American Letters
Author: Jackson Pollock
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2011-04-11
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0745651550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents letters written by the American painter and his brothers and parents from the late 1920s to the late 1940s.
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Letters from America
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300181838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831, commissioned by the French government to study the American prison system. For the next nine months he and his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, traveled and observed not only prisons but also the political, economic, and social systems of the early republic. Along the way, they frequently reported back to friends and family members in France. This book presents the first translation of the complete letters Tocqueville wrote during that seminal journey, accompanied by excerpts from Beaumont's correspondence that provide details or different perspectives on the places, people, and American life and attitudes the travelers encountered. --from publisher description.
Dear America
Author: Bernard Edelman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2002-06-04
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780393323047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than 25 years after the official end of the Vietnam War, "Dear America" allows readers to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served there. Excerpt in "Time" magazine.
Letters from Black America
Author: Pamela Newkirk
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2011-01-11
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0807001155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first-ever narrative history of African Americans told through their own letters Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the spectrum of African American experience in the most intimate way possible—through the heartfelt correspondence of those who lived through monumental changes and pivotal events, from the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, from slavery to the election of Obama.
Willie Nelson's Letters to America
Author: Willie Nelson
Publisher: Harper Horizon
Published: 2021-06-29
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0785241558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing his bestselling memoir, It’s a Long Story, Willie Nelson now delivers his most intimate thoughts and stories in Willie Nelson's Letters to America. A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller! From his opening letter “Dear America” to his “Dear Willie” epilogue, Willie digs deep into his heart and soul--and his music catalog--to lift us up in difficult times, and to remind us of the endless promise and continuous obligations of all Americans--to themselves, to one another, and to their nation. In a series of letters straight from the heart, Willie sends his thanks and his thoughts to: Americans past, present, and future, his closest family members, andhis parents, sister, and children, his other family members his guitar “Trigger”, his hero Gene Autry, the US founding fathers, his personal heroes, from our founding fathers to the leaders of future generations and to young songwriters as well as leaders of our future generations. Willie’s letters are rounded out with the moving lyrics to some of his most famous and insightful songs, including “Let Me Be a Man,” “Family Bible,” “Summer of Roses,” “Me and Paul,” “A Horse called Music,” “Healing Hands of Time,” and “Yesterday's Wine.”
Letters of a German American Farmer
Author: Johannes Gillhoff
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Early in the twentieth century, drawing upon the hundreds of letters written to his father by immigrants from Mecklenburg, Germany, Johannes Gillhoff created the archetypal character of Jürnjakob Swehn: the upright, honest mench who personified the German immigrant. This farmer-hero--planting and harvesting his Iowa acres, joking with his neighbors during the snowy winters, building a church with his own hands--proved so popular with the German public that a million copies of Jürnjakob Swehn der Amerikafahrer are in print. Now for the first time this wise and endearing book is available in English." -- Page [4] cover.
Letters to an American Lady
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2014-10-22
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0802871828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Lewis was 51 years old and long established at Magdalen College, Oxford, he wrote the first of this collection of letters to an American widow. She was described as a "very charming, gracious, southern aristocratic lady who loved to talk and speak well". In them are his antipathy to journalism, advertising, snobbery, psychoanalysis, and the petty practices that sap freedoms. They identify events in his life after 1950 including his marriage to Joy Davidman and her death three years later.
Letters of a Nation
Author: Andrew Carroll
Publisher: Broadway
Published: 1998-12-31
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 0767903315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanning 350 years of American history and culture, a collection of more than two hundred letters, many never before published, reveals the personalities and feelings of Americans great and small, from Amelia Earhart to Elvis Presley to Malcolm X. Reprint.
Letters from Filadelfia
Author: Rodrigo Lazo
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2020-02-24
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 0813943566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor many Spanish Americans in the early nineteenth century, Philadelphia was Filadelfia, a symbol of republican government for the Americas and the most important Spanish-language print center in the early United States. In Letters from Filadelfia, Rodrigo Lazo opens a window into Spanish-language writing produced by Spanish American exiles, travelers, and immigrants who settled and passed through Philadelphia during this vibrant era, when the city’s printing presses offered a vehicle for the voices advocating independence in the shadow of Spanish colonialism. The first book-length study of Philadelphia publications by intellectuals such as Vicente Rocafuerte, José María Heredia, Manuel Torres, Juan Germán Roscio, and Servando Teresa de Mier, Letters from Filadelfia offers an approach to discussing their work as part of early Latino literature and the way in which it connects to the United States and other parts of the Americas. Lazo’s book is an important contribution to the complex history of the United States’ first capital. More than the foundation for the U.S. nation-state, Philadelphia reached far beyond its city limits and, as considered here, suggests new ways to conceptualize what it means to be American.
The Letters of the Republic
Author: Michael Warner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780674044883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe subject of Michael Warner's book is the rise of a nation. America, he shows, became a nation by developing a new kind of reading public, where one becomes a citizen by taking one's place as writer or reader. At heart, the United States is a republic of letters, and its birth can be dated from changes in the culture of printing in the early eighteenth century. The new and widespread use of print media transformed the relations between people and power in a way that set in motion the republican structure of government we have inherited. Examining books, pamphlets, and circulars, he merges theory and concrete analysis to provide a multilayered view of American cultural development.
