Americus

Author : MK Reed
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596436018
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Americus written by MK Reed and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oklahoma teen Neal Barton stands up for his favorite fantasy series, The Chronicles of Apathea Ravenchilde, when conservative Christians try to bully the town of Americus into banning it from the public library.

Author : Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811215787
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Americus written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In less than a year, Lawrence Ferlinghetti won a lifetime achievement award from the Author's Guild, received the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and celebrated the 50th anniversary of his renowned City Lights Bookstore. Now, instead of resting on these many laurels, the elder statesman of American poetry lights out for the territories with Book I of his own born-in-the-U.S.A. narrative, Americus. Describing his work as part documentary, part public pillow-talk, part personal epic....a descant, a canto unsung, a banal history, a true fiction, lyric and political..., Ferlinghetti merges certain universal texts, snatches of song, words or phrases, murmuring of love or hate, from Lotte Lenya to the latest soul singer, sayings and shibboleths from Yogi Berra to the National Anthem and the Gettysburg Address or the Ginsberg Address, that haunt our nocturnal imagination.... This sit-up-and-take-notice work breaks new ground in the grand tradition of Whitman, Williams, Olson and Pound, as Ferlinghetti stalks our literary and political landscapes, past and present, to articulate the unique voice of America and create an autobiography of our collective American consciousness. Born to Italian parents in Yonkers, New York in 1919, Lawrence Ferlinghetti served in the navy during WWII and received degrees from the U. of North Carolina, Columbia and the Sorbonne in Paris. Since 1953 he has been the owner and publisher of City Lights Books in San Francisco.

Author : Jim Auchmutey
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610393554
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Class of '65 written by Jim Auchmutey and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of racial strife, one young man showed courage and empathy. It took forty years for the others to join him… Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. Greg came from a nearby Christian commune, Koinonia, whose members devoutly and publicly supported racial equality. When he refused to insult and attack his school's first black students in 1964, Greg was mistreated as badly as they were: harassed and bullied and beaten. In the summer after his senior year, as racial strife in Americus—and the nation—reached its peak, Greg left Georgia. Forty-one years later, a dozen former classmates wrote letters to Greg, asking his forgiveness and inviting him to return for a class reunion. Their words opened a vein of painful memory and unresolved emotion, and set him on a journey that would prove healing and saddening. The Class of '65 is more than a heartbreaking story from the segregated South. It is also about four of Greg's classmates—David Morgan, Joseph Logan, Deanie Dudley, and Celia Harvey—who came to reconsider the attitudes they grew up with. How did they change? Why, half a lifetime later, did reaching out to the most despised boy in school matter to them? This noble book reminds us that while ordinary people may acquiesce to oppression, we all have the capacity to alter our outlook and redeem ourselves.

Author : Ansley L. Quiros
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469646773
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God with Us written by Ansley L. Quiros and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many, the struggle over civil rights was not just about lunch counters, waiting rooms, or even access to the vote; it was also about Christian theology. Since both activists and segregationists ardently claimed that God was on their side, racial issues were imbued with religious meanings from all sides. Whether in the traditional sanctuaries of the major white Protestant denominations, in the mass meetings in black churches, or in Christian expressions of interracialism, southerners resisted, pursued, and questioned racial change within various theological traditions. God with Us examines the theological struggle over racial justice through the story of one southern town--Americus, Georgia--where ordinary Americans sought and confronted racial change in the twentieth century. Documenting the passion and virulence of these contestations, this book offers insight into how midcentury battles over theology and race affected the rise of the Religious Right and indeed continue to resonate deeply in American life.

Author : Charles Edwards Lester
Publisher : New Haven [Conn.] : H. Mansfield
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius written by Charles Edwards Lester and published by New Haven [Conn.] : H. Mansfield. This book was released on 1853 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Edwards Lester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Voyage of Americus Vespucius, with Illustrations Concerning the Navigator and the Discovery of the New World ... written by Charles Edwards Lester and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Edwards Lester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Americus Vespucius written by Charles Edwards Lester and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C.EDWARDS LESTER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE LIFE AND VOYAGES OF AMERICUS VESPUSCIUS: written by C.EDWARDS LESTER and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Edwards LESTER (and FOSTER (Andrew))
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius; with Illustrations Concerning the Navigator, and the Discovery of the New World written by Charles Edwards LESTER (and FOSTER (Andrew)) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Harrisse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Americus Vespuccius written by Henry Harrisse and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: