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Author: Hamilton Holt Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography Languages : en Pages : 314
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The Life Story of a Lithuanian; The Life Story of a Polish Sweatshop Girl; The Life Story of an Italian Bootblack; The Life Story of a Greek Peddler; The Life Story of a Swedish Farmer; The Life Story of a French Dressmaker; The Life Story of a German Nurse Girl; The Life Story of an Irish Cook; The Life Story of a Farmer's Wife; The Life Story of an Itinerant Minister; The Life Story of a Negro Peon; The Life Story of an Indian; The Life Story of an Igorrote Chief; The Life Story of a Syrian; The Life Story of a Japanese Servant; The Life Story of a Chinaman
Author: Hamilton Holt Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography Languages : en Pages : 314
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The Life Story of a Lithuanian; The Life Story of a Polish Sweatshop Girl; The Life Story of an Italian Bootblack; The Life Story of a Greek Peddler; The Life Story of a Swedish Farmer; The Life Story of a French Dressmaker; The Life Story of a German Nurse Girl; The Life Story of an Irish Cook; The Life Story of a Farmer's Wife; The Life Story of an Itinerant Minister; The Life Story of a Negro Peon; The Life Story of an Indian; The Life Story of an Igorrote Chief; The Life Story of a Syrian; The Life Story of a Japanese Servant; The Life Story of a Chinaman
Author: David M. Katzman Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252009068 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 242
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Plain Folk depicts both the ordinary occupations and ethnic and racial diversity of America at the turn of the century. Katzman and Tuttle have drawn upon 75 brief autobiographies or "lifelets" of working-class Americans published between 1902 and 1906 in The Independent magazine. Among the seventeen life stories included here are those of a Lithuanian stockyards worker in Chicago, a Polish sweatshop girl and a Chinese merchant in New York City, a black peon in rural Georgia, and a Swedish farmer in Minnesota. Together they provide an unmediated and seldom-seen view of American life during this period.
Author: Werner Sollors Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135959781 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 376
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Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent, collected these touching autobiographies of ordinary people--new immigrants and sharecroppers, cooks and fishermen, women and men working in sweatshops, in the city, and on the land. First published in 1906, and reissued a decade ago, this new edition of Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans is expanded to include lives Holt did not include in his original selection, as well as a new preface by Werner Sollors.
Author: Hamilton Holt Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781976006234 Category : Minorities Languages : en Pages : 146
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This collection of short autobiographies, compiled and edited by Hamilton Holt, offers an eye-opening account of how ordinary Americans lived and worked at the turn of the 20th century. The contributors to this collection were anonymous, drawn from various vocations of American society. The occupations range from laborers to dressmakers to domestic servants to peddlars and bootblacks. A minority of the accounts are dictated, but the bulk are written or edited from manuscripts solicited by the original publisher. We witness a society which had, owing to decades of immigration from around the world, become industrious and diverse. Several contributors to this collection are first generation immigrants; for many the conditions of the United States at the time were jarringly different. Some yearn for their homelands, and for the comforts and customs which they left behind, while others openly admire the attitude and values of the country they have come to call home. Not only do we gain a historic perspective of the USA, we also learn how life was for certain contributors in their homelands. The contrast between the bustling, industrialized cities of America and the generally quieter homelands is marked. The most obvious trend across all of the tales however is the immense detail of everyday living, of the hard work, of the budgeting and money sent to relatives at home. Despite being ordinary, everyday people, each has a tale or a perspective that sheds insight upon life. Emotions and human qualities leap from the pages: the dignity and naive intellectualism of the Japanese servant; the ambition and genial pride of the French dressmaker; the determination and faith of the visually impaired preacher; the traditionalism and community of a Chinese laundryman. The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans is a valuable and vivid collection of anecdotes worthy of attention and possessed of additional, historic value in the modern day.
