Sketches of American Character
Author: Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
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Published: 1830
Total Pages: 302
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
Publisher:
Published: 1830
Total Pages: 302
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
Publisher:
Published: 1831
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 2366
ISBN-13: 1465549994
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sarah Josepha Buell 1788-1879 Hale
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-24
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781360197876
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Author: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-11-24
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1439183457
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of America's most versatile writers, author of bestselling biographies such as Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin, has assembled a gallery of portraits of (mostly) Americans that celebreate genius, talent, and versatility, and traces his own education as a writer and biographer. In this collection of essays, the brilliant, acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson reflects on lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and other interesting characters he has chronicled both as biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intelligence, but that is not the secret to their success. They had qualities that were even more rare, such as imagination and true curiousity. Isaacson also reflects on how he became a writer, the lessons he learned from various people he met, and the challenges for journalism in the digital age. He also offers loving tributes to his hometown of New Orleans, which offers many of the ingredients for a creative culture, and to the Louisiana novelist Walker Percy, who was an early mentor. In an anecdotal and personal way, Isaacson describes the joys of writing and the way that tales about the lives of fascinating people can enlighten our own lives.
Author: Finn Pollard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-01-14
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1135892652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each of whom confronted a crucial moment in the evolution of the new nation (from Crevecoeur and the Revolution, through Washington Irving and Jeffersonian Democracy, to James Fenimore Cooper and the Era of Good Feelings). At the centre of these confrontations was a division between those who claimed national perfection had been obtained, and those who, while desperately wanting to believe this, perceived all too clearly that that perfection had not yet come. Rediscovering this neglected literary debate, The Literary Quest for an American National Character illuminates afresh the traumatic birth and development of the new American nation.