Author: Charles Phelps Cushing
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-10-14
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9781333945053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from A Birthday Book of Kansas City, 1821-1921 We eagerly devour these days the life stories of successful men, hoping to find in them something to our personal profit. Might we not equally profit by dipping into the life story of a successful city, which won against great odds by the same kind of pluck and vision through which great men attain success? The principles which apply to individuals hold also for communities of men - whole cities. Have a look, for example, at the case of West port Landing, a valiant little town which always was willing to pay the price of success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Charles Phelps Cushing
Publisher:
Published: 2017-08-16
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9781760573621
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Phelps Cushing
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2018-02-18
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9781378005323
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Author: Charles Phelps 1884 Cushing
Publisher:
Published: 2016-09-10
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9781360629544
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Karen Gibson
Publisher:
Published: 2021-03-13
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781736826706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Grace believed she went from losing it all to having it all. In a desperate attempt to put her life back together, Grace, divorced and jobless, leaves Tucson to return to Chicago-a place she never planned to call home again. She also never planned to fall for Benjamin Hayward. Drawn into the fairytale existence of his power and wealth, Grace is unable to see what her family and friends see, and ignores the warning signs of Dr. Benjamin Hayward's dark side. Benjamin's secrets-the death of his mentally ill wife and the disappearance of his daughter-push Grace into an abyss deeper than the one that brought her home in the first place, and she risks losing even more. Pieces of Grace is a complicated story of relationships confused by undercurrents of mental illness. Readers find themselves hoping family and friends can carry Grace through her most difficult moments.
Author: Devoney Looser
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2008-08-01
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0801887054
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
Author: Madison, James H.
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Published: 2014-10
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 0871953633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-11-06
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780743203173
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.