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Author | : Caroline de Margerie |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2013-09-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0143124137 |
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The fascinating story of one of the grand dames of Georgetown society and a true Washington insider Henry Kissinger once remarked that more agreements were concluded in the living room of Susan Mary Alsop than in the White House. A descendent of Founding Father John Jay, Susan Mary was an American aristocrat whose first marriage gave her full access to post-war diplomatic social life in Paris. There, her circle of friends included Winston Churchill, Isaiah Berlin, Evelyn Waugh, and Christian Dior, among other luminaries, and she had a passionate love affair with British ambassador Duff Cooper. During the golden years of John F. Kennedy’s presidency—after she had married the powerful journalist Joe Alsop—her Washington home was a gathering place for everyone of importance, including Katharine Graham, Robert McNamara, and Henry Kissinger. Dubbed “the second lady of Camelot,” she hosted dinner parties that were the epitome of political power and social arrival, bringing together the movers and shakers not just of the United States, but of the world. Featuring an introduction by Susan Mary Alsop’s goddaughter Frances FitzGerald, American Lady is a fascinating chronicle of a woman who witnessed, as Nancy Mitford once said, “history on the boil.”
Author | : C. S. Lewis |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2014-10-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0802871828 |
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When Lewis was 51 years old and long established at Magdalen College, Oxford, he wrote the first of this collection of letters to an American widow. She was described as a "very charming, gracious, southern aristocratic lady who loved to talk and speak well". In them are his antipathy to journalism, advertising, snobbery, psychoanalysis, and the petty practices that sap freedoms. They identify events in his life after 1950 including his marriage to Joy Davidman and her death three years later.
Author | : Lady |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : Knitting |
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Author | : Petra Durst-Benning |
Publisher | : Amazon Crossing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Families |
ISBN | : 9781477826584 |
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Tempestuous and beautiful Wanda Miles, daughter of Ruth and Stephen Miles (or so she thinks), aspires to more than the life of a debutante, but the trouble is she doesn't know precisely what she wants. Then her aunt Marie, the family's renowned glassblower, arrives from Lauscha, Germany, and Wanda decides that learning about her ancestry may hold the key to her future. When Marie accidentally reveals a long-held secret about Wanda's parents, Wanda goes to Lauscha to unravel the truth. While Marie finds herself increasingly swept up in New York City's bohemian social scene--catching the eye of a handsome young Italian in the process--Wanda explores a past she never knew in the village of her mother's youth--and begins to build a life that she never expected. A sweeping tale that takes readers from the small town of Lauscha to the skyscrapers of New York and the sun-kissed coast of Italy, The American Lady is a tribute to the enduring power of family and what we'll do in the name of love.
Author | : Elizabeth McDavid Jones |
Publisher | : Amer Girl Pub |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781593694739 |
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In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity runs the household while her mother and siblings are away, but is distracted by her horse's ill health, two strangers in town, and the fear that a box of family heirlooms is haunted. Includes historical information aboutlife in colonial Williamsburg.
Author | : Cheryl D. Hicks |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807834246 |
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With this book, Cheryl Hicks brings to light the voices and viewpoints of black working-class women, especially southern migrants, who were the subjects of urban and penal reform in early twentieth-century New York. Hicks compares the ideals of racial upl
Author | : Laura Kriska |
Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2011-12-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1462900143 |
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A young American businesswoman discovers life inside a Japanese corporation. Armed with a new degree in Japanese studies, plenty of youthful idealism, and a can-do attitude, a young woman accepts a job as the first American trainee at Honda's headquarters in Tokyo. Her image of Japanese corporate life is dramatically challenged on her first day at work when she is issued a blue polyester uniform--a uniform worn only by women! With good humor and accessible prose, Laura Kriska relates her journey through the company, from serving tea to executives and cleaning the boss's desk to a stint in public relations and developing training classes for Japanese associates going to America. The reader is rooting for Kriska as she recounts her struggle to adapt to--and ultimately thrive in--the culture of a traditional Japanese company. Shortly before her departure, she comes full circle by introducing a successful campaign to make women's uniforms optional. Now with a new foreword by the author, The Accidental Office Lady is a vivid and valuable firsthand account not only of corporate Japan and the gender inequality that persists within it, but of an outsider's successful attempt to work within cultural boundaries to affect organizational change.
Author | : William McGowan |
Publisher | : Encounter Books |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1594034869 |
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Journalist William McGowan traces the history of "The New York Times," describes its legacy within American journalism, and examines the fate of the "Times" in the twenty-first century.
Author | : Anne Sebba |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2010-12-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393079686 |
Download American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A frank account of the tempestuous life of the American mother of Britain’s most important twentieth-century politician. Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome married into the British aristocracy in 1874, after a three-day romance. She became Lady Randolph Churchill, wife of a maverick politician and mother of the most famous British statesman of the century. Jennie Churchill was not merely the most talked about and controversial American woman in London society, she was a dynamic behind-the-scenes political force and a woman of sexual fearlessness at a time when women were not supposed to be sexually liberated. A concert pianist, magazine founder and editor, and playwright, she was also, above all, a devoted mother to Winston. In American Jennie, Anne Sebba draws on newly discovered personal correspondences and archives to examine the unusually powerful mutual infatuation between Jennie and her son and to relate the passionate and ultimately tragic career of the woman whom Winston described as having “the wine of life in her veins.”
Author | : Anne MacVicar Grant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1846 |
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Download Memoirs of an American Lady (C. Schuyler), with Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as They Existed Previous to the Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle