Download or read book The Autobiography of a Working Man written by Alexander Somerville and published by Gale and the British Library. This book was released on 1848 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848. Excerpt: ... ening all the savings of industry, which we call capital, ' with annihilation. Woe unto France Her errors are neither royal nor republican.; they are economic. M. Chevalier is writing amid the tumult of the revolution of 1848, to correct some of the errors unhappily prevailing on the industrial questions of production and consumption. The following is a quotation from him; He is answering the allegation that France produces too inuch, and says of the present condition of the people: --' "The mass of all the products which France offers to the material wants of her population of 35,000,000 is differently estimated; it is probably an exaggeration to estimate it in money at ten millions. Supposing this to be divided at so much a head, it would give each Frenchman 78 centimes to expend per day in clothing, meat, lodging, instruction, and enjoyment, and it is out of that sum that any saving for a future day must be made. At the price at which all the necessaries of life are, can any thing like comfort be procured for 78 centimes per day? Evidently not. Even in the supposition that an equal division of the products could be made, France is not in a state to give to each of her inhabitants what is necessary for their comfort; the part which the poor would have would only keep them poor--the poor would only increase in number. There are, however, 15,000,000 of Frenchmen spread over the country, and in certain quarters of large cities, whose labour does not procure them even this average sum. I ask all those who have gone through the departments of the central plateau of France--those who have witnessed the existence of the peasants of the Hautes and Basses Alpes, who inhabit huts and live on black bread, cooked with cow-dung as their only fuel. I appeal to those w...
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Download or read book The working man s way in the world being the autobiography of a journeyman printer C M Smith written by Charles Manby Smith and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Autobiography of a Working Man written by Alexander Somerville and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 532 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 Take It Like a Man written by Boy George and published by It Books. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a flick of his locks and a lash of his tongue, Boy George waltzed into musical stardom in 1982 with his smash hit "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" As the quintessential pop star of the 1980s, Boy George was constantly in the public eye, with a string of platinum Culture Club hits, sensational personal appearances, camp behavior, and gender-bending dress fueling the media's infatuation. A Grammy Award for "Karma Chameleon" sealed Boy George's pop-icon status as the avant-garde star whose beguiling melodies and impertinent one-liners seduced an unsuspecting public. But after he reached the pinnacle of success, his life took a devastating turn. Culture Club went into eclipse, his hushed-up relationship with drummer Jon Moss fell apart, and Boy George found a new and dangerous obsession: drugs. In this electrifying memoir, Boy George tells the story of the crazy highs and desperate lows; the family struggles; the friends and lovers—gay, straight, and transvestite; the obsessive media infatuation; and the agony, shame, and despair of withdrawal. Filled with confession, revelation, and inspiration, Take It Like a Man is the mesmerizing account of how George achieved the nearly impossible—coming back from addiction and achieving health, sobriety, and a new horizon of musical success.
Download or read book Aaron Copland written by Howard Pollack and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid and fascinating portrait of the American composer. The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Aaron Copland (1900-1990) became one of America's most beloved and esteemed composers. His work, which includes Fanfare for the Common Man, A Lincoln Portrait, and Appalachian Spring, has been honored by a huge following of devoted listeners. But the full richness of Copland's life and accomplishments has never, until now, been documented or understood. Howard Pollack's meticulously researched and engrossing biography explores the symphony of Copland's life: his childhood in Brooklyn; his homosexuality; Paris in the early 1920s; the Alfred Stieglitz circle; his experimentation with jazz; the communist witch trials; Hollywood in the forties; public disappointment with his later, intellectual work; and his struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Furthermore, Pollack presents informed discussions of Copland's music, explaining and clarifying its newness and originality, its aesthetic and social aspects, its distinctive and enduring personality. "Not only a success in its own right, but a valuable model of what biography can and probably should be. " - Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man written by James Weldon Johnson and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the year 1912, 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to as the "Ex-Colored Man", living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Download or read book The Autobiography of a Working Man by One Who Has Whistled at the Plough written by Alexander Somerville and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-22 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Literature by the Working Class written by Cassandra Falke and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewing all of these stories together, Falke captures the richness of working-class culture, the bravery of these authors' persistence, and the fecundity of their literary imaginations. Literature by the Working Class proposes a way to read working-class autobiographies that attends to both the socio-historical influences on their composition and their value as individual literary works. Although social historians, reading historians, and historians of rhetoric have recognized the significance of working-class autobiography to the early nineteenth century, providing broad overviews of the genre, very little work has been done to read these works as literature. Part of this negligence arises for the style of these autobiographies. They reject notions of autonomous selfhood and linear self-creation that characterize other Romantic period autobiographical works.
Download or read book A Working Man s Autobiography written by Jeff James and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Grandfather wrote about his life from his death bed. This is a beautiful story of one man's life. Ivor James was born into a poor Welsh mining town. The begining of the first world war ended his fathers miserable mining career and displaced the family to London. Barely surviving the war the family heads to Toronto, Canada to make a new start. Ivor meets the love of his life on that fateful crossing and so begins his Canadian story. It is hard to believe the insight, intelligence and varied references made in this autobiography when considering the complete lack of formal education Ivor had. He is a rigourous and articulate writer, driftwood sculptor and painter and this story is his legacy.
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Download or read book The Measure of a Man written by Sidney Poitier and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite the contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in selfquestioning. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and complicated life, with many twists and turns, how well I've done at measuring up to the values I myself have set." In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Sidney Poitier here explores these elements of character and personal values to take his own measure--as a man, as a husband and father, and as an actor. Poitier credits his parents and his childhood on tiny Cat Island in the Bahamas for equipping him with the unflinching sense of right and wrong and of selfworth that he has never surrendered and that have dramatically shaped his world. "In the kind of place where I grew up," recalls Poitier, "what's coming at you is the sound of the sea and the smell of the wind and momma's voice and the voice of your dad and the craziness of your brothers and sisters ... and that's it." Without television, radio, and material distractions to obscure what matters most, he could enjoy the simple things, endure the long commitments, and find true meaning in his life. Poitier was uncompromising as he pursued a personal and public life that would honor his upbringing and the invaluable legacy of his parents just a few years after his introduction to indoor plumbing and the automobile, Poitier broke racial barrier after racial barrier to launch a pioneering acting career. Committed to the notion that what one does for a living articulates who one is, Poitier played only forceful and affecting characters who said something positive, useful, and lasting about the human condition. Here, finally, is Poitier's own introspective look at what has informed his performances and his life. Poitier explores the nature of sacrifice and commitment, pride and humility, rage and forgiveness, and paying the price for artistic integrity, What emerges is a picture of a man seeking truth, passion, and balance in the face of limits--his own and the world's. A triumph of the spirit, The Measure of a Man captures the essential Poitier.
Download or read book The Working man s Way in the World Being the Autobiography of a Journeyman Printer written by Charles Manby Smith and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book SELECTED WORK of THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY of THEODORE ROOSEVELT THROUGH THE BRAZILIAN WILDERNESS AMERICA and THE WORLD WAR SET of 3 BOOKS VOL 2 written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 939 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SELECTED WORK OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT (THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT/ THROUGH THE BRAZILIAN WILDERNESS/ AMERICA AND THE WORLD WAR) (SET OF 3 BOOKS) VOL-2 by Theodore Roosevelt: Explore the writings and adventures of Theodore Roosevelt with this collection of selected works. From his autobiography to his exploration of the Brazilian wilderness and reflections on America's role in the world war, this set provides a comprehensive view of Roosevelt's life and legacy.
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