Publication date: 1987
Review Andrew Jackson (Biographies from American history) / Quercus Corp:
Creator: John Y Simon
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1994-12-09
Dewey code: 973.820924
List Price: $100.00
Price: $99.97
Review The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 19: July 1, 1868 - October 31, 1869 (U S Grant Papers) / Southern Illinois University Press:This volume carries Ulysses S. Grant through a brief period of welcome calm to the storms of the White House. Seemingly resigned to becoming president, Grant detached himself from military routine in Washington, D. C. , during the summer of 1868 to tour the Great Plains. He then settled in Galena to escape the clamor of the presidential campaign. Grant reveled in his respite from official duties, writing to his father, "I have enjoyed my summers vacation very much and look forward with dread to my return to Washington. " Grant’s residence in Galena shielded him from public scrutiny. "Whilst I remain here I shall avoid all engagements to go any place at any stated time. The turn out of people is immense when they hear of my coming. [+]" Grant remained in or near his prewar hometown until the election forced him back to Washington. Grant publicly said that he accepted presidential responsibilities "without fear" but privately lacked eagerness for the office. Even before his electoral victory, he wrote disapprovingly of "the Army of office seekers" and "begging letters" from potential appointees. Never enamored with the "pulling and hauling" so much a part of politics, Grant tried to minimize importunities by withholding names of his cabinet selections until after his inauguration and keeping his policy pronouncements spare and noncontroversial. His earnest desire as president was simply to inspire every citizen to work for "a happy Union. " .
Publication date: 1992-04
Dewey code: 193
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Price: $99.95
Review Nietzsche As Educator / Mellen University Press:
Publication date: 1998-10-25
Dewey code: 782.1092
List Price: $110.00
Price: $92.00
Review Analyzing Wagner's Operas: Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology (Eastman Studies in Music) / University of Rochester Press:The work of the Wagnerian theorist and analyst Alfred Lorenz (1869-1939) has had a profound influence upon both Wagnerian scholarship and music analysis in the twentieth century, and yet it has never been properly evaluated. Analyzing Wagner's Operas outlines the origins and development of the expressive aesthetic in writings by Wagner and others, as well as in early-twentieth-century theories of musical form, and it considers Lorenz's work and contributions in this light. The book also hopes to show, to the extent possible, where Lorenz's work acted as a sort of "musical metaphor" for German nationalist ideology during the Nazi era.
Publication date: 2009-01-31
Dewey code: 973.3092
List Price: $90.00
Price: $90.00
Review The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Franklin (Cambridge Companions to American Studies) / Cambridge University Press:Comprehensive and accessible, this Companion addresses several well-known themes in the study of Franklin and his writings, while also showing Franklin in conversation with his British and European counterparts in science, philosophy, and social theory. Specially commissioned chapters, written by scholars well-known in their respective fields, examine Franklin's writings and his life with a new sophistication, placing Franklin in his cultural milieu while revealing the complexities of his intellectual, literary, social, and political views. Individual chapters take up several traditional topics, such as Franklin and the American dream, Franklin and capitalism, and Franklin's views of American national character. Other chapters delve into Franklin's library and his philosophical views on morality, religion, science, and the Enlightenment and explore his continuing influence in American culture. This Companion will be essential reading for students and scholars of American literature, history and culture.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1985-01-01
Dewey code: 530.0924
Price: $140.00
Review The Young Einstein, The Advent of Relativity / Taylor & Francis:A detailed account of Einstein's childhood and formative years focuses on the intellectual climate of Germany where, before 1919, his trailblazing work on the special and general theories of relativity received widest notice. The author explores the response to the theories by pure mathematicians, who did not have to face the prospect of a fundamental revision of their basic principles, and by physicists and astronomers, who did. Of interest to physicists, academics and students interested in Einstein himself and in the wider history of science and ideas, or in the social and intellectual history of Germany.
Publication date: 1997-06-30
Dewey code: 973.560922
List Price: $105.00
Price: $94.50
Review Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants: A Study in Political Culture (Contributions in American History) / Greenwood Press:Andrew Jackson and those Tennesseans who, along with him, were a major force in Tennessee and American political life can best be understood by examining the political culture they all shared. The ten men studied here were the children or grandchildren of immigrants from either the Scottish lowlands or the north of Ireland. All experienced the rise from the yeoman/artisan class to that of landed gentry, and all displayed in their adult lives the influence of that move from one socioeconomic class to another. This view of Jackson and his closest friends suggests a view of these men's motives; their values, attitudes, and beliefs were somewhat different than historians have pictured for us. These Jacksonians sought to preserve the world of their fathers while changing their place in the world. They looked back but moved ahead; they were self-interested but tempered always by a selfless ideal.
