The Court of Requests ... With a Memoir
Author: William HUTTON (F.S.A. Sco.)
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 70
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Author: William HUTTON (F.S.A. Sco.)
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 70
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Knox
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2004-09
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780226448633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"My name will survive as long as man survives, because I am writing the greatest diary that has ever been written. I intend to surpass Pepys as a diarist." When John Frush Knox (1907-1997) wrote these words, he was in the middle of law school, and his attempt at surpassing Pepys—part scrapbook, part social commentary, and part recollection—had already reached 750 pages. His efforts as a chronicler might have landed in a family attic had he not secured an eminent position after graduation as law clerk to Justice James C. McReynolds—arguably one of the most disagreeable justices to sit on the Supreme Court—during the tumultuous year when President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to "pack" the Court with justices who would approve his New Deal agenda. Knox's memoir instead emerges as a record of one of the most fascinating periods in American history. The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox—edited by Dennis J. Hutchinson and David J. Garrow—offers a candid, at times naïve, insider's view of the showdown between Roosevelt and the Court that took place in 1937. At the same time, it marvelously portrays a Washington culture now long gone. Although the new Supreme Court building had been open for a year by the time Knox joined McReynolds' staff, most of the justices continued to work from their homes, each supported by a small staff. Knox, the epitome of the overzealous and officious young man, after landing what he believes to be a dream position, continually fears for his job under the notoriously rude (and nakedly racist) justice. But he soon develops close relationships with the justice's two black servants: Harry Parker, the messenger who does "everything but breathe" for the justice, and Mary Diggs, the maid and cook. Together, they plot and sidestep around their employer's idiosyncrasies to keep the household running while history is made in the Court. A substantial foreword by Dennis Hutchinson and David Garrow sets the stage, and a gallery of period photos of Knox, McReynolds, and other figures of the time gives life to this engaging account, which like no other recaptures life in Washington, D.C., when it was still a genteel southern town.
Author: Robert L. Carter
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2012-01-19
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781595588470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clarence Thomas
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2021-10-12
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0063235927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words. Thomas speaks out, revealing the pieces of his life he holds dear, detailing the suffering and injustices he has overcome, including the polarizing Senate hearing involving a former aide, Anita Hill, and the depression and despair it created in his own life and the lives of those closest to him. In this candid and deeply moving memoir, a quintessential American tale of hardship and grit, Clarence Thomas recounts his astonishing journey for the first time.
Author: Edward Nares
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Published: 1828
Total Pages: 850
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lucy Aikin
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Published: 1822
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joyce Farmer
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 2014-08-03
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1606997602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoyce Farmer's memoir chronicles the decline of the author's parents' health, their relationship with one another and with their daughter, and how they cope with the day-to-day emotional fragility of the most taxing time of their lives. Joyce Farmer, best known for co-creating the Tits 'n Clits comics anthology in the 1970s, a feminist response to the rampant misogyny in underground comix, spent 11 years crafting Special Exits, a graphic memoir in the vein of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home or Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, and Frank Stack's Our Cancer Year, about caring for her dying father and stepmother.
Author: Edward Nares
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Published: 1828
Total Pages: 868
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Nares (Pseud. Thinks-I-to-myself, Who?)
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Published: 1828
Total Pages: 854
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sally Mann
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2015-05-12
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 031624774X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder." In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.