Signing Their Rights Away
Title | Signing Their Rights Away PDF eBook |
Author | Denise Kiernan |
Publisher | Quirk Books |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 159474520X |
Book jacket unfolds to reveal a full-color reproduction of the U.S. Constitution.
Signing Their Lives Away
Title | Signing Their Lives Away PDF eBook |
Author | Denise Kiernan |
Publisher | Quirk Books |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1594743304 |
Presents the lives, deaths, and scandals involving the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence, including John Adams, John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson.
The Freedom to Read
Title | The Freedom to Read PDF eBook |
Author | American Library Association |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Libraries |
ISBN |
Summary of Denise Kiernan & Joseph D'Agnese's Signing Their Rights Away
Title | Summary of Denise Kiernan & Joseph D'Agnese's Signing Their Rights Away PDF eBook |
Author | Everest Media, |
Publisher | Everest Media LLC |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 2022-04-25T22:59:00Z |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1669390012 |
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 John Langdon was a merchant, shipbuilder, and politician. He was one of the Constitution’s best-regarded signers, and he went from the sea to the battlefield and nearly to the vice presidency. #2 John Langdon was the first president pro tempore of the United States, and he was extremely generous in financing the nation’s war. He remained active in New Hampshire politics, but declined all offers to move into the national spotlight. #3 Nicholas Gilman was a delegate from New Hampshire who was elected to the Congress of the Confederation in 1786. He was chosen to attend the Constitutional Convention in 1787, despite his unpopularity among his colleagues. #4 Gilman redeemed himself by promoting the Constitution to his fellow citizens. He wrote to a friend that the document would decide whether the United States would become a respectable nation or a people torn to pieces by commotions.
Our Unfinished March
Title | Our Unfinished March PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Holder |
Publisher | One World |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2023-06-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0593445767 |
A brutal, bloody, and at times hopeful history of the vote; a primer on the opponents fighting to take it away; and a playbook for how we can save our democracy before it’s too late—from the former U.S. Attorney General on the front lines of this fight Voting is our most important right as Americans—“the right that protects all the others,” as Lyndon Johnson famously said when he signed the Voting Rights Act—but it’s also the one most violently contested throughout U.S. history. Since the gutting of the act in the landmark Shelby County v. Holder case in 2013, many states have passed laws restricting the vote. After the 2020 election, President Trump’s effort to overturn the vote has evolved into a slow-motion coup, with many Republicans launching an all-out assault on our democracy. The vote seems to be in unprecedented peril. But the peril is not at all unprecedented. America is a fragile democracy, Eric Holder argues, whose citizens have only had unfettered access to the ballot since the 1960s. He takes readers through three dramatic stories of how the vote was won: first by white men, through violence and insurrection; then by white women, through protests and mass imprisonments; and finally by African Americans, in the face of lynchings and terrorism. Next, he dives into how the vote has been stripped away since Shelby—a case in which Holder was one of the parties. He ends with visionary chapters on how we can reverse this tide of voter suppression and become a true democracy where every voice is heard and every vote is counted. Full of surprising history, intensive analysis, and actionable plans for the future, this is a powerful primer on our most urgent political struggle from one of the country's leading advocates.
The Girls Who Went Away
Title | The Girls Who Went Away PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Fessler |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2007-06-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0143038974 |
The astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. “It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the oral histories of these women and by the courage and candor with which they express themselves.” —The Washington Post “A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” —The New York Times Book Review “A wrenching, riveting book.” —Chicago Tribune In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the hidden social history of adoption before Roe v. Wade - and its lasting legacy. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail.
Signing Their Rights Away
Title | Signing Their Rights Away PDF eBook |
Author | Denise Kiernan |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-04-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 168369127X |
An entertaining and essential collection of stories about the surprising and strange fates of the thirty-nine statesmen who created the U.S. Constitution. Remember when our elected officials knew how to compromise? Here are short, irreverent, fun, and fact-filled biographies of the 39 men who set aside their differences and signed their names to the U.S. Constitution—the oldest written constitution of any nation in the world. You’ll meet: • The Signer Who Believed in Aliens • The Signer Who Was Shot in the Stomach • The Signer Who Went Bankrupt • The Peg-Legged Signer • And many more colorful colonists! Complete with portraits of every signatory, Signing Their Rights Away provides an entertaining and enlightening narrative for students, history buffs, politicos, and Hamilton fans alike.