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Pages : 442
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Universal Classics Library: Memoirs of the Emperor Napoleon, by Madame Junot, duchesse de d'Abrantes
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Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854-1911
Author: Malvina Shanklin Harlan
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1588362515
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Rediscovered by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, this unique account of life before, during, and after the Civil War was written by the wife of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, who played a central role in some of the most significant civil rights decisions of his era. “Remarkable . . . a chronicle of the times, as seen by a brave woman of the era.”—Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from the foreword When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg began researching the history of the women associated with the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress sent her Malvina Harlan’s unpublished manuscript. Recalling Abigail Adams’s order to “remember the ladies,” Justice Ginsburg guided its long journey from forgotten document to published book. Malvina Shanklin Harlan witnessed—and gently influenced—national history from the perspective of a political leader’s wife. Her husband, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911), wrote the lone dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, the infamous case that endorsed separate but equal segregation. And for fifty-seven years he was married to a woman who was busy making a mental record of their eventful lives. After Justice Harlan’s death in 1911, Malvina wrote Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854–1911, as a testament to her husband’s accomplishments and to her own. The memoir begins with Malvina, the daughter of passionate abolitionists, becoming the teenage bride of John Marshall Harlan, whose family owned more than a dozen slaves. Malvina depicts her life in antebellum Kentucky, and her courageous defense of the Harlan homestead during the Civil War. She writes of her husband’s ascent in legal circles and his eventual appointment to the Supreme Court in 1877, where he was the author of opinions that continued to influence American race relations deep into the twentieth century. Yet Some Memories is more than a wife’s account of a famous and powerful man. It chronicles the remarkable evolution of a young woman from Indiana who became a keen observer of both her family’s life and that of her nation.
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1588362515
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Rediscovered by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, this unique account of life before, during, and after the Civil War was written by the wife of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, who played a central role in some of the most significant civil rights decisions of his era. “Remarkable . . . a chronicle of the times, as seen by a brave woman of the era.”—Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from the foreword When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg began researching the history of the women associated with the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress sent her Malvina Harlan’s unpublished manuscript. Recalling Abigail Adams’s order to “remember the ladies,” Justice Ginsburg guided its long journey from forgotten document to published book. Malvina Shanklin Harlan witnessed—and gently influenced—national history from the perspective of a political leader’s wife. Her husband, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911), wrote the lone dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, the infamous case that endorsed separate but equal segregation. And for fifty-seven years he was married to a woman who was busy making a mental record of their eventful lives. After Justice Harlan’s death in 1911, Malvina wrote Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854–1911, as a testament to her husband’s accomplishments and to her own. The memoir begins with Malvina, the daughter of passionate abolitionists, becoming the teenage bride of John Marshall Harlan, whose family owned more than a dozen slaves. Malvina depicts her life in antebellum Kentucky, and her courageous defense of the Harlan homestead during the Civil War. She writes of her husband’s ascent in legal circles and his eventual appointment to the Supreme Court in 1877, where he was the author of opinions that continued to influence American race relations deep into the twentieth century. Yet Some Memories is more than a wife’s account of a famous and powerful man. It chronicles the remarkable evolution of a young woman from Indiana who became a keen observer of both her family’s life and that of her nation.
Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Library of the Late Thomas Maitland, Esquire, of Dundrennan...
Author: C.B. Tait & T. Nisbet
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Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Pages : 128
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A Literary Antiquary. Memoir of W. Oldys ... Together with his Diary, choice notes from his Adversaria, and an account of the London Libraries. [By J. Yeowell. Reprinted from Notes and Queries.]
Author: William OLDYS
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Pages : 180
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The Critic
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Pages : 468
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Pages : 468
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Memoirs of Celebrated Characters
Author: Alphonse de Lamartine
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Languages : en
Pages : 486
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A Catalogue of the Books in the Birmingham Library, with a copy of the laws, etc
Author: Birmingham Library (BIRMINGHAM)
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Library Journal
Author: Melvil Dewey
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
The World's Strongest Librarian
Author: Josh Hanagarne
Publisher: Avery
ISBN: 159240877X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Traces the public librarian author's inspiring story as a Mormon youth with Tourette's Syndrome who after a sequence of radical and ineffective treatments overcame nightmarish tics through education, military service, and strength training.
Publisher: Avery
ISBN: 159240877X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Traces the public librarian author's inspiring story as a Mormon youth with Tourette's Syndrome who after a sequence of radical and ineffective treatments overcame nightmarish tics through education, military service, and strength training.
Catalogue of the ... library of ... John Morice ... which will be sold by auction
Author: John Morice
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Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Pages : 246
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