Author: Richard J. Franke
Publisher: Swan Isle Press
ISBN: 9780226260303
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Accomplished businessman Richard J. Franke offers in Cut from Whole Cloth an intimate account of the American immigrant experience, recounting the moving story of his grandparents' struggle to build a new life in turn-of-the-century America. Franke draws on extensive primary sources to create an engrossing narrative of his Catholic grandfather and Lutheran grandmother as they flee religious intolerance and economic adversity in Germany and immigrate to America in 1884. They settle in Springfield, Illinois, where they start a family and business and live out the American dream—with its attendant perils and promises—as their business evolves from a tailor's shop to a modern, thriving dry cleaner. Their story is one of strife, frustration, and success. Franke chronicles how they struggle to raise a family in a foreign culture with radically different values, as the old world morals that fuel their prosperity give rise to ancient family tensions that haunt each new generation. By turns charming, wrenching, and poetic, Cut from Whole Cloth is an intensely personal yet timeless tale that will appeal to nearly every descendant of immigrants.
Cut from Whole Cloth
Whole Cloth (1998)
Author: Douglas Penn
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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An Exact Abridgment of All the Statutes in Force and Use, from Magna Charta, 9 H. 3. to the Beginning of the Reign of King George
Author:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
Author: J. A. Simpson
Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The dictionary gives explanations of the meanings and use of proverbs whenever these are obscure. By means of numerous illustrative quotations it also provides a documentary history of each proverb from its first recorded use in written English, and supplies details of earlier related forms in other languages.
Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The dictionary gives explanations of the meanings and use of proverbs whenever these are obscure. By means of numerous illustrative quotations it also provides a documentary history of each proverb from its first recorded use in written English, and supplies details of earlier related forms in other languages.
An Exact Abridgment of All the Statutes in Force and Use from the Beginning of Magna Charta
Author: Great Britain
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Languages : en
Pages : 842
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An Exact Abridgment of All Statutes in Force and Use from the Beginning of Magna Charta Untill 1641
Author: Edmund Wingate
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
An Exact Abridgment of all Statutes in Force and Use, from the beginning of Magna Charta, untill 1641. By Edm. Wingate ... and from thence continued ... to this present year, 1684
Author: England
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
An Exact Abridgment of all the Statutes in force and use ... Begun by Edmund Wingate ... and since continued ... down to ... 1689. In this impression the statutes which are expired or repealed are left out ... With a more compleat and exact table than was before
Author: England
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Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
An Exact Abridgment of all Statutes in force and use from the beginning of Magna Charta, untill 1641. By Edm. Wingate ... With a continuation ... untill ... 1670, etc. [The epistle dedicatory signed: T. M., i.e. Thomas Manby.]
Author: England
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Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Languages : en
Pages : 830
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An Exact Abridgment of all the Statutes in Force and Use from the Beginning of Magna Charta. Begun by Edmund Wingate ... and since continued ... down to the year 1689, etc. [Edited by Joseph Washington.]
Author: England
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 808
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