An American Life

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

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

Reducere. Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, h...

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: Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave By Frederick Douglass

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...

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

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

Reducere. Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, h...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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. 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...

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

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 ...

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Reducere. After barely making it out of the Congo War alive and experiencing South Africa right after apartheid, Yves and his family fled their homeland and ...

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. 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...

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. 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. 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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If you want to discover the captivating life of Walt Disney, then keep reading...A man truly lives on even after his death if he leaves a legacy th...

Reducere. An Insider's Compelling View of Life in a Muslim Country When Audra Grace Shelby and her husband felt God calling them to minister in the Middle Ea...

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...

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...

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

Reducere. "Throughout his long career, Frederick Douglass cut an imposing figure, renowned as an impassioned abolitionist, a fiery writer and newspaper edito...

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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...

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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. ...

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

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

John Inglis was born in Philadelphia, the son of a slave trading merchant. 'I am Determined to Live or Die on Board My Ship' covers his action-pack...

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

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...

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

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-...

Reducere. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, a...

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

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

Reducere. Dedicated to all those living elsewhere who would rather be in TucsonTucson is the first comprehensive history of a unique corner of America, a cit...

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...

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. 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. Near the end of her classic wartime account, Susie King Taylor writes, "there are many people who do not know what some of the colored women did du...

Reducere. People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven in...

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

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