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An inspirational and vivid behind-the-scenes biography of the Gandhi family and the tumult of India’s independence by Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi.
Author : Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0007513321
An inspirational and vivid behind-the-scenes biography of the Gandhi family and the tumult of India’s independence by Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi.
Author : K. M. Kostyal
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426203282
Brings together essays, anecdotes, reflections, and never-before-published images and artifacts from the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, accompanied by factual sidebars, and biographical details.
Author : John Hope Franklin
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807167266
“My father’s life represented many layers of the human experience—freedman and Native American, farmer and rancher, rural educator and urban professional.”—John Hope Franklin Buck Colbert Franklin (1879–1960) led an extraordinary life; from his youth in what was then the Indian Territory to his practice of law in twentieth-century Tulsa, he was an observant witness to the changes in politics, law, daily existence, and race relations that transformed the wide-open Southwest. Fascinating in its depiction of an intelligent young man's coming of age in the days of the Land Rush and the closing of the frontier, My Life and an Era is equally important for its reporting of the triracial culture of early Oklahoma. Recalling his boyhood spent in the Chickasaw Nation, Franklin suggests that blacks fared better in Oklahoma in the days of the Indians than they did later with the white population. In addition to his insights about the social milieu, he offers youthful reminiscences of mustangs and mountain lions, of farming and ranch life, that might appear in a Western novel. After returning from college in Nashville and Atlanta, Franklin married a college classmate, studied law by mail, passed the bar, and struggled to build a practice in Springer and Ardmore in the first years of Oklahoma statehood. Eventually a successful attorney in Tulsa, he was an eyewitness to a number of important events in the Southwest, including the Tulsa race riot of 1921, which left more than 100 dead. His account clearly shows the growing racial tensions as more and more people moved into the state in the period leading up to World War II. Rounded out by an older man’s reflections on race, religion, culture, and law, My Life and an Era presents a true, firsthand account of a unique yet defining place and time in the nation's history, as told by an eloquent and impassioned writer.
Author : Lorenzo Angeloni
Publisher : Juggernaut Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
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ISBN : 9386228629
Author : James A. Michener
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 1994-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812550528
Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener has been writing for over seven decades. This book presents Michener's analysis of his own writing and that of his peers--his reflections, remembrances, and stories of his youthful encounters with the era's notable personages. For any who do not know him, this is their chance to meet this extraordinary man. For his millions of fans, this is the chance to know him better.
Author : Donna M. Eschenauer
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 081468016X
"A Michael Glazier book." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author : Andy M Jones
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2018-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784918628
Charles Thomas (1928-2016) was a Cornishman and archaeologist, whose career from the 1950s spanned nearly seven decades. This period saw major developments that underpin the structures of archaeology in Britain today, in many of which he played a pivotal part.
Author : John Wooden
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 1997-04-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0071507477
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs."--John Wooden Evoking days gone by when coaches were respected as much for their off-court performances as for their success on the court, Wooden presents the timeless wisdom of legendary basketball coach John Wooden. In honest and telling passages about virtually every aspect of life, Coach shares his personal philosophy on family, achievement, success, and excellence. Raised on a small farm in south-central Indiana, he offers lessons and wisdom learned throughout his career at UCLA, and life as a dedicated husband, father, and teacher. These lessons, along with personal letters from Bill Walton, Denny Crum, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Bob Costas, among others, have made Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court an inspirational classic.
Author : Nadine Epstein
Publisher : Moment Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781942134572
Celebration of the life, work and legacies of Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel through interviews, photographs, speeches, and his fiction.
Author : Delphine Diallo
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1620975815
A beautiful series of full-color portraits of LGBTQ people over the age of fifty Even with the extraordinary strides the LGBTQ movement has made in civil rights, acceptance, and visibility over the past half century, a growing portion of the community remains largely invisible, its concerns relegated to the margins. In the latest in a groundbreaking series of beautiful photobooks on LGBTQ communities around the world—from Russia to Mexico to Japan—French-Senegalese photographer Delphine Diallo centers on the voices and lives of older LGBTQ people in the United States, a generation that has been ravaged by the AIDS epidemic but has also been instrumental in extraordinary progress in LGBTQ rights and visibility in this country. The series of fifty full-color portraits of LGBTQ people from across the nation—interviewed on the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots that led to modern LGBTQ rights movement—offers this wise and resilient cohort a chance to share their stories and to reflect. With a special focus on people of color, Lived Experience is a celebration of an underserved, neglected part of the LGBTQ world in America and an inspiration to future generations. Lived Experience was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).