What I saw in America
Author : Gilbert K. Chesterton
Publisher : Kiambo Ridge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 1968
Category : United States
ISBN : 144999721X
Author : Gilbert K. Chesterton
Publisher : Kiambo Ridge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 1968
Category : United States
ISBN : 144999721X
Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher : Binker North
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 1922
Category : History
ISBN :
This collection of essays from G.K. Chesterton includes the work: What is America?
Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781010019916
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Author : Chesterton G K (Gilbert Keith)
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 2016-06-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781318909636
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Author : David Colbert
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 1998-07-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 067976724X
Thomas Jefferson complains about haggling over the Declaration of Independence ... Jack London guides us through the rubble of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ... Langston Hughes visits the Scottsboro Boys on death row ... Andy Warhol paints the scene at Studio 54 ... John Seabrook receives e-mail from Bill Gates. Three hundred eyewitnesses -- some famous, some anonymous -- give their personal accounts of the great moments that make up our past, from Columbus to cyberspace, and infuse them with a freshness and urgency no historian can duplicate. David Colbert has brought together a multitude of voices to create a singularly rich American narrative. Here are the vivid impressions of men and women who were witnesses to and participants in these and other dramatic moments: the first colony in Virginia, the Salem witch trials, the Boston Tea Party, the Oklahoma land rush, the Scopes Trial, the bombing of Nagasaki, the lunch-counter sit-ins at the outset of the civil rights movement, New York City's Stonewall Riot, the fall of Saigon, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. With unparalleled and thrilling immediacy, these excerpts from diaries, private letters, memoirs, and newspapers paint a fascinating picture of the evolving drama of American life.
Author : James L. Nolan (Jr.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107146615
Chronicling the visits of four important figures, this book will help Americans better understand themselves and how outsiders perceive them.
Author : Isabel Sawhill
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0300241062
A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation’s economic inequalities One of the country’s leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society—economic, cultural, and political—and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. While many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.
Author : Jill Lepore
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0393635252
“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. “A nation born in contradiction… will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.
Author : G. Chesterton
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 2017-11-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781981170814
What I Saw in America is G. K. Chesterton's 1922 travelogue about his time in America. The book is much of what America meant to him, as an Englishman. His views on freedom, democracy, and capitalism are front and center in this book as he viewed Americans being virtually driven into indentured servitude if not outright slavery. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Author : Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel)
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 1913
Category : United States
ISBN :