Download or read book American Biographical Panorama Classic Reprint written by William Hunt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Biographical Panorama A little babe lay in the cradle, and Hope came and kissed it. The babe grew to a child, and another friend came and kissed it. Her name was Memory. She said, Look behind thee, and tell me what thou seest. The child answered, I see a little book. Then Memory said, I will teach thee to get honey from thy book, that will be sweet to thee when thou art old. The youth became a man, and at length age found him. The old man laid down to die, and when his soul went from his body, Memory walked with it through the open gate of Heaven. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book American Biographical Panorama written by William Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Biographical Panorama written by William Hunt and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Download or read book Panorama of the Classical World written by Nigel Spivey and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This imaginative approach to the era in which Western civilization was born is a thorough--and thoroughly accessible--synthesis of the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan worlds, spanning the period from Late Geometric Greece in around 700 b.c., to the rule of Constantine in the early 4th century a.d. The authors incorporate important developments in recent scholarship, including ideas of gender, war and pacifism, imperialism and dissent, political propaganda, economy, cultural identity, racism, hygiene and diet, and public and private uses of space. The book highlights the modern relevance of classical antiquity, from its influence on contemporary politics to the representation of the female body in Western art, and concludes by charting the history of classical civilization. The extensive reference section includes biographies, an introduction to classical mythology, a glossary of technical terms and vase shapes, as well as a timeline, map, bibliography, and index.
Download or read book American Biographical History of Eminent and Self Made Men written by F. A. Barnard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Biographical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men: With Portrait Illustrations on Steel; Michigan Volume Ray, soon after Jervis came to his house, bought a. Negro girl. This gave Mrs. Ray an opportunity to prae tice her schemes of persecution on the child, by making him feel that he was nothing more than a slave. It was a year or more before his mother came to see him; then, finding how cruelly he was treated, she took him away. Mr. Adams well remembers the scrubbing she gave him in order to make him look like her boy. When seven years old, he removed with his mother and step-father, John Rogers, to Hoosick, Rensselaer County, New York, where he remained until he was nine years of age. His step-father was honest and temperate, but always poor. In the year 1817, known as the cold season, the cr0ps were all killed by the frosts; and, the next year, his parents removed to Cherry Valley, New York. In 1819 they removed to Monroe County, and settled near Rochester. At this time, Rochester was but a small village, with only one bridge across the river, and the country around was but thinly inhabited; while it was so unhealthy that there were not well people enough to take care of the sick. In this emergency, necessity compelled them to become a town charge; and, as if to add a keener edge to their grief, the law provided that the poor who had not gained a residence should be transported to the town from which they came. Hence Mr. Rogers and his family were compelled to travel from town to town until, in the spring of 1820, their eyes were gladdened by the familiar sight of the old Hoosick Mountains. The same spring, Jervis Adams' mother bound him out to her brother-ih-law. He was to stay two years, and receive his board, clothing, and six months' schooling each year. The last he did not get; but served his time faithfully, though going poorly clad. An important period in Mr. Adams' life begins here, and we give it in his own language: At the age of fourteen, I began to do for myself, on a very small scale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The 56 written by Douglas MacKinnon and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urgent need to honor the 56 Signers of The Declaration of Independence came to Douglas MacKinnon, fittingly enough, on the 4th of July. While doing research for a column meant to remind the American people of that date’s critical importance, he came across example after example of those from the Left and the Far-Left––be they in the mainstream media, activists, or anarchists––calling for not only the “canceling” of the 4th of July, but the continued smearing, censorship, and canceling of our Founding Fathers. One overriding thought then filled his mind: “What if they are successful?” Those who believe such totalitarian censorship could never come to be in the United States of America, need only review how quickly and brutally many on the Left were able to create the “Woke Cancel Culture” to silence those they oppose today. Now they come for Thomas Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee, Benjamin Franklin and others who courageously signed The Declaration of Independence. That document and those men created our history. History which should never be bent, twisted, censored, or banned to fit any ideological narrative. If it is good, let us praise it. If it is bad, let us condemn it and learn from it. But let us never twist, censor, or cancel it. And yet, more and more followers of the Left want to do just that. As they control the media, academia, entertainment, science, and medicine…who is to stop them? Time is of the essence. We must find our voices. The 56 left the blueprint: Liberty.
Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography Vol 20 written by Dumas Malone and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 20: Werden-Zunser Another exposition of the principles on which Dr. Johnson conducted his work is to be found in his introduction to that first volume. It is not superfluous to quote here a paragraph from that introduction which sets forth a trait which any steady reader of the Dictionary will hardly have failed to observe, the catholicity with which its range has been extended, beyond the limits observable in most European repertories of the sort, to the inclusion of all the varied human elements that have made this composite America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Conspectus of American Biography written by George Derby and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Conspectus of American Biography: Being an Analytical Summary of American History and Biography, Containing Also the Complete Indexes of the National Cyclopaedia of American Biography The idea of such a compilation grew out of the preparation of The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, when it was determined that all such official names of national standing should have a biography in a publication claiming to be national in its scope, and.when it was discovered how few such records of names were available to the general public, and how wofully inaccurate and unreliable even these few records proved to be. The completeness and originality of these Lists and Statistics are the excuse for issuing them in a separate volume. In this busy age of specialization and systetnization, the utility of the reference book is without question, and it is expected that this Conspectus will supply a long-needed want in the bibliography of American History and Biography. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book American Biography written by William Richard Cutter and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strenuous Americans Classic Reprint written by Roy F. Dibble and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Strenuous Americans The dangers of brevity in biography are perhaps as many as are the dangers of length, of interminable facts that do not illuminate, of uninforming informa tion. But in any case, short or long, biography must inevitably be far from perfect; for to trace the myriad ramifications of any personality is utterly impossible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Child s Guide to Biography American Men of Action Classic Reprint written by Burton Egbert Stevenson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Child's Guide to Biography American-Men of Action I am hoping to see the rise, some day, of a new school Of biography, which will not hesitate to dis card the inessential, which will disdain to glorify its subject, whose first duty it will be to strip away the falsehoods of tradition and to show us the real man, not hiding his imperfections and yet giving them no more prominence than they really bore in his life; which will realize that to the man nothing was of importance except the growth of his spirit, and that to us nothing else concerning him is of any mo ment; which will show him to us illumined, as it were, from within, and which will count any other sort of life-history as vain and worthless. What we need is biography by X-ray, and not by tallow candle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Panorama written by H. G. Adler and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only recently available for the first time in English, Panorama is the newly rediscovered first novel of H. G. Adler, a modernist master whose work has been compared to that of Kafka, Joyce, and Solzhenitsyn. A brilliant epic told in ten distinct vignettes, Panorama is a portrait of a place and people soon to be destroyed, as seen through the eyes of the young Josef Kramer. It moves from the pastoral World War I–era Bohemia of Josef’s youth, to a German boarding school full of creeping prejudice, through an infamous extermination camp, and finally to Josef’s self-imposed exile abroad, achieving veracity and power through a stream-of-consciousness style reminiscent of our greatest modern masters. The author of six novels as well as the monumental account of his experiences in a Nazi labor camp, Theresienstadt 1941–1945, H. G. Adler is an essential author with unique historical importance. Panorama is lasting evidence of both the torment of his life and the triumph of his gifts.