Author: Alexandra Styron Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416595066 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 306
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PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST— A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE. In Reading My Father, William Styron’s youngest child explores the life of a fascinating and difficult man whose own memoir, Darkness Visible, so searingly chronicled his battle with major depression. Alexandra Styron’s parents—the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sophie’s Choice and his political activist wife, Rose—were, for half a century, leading players on the world’s cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. A drinker, a carouser, and above all “a high priest at the altar of fiction,” Styron helped define the concept of The Big Male Writer that gave so much of twentieth-century American fiction a muscular, glamorous aura. In constant pursuit of The Great Novel, he and his work were the dominant force in his family’s life, his turbulent moods the weather in their ecosystem. From Styron’s Tidewater, Virginia, youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best-known books and on through his spiral into depression, Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist’s life, offering a ringside seat on a great literary generation’s friendships and their dramas. It is also a tale of filial love, beautifully written, with humor, compassion, and grace.
Author: John Knox Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226448633 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 336
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"My name will survive as long as man survives, because I am writing the greatest diary that has ever been written. I intend to surpass Pepys as a diarist." When John Frush Knox (1907-1997) wrote these words, he was in the middle of law school, and his attempt at surpassing Pepys—part scrapbook, part social commentary, and part recollection—had already reached 750 pages. His efforts as a chronicler might have landed in a family attic had he not secured an eminent position after graduation as law clerk to Justice James C. McReynolds—arguably one of the most disagreeable justices to sit on the Supreme Court—during the tumultuous year when President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to "pack" the Court with justices who would approve his New Deal agenda. Knox's memoir instead emerges as a record of one of the most fascinating periods in American history. The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox—edited by Dennis J. Hutchinson and David J. Garrow—offers a candid, at times naïve, insider's view of the showdown between Roosevelt and the Court that took place in 1937. At the same time, it marvelously portrays a Washington culture now long gone. Although the new Supreme Court building had been open for a year by the time Knox joined McReynolds' staff, most of the justices continued to work from their homes, each supported by a small staff. Knox, the epitome of the overzealous and officious young man, after landing what he believes to be a dream position, continually fears for his job under the notoriously rude (and nakedly racist) justice. But he soon develops close relationships with the justice's two black servants: Harry Parker, the messenger who does "everything but breathe" for the justice, and Mary Diggs, the maid and cook. Together, they plot and sidestep around their employer's idiosyncrasies to keep the household running while history is made in the Court. A substantial foreword by Dennis Hutchinson and David Garrow sets the stage, and a gallery of period photos of Knox, McReynolds, and other figures of the time gives life to this engaging account, which like no other recaptures life in Washington, D.C., when it was still a genteel southern town.
Author: John Searles Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062199447 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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"A winner: tense and terrifying with a twist you’ll never see coming. You won’t soon forget these characters and the shocking ways their lives intersect." -- Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me Every marriage has its secrets…. Skyla lives alone in the shadow of the defunct drive-in movie theater that she and her husband ran for nearly fifty years. Ever since Hollis’s death in a freak accident the year before, Skyla spends her nights ruminating about the regrets and deceptions in her long marriage. That is, until she rents a cottage on the property to a charming British man, Teddy Cornwell…. A thousand miles away, Linelle is about to turn fifty. Bored by her spouse and fired from her job when a questionable photo from her youth surfaces on social media, her only source of joy is an on-line affair with her very first love, a man she’s not seen in nearly thirty years, Teddy Cornwell… While in New York City, Jeremy, a failed and bitter writer, accepts an assignment to review a new restaurant in Providence. Years ago, Providence was the site of his first great love and first great heartbreak—and maybe, just maybe, he’ll look her up when he’s back in town… Part page-turning thriller, part homage to film noir, and dazzling in its insight into the often desperate desires of the human heart, Her Last Affair is a tense and atmospheric novel of love lost and found again.
Author: Hamilton Holt
Author: Hamilton Holt
Author: David M. Katzman
Author: Holt Hamilton
Author: Werner Sollors
Author: Hamilton Holt
Author: Hamilton Holt
Author: Alexandra Styron
Author: Michael Cart
Author: John Knox
Author: John Searles