Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
Author : John Davison Rockefeller
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Business
ISBN :
At Random
Author : Bennett Cerf
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 030781999X
Book Description
“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House’s first decades. Part of the vanguard of young New York publishers who revolutionized the book business in the 1920s and ’30s, Cerf helped usher in publishing’s golden age. Cerf was a true personality, whose other pursuits (columnist, anthologist, author, lecturer, radio host, collector of jokes and anecdotes, perennial judge of the Miss America pageant, and panelist on What’s My Line?) helped shape his reputation as a man of boundless energy and enthusiasm and brought unprecedented attention to his company and to his authors. At once a rare behind-the-scenes account of book publishing and a fascinating portrait of four decades’ worth of legendary authors, from James Joyce and William Faulkner to Ralph Ellison and Eudora Welty, At Random is a feast for bibliophiles and anyone who’s ever wondered what goes on inside a publishing house.
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
Author : John D. Rockefeller
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 2003-06
Category : Capitalists and financiers
ISBN : 1410206300
Book Description
CONTENTS Some Old Friends The Difficult Art of Getting The Standard Oil Company Some Experiences in the Oil Business Other Business Experiences and Business Principles The Difficult Art of Giving The Benevolent Trust -- The Value of the Co?perative Principle in Giving
The Classic Autobiography of John D. Rockefeller
Author : John D Rockefeller
Publisher : Stanfordpub.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 2024-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781998050482
Book Description
John D. Rockefeller, one of the richest and most influential people in history. In this book, Rockefeller looks back on his life, sharing personal stories about the people he met and the events that shaped his career in the oil industry. He reflects on his experiences with key figures in American business, as well as moments that were important to him. This book gives a unique look into the mind of the man who built a massive business empire and changed the American economy forever.
The Statler Brothers
Author : Harold Reid
Publisher : Yell Records
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 2008-02
Category : Country musicians
ISBN : 9780980088304
Book Description
Traces the long and successful career of the award-winning country music group, from their early years in the late 1950s until their retirement in 2000.
Before We Were Strangers
Author : Renée Carlino
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501105787
Book Description
From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M
From the Kingdom of Memory
Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 1995-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0805210202
Book Description
In this "powerful" (New York Times Book review) collection of personal essays and landmark speeches by "one of the great writers of our generation" (New Republic), Elie Wiesel weaves together reminiscences of his life before the Holocaust, his struggle to find meaning afterward, and the actions he has taken on behalf of others that have defined him as a leading advocate of humanity and have earned him the Nobel Peace Prize. Here, too, as a tribute to the dead and an exhortation to the living are landmark speeches, among them his powerful testimony at the Klaus Barbie trial, his impassioned plea to President Reagan not to visit a German S.S. cemetery, and the speech he gave in Oslo in acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, in which he voices his hope that "the memory of evil will serve as a shield against evil."
I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor
Author : Ernesto Che Guevara
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,50 MB
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1644210967
Book Description
The first-ever edition of Che Guevara's letters, the vast majority never-before published in English in any form. Ernesto Che Guevara was a voyager—and thus a letter writer—for his entire adult life. The letters collected in I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 range from letters home during his Motorcycle Diaries trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959 (from which the book's title comes), from the most personal to the intensely political, revealing someone who not only thought deeply about everything he encountered, but for whom the process of social transformation was a constant companion from his youth until shortly before his death. His letters give us Che the son, the friend, the lover, the guerrilla fighter, the political leader, the philosopher, the poet. Che in these letters is often playful, funny, sometimes sarcastic, and deeply affectionate. His life was short, and these twenty years, from when he was 19 until days before his death, show it was also incredibly rich and full. As his daughter Aleida Guevara, also a doctor like her father, writes, "When you write a speech, you pay attention to the language, the punctuation and so on. But in a letter to a friend or a member of your family, you don't worry about those things. It is you speaking, in your authentic voice. That's what I like about these letters; they show who Che really was and how he thought. This is the true political testimony of my father."
A Meal Observed
Author : Andrew Todhunter
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0307424421
Book Description
Awarded three stars by Michelin, Taillevent is one of the finest restaurants in the world. Todhunter spent several months working in its kitchen in preparation for the divine experience of eating a five-hour meal in the nineteenth-century dining room. From the amuse-bouche (a warm cheese puff to “amuse the mouth”) to the crowning glory of the fantasie, he perfectly captures the sensual pleasure of the meticulously served dinner. Along the way he expertly discusses everything from the state of French haute cuisine and the complexity of running a renowned restaurant to the chemistry of chocolate and the history of salt. A Meal Observed is a rare treat, a paean to the French and French cuisine that is as enchanting and richly satisfying as the meal it describes.
Permanent Record
Author : Edward Snowden
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250237246
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online—a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
