Автор: Joshua Melville Название: American Time Bomb: Attica, Sam Melville, and a Sons Search for Answers ISBN: 1641605456 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781641605458 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 37110.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: "American Time Bomb is a vital read for this moment. " --Heather Ann Thompson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy Few stories are more central to understanding our history of racially biased incarceration and violent social activism than the life of Sam Melville. Melville was both reviled and admired as one of the most feared radicals in post-World War II history. His importance in the 1960s is widely recognized by historians and scholars as epitomizing the controversies, the promise, and the problems of the New Left. This memoir by Melville's son opens a window into the personal life of a legend, revealing the universal and all-too-human foibles motivating those driven to make change through violence. In the current political climate, at the fiftieth anniversary of the Attica Uprising, this nation grows increasingly interested in the racially biased incarceration and violent social activism that has shaped our nation. There are few stories more central to both subjects than the life of Sam Melville, who was often called "the Mad Bomber." American Time Bomb is a son's personal portrait based on years of investigation of Melville's story and the history he helped to create. Joshua Melville's personal connection to the story gives a gut-wrenching multigenerational tale of childhood abandonment but also adds a compelling historical study of politics, history, and issues of social justice.
Автор: Hunter Howe Cates Название: Oklahoma`s Atticus: An Innocent Man and the Lawyer Who Fought for Him ISBN: 149620090X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496200907 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 31670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The true story of Elliott Howe, a young public defender and Creek Indian who risked his career to defend an impoverished Cherokee man named Buster Youngwolfe, who was accused of murdering an eleven-year-old girl in 1950s Oklahoma.
Автор: Dayton Ruth W. Название: Pioneers & Their Homes on Upper Kanawha ISBN: 1556135165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781556135163 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 29430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Blodgett Peter J. Название: Motoring West: Volume 1: Automobile Pioneers, 1900-1909 ISBN: 0806155957 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806155951 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20860.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the first years of the twentieth century, motoring across the vast expanses west of the Mississippi was at the very least an adventure and at most an audacious stunt. As more motorists ventured forth, such travel became a curiosity and, within a few decades, commonplace. For aspiring western travelers, automobiles formed an integral part of their search for new experiences and destinations--and like explorers and thrill seekers from earlier ages, these adventurers kept records of their experiences. The scores of articles, pamphlets, and books they published, collected for the first time in Motoring West, create a vibrant picture of the American West in the age of automotive ascendancy, as viewed from behind the wheel. Documenting the very beginning of Americans' love affair with the automobile, the pieces in this volume--the first of a planned multivolume series--offer a panorama of motoring travelers' visions of the burgeoning West in the first decade of the twentieth century. Historian Peter J. Blodgett's sources range from forgotten archives to company brochures to magazines such as Harper's Monthly, Sunset, and Outing. Under headlines touting adventures in -touring, - -land cruising, - and -camping out with an automobile, - voices from motoring's early days instruct, inform, and entertain. They chart routes through -wild landscapes, - explain the finer points of driving coast to coast in a Franklin, and occasionally prescribe -touring outfits.- Blodgett's engaging introductions to the volume and each piece couch the writers' commentaries within their time. As reports of the region's challenges and pleasures stirred interest and spurred travel, the burgeoning flow of traffic would eventually and forever alter the western landscape and the westering motorist's experience. The dispatches in Motoring West illustrate not only how the automobile opened the American West before 1909 to more and more travelers, but also how the West began to change with their arrival.
Автор: Parkman Francis Название: Pioneers Of France In The New World. France And England In North America (Volume I) ISBN: 935448204X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789354482045 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 27210.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Pioneers Of France In The New World. France And England In North America (Volume I) has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
