Song for My Fathers
Title | Song for My Fathers PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Sancton |
Publisher | Other Press, LLC |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2010-04-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1590513762 |
Song for My Fathers is the story of a young white boy driven by a consuming passion to learn the music and ways of a group of aging black jazzmen in the twilight years of the segregation era. Contemporaries of Louis Armstrong, most of them had played in local obscurity until Preservation Hall launched a nationwide revival of interest in traditional jazz. They called themselves “the mens.” And they welcomed the young apprentice into their ranks. The boy was introduced into this remarkable fellowship by his father, an eccentric Southern liberal and failed novelist whose powerful articles on race had made him one of the most effective polemicists of the early Civil Rights movement. Nurtured on his father’s belief in racial equality, the aspiring clarinetist embraced the old musicians with a boundless love and admiration. The narrative unfolds against the vivid backdrop of New Orleans in the 1950s and ‘60s. But that magical place is more than decor; it is perhaps the central player, for this story could not have taken place in any other city in the world.
They Knew Lincoln
Title | They Knew Lincoln PDF eBook |
Author | John E. Washington |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2018-01-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190270985 |
Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is a classic in African American history and Lincoln studies. Part memoir and part history, the book is an account of John E. Washington's childhood among African Americans in Washington, DC, and of the black people who knew or encountered Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. Washington recounted stories told by his grandmother's elderly friends--stories of escaping from slavery, meeting Lincoln in the Capitol, learning of the president's assassination, and hearing ghosts at Ford's Theatre. He also mined the US government archives and researched little-known figures in Lincoln's life, including William Johnson, who accompanied Lincoln from Springfield to Washington, and William Slade, the steward in Lincoln's White House. Washington was fascinated from childhood by the question of how much African Americans themselves had shaped Lincoln's views on slavery and race, and he believed Lincoln's Haitian-born barber, William de Fleurville, was a crucial influence. Washington also extensively researched Elizabeth Keckly, the dressmaker to Mary Todd Lincoln, and advanced a new theory of who helped her write her controversial book, Behind the Scenes, A new introduction by Kate Masur places Washington's book in its own context, explaining the contents of They Knew Lincoln in light of not only the era of emancipation and the Civil War, but also Washington's own times, when the nation's capital was a place of great opportunity and creativity for members of the African American elite. On publication, a reviewer noted that the "collection of Negro stories, memories, legends about Lincoln" seemed "to fill such an obvious gap in the material about Lincoln that one wonders why no one ever did it before." This edition brings it back to print for a twenty-first century readership that remains fascinated with Abraham Lincoln.
He Knew Lincoln
Title | He Knew Lincoln PDF eBook |
Author | Ida Minerva Tarbell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 78 |
Release | 1907 |
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Lincoln as I Knew Him
Title | Lincoln as I Knew Him PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Holzer |
Publisher | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1999-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Gossip, tributes, and revelations about the president--from both his best friends and his worst enemies--are collected in this revealing insider's look at Lincoln.
He Knew Lincoln
Title | He Knew Lincoln PDF eBook |
Author | Ida M. Tarbell |
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Pages | |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780827404243 |
1907. Tarbell is best noted as being one of the original muckrakers because of her book, The History of the Standard Oil Company, which played a role in helping to shut down the Standard Oil monopoly. She is also recognized for her book, Life of Abraham Lincoln. He Knew Lincoln is a historical fictionalized account of Lincoln in Springfield as recalled for the reader by one Billy Brown. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
He Knew Lincoln
Title | He Knew Lincoln PDF eBook |
Author | Ida Minerva Tarbell |
Publisher | Franklin Classics |
Pages | 62 |
Release | 2018-10-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780341659549 |
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He Knew Lincoln
Title | He Knew Lincoln PDF eBook |
Author | Ida Minerva Tarbell |
Publisher | New York : The Macmillan Company |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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