Author: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439183457
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
One of America's most versatile writers, author of bestselling biographies such as Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin, has assembled a gallery of portraits of (mostly) Americans that celebreate genius, talent, and versatility, and traces his own education as a writer and biographer. In this collection of essays, the brilliant, acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson reflects on lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and other interesting characters he has chronicled both as biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intelligence, but that is not the secret to their success. They had qualities that were even more rare, such as imagination and true curiousity. Isaacson also reflects on how he became a writer, the lessons he learned from various people he met, and the challenges for journalism in the digital age. He also offers loving tributes to his hometown of New Orleans, which offers many of the ingredients for a creative culture, and to the Louisiana novelist Walker Percy, who was an early mentor. In an anecdotal and personal way, Isaacson describes the joys of writing and the way that tales about the lives of fascinating people can enlighten our own lives.
American Sketches
Sketches of America and Americans
Author: George Ives Haight
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243707508
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243707508
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Sketches of America
Author: Henry Bradshaw Fearon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Sketches of America and Americans (Classic Reprint)
Author: George Ives Haight
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265226285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Excerpt from Sketches of America and Americans Then came Santa Anna; a crescent of flame! Then the red escalade; then the fight hand to hand; Such an unequal fight as never had name Since the Persian hordes butchered that doomed Spar tan band. All dam - all day and all night; and the morning? So slow, Through the battle smoke mantling the Alamo. Now silence! Such silence! Two thousand lay dead In a crescent outside! And within? Not a breath Save the gasp of a woman, with gory gashed head, All alone, all alone there, waiting for death; And she but a nurse. Yet when shall we know Another like this of the Alamo? - Joaquin Miller. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265226285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Excerpt from Sketches of America and Americans Then came Santa Anna; a crescent of flame! Then the red escalade; then the fight hand to hand; Such an unequal fight as never had name Since the Persian hordes butchered that doomed Spar tan band. All dam - all day and all night; and the morning? So slow, Through the battle smoke mantling the Alamo. Now silence! Such silence! Two thousand lay dead In a crescent outside! And within? Not a breath Save the gasp of a woman, with gory gashed head, All alone, all alone there, waiting for death; And she but a nurse. Yet when shall we know Another like this of the Alamo? - Joaquin Miller. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Sketches of America. A narrative of a journey of five thousand miles through the eastern and western states of America ... With remarks on Mr. Birkbeck's “Notes” and “Letters”
Author: Henry Bradshaw Fearon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Sketches of America
Sketches of America and Americans
Author: George Ives Haight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Eric Sloane's Sketches of America Past
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780808163084
Category : Agricultural implements
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Sketches of america past: Diary of an early American boy; Museum of early American tools; Reverence for wood.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780808163084
Category : Agricultural implements
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Sketches of america past: Diary of an early American boy; Museum of early American tools; Reverence for wood.
Short Sketches from Oldest America
Author: John Beach Driggs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Sketches of Eighteenth Century America
Author: J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm life
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Crevecoeur's Books Outline The Steps Through Which New Immigrants Passed, Analyze The Religious Problems Of The New World, Describe The Life Of The Whalers Of Nantucket, Reveal Much About The Indians And The Horrors Of The Revolution, And Present The Colonial Farmer - His Psychology And His Daily Existence. His Charming Style, Keen Eye, And Simple Philosophy Are Universally Admired.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm life
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Crevecoeur's Books Outline The Steps Through Which New Immigrants Passed, Analyze The Religious Problems Of The New World, Describe The Life Of The Whalers Of Nantucket, Reveal Much About The Indians And The Horrors Of The Revolution, And Present The Colonial Farmer - His Psychology And His Daily Existence. His Charming Style, Keen Eye, And Simple Philosophy Are Universally Admired.