My Discovery of America
Title | My Discovery of America PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Mayakovsky |
Publisher | |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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"Touring the United States in 1925, the Russian Futurist poet and propagandist Vladimir Mayakovsky observed at first hand what he considered to be the model for Soviet technological development. Writing in his typical declamatory style, he found much to celebrate in the modernised, industrialised America of the 1920s - creativity and advancement, a primitive futurism. But he also decried the social injustices of uncaring capitalism, losing no opportunity to propound his own political beliefs." "Presented here in full for the first time in the English language, My Discovery of America forms an inspired series of humorous sketches, thoughts, jottings and poems, the significance of which resounds from the early twentieth century through to our own times."--BOOK JACKET.
My Discovery of America
Title | My Discovery of America PDF eBook |
Author | Farley Mowat |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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In 1985, when Mowat tried to enter the United States for a book promotion tour, he was barred by the McCarran Act, a 1952 law enacted during the McCarthy era. This book, told with outraged but good humour, describes Mowat's fight against the ban.
The Discovery of the Americas
Title | The Discovery of the Americas PDF eBook |
Author | Betsy Maestro |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 1992-04-20 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0688115128 |
"The Maestros do a real service here in presenting the more familiar explorers in the context of all the migrations that have populated the Western Hemisphere....An outstanding introduction."--Kirkus Reviews. "The dazzlingly clean and accurate prose and the exhilarating beauty of the pictures combine for an extraordinary achievement in both history and art."--School Library Journal.
Brown
Title | Brown PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rodriguez |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2003-03-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1101161507 |
In this dazzling memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book about race, Brown is about America in the broadest sense—a look at what our country is, full of surprising observations by a writer who is a marvelous stylist as well as a trenchant observer and thinker.
Africa and the Discovery of America
Title | Africa and the Discovery of America PDF eBook |
Author | Leo Wiener |
Publisher | |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | History |
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Discovery of Ancient America
Title | Discovery of Ancient America PDF eBook |
Author | David Allen Deal |
Publisher | |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Albuquerque Region (N.M.) |
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Errata slip inserted. Bibliography: p. 135-136.
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Title | Lies My Teacher Told Me PDF eBook |
Author | James W. Loewen |
Publisher | The New Press |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1595583262 |
Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.