Author: George Hooker ColtonPublisher: New-York : Wiley and Putnam
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Tecumseh, Or, The West Thirty Years Since
Author: George Hooker ColtonPublisher: New-York : Wiley and Putnam
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Chernenko
Author: Ilya ZemtsovPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412819459
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko. a figÂure wtm appeared to the outside worid as a commonplace Russian bureaucrat cut from the mold of a Gogol short story, was elevated in 1984 to the post of general secÂretary of the Communist party of the SoÂviet Union. Thus, a post held by such awesome, fearsome figures as Lenin and Stalin passed into the hands of someone perceived as a nondescript bureaucrat, deÂvoid of ideas or initiative, and crippled by old age and infirmity. A singular merit of this work is that it shows how far from the mark were these perceptions. This is the only full-length treatment of Chernenko. in contrast to the vast tomes written on his five predecessors as well as on the present incumbent, Mkrhail Gorbachev. The work delves into archival materials never before reported in either the East or West. The picture that emerges is not of some run-of-the-mill apÂparatchik, but of a figure who in the conÂtext of the Brezhnev era came forth with ideas that were revolutionary, at least in the sense of a realization of the deep malÂaise into which Soviet economy and soÂciety had fallen. Zemtsov's volume explains the paradox of a servile conservative member of th Politburo becoming an innovative, even courageous, leader during the thirteen fateful months he held Soviet power, ft is a tribute to this effort at reconstruction that what emerges is a rounded human being and not simply a political actor. This anaÂlytical study of the transformation of a peasant into a politician fills out a missing link without which the current impulse to reform in the U.S.S.R. is hard to underÂstand or appreciate
Born for the Shade
Author: LubbersPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004649247
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This volume examines the ways in which attempts to define and delimit American nationhood effected imaginative and documentary conceptualizations of the Native American population. Far-reaching in its scope, both in terms of the period covered - roughly the period from the Declaration of Independence to the closing of the frontier - and in terms of the variety and kinds of documents examined, this study calls attention to the cultural and generic restraints that prevented visual and literary artists, as well as statesmen and community leaders, from adopting any position toward Native Americans other than a prejudicial one.
Catalogue of the Michigan State Library, for the Years 1875-76
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Knickerbacker
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The Knickerbocker
Author: American Monthly Knickerbocker
Author: Charles Fenno HoffmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Catalogue of the Michigan State Library
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Poets and Poetry of America
Author: Rufus Wilmot GriswoldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description