Author: Dan Santow
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780516206417
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Presents a biography of Elizabeth Bloomer Ford,

Author: Jennifer Reed
Publisher: KidHaven Publishing
ISBN: 9780737736151
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Biography of Elizabeth Bloomer, a young activist involved in the campaign to eliminate child labor in poor countries."--From source other than the Library of Congress

Author: Betty Ford
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780345280794
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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The former First Lady talks about her childhood in Grand Rapids, Michigan, life in D.C. as the wife of a freshman Congressman, and life inside the White House.

Author: Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 850

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Author: Rachel E. Walker
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226822575
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America. Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These once-popular but now discredited disciplines were based on a deceptively simple premise: that facial features or skull shape could reveal a person’s intelligence, character, and personality. In the United States, these were culturally ubiquitous sciences that both elite thinkers and ordinary people used to understand human nature. While the modern world dismisses phrenology and physiognomy as silly and debunked disciplines, Beauty and the Brain shows why they must be taken seriously: they were the intellectual tools that a diverse group of Americans used to debate questions of race, gender, and social justice. While prominent intellectuals and political thinkers invoked these sciences to justify hierarchy, marginalized people and progressive activists deployed them for their own political aims, creatively interpreting human minds and bodies as they fought for racial justice and gender equality. Ultimately, though, physiognomy and phrenology were as dangerous as they were popular. In addition to validating the idea that external beauty was a sign of internal worth, these disciplines often appealed to the very people who were damaged by their prejudicial doctrines. In taking physiognomy and phrenology seriously, Beauty and the Brain recovers a vibrant—if largely forgotten—cultural and intellectual universe, showing how popular sciences shaped some of the greatest political debates of the American past.

Author: Betty Ford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1636340822
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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In this candid and moving memoir, former First Lady Betty Ford shares her experience, understanding, and hope so that others can discover that alcoholism and drug addiction need not rob them of their lives. Much more than one woman's intimate odyssey through loneliness and despair to happiness and health, this extraordinary volume is one of encouragement, comfort, and support to all families and individuals. It is a living testament to the power of love, the joys of recovery, and the will to survive that can give life a new, and often better, beginning. Like so many millions of Americans, Betty Ford suffered from alcoholism and drug addiction. But, in her case, as in many cases, the disease took years to surface. When it did, it took all of the strength and courage that she and her family possessed to be able to deal with it. Betty: A Glad Awakening is the deeply personal story of one of the most celebrated women of our time. Wonderment, gratitude, serenity, laughter, freedom—these are but a few of the gifts that Mrs. Ford received in her journey through treatment to recovery. And, as she so eloquently describes in her book, they inspired her to help others who feel defeated by the disease of addiction.

Author: Penny Colman
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466850078
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Weaving events, quotations, personalities, and commentary into a page-turning narrative, Penny Colman's Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony vividly portrays a friendship that changed history. In the Spring of 1851 two women met on a street corner in Seneca Falls, New York—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a thirty-five year old mother of four boys, and Susan B. Anthony, a thirty-one year old, unmarried, former school teacher. Immediately drawn to each other, they formed an everlasting and legendary friendship. Together they challenged entrenched beliefs, customs, and laws that oppressed women and spearheaded the fight to gain legal rights, including the right to vote despite fierce opposition, daunting conditions, scandalous entanglements and betrayal by their friends and allies.

Author: Benjamin W. Dwight
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338213523X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 826

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author: Daughters of the American Revolution
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 750

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Author: Benjamin W. Dwight
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382100592
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 838

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Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.