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Makers of American History

haveebook — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:00:18 +0000

Makers of American History

The Lewis and Clark Exploring Expedition, 1804-06 — and — Life, Explorations, and Public Services of John Charles Fremont

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Title:

Makers of American History: The Lewis and Clark Exploring Expedition, 1804-06 — and — Life, Explorations, and Public Services of John Charles Fremont

Author:

Adam, Graeme Mercer

Author:

Upham, Charles Wentworth

Published:

1905

Publisher:

The University Society, Inc.

Tags:

history, non-fiction, U.S.A.

Description:

“Few chapters in the annals of American discovery in the once dark places of the New World Continent are more interesting to the modern-day reader, or more full of venturesome daring and hardy adventure, than the story told in the narrative of the Lewis and Clark Exploring Expedition in the years 1804-06. That notable expedition, fruitful in high and useful achievement, for the first time threw light upon the wilderness region that at that early era stretched from the mouth of the Missouri River to where the waters of the Columbia River enter the Pacific Ocean. The vast region now to be opened to civilization, and then known as the Louisiana Territory, came into the possession of the United States, at the farsighted instigation of President Jefferson, by a rare stroke of American diplomacy.”

Language:

Eng

Pages:

214

Author Bio for Adam, Graeme Mercer

Graeme Mercer Adam (1839-1912) was a Scottish born Canadian editor and publisher. Born in Loanhead, Scotland, he came to Canada in 1858 to work for the Canadian publishing house Cunningham Geikie. Two years later he assumed control of the company which eventually became Adam, Stevenson and Company. The company published several magazines including the British American Magazine, The Canada Bookseller and The Canadian Monthly and National Review. He left Canada in 1892 apparently frustrated by the state of literary life in Canada but also attracted to the more lucrative industry in New York which was where he died in 1912.

Author Bio for Upham, Charles Wentworth

Charles Wentworth Upham (1802-1875) was an American politician and historian. He served a term in the U.S. House of Representatives for Massachusetts. He is notable for chronicling the Salem Witch trials. He also wrote a biography of John Charles Fremont, an American explorer of the Midwest.

High Towers

haveebook — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 19:04:55 +0000

High Towers

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Title:

High Towers

Author:

Costain, Thomas B.

Published:

1949

Publisher:

Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Tags:

fiction, historical, America, romance

Description:

Historical romance with a new setting for the author of The Black Rose and other popular novels. This time the master of historical detail has taken the New World instead of the Old in a period paralleling that used in The Moneyman to some extent. It is set in New France, from Montreal to New Orleans–with the central characters the Le Moynes.

Language:

Eng

Pages:

452

Author Bio for Costain, Thomas B.

Thomas Bertram Costain (May 8, 1885 – October 8, 1965) was a Canadian journalist who became a best-selling author of historical novels at the age of 57.Costain’s work is a mixture of commercial history (such as The White and The Gold, a history of New France to around 1720) and fiction that relies heavily on historic events (one review stated it was hard to tell where history leaves off and apocrypha begins). His most popular novel was The Black Rose (1945), centred in the time and actions of Bayan of the Baarin also known as Bayan of the Hundred Eyes. Costain noted in his foreword that he initially intended the book to be about Bayan and Edward I, but became caught up in the legend of Thomas a Becket’s parents: an English knight married to an Eastern girl. The book was a selection of the Literary Guild with a first printing of 650,000 copies and sold over two million copies in its first year.

His research led him to believe that Richard III was a great monarch tarred by conspiracies, after his death, with the murder of the princes in the tower. Costain supported his theories with documentation, suggesting that the real murderer was Henry VII.

Peyton Place

haveebook — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:39:26 +0000

Peyton Place

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Title:

Peyton Place

Author:

Metalious, Grace

Published:

1956

Publisher:

Julian Messner, Inc.

