Download or read book Recollections of a Southern Daughter written by Cornelia Jones Pond and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first unabridged publication of the memoirs of Cornelia Jones Pond, a privileged child of a slaveholding family in Georgia, follws her life from her birth into the antebellum world of 1834, through the apocalyptic Civil War, and beyond. UP.
Download or read book Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington written by George Washington Parke Custis and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Five Chiefs written by Justice John Paul Stevens and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history (1975-2010) -- only Justice William O. Douglas, whom Stevens succeeded, and Stephen Field have served on the Court for a longer time. In Five Chiefs, Justice Stevens captures the inner workings of the Supreme Court via his personal experiences with the five Chief Justices -- Fred Vinson, Earl Warren, Warren Burger, William Rehnquist, and John Roberts -- that he interacted with. He reminisces of being a law clerk during Vinson's tenure; a practicing lawyer for Warren; a circuit judge and junior justice for Burger; a contemporary colleague of Rehnquist; and a colleague of current Chief Justice John Roberts. Along the way, he will discuss his views of some the most significant cases that have been decided by the Court from Vinson, who became Chief Justice in 1946 when Truman was President, to Roberts, who became Chief Justice in 2005. Packed with interesting anecdotes and stories about the Court, Five Chiefs is an unprecedented and historically significant look at the highest court in the United States.
Download or read book Some Memories of a Long Life 1854 1911 written by Malvina Shanklin Harlan and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2002-05-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscovered by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, this unique account of life before, during, and after the Civil War was written by the wife of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, who played a central role in some of the most significant civil rights decisions of his era. “Remarkable . . . a chronicle of the times, as seen by a brave woman of the era.”—Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from the foreword When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg began researching the history of the women associated with the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress sent her Malvina Harlan’s unpublished manuscript. Recalling Abigail Adams’s order to “remember the ladies,” Justice Ginsburg guided its long journey from forgotten document to published book. Malvina Shanklin Harlan witnessed—and gently influenced—national history from the perspective of a political leader’s wife. Her husband, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911), wrote the lone dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, the infamous case that endorsed separate but equal segregation. And for fifty-seven years he was married to a woman who was busy making a mental record of their eventful lives. After Justice Harlan’s death in 1911, Malvina wrote Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854–1911, as a testament to her husband’s accomplishments and to her own. The memoir begins with Malvina, the daughter of passionate abolitionists, becoming the teenage bride of John Marshall Harlan, whose family owned more than a dozen slaves. Malvina depicts her life in antebellum Kentucky, and her courageous defense of the Harlan homestead during the Civil War. She writes of her husband’s ascent in legal circles and his eventual appointment to the Supreme Court in 1877, where he was the author of opinions that continued to influence American race relations deep into the twentieth century. Yet Some Memories is more than a wife’s account of a famous and powerful man. It chronicles the remarkable evolution of a young woman from Indiana who became a keen observer of both her family’s life and that of her nation.
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Download or read book Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Joseph T. Buckingham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life, Vol. 1 of 2 My father's name was Nehemiah Tinker. He was born at Mansfield, Conn. In 1740, of parents not in very affluent circumstances, it may be presumed, for he, and a younger brother, were apprenticed to a shoe maker. Before he was twenty-one years old, he set up the business of shoemaking, on his own account, in the adjoining town of Windham, then the shire town of Windham county. I have it from undoubted tes timony, that he was an excellent shoemaker - that he carried on a large business - and acquired a handsome property. That he possessed some share of the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens, I infer from the fact, that, for several years, he was a deputy-sheriff, the gaoler of the county, and a captain in the militia. This rank he held at the breaking out of the Revolutionary War. In March, 1776, when the militia from various parts of New England were offering their services to strengthen the army that was besieging Boston, the company under his command volunteered in the cause, and, with such equipments and provisions as the town could furnish, marched as far as Pomfret on their way to join the patriot army. At Pomfret they received intelligence of the evacuation of Boston by the British troops, and returned home. 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 Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby written by Alex Bowlby and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1969-09-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic memoir by an infantryman in the British army during the Second World War, “a book to bring a shiver to the most grizzled veteran (The Sunday Times). In 1944, having distinguished itself in the North Africa campaign, Rifleman Bowlby’s battalion of Greenjackets was sent to Italy. But instead of being used in the specialized role for which it had been trained, most of the battalion’s vehicles were taken away on arrival, and the riflemen were told that they were to be used as ordinary infantry. Stripped of its hard core of regulars, the battalion suffered one disastrous defeat after another until its hard-won reputation fell in tatters. This is a memoir that captures “quite extraordinary realism in this worm’s eye view . . . the sweating, slogging, frightened infantryman in conditions of extreme stress and horror” (The Sunday Times).
