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Book Chiefly about War Matters

Download or read book Chiefly about War Matters written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chiefly about War Matters

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  • Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2015-12-15
  • ISBN : 9781522756316
  • Pages : 28 pages

Download or read book Chiefly about War Matters written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of America's most famous writers and novelists, Nathaniel Hawthorne needs no formal introduction. He worked at a Custom House and joined Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community, before marrying Peabody in 1842. The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, later moving to Salem, the Berkshires, then to The Wayside in Concord. The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, followed by a succession of other novels. A political appointment took Hawthorne and family to Europe before their return to The Wayside in 1860. Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, leaving behind his wife and their three children. Much of Hawthorne's writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, dark romanticism. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. Even today, several of them are considered examples of the finest American literature.

Book Chiefly About War Matters

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  • Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2019-06-27
  • ISBN : 9781075390326
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Chiefly About War Matters written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete and unabridged edition. "Chiefly About War Matters", originally credited "by a Peaceable Man", is an 1862 essay by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It opposed the American Civil War and was quite controversial. Description from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Book On War

Download or read book On War written by Carl von Clausewitz and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tales  Sketches  and Other Papers

Download or read book Tales Sketches and Other Papers written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation offers Hawthorne's tales, sketches and other papers that were not included in any other publication. The first group of short pieces embraced in this volume belongs to Hawthorne s earlier period; excepting " Browne s Folly," which was addressed to the author's cousin, Mr. Richard Manning, of Salem, after the return from Europe. The "Biographical Sketches," that follow next in the order of contents, appear here as the result of a gleaning from old magazines, which was made after Hawthorne s death. Contents: Tales and Sketches Sketches From Memory Fragments From The Journal Of A Solitary Man My Visit to Niagara The Antique Ring The Legend. Graves and Goblins Dr. Bullivant A Book Of Autographs An Old Woman's Tale Time's Portraiture Browne's Folly Biographical Stories Benjamin West Sir Isaac Newton. Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson Oliver Cromwell Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Queen Christina Biographical Studies Mrs. Hutchinson. Sir William Phips. Sir William Pepperell. Thomas Green Fessenden. Jonathan Cilley. Alice Doane's Appeal Chiefly About War Matters The Life of Franklin Pierce

Book The Dolliver Romance

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  • Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2020-07-16
  • ISBN : 3752303875
  • Pages : 70 pages

Download or read book The Dolliver Romance written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Dolliver Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Book Tried by War

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  • Author : James M. McPherson
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2008-10-07
  • ISBN : 1440652457
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Tried by War written by James M. McPherson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James M. McPherson’s Tried by War is a perfect primer . . . for anyone who wishes to under­stand the evolution of the president’s role as commander in chief. Few histo­rians write as well as McPherson, and none evoke the sound of battle with greater clarity." —The New York Times Book Review The Pulitzer Prize–winning author reveals how Lincoln won the Civil War and invented the role of commander in chief as we know it As we celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, this study by preeminent, bestselling Civil War historian James M. McPherson provides a rare, fresh take on one of the most enigmatic figures in American history. Tried by War offers a revelatory (and timely) portrait of leadership during the greatest crisis our nation has ever endured. Suspenseful and inspiring, this is the story of how Lincoln, with almost no previous military experience before entering the White House, assumed the powers associated with the role of commander in chief, and through his strategic insight and will to fight changed the course of the war and saved the Union.

Book Blood and Daring

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  • Author : John Boyko
  • Publisher : Vintage Canada
  • Release : 2014-05-06
  • ISBN : 0307361462
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Blood and Daring written by John Boyko and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself. In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because of the pressures of the Civil War. Many readers will be shocked by Canada's deep connection to the war—Canadians fought in every major battle, supplied arms to the South, and many key Confederate meetings took place on Canadian soil. Filled with engaging stories and astonishing facts from previously unaccessed primary sources, Boyko's fascinating new interpretation of the war will appeal to all readers of history.

Book Sketches and Studies

Download or read book Sketches and Studies written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thoughts Painfully Intense

Download or read book Thoughts Painfully Intense written by James Mancall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. This work reads Hawthorne's fiction inthe context of nineteenth-century medical and psuedomedical discourse that linked men of letters to debilitated invalids, a stereotype against which Hawthorne struggled throughout his career.

