Download or read book Glimpses of Cedar Rapids written by Charles B. Armstrong and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Glimpses of Cedar Rapids written by Charles B. Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Cedar Rapids written by Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Glimpse Traveler written by Marianne Boruch and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning, poetic memoir “that will transport readers to a time when a nation’s youth searched for meaning against the backdrop of the Vietnam War” (Publishers Weekly). When she joins a pair of hitchhikers on a trip to California, a young Midwestern woman embarks on a journey of memory, beauty, and realization. This true story, set in 1971, recounts a fateful, nine-day trip into the American counterculture that begins on a whim and quickly becomes a mission to unravel a tragic mystery. The narrator’s path leads her to Berkeley, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Big Sur, and finally to an abandoned resort motel that has become a down-on-its-luck commune in the desert of southern Colorado. The Glimpse Traveler describes with wry humor and deep feeling what it was like to witness a peculiar and impossibly rich time. “A perceptive, engaging, intimate chronicle of the early 1970s, the road-weary hippie hitchhikers, the anti-war sentiment, the dope-induced haze. Boruch . . . captures this very specific, significant time and place with exquisite clarity and lyric detail and description.” —Dinty Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire
Download or read book The Story of Cedar Rapids written by Janette Stevenson Murray and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cedar Rapids on the Banks of the Cedar written by American Legion. Hanford Post (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plunder written by Cynthia Saltzman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Christian Science Monitor's Ten Best Books of May "A highly original work of history . . . [Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and forces us to explore the connections between the two.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street Journal A captivatingstudy of Napoleon’s plundering of Europe’s art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice Cynthia Saltzman’s Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563 during the Renaissance, the picture was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Veronese had filled the scene with some 130 figures, lavishing color on the canvas to build the illusion that the viewers’ space opened onto a biblical banquet taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. Once pulled from the wall, the Venetian canvas crossed the Mediterranean rolled on a cylinder; soon after, artworks commandeered from Venice and Rome were triumphantly brought into Paris. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution in the former palace of the French kings. As Saltzman tells the larger story of Napoleon’s looting of Italian art and its role in the creation of the Louvre, she reveals the contradictions of his character: his thirst for greatness—to carry forward the finest aspects of civilization—and his ruthlessness in getting whatever he sought. After Napoleon’s 1815 defeat at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington and the Allies forced the French to return many of the Louvre’s plundered paintings and sculptures. Nevertheless, The Wedding Feast at Cana remains in Paris to this day, hanging directly across from the Mona Lisa. Expertly researched and deftly told, Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history, one that sheds light on a seminal historical figure and the complex origins of one of the great museums of the world.
Download or read book Color of the River written by Steven D. Childs and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis Sylvanius Davidson Smith was born in Randolph County, Indiana January 15, 1882, to a poor farmer and his wife. His father, David Richmond Smith, was half Indian and his mother a relative of Stonewall Jackson. They were poor AShare-croppers. His life was happy and typical of poor farm folks of the times, until, when he was seven years old, he lost the sight in his right eye while playing with his cousins who had a bow and arrows. When he was eleven his father left the family, a wife and six children, taking his oldest son, a half brother to Sylvanius and the other five children with him. It became necessary for Sylvanius's mother to move her family to town and take in washings and ironings, trying to make a living for them. Sylvanius became her pardner by running errands for neighbors, earning a dime or a nickel, he helped a farmer weed gardens and cut wood. His mother began to call him her "pardner" and his siblings just called him "Pard". He had to drop out of school after the fifth grade because of a lack of money for clothes and school books. The first three years of their city life were a struggle to exist, and without help from an uncle, they couldn't have made it through the first cold winters. It helped when he got a paper route, but they were still the poorest of the poor until, at age fourteen, he got a job in a factory by lying about his age. Life was getting better for the family until his mother re-married when he was sixteen. The handsome man she married was a bum, he wouldn't keep a job, he drank and "womanized". Pard endured supporting him too for awhile; then, decided to find his own father and live with him. Pard, his father called him Vet, traveled with his father from Detroit to Canada, back to Michigan
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Download or read book Farther Away written by Jonathan Franzen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction" and lauded its illumination, "through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew." In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen's implicit promise to conceal nothing. On a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there, he doesn't omit mention of his excitement and awe at the pace of China's economic development; the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudice and moral condemnation. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. Farther Away is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.
