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Grant
ISBN: 9780393323948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidency during the crucial years of Reconstruction, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography traces the entire arc of Grant's life (1822-1885). "A moving and convincing portrait....profound understanding of the man as well as his period and his country." C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books "Clearsightedness, along with McFeely's unfailing intelligence and his existential sympathy...informs his entire biography." Justin Kaplan, The New Republic"
The seminal biography of one of America's towering, enigmatic figures. From his boyhood in Ohio to the battlefields of the Civil War and his presidenc...
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172,18 zł |
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Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9780393354423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A former slave, orator, journalist, autobiographer, and revolutionary on behalf of a just America, Douglass was a towering figure, at once consumately charismatic and flawed. In this biography, fresh and incisive in its research and interpretation, Freeley captures the many sides of this great and complex American, and recreates the high drama of a turbulent era.
A former slave, orator, journalist, autobiographer, and revolutionary on behalf of a just America, Douglass was a towering figure, at once consumately...
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88,48 zł |
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Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen (Revised)
ISBN: 9780393311785 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Instructed by Congress to divide lands abandoned to the Union army into forty-acre plots and award them to freedmen, Howard began a program that might have given many families farms of their own. The effort had barely begun when it ran into President Andrew Johnson's policy of returning such lands to former white owners. Soon Howard and his agents were under pressure not to assist the free people, but to coerce them into working for landlords And yet, however tarnished the record, the Bureau was still recalled by W. E. B. DuBois for its "bright promise."Yankee Stepfather provides a revealing,...
Instructed by Congress to divide lands abandoned to the Union army into forty-acre plots and award them to freedmen, Howard began a program that might...
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110,29 zł |
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Sapelo's People: A Long Walk Into Freedom
ISBN: 9780393313772 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this moving and original work, William S. McFeely, one of this country's most distinguished historians, retells the history--and enters into the current-day lives--of the people who inhabit Sapelo's Island off the coast of Georgia, descendants of slaves who once worked its huge cotton plantations. It is at once a richly detailed work of historical reconstruction, a sensitive portrait of the lives of black Americans in this particular place and in our own time, and a moving meditation on race by a writer who has made its painful dilemmas his life's work as a historian.
In this moving and original work, William S. McFeely, one of this country's most distinguished historians, retells the history--and enters into the cu...
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88,41 zł |
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow: A Commemorative Edition with a new afterword by William S. McFeely
ISBN: 9780195146905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work, The Strange Career of Jim Crow.
The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history. Published in 1955, a... C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestn...
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67,22 zł |
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Proximity to Death
ISBN: 9780393321043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) On a misty September morning in rural Georgia, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian found himself cast in a role that he had never imagined for himself: an expert witness in the sentencing trial of a convicted kidnapper, rapist, and murderer. His brief testimony that day would ultimately lead him on a personal journey into the criminal justice system, to confront the actions and decisions of lawyers battling for and against the death penalty, convicts whose lives are at stake, and jurors forced to decide who shall live and who shall die.
On a misty September morning in rural Georgia, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian found himself cast in a role that he had never imagined for himself:...
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88,19 zł |
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Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9780393313765 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Former slave, orator, journalist, autobiographer; revolutionary on behalf of a just America, Frederick Douglass was a towering figure, at once consummately charismatic and flawed. His Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) galvanized the antislavery movement and is one of the truly seminal works of African-American literature. In this masterful and compelling biography, William S. McFeely captures the many sides of Douglass his boyhood on the Chesapeake; his self-education; his rebellion and rising expectations; his marriage, affairs, and intense friendships; his bitter defeat and...
Former slave, orator, journalist, autobiographer; revolutionary on behalf of a just America, Frederick Douglass was a towering figure, at once consumm...
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132,62 zł |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9780393265446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. - Frederick Douglass's 1845Narrative, the most influential autobiography of its kind. - A preface and explanatory footnotes by William L. Andrews and William S. McFeely - Contemporary perspectives by Douglass, Margaret Fuller, James Monroe Gregory, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Essays by William L. Andrews, William S. McFeely, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Deborah E. McDowell, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Jeannine Marie DeLombard, and Robert D. Richardson, Jr - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
- Frederick Douglass's 1845Narrative, the most influential autobiography of its kind. - A preface and explanatory footnotes by William L. And...
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71,88 zł |
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