Download or read book The Dramatic Story of Old Glory Classic Reprint written by Samuel Abbott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dramatic Story, of Old Glory Flag stands for one hundred millions of people com posed Of many races, classes, creeds and parties. The appeal must be addressed to the imagination of men, especially of the youth of the land. This explains the undying popularity and also the special utility of our national song: The Star Spangled Banner. It is connected with a thrilling incident when, in one of the darkest hours of the Republic, when its fortunes were at their lowest ebb since the days of Valley Forge, a little band of Americans held out against a superior power. The poet caught the spirit of the occasion and found his inspiration in the fact that, over the smoke Of battle, the Flag was still there. Mr. Abbott has, therefore, done a public service in narrating in an interesting way the history of the Amer ican Flag, and it is to be hoped, not merely because it is a readable book, but because it should be a potent weapon for a quickened patriotism, that the book will have a wide circulation and that, through its interesting pages, thousands of Americans may better know their country and its Flag. 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 The Dramatic Story of Old Glory written by Samuel Abbott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dramatic Story, of Old Glory If "good wine needs no bush" and a "good play needs no epilogue," similarly a good book needs no fore-word. This restraining reflection naturally suggests itself to one who is asked to write a foreword for another man's book. Mr. Abbott has done a real Service in bringing together all available knowledge with reference to the American Flag. The events of the last four years have demonstrated the vital necessity of reviving the spirit of Americanism. Thoughtful Americans sadly realize that our nation in the last fifty years has, in the matter of im-migration, swallowed far more than it has been able to assimilate. It is suffering from racial indigestion. This led Colonel Roosevelt, in his forceful and original way, to suggest that America had become a "polyglot boarding-house," and in the earlier stages of the world conflict, it did seem to many that America was a congeries of peoples and, as such, apparently lacking in the spirit of national consciousness and patriotic unity, which generally characterizes more homogeneous nations. The event proved that these misgivings were exaggerated and that America, when summoned to a great duty, did not lack unity of spirit. 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 History and Romance of Old Glory Classic Reprint written by Allan Sutherland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-21 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History and Romance of "Old Glory" Flag of the fearless-hearted, Flag of the broken chain, Flag in a day-dawn started, Never to pale or wane Dearly we prize its colors, With the heaven light breaking through, The clustered stars and the steadfast bars, The red, the white, and the blue. 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 Old Glory Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old Glory The second founder of the Republic. His strength rested on two rocks - unflinching principle and illimitable common sense. - lord rosebery. 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 Revision as Resistance in Twentieth Century American Drama written by M. Malburne-Wade and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses Victor Turner's concept of the social drama and the concept of the liminal to argue for a more complicated view of revision.
Download or read book From Salem to Nashville OLD GLORY The Life and Times of Patriot Captain William Driver written by Jack Benz and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is about Captain William Driver as told by his Great-Great-grandson, Jack Benz, in collaboration with other writers and advisers. The text is strikingly enhanced by over 200 professionally crafted images and by an appendix of founding father documents. The resources substantially came from Benz's collection of items up to 200 year's old. Some episodes are in print for the first time. Captain Driver was born in Salem, MA in 1803 to puritan parents within a culture and heritage of seafarers. His homes were ports and vessels that sailed the vast oceans in the early 19th century. It is a true story of adventure, daring, high drama, heroism, patriotism, and incomparable public service on behalf of the helpless. Young William was gifted beyond his year's as evidenced by his scholarliness in the Salem's famed Hacker school, and at 14, his hiring on a trading vessel. This background immersed him in ventures around the world, seeking fame and fortune trading rare spices and other prized commodities. By 21, he captained ships that circled the world on odysseys that exposed him to numerous dangerous encounters at sea, including horrific storms and turbulence with waves over 50 feet high. Ashore, he confronted life-changing events in the lands of cannibals, giants, pirates, savages, and scantily clad island women. In a famous episode, he rescued families of survivors of the original mutineers on HMS ship Bounty and delivered them to their adopted home on Pitcairn Island. This venture was part and parcel in numerous movies, including one receiving an academy award for the best picture of the year and touted best nautical film of all times. Captain Driver retired young and wealthy and moved to Nashville, TN. with his third wife. Two others predeceased him, and the third is shocking. In this city on the rocks, he was an activist Union sympathizer generally shunned by the largely Confederate citizenry at a time Civil War was imminent. As a staunch abolitionist living where the city even owned slaves, he was a misfit. He and his home place often were vilified because of his views, crusty manner, and irritating practice of displaying Old Glory, his ship's legendary flag. The residents viewed him as a cantankerous rabble-rouser, always rocking the boat and supporting unpopular causes on behalf of the downtrodden, exploited, and uneducated-mainly Native Americans, Negroes, women, the sick and infirmed. He was their defender, friend, spokesman, and hero. Driver was active in civic affairs, once running for mayor and later holding several governmental offices. Among his significant civic achievements were helping facilitate the establishment of public education in Nashville, and as provost, regulating prostitution and disease control. The Captain routinely picked fights over issues with the churches, government, and establishments in general; even with some in his family members, their discord led to estrangement. His uniqueness is best described in his patriotism evidenced by his fierce defense, respect, and reverence for Old Glory. He had observed and experienced its influence around the world--feared, honored, and respected like no other country's flag. He proclaimed its majesty to be so profound it even waves to defend the rights of those whose actions and speech are cowardly despicable. As a bonus, the book offers ancillary educational information about world cultures, history, geography, navigation, philosophy, religion, and science. Preliminary reviews termed it as attractively presented, cleverly written, edifying, and intensely entertaining-a must-read!
