Author: Douglas Goldring
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Margot's Progress
Outlines of English Literature
Author: Alonzo C. Hall
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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A Century of the English Novel
Author: Cornelius Weygandt
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston ...
Author: Boston Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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Who's who in Literature
Author: Mark Meredith
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Contains list of "Fictitious and pseudonymous names."
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Contains list of "Fictitious and pseudonymous names."
Hospital Progress
The Literary Year-book
Author: Frederick George Aflalo
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Catalog of Copyright Entries
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
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Looking for Miss America
Author: Margot Mifflin
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1640092242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals—and how the pageant, nearing its one hundredth anniversary, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progress Looking for Miss America is a fast–paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start in 1921 as an Atlantic City tourist draw to its current incarnation as a scholarship competition, the pageant has indexed women’s status during periods of social change—the post–suffrage 1920s, the Eisenhower 1950s, the #MeToo era. This ever–changing institution has been shaped by war, evangelism, the rise of television and reality TV, and, significantly, by contestants who confounded expectations. Spotlighting individuals, from Yolande Betbeze, whose refusal to pose in swimsuits led an angry sponsor to launch the rival Miss USA contest, to the first black winner, Vanessa Williams, who received death threats and was protected by sharpshooters in her hometown parade, Margot Mifflin shows how women made hard bargains even as they used the pageant for economic advancement. The pageant’s history includes, crucially, those it excluded; the notorious Rule Seven, which required contestants to be “of the white race,” was retired in the 1950s, but no women of color were crowned until the 1980s. In rigorously researched, vibrant chapters that unpack each decade of the pageant, Looking for Miss America examines the heady blend of capitalism, patriotism, class anxiety, and cultural mythology that has fueled this American ritual.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1640092242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals—and how the pageant, nearing its one hundredth anniversary, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progress Looking for Miss America is a fast–paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start in 1921 as an Atlantic City tourist draw to its current incarnation as a scholarship competition, the pageant has indexed women’s status during periods of social change—the post–suffrage 1920s, the Eisenhower 1950s, the #MeToo era. This ever–changing institution has been shaped by war, evangelism, the rise of television and reality TV, and, significantly, by contestants who confounded expectations. Spotlighting individuals, from Yolande Betbeze, whose refusal to pose in swimsuits led an angry sponsor to launch the rival Miss USA contest, to the first black winner, Vanessa Williams, who received death threats and was protected by sharpshooters in her hometown parade, Margot Mifflin shows how women made hard bargains even as they used the pageant for economic advancement. The pageant’s history includes, crucially, those it excluded; the notorious Rule Seven, which required contestants to be “of the white race,” was retired in the 1950s, but no women of color were crowned until the 1980s. In rigorously researched, vibrant chapters that unpack each decade of the pageant, Looking for Miss America examines the heady blend of capitalism, patriotism, class anxiety, and cultural mythology that has fueled this American ritual.
Bulletin of the Medford Public Library
Author: Medford Public Library (Medford, Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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