Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Men
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Eminent Americans
Author: Benson John LossingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Men
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living
Author: John LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans
Author: Evert Augustus DuyckinckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Portraits, American
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
American Oratory, Or, Selections from the Speeches of Eminent Americans
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans ... from Original Full Length Paintings by A. Chappel. With Biographical and Historical Narratives
Author: Evert Augustus DuyckinckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Eminent Outlaws
Author: Christopher BramPublisher: Twelve
ISBN: 0446575984
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This “standard text of the defining era of gay literati” tells the cultural history of the interconnected lives of the 20th century's most influential gay writers (Philadelphia Inquirer). In the years following World War II a group of gay writers established themselves as major cultural figures in American life. Truman Capote, the enfant terrible, whose finely wrought fiction and nonfiction captured the nation's imagination. Gore Vidal, the wry, withering chronicler of politics, sex, and history. Tennessee Williams, whose powerful plays rocketed him to the top of the American theater. James Baldwin, the harrowingly perceptive novelist and social critic. Christopher Isherwood, the English novelist who became a thoroughly American novelist. And the exuberant Allen Ginsberg, whose poetry defied censorship and exploded minds. Together, their writing introduced America to gay experience and sensibility, and changed our literary culture. But the change was only beginning. A new generation of gay writers followed, taking more risks and writing about their sexuality more openly. Edward Albee brought his prickly iconoclasm to the American theater. Edmund White laid bare his own life in stylized, autobiographical works. Armistead Maupin wove a rich tapestry of the counterculture, queer and straight. Mart Crowley brought gay men's lives out of the closet and onto the stage. And Tony Kushner took them beyond the stage, to the center of American ideas. With authority and humor, Christopher Bram weaves these men's ambitions, affairs, feuds, loves, and appetites into a single sweeping narrative. Chronicling over fifty years of momentous change-from civil rights to Stonewall to AIDS and beyond. Eminent Outlaws is an inspiring, illuminating tale: one that reveals how the lives of these men are crucial to understanding the social and cultural history of the American twentieth century.
Eminent American Chemists
Author: David Herbert KillefferPublisher:
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Category : Chemists
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Unequalled Collection of Engraved Portraits of Eminent Americans and Some Noted Foreigners Belonging to Hon. James T. Mitchell ...
Author: Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Bulldozed
Author: Carla T. MainPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459611748
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Eminent domain entered the awareness of many Americans with the recent U.S. Supreme Court case Kelo v. New London. Across the political spectrum, people were outraged when the Court majority said that a local government may transfer property from one private party to another under the ''public use'' clause of the Constitution, for the sake of ''economic development. Carla T. Main - who in the past, as a lawyer, has represented the condemning authorities in eminent domain cases - examines how property rights in America have come to be so weak, tracing the history of eminent domain from the Revolutionary War to the Kelo case. But the heart of Bulldozed is a story of how eminent domain has affected an American family and the small-town community where they have lived and worked for decades. In the 1940s, Pappy and Isabel Gore established a shrimp processing plant in Freeport, Texas. Three generations of Gores built Western Seafood into a thriving business that stood up to fierce competition and market flux. But Freeport was struggling, and city officials decided that a private yacht marina on the Old Brazos River might save it. They would use eminent domain to take the Gores' waterfront property and hand it over to the developer, an heir of a legendary Texas oil family, in a risky sweetheart deal. For three years, the Gores resisted the taking with every ounce of strength they had. Around them, the fabric of the community unraveled as friends and neighbors took sides. Bulldozed vividly recounts the Gores' fight with city hall, and at the same time ponders larger questions of what property rights mean today and who among us is entitled to hold on to the American Dream.
Historical Records and Studies
Author: United States Catholic Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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