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Stanton In Her Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of Her Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, Friends, And Associates

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 Among nineteenth-century women's rights reformers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) stands out for the maternal and secular advocacy that shaped her activism and public reception. In this richly contextualized collection of primary sources, Noelle A. Baker brings together accounts of Stanton's life and ideas from both well-known and recently recovered figures.
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Melville In His Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of His Life, Drawn From Recollection, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, Friends, And Associates

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 <div>Owing to the decline of his contemporary fame and to decades of posthumous neglect, Herman Melville remains enigmatic to readers despite his status as one of America’s most securely canonical authors. Born into patrician wealth but plunged into poverty as a child, in 1840 he signed aboard the whaleship <i>Acushnet</i> in the midst of a nationwide depression and sailed to the South Pacific. At the Marquesas Islands, he deserted and lived for a time among one of the group’s last unsubjugated tribes. Upon his return home, he achieved overnight success with a book based on his experiences, <i>Typee</i> (1846).<br> <br> Melville’s mastery of the English language and heterodox views made him a source of both controversy and fascination to western readers, until his increasing commitment to artistry and contempt for artificial conventions led him to write <i>Moby-Dick</i> (1851) and its successor <i>Pierre</i> (1852). Although the former is considered his masterwork today, the books offended mid-nineteenth-century cultural sensibilities and alienated Melville from the American literary marketplace. The resulting eclipse of his popular reputation was deepened by his voluntary withdrawal from society, so that obituaries written after his death in 1891 frequently expressed surprise that he hadn’t died long before.<br> <br> With most of his personal papers and letters lost or destroyed, his library of marked and annotated books dispersed, and first-hand accounts of him scattered, brief, and frequently conflicting, Melville’s place in American literary scholarship illustrates the importance of accurately edited documents and the value of new information to our understanding of his life and thought. As a chronologically organized collection of surviving testimonials about the author, <i>Melville in His Own Time</i> continues the tradition of documentary research well-exemplified over the past half-century by the work of Jay Leyda, Merton M. Sealts, and Hershel Parker. Combining recently discovered evidence with new transcriptions of long-known but rarely consulted testimony, this collection offers the most up-to-date and correct record of commentary on Melville by individuals who knew him.<br></div>
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Douglass In His Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of His Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, Friends, And Associates

by John Ernest

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 <div>One of the most incredible stories in American history is that of Frederick Douglass, the man who escaped from slavery and rose to become one of the most celebrated and eloquent orators, writers, and public figures in the world. He first committed his story to writing in his 1845 autobiography <i>Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave</i>. Over the course of his life, he would expand on his story considerably, writing two other autobiographies, <i>My Bondage and My Freedom</i> and <i>Life and Times of Frederick Douglass</i>, as well as innumerable newspaper articles and editorials and orations.<br> <br> As valuable as these writings are in illuminating the man, the story Douglass told in 1845 has become rather too easy to tell, obscuring as much as it reveals. Less a living presence than an inspiring tale, Frederick Douglass remains relatively unknown even to many of those who celebrate his achievements. <i>Douglass in His Own Time</i> offers an introduction to Douglass the man by those who knew him. The book includes a broad range of writings, some intended for public viewing and some private correspondence, all of which contend with the force of Douglass’s tremendous power over the written and spoken word, his amazing presence before crowds, his ability to improvise, to entertain, to instruct, to inspire—indeed, to change lives through his eloquent appeals to righteous self-awareness and social justice. In approaching Douglass through the biographical sketches, memoirs, letters, editorials, and other articles about him, readers will encounter the complexity of a life lived on a very public stage, the story of an extraordinary black man in an insistently white world.<br></div>
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Garland In His Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of His Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, Friends, And Associates

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 <div> <div>In his heyday, Hamlin Garland had a considerable reputation as a radical writer whose realistic stories and polemical essays agitating for a literature that accurately represented American life riled the nation’s press. Born in poverty and raised on a series of frontier farms, Garland fled the rural Midwest in 1881 at age twenty-one. When his stories combining the radical economic theories of Henry George with realistic depictions of farm life appeared as <i>Main-Travelled Roads</i> in 1891, reviewers praised his method but were disturbed by the bleak subject matter. Four years (and eight books) later, his frank depiction of sexuality in his novel of the New Woman, <i>Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly</i> (1895), made Garland even more controversial.<br> <br> <br></div> <div>After realizing he couldn’t make a living from such realistic works, Garland turned first to biography, then to critically panned but commercially popular romances set in the mountain west, and eventually to autobiography. In 1917 he published <i>A Son of the Middle Border</i>, a remarkable autobiography in which he combined the story of his life to 1893 with the story of U.S. westward expansion, to considerable critical acclaim and large sales. Its 1921 sequel, <i>A Daughter of the Middle Border</i>, received the Pulitzer Prize for biography.<br> <br> <br></div> Although the author eventually wrote no fewer than eight autobiographies, he showed little awareness of the effect of his strong personality upon others. The sixty-six reminiscences in <i>Garland in His Own Time</i> offer an essential complement to his self-portrait by giving the perspectives of family, friends, fellow writers, and critics. The book offers the contemporary reader new reasons to return to this fascinating writer’s work. </div>
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Jefferson In His Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of His Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, Friends, And Associates

