Florence Kling Harding. January 15, 1924. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and Ordered to be Printed
Title | Florence Kling Harding. January 15, 1924. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and Ordered to be Printed PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Post Roads |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 1924 |
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Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Title | Luxury Arts of the Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Marina Belozerskaya |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2005-10-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0892367857 |
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress
Title | The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress PDF eBook |
Author | Donald C. Bacon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 604 |
Release | 1995 |
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Blue Book for the Year ...
Title | Blue Book for the Year ... PDF eBook |
Author | Straits Settlements |
Publisher | |
Pages | 796 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Straits Settlements |
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First Lady Florence Harding
Title | First Lady Florence Harding PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Amelia Siobhan Sibley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Turning to primary sources others have overlooked, Sibley challenges the cliches about Florence Harding's time in the national spotlight. She describes her support for racial equality, lobbying for better treatment for veterans and female prisoners and her lifelong interest in preventing animal cruelty.
Warren G. Harding
Title | Warren G. Harding PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Dean |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2004-01-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1429997516 |
President Nixon's former counsel illuminates another presidency marked by scandal Warren G. Harding may be best known as America's worst president. Scandals plagued him: the Teapot Dome affair, corruption in the Veterans Bureau and the Justice Department, and the posthumous revelation of an extramarital affair. Raised in Marion, Ohio, Harding took hold of the small town's newspaper and turned it into a success. Showing a talent for local politics, he rose quickly to the U.S. Senate. His presidential campaign slogan, "America's present need is not heroics but healing, not nostrums but normalcy," gave voice to a public exhausted by the intense politics following World War I. Once elected, he pushed for legislation limiting the number of immigrants; set high tariffs to relieve the farm crisis after the war; persuaded Congress to adopt unified federal budget creation; and reduced income taxes and the national debt, before dying unexpectedly in 1923. In this wise and compelling biography, John W. Dean—no stranger to controversy himself—recovers the truths and explodes the myths surrounding our twenty-ninth president's tarnished legacy.
The President's Daughter
Title | The President's Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | Nan Britton |
Publisher | New York, Elizabeth Ann guild, Incorporated |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Children of presidents |
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"If love is the only right warrant for bringing children into the world then many children born in wedlock are illegitimate and many born out of wedlock are legitimate." So contends Nan Britton in this account of Elizabeth Ann, her daughter by Warren G. Harding.