Verlag: WW Norton & Co Nov 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1324092343 ISBN 13: 9781324092346
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis, The Cause marks the culmination of a lifetime of engagement with the founding era, completing a trilogy of books that began with Founding Brothers. Here Ellis, countering popular histories that romanticize the 'Spirit of '76,' demonstrates through 'evocative profiles of British loyalists, slaves, Native Americans and soldiers uncertain of what was being founded' (Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune) that the rebels fought not for a nation but under the mantle of 'The Cause,' a mutable, conveniently ambiguous principle all but destined to give rise to the warring factions of later American history. Combining action-packed tales of North American military campaigns with characteristically trenchant insight, The Cause 'deftly foreshadows all the issues that would complicate America's trajectory' (Richard Stengel, New York Times Book Review), forcing us to finally reconsider the story we have long told ourselves about our origins-as a people, and as a nation.
Verlag: WW Norton & Co Nov 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0393284832 ISBN 13: 9780393284836
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Verlag: WW Norton & Co Nov 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0393882047 ISBN 13: 9780393882049
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In late-1940s Long Branch, an historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighbourhood of Italian, Black and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Descended from a bootlegger grandfather, an athletic father and a rebellious tomboy mother, Pinsky was an unruly but articulate high-school C-student whose obsession with the rhythms and melodies of speech inspired him to write.
Verlag: WW Norton & Co Nov 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1324004479 ISBN 13: 9781324004479
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Little known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year-old Christian missionary from South Dakota who traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a two-year stint teaching English and preaching the gospel. He arrived in the midst of a democratic revolution-the first of its kind in the Middle East-led by a group of brilliant young firebrands committed to transforming their country into a fully self-determining, constitutional monarchy, one with free elections and an independent parliament.
Verlag: WW Norton & Co Nov 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0393866807 ISBN 13: 9780393866803
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings from the seventeenth century, when enslaved people of African descent created it from gourds or calabashes and wood. Gaddy shows how the enslaved carried this unique instrument as they were transported and sold by slaveowners throughout the Americas, to Suriname, the Caribbean and the colonies that became US states, including Louisiana, South Carolina, Maryland and New York.
Verlag: WW Norton & Co Nov 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 0393711692 ISBN 13: 9780393711691
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Both a personal and general meditation on identity and belonging, Daniel J. Siegel's book combines personal reflections with scientific discussions of how the mind, brain and our relationships shape who we are. Weaving the internal and external, the subjective and objective, IntraConnected reveals how our culture may give us a message of separation as a solo, isolated self, but a wider perspective unveils that who we are may be something more-broader than the brain, bigger even than the body-and fundamental to social systems and the natural world.