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Author
Publisher
John F. Blair, Publisher
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This book tells the stories of 250 different people buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Each entry is accompanied by a color photograph and GPS coordinate to aid in location. The entries are about battlefield heroes, people who survived the war to achieve major accomplishments, the well-known like President John Kennedy, the unknown soldiers, and the lesser-known who still led fascinating lives." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This is the first full-length biography, in over a decade, of James Madison, our fourth President and icon of the conservative movement. In it, the author, a historian looks beyond Madison's traditional moniker, "The Father of the Constitution", to find a more complex and realistic portrait of this influential Founding Father. Instead of an idealized portrait of Madison, the author treats readers to the story of a man who often performed his founding...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
A celebration of Sorensen's Mormon childhood in Utah, the narrator of each story is an adult remembering her experiences as a child and narrating events from the child's perspective. The stories are often about the child's attempt to understand the values of her community.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"One Blood traces both the life of the famous black surgeon and blood plasma pioneer Dr. Charles Drew and the well-known legend about his death. On April 1, 1950, Drew died after an auto accident in rural North Carolina. Within hours, rumors spread: the man who helped create the first American Red Cross blood bank had bled to death because a whites-only hospital refused to treat him. Drew was in fact treated in the emergency room of the small, segregated...
Author
Series
Southern historical publications volume 11
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Author Susan Letzler Cole lost her mother, Alice, to colon cancer in 1990. Alice was 78. In this extraordinary journal, Cole explores the ties that bind mothers and daughters: in life, facing death, and during bereavement. The author aptly calls her work “an experimental memoir, the autobiography of two voices.” Here dialogues with her mother, live and late, are spoken in different voices, styles and media, and at divers moments in time. Correspondence...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1948-[1981]
Language
English
Description
A classic biography of Jefferson. Among the many contributions of this authoritative study was Malone's inclusion in each volume of a detailed timeline of Jefferson's activities and frequent travels in his life. Malone's volumes were widely praised for their lucid and graceful writing style, for their rigorous and thorough scholarship, and for their attention to Jefferson's evolving constitutional and political thought. Later, however, some reviewers...
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