Author: Priscilla C. HallowellPublisher: Viking Children's Books
ISBN:
Category : Horses
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Paul and Virginia
Author: Bernardin De Saint-pierrePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523389070
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1856 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Paul and Virginia
Author: Bernardin de Saint-PierrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Dinah and Virginia
Author: Priscilla C. HallowellPublisher: Viking Children's Books
ISBN:
Category : Horses
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Paul and Virginia
Author: Bernardin de Saint-PierrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Wasting a Crisis
Author: Paul G. MahoneyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022642099X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
In Securities Regulation Reassessed, Paul Mahoney shows that policy responses to financial crises are broadly similar across place and time: political actors, hoping to avoid blame for a financial crisis, create a narrative of market failure, arguing that misbehavior by securities market participants, rather than prior policy errors, is the primary cause of the crisis. Politically obliged regulators craft reforms that purport to solve problems which are either non-existent or only tangentially related to the crisis; yet they increase the complexity and expense of compliance, resulting in consolidation and concentration of market share in the hands of already leading financial firms. Securities Regulation Reassessed illustrates these points primarily but not exclusively with evidence from the New Deal-era securities reforms in the United States. Against the conventional wisdom that regards the New Deal reforms as successful, Mahoney provides substantial countervailing evidence, showing instead that Congress’s diagnoses were systematically inaccurate and its remedies reduced competition in the securities industry. Looking farther into history, the work treats several key episodes prior to the New Deal, including the English financial crises of 1697 and 1720 and the "blue sky” era of the 1910s and 1920s in the United States. Finally, Mahoney considers the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 from the same analytical perspective. Mahoney finds a predictable pattern for efforts at securities reform: they require huge effort to enact, and yield little objectively measurable payoff and some objectively measurable harm.
The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family
Author: Paul C. NagelPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199754853
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
In The Lees of Virginia, Paul Nagel chronicles seven generations of Lees, from the family founder Richard to General Robert E. Lee, covering over two hundred years of American history. We meet Thomas Lee, who dreamed of America as a continental empire. His daughter was Hannah Lee Corbin, a non-conformist in lifestyle and religion, while his son, Richard Henry Lee, was a tempestuous figure who wore black silk over a disfigured hand when he made the motion in Congress for Independence. Another of Thomas' sons, Arthur Lee, created a political storm by his accusations against Benjamin Franklin. Arthur's cousin was Light-Horse Harry Lee, a controversial cavalry officer in the Revolutionary War, whose wild real estate speculation led to imprisonment for debt and finally self-exile in the Caribbean. One of Harry's sons, Henry Lee, further disgraced the family by seducing his sister-in-law and frittering away Stratford, the Lees' ancestral home. Another son, however, became the family's redeeming figure--Robert E. Lee, a brilliant tactician who is still revered for his lofty character and military success. In these and numerous other portraits, Nagel discloses how, from 1640 to 1870, a family spirit united the Lees, making them a force in Virginian and American affairs. Paul Nagel is a leading chronicler of families prominent in our history. His Descent from Glory, a masterful narrative account of four generations of Adamses, was hailed by The New Yorker as "intelligent, tactful, and spiritually generous," and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian W.A. Swanberg, in the Chicago Sun-Times, called it "a magnificent embarrassment of biographical riches." Now, in The Lees of Virginia, Nagel brings his skills to bear on another major American family, taking readers inside the great estates of the Old Dominion and the turbulent lives of the Lee men and women.
Paul and Virginia
Author: Paul and Virginia
Author: Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Paul Bowles
Author: Virginia Spencer CarrPublisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN: 9780720612547
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Paul Bowles-novelist, composer, expatriate, counter-cultural and gay icon-is one of the most compelling and mythologized figures of twentieth-century American culture.Acclaimed biographer Virginia Spencer Carr wrote Paul Bowles: A Life with the 'no strings attached' co-operation of Bowles himself. Through extensive interviews with some two hundred of Bowles's acquaintances and her own intimate relationship with him, she has gathered a wealth of information about Bowles's youth, his writing, his music, his marriage to Jane Bowles, and his sexual relationships. This compelling and erudite biography is the definitive account of an extraordinary life.
The New Paul and Virginia
Author: W. H. MallockPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752415606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The New Paul and Virginia by W. H. Mallock