Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 9
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Arming the Militia. Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting a Statement Showing Amounts Due to Or Overdrawn by the Several States Under the Law for Arming the Militia on the 22d Day of January, 1874 ; Also the Annual Report of Chief of Ordnance for the Year Ending June 30, 1871. January 27, 1874. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting a Statement Showing Amounts Due to Or Overdrawn by the Several States Under the Law for Arming the Militia on the 22d Day of January, 1874 ; Also the Annual Report of Chief of Ordnance for the Year Ending June 30, 1871
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Militia
Languages : en
Pages : 9
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, September 5, 1774-March 4, 1881
Author: Benjamin Perley PoorePublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
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Senate documents
Author: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Report of the Comptroller of the Currency
Author: United States. Office of the Comptroller of the CurrencyPublisher:
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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The New Zealand Official Year-book
Author: New Zealand. Department of StatisticsPublisher:
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Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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The Education of Henry Adams
Author: Henry AdamsPublisher: Standard Ebooks
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
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.
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