Author: William Winwood Reade
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Author: Amasa Loring
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Category : Piscataquis County (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Harold Frederic
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: Henry Adams
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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One of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written, The Education of Henry Adams is told in the third person, as if its author were watching his own life unwind. It begins with his early life in Quincy, the family seat outside of Boston, and soon moves on to primary school, Harvard College, and beyond. He learns about the unpredictability of politics from statesmen and diplomats, and the newest discoveries in technology, science, history, and art from some of the most important thinkers and creators of the day. In essentially every case, Adams claims, his education and upbringing let him down, leaving him in the dark. But as the historian David S. Brown puts it, this is a “charade”: The Education’s “greatest irony is its claim to telling the story of its author’s ignorance, confusion, and misdirection.” Instead, Adams uses its “vigorous prose and confident assertions” to attack “the West after 1400.” For instance, industrialization and technology make Adams wonder “whether the American people knew where they were driving.” And in one famous chapter, “The Dynamo and the Virgin,” he contrasts the rise of electricity and the power it brings with the strength and resilience of religious belief in the Middle Ages. The grandson and great-grandson of two presidents and the son of a politician and diplomat who served under Lincoln as minister to Great Britain, Adams was born into immense privilege, as he knew well: “Probably no child, born in the year, held better cards than he.” After growing up a Boston Brahmin, he worked as a journalist, historian, and professor, moving in early middle age to Washington. Although Adams distributed a privately printed edition of a hundred copies of The Education for friends and family in 1907, it wasn’t published more widely until 1918, the year he died. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1919, and in 1999 a Modern Library panel placed it first on its list of the best nonfiction books published in the twentieth century. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author: Harris Newmark
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 802

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Author: James Bryce Bryce (Viscount)
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Category : Holy Roman Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Author: William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Author: Jaynie Anderson
Publisher: Miegunyah Press
ISBN: 9780522875638
Category :
Languages : en
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The Invention of Melbourne defines the relationship between an architect of genius, William Wardell, and the first Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, James Goold, an Irishman educated in Risorgimento, Italy. Their partnership produced St Patrick's, the largest cathedral of the 19th century anywhere in the world, and some thirteen churches, decorated with hundreds of Baroque paintings. These ambitious policies coincided with the Gold Rush, which contributed financially to their success. The contribution made by Wardell and Goold to the built environment of Melbourne remains significant. Together, they actively and creatively shaped the city that became a major international metropolis.

Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
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Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Author: Mary Boykin Chesnut
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674202917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.