Author: George MeaderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ann Arbor (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
George Meader Memoirs
Author: George MeaderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ann Arbor (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Biographical Memoirs
Author: National Academy of SciencesPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309057884
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Biographic Memoirs: Volume 72 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.
The Watchdog
Author: Steve DrummondPublisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 036973307X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The story of how a little-known junior senator fought wartime corruption and, in the process, set himself up to become vice president and ultimately President Harry Truman. Months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the United States was on the verge of entering another world war for which it was dangerously ill-prepared. The urgent times demanded a transformation of the economy, with the government bankrolling the unfathomably expensive task of enlisting millions of citizens while also producing the equipment necessary to successfully fight—all of which opened up opportunities for graft, fraud and corruption. In The Watchdog, Steve Drummond draws the reader into the fast-paced story of how Harry Truman, still a newcomer to Washington politics, cobbled together a bipartisan team of men and women that took on powerful corporate entities and the Pentagon, placing Truman in the national spotlight and paving his path to the White House. Drawing on the largely unexamined records of the Truman Committee as well as oral histories, personal letters, newspaper archives and interviews, Steve Drummond—an award-winning senior editor and executive producer at NPR—brings the colorful characters and intrigue of the committee’s work to life. The Watchdog provides readers with a window to a time that was far from perfect but where it was possible to root out corruption and hold those responsible to account. It shows us what can be possible if politicians are governed by the principles of their office rather than self-interest.
Prologue
Author: Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Author: William Richard CutterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middlesex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
A catalogue of the entire, elegant and very valuable library of Charles Bedford ... which will be sold by auction, by Leigh and S. Sotheby, booksellers, at their house, no. 145, Strand. On Wednesday, March 11, 1807, and five following days ...
Author: Charles BedfordBook Row
Author: Marvin MondlinPublisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN: 9780786716524
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The city has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of 14th Street in Manhattan, mostly on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There, for nearly eight decades, from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived a bibliophiles' paradise. They called it the New York Booksellers' Row, or, more commonly, Book Row. It's an American story, the story that this richly anecdotal historical memoir amiably tells: as American as the rags-to-riches tale of the Strand, which began its life as book stall on Eighth Street and today houses 2.5 million volumes in twelve miles of space. It's a story cast with colorful characters: like the horse-betting, poker-playing go-getter and book dealer George D. Smith; the irascible Russian-born book hunter Peter Stammer, the visionary Theodore C. Schulte; Lou Cohen, founder of the still-surviving Argosy Book Store; gentleman bookseller George Rubinowitz and his legendary shrewd wife Jenny. Rising rents, street crime, urban redevelopment, television-the reasons are many for the demise of Book Row, but in this volume, based on interviews with dozens upon dozens of the book people who bought, sold, and collected there, it lives again.
The New Priesthood
Author: Ralph E. LappPublisher: New York : Harper & Row
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family
Author: Horatio Nelson OtisGenealogical and Personal Memoirs
Author: William Richard CutterPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806345497
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 2688
Book Description