Author: Knights Templar (Masonic order). Grand Commandery (Mich.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Reprint of the Proceedings...from Its Formation, June, 1858, to & Including Conclave of 1871...
Author: Knights Templar (Masonic order). Grand Commandery (Mich.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Black soul, white soul
Author: Patrizia BarreraPublisher: Tektime
ISBN: 883546661X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
A journey into the ancient world of Blues: how it was born, its origins, its path in the world. And then many stories and biographies about its protagonists, black and white, who helped create it and spread it to the general public. Translator: Ivan Alexandra PUBLISHER: TEKTIME
The Education of Henry Adams
Author: Henry AdamsPublisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
One of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written, The Education of Henry Adams is told in the third person, as if its author were watching his own life unwind. It begins with his early life in Quincy, the family seat outside of Boston, and soon moves on to primary school, Harvard College, and beyond. He learns about the unpredictability of politics from statesmen and diplomats, and the newest discoveries in technology, science, history, and art from some of the most important thinkers and creators of the day. In essentially every case, Adams claims, his education and upbringing let him down, leaving him in the dark. But as the historian David S. Brown puts it, this is a “charade”: The Education’s “greatest irony is its claim to telling the story of its author’s ignorance, confusion, and misdirection.” Instead, Adams uses its “vigorous prose and confident assertions” to attack “the West after 1400.” For instance, industrialization and technology make Adams wonder “whether the American people knew where they were driving.” And in one famous chapter, “The Dynamo and the Virgin,” he contrasts the rise of electricity and the power it brings with the strength and resilience of religious belief in the Middle Ages. The grandson and great-grandson of two presidents and the son of a politician and diplomat who served under Lincoln as minister to Great Britain, Adams was born into immense privilege, as he knew well: “Probably no child, born in the year, held better cards than he.” After growing up a Boston Brahmin, he worked as a journalist, historian, and professor, moving in early middle age to Washington. Although Adams distributed a privately printed edition of a hundred copies of The Education for friends and family in 1907, it wasn’t published more widely until 1918, the year he died. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1919, and in 1999 a Modern Library panel placed it first on its list of the best nonfiction books published in the twentieth century. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Emma Darwin, a Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896
Author: Henrietta Emma Darwin LitchfieldPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Nineteenth century miracles
Author: E.H. BrittenPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5870765013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
Nineteenth century miracles or, Spirits and their work in every country of the earth.A complete historical compendium of the great movement know as modern spiritualism
Masonic History of the Northwest
Author: John Milton HodsonPublisher:
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Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine
Author: Emma Darwin, Wife of Charles Darwin
Author: Henrietta Emma LitchfieldPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
History of Jersey County, Illinois
Author: Oscar Brown HamiltonPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Author: Wilson Thomas Hogue