Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Reference

In this timely and important collection of personal essays, black men from all walks of life share their inspiring stories and ultimately how each, in his own way, became a source of hope for his community and country.

Reach includes forty first-person accounts from well-known men like the Rev. Al Sharpton, John Legend, Isiah Thomas, Bill T. Jones, Louis Gossett, Jr., and Talib Kweli, alongside influential community organizers, businessmen, religious leaders, philanthropists, and educators. These remarkable...

Chapter 1. The Ceremony: A young girl gets married. She shares early married life and talks about her babies.
Chapter 2. Married Death: She rounds out the years for the reader, sharing her unhappiness.
Chapter 3. Car Chase: She recounts abuse.
Chapter 4. Hinged Years: Life is lived, holding tragedies.
Chapter 5. Light Years Away: She leaves her husband for the first time.
Chapter 6. Dark Corners: Early Experiences are revealed and an important thing happens. The family confronts issues.
Chapter 7. Shadows in the Mirror: She tells how one brother gets lost to the...

In The Impossible Craft, Scott Donaldson explores the rocky territory of literary biography, the most difficult that biographers try to navigate. Writers are accustomed to controlling the narrative, and notoriously opposed to allowing intruders on their turf. They make bonfires of their papers, encourage others to destroy correspondence, write their own autobiographies, and appoint family or friends to protect their reputations as official biographers. Thomas Hardy went so far as to compose his own life story to be published after his death, while falsely assigning authorship to...

To probe the nature of Woodrow Wilson's intellectual development, this book focuses on the relationship between his religious thought and other areas of his life, from his years as a student and professor through those of his presidency of Princeton University. Professor Mulder draws fully on The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, describing a complex individual and advancing our knowledge of the role of religion in American politics.

Originally published in 1978.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously...

To probe the nature of Woodrow Wilson's intellectual development, this book focuses on the relationship between his religious thought and other areas of his life, from his years as a student and professor through those of his presidency of Princeton University. Professor Mulder draws fully on The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, describing a complex individual and advancing our knowledge of the role of religion in American politics.

Originally published in 1978.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously...

Originally published in 1969. In the seventeenth century neither the literary genre nor the term autobiography existed but we see in seventeenth-century literature many kinds of autobiographical writings, to which their authors gave such titles as "Journal of the Life of Me, Confessions," etc. This work is a study of nearly two hundred of these, published and unpublished, which together represent a very varied group of writings.

The book begins with an examination of the rise of autobiography as a genre during the Renaissance. It discusses seventeenth-century autobiographical writings...

When you need to source accurate information on the past history, achievements and current activities of leading world figures, from heads of state to sporting greats, Europa's The International Who's Who 2016 provides the answer. Published annually since 1935 The International Who's Who is your source for hard-to-find biographical details on over 25,000 of the world's most prominent and influential personalities.

Featured personalities are regularly given the opportunity to update their entry, providing new information on education, artistic achievements, leisure...

For scholars working on almost any aspect of American thought, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America presents an indispensable reference work.

Selecting over 700 figures from the Dictionary of Early American Philosophers and the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, this condensed edition includes key contributors to philosophical thought. From 1600 to the present day, entries cover psychology, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, education, theology and political science, before these disciplines came to be considered distinct from...