The Portrait of a Man as Governor
Author | : Thomas H. Dickinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Campaign biography |
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Author | : Thomas H. Dickinson |
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Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Campaign biography |
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Author | : Thomas H. Dickinson |
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Campaign biography |
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Author | : Thomas Herbert DICKINSON |
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Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : Francis Ellington Leupp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Patricia U. Bonomi |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080783906X |
For more than two centuries, Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury--royal governor of New York and New Jersey from 1702 to 1708--has been a despised figure, whose alleged transgressions ranged from raiding the public treasury to scandalizing his subjects by parading through the streets of New York City dressed as a woman. Now, Patricia Bonomi offers a challenging reassessment of Cornbury. She explores his life and experiences to illuminate such topics as imperial political culture; gossip, Grub Street, and the climate of slander; early modern sexual culture; and constitutional perceptions in an era of reform. In a tour de force of scholarly detective work, Bonomi also reappraises the most "conclusive" piece of evidence used to indict Cornbury--a celebrated portrait, said to represent the governor in female dress, that hangs today in the New-York Historical Society. Stripping away the many layers of "the Cornbury myth," this innovative work brings to life a fascinating man and reveals the conflicting emotions and loyalties that shaped the politics of the First British Empire. "A tour de force of historical detection.--Tim Hilchey, New York Times Book Review "Bonomi's book is more than an exoneration of Cornbury. It is a case study of what she aptly calls the politics of reputation." --Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books "A fascinating, authoritative glimpse into the seamy underside of imperial politics in the late Stuart era.--Timothy D. Hall, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography "An intriguing detective story that....casts light upon the operation of political power in the past and the nature of history writing in the present.--Alan Taylor, New Republic For more than two centuries, Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury--royal governor of New York and New Jersey from 1702 to 1708--has been a despised figure whose alleged transgressions ranged from looting the colonial treasury to public cross dressing in New York City. Stripping away the many layers of "the Cornbury myth," Patricia Bonomi offers a challenging reassessment of this fascinating figure and of the rough and tumble political culture of the First British Empire--with its muckraking press, salacious gossip, and conflicting imperial loyalties. -->
Author | : Walter Havighurst |
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Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Governors |
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Author | : Robert H. Jackson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2004-12-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780195177572 |
This intimate portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt was written by his close friend and associate, the late Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson.
Author | : Benita Eisler |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2013-07-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 039324086X |
The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them. George Catlin has been called the “first artist of the West,” as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a “vanishing race” before their “extermination”—his word—by a government greedy for their lands. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits—unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty tribes living along the upper Missouri River. Political forces thwarted Catlin’s ambition to sell what he called his “Indian Gallery” as a national collection, and in 1840 the artist began three decades of self-imposed exile abroad. For a time, his exhibitions and writings made him the most celebrated American expatriate in London and Paris. He was toasted by Queen Victoria and breakfasted with King Louis-Philippe, who created a special gallery in the Louvre to show his pictures. But when he started to tour “live” troupes of Ojibbewa and Iowa, Catlin and his fortunes declined: He changed from artist to showman, and from advocate to exploiter of his native performers. Tragedy and loss engulfed both. This brilliant and humane portrait brings to life George Catlin and his Indian subjects for our own time. An American original, he still personifies the artist as a figure of controversy, torn by conflicting demands of art and success.
Author | : Moncure Daniel Conway |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2015-07-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781330718988 |
Excerpt from Omitted Chapters of History, Disclosed in the Life and Papers of Edmund Randolph Governor of Virginia: First Attorney-General United States, Secretary of State IN a room of the Virginia Historical Society there is a portrait so blurred that the face is repulsive. It is the alleged portrait of a man described by his contemporary, William Wirt, as of a figure large and portly; his features uncommonly fine; his dark eyes and his whole countenance lighted up with an expression of the most conciliatory sensibility; his attitudes dignified and com manding; his gesture graceful and easy; his voice perfect har mony; and his whole manner that of an accomplished and engaging gentleman. The portrait at Richmond, repudiated when painted, suffered all manner of ill usage; and its fate resembles that of the man for whom its dauber meant it, Edmund Randolph. Painted by partisanship as he was not, his name has been marred by every prejudice, and his fame left to his country in conventionalized disfigurement. The Centenary of our Constitution has already brought a gallery of fresh bistori cal portraits Of its leading framers, but one panel, like that of F alieri at Venice, is vacant; there is no portraiture of the states man to whom the initiation and ratification of the Constitution were especially due, except a blackened effigy hung up by enemies in a moment of partisan passion. This traditional effigy of Ed mund Randolph I have examined by the light of facts and documents to which historians appear to have had no access, with growing conviction that the nation knows little of a very interesting figure in its early history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Total Pages | : 996 |
Release | : 1909 |
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