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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pensions
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Published: 1907
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pensions
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Published: 1907
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Adams
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2022-10-04T17:27:17Z
Total Pages: 562
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written, The Education of Henry Adams is told in the third person, as if its author were watching his own life unwind. It begins with his early life in Quincy, the family seat outside of Boston, and soon moves on to primary school, Harvard College, and beyond. He learns about the unpredictability of politics from statesmen and diplomats, and the newest discoveries in technology, science, history, and art from some of the most important thinkers and creators of the day. In essentially every case, Adams claims, his education and upbringing let him down, leaving him in the dark. But as the historian David S. Brown puts it, this is a “charade”: The Education’s “greatest irony is its claim to telling the story of its author’s ignorance, confusion, and misdirection.” Instead, Adams uses its “vigorous prose and confident assertions” to attack “the West after 1400.” For instance, industrialization and technology make Adams wonder “whether the American people knew where they were driving.” And in one famous chapter, “The Dynamo and the Virgin,” he contrasts the rise of electricity and the power it brings with the strength and resilience of religious belief in the Middle Ages. The grandson and great-grandson of two presidents and the son of a politician and diplomat who served under Lincoln as minister to Great Britain, Adams was born into immense privilege, as he knew well: “Probably no child, born in the year, held better cards than he.” After growing up a Boston Brahmin, he worked as a journalist, historian, and professor, moving in early middle age to Washington. Although Adams distributed a privately printed edition of a hundred copies of The Education for friends and family in 1907, it wasn’t published more widely until 1918, the year he died. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1919, and in 1999 a Modern Library panel placed it first on its list of the best nonfiction books published in the twentieth century. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author: Maurer Maurer
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 1428915850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 1634
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Asher Crosby Hinds
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 1156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arnold G. Fisch
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 370
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMilitary government on Okinawa from the first stages of planning until the transition toward a civil administration.
Author: Alfred Goldberg
Publisher: Office of the Secretary, Historical Offi
Published: 2007-09-05
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.
Author: Asher Crosby Hinds
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 1152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHinds' precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States is an eight-volume publication prepared by Asher C. Hinds (1863-1919) that was originally published in Washington, D.C. by the U.S. Government Printing Office during 1907-1908. The publication focuses on the parliamentary practices of the U.S. Congress, and is presented online by the U.S. Government Printing Office.
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 830
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 1066
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