Author: Robert N. White
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857715917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Beautiful, vivacious and fearless, Agnes Leclerc was 21 years old when she met Prince Felix Salm, a Prussian officer in the Union Army at the outbreak of the US Civil War. Their marriage took Agnes from small-town America to the royal palaces of Europe. She accompanied Felix on his Civil War campaigns, followed him to Mexico to fight for Emperor Maximilian, then returned home to his ancestral castle in Germany and war with France. Presidents, governors and generals succumbed to her charms. She pleaded with the implacable Benito Juarez for Maximilian's life and the German Kaiser honoured her for her heroism during the Franco-Prussian War. Although Felix's life was cut short in 1870, Agnes lived out the rest of her life as a stately European aristocrat.
Author: Dick Schaap
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Languages : en
Pages : 157
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Author: Ward Morehouse
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Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Author: Elissa D. Grodin
Publisher: Count Your Way Across the U.S.
ISBN: 9781585361755
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Using numbers as its backdrop, this book gives a travelogue of the state's historic moments, symbols, landmarks, and famous people. Included are topics such as lighthouses, railway cars, one-room schoolhouses, and geographic areas"--Provided by publisher.
Author: James L. Huffman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742526211
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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This unique book portrays the evolution of Meiji Japan through the life of crusading journalist Edward H. House (1836-1901). In chapters that alternate between history and biography, James Huffman, shows how one man bridged continents--shaping American attitudes, influencing Japan's movement toward modernity, and providing a contemporary critique of imperialism. Huffman also captures the human drama of House's life: his early bohemianism, the mystical way Japan drew him, the painful struggle with gout, the joy and torment of adopting a Japanese girl, his fight for women's education, and the vicissitudes of friendship with Mark Twain. Meticulously researched, the book draws on House's voluminous writings and on hundreds of letters between House and major figures in both America and Japan, including Mark Twain, U.S. Grant, John Russell Young, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Okuma Shigenobu, and Inoue Kaoru. With its lively, accessible prose and seamless interweaving of the life of House with the history of the Meiji era, this book will be welcomed by students, scholars, and general readers interested in modern Japanese history and in America's nineteenth-century foreign relations.
Author: Mary Ann Rodman
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1409590771
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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It’s 1964 and Alice has moved to Mississippi from Chicago with her family. Nicknamed ‘Yankee Girl’ and taunted by the in-crowd at school, Alice soon discovers the other new girl Valerie – one of the school’s first black students – has it much worse. Alice can’t stand the way Valerie is treated, and yet she knows she will remain an outsider if she speaks up. It takes a horrible tragedy to finally give Alice the courage to stand up for what she believes. Set in the Deep South in the 1960s, Yankee Girl is a powerful, resonant and relevant story about racism and doing the right thing.
Author: Michael J. Crawford
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612341772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Prince recalls his life at sea, including service as a privateer during the Revolution.
Author: Harvey Frommer
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 1624144349
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The perfect gift for the diehard fan, an enviable treasure for yourself, The Ultimate Yankee Book is the most current and comprehensive source of trivia, people and stories from the team’s creation in 1901 to today. Harvey Frommer, the celebrated baseball historian and author of eight books about the Yankees, including The New York Yankee Encyclopedia and Remembering Yankee Stadium, has outdone himself this time around. The Ultimate Yankee Book combines oral history with stories of legendary figures and epic Yankee feats. Featuring an exhaustive timeline, a challenging 150-question Yankee quiz, entertaining sections on Yankees by the numbers and nicknames and profiles of dozens of Yankee legends and luminaries, this is a book to treasure and turn to again and again. Yankee fans have bragging rights to call their team the greatest of all time. Not only have the Yankees won the most World Series championships and placed the most players in the Hall of Fame, but the franchise is also the most widely featured team in news, social media and books. This groundbreaking work gives fans what they love: the best stories and a mother lode of data right through 2016. More than 125 archival photos and images are a special feature of The Ultimate Yankee Book.
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Category : Librettos
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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New National Theatre, sole manager W.H. Rapley. Geo. M. Cohan and his royal family in Mr. Cohan's latest musical play "The Yankee Prince," a timely satire on titled fortune hunters. Direction of Cohan & Harris. The play staged by Geo. M. Cohan. Music arranged and orchestra under the direction of Chas. J. Gebest (Special drum effects by Samuel Avedon).
Author: George Michael Cohan
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Category : Librettos
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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