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Author : Robert Justin Goldstein
Release : 2019-05-28
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 71X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Saving Old Glory by : Robert Justin Goldstein
Download or read book Saving Old Glory written by Robert Justin Goldstein. This book was released on 2019-05-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1995, Saving Old Glory provides a detailed account of the origins and development of the American flag desecration controversy.
Author : Jonathan Raban
Release : 2018-05
Genre :
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Book Rating : 366/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Old Glory by : Jonathan Raban
Download or read book Old Glory written by Jonathan Raban. This book was released on 2018-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Jonathan Raban is one of the world's greatest living travel writers.' William Dalrymple 'The best book of travel ever written by an Englishman about the United States' Jan Morris, Independent Navigating the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans, Raban opens himself to experience the river in all her turbulent and unpredictable old glory. Going wherever the current takes him, he joins a coon-hunt in Savana, falls for a girl in St Louis, worships with black Baptists in Memphis, hangs out with the housewives of Pemiscot and the hog-king of Dubuque. Through tears of laughter, we are led into the heartland of America - with its hunger and hospitality, its inventive energy and its charming lethargy - and come to know something of its soul. The journey is as much the story of Raban as it is of the Mississippi. Navigating the dangerous, ever-changing waters in an unsuitably fragile aluminium skiff, he immerses himself with an irresistible emotional intensity as he tries to give shape to the river and the story - finding himself by turns vulnerable, curious, angry and, like all of us, sometimes foolishly in love.
Author : April Jones Prince
Release : 2014-06-30
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 541/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Meet Our Flag, Old Glory by : April Jones Prince
Download or read book Meet Our Flag, Old Glory written by April Jones Prince. This book was released on 2014-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively verse in large, easy-to-read type is paired with bold illustrations to create a stunning book about the American flag for even the youngest reader. A comprehensive history of the flag is included at the end, making this book especially useful for both classroom and home all year round.
Author : Louis P. Masur
Release : 2010-08-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 543/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Soiling of Old Glory by : Louis P. Masur
Download or read book The Soiling of Old Glory written by Louis P. Masur. This book was released on 2010-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston, April 5, 1976. As the city simmered with racial tension over forced school busing, newsman Stanley Forman photographed a white protester outside City Hall assaulting an African American attorney with the American flag. The photo shocked Boston, made front pages across the U.S. and won a Pulitzer Prize. Acclaimed historian Louis P. Masur has done extensive research, including personal interviews with those involved, to reveal the unknown story of what really happened that day and afterward. This evocative "biography of a photograph" unpacks this arresting image to trace the lives of the men who intersected at that moment, to examine the power of photography and the meaning of the flag, and to reveal how a single picture helped change race relations in Boston and America. The Soiling of Old Glory, like the photograph itself, offers a dramatic window onto the turbulence of the 1970s and race relations in America.
Author : Michael Kammen
Release : 2009-04-22
Genre : Architecture
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 775/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Visual Shock by : Michael Kammen
Download or read book Visual Shock written by Michael Kammen. This book was released on 2009-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The Gross Clinic, (considered “too big, bold, and gory” when first exhibited) to the bitter disputes about Maya Lin’s Vietnam War Memorial, this is an eye-opening account of American art and the battles and controversies that it has ignited.
