Author: Melanie Randolph MillerPublisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
An American Founding Father s important contributions to the French Revolution
Envoy to the Terror
Author: Melanie Randolph MillerPublisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
An American Founding Father s important contributions to the French Revolution
Envoy to the Terror
Author: Melanie Randolph MillerPublisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612342779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
An American Founding Father's important contributions to the French Revolution.
Flight of the WASP
Author: Michael GrossPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 080216188X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Fifteen families.Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America’s history. For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political force in America. While the WASP elite has, in the last half century, indeed drifted from American centrality to the periphery, its relevance and impact remain, as Michael Gross reveals in his compelling chronicle. From Colonial America’s founding settlements through the Gilded Age to the present day, Gross traces the complex legacy of American WASPs—their profound accomplishments and egregious failures—through the lives of fifteen influential individuals and their very privileged, sometimes intermarried families. As the Bradford, Randolph, Morris, Biddle, Sanford, Peabody and Whitney clans progress, prosper and periodically stumble, defining aspects in the four-century sweep of American history emerge: our wide, oft-contentious religious diversity; the deep scars of slavery, genocide, and intolerance; the creation and sometime mis-use of astonishing economic and political power; an enduring belief in the future; an instinct to offset inequity with philanthropy; an equal capacity for irresponsible, sometimes wanton, behavior. “American society was supposed to be different,” writes Gross, “but for most of our history we have had a patriciate, an aristocracy, a hereditary oligarchic upper class, who initiated the American national experiment.” In previous acclaimed books such as 740 Park and Rogues’ Gallery, Gross has explored elite culture in microcosm; expanding the canvas, Flight of the WASP chronicles it across four centuries and fifteen generations in an ambitious and consequential contribution to American history.
The Envoy
Author: Zalmay KhalilzadPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 125008301X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Zalmay Khalilzad grew up in a traditional family in the ancient city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. As a teenager, Khalilzad spent a year as an exchange student in California, where after some initial culture shocks he began to see the merits of America's very different way of life. He believed the ideals that make American culture work, like personal initiative, community action, and respect for women, could make a transformative difference to his home country, the Muslim world and beyond. Of course, 17-year-old Khalilzad never imagined that he would one day be in a position to advance such ideas. With 9/11, he found himself uniquely placed to try to shape mutually beneficial relationships between his two worlds. As U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, he helped craft two constitutions and forge governing coalitions. As U.S. Ambassador to the UN, he used his unique personal diplomacy to advance U.S. interests and values. In The Envoy, Khalilzad details his experiences under three presidential administrations with candid behind-the-scenes insights. He argues that America needs an intelligent, effective foreign policy informed by long-term thinking and supported by bipartisan commitment. Part memoir, part record of a political insider, and part incisive analysis of the current Middle East, The Envoy arrives in time for foreign policy discussions leading up to the 2016 election.
Alien Envoy
Author: Pamela F. ServicePublisher: Darby Creek ™
ISBN: 1467728160
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Alien Agent Zack Gaither has spent his whole life on planet Earth. His assignment: to protect humans from the knowledge of life on other planets. Finally, the time is right, and Zack has the chance to help Earth join the Galactic Union. The only problem? A small army of alien thugs is set on keeping Earth out of the picture. And they’re planning to take Zack out in the process. Fortunately, Zack’s got a few old friends on his side. Together, they’re headed on an adventure that will take Zack off of Earth and across the galaxy. What will the future hold for this Alien Agent?
The Envoy
Author: Alex KershawPublisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 0306815575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Kershaw tells the epic and heroic story of how Raoul Wallenberg out-dueled Adolph Eichmann and saved more than 100,000 Jews in Budapest from the Nazi death camps.
Ancient Egyptian Literature
Author: Miriam LichtheimPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520036154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Traces the development of Ancient Egyptian forms of writing. Provides a selection of ancient Egyptian myth and folklore as well as inscriptions on tombs, songs and hymns.
Littell's Living Age
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages
Author: Ludwig Freiherr von PastorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Papacy
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Author: Paul Gaulot