Tidewater Dynasty
Author : Carey Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 9780156903363
Author : Carey Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 9780156903363
Author : Carey Roberts
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 1983-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156903363
From Tom Lee to Robert E. Lee, who made the fateful decision to turn from the nation he loved to defend the state he loved more, the Lees of Virginia dominated both their local and our national landscape.
Author : Vandelia L. Vanmeter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 1997-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313080275
Portrayals of America's people, places, and events in historical fiction integrate literature with history and make an exciting supplement to U.S. history classes. This book helps educators and students locate the best in classic and contemporary fiction in this subject area. Arranged in major chronological divisions of U.S. history, the annotated entries include standard bibliographic information, time period, subject, location, research base (if known), and whether the title is more appropriate for mature students or younger secondary students. VanMeter often lists prequels and sequels or notes when a title is more than 600 pages long. Extensive indexing provides access to entries on a wide variety of topics, from women, immigrants, and ethnic groups to military, political, and social events.
Author : Stephen Hess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351532146
This is the 30th anniversary edition of a book that was hailed on publication in 1966 as "fascinating" by Margaret L. Coit in the Saturday Review and as "masterly" by Henry F. Graff in the New York Times Book Review.The Constitution could not be more specific: "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States." Yet, in over two centuries since these words were written, the American people, despite official disapproval, have chosen a political nobility. For generation after generation they have turned for leadership to certain families. They are America's political dynasties. Now, in the twentieth century, surprisingly, American political life seems to be largely peopled by those who qualify, in Stewart Alsop's phrase, as "People's Dukes." They are all around us?Kennedys, Longs, Tafts, Roosevelts.Here is the panorama of America's political dynasties from colonial days to the present in fascinating profiles of sixteen of the leading families. Some, like the Roosevelts, have shown remarkable staying power. Others are all but forgotten, such as the Washburns, a family in which four sons of a bankrupt shopkeeper were elected to Congress from four different states. America's Political Dynasties investigates the roles of these families in shaping the nation and traces the whole pattern of political inheritance, which has been a little considered but unique and significant feature of American government and diplomacy. And in doing so, it also illuminates the lives and personalities of some two hundred often engaging, usually ambitious, sometimes brilliant, occasionally unscrupulous individuals.
Author : Philip S. Radcliffe
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 2013-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1475968167
This is a picture of life in the fifties in the midwest by someone who was really there. Phil went on to learn about technology and use it to solve industrial problems. In the process there were a lot of discoveries about people, economics, politics and faith. A breadth of experience over a dynamic period in US history.
Author : Jan Pottker
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466852305
Despite hundreds of books and thousands of articles on Jackie Kennedy, surprisingly little is known about her mother's role in her life and achievements. Often dismissed as a social climber who faded into the woodwork after she divorced Jackie's father-the dashing, disreputable "Black Jack" Bouvier-and married the rich Hugh D. Auchincloss, Janet not only played a pivotal part in Jackie's own wedding to JFK, but often served as a stand-in for Jackie during the White House years, and helped her cope with John and Caroline after the assassination. The only book to explore this fascinating mother-daughter relationship, Janet & Jackie is filled with stories that shed new light on the personal life of an American icon.
Author : J. Kent McGaughy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780742533851
In bridging the gap between Lee's private interests and public career, J. Kent McGaughy seeks to overturn many of the misconceptions about Lee and shows that, throughout his life, he remained dedicated to his family and public service.
Author : Robert O. Stephens
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 1995
Category :
ISBN : 9780807141335
Author : William M. McCarty
Publisher :
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Dennis McCarty was born in England in about 1655. He emigrated in about 1670 and settled in Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia.
Author : Virginia C. Johnson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2008-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1625843925
Virginia, mother of presidents, is also the mother of American horse racing. From the very beginning, Virginians have risked it all on the track as eagerly as on the battlefield. Follow the bloodlines of three foundation sires of the American Thoroughbred through generations of rollicking races and larger-than-life grandees wagering kingly stakes, sometimes on horses not yet born. How did the horse nicknamed Damn His Eyes get protection money from other horse owners? What did it mean to tap the claret to break a neck-and-neck tie? Why was Confederate cavalry so much better than Unionwas it the riders, or was it the mounts? All these and many more stories of horsemanship on and off the track fill the pages of Virginia Horse Racing: Triumphs of the Turf.