Twenty-fifth Anniversary, August 6, 1949
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Page : 190 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 1949
Category : American literature
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 1949
Category : American literature
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Author : United States. Department of State. Division of Research for Europe
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Page : 74 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Soviet Union
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Author : Norman Maclean
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 2017-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 022645035X
Twenty-five years after its first publication, Young Men and Fire is read avidly by students of literary nonfiction for its blend of hard-earned research, memoir, and an old man's wisdom. It tells one of the most infamous stories in the history of wildland firefighting: On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. On the ground, they were joined by a local fireguard. Two hours after the jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. For forty years, Maclean was haunted by these deaths. And for the last years of his life, he struggled to write a book that would put back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch disaster and to give it the dignity of tragedy. The result is both the definitive account of what happened to the Smokejumpers on that remote Montana mountainside in 1949, and the narrative of a writer's quest for meaning in the face of elusive facts and the waning energies of old age.
Author : United States Department of State. Division of Research for Europe
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
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Category : Soviet Union
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Author : Audre Hanneman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400875552
This bibliography of Hemingway's writings and related materials includes, for the first time, all of his books, pamphlets, stories, articles, newspaper contributions, juvenilia, library holdings of his letters and manuscripts, items written about Hemingway between 1918 and 1965, and short excerpts from reviews of each of Hemingway’s novels. It is the first bibliography of Hemingway published since 1931, and includes much material never before assembled: thirty-eight contributions to his high school newspaper, Trapeze, twenty-eight Spanish Civil War dispatches, and first editions published in some thirty foreign languages. First editions of books and pamphlets, both American and English with bibliographic descriptions, are given. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Mark Greif
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 069117329X
Introduction: the "crisis of man" as obscurity and re-enlightenment -- Currents through the War -- The end of the War and after -- Transmission -- Criticism and the literary crisis of man -- Studies in fiction -- Saul Bellow and Ralph Ellison: man and history, the questions -- Ralph Ellison and Saul Bellow: history and man, the answers -- Flannery O'Connor and faith -- Thomas Pynchon and technology -- Transmutation -- The Sixties as big bang -- Universal philosophy and antihumanist theory -- Conclusion: moral history and the twentieth century.
Author : Price
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 1959
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ISBN : 1452912459
Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476617198
With its fiery crosses and nightriders in pointed hoods and flowing robes, the Ku Klux Klan remains a recurring nightmare in American life. What began in the earliest post-Civil War days as a social group engaging in drunken hijinks at the expense of perceived inferiors soon turned into a murderous paramilitary organization determined to resist the "evils" of radical Reconstruction. For six generations and counting, the Klan has inflicted misery and death on countless victims nationwide and since the early 1920s, has expanded into distant corners of the globe. From the Klan's post-Civil War lynchings in support of Jim Crow laws, to its bloody stand against desegregation during the 1960s, to its continued violence in the militia movement at the turn of the 21st century, this revealing volume chronicles the complete history of the world's oldest surviving terrorist organization from 1866 to the present. The story is told without embellishment because, as this work demonstrates, the truth about the Ku Klux Klan is grim enough.
Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office
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Page : 596 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, British
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Author : Stephen J. Curley
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1603444696