Download or read book The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans written by Hamilton Holt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans: As Told by Themselves When you propose to tell a story to children they interrupt at the first sentence with the question, Is it a true story? As we evade or ignore this natural and pertinent inquiry they finally cease to ask it, and we blur for them the edges of reality until it fades off into the mists. The hardest part of the training of the scientist is to get back the clear sight of his childhood. But nowadays our educators do not do quite so much as formerly to eu courage the mythopeic faculty of children. It has been found that their imagination can be exercised by other objects than the imag inary. Consequently the number of readers who are impatient of any detectable deviation from truth is increasing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The American Portrait Gallery written by Lillian C. Buttre and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Portrait Gallery: With Biographical Sketches of Presidents, Statesmen, Military and Naval Heroes, Clergymen, Authors, Poets, Etc It is, however, from the combination of portrait and biography that we reap the utmost degree of utility and pleasure which can be derived from them. As, in contemplating the portrait of an eminent person, we long to be instructed in his history, so, in considering his actions, We are anxious to behold his countenance. So earnest is this desire, that the imagination is generally ready to coin a set of features, or to conceive a character, to supply the absence of one or the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Parley s Panorama Or Curiosities of Nature and Art History and Biography Classic Reprint written by Samuel G. Goodrich and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Parley's Panorama, or Curiosities of Nature and Art, History and Biography After mankind had provided for their physical wants, it was natural for them to begin to exercise their minds in matters of speculation. History informs us that, at an early date, there were philosophers who directed their attention to the phenomena of nature - the succession of day and night the clouds, the seasons, and the heavenly bodies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Famous American Men and Women Classic Reprint written by Stanley Waterloo and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Famous American Men and Women There is an irresistible attraction in reading the lives of celebrated people which enchains the hearts of young and old alike. The study of individual character as represented by men and women whose names are graven on the imperishable tablets of Fame, is not only fascinating but instructive. Strange as it may seem we know less of living celebrities, who by thought and action are now molding the destiny of the nation, than we do of the immortal dead whose epitaphs are written in the sacred archives of history. This work is a record of noted Americans now living, and of the important events they have created. It contains the portraits of famous persons whose names are prominent in the annals of the times. Each portrait is reproduced from a recent photograph, and is accompanied by a biographical sketch obtained in nearly all cases by personal interview. The work is therefore of untold value as a text book of national character, an authentic account of modern progress and development, and the influence of master minds upon American history. Hon. Benjamin Harrison, Ex-President of the United States, has said: "If we would strengthen our country, we should cultivate a love for it in our hearts and in the hearts of our children and neighbors; and this love for civil institutions, for a land, for a flag, if they are worthy and great and have a glorious history, is widened and deepened by a fuller knowledge of them." Biography is not alone the history of individuals, it is the history of a Nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Dorothy Dandridge written by Donald Bogle and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available once again, the definitive biography of the pioneering Black performer—the first nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award—who broke new ground in Hollywood and helped transform American society in the years before Civil Rights movement—a remarkable woman of her time who also transcended it. “An ambitious, rigorously researched account of the long-ignored film star and chanteuse. . . . Bogle has fashioned a resonant history of a bygone era in Hollywood and passionately documented the contribution of one of its most dazzling and complex performers."—New York Times Book Review In the segregated world of 1950s America, few celebrities were as talented, beautiful, glamorous, and ultimately influential as Dorothy Dandridge. Universally admired, she was Hollywood's first full-fledged Black movie star. Film historian Donald Bogle offers a panoramic portrait of Dorothy Dandridge’s extraordinary and ultimately tragic life and career, from her early years as a child performer in Cleveland, to her rise as a nightclub headliner and movie star, to her heartbreaking death at 42. Bogle reveals how this exceptionally talented and intensely ambitious entertainer broke down racial barriers by integrating some of America's hottest nightclubs and broke through Tinseltown’s glass ceiling. Along with her smash appearances at venues such as Harlem’s famed Cotton Club, Dorothy starred in numerous films, making history with her role in Otto Preminger’s Carmen Jones, playing opposite Harry Belafonte. Her performance earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress—the first Oscar nod for a woman of color. But Dorothy’s wealth, fame, and success masked a reality fraught with contradiction and illusion. Struggling to find good roles professionally, uncomfortable with her image as a sex goddess, coping with the aftermath of two unhappy marriages and a string of unfulfilling affairs, and overwhelmed with guilt for her disabled daughter, Dorothy found herself emotionally and financially bankrupt—despair that ended in her untimely death. Woven from extensive research and unique interviews, as magnetic as the woman at its heart, Dorothy Dandridge captures this dazzling entertainer in all her complexity: her strength and vulnerability, her joy and her pain, her trials and her triumphs.
