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Interesting Times
Author | : Eric Hobsbawm |
Publsiher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780307426413 |
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Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, “I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illumination on our possible futures.” Skeptical, endlessly curious, and almost contemporary with the terrible “short century” which is the subject of Age of Extremes, his most widely read book, Hobsbawm has, for eighty-five years, been committed to understanding the “interesting times” through which he has lived. Hitler came to power as Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin, and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York. He was a member of the Apostles at King’s College, Cambridge, took E.M. Forster to hear Lenny Bruce, and demonstrated with Bertrand Russell against nuclear arms in Trafalgar Square. He translated for Che Guevara in Havana, had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest and an evening at home with Mahalia Jackson in Chicago. He saw the body of Stalin, started the modern history of banditry and is probably the only Marxist asked to collaborate with the inventor of the Mars bar. Hobsbawm takes us from Britain to the countries and cultures of Europe, to America (which he appreciated first through movies and jazz), to Latin America, Chile, India and the Far East. With Interesting Times, we see the history of the twentieth century through the unforgiving eye of one of its most intensely engaged participants, the incisiveness of whose views we cannot afford to ignore in a world in which history has come to be increasingly forgotten.
Gellhorn
Author | : Caroline Moorehead |
Publsiher | : Holt Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2004-09-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0805076964 |
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The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn casts "a vivid spotlight on one of the most undercelebrated women of the 20th century" (Entertainment Weekly) Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international conflict between the Spanish Civil War and the end of the cold war; her wartime dispatches rank among the best of the century. From her birth in St. Louis in 1908 to her death in London in 1998, the tall, glamorous blonde passed through Africa, Cuba, Panama, and most of the great cities of Europe. She made friends easily-among them Eleanor Roosevelt, Leonard Bernstein, and H. G. Wells-but happiness often eluded her despite her professional success: both of her marriages ended badly, the first, to Ernest Hemingway, dramatically and publicly so. Drawn from extensive interviews and exclusive access to Gellhorn's papers and correspondence, this seminal biography spans half the globe and almost an entire century to offer an exhilarating, intimate portrait of one of the defining women of our times.
Our Lives and Times
Author | : World Publications, Incorporated |
Publsiher | : JG Press |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 2003-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1572153725 |
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Recorded history's most dynamic epoch comes to life as never before in book form. A veritable browser's paradise, Our Lives & Times encompasses the 20th century and beyond, packing more than one hundred years of facts, images, essays, and chronological timelines into one visually deightful, thoroughly readable, highly entertaining chronicle of the people and events that shaped our past, and continue to shape our present.
A Life in the Twentieth Century
Author | : Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.) |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0618219250 |
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The author considers events that occurred during his lifetime and that contributed to America's rise to world power status, as told through his personal experiences in childhood, in college, and during war times.
Up Close Rachel Carson
Author | : Ellen S. Levine |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2008-01-10 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0142410462 |
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Rachel Carson combined her love of science and writing in her award-winning and controversial book Silent Spring. Revealing the dangers of pesticide use, it brought readers a new awareness of humankind’s contamination of the environment and ultimately led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Life at Home in the Twenty First Century
Author | : Jeanne E. Arnold,Anthony P. Graesch,Elinor Ochs,Enzo Ragazzini |
Publsiher | : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2012-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781938770906 |
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Winner of the 2014 John Collier Jr. Award Winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century cross-cuts the ranks of important books on social history, consumerism, contemporary culture, the meaning of material culture, domestic architecture, and household ethnoarchaeology. It is a distant cousin of Material World and Hungry Planet in content and style, but represents a blend of rigorous science and photography that these books can claim. Using archaeological approaches to human material culture, this volume offers unprecedented access to the middle-class American home through the kaleidoscopic lens of no-limits photography and many kinds of never-before acquired data about how people actually live their lives at home. Based on a rigorous, nine-year project at UCLA, this book has appeal not only to scientists but also to all people who share intense curiosity about what goes on at home in their neighborhoods. Many who read the book will see their own lives mirrored in these pages and can reflect on how other people cope with their mountains of possessions and other daily challenges. Readers abroad will be equally fascinated by the contrasts between their own kinds of materialism and the typical American experience. The book will interest a range of designers, builders, and architects as well as scholars and students who research various facets of U.S. and global consumerism, cultural history, and economic history.
Ronald Reagan
Author | : James Sutherland |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0670063452 |
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An introduction to the life and career of the movie actor who left film for the political arena, being elected governor of the state of California in 1966 and 1970, and President of the United States in 1980.
A Twentieth Century Life
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Author | : Edith Emery |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Women physicians |
ISBN | : 0646245600 |
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