Download or read book Recollections of a Checkered Lifetime written by William O. Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book RECOLLECTIONS OF A CHECKERED LIFETIME written by WILLIAM OSBORN. STODDARD and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of a Checkered Lifetime Vol 2 written by William Osborn Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of a Checkered Lifetime, Vol. 2: Told for His Children in His Old Age It was a brain-busy time. All the wheels of activity were rolling on diligently, swiftly, except the wagonwheels and artillerywheels of the Army of the Potomac. These, indeed, were so quietly resting in their lazy camps that the whole country had grown weary of reading in the newspapers the stereotyped announcement that "All is quiet on the Potomac." The vociferous response of "On to Richmond" had also become a stereotyped re-print. From what has already been set forth, it may be imagined that my own brain was pretty well occupied, but there was still room in it for the formation of many plans and the development of a number of curious undertakings. Speculation in stocks and gold, especially the latter, was all the while running insanely wild in New York and other financial centres and I formed an idea that it was almost true patriotism to be what was called a "bear" in gold. I therefore went in, a little at first and then deeper. I had good correspondents, was not by any means a bad judge of the changing situations and their effects upon the markets. On the whole, I succeeded pretty well, rarely making any important loses, except in stocks. I had not the least idea that there was anything wrong in it, for a fellow in my position, and made no secret whatever of my financial transactions. My leading associate in New York was a banker named Edward Wollf, "Wollf Dike." He was a German by birth, of good family, highly educated, and we formed a strong personal friendship as well as business alliance. 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 Recollections of a Checkered Lifetime written by William Osborn Stoddard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of a Checkered Lifetime: Told for His Children Volume II wartime Enterprises XXXVI Ineldentals 0000000ooooooooooooooooooooooococoooooooooooooooooooo XXXVII Forward March. 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 Recollections of a Lifetime written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of a Lifetime Or Men and Things I Have Seen written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of a Lifetime Or Men and Things I Have Seen in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend Etc written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by Michael Burlingame and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editor Michael Burlingame sifted through the the ten-volume biography Abraham Lincoln: A History and selected only the personal observations of the secretaries during the Lincoln presidency. The result is an important collection of Nicolay and Hay's interpretations of Lincoln's character, actions, and reputation.
Download or read book Lincoln s Lie written by Elizabeth Mitchell and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “delicious, suspenseful . . . and cleverly written romp through a dramatic and forgotten moment in American history” reveals how Lincoln manipulated the media during the Civil War—shining new light on the current ‘fake news’ crisis (Elizabeth Gilbert) In 1864, during the bloodiest days of the Civil War, two newspapers published a call, allegedly authored by President Lincoln, for the immediate conscription of 400,000 more Union soldiers. New York streets erupted in pandemonium. Wall Street markets went wild. When Lincoln sent troops to seize the newspaper presses and arrest the editors, it became clear: The proclamation was a lie. Who put out this fake news? Was it a Confederate spy hoping to incite another draft riot? A political enemy out to ruin the president in an election year? Or was there some truth to the proclamation—far more truth than anyone suspected? Unpacking this overlooked historical mystery for the first time, journalist Elizabeth Mitchell takes readers on a dramatic journey from newspaper offices filled with heroes and charlatans to the haunted White House confinement of Mary Todd Lincoln, from the packed pews of the celebrated preacher Reverend Henry Ward Beecher’s Plymouth Church to the War Department offices in the nation’s capital and a Grand Jury trial. In Lincoln’s Lie, Mitchell brings to life the remarkable story of the manipulators of the news and why they decided to play such a dangerous game during a critical period of American history. Her account of Lincoln’s troubled relationship to the press and its role in the Civil War is one that speaks powerfully to our current political crises: fake news, profiteering, Constitutional conflict, and a president at war with the press.
Download or read book Recollections and Incidents of a Lifetime written by Philander Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1979* with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lincoln s Gift from Homer New York written by Martin A. Sweeney and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Illinois enjoys the indisputable title of "The Land of Lincoln," one small town in New York State played a significant role in the sixteenth president's history. Three native sons of Homer--a detective, a journalist, and a painter--helped inscribe Abraham Lincoln's place in the nation's iconic imagery. Private investigator Eli DeVoe foiled an assassination plot against Lincoln before his first inauguration; journalist William Osborn Stoddard, an early Lincoln supporter, became an influential secretary of the president; and artist Francis Bicknell Carpenter painted The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet, which still hangs in the U.S. Capitol. This exploration of these men and the town that produced them offers insight into the complexities of presidential image-making, and reveals why a small New York town has become a choice destination for Lincoln historians.
Download or read book Social Life in Old New Orleans written by Eliza Ripley and published by New York ; London : D. Appleton and Company. This book was released on 1912 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Love Is an Ex Country written by Randa Jarrar and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat femme. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this "exuberant, defiant and introspective" memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America (The New York Times Book Review). Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called "politically incorrect" (Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times). As an American raised for a time in Egypt, and finding herself captivated by the story of a celebrated Egyptian belly dancer's journey across the United States in the 1940s, she sets off from her home in California to her parents' in Connecticut. Coloring this road trip are journeys abroad and recollections of a life lived with daring. Reclaiming her autonomy after a life of survival--domestic assault as a child, and later, as a wife; threats and doxxing after her viral tweet about Barbara Bush--Jarrar offers a bold look at domestic violence, single motherhood, and sexuality through the lens of the punished-yet-triumphant body. On the way, she schools a rest-stop racist, destroys Confederate flags in the desert, and visits the Chicago neighborhood where her immigrant parents first lived. Hailed as "one of the finest writers of her generation" (Laila Lalami), Jarrar delivers a euphoric and critical, funny and profound memoir that will speak to anyone who has felt erased, asserting: I am here. I am joyful.
