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Author | : Peter Stark |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 2018-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062416081 |
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FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE A new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of Astoria Two decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young soldier serving the British Empire in the vast wilderness of the Ohio Valley. Naïve and self-absorbed, the twenty-two-year-old officer accidentally ignited the French and Indian War—a conflict that opened colonists to the possibility of an American Revolution. With powerful narrative drive and vivid writing, Young Washington recounts the wilderness trials, controversial battles, and emotional entanglements that transformed Washington from a temperamental striver into a mature leader. Enduring terrifying summer storms and subzero winters imparted resilience and self-reliance, helping prepare him for what he would one day face at Valley Forge. Leading the Virginia troops into battle taught him to set aside his own relentless ambitions and stand in solidarity with those who looked to him for leadership. Negotiating military strategy with British and colonial allies honed his diplomatic skills. And thwarted in his obsessive, youthful love for one woman, he grew to cultivate deeper, enduring relationships. By weaving together Washington’s harrowing wilderness adventures and a broader historical context, Young Washington offers new insights into the dramatic years that shaped the man who shaped a nation.
Author | : Jabari Asim |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2012-12-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 031623091X |
Download Fifty Cents and a Dream Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Booker dreamed of making friends with words, setting free the secrets that lived in books. Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five-hundred-mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton Institute, taking his first of many steps towards a college degree. When he arrived, he had just fifty cents in his pocket and a dream about to come true. The young slave who once waited outside of the schoolhouse would one day become a legendary educator of freedmen. Award-winning artist Bryan Collier captures the hardship and the spirit of one of the most inspiring figures in American history, bringing to life Booker T. Washington's journey to learn, to read, and to realize a dream.
Author | : Gwenyth Swain |
Publisher | : Sleeping Bear Press |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1410308464 |
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Janie is not exactly sure why her daddy is riding a bus from Indianapolis to Washington, D.C. She knows why she has to go-to stay out of her mother's way, especially with the twins now teething. But Daddy wants to hear a man named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak and, to keep out of trouble, Janie is sent along. Riding the bus with them is a mishmash of people, black and white, young and old. They seem very different from Janie. As the bus travels across cities and farm fields to its historic destination, Janie sees firsthand the injustices that many others are made to endure. She begins to realize that she's not so different from the other riders and that, as young as she is, her actions can affect change.Though fiction, Riding to Washington is a very personal story for Gwenyth Swain as both her father and grandfather rode to Washington, D.C., to participate in the 1963 civil rights march on the nation's capital. Ms. Swain's other books include Chig and the Second Spread and I Wonder As I Wander. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. Artist David Geister has entertained audiences for years with his costumed portrayals of historic characters from the nineteenth century, and his artwork reflects his interest in history and dramatic storytelling. Riding to Washington is his third title with Sleeping Bear Press. David lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Author | : James Sterling Young |
Publisher | : Acls History E-Book Project |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2008-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781597404396 |
Download The Washington Community, 1800-1828 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Neil Young |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2012-09-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101594098 |
Download Waging Heavy Peace Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The perfect gift for music lovers and Neil Young fans, telling the story behind Neil Young's legendary career and his iconic, beloved songs. “I think I will have to use my time wisely and keep my thoughts straight if I am to succeed and deliver the cargo I so carefully have carried thus far to the outer reaches.”—Neil Young, from Waging Heavy Peace Legendary singer and songwriter Neil Young’s storied career has spanned over forty years and yielded some of the modern era’s most enduring music. Now for the first time ever, Young reflects upon his life—from his Canadian childhood, to his part in the sixties rock explosion with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, through his later career with Crazy Horse and numerous private challenges. An instant classic, Waging Heavy Peace is as uncompromising and unforgettable as the man himself.
Author | : Sam Epstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
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Download George Washington Carver, Negro Scientist Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An easy to read biography of George Washington Carver.
Author | : George Washington |
Publisher | : Bnpublishing.Com |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789562911771 |
Download Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1871 |
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Download Memorial [addressed to the City Council of Boston, Massachusetts, concerning the award of the contract for the city printing]. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Colin Gordon Calloway |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0190652160 |
Download The Indian World of George Washington Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"An authoritative, sweeping, and fresh new biography of the nation's first president, Colin G. Calloway's book reveals fully the dimensions and depths of George Washington's relations with the First Americans."--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Damon Young |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2019-03-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0062684337 |
Download What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award A Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction A Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the Year From the host of podcast "Stuck with Damon Young," cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in America For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in Americais enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as “How should I react here, as a professional black person?” and “Will this white person’s potato salad kill me?” are forever relevant. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young’s efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him. It’s a condition that’s sometimes stretched to absurd limits, provoking the angst that made him question if he was any good at the “being straight” thing, as if his sexual orientation was something he could practice and get better at, like a crossover dribble move or knitting; creating the farce where, as a teen, he wished for a white person to call him a racial slur just so he could fight him and have a great story about it; and generating the surreality of watching gentrification transform his Pittsburgh neighborhood from predominantly Black to “Portlandia . . . but with Pierogies.” And, at its most devastating, it provides him reason to believe that his mother would be alive today if she were white. From one of our most respected cultural observers, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker is a hilarious and honest debut that is both a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of Blackness and a critique of white supremacy and how we define masculinity.