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Author: Stephen B. Oates Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 168
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This volume is concerned exclusively with biography as a narrative art, comprising essays by ten people who have actually practiced the form.
Author: Stephen B. Oates Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
This volume is concerned exclusively with biography as a narrative art, comprising essays by ten people who have actually practiced the form.
Author: Lloyd E. Ambrosius Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803210660 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 192
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The historian as biographer must resolve questions that reflect the dual challenge of telling history and telling lives: How does the biographer sort out the individual?s role within the larger historical context? How do biographical studies relate to other forms of history? Should historians use different approaches to biography, depending on the cultures of their subjects? What are the appropriate primary sources and techniques that scholars should use in writing biographies in their respective fields? In Writing Biography, six prominent historians address these issues and reflect on their varied experiences and divergent perspectives as biographers. Shirley A. Leckie examines the psychological and personal connections between biographer and subject; R. Keith Schoppa considers the pervasive effect of culture on the recognition of individuality and the presentation of a life; Retha M. Warnicke explores past context and modern cultural biases in writing the biographies of Tudor women; John Milton Cooper Jr. discusses the challenges of writing modern biographies and the interplay of the biographer?s own experiences; Nell Irvin Painter looks at the process of reconstructing a life when written documents are scant; and Robert J. Richards investigates the intimate relationship between life experiences and new ideas. Despite their broad range of perspectives, all six scholars agree on two central points: biography and historical analysis are inextricably linked, and biographical studies offer an important tool for analyzing historical questions.
Author: Donald E. Westlake Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504051653 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 328
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One man’s quest to make history—and a lot of money: “High entertainment” from the three-time Edgar Award–winning Grand Master of Mystery (Elmore Leonard). Kirby Galway may be a low-level marijuana smuggler in Belize, but the man has a dream—to make lots and lots of money. So when a local official offers him a back-jungle tract of land he swears would make a perfect cattle ranch, Kirby jumps at the opportunity. Unfortunately, he lands himself in a swamp—that he now owns. Kirby begins selling homemade “artifacts” from his property to American museums and witless tourists, even building a fake ancient temple and recruiting a tribe of Mayan Indians who know a good scam when they see one. But his cash-cow paradise soon attracts the attention of two snooping New York reporters, a beautiful archaeologist from UCLA, and a troop of Guatemalan guerillas just itching to shoot somebody. Kirby is going to have to talk fast, move faster, and pull out every dirty trick he knows if he’s going to get out of this alive . . . “I thoroughly enjoyed High Adventure.” —Elmore Leonard “Westlake at his best: intriguing, fast moving . . . Ends with a slam-bang climax.” —Los Angeles Times Praise for Donald E. Westlake “Westlake has no peer in the realm of comic mystery novelists.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Author: Mike Allsop Publisher: A&u New Zealand ISBN: 9781760633622 Category : Adventure and adventurers Languages : en Pages : 0
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What happens when an accomplished adventurer becomes a father? Does he continue his solo adventures? Is there a way of having it all, family time plus adventures?
Author: Grant H. Pearson Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1789124050 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 476
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MT. MCKINLEY, ALASKA 1932 From the south peak, a hundred thousand square miles of Alaskan wilderness stretched out before his eyes. This was America’s last land frontier. It was the land Grant Pearson had dreamed of as a boy and lived in, full, as a man, when he came to be known as one of Alaska’s most famous 20th century pioneers. This was how to chose to live his LIFE OF HIGH ADVENTURE... “Exciting, vivid...an excellent account.”—Hal Borland, New York Times
Author: S. Bernard Thomas Publisher: ISBN: 9780520202764 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 416
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Recounts the life and career of the American journalist who lived in China from 1928 to 1941, got to know Mao and the other Communist leaders, and introduced them to the outside world in "Red Star over China"
Author: Stephen B. Oates
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