Desk 88
Title | Desk 88 PDF eBook |
Author | Sherrod Brown |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2019-11-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0374722021 |
Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Ohio’s Sherrod Brown has sat on the Senate floor at a mahogany desk with a proud history. In Desk 88, he tells the story of eight of the Senators who were there before him. "Perhaps the most imaginative book to emerge from the Senate since Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts produced Profiles in Courage." —David M. Shribman, The Boston Globe Despite their flaws and frequent setbacks, each made a decisive contribution to the creation of a more just America. They range from Hugo Black, who helped to lift millions of American workers out of poverty, to Robert F. Kennedy, whose eyes were opened by an undernourished Mississippi child and who then spent the rest of his life afflicting the comfortable. Brown revives forgotten figures such as Idaho’s Glen Taylor, a singing cowboy who taught himself economics and stood up to segregationists, and offers new insights into George McGovern, who fought to feed the poor around the world even amid personal and political calamities. He also writes about Herbert Lehman of New York, Al Gore Sr. of Tennessee, Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island, and William Proxmire of Wisconsin. Together, these eight portraits in political courage tell a story about the triumphs and failures of the Progressive idea over the past century: in the 1930s and 1960s, and more intermittently since, politicians and the public have successfully fought against entrenched special interests and advanced the cause of economic or racial fairness. Today, these advances are in peril as employers shed their responsibilities to employees and communities, and a U.S. president gives cover to bigotry. But the Progressive idea is not dead. Recalling his own career, Brown dramatizes the hard work and high ideals required to renew the social contract and create a new era in which Americans of all backgrounds can know the “Dignity of Work.”
American Capitols
Title | American Capitols PDF eBook |
Author | Eldon Hauck |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2024-10-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1476608474 |
There are 56 capitol structures in the United States and its territories--and this book has 56 entries about all aspects of their genesis, construction and use including the political origins and history of each governmental unit and the story of how each site was selected (with all the political maneuvering and attempts at personal aggrandizement). Facts about the edifices themselves are in abundance--chronologies of construction, personnel (architects, contractors, others), costs, square footage, principal contents and features (e.g., art work, furnishings, interior and exterior finish), annual maintenance and tour information.
By His Own Hand?
Title | By His Own Hand? PDF eBook |
Author | John D. W. Guice |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2014-10-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0806181958 |
For two centuries the question has persisted: Was Meriwether Lewis’s death a suicide, an accident, or a homicide? By His Own Hand? is the first book to carefully analyze the evidence and consider the murder-versus-suicide debate within its full historical context. The historian contributors to this volume follow the format of a postmortem court trial, dissecting the case from different perspectives. A documents section permits readers to examine the key written evidence for themselves and reach their own conclusions.
The American Catalogue
Title | The American Catalogue PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 956 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
A First Book in American History
Title | A First Book in American History PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Eggleston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems
Title | The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Hall |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0195123735 |
An anthology of American poems, is arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems. 50 illustrations, 20 in color.
The Historical Register
Title | The Historical Register PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | United States |
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