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Book History Must Be Told   1954

Download or read book History Must Be Told 1954 written by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and published by Argo Books. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lincoln Highway

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amor Towles
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2021-10-05
  • ISBN : 0735222371
  • Pages : 593 pages

Download or read book The Lincoln Highway written by Amor Towles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates

Book I Am an Impure Thinker

Download or read book I Am an Impure Thinker written by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and published by Argo Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Negro Motorist Green Book

Download or read book The Negro Motorist Green Book written by Victor H. Green and published by Colchis Books. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.

Book Engendering Curriculum History

Download or read book Engendering Curriculum History written by Petra Hendry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disrupting dominant notions of history as linear, as inevitable progress, and as embedded in the individual, this book examines how curriculum history can be re-envisioned from a feminist, poststructuralist perspective.

Book Fixed Ideas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joan Didion
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Fixed Ideas written by Joan Didion and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist and essayist Joan Didion writes about the refusal of Americans to openly discuss and debate the Bush administration's new unilateralism toward both domestic and international policies since 9/11. This provocative and persuasive essay was originally published in The New York Review of Books, and garnered a tremendous response from the magazine's readers. In a preface commissioned for this book edition, Frank Rich, the popular op-ed columnist for The New York Times, echoes her argument with his own passionate analysis. Fixed Ideas is an incisive, timely political commentary from an American virtuoso.

Book Waging a Good War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas E. Ricks
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2022-10-04
  • ISBN : 0374605173
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Waging a Good War written by Thomas E. Ricks and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world. “Ricks does a tremendous job of putting the reader inside the hearts and souls of the young men and women who risked so much to change America . . . Riveting.” —Charles Kaiser, The Guardian In Waging a Good War, the bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks offers a fresh perspective on America’s greatest moral revolution—the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s—and its legacy today. While the Movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ethos of nonviolence, Ricks, a Pulitzer Prize–winning war reporter, draws on his deep knowledge of tactics and strategy to advance a surprising but revelatory idea: the greatest victories for Black Americans of the past century were won not by idealism alone, but by paying attention to recruiting, training, discipline, and organization—the hallmarks of any successful military campaign. An engaging storyteller, Ricks deftly narrates the Movement’s triumphs and defeats. He follows King and other key figures from Montgomery to Memphis, demonstrating that Gandhian nonviolence was a philosophy of active, not passive, resistance—involving the bold and sustained confrontation of the Movement’s adversaries, both on the ground and in the court of public opinion. While bringing legends such as Fannie Lou Hamer and John Lewis into new focus, Ricks also highlights lesser-known figures who played critical roles in fashioning nonviolence into an effective tool—the activists James Lawson, James Bevel, Diane Nash, and Septima Clark foremost among them. He also offers a new understanding of the Movement’s later difficulties as internal disputes and white backlash intensified. Rich with fresh interpretations of familiar events and overlooked aspects of America’s civil rights struggle, Waging a Good War is an indispensable addition to the literature of racial justice and social change—and one that offers vital lessons for our own time.

Book The Primacy of Method in Historical Research

Download or read book The Primacy of Method in Historical Research written by Jonas Ahlskog and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does history relate to the past? According to leading historical theorists, the relation to the past in history is reducible to evidential, psychological, practical and retrospective concerns. In contrast, this volume claims that historical relations to the past are irreducible products of the logical commitments of history as method. Ahlskog argues that the method of history shapes and enables relations to the past in historical research by invoking past perspectives of meaning for rendering reality intelligible. The book provides a much-needed philosophical clarification of key concepts in one of the most fundamental debates within the humanities today.

Book Forthcoming Books

Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1226 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Readings in the Sociology of Religion

Download or read book Readings in the Sociology of Religion written by Joan Brothers and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings in the Sociology of Religion is a collection of articles that examines the sociological aspects of religion. The title discusses the contemporary theories, concept, and studies about the sociology of religion. The text first details the concept of sociology of religion, along with the relationship between religion and sociological theory. Next, the selection covers the theoretical development of the sociology of religion and Weber's sociological theory, as well as the modern dilemma of value and belief in the social sciences. The last part tackles the types of research in sociology of religion. The book will be of great interest to sociologists and behavioral scientists. Individuals who have a keen interest in the interaction between religion and society will also benefit from the text.

Book Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2134 pages

Download or read book Report written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on with total page 2134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Final Report

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Final Report written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports and Documents

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 990 pages

Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan

Download or read book The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan written by Elia Kazan and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully annotated selection of Elia Kazan’s letters reveals all the passion, vitality, and raw honesty that made him such a towering figure in American theater and film. Kazan’s determination to be a “sincere, conscious, practicing artist” resounds through every phase of his career: his apprenticeship with the Group Theatre, his co-founding of the Actors Studio and co-direction of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, and his innovative directing on Broadway (A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman) and in Hollywood (On the Waterfront and East of Eden). Kazan collaborated with some of the greatest writers of the era, including Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, and John Steinbeck. His letters to and about Marlon Brando, James Dean, Warren Beatty, Robert De Niro, and others are full of insights on acting and directing. We see his heated dealings with studio moguls, his principled resistance to censorship, the upheavals of testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. We glimpse his inner life in his startlingly candid letters to his first wife and those to and about his children. The Selected Letters provides an extraordinary portrait of a complex, intense, monumentally talented man who engaged the political, moral, and artistic currents of the twentieth century.

Book The Dead Sea Scrolls  A Full History

Download or read book The Dead Sea Scrolls A Full History written by Weston Fields and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preceded by The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Short History, The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Full History, vol. 1, is the first of a projected two volumes offering a more complete account of the discovery of the scrolls and their history over the past 60 years since the first scrolls were discovered in a cave near the Dead Sea.

Book History of Science and Philosophy of Science

Download or read book History of Science and Philosophy of Science written by Pradip Kumar Sengupta and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: