All-American
Author: Bruce Weber
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
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The Mexican American Family Album
Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780195081299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe American Family Album series tells the often heroic stories of American immigrant groups, largely through their own words and pictures. Like any family album, the pages contain period photographs, memorabilia, selections from diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspapers. Each book is a pictorial and written record of the country left behind, the journey to America, and the group's contributions to the United States. 142 illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Cuban American Family Album
Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterviews, excerpts from diaries and letters, newspaper accounts, profiles of famous individuals, and pictures from family albums portray the Cuban American experience.
The Last Hunter
Author: Will Weaver
Publisher: Borealis Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780873517768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMinnesota's Will Weaver has been a hunter since he was a young boy, following in the footsteps of his father, a dedicated and seasoned outdoorsman. As he writes, "in the fall, when Canada geese came through and when partridge season opened, [we] heard the far-off thudding report of shotguns--and in November the heavier poom-poom! of deer rifles." Hunting frames Weaver's childhood memories, his relationship with his father, and his own definition of self. And although one side of his family lineage includes men who would not hunt, or go to war, or carry a rifle, Weaver is caught off guard when his son and daughter show no interest in upholding the tradition of the hunt. The Last Hunter is a twenty-first-century collection of deeply personal tales--a truly American story. Weaver's heartfelt rendering sweeps us along on a family journey from an isolated North Dakota farm "built around a fork and shovel" to postmodern America. Grounded in telling and luminous detail, The Last Hunter is an examination of family, life on the land, and those things we hold dear enough to want to carry along, one generation to another. Praise for Will Weaver: ". . . his stories view America's heartland with a candid but charitable eye." --New York Times on A Gravestone Made of Wheat ". . . pitch perfect. Superb." --Kirkus Reviews on Full Service " Weaver . . . is a writer of uncommon natural talent. He's that rare Real Thing, a writer writing eloquently, often between the lines but always with an undertow of passion about what he knows, where he lives, what he's been through." --Los Angeles Times Will Weaver is a writer of many books, including Red Earth, White Earth; Sweet Land: New & Selected Stories; and Full Service, one of several of his award-winning young adult novels. An avid outdoorsman, Weaver lives with his wife in Bemidji.
The Chinese American Family Album
Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1998-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780195124217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterviews, excerpts from diaries and letters, newspaper accounts, profiles of famous individuals, and pictures from family albums portray the heartache and joy of the Chinese American experience.
An American Girls Family Album
Author: Jennifer Hirsch
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
Published: 1998-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781562476786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn American Girl's Family Album helps you tell the story of the American girls in your family - your grandmother, your mother, and yourself. What is your favorite holiday? Who was your mother's best friend when she was nine? How much could a dollar buy when your grandmothers were girls?
An American Family
Author: Jeffrey Ruoff
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780816635603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore 1973, the Loud family of Santa Barbara, California, lived in the privacy of their own home. With the airing of the documentary An American Family, that "privacy" extended to every American home with a television. This book is the first to offer a close look at An American Family -- the documentary that blurred conventions, stirred passions, revised impressions of family life and definitions of private and public, and began the breakdown of distinctions between reality and spectacle that culminated in cultural phenomena from The Oprah Winfrey Show to Survivor.
The Scandinavian American Family Album
Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1998-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780195124248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Scandinavian American Family Album documents the lives of generations of Scandinavian immigrants through their own diaries, letters, interviews, rare photographs, and songs.
A Good American Family
Author: David Maraniss
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1501178393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPulitzer Prize–winning author and “one of our most talented biographers and historians” (The New York Times) David Maraniss delivers a “thoughtful, poignant, and historically valuable story of the Red Scare of the 1950s” (The Wall Street Journal) through the chilling yet affirming story of his family’s ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication. Elliott Maraniss, David’s father, a WWII veteran who had commanded an all-black company in the Pacific, was spied on by the FBI, named as a communist by an informant, called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, fired from his newspaper job, and blacklisted for five years. Yet he never lost faith in America and emerged on the other side with his family and optimism intact. In a sweeping drama that moves from the Depression and Spanish Civil War to the HUAC hearings and end of the McCarthy era, Maraniss weaves his father’s story through the lives of his inquisitors and defenders as they struggle with the vital 20th-century issues of race, fascism, communism, and first amendment freedoms. “Remarkably balanced, forthright, and unwavering in its search for the truth” (The New York Times), A Good American Family evokes the political dysfunctions of the 1950s while underscoring what it really means to be an American. It is “clear-eyed and empathetic” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) tribute from a brilliant writer to his father and the family he protected in dangerous times.
Intimate
Author: Paisley Rekdal
Publisher: Tupelo Press Lineage
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781932195965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterary Nonfiction. Memoir. Asian American Studies. Native American Studies. INTIMATE is a hybrid memoir and "photo album" that blends personal essay, historical documentary, and poetry to examine the tense relationship between self, society, and familial legacy in contemporary America. Typographically innovative, INTIMATE creates parallel streams, narrating the stories of Rekdal's Norwegian-American father and his mixed-race marriage, the photographer Edward S. Curtis, and Curtis's murdered Apsaroke guide, Alexander Upshaw. The result is panoramic, a completely original literary encounter with intimacy, identity, family relations, and race.
