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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
ISBN: 9780224092340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion in history who became one of the most controversial figures of his age. Ward brings to life the real Jack, a character far more complex than the newspaper headlines could ever convey. Johnson was seen as a perpetual threat to white and black America.
Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion in history who became one of the most controversial figures of his age. Ward brings to life the real ...
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67,22 zł |
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Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley
ISBN: 9781439103142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For the first time in paperback, the highly acclaimed, remarkably intimate, and surprisingly revealing secret diary of the woman who spent more private time with FDR than any other person during his years in the White house. At once a love story and a major contribution to history, it offers dramatic new insights into FDR--both the man and the president. - Bestselling author: Geoffrey C. Ward is an award-winning biographer of FDR and the bestselling coauthor of many books with Ken Burns, including The Civil War and Baseball. - Widely acclaimed: "A fascinating, very personal view of...
For the first time in paperback, the highly acclaimed, remarkably intimate, and surprisingly revealing secret diary of the woman who spent more privat...
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78,58 zł |
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
ISBN: 9780375710049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this vivid biography Geoffrey C. Ward brings back to life the most celebrated -- and the most reviled -- African American of his age.
Jack Johnson battled his way out of obscurity and poverty in the Jim Crow South to win the title of heavyweight champion of the world. At a time when whites ran everything in America, he took orders from no one and resolved to live as if color did not exist. While most blacks struggled simply to exist, he reveled in his riches and his fame, sleeping with whomever he pleased, to the consternation and anger of much of white America. Because he did so the... In this vivid biography Geoffrey C. Ward brings back to life the most celebrated -- and the most reviled -- African American of his age.
Jack John... |
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91,73 zł |
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The West
ISBN: 9780316924856 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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159,12 zł |
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A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age
ISBN: 9780345804693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Notable Book |
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96,10 zł |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
ISBN: 9781785039089 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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113,83 zł |
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Jazz: A History of America's Music
ISBN: 9780679765394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible for
The Civil War and Baseball. Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music jazz. Born in the black community of turn-of-the-century New Orleans but played from the beginning by musicians of every color, jazz celebrates all Americans at their best. Here are the stories of the extraordinary men and women who made the music: Louis Armstrong, the fatherless waif whose unrivaled... The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible for
The Civil War and Baseball. Continuing in the trad... |
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218,40 zł |
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The Civil War: The Complete Text of the Bestselling Narrative History of the Civil War--Based on the Celebrated PBS Television Series
ISBN: 9780679755432 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "The Civil War defined us as whatwe are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things.... It was the crossroads of ourbeing, and it was a hell of a crossroads: the suffering, the enormous tragedy of the whole thing."- Shelby Foote, from The Civil War "The Civil War defined us as whatwe are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things.... It was the crossroads of ourbeing, and it... |
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109,20 zł |
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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
ISBN: 9780679738282 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, featured throughout Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War. Rhodes enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a twenty-three-year-old colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted in The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an...
All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, featured throughout Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War. ...
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87,36 zł |
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