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Book Synopsis The Great American Fourth of July Parade by : Archibald Macleish
Download or read book The Great American Fourth of July Parade written by Archibald Macleish and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great American Fourth of July Parade by : Scholargy Publishing, Incorporated
Download or read book The Great American Fourth of July Parade written by Scholargy Publishing, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2003-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great American Fourth of July Parade by : Archibald MacLeish
Download or read book The Great American Fourth of July Parade written by Archibald MacLeish and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spirits of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams meet on July 4, 1976, and argue about their visions for the United States and their differing interpretations of the contemporary mood.
Book Synopsis Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories by : Jean Shepherd
Download or read book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories written by Jean Shepherd and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana and the basis of the movie A Christmas Story. “Mr. Shepherd has the true satirist’s grip on his pen: he is humorous, sympathetic,and ironic all at once.”—Boston Globe Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant—and utterly hilarious—works of comic art. Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations. Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories is a universal (and achingly funny) orchestration of Midwestern puberty rites. From the gut-wrenching playground antics of one Delbert Bumpus and the almighty sacrifice of the Easter ham, to taffy-apple binges at the state fair and the supernatural glow surrounding unapproachable high school beauty Daphne Bigelow, to the memorable disaster that was Shepherd’s (and everyone else’s) junior prom—these are some of the archetypal legends of childhood that Shepherd evokes from his nostalgic Indiana muse. A timeless and enduring classic, Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories captures the sweet cacophonous roar of youth tempered with the wit and honesty of a grown boy
Book Synopsis The Fourth of July by : Paul Goetsch
Download or read book The Fourth of July written by Paul Goetsch and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1992 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great American Parade by : H. J. Duteil
Download or read book The Great American Parade written by H. J. Duteil and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1953 edition.
Book Synopsis The Fourth of July Encyclopedia by : James R. Heintze
Download or read book The Fourth of July Encyclopedia written by James R. Heintze and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive reference work on America's Independence Day. Bringing attention to persons, places, and events of historical significance, the book focuses on the Fourth of July as it has been commemorated over the span of more than two centuries, starting with the first celebrations: public readings of the Declaration of Independence that occurred within days of its signing. Biographical sketches feature presidents (and how each celebrated the Fourth) and other politicians, famous soldiers, educators, engineers, scientists, athletes, musicians, and literary figures. Other topics include parks, monuments and statues dedicated on the Fourth; famous speeches and the personalities behind their stories; and general subjects of interest including education, abolition, temperance, African Americans, Native Americans, wars, transportation and holiday catastrophes.
Book Synopsis The Great American Symphony by : Nicholas Tawa
Download or read book The Great American Symphony written by Nicholas Tawa and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years of the Great Depression, World War II, and their aftermath brought a sea change in American music. This period of economic, social, and political adversity can truly be considered a musical golden age. In the realm of classical music, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Howard Hanson, Virgil Thompson, and Leonard Bernstein -- among others -- produced symphonic works of great power and lasting beauty during these troubled years. It was during this critical decade and a half that contemporary writers on American culture began to speculate about "the Great American Symphony" and looked to these composers for music that would embody the spirit of the nation. In this volume, Nicholas Tawa concludes that they succeeded, at the very least, in producing music that belongs in the cultural memory of every American. Tawa introduces the symphonists and their major works from the romanticism of Barber and the "all-American" Roy Harris through the theatrics of Bernstein and Marc Blitzstein to the broad-shouldered appeal of Thompson and Copland. Tawa's musical descriptions are vivid and personal, and invite music lovers and trained musicians alike to turn again to the marvelous and lasting music of this time.
Book Synopsis The Fourth of July by : Peter De Bolla
Download or read book The Fourth of July written by Peter De Bolla and published by . This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is a nation that touts its diversity, but there is one tradition that all Americans love to share. Every year on the Fourth of July, Americans celebrate the founding of the nation. Independence Day is the greatest of national traditions, but much of the inherited lore that surrounds the Fourth is myth and legend, not history.Even the fact that the holiday is celebrated on the fourth is misleading, as the Declaration of Independence was in fact penned on July 2nd, 1776. Jefferson did not write it himself, nor was it intended to mark the birth of a new nation. In this remarkable and wonderful work of research and narrative, Peter de Bolla teases out the true story of the Fourth of July. De Bolla traces the holiday's history from 1776 through the Civil War, the Cold War, and the present. This enlightening exploration of the ritual celebration and mythology of America's birthday offers a fascinating window into the history of our nation and our people.
