Author: E. J. ApplewhitePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1568330081
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Originally published by Knopf in 1981.
Washington Itself
Author: E. J. ApplewhitePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1568330081
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Originally published by Knopf in 1981.
Washington Itself
Author: E. J. ApplewhitePublisher: Madison Books
ISBN: 1461733383
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Describes Washington's government institutions, explaining what the inhabitants of each building do on a day-to-day basis, and covers museums, monuments, embassies, and the Washington metro.
A Powerful Mind
Author: Adrienne M. HarrisonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1612347894
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
His formal schooling abruptly cut off at age eleven, George Washington saw his boyhood dream of joining the British army evaporate and recognized that even his aspiration to rise in colonial Virginian agricultural society would be difficult. Throughout his life he faced challenges for which he lacked the academic foundations shared by his more highly educated contemporaries. Yet Washington's legacy is clearly not one of failure. Breaking new ground in Washington scholarship and American revolutionary history, Adrienne M. Harrison investigates the first president's dedicated process of self-directed learning through reading, a facet of his character and leadership long neglected by historians and biographers. In A Powerful Mind, Harrison shows that Washington rose to meet these trials through a committed campaign of highly focused reading, educating himself on exactly what he needed to do and how best to do it. In contrast to other famous figures of the revolution--Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin--Washington did not relish learning for its own sake, viewing self-education instead as a tool for shaping himself into the person he wanted to be. His two highest-profile and highest-risk endeavors--commander in chief of the Continental Army and president of the fledgling United States--are a testament to the success of his strategy.
Heroes of the Underground Railroad Around Washington, D. C.
Author: Jenny MasurPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439666032
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Many of the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad lived and worked in Washington, D.C. Men and women, black and white, operatives and freedom seekers - all demonstrated courage, resourcefulness and initiative. Leonard Grimes, a free African American, was arrested for transporting enslaved people to freedom. John Dean, a white lawyer, used the District courts to test the legality of the Fugitive Slave Act. Anna Maria Weems dressed as a boy in order to escape to Canada. Enslaved people engineered escapes, individually and in groups, with and without the assistance of an organized network. Some ended up back in slavery or in jail, but some escaped to freedom. Anthropologist and author Jenny Masur tells their stories.
Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States
Author: George WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Falter
Author: Bill McKibbenPublisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1250178274
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control. And then, drawing on McKibben’s experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate change, it offers some possible ways out of the trap. We’re at a bleak moment in human history -- and we’ll either confront that bleakness or watch the civilization our forebears built slip away. Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.
Life of George Washington
Author: Washington IrvingThe Works of Washington Irving...
Author: Washington IrvingThe Nation
Author: Fiscal Relations Between the United States and the District of Columbia
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of ColumbiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description