Publication date: 1899
Review ROBERT E. LEE / DILLINGHAM:First published in 1871 as A LIFE OF GEN. ROBERT E. LEE. Published after Lee's death, and described by the author as a "popular" rather than a full and elaborate account (Nevins, CIVIL WAR BOOKS, Volume II, page 47). Illustrated by B&W illustrations.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-01-25
Dewey code: 942.055092
List Price: $110.00
Price: $91.55
Review Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I / Routledge:In this compelling account of Elizabeth I's attempts at marriage, Susan Doran argues that the cult of the "Virgin Queen" was invented by her ministers and that Elizabeth was in reality a frustrated, would-be wife forced into celibacy by political necessity. Doran examines in detail the different suits for Elizabeth's hand, from childhood until 1581 when she was considered too old for childbearing and consequently for marriage. Contrary to conventional thinking, Elizabeth took each of her suitors seriously-including Robert Dudley, Archduke Charles of Austria, Charles IX of France, Henry of Anjou, and Francis, Duke of Alencon and Anjou-and did not choose to remain single. Her courtships foundered on political and religious difficulties which divided her council.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-07-15
Dewey code: 284.1092
List Price: $90.00
Price: $89.95
Review Martin Luther (Routledge Historical Biographies) / Routledge:Martin Luther's radical actions in 16th-century Germany sparked off the dramatic process of the European Reformation. After a visit to Rome as a young monk, he began to deeply question the practices of the Catholic Church. He set in place a chain of events, which divided the church and brought about the Protestant Reformation. Famously appearing before the secular authorities at the 'Diet of Worms' in 1521 to defend his dissident beliefs, Luther worked throughout his life to further the reformation movement. But were Luther's motivations as clear-cut as they might seem? Was he merely self-obsessed and egotistical rather than a guiding prophet of god? This important new biography portrays Luther, his concerns and his achievements with clarity and verve, and provides a comprehensive introduction for those seeking to understand the roots of the continuing discords in modern Christianity. Volently prejudiced yet inspiring, Luther is presented here with unflinching candor and honesty.
Authors
- Mary Rubio
- Elizabeth Waterston
Publication date: 1997-03
Dewey code: 809
Review Writing a Life L.M. Montgomery / E C W Pr:
Edition: Prima Edizione
Publication date: 1964
Review L'America di Kennedy / Feltrinelli:I fatti e le idee Saggi e Biografie
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2009-02-18
Dewey code: 780
List Price: $99.00
Price: $90.14
Review Beethoven / Oxford University Press, USA:Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets, looking at compositions from different and original perspectives that show Beethoven's art as a union of sensuous and rational, of expression and structure. In analyses of individual pieces, Kinderman shows that the deepening of Beethoven's musical thought was a continuous process over decades of his life. In this new updated edition, Kinderman gives more attention to the composer's early chamber music, his songs, his opera Fidelio, and to a number of often-neglected works of the composer's later years and fascinating projects left incomplete. A revised view emerges from this of Beethoven's aesthetics and the musical meaning of his works. Rather than the conventional image of a heroic and tormented figure, Kinderman provides a more complex, more fully rounded account of the composer. Although Beethoven's deafness and his other personal crises are addressed, together with this ever-increasing commitment to his art, so too are the lighter aspects of his personality: his humor, his love of puns, his great delight in juxtaposing the exalted and the commonplace.
Authors
- Joel R. Kurz
- C. George Fry
Dewey code: 285.8092
List Price: $89.95
Price: $89.95
Review Washington Gladden As a Preacher of the Social Gospel 1882-1918 (Texts and Studies in the Social Gospel, V. 5) / Edwin Mellen Press:In the course of twenty centuries, Christianity has produced its share of great preachers. For many today the name Washington Gladden has become synonymous with the social gospel and theological liberalism. It was his life-long contention that he was a parish pastor and that he came to no social or theological conclusions apart from his employment as a Christian minister and preacher.
Creator: David M. Barrett
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1997-06
Dewey code: 959.7043373
List Price: $99.95
Price: $99.95
Review Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection / Texas A&M University Press:
Publication date: 1975-04-17
Dewey code: 230.140924
Price: $72.95
Review A Guide to the Thought of Saint Augustine / Greenwood Press Reprint:
Creator: Julian P. Boyd
Publication date: 1974-04-01
Dewey code: 973.46092
List Price: $99.50
Price: $99.50
Review The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 19 / Princeton University Press:Volume 19, covering the final critical weeks of the First Congress, reveals Washington and Jefferson in the closest and most confidential relationship that existed at any time during their official careers. It opens with the proclamation announcing the exact location of the Federal District, an unexplained choice made in the utmost secrecy by the President in consultation with the Secretary of State some weeks before Washington toured the upper Potomac in an ostensible journey to inspect rival sites and to encourage competition for the location of the national capital. It includes the politically related question of the chartering of the Bank of the United States, on which Jefferson delivered his famous opinion challenging its constitutionality. But the conflict with Hamilton over the Bank, important as it was, did not bring the two men on the public stage as contestants. Instead, the first focusing of public attention on the breach in the administration occurred with the publication of Jefferson's report on the whale and cod fisheries. This widely disseminated report is here presented in a context showing that, after Hamilton declined to cooperate in reciprocating the favors France had granted to American trade, Jefferson deliberately and publicly challenged the Hamiltonian opposition. In unusually blunt language, his report called for commercial retaliation against Great Britain, thus causing a sensation both in the. ministry. [+]This volume shows Jefferson's concern over the growing discontent in the South and West over fiscal and other policies of the national government, his resistance to interested promotion of consular appointments in business circles, his grappling with the political and constitutional questions concerning the admission of Kentucky and Vermont, his involvement in the political consequences of the death of Franklin that affected even the proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, his cautious relationship with Tench Coxe as a source of statistical information which the Secretary of the Treasury failed to supply, and his report to Washington on a judicial appointment that brought on both embarrassment and constitutional questions. Once Congress had dispersed, Jefferson was able to turn his attention to long-neglected private concerns and to the correspondence that gave him most satisfaction, that with the family at Monticello.
Publication date: 1926
Review Life of George Washington (3 of 5 Volume Set) (Vol. # 2,4,5) / Citizen's Guild of Washington's Boyhood:Volumes 2,4, and 5 of 5 volume set.
Creator: John Y Simon
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1967-05-29
Dewey code: 973.820924
List Price: $100.00
Price: $99.97
Review The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 1: 1837-1861 (U S Grant Papers) / Southern Illinois University Press:
Publication date: 1973
Review ONE DAY, WHEN I WAS LOST. A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's "The Autobiography of Malcolm X." / New York: The Dial Press:
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