An American Life

Reducere. A revelatory look at the life of the great American author--and how it shaped his most beloved worksJack London was born a working class, fatherles...

Reducere. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fasci...

Reducere. A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California b...

Reducere. A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California b...

Part memoir and part description of the creative process, this is an absorbing journey through the musical landscape of John Adams, one of today's ...

Reducere. Now in paperback, here is the critically acclaimed, best-selling biography of one of Hollywood's legendary stars. Burt Lancaster is known to audien...

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"This magnificent and important biography...is the best ever written on the man." - The New Republic; "Mr. Schickel's excellent and important biogr...

Reducere. Going Rogue is the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Sarah Palin, one of America's most beloved and controversial political figures. Now wi...

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave - Frederick Douglass

Reducere. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most influential autobiographies ever written. This classic did as much as or more than a...

Reducere. Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography - Winner of the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize - Winner of the W...

Sportin' Life tells for the first time the full, dramatic story of one of America's great song-and-dance men. A groundbreaking tap dancer who provi...

Reducere. An American Slave: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave Frederic...

Reducere. Delmore Schwartz was only twenty-four in 1938 when his first book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, was published. and received praise from T. S. ...

An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials The preeminent American slave narrative first publ...

Reducere. ``Now, `` said he, ``if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a s...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is a special Bicentennial Edition of Douglass's most famous book which has been published by his direct descendants through Frederi...

Reducere. Ava is an American Avocet, a breed of shorebird who leaves her home at the Laguna Madre and travels 1, 000 miles to stay for a season at the larges...

When Dr. Ellen Einterz first arrives in the town of Kolofata in Cameroon, the situation is dire: patients are exploited by healthcare workers, unst...

Reducere. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglas...

Reducere. The Ames Farm of Woolwich, Maine documents the life of a Maine dairy-farming family in the 1930s through '60s. The Ames family worked the same land...

Reducere. The Ames Farm of Woolwich, Maine documents the life of a Maine dairy-farming family in the 1930s through '60s. The Ames family worked the same land...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave By Frederick Douglass

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Reducere. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume. Frederick Douglas...

Frederick Douglass's pioneering autobiography that played a key part in the abolition of slavery.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Frederick Dougl...

Reducere. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Sl...

Life in America. An introduction to the study of contemporary american culture. Editia a 2-a - Ovidiu Leonte

Frederick Douglass was a key figure in helping to secure the abolition of slavery in America - discover his Narrative this Black History Month. A p...

Reducere. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas an American Slave By Frederick Douglas

Iconic urbanist Lewis Mumford stressed the role of a well-constructed city in the development of the good life, championing pedestrian-scaled, sust...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Douglass Frederick DouglassAuthor: Frederick DouglassAuthor: Douglass begins by saying that he does not know his birthday a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gregory McNameeFor sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ec...

Douglass's memoir, first published in 1845, is the moving narrative of twenty-one years of enslavement and escape to freedom. In a new introduction...

History is recorded in many ways. According toauthor James Deetz, the past can be seen most fullyby studying the small things so often forgotten.Ob...

Reducere. The definitive, award-winning biography of the legendary chief and his dramatic role in the history of westward expansionReviled by the United Stat...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frederick DouglassDouglass' powerful account of his journey from slave, by way of determined self education, to being one o...

Published in 1845, this little book was widely read by the public in the North who knew little about the inner workings of slavery. It was favorabl...

Reducere. On December 22, 1964, at a small, closely guarded airstrip in the desert town of Palmdale, California, Lockheed test pilot Bob Gilliland stepped in...

On the west bank of the Mississippi lies the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers. Short on hope but big on dreams, its mostly poor and marginalized...

Reducere. "A gutsy success story" (The New York Times Book Review) about one tenacious woman's journey to escape rural poverty and create a billion-dollar fa...

Description"A fascinating look at some fascinating people who show how democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan."--Mario Puzo In this un...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Shaul MagidNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 173 x 242 x 30Cover type: Hardback...

Reducere. Get to know the iconic historical figure, Frederick Douglass through his story and his writing as the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass d...

Reducere. This book is a memoir written by an African American woman who grew up in therural south during the late 1930s and 1940s. Being poor and having to ...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass's autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, is widely regarded as a classic of American nin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert R. MaxNewly enlisted in the Army during World War II, 21-year-old Bob Max soon found himself recruited into the Fort...

Reducere. Johnny Cash is one of the most influential figures in music and American popular culture today. While he was an icon to people of all ages during h...

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Reducere. Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt returned for one last...

The intriguing story of Janice Martin, a young girl from Baltimore, selected to be part of Washington's secret new codebreaking intelligence factor...

Reducere. December 17, 2021, marks the 40th anniversary of the kidnapping of then Brigadier General James Lee Dozier in Verona, Italy by Red Brigade terroris...

Reducere. The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he ...

Reducere. New Mexico Book AwardsHistory has portrayed Christopher "Kit" Carson in black and white. Best known as a nineteenth-century frontier hero, he has b...

Reducere. God's Free-Man is a historical presentation guided by God that delineates the capture of Harry and Kate Freeman, who were the co-founders of the ci...

Reducere. Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller This Modern Library edition combines two of the most impor...

The tragic story of Ethel Rosenberg, the first woman in America to be sent to her death for a crime other than murderPublisher: Orion Publishing Co...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH IN BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRSA new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and...

Reducere. Best known for catching wolves alive with his bare hands, John R. Abernathy (1876-1941) was born to Scottish ancestors in Texas. Raised in the burg...

Reducere. The bestselling book that launched meth back into the nation's consciousness. Based on Reding's four years of reporting in the agricultural town of...

Reducere. On October 1, 2000, Pope John Paul II proclaimed Katharine Drexel (1858-1955) to be a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Only the second American-...

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"Revelatory . . . With every chapter, you get a history lesson, a hunting lesson, a nature lesson and a cooking lesson. . . . Meat Eater offers an ...

Reducere. An intoxicating memoir of an American who discovers a passion for French wine and gambles everything to chase a dream of owning a vineyard in Burgu...

Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass ignored his master's veto on black education and taught himself to read and write. Escaping to the Northern S...

Reducere. DescriptionThis classic of American literature, a dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first published in 1845, when ...

Reducere. By the time of his death in 1988, Romare Bearden was most widely celebrated for his large-scale public murals and collages, which were reproduced i...