he experienced a profound change in his thinking and came to believe that the elimination of slavery was the one good outcome of the South's defeat. Joining Louisiana's Conservative political faction, he advocated for a postwar unification government that included African Americans. Elected to Congress in 1874, Gibson was directly involved in the creation of the Electoral Commission that resulted in the Compromise of 1877 and peacefully solved the disputed 1876 presidential election. He crafted legislation for the Mississippi River Commission in 1879, which eventually resulted in millions of federal dollars for flood control. Gibson was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1880 and became Louisiana's leading "minister of reconciliation" with his northern colleagues and its chief political spokesman during the highly volatile Gilded Age. He deplored the growing gap between the rich and the poor and embraced a reformist agenda that included federal funding for public schools and legislation for levee construction, income taxes, and the direct election of senators. This progressive stance made Gibson one of the last patrician Democrats whose noblesse oblige politics sought common middle ground between the extreme political and social positions of his era. At the request of wealthy New Orleans merchant Paul Tulane, Gibson took charge of Tulane's educational endowment and helped design the university that bears Tulane's name, serving as the founding president of the board of administrators. Highly readable and thoroughly researched, Mary Gorton McBride's absorbing biography illuminates in dramatic fashion the life and times of a unique Louisianan.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Compendium of History, Reminiscence, and Biography of Nebraska written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1704 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Compendium of History, Reminiscence and Biography of Western Nebraska written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6013 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Women of the Suffrage Movement: Memoirs & Biographies of the Most Influential Suffragettes written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 6013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited collection presents the most prominent figures of the Women's suffrage movement in the United States of America and the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Howard Shaw, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Jane Addams, Lucy Stone, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul. This edition includes as well the complete 6 volume history of the movement - from its beginnings through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which enfranchised women in the U.S. in 1920. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in the United States. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) was a British feminist, intellectual, political and union leader, and writer. Jane Addams (1860-1935), known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist, public philosopher, sociologist, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was a prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977) was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist.
Author : James Dabney McCabe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385524563
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Centennial Book of American Biography, Embracing the Lives of the Great Men Whose Deeds Illustrate the First 100 Years of American Independence written by James Dabney McCabe and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-23 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