Download or read book The Greater Glory Classic Reprint written by William Dudley Pelley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Greater Glory We have completed another week. We have added six more numbers to the files which our children and our children's children will look back upon some day, perhaps in amusement, perhaps in soft sorrow. For another six times we have repeated to our little world the fleeting joys, the momentary successes, the simple and awful little tragedies that make up the daily life Of our community and its people. 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 The Old Glory written by Robert Lowell and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Five Obies, now back in print after fifteen years, a stage adaptation of classic stories by Hawthorne and Melville In the three plays in The Old Glory--Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; and Benito Cereno--the most powerful figure in postwar American poetry confronts the most haunting American fiction writers of the nineteenth century. The result is a mythical, nightmare history of three centuries in America. In Endecott and the Red Cross, Hawthorne's Puritan governor, horrified by his colony's high living, declares, "Everything in America will be Bible, blood and iron. / England will no longer exist." The other two plays, based on Hawthorne's My Kinsman, Major Molineux and Melville's Benito Cereno, take up the themes of parricide and independence: one in Boston on the eve of the Revolutionary War, the other on a merchant ship in the Caribbean in the early nineteenth century. The plays were first performed in 1964, when the poet Randall Jarrell wrote: "I have never seen a better American play than Benito Cereno, the major play in Robert Lowell's The Old Glory . . . The play is a masterpiece of imaginative knowledge."
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Download or read book The House of Boni Liveright 1917 1933 written by Charles Egleston and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents historical and bibliographic information about the New York publishing house of Boni and Liveright. The volume covers the period from 1917 to 1933.
Download or read book Origin and History of the American Flag and of the Naval and Yacht club Signals Seals and Arms and Principal National Songs of the United States with a Chronicle of the Symbols Standards Banners and Flags of Ancient and Modern Nations written by George Henry Preble and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Playwrights Since 1945 written by Philip Kolin and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1989-01-23 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the state of research on and history of performances of 40 American playwrights, including major mainstream, ethnic, and regional playwrights. The essays list their published and unpublished plays, as well as their other works; document the performances; identify bibliographies, biographies, critical studies, and analyses of the plays; and discuss the critical reception. The volume deals with production histories, covering critics, actors, directors, and theater companies that have contributed as much to theater as the playwrights themselves. It also discusses original screenplays and identifies writing on younger playwrights on whom research has just begun. ISBN 0-313-25543-1: $66.00 (For use only in the library).
Download or read book Robert Lowell Interviews and Memoirs written by Robert Lowell and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of conversations with Lowell and of critical reflections on his work
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Download or read book Uncertain Glory written by Joan Sales and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF 2017 A classic Catalan work about love, family, and class during the Spanish Civil war. Spain, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Lluís Ruscalleda eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of intrigue. But the lady of Castel de Olivo—a beautiful widow with a shadowy past—puts a high price on her affections. In Barcelona, Trini Milmany struggles to raise Lluís’s son on her own, letters from the front her only solace. With bombs falling as fast as the city’s morale, she leaves to spend the winter with Lluís’s brigade on a quiet section of the line. But even on “dead” fronts the guns do not stay silent for long. Trini’s decision will put her family’s fate in the hands of Juli Soleràs, an old friend and a traitor of easy conscience, a philosopher-cynic locked in an eternal struggle with himself. Joan Sales, a combatant in the Spanish Civil War, distilled his experiences into a timeless story of thwarted love, lost youth, and crushed illusions. A thrilling epic that has drawn comparison with the work of Dostoyevsky and Stendhal, Uncertain Glory is a homegrown counterpart to classics such as Homage to Catalonia and For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Download or read book The Open Shelf written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
