Author: Samuel Atkins EliotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Biographical History of Massachusetts
Author: Samuel Atkins EliotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Contemporary Verse
Author: Howard S. GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
The Mayflower Descendant
Author: Genealogies of Connecticut Families
Author: Judith McGhanPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806310308
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 2456
Book Description
Harbor & Home
Author: Brock JobePublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780912724683
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Presented for the first time, the richly illustrated findings of the Southeastern Massachusetts Furniture project at Winterthur Museum
The Lines of Life
Author: David NovarrPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557531285
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The study of biography has leaped from surveys of biographical writing and statements of biographical practice to semiotic and post-structuralist discussions of the modality of biography without adequate consideration of what has already been done in the theory of the genre. Professor Novarr has closed that gap with this comprehensive and judicious historical survey and assessment of all the major (and many of the minor) statements made about biography in the crucial period 1880-1970. It traces, in the work of writers like David Cecil, Leon Edel, Mark Schorer, Paul Murray Kendall, and others, the nature of the relation between biographer and subject, the concept that biography is essentially the interpretation of one mind by another, and the idea that the biographer's angle of vision is both inevitable and important.
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.
Contemporary Verse Anthology
Author: The Literary Digest International Book Review
Author: Clifford SmythPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Anthology of Magazine Verse
Author: William Stanley BraithwaitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Vol. for 1958 includes "Anthology of poems from the seventeen previously published Braithwaite anthologies."