Author: J. M. EvansPublisher:
ISBN: 9780934544399
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Two Thousand Notable Americans
Author: J. M. EvansPublisher:
ISBN: 9780934544399
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Vassar Quarterly
Author: Financial Accounting for Local and State School Systems
Author: Peyton Place
Author: Grace MetaliousPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor.
Harvard Alumni Bulletin
Author: Country Builder's Assistant
Author: Asher BenjaminPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1557091048
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
This book revolutionized 19th-century American architecture and changed forever the type of building that was done in our country.
Redemption
Author: Nicholas LemannPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 142992361X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away. Nicholas Lemann opens his extraordinary new book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This was the start of an insurgency that changed the course of American history: for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant'ssupport for the emergent structures of black political power. The remorseless strategy of well-financed "White Line" organizations was to create chaos and keep blacks from voting out of fear for their lives and livelihoods. Redemption is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875. Lemann bases his devastating account on a wealth of military records, congressional investigations, memoirs, press reports, and the invaluable papers of Adelbert Ames, the war hero from Maine who was Mississippi's governor at the time. When Ames pleaded with Grant for federal troops who could thwart the white terrorists violently disrupting Republican political activities, Grant wavered, and the result was a bloody, corrupt election in which Mississippi was "redeemed"—that is, returned to white control. Redemption makes clear that this is what led to the death of Reconstruction—and of the rights encoded in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. We are still living with the consequences.
The Journal of Physical Education
Author: Harold T. FriermoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physical education and training
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Motherhood Is the New MBA
Author: Shari StormPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429956704
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
When it comes to being a good leader, we've read the sports analogies, we've read the war analogies. But how about hitting a little closer to home? As a mother, the following rules and tactics probably sound familiar to you: - Never Underestimate the Power of Kiss-It-Make-It-Better - Hold the Line on Tantrums - Remember the Magic Word Count to Three Before Giving a Time-Out These are good, solid rules for how to raise children. But can these same rules make you a better boss? Absolutely. In her impressive first book, Shari Storm takes the lessons attributed to parenting and shows how they can be directly applied in the workplace, making you a more effective manager and giving you the confidence to lead and shape your staff into the employees you want them to be. Shari gathers a wonderful collection of funny and inspirational stories from a wide range of executive mothers---TV producers, firefighters, accountants, teachers, baristas, corporate leaders, pilots---for an engaging, easy-to-absorb read. These pages will provide both laughs and enlightenment. For the woman who wants to excel in her business, this goes beyond your average management book.
"We Met in Paris"
Author: Joan E HowardPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826274048
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Yourcenar’s novel Memoirs of Hadrian in 1954. European biographies of Yourcenar have often disparaged Frick and her relationship with Yourcenar, however. This work shows Frick as a person of substance in her own right, and paints a portrait of both women that is at once intimate and scrupulously documented. It contains a great deal of new information that will disrupt long-held beliefs about Yourcenar and may even shock some of her scholars and fans.