Augusta in Vintage Postcards
Augusta in Vintage Postcards

Author: Joseph M. Lee, III

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 1997-11-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738554204

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In the early 1900s, America was swept up in the postcard craze. All over the country, people seized on these charming snapshots of life as a means of keeping in touch with friends and family, as well as seeing strange and exciting parts of the world.

North Augusta
North Augusta

Author: Jeanne M. McDaniel

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2006-01-18

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1439633290

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The story of James U. Jackson and the history of North Augusta are inseparable. In the 1800s, James U. Jackson was one of the youngest railroad officials in the country. As a boy, he dreamed of developing the area on the bluffs across the Savannah River from Augusta, Georgia. That dream became a reality in 1906, when the community of North Augusta was incorporated. Not only a man of vision, Jacksons energy, drive, and personality enabled him to secure financial backing from several cities for his business ventures. His interurban railway, one of the first in the South, contributed to the development of the areas resort hotel industry, which catered to many people from the North during the winter months. Today, North Augustas riverfront development continues, distinguishing it as a strong and independent community. James U. Jacksons dream continues to prosper.

The History of the Medical College of Georgia
The History of the Medical College of Georgia

Author: Phinizy Spalding

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0820340405

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Phinizy Spalding traces the development of Georgia's oldest medical school from the initial plans of a small group of physicians to the five school complex found in Augusta in the late 1980s. Charting a course filled with great achievement and near-fatal adversity, Spalding shows how the life of the college has been intimately bound to the local community, state politics, and the national medical establishment. When the Medical Academy of Georgia opened its doors in 1828 to a class of seven students, the total number of degreed physicians in the state was fewer than one hundred. Spalding traces the history of the Academy through its early robust growth in the antebellum years; its slowed progress during the Civil War; its decline and hardships during the early half of the twentieth century; and finally its resurgence and a new era of optimism starting in the 1950s.

Yesterday's Shadow
Yesterday's Shadow

Author: Elizabeth H. Vaughn

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-11-14

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 146539351X

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Sometimes we don't understand all the things that we must go through in life, and we sometimes never find the answers that we hope to find. Even though we may have scars that will never heal, we must move forward and give forgiveness in an unforgiving world. This book has given me the courage to face the future, the knowledge to fi nd love where I thought none existed and the strength to get past the shadows the haunt me.

Yesterday's Man
Yesterday's Man

Author: Branko Marcetic

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1839760281

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A deep dive into Joe Biden’s history and the origins of his political values Yesterday’s Man exposes the forgotten history of Joe Biden, one of the United States’s longest-serving politicians, and one of its least scrutinized. Over nearly fifty years in politics, the man called “Middle-Class Joe” served as a key architect of the Democratic Party’s rightward turn, ushering in the end of the liberal New Deal order and enabling the political takeover of the radical right. Far from being a liberal stalwart, Biden often outdid even Reagan, Gingrich, and Bush, assisting the right-wing war against the working class, and ultimately paving the way for Trump. The most comprehensive political biography of someone who has tried for decades to be president, Yesterday’s Man is an essential read for anyone interested in knowing the real Joe Biden and what he might do in office.

Broken Yesterdays
Broken Yesterdays

Author: Joseph William Meagher

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2003-04-18

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1462807585

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"In 1922, at the age of four, Joseph William Meagher contracted polio, leaving him with a back shaped like the harp of his Irish ancestors. Only all-night massaging by the family doctor saved him from a wheelchair life. After a barbaric (and fruitless) treatment to straighten his spine, Joe returned home to the shelter of a loving family. But little by little, the cold eye of the outside world made clear to him how different he was. His parents took medical advice and sent Joe off to Port Jefferson, Long Island, to spend the next four years at a hospital/school for crippled children. Though many there were severely disabled, they had the same unquenchable zest for life as any other kids, and with great innocence and gusto went about the business of being kids in the best way they could. In addition to presenting a picture of the very beginnings of rehabilitative therapy, Broken Yesterdays is the unswervingly candid and often amusing memoir of a boy who learned early that tears did no good, and that he faced a choice: Either surrender to the bitterness of being different or, through strength of will, make the best of what he had in him. Fortunately for his readers, Joseph William Meagher made the right choice."

Yesterday's Wind
Yesterday's Wind

Author: Albert Bartlett

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 1504953797

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The tanned farmer stood under the windmill in the hot, cloudless July afternoon. His soiled blue cotton shirt was buttoned to the collar. Before him, his nineteen-year-old son, ramrod straight in his immaculate marine dress blues, lamented, Dad, if only I could turn back just a few months, then I wouldnt be in this predicament. The father, his jaw set, gazing up at the windmill vanes, quiet in the summer calm, uttered softly, You cant pump water with yesterdays wind. Born in 1922 to a simple farming family in rural Colorado, Andrew Hubbard is athletic, handsome, and intelligent. Andys childhood is a balancing act between the academic world he loves so dearly and the farming culture surrounding him. Maturing into a young man, he is on track to fulfilling his dream of becoming a doctor and marrying his high school sweetheart. World War II put the plans of a generation on hold, and Andy was no exception. After joining the United States Marines and facing a long and bloody war, Andy fights not only for his country but also for his ability to make it home to the life he treasures. Based on a true story.