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Category : Greensboro (Vt. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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The Hazen Road Dispatch
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Greensboro (Vt. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Washington
Author: Douglas Southall FreemanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439105332
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
"Freeman's treatment of Washington as a Commander in Chief is virtually definitive" (The New York Times Book Review). Washington is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and military historian Douglas Southall Freeman won his second Pulitzer Prize for his new and dramatic reexamination of George Washington. For years biographies had gone from idolatry to muckraking in their depictions of this somewhat marbleized Founding Father. Freeman’s new interpretation was a fresh step, making Washington a living, breathing individual, flawed but heroic. An able commander who defeated the British Empire against incredible odds, Washington proved to be just as adept at wielding political power, and adroitly steered our new loosely called nation through the first stormy years of our unproven federal stewardship and the first two presidential administrations. Here with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Kammen, who puts the writing and publication of Washington into perspective, and an afterword by Pulitzer Prize winner Dumas Malone, who explains the travails of Freeman’s grinding work, Washington is the most comprehensive biography available, and its value as an important classic has never been more evident.
Craftsbury
Author: Daniel MetrauxPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595193927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Craftsbury is one of the most famous and beautiful towns in New England. Here for the first time a scholar provides a detailed study of Craftsbury’s evolution from frontier village to modern town. There is also a biographical section depicting Craftsbury’s most famous citizens.
The Vermonter
Author: Charles Spooner ForbesPublisher:
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Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Vermonter
Author: Margaret Mead
Author: Joan GordanPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311081904X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Bibliographies of New England History
Author: Roger N. ParksPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
A timely update of a comprehensive & acclaimed series that was granted an Award of Merit from the American Association for State & Local History.
Vermont History
Author: Wallace Stegner and the American West
Author: Philip L. FradkinPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307268608
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Wallace Stegner was the premier chronicler of the twentieth-century western American experience, and his novels, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Angle of Repose and the National Book Award–winning The Spectator Bird, brought the life and landscapes of the West to national and international attention. Now, in this illuminating biography, Philip L. Fradkin goes beyond Stegner’s iconic literary status to give us, as well, the influential teacher and visionary conservationist, the man for whom the preservation and integrity of place was as important as his ability to render its qualities and character in his brilliantly crafted fiction and nonfiction. From his birth in 1909 until his death in 1993, Stegner witnessed nearly a century of change in the land that he loved and fought so hard to preserve. We learn of his hardscrabble youth on the Canadian frontier and in Utah, and of his painful relationship with his father, a bootlegger and gambler. We follow his intellectual awakening as a young man and his years as a Depression-era graduate student at the University of Iowa, during its earliest days as a literary center. We watch as he finds his home, with his wife, Mary, in the foothills above Palo Alto, which provided him with a long-awaited sense of belonging and a refuge in which he would write his most treasured works. And here are his years as the legendary founder of the Stanford Creative Writing Program, where his students included Ken Kesey, Edward Abbey, Robert Stone, and Wendell Berry. But the changes wrought by developers and industrialists were too much for Stegner, and he tirelessly fought the transformation of his Garden of Eden into Silicon Valley. His writings on the importance of establishing national parks and wilderness areas—not only for the preservation of untouched landscape but also for the enrichment of the human spirit—played a key role in the passage of historic legislation and comprise some of the most beautiful words ever written about the natural world. Here, too, is the story—told in full for the first time—of the accusations of plagiarism that followed the publication of Angle of Repose, and of the shadow they have cast on his greatest work. Rich in personal and literary detail, and in the sensual description of the country that shaped his work and his life—this is the definitive account of one of the most acclaimed and admired writers, teachers, and conservationists of our time.
Abolition & the Underground Railroad in Vermont
Author: Michelle Arnosky SherburnePublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625844948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Many believe that support for the abolition of slavery was universally accepted in Vermont, but it was actually a fiercely divisive issue that rocked the Green Mountain State. In the midst of turbulence and violence, though, some brave Vermonters helped fight for the freedom of their enslaved Southern brethren. Thaddeus Stevens--one of abolition's most outspoken advocates--was a Vermont native. Delia Webster, the first woman arrested for aiding a fugitive slave, was also a Vermonter. The Rokeby house in Ferrisburgh was a busy Underground Railroad station for decades. Peacham's Oliver Johnson worked closely with William Lloyd Garrison during the abolition movement. Discover the stories of these and others in Vermont who risked their own lives to help more than four thousand slaves to freedom.