Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780547946061
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Journeys Louisiana
Author: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Journeys Louisiana
Author: State Course of Study for Elementary Schools of Louisiana
Author: Louisiana. Dept. of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Louisiana Sojourns
Author: Frank de CaroPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807122396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
A sweeping collection of observations and episodes penned by visitors to Louisiana from the sixteenth century to the 1990s, Louisiana Sojourns is—much like the state itself—a wonder to behold in its sum, and in its particulars, full of surprise and delight. The seventy-six pieces that Frank A. de Caro has selected give readers a vivid sense of how Louisiana's unique blend of Old World, South, the exotic, and quintessential America has exerted a pull and hold on travelers. Included are writings by well-known figures such as Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt, Kate Chopin, John Steinbeck, Frederick Law Olmsted, Walker Percy, William Faulkner, Simone de Beauvoir, Henry Miller, John James Audubon, Calvin Trillin, Zora Neale Hurston, A. J. Liebling, William Least Heat Moon, and Frederick Turner. Dozens of other wayfarers are represented as well.
Documents Relating to the Purchase and Exploration of Louisiana, Etc. [With Maps.].
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Author: LOUISIANA.A Look Back in Time
Author: Adrian P MathernePublisher:
ISBN: 9781478724810
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book was written to give an historical account of how Bourg, Louisiana was established. The 168 pictures will come alive as you embark on a journey back in time and see what life was like in a small Louisiana town with true accounts of life in the 1920s through 1960s. Step aboard as we journey back in time.
Documents Relating to the Purchase and Exploration of Louisiana
Author: Pa.) transactions American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia (vol. 42, part 1)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Journeys for Freedom
Author: Susan Washburn BuckleyPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618223237
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Trace travelers across time and space as they pursue freedom and help forge America's history.
Hurricanes: Earth's Mightiest Storms
Author: Patricia LauberPublisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606366533
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. Tells how hurricanes form, how scientists study them, and how they have affected the United States throughout this century.
For Sale —American Paradise
Author: Willie DryePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149301899X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for Best Regional Nonfiction in the Southwest The story of how Florida became entwined with Americans’ 20th-century hopes, dreams, and expectations is also a tale of mass delusion, real estate collapses, and catastrophic hurricanes. The Fantasy of Florida hones in on the experiences of William Jennings Bryan and Edwin Menninger, the two men who shaped the image of Florida that we know today and who sold that image as America’s paradise. The cast of characters also includes the Marx Brothers, Thomas Edison, Al Capone, and Mark Twain. A tale of a colorful and tragicomic era during which the allure and illusion of the American Dream was on full display—a Jazz Age period when Americans started chasing what F. Scott Fitzgerald called “the orgiastic future”—the book reveals how the recent economic collapse in Florida is eerily similar to events that happened there between 1925 and 1928. What sets the mid-1920s’ Florida land boom apart from more recent booms-and-busts, however, is that this was the first modern boom, the first time that emerging new technologies, mass communications and modern advertising techniques were used to sell the nation on the notion that prosperity and happiness are simply there for the taking. Florida’s image as a place where the rules of everyday life don’t apply and winners go to play was formed during this dawn of the age of consumerism when Americans wanted to have fun and make lots of money, and millions of them thought Florida was the perfect place to do that.