My American Family
Author : Donna O'Neill
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1465338942
A Good American Family
Author : David Maraniss
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1501178393
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize–winning author and “one of our most talented biographers and historians” (The New York Times) David Maraniss delivers a “thoughtful, poignant, and historically valuable story of the Red Scare of the 1950s” (The Wall Street Journal) through the chilling yet affirming story of his family’s ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication. Elliott Maraniss, David’s father, a WWII veteran who had commanded an all-black company in the Pacific, was spied on by the FBI, named as a communist by an informant, called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, fired from his newspaper job, and blacklisted for five years. Yet he never lost faith in America and emerged on the other side with his family and optimism intact. In a sweeping drama that moves from the Depression and Spanish Civil War to the HUAC hearings and end of the McCarthy era, Maraniss weaves his father’s story through the lives of his inquisitors and defenders as they struggle with the vital 20th-century issues of race, fascism, communism, and first amendment freedoms. “Remarkably balanced, forthright, and unwavering in its search for the truth” (The New York Times), A Good American Family evokes the political dysfunctions of the 1950s while underscoring what it really means to be an American. It is “clear-eyed and empathetic” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) tribute from a brilliant writer to his father and the family he protected in dangerous times.
An American Family
Author : Khizr Khan
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0399592490
Book Description
Khan electrified viewers around the world when he took the stage at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. When he offered to lend Donald Trump his own much-read and dog-eared pocket Constitution, his gesture perfectly encapsulated the feelings of millions. The oldest of ten children born to farmers in Pakistan, Khan was a university student who read the Declaration of Independence and was awestruck by what might be possible in life. He and his wife instilled in their children the ideals that brought to America, and then tragically lost a son, an Army captain killed while protecting his base camp in Iraq. Here Khan tells readers why we must not be afraid to step forward for what we believe in when it matters most.
An American Family Cooks
Author : Judith Choate
Publisher : Welcome Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 159962124X
Book Description
"From a chocolate cake you will never forget to a Thanksgiving everyone can master"--Cover.
An American Family
Author : Jon Galluccio
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2001-02-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0312261233
Book Description
The story of two gay men living in New Jersey who embark on a journey to adopt a child. The two men serve as Adam's foster parents and have cared for Adam since he was a newborn, afflicted with AIDS, and born addicted to crack, heroin, marijuana and alcohol. They took their fight to the New Jersey Courts and won.
My Italian American Family, Rural Taiwan and Lawndale News Memoirs
Author : Daniel Nardini
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1984516256
Book Description
My Italian American Family, Rural Taiwan and Lawndale News Memoirs are a combined set of memoirs. The first deals with Mr. Nardinis family and their personal history as well as the authors life growing up. The second deals with his three and a half years living on a farm in Taiwan and what rural life was like during the time the author lived in the rural Taiwanese countryside. The third memoir is about Mr. Nardinis twenty years working for Lawndale Newsa bilingual Latino newspaper in English and Spanish located in Cicero, Illinois.
Fry Bread
Author : Kevin Noble Maillard
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1250760860
Book Description
Winner of the 2020 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal A 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Winner “A wonderful and sweet book . . . Lovely stuff.” —The New York Times Book Review Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal. Fry bread is food. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Fry bread is time. It brings families together for meals and new memories. Fry bread is nation. It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond. Fry bread is us. It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference. A 2020 Charlotte Huck Recommended Book A Publishers Weekly Best Picture Book of 2019 A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2019 A School Library Journal Best Picture Book of 2019 A Booklist 2019 Editor's Choice A Shelf Awareness Best Children's Book of 2019 A Goodreads Choice Award 2019 Semifinalist A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book of 2019 A National Public Radio (NPR) Best Book of 2019 An NCTE Notable Poetry Book A 2020 NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People A 2020 ALA Notable Children's Book A 2020 ILA Notable Book for a Global Society 2020 Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year List One of NPR's 100 Favorite Books for Young Readers Nominee, Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award 2022-2022 Nominee, Illinois Monarch Award 2022
The Mexican American Family
Author : Norma Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780930390259
Book Description
This is the first book to provide readers with an overall understanding of changing patterns in the extended and conjugal family relationships of the second largest ethnic minority group in the United States.
My Grandfather's Book
Author : Gary Gildner
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
Believing that the last book his grandfather ever read, the one he was buried with, was Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Gildner reflects on his relationship to literature and writing and how that is related to his roots as a Slovakian. Much of his reflection takes place in the context of travels through Eastern Europe and the United States, as well as his relationship with family members past and present. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A New American Family
Author : Peter Likins
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0816501106
Book Description
By most accounts Pete Likins has had a successful life. But his personal accomplishments are only the backdrop for the real story—the story of his family, whose trials and triumphs hold lessons for many American families in the twenty-first century. This poignant but ultimately empowering memoir tells the story of Peter Likins, his wife Patricia, and the six children they adopted in the 1960s, building a family beset by challenges that ultimately strengthened all bonds. With issues such as inter-racial adoption, mental illness, drug addiction, unwed pregnancy, and homosexuality entwined in their lives, the Likins’ tale isn’t just a family memoir—it’s a story of the American experience, a memoir with a message. With circumstances of race, age, and health making all of their children virtually unadoptable by 1960s standards, Pat and Pete never strayed from the belief that loyalty and love could build a strong family. Both Pete and Pat have served as teachers, and Pete’s long academic career—holding positions as a professor, dean, provost, and then president—illuminates more than just his personal success. Pete’s professional attainments produce a context for his family story, wherein high achievements in educational, athletic, and financial terms coexist with the joys and sorrows of this exceptional family.
