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TwoDot
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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Discover 13 extraordinary women from Virginia's past, including Pocahontas; Martha Washington; Dolley Madison; travel writer Anne Newport Royall; pioneering banker Maggie Lena Walker; Civil War spies Belle Boyd and Elizabeth Van Lew; and poet Anne Spencer.
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Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation college student turned college professor, comes a passionate commentary on these themes in a family memoir set in West Virginia coal country. 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym is the story of the author's father,...
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English
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"As Alexander Hamilton's star has risen, Thomas Jefferson's has fallen, largely owing to their divergent views on race. Once seen as the most influential American champion of liberty and democracy, Jefferson is now remembered largely for his relationship with his slave Sally Hemings, and for electing not to free her or most of the other people he owned. In this magisterial biography, the eminent scholar John B. Boles does not ignore the aspects of...
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