Author: Claudia Romo EdelmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781959989738
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hispanic Stars Rising Volume IV
Author: Claudia Romo EdelmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781959989738
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hispanic Stars Rising Volume II: The New Face of Power
Author: Claudia Romo EdelmanPublisher: Fig Factor Media Publishing
ISBN: 9781952779206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
It is our hope that you savor each story. Learn from them. Share them. Reach out to the people who make up these pages. In your own life, remember to help those you can. Be a mentor. A role model. A leader. We are powering the progress of the United States, and we will find our seats at the table. But we will do it faster and better together. There are Hispanic Stars rising everywhere. -Claudia Romo Edelman, Founder, We Are All Human Hispanics are 100% Hispanic and 100% American. They believe in the American dream and are incredible contributors to the country. According to the 2020 Census, US Hispanics grew by 23%, they represent 40% of workforce growth and an astounding 74% of new workers in the United States are Hispanic, their buying power is $2.6 trillion dollars - and the list goes on! Yet, they are often invisible, negatively portrayed, seen as takers. Hispanics contribute so much to the US, and it is time for others to recognize this reality. Hispanic Stars Rising: Volume II shares stories of the experiences, challenges, and successes of Hispanic Stars nationwide. It showcases the diverse backgrounds, obstacles and contributions made by this strong and resilient population nationwide and shines a light on the beauty of this fundamental American community.
Hispanic Stars Rising
Author: Claudia Romo EdelmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781952779107
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Hispanics are 100% Hispanic and 100% American. They believe in the American dream and are incredible contributors to this country. US Hispanics represent 60 million people, 18% of the population, 12% of the country's GDP, $1.7 trillion of purchasing power, the youth population - and the list goes on! Yet, they are often invisible, negatively portrayed, seen as takers. Hispanics contribute so much to America, and now it is time for others to see just how beautiful and resilient they can be.Hispanic Stars Rising: The New Face of Power shares the stories about the experiences, challenges, and successes of Hispanic Stars nationwide. It showcases the diverse backgrounds, obstacles and contributions made by this strong and resilient population nationwide and shines a light on the beauty of this fundamental American community.
Hispanic Star: Celia Cruz
Author: Claudia Romo EdelmanPublisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1250828112
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Read about "La Reina de la Salsa" in Hispanic Star: Celia Cruz, and learn the most groundbreaking, iconic Hispanic and Latinx heroes that have shaped our culture and the world in this gripping biography series for young readers, perfect for fans of the Who Was series. If you can see it, you can be it. Meet the Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz—once just a girl from Havana, Cuba, who loved to sing. Her soulful voice, compelling charm, and unstoppable determination led to her meteoric rise to fame, opening the door for Latinx performers everywhere. Her booming career took her from the Sonora Matancera to the Fania All-Stars, with the rising popularity of salsa, a genre born of Afro-Cuban musical stylings. Six decades and more than seventy albums later, Celia’s influence still has an undeniable hold on today’s music. Hispanic Star proudly celebrates Hispanic and Latinx heroes who have made remarkable contributions to American culture and have been undeniable forces in shaping its future.
