An American in the Making
Author: Marcus Eli Ravage
Publisher:
Published: 1917
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13:
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An American in the Making
Author: M. E. Ravage
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009-05-19
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0813548667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the turn of the twentieth century, M. E. Ravage set off in steerage for America, one of almost two million Jews who, like millions of others from eastern and southern Europe, were lured by tales of worldly success. Seventeen years after arriving on Ellis Island, Ravage had mastered a new language, found success in college, and engagingly penned in English this vivid account of the ordeals and pleasures of departure and assimilation. Steven G. Kellman brings Ravage's story to life again in this new edition, providing a brief biography and introduction that place the memoir within historical and literary contexts. An American in the Making contributes to a broader understanding of the global notion of "America" and remains timely, especially in an era when massive immigration, now from Latin America and Asia, challenges ideas of national identity.
The Making of an American
Author: Jacob A. Riis
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-09-14
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 3387049730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
The Making of the American Essay
Author: John D'Agata
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-03-15
Total Pages: 821
ISBN-13: 1555977340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Now, with "The making of the American essay' the editor includes selections ranging from Anne Bradstreet's secular prayers to Washington Irving's satires, Emily Dickinson's love letters to Kenneth Goldsmith's catalog's, Gertrude Stein's portraits to James Baldwin's and Norman Mailer's mediations on boxing. In this volume the editor uncovers new stories in the American essay's past and shows us that some of the most fiercely daring writers in the American literary canon have turned to the essay in order to produce some of our culture's most exhilarating art."-- book jacket.
Singin' in the Rain
Author: Earl J. Hess
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title combines prose with scholarship to provide the complete inside story of how 'Singin' in the Rain' was made, marketed, and received.
Making an American Festival
Author: Chiou-ling Yeh
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-09-02
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0520253515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States—the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco—opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twentieth century. In a vividly detailed account that incorporates many different voices and perspectives, Chiou-ling Yeh explores the origins of these public events and charts how, from their beginning in 1953, they developed as a result of Chinese business community ties with American culture, business, and politics. What emerges is a fascinating picture of how an ethnic community shaped and was shaped by transnational and national politics, economics, ethnic movements, feminism, and queer activism.
Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State
Author: Megan Ming Francis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-21
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1107037107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book extends what we know about the development of civil rights and the role of the NAACP in American politics. Through a sweeping archival analysis of the NAACP's battle against lynching and mob violence from 1909 to 1923, this book examines how the NAACP raised public awareness, won over American presidents, secured the support of Congress, and won a landmark criminal procedure case in front of the Supreme Court.
L.L. Bean
Author: Leon A. Gorman
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781578511839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the history of the successful mail-order company, the challenges it faces, and its evolution since its start in 1912.
American Made
Author: Dan DiMicco
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2015-03-03
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1137279796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe chairman of America's most successful steel company dismantles myths about the decline of American industry
John James Audubon
Author: Richard Rhodes
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2004-10-05
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1400043778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the remotest regions of his new country–often alone and on foot–to render his avian subjects on paper. The works of art he created gave the world its idea of America. They gave America its idea of itself. Here Richard Rhodes vividly depicts Audubon’s life and career: his epic wanderings; his quest to portray birds in a lifelike way; his long, anguished separations from his adored wife; his ambivalent witness to the vanishing of the wilderness. John James Audubon: The Making of an American is a magnificent achievement.