Book The Originals the Scarlet Letter

Download or read book The Originals the Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom. Nathaniel Hawthorne masterpiece, the Scarlet letter, set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay colony, is the tale of Hester Prynne ‘shame’ following the birth of a child whose father remains unidentified for the larger part of the narrative. Hester’s defiance in the face of expulsion and repudiation makes her a heroine ahead of her time. Pearl, the illegitimate daughter, Arthur Dimmesdale, the ‘cheating’ minister of church, Reverend John Wilson and the malicious Roger Chillingworth are Hawthorne’s characters whose lives, premised on guilt and pride, take a tumultuous turn as the cataclysmic outcome of an act of passion. The embroidered Scarlet ‘a’—that she is required to wear on her dress on the day of her punishment— becomes a manifestation of Hester’s ‘adultery’, her erratic past and ignominious present. Will she break her vow of silence?

Book Supreme Command

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  • Author : Eliot A. Cohen
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-04-17
  • ISBN : 074324222X
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Supreme Command written by Eliot A. Cohen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war. When the chips are down, who should run the show -- the politicians or the generals? In Supreme Command, Eliot Cohen examines four great democratic war statesmen -- Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion -- to reveal the surprising answer: the politicians. Great states-men do not turn their wars over to their generals, and then stay out of their way. Great statesmen make better generals of their generals. They question and drive their military men, and at key times they overrule their advice. The generals may think they know how to win, but the statesmen are the ones who see the big picture. Lincoln, Clemenceau, Churchill, and Ben-Gurion led four very different kinds of democracy, under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. They came from four very different backgrounds -- backwoods lawyer, dueling French doctor, rogue aristocrat, and impoverished Jewish socialist.Yet they faced similar challenges, not least the possibility that their conduct of the war could bring about their fall from power. Each exhibited mastery of detail and fascination with technology. All four were great learners, who studied war as if it were their own profession, and in many ways mastered it as well as did their generals. All found themselves locked in conflict with military men. All four triumphed. Military men often dismiss politicians as meddlers, doves, or naifs. Yet military men make mistakes. The art of a great leader is to push his subordinates to achieve great things. The lessons of the book apply not just to President Bush and other world leaders in the war on terrorism, but to anyone who faces extreme adversity at the head of a free organization -- including leaders and managers throughout the corporate world. The lessons of Supreme Command will be immediately apparent to all managers and leaders, as well as students of history.

Book A History of American Magazines  Volume II  1850 1865

Download or read book A History of American Magazines Volume II 1850 1865 written by Frank Luther Mott and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1938 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of this work, covering the period from 1741-1850, was issued in 1931 by another publisher, and is reissued now without change, under our imprint. The second volume covers the period from 1850 to 1865; the third volume, the period from 1865 to 1885. For each chronological period, Mr. Mott has provided a running history which notes the occurrence of the chief general magazines and the developments in the field of class periodicals, as well as publishing conditions during that period, the development of circulations, advertising, payments to contributors, reader attitudes, changing formats, styles and processes of illustration, and the like. Then in a supplement to that running history, he offers historical sketches of the chief magazines which flourished in the period. These sketches extend far beyond the chronological limitations of the period. The second and third volumes present, altogether, separate sketches of seventy-six magazines, including The North American Review, The Youth's Companion, The Liberator, The Independent, Harper's Monthly, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, The Atlantic Monthly, St. Nicholas, and Puck. The whole is an unusual mirror of American civilization.

Book Tales  sketches  and other papers     with a biographical sketch by George Parsons Lathrop

Download or read book Tales sketches and other papers with a biographical sketch by George Parsons Lathrop written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writing the Civil War

Download or read book Writing the Civil War written by James M. McPherson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen distinguished historians present a wide-ranging discussion of the vast effort to chronicle the Civil War--an undertaking that began with the remembrances of Civil War veterans and has become an increasingly prolific field of scholarship.

Book The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Download or read book The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nineteenth Century American Literature and the Long Civil War

Download or read book Nineteenth Century American Literature and the Long Civil War written by Cody Marrs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American literature in the nineteenth century is often divided into two asymmetrical halves, neatly separated by the Civil War. In Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War, Cody Marrs argues that the war is a far more elastic boundary for literary history than has frequently been assumed. Focusing on the later writings of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson, this book shows how the war took imaginative shape across, and even beyond, the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms and expressions for decades after 1865. These writers, Marrs demonstrates, are best understood not as antebellum or postbellum figures but as transbellum authors who cipher their later experiences through their wartime impressions and prewar ideals. This book is a bold, revisionary contribution to debates about temporality, periodization, and the shape of American literary history.