Book Synopsis The Great American Parade by : Henri Jean Duteil
Download or read book The Great American Parade written by Henri Jean Duteil and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis We Love the Fourth of July! by : Adrienne Wheeler
Download or read book We Love the Fourth of July! written by Adrienne Wheeler and published by 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth of July, or Independence Day, is a special day in the United States. In 1776, the British colonies in North America declared their independence from Great Britain. Some Americans celebrate Independence Day by having cookouts, watching fireworks, and having parades. Other people choose to celebrate by taking a vacation. This book shows some American traditions for the Fourth of July through eye-catching illustrations. Manageable text makes this book perfect for young readers and listeners.
Book Synopsis Archibald MacLeish by : Scott Donaldson
Download or read book Archibald MacLeish written by Scott Donaldson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Poet, lawyer, Librarian of Congress, statesman, and professor, MacLeish (1892–1982) revived the Homeric ideal of a poet as “a man in the world.” In this authorized and idealized biography, his only flaws are a demanding nature, many discreet infidelities, and lack of interest in his children. Fortunately, Donaldson . . . is as successful in celebrating MacLeish’s strengths as he has been in tracing the demons that destroyed Cheever . . . Fitzgerald, and Hemingway. Born into a wealthy Illinois family, MacLeish attended Yale and Harvard Law, married his childhood sweetheart, and moved to Paris, where he joined the circle around Joyce and Hemingway (his lifelong friend) and, sustained by family resources, devoted himself to poetry. Returning to N.Y.C., he spent the 30’s editing and writing for Fortune magazine while producing radio and stage plays (starring the young Orson Welles) that expressed his liberal politics. In the 40’s, MacLeish served as the first Librarian of Congress, then as Secretary of State for Cultural Affairs, and, after helping to write the preamble to the UN Charter, worked for UNESCO. Even after accepting a Harvard professorship in 1946, he remained a mediator between the worlds of art and of public life, urging the release of Ezra Pound from his mental asylum and publishing, the day after the first moon landing, a celebratory poem on the front page of The New York Times. MacLeish’s last years were spent lecturing, traveling, gathering prizes, entertaining friends (including Richard Burton and Liz Taylor), and writing dramas, as well as private but unrevealing poems about old age, his various affairs, and the bliss he found in his marriage. For such a long and spectacular life, this is a spare and unpretentious biography, like MacLeish’s verse. Donaldson is informed, respectful, and comfortable with the many different roles his subject played. He tastefully draws on unpublished verse to illuminate the shadows—but mostly, like MacLeish himself, stays in the light.” —Library Journal
Book Synopsis Collected Poems, 1917-1982 by : Archibald MacLeish
Download or read book Collected Poems, 1917-1982 written by Archibald MacLeish and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1985 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded volume of the distinguished poet's work contains 29 previously uncollected poems, some that had been published, and some found in manuscript after MacLeish's death in 1982. This is the definitive volume produced by a life that filled several careers as writer, teacher, and public servant, but was devoted above all to poetry.
Download or read book Mystery Train written by David Wojahn and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1990-05-29 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Wojahn deftly mixes personal history and recollections with a wide range of character studies and monologues, but the center of this book is a sequence of thirty-five poems, mainly sonnets, in which rock and roll music is a strange, kaleidoscopic mirror of recent American history. Combining rhapsodic homage, grim humor, human folly, and tragedy, these poems are like nothing else in contemporary poetry.
Download or read book Liquid Paper written by Peter Meinke and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Meinke was a master of traditional poetic forms long before the current interest in "the new formalism." His work is, in turn, witty, comic, sane, deeply moving, and always readable. Liquid Paper collects the best of his previously published poems from the late 1960s on with a generous selection of new work.
Download or read book Wyndmere written by Carol Muske-Dukes and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyndmere is a town in North Dakota where Carol Muske’s mother was born, and where she visited as a child. Muske’s grandparents are buried there, and it is where her mother met and married her father. Now almost a ghost town, Wyndmere is the source of imagery in many of these poems, as well as the idea of Wynd-mere, wind-mother, both inspiration and principle of separation.
Download or read book Etai-Eken written by Ed Roberson and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etai-Eken is a legend told in a series, a cycle of poems, which is to say, told in different languages. The action of the poems in the poem is their moving in and out of the legend by the changes of access to the larger legend; an access of the present in the ancient, of the present's knowledge and experience of it.