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Author : David McCullough
Release : 2001
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 88X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis John Adams by : David McCullough
Download or read book John Adams written by David McCullough. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles John Adams, an influential patriot during the American Revolution who became the nation's first vice president and second president.
Author : Judith Lissauer Cromwell
Release : 2013-03-29
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 925/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Florence Nightingale, Feminist by : Judith Lissauer Cromwell
Download or read book Florence Nightingale, Feminist written by Judith Lissauer Cromwell. This book was released on 2013-03-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first, full-length biography of Florence Nightingale told from a post-feminist perspective. Born into Victorian Britain's elite, a brilliant, magnetic teenager decided to devote her life to the indigent sick by becoming a nurse. Florence's family, especially her mother, opposed the decision, yet Nightingale insisted. Catapulted into the Crimean War, she brought order to the chaos of British military hospitals, but she could never forget her patients. Despite debilitating illness, she focused on preventing another Crimean calamity: the death of thousands due to avoidable causes. Hygienic army installations, sanitation for India, and creation of modern nursing owe much to Florence Nightingale. To Victorians, she personified their ideal of nurturing female. Hindsight provides a wider perspective. By creating a career for women that empowered them with economic independence, Florence Nightingale stands among the founders of modern feminism.
Author : Walter Isaacson
Release : 2011
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 545/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Steve Jobs by : Walter Isaacson
Download or read book Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
Author : Konstantin Mochulsky
Release : 1971-11-21
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 995/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dostoevsky by : Konstantin Mochulsky
Download or read book Dostoevsky written by Konstantin Mochulsky. This book was released on 1971-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dostoevsky's writings are criticized individually and in relation to one another against the background of his life and thought
Author : Betty Rogers
Release : 2012-11-28
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 707/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Will Rogers by : Betty Rogers
Download or read book Will Rogers written by Betty Rogers. This book was released on 2012-11-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the many books written about Will Rogers, none can have the immediacy, firsthand knowledge, and personal perspective of this account by his wife, Betty Blake Rogers. Her story is of Will Rogers, from wayward youth to international celebrity. Will was born in 1879 in the Cherokee nation of Indian Territory, near what is now Oologah, and died in 1935 with Wiley Post in an airplane crash in Alaska. The period witnessed the passing of the frontier and the arrival of the air age, and Will Rogers became a unique part and interpreter of it all. "The book offers a ’unique insight’ into the Oklahoma cowboy who became a worldwide celebrity. Betty Rogers understood Will as no one else could, and her book amplifies the importance of a homegrown philosopher who captured the spirit of the American experience. Cowboy, showman, homespun pundit-Will left his mark in many ways, each of which is carefully developed in the book’s twenty-two chapters. Most notable, however, is Mrs. Rogers’s treatment of her husband’s character. Behind the facade lay a complex man who, despite his lack of formal education, had a grasp of modern psychology and world politics. Equally at home with cowboys and presidents, Will accepted both as human beings engaged in the larger arena of life, whether in the wide open spaces of Oklahoma or the confines of Washington....For those who would know Will Rogers in a familiar way, there is no better book than this reprint." Arizona and the West. "The best of all the books on the best of all the homespun philosophers as seen through the eyes of his wife." Midwest Book Review. "Folksy, detailed and loving, it offers a timeless glimpse at a real American hero of his time-and ours." American Way.
