Publication date: 1970-01-01
Review Reader's Digest Family Treasury of Great Biographies: The Eleanor Roosevelt Story/ Napoleon/ Black Boy/ Beethove/ Elizabeth and her German Garden / Reader's Digest Association:
Publication date: 1968-01-01
Review THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN / MAGNUM:
Creator: Allan Nevins
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1988-09
Dewey code: 974.71030924
Price: $35.00
Review The Diary of George Templeton Strong / University of Washington Press:
Publication date: 1998-03-15
Dewey code: 973.560922
Price: $65.00
Review Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay: Democracy and Development in Antebellum America (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) / Palgrave Macmillan:This dual biography with documents is the first book to explore the political conflict between Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay-two dynamic personalities whose contrasting visions of America's future shaped a generation of power struggle in the early Republic. In a clear, even narrative that outlines the fascinating economic, social, technological, and political dynamics of the early nineteenth century, Henry Watson examines how Jackson and Clay came to personify the choice between democracy and development. Following the biographies are 25 primary documents-including speeches from the Senate floor, letters to the new president, and Jackson's famous bank veto-that parallel the narrative's organization.
Edition: Collector's ed
Publication date: 1995
Review Alexander Hamilton: A biography / Easton Press:
Publication date: 1909
Review The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; The Journal of John Wooman; Fruits of Solitude: The Five-Foot Shelf of Books Volume 1 / P F Collier & Son:
Publication date: 1968-01-01
Review THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN / MAGNUM:
Publication date: 2007-05-07
Dewey code: 841.8
List Price: $99.95
Price: $99.94
Review Mallarmé and Wagner: Music and Poetic Language / Ashgate Pub Co:This book challenges and replaces the existing view of Mallarme's mission to 're-possess' music on behalf of poetic language. Traditionally, this view focused on only the last fifteen years of the poet's life, and sprang from a belief in Mallarme's 'sudden awakening' to music during an all-Wagner concert in Paris, in 1885. Professor Heath Lees shows that Mallarme's early knowledge and experience of music was much greater than commentators have realised, and that the French poet actually began his writing career with the explicit aim of making music's performance-language of 'effect' the ground of his poetic expression. Integral to the argument is Mallarme's reaction to the work and ideas of Richard Wagner, whose impact on France came in two waves, the first of which broke during the tempestuous 1860s days of the Paris Tannhauser, while the second arrived in the mid-1880s, and gave birth to the Revue wagnerienne. In refuting the critical literature that focuses on only the second of these waves, Lees shows that Mallarme exhibited a highly informed Wagnerian background during the first wave, and that his grasp of the composer's gestural motives and flexible musical prose led him towards a new kind of self-expressive, gestural rhythm that aimed musically to reinvent poetic language. In support of this, the book examines closely what Wagner 'really' said in the prose works that were becoming known in Paris by the 1860s, in particular, Wagner's important French text the Lettre sur la musique. It also re-examines Baudelaire's classic Wagner-brochure, and reveals its author's surprisingly firm grasp of Wagner's musico-poetic fusion. In musically informed commentary, Professor Lees surveys the four decades of success and failure that resulted from Mallarme's repeated attempts to draw out the musical gestures and resonances of words alone. In the process, he throws new light on many of Mallarme's best-known texts, hitherto judged 'difficult' by those who have failed to appreciate the extent of the poet's heroic descent through the surface of words in search of 'la Musique'.
Publication date: 2002-02
Dewey code: 945.5106
List Price: $43.95
Price: $99.36
Review Debts, Dowries, Donkeys: The Diary Of Niccolo Machiavelli's Father, Messer Bernardo, In Quattrocento Florence (Dialoghi/Dialogues : Literatur Und Kultur Italiens Und Frankreichs, Volume 5) / Peter Lang Publishing:
Publication date: 1983-01
Price: $10.95
Review Life & Times of Martin Luther (Tyndale Series of Great Biographies) / Moody Publishers:
Creator: L. H. BUTTERFIELD
Publication date: 1961
Review DIARY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN ADAMS VOLUME I - DIARY 1755-1770- 365 PAGES / BELKNAP PRESS OF HARVARD UNIV. PRESS:
Publication date: 1963
Review Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Shaping Years, Volume I & II (Two Volumes Set) / Harvard University Press:9. 4" * 6. 2". Cloth Hardcover. Vol. I: 1841-1870, 330 p. ; Vol. II: 1870-1882, 295 p.
Publication date: 1932
Review The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Selections From His Other Writings / Carlton House:
Authors
- CHARLES W. ELIOT (EDITOR)
Review THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, THE JOURNAL OF JOHN WOOLMANM FRUITS OF SOLITUDE / P.F. COLLIER & SON:
Publication date: 1992-01-01
Review Exploring Biographies of Nellie Bly, Albert Einstein & George Washington Carver / Scholastic:
Creator: Julian P. Boyd
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1965-05-01
Dewey code: 973.46092
List Price: $99.50
Price: $99.49
Review The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Vol. 17: July 1790-November 1790 / Princeton University Press:
Publication date: 1909-01-01
Review HARVARD CLASSICS REGISTED EDITION THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, THE JOURNAL OF JOHN WOOLMAN, FRUITS OF SOLITUDE WILLIAM PENN / GROLIER ENTERPRISES:
Publication date: 1952
Review GEORGE WASHINGTON, A BIOGRAPHY--- Volume 5 - VICTORY WITH THE HELP OF FRANCE / Charles Scribner's Sons:
Publication date: 1994-01-01
Price: $24.95
Review Six Crises / Buccaneer Books, Incorporated:
Publication date: 1926
Review Abraham Lincoln (sangamon) / scribners:
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Reader's Digest Family Treasury of Great Biographies: The Eleanor Roosevelt Story/ Napoleon/ Black Boy/ Beethove/ Elizabeth and her German Garden, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay: Democracy and Development in Antebellum America (The Bedford Series in History and Culture), Alexander Hamilton: A biography, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; The Journal of John Wooman; Fruits of Solitude: The Five-Foot Shelf of Books Volume 1, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Mallarmé and Wagner: Music and Poetic Language, Debts, Dowries, Donkeys: The Diary Of Niccolo Machiavelli's Father, Messer Bernardo, In Quattrocento Florence (Dialoghi/Dialogues : Literatur Und Kultur Italiens Und Frankreichs, Volume 5), Life & Times of Martin Luther (Tyndale Series of Great Biographies), DIARY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN ADAMS VOLUME I - DIARY 1755-1770- 365 PAGES, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Shaping Years, Volume I & II (Two Volumes Set), The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Selections From His Other Writings, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, THE JOURNAL OF JOHN WOOLMANM FRUITS OF SOLITUDE, Exploring Biographies of Nellie Bly, Albert Einstein & George Washington Carver, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Vol. 17: July 1790-November 1790, HARVARD CLASSICS REGISTED EDITION THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, THE JOURNAL OF JOHN WOOLMAN, FRUITS OF SOLITUDE WILLIAM PENN, GEORGE WASHINGTON, A BIOGRAPHY--- Volume 5 - VICTORY WITH THE HELP OF FRANCE, Six Crises, Abraham Lincoln (sangamon)Top headlines: Cars: Wheres the Perfect Part?: In the past, finding the perfect part for a classic-car restoration meant joining enthusiast clubs, hanging around swap meets and pawing through junkyards. 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