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 Collects thirty accounts of Thomas Jefferson written by his granddaughters, visiting dignitaries, fellow politicians, and others who knew him as a family man, public servant, intellectual, and institution builder. The letters and reminiscences of those who knew Jefferson personally reveal him to be a warm, funny man, quite unlike the solemn statesman so often limned in biographies.
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Thoreau In His Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of His Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, Friends, And Associates

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 More than any other Transcendentalist of his time, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) embodied the full complement of the movement's ideals and vocations: author, advocate for self-reform, stern critic of society, abolitionist, philosopher, and naturalist. The Thoreau of our time-valorized anarchist, founding environmentalist, and fervid advocate of civil disobedience-did not exist in the nineteenth century. In this rich and appealing collection, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis untangles Thoreau's multiple identities by offering a wide range of nineteenth-century commentary as the opinions of those who knew him evolved over time.The forty-nine recollections gathered in Thoreau in His Own Time demonstrate that it was those who knew him personally, rather than his contemporary literati, who most prized Thoreau's message, but even those who disparaged him respected his unabashed example of an unconventional life. Included are comments by Ralph Waldo Emerson-friend, mentor, Walden landlord, and progenitor of the spin on Thoreau's posthumous reputation; Nathaniel Hawthorne, who could not compliment Thoreau without simultaneously denigrating him; and John Weiss, whose extended commentary on Thoreau's spirituality reflects unusual tolerance. Selections from the correspondence of Caroline Healey Dall, Maria Thoreau, Sophia Hawthorne, Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley, and Amanda Mather amplify our understanding of the ways in which nineteenth-century women viewed Thoreau. An excerpt by John Burroughs, who alternately honored and condemned Thoreau, asserts his view that Thoreau was ever searching for the unattainable.The dozens of primary sources in this crisply edited collection illustrate the complexity of Thoreau's iconoclastic singularity in a way that no one biographer could. Each entry is introduced by a headnote that places the selection in historical and cultural context. Petrulionis's comprehensive introduction and her detailed chronology of personal and literary events in Thoreau's life provide a lively and informative gateway to the entries themselves. The collaborative biography that Petrulionis creates in Thoreau in His Own Time contextualizes the strikingly divergent views held by his contemporaries and highlights the reasons behind his profound legacy.
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Franklin In His Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of His Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, Friends, And Associates

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 <div> <p>@font-face { font-family: "Courier New";}@font-face { font-family: "Times";}@font-face { font-family: "Cambria";}@font-face { font-family: "Palatino";}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</p> <p>In his time Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was the most famous American in the world. Even those personally unacquainted with the man knew him as the author of <i>Poor Richard’s Almanack</i>, as a pioneer in the study of electricity and a major figure in the American Enlightenment, as the creator of such life-changing innovations as the lightning rod and America’s first circulating library, and as a leader of the American Revolution. His friends also knew him as a brilliant conversationalist, a great wit, an intellectual filled with curiosity, and most of all a master anecdotist whose vast store of knowledge complemented his conversational skills. In <i>Franklin in His Own Time</i>, by reprinting the original documents in which those anecdotes occur, Kevin Hayes and Isabelle Bour restore those oft-told stories to their cultural contexts to create a comprehensive narrative of his life and work.</p> <p>The thirty-five recollections gathered in <i>Franklin in His Own Time</i> form an animated, collaborative biography designed to provide a multitude of perspectives on the "First American." Opening with an account by botanist Peter Kalm showing that Franklin was doing all he could to encourage the development of science in North America, it includes on-the-spot impressions from Daniel Fisher’s diary, the earliest surviving interview with Franklin, recollections from James Madison and Abigail Adams, Manasseh Cutler’s detailed description of the library at Franklin Court, and extracts from Alexander Hamilton’s unvarnished <i>Minutes of the Tuesday Club</i>. Franklin’s political missions to Great Britain and France, where he took full advantage of rich social and intellectual opportunities, are a source of many reminiscences, some published here in new translations. Genuine memories from such old friends as Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, as opposed to memories influenced by the <i>Autobiography</i>, clarify Franklin’s reputation. Robert Carr may have been the last remaining person who knew Franklin personally, and thus his recollections are particularly signific</p> </div>
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Twain In His Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of His Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, Friends, And Associates

