The Autobiography Of A Nation

Author : Fran Grace
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253108333
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carry A. Nation written by Fran Grace and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carry A. NationRetelling the Life Fran Grace The story of one of America's most notorious and misunderstood women. Carry Nation was 54 when she "smashed" her first saloon, but her life before she started her infamous hatchet crusade has been little known until now. In this first scholarly biography of Nation, Fran Grace unfolds a story that often contrasts with the image of Nation as "Crazy Carry," a bellicose, blue-nosed, man-hating killjoy. Using newly available archival materials and placing Nation in her various historical and cultural contexts, Grace "retells" the crusader's tumultuous life. Brought up in antebellum Kentucky, Nation lived through the devastation of the Civil War and endured a failed marriage to an alcoholic physician. In her early 20s, a single mother and a destitute widow, she experienced a spiritual crisis. Her second marriage, to a much-older David Nation, grew strained under the failure of their Texas farm, her exploration into Holiness religion, and her attempts to work outside the home. When the couple moved to Kansas, Nation's disappointments translated into an agenda for social reform. Frustrated by the rampant violations of the state's prohibition law and empowered by a sense of divine mission, Nation responded with rocks, crowbars, and hatchets. Though much of her last two decades was spent on stage or in jail and in battles with other family members over the future of her unstable adult daughter, she edited two newspapers and founded several homes for abused and needy women. This complexly woven and delightfully written biography adds depth to the popular image of Carry Nation, situating her at the center of major cultural currents in her time. Fran Grace is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Redlands. Religion in North AmericaCatherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein, editors May 2001400 pages, 57 b&w photos, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, bibl., index, append.cloth 0-253-33846-8 $35.00 s / £26.50

Author : David Dawley
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Nation of Lords written by David Dawley and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1973 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells about the streets of West Side, Chicago, from the times when shotguns were as vital as pants to the times when street fighters opened stores, art studios and tenant's rights programs. It is the story of the evolution of the Vice Lords from street fighting to street corporation, an organizational form of the emerging nation of Black youth.

Author : Andrew Carroll
Publisher : Broadway
ISBN 13 : 0767903315
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters of a Nation written by Andrew Carroll and published by Broadway. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning 350 years of American history and culture, a collection of more than two hundred letters, many never before published, reveals the personalities and feelings of Americans great and small, from Amelia Earhart to Elvis Presley to Malcolm X. Reprint.

Author : Robert J. Norrell
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466879319
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation written by Robert J. Norrell and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that have had as much influence on American culture when they were published as Alex Haley's monumental bestsellers, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), and Roots (1976). They changed the way white and black America viewed each other and the country's history. This first biography of Haley follows him from his childhood in relative privilege in deeply segregated small town Tennessee to fame and fortune in high powered New York City. It was in the Navy, that Haley discovered himself as a writer, which eventually led his rise as a star journalist in the heyday of magazine personality profiles. At Playboy Magazine, Haley profiled everyone from Martin Luther King and Miles Davis to Johnny Carson and Malcolm X, leading to their collaboration on The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Roots was for Haley a deeper, more personal reach. The subsequent book and miniseries ignited an ongoing craze for family history, and made Haley one of the most famous writers in the country. Roots sold half a million copies in the first two months of publication, and the original television miniseries was viewed by 130 million people. Haley died in 1992. This deeply researched and compelling book by Robert J. Norrell offers the perfect opportunity to revisit his authorship, his career as one of the first African American star journalists, as well as an especially dramatic time of change in American history.

Author : Becky Conekin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719060601
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of a Nation written by Becky Conekin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptional book is the first full-length study on the 1951 Festival of Britain. As a consciously constructed cultural and educational event, or rather series of events, the Festival provides an opportunity to see a society and a government struggling to recast national identity after the experience of World War II. Primarily an examination of how Britain and Britishness were portrayed in the 1951 Festival’s exhibitions and events, Becky E. Conekin considers the Festival’s history and historiography, its purpose, its representations of the future and the past, the role of London and the "local", the British Empire and finally its legacy.

Author : Nate Parker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501156594
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth of a Nation written by Nate Parker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This official tie-in to the highly acclaimed film, The Birth of a Nation, surveys the history and legacy of Nat Turner, the leader of one of the most renowned slave rebellions on American soil, while also exploring Turner’s relevance to contemporary dialogues on race relations. Based on astounding events in American history, The Birth of a Nation is the epic story of one man championing the spirit of resistance as he leads a rough-and-tumble group into a revolt against injustice and slavery. Breathing new life into a story that has been rife with controversy and prejudice for over two centuries, the film follows the rise of the visionary Virginian slave, Nat Turner. Hired out by his owner to preach to and placate slaves on drought-plagued plantations, Turner eventually transforms into an inspired, impassioned, and fierce anti-slavery leader. Beautifully illustrated with stills from the movie and original illustrations, the book also features an essay by writer/director, Nate Parker, contributions by members of the cast and crew, and commentary by educator Brian Favors and historians Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Daina Ramey Berry who place Nat Turner and the rebellion he led into historical context. The Birth of a Nation reframes the way we think about slavery and resistance as it explores the passion, determination, and faith that inspired Nat Turner to sacrifice everything for freedom.

Author : Carry Amelia Nation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation written by Carry Amelia Nation and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nathan Schneider
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568589603
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything for Everyone written by Nathan Schneider and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback. A new feudalism is on the rise. While monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich, more and more of us are expected to live gig to gig. But, as Nathan Schneider shows, an alternative to the robber-baron economy is hiding in plain sight; we just need to know where to look. Cooperatives are jointly owned, democratically controlled enterprises that advance the economic, social, and cultural interests of their members. They often emerge during moments of crisis not unlike our own, putting people in charge of the workplaces, credit unions, grocery stores, healthcare, and utilities they depend on. Everything for Everyone chronicles this revolution--from taxi cooperatives keeping Uber at bay, to an outspoken mayor transforming his city in the Deep South, to a fugitive building a fairer version of Bitcoin, to the rural electric co-op members who are propelling an aging system into the future. As these pioneers show, co-ops are helping us rediscover our capacity for creative, powerful, and fair democracy.

Author : Sir Surendranath Banerjea
Publisher : Rupa Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788129140104
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Nation in Making written by Sir Surendranath Banerjea and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2016 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the last years of Sir Surendranath Banerjea's life, A Nation in Making is not only the autobiography of a pioneering leader in Indian politics but also a commentary on public life. In the pages of this book, we are offered insights into the life of the founder of the Indian National Association and twice president of the Indian National Congress. We grasp the vision motivating his landmark appeals-including one to the British to modify the 1905 Partition of Bengal, reinstitute habeas corpus and grant India a Constitution based on the Canadian model. Most of all, we understand the mind of a phenomenal leader-a trailblazer with the refrain, 'agitate, agitate'; a moderate with a quarrel with B. G. Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi; and an ardent exponent of nationalism and a representative form of government. Insightful, honest and sincere, this book immortalizes the work of those who, like Banerjea, 'placed India firmly on the road to constitutional freedom...by constitutional means'

Author : Jeremy A. Enriquez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789768142979
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Educate a Nation written by Jeremy A. Enriquez and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Educate a Nation: Autobiographies of Andres P. and Jane V. Enriquez tells of a Garifuna family sent as teachers to rural villages from the 1910s through the 1940s. Editor Jeremy Enriquez explains Garifuna and Catholic history in Belize, and the selection of Garifuna to be teachers in rural Belize. This book honours their contribution to Belize.