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Author: Lone Star Rising
Author: Robert DallekPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199878943
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Like other great figures of 20th-century American politics, Lyndon Johnson defies easy understanding. An unrivaled master of vote swapping, back room deals, and election-day skulduggery, he was nevertheless an outspoken New Dealer with a genuine commitment to the poor and the underprivileged. With aides and colleagues he could be overbearing, crude, and vindictive, but at other times shy, sophisticated, and magnanimous. Perhaps columnist Russell Baker said it best: Johnson "was a character out of a Russian novel...a storm of warring human instincts: sinner and saint, buffoon and statesman, cynic and sentimentalist." But Johnson was also a representative figure. His career speaks volumes about American politics, foreign policy, and business in the forty years after 1930. As Charles de Gaulle said when he came to JFK's funeral: Kennedy was America's mask, but this man Johnson is the country's real face. In Lone Star Rising, Robert Dallek, winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his study of Franklin D. Roosevelt, now turns to this fascinating "sinner and saint" to offer a brilliant, definitive portrait of a great American politician. Based on seven years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this first book in a two-volume biography follows Johnson's life from his childhood on the banks of the Pedernales to his election as vice-president under Kennedy. We see Johnson, the twenty-three-year-old aide to a pampered millionaire Representative, become a de facto Congressman, and at age twenty-eight the country's best state director of the National Youth Administration. We see Johnson, the "human dynamo," first in the House and then in the Senate, whirl his way through sixteen- and eighteen-hour days, talking, urging, demanding, reaching for influence and power, in an uncommonly successful congressional career. Dallek pays full due to Johnson's failings--his obsession with being top dog, his willingness to cut corners, and worse, to get there-- but he also illuminates Johnson's sheer brilliance as a politician, the high regard in which key members of the New Deal, including FDR, held him, and his genuine concern for minorities and the downtrodden. No president in American history is currently less admired than Lyndon Johnson. Bitter memories of Vietnam have sent Johnson's reputation into free fall, and recent biographies have painted him as a scoundrel who did more harm than good. Lone Star Rising attempts to strike a balance. It does not neglect the tawdry side of Johnson's political career, including much that is revealed for the first time. But it also reminds us that Lyndon Johnson was a man of exceptional vision, who from early in his career worked to bring the South into the mainstream of American economic and political life, to give the disadvantaged a decent chance, and to end racial segregation for the well-being of the nation.
Hispanic Star en Español
Author: Claudia Romo EdelmanPublisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 9781250911315
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hispanic Stars Rising Volume II: The New Face of Power
Author: Claudia Romo EdelmanPublisher: Fig Factor Media Publishing
ISBN: 9781952779206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
It is our hope that you savor each story. Learn from them. Share them. Reach out to the people who make up these pages. In your own life, remember to help those you can. Be a mentor. A role model. A leader. We are powering the progress of the United States, and we will find our seats at the table. But we will do it faster and better together. There are Hispanic Stars rising everywhere. -Claudia Romo Edelman, Founder, We Are All Human Hispanics are 100% Hispanic and 100% American. They believe in the American dream and are incredible contributors to the country. According to the 2020 Census, US Hispanics grew by 23%, they represent 40% of workforce growth and an astounding 74% of new workers in the United States are Hispanic, their buying power is $2.6 trillion dollars - and the list goes on! Yet, they are often invisible, negatively portrayed, seen as takers. Hispanics contribute so much to the US, and it is time for others to recognize this reality. Hispanic Stars Rising: Volume II shares stories of the experiences, challenges, and successes of Hispanic Stars nationwide. It showcases the diverse backgrounds, obstacles and contributions made by this strong and resilient population nationwide and shines a light on the beauty of this fundamental American community.
Today's Inspired Latina
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999001240
Category : Hispanic American women
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
"Today's Inspired Latina is a book series of inspiration and hope, a poignant collection of personal stories that will activate your passion. These are success stories that need to be told, to motivate our community and generations to come. By overcoming language barriers, self-doubts and other obstacles in their way, these strong Latinas are a great example of how inspiration and perseverance can lead you to happiness and success in business and life. It's a positive, empowering read for anyone sitting on a dream and thinking it can't come true. Today's Inspired Latina shows that it can!"--Provided by Amazon.com.
Exodus from the Alamo
Author: Phillip Thomas TuckerPublisher: Casemate
ISBN: 1935149520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The award-winning historian provides a provocative new analysis of the Battle of the Alamo—including new information on the fate of Davy Crockett. Contrary to legend, we now know that the defenders of the Alamo during the Texan Revolution died in a merciless predawn attack by Mexican soldiers. With extensive research into recently discovered Mexican accounts, as well as forensic evidence, historian Phillip Tucker sheds new light on the famous battle, contending that the traditional myth is even more off-base than we thought. In a startling revelation, Tucker uncovers that the primary fights took place on the plain outside the fort. While a number of the Alamo’s defenders hung on inside, most died while attempting to escape. Capt. Dickinson, with cannon atop the chapel, fired repeatedly into the throng of enemy cavalry until he was finally cut down. The controversy surrounding Davy Crockett still remains, though the recently authenticated diary of the Mexican Col. José Enrique de la Peña offers evidence that he surrendered. Notoriously, Mexican Pres. Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna burned the bodies of the Texans who had dared stand against him. As this book proves in thorough detail, the funeral pyres were well outside the fort—that is, where the two separate groups of escapees fell on the plain, rather than in the Alamo itself.