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 Never one to suffer fools gladly, especially if they wore crinolines, Mark Twain lost as many friends as he made, and he targeted them all indiscriminately. The first major American writer born west of the Mississippi River, he enjoys a reputation unrivaled in American literary history, and from the beginning of his career he tried to control that reputation by fiercely protecting his public persona. Not a debunking account of Twain's life but refreshingly immune from his relentless image making, Gary Scharnhorst's Twain in His Own Time offers an anecdotal version of Twain's life over which the master spin-doctor had virtually no control.The ninety-four recollections gathered in Twain in His Own Time form an unsanitized, collaborative biography designed to provide a multitude of perspectives on the iconic author. Opening with an interview with his mother that has never been reprinted, it includes memoirs by his daughters and by men who knew him when he was roughing it in Nevada and California, an interview with the pilot who taught him to navigate the Mississippi River, reminiscences from his illustrators E. M. Kemble and Dan Beard and two of his so-called adolescent angelfish, contributions from politicians and from such literary figures as Dan De Quille and George Bernard Shaw, and one of the most damning assessments of his character-by the author Frank Harris-ever published.Each entry is introduced by a brief explanation of its historical and cultural context; explanatory notes provide further information about people and places; and Scharnhorst's introduction and chronology of Twain's eventful life are comprehensive and detailed. Dozens of lively primary sources published incrementally over more than eighty years, most recorded after his death, illustrate the complexities of this flamboyant, outspoken personality in a way that no single biographer could.
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Poe In His Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of His Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, Friends, And Associates

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 An image of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) as a man of gloom and mystery continues to hold great popular appeal. Whether promoting him as angel or demon, 'a man of great and original genius' or 'extraordinarily wicked', this collection of primary materials provides vigorous testimony to support the contradictory images of the man and the writer.
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Stowe In Her Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of Her Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, F

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 One of the first celebrity authors, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) became famous almost overnight when ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" appeared in 1852. This volume brings together a range of primary materials about Stowe's private and public life written by family members, friends, and fellow writers who knew or were influenced by her.
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Fuller In Her Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of Her Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, Friends, And Associates

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 Writer, editor, journalist, educator, feminist, conversationalist, and reformer Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was one of the leading intellectuals of nineteenth-century America as well as a prominent member of Concord literary circles. This collection of reminiscences provides an identity for this misrepresented personality.
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Hawthorne In His Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of His Life,Drawn From Recollections,Interviews, And Memoirs By Family,Frie

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 At his death, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was universally acknowledged in America and England as the Great Romancer. Providing an introduction, this work assess the postmortem building of Hawthorne's reputation as well as his relationship to the prominent Transcendentalists, spiritualists, Swedenborgians, and other personalities of his time.
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Alcott In Her Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of Her Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, Friends, And Associates

by Daniel Shealy

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 Collected here are the reminiscences of people who knew Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) . Many of the printed recollections in this book appeared after Alcott became famous and showcase her as a literary lion, but others focus on her teen years, when she was living the life of Jo March.
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Dickinson In Her Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of Her Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, Friends, And Associates

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 Featuring both well known documents and material printed or collected here for the first time, this book offers a broad range of writings that convey impressions of Dickinson in her own time and for the first decades following the publication of her poems. It all begins with her school days and continues to the centennial of her birth in 1930.
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Fuller In Her Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of Her Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, Friends, And Associates

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 Writer, editor, journalist, educator, feminist, conversationalist, and reformer Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was one of the leading intellectuals of nineteenth-century America as well as a prominent member of Concord literary circles. This collection of reminiscences provides an identity for this misrepresented personality.
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Iowa State Parks - A Century Of Stewardship, 1920-2020

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 In 1920, Iowa dedicated its first two state parks. In the century since, the Iowa State Parks system has evolved into a broad array of lands and waters that represent a legacy of tireless stewardship. Iowa State Parks commemorates the origins of Iowa's state parks and the riches they offer in the present.
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London In His Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of His Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, Friends, And Associates

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 Based on Jeanne Reesman's nearly thirty-five years of archival research, this book offers surprising perspectives on Jack London's many sides by family, friends, fellow struggling young writers, business associates, high school and college classmates, interviewers, editors, coauthors, visitors to his Sonoma Valley Beauty Ranch, and more.
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Cities Of Farmers - Urban Agricultural Practices And Processes

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Stanton In Her Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle Of Her Life, Drawn From Recollections, Interviews, And Memoirs By Family, Friends, And Associates

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 Among nineteenth-century women's rights reformers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) stands out for the maternal and secular advocacy that shaped her activism and public reception. In this richly contextualized collection of primary sources, Noelle A. Baker brings together accounts of Stanton's life and ideas from both well-known and recently recovered figures.
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The Dream Maker

by Jean-Christophe Rufin

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Checkpoint

by Jean-Christophe Rufin

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The Principle

by Jérôme Ferrari

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Outcasts - A Novel Of Mary Shelley

by Sarah Stegall

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The University Of Iowa Guide To Campus Architecture

by John Beldon Scott

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 In thIs guIde to the University of Iowa's architecture, John Beldon Scott and Rodney P. Lehnertz discuss and illustrate an ensemble of buildings whose stylistic diversity reflects the breadth of Iowa's contributions to research, education, and creative activities.
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