wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
ISBN: 9780062641830 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 1472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Rising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross Barack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight and led to his election four years later as America's first African-American president. In this penetrating biography, David J. Garrow delivers an... NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Rising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years ... |
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208,62 zł |
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
ISBN: 9780060566920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on more than seven hundred interviews with all of King's surviving associates, as well as with those who opposed him, and enhanced by the author's access to King's personal papers and tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents, this is a towering portrait of a man's metamorphosis into a legend. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the li... |
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108,90 zł |
Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe V. Wade, Updated
ISBN: 9780520213029 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 1064 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Liberty and Sexuality is a definitive account of the legal and political struggles that created the right to privacy and won constitutional protection for a woman's right to choose abortion.
Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established that right, grew out of not only efforts to legalize abortion but also out of earlier battles against statutes that criminalized birth control. When the U.S. Supreme Court in 1965, in Griswold v. Connecticut, voided such a prohibition as an outrageous intrusion upon marital privacy, it opened a previously... Liberty and Sexuality is a definitive account of the legal and political struggles that created the right to privacy and won constitutional pro...
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329,32 zł |
Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
ISBN: 9780300024982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The work of David J. Garrow is more than a day-by-day account of how the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965 came into being. It is also a skillful analysis of the dynamics of protest activity and more particularly of the ways in which successful protesters deliberately use the mass media to influence uninvolved audiences." -American Historical Review
"A valuable book, because it is a reminder of both the heroism and the brutality displayed in the great civil rights crusade." -David Herbert Donald, The New Republic "One of the most comprehensive studies yet of a single... "The work of David J. Garrow is more than a day-by-day account of how the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965 came into being. It is also a skillful an...
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232,02 zł |
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle
ISBN: 9780140154030 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The most comprehensive anthology of primary sources available, spanning the entire history of the American civil rights movement. A record of one of the greatest and most turbulent movements of this century, The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader is essential for anyone interested in learning how far the American civil rights movements has come and how far it has to go. Included are the Supreme Court's Brown vs Board of Education decision in its entirety; speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., and his famous "Letter from Birmingham City Jail"; an interview with...
The most comprehensive anthology of primary sources available, spanning the entire history of the American civil rights movement. A record ...
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113,30 zł |