Press Release

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Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Press Release

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Pages : 540

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Immersed in Great Affairs

Immersed in Great Affairs PDF Author: Gerald L. Fetner
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791485668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Immersed in Great Affairs is the first book-length biography of noted historian and journalist Allan Nevins. In a career that spanned nearly three-quarters of the twentieth century, Nevins won two Pulitzer Prizes, helped draft John F. Kennedy's acceptance speech at the 1960 Democratic National Convention, composed the monumental eight-volume history of the American Civil War, Ordeal of the Union, and associated with, among others, Adlai Stevenson, Walter Lippmann, Arthur Schlesinger Sr., Charles Scribner, Abraham Flexner, and John D. Rockefeller Jr. This book traces his beginnings as a journalist in the early 1900s with the New York Evening Post and the New York World through his years as a contributor to the New York Times Magazine. Nevins not only influenced thoughtful, general readers through his articles, editorials, and reviews, but also made a lasting impression on the writing of American history and nurtured a whole generation of young scholars as DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. A narrative historian in an age of growing reliance on social science concepts and theories, Nevins remained committed to telling a story and to using history to teach moral lessons.

Addresses: 1968

Addresses: 1968 PDF Author: California. Department of Water Resources
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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A collection of addresses and essays produced over an eighteen year period by the California Department of Water Resources.

United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art

United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art PDF Author: Jane R. McGoldrick
Publisher: Government Printing Office
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Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Commencement Address

Commencement Address PDF Author: Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Inventing the Feeble Mind

Inventing the Feeble Mind PDF Author: James Trent
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199396205
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Using institutional records, private correspondence, personal memories, and rare photographs, James Trent argues that the economic vulnerability of intellectually disabled people (and often their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual and social limitations, has shaped meaning, services, and policies in United States history.

Rickover and the Nuclear Navy

Rickover and the Nuclear Navy PDF Author: Francis Duncan
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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An official Atomic Energy Commission historian assigned to Admiral Rickover's office, Duncan draws on files, documents, and interviews to chronicle the introduction of nuclear powered ships into the US Navy. Covers the period from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Washington, its sights and insights

Washington, its sights and insights PDF Author: Harriet Earhart Monroe
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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"Washington, its sights and insights" by Harriet Earhart Monroe. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life PDF Author: Richard Hofstadter
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307809676
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society. "As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shifting picture of the life of the mind in a society dominated by the ideal of practical success." —Robert Peel in the Christian Science Monitor

Lincoln in Marble and Bronze

Lincoln in Marble and Bronze PDF Author: Frederic Lauriston Bullard
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Category : Sculptors
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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