Tags:

fiction, U.S.A., film/TV adaptation

Description:

Three women are forced to come to terms with their identity, both as women and as sexual beings, in a small, conservative, gossipy New England town, with recurring themes of hypocrisy, social inequities and class privilege in a tale that includes incest, abortion, adultery, lust and murder. It sold 60,000 copies within the first ten days of its release and remained on the New York Times best seller list for 59 weeks. The novel spawned a franchise that would eventually run through four decades. Twentieth Century-Fox adapted it as a major motion picture in 1957, and Metalious wrote a follow-up novel that was published in 1959, called Return to Peyton Place, which was also filmed in 1961 using the same title. The original 1956 novel was adapted again in 1964, in what became a wildly successful prime time television series for 20th Century Fox Television that ran until 1969.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

362

Author Bio for Metalious, Grace:

Grace Metalious (born Marie Grace DeRepentigny, September 8, 1924—February 25, 1964) was an American author, best known for her controversial novel Peyton Place, which stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for 59 weeks. It sold 20 million copies in hardcover and another 12 million as a Dell paperback.

Cross Creek

haveebook — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:35:08 +0000

Cross Creek

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Title:

Cross Creek

Author:

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

Published:

1942

Publisher:

Charles Scribner’s Sons

Tags:

autobiography, life, non-fiction, U.S.A.

Description:

Cross Creek is the warm and delightful memoir about the life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings—author of The Yearling—in the Florida backcountry.Originally published in 1942, Cross Creek has become a classic in modern American literature. For the millions of readers raised on The Yearling, here is the story of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s experiences in the remote Florida hamlet of Cross Creek, where she lived for thirteen years. From the daily labors of managing a seventy-two-acre orange grove to bouts with runaway pigs and a succession of unruly farmhands, Rawlings describes her life at the Creek with humor and spirit. Her tireless determination to overcome the challenges of her adopted home in the Florida backcountry, her deep-rooted love of the earth, and her genius for character and description result in a most delightful and heartwarming memoir.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

250

Author Bio for Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan:

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name. The book was written long before the concept of young adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.—Wikipedia.

South Moon Under

haveebook — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:30:48 +0000

South Moon Under

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Title:

South Moon Under

Author:

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

Published:

1933

Publisher:

Charles Scribner’s Sons

Tags:

fiction, historical, U.S.A.

Description:

Rawlings is known for her books on the Florida backwoods. She seems to view her characters in much the same way that Steinbeck did, with a wry affection and respect. Just as Steinbeck referred to Rosasharn (as pronounced by her family) by her rather elegant true name “Rose of Sharon,” so Rawlings calls “Py-tee” by her true name, Piety. The characters are strong and stoic, as one would expect from a family eking out a living in the Florida scrub. But there are snatches of true tenderness and humor that makes the main characters very endearing. Rawlings excels at describing the activities of the people and the land they are attached to. “There came a time in mid-afternoon when all life seemed suspended. The river flowed interminably but as though without advance. The boy thought that he had been always in this still, liquid place.” The casual racism of the time intrudes periodically but it is not unexpected in a 1930s novel. Very spare, but elegant prose.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

231

Author Bio for Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan:

Travels with Charley

haveebook — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:27:07 +0000

Travels with Charley

eBook Details

Title:

Travels with Charley

Author:

Steinbeck, John

Published:

1962

Publisher:

Bantam Books

Tags:

non-fiction, U.S.A.

Description:

With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

190

Steinbeck, John:

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was one of the great American writers. He was known for writing books filled with social criticism such as Tortilla Flats and The Grapes of Wrath. He won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his “realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.”

The Mississippi Bubble

haveebook — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 20:58:48 +0000

The Mississippi Bubble

eBook Details

Title:

The Mississippi Bubble

Author:

Costain, Thomas B.

Published:

1955

Publisher:

Random House, Inc.

Tags:

economics, France, history, non-fiction, U.S.A.

Description:

“The Mississippi Bubble” was a wild, giddy, devastating, international episode in eighteenth century French and American history that ought to be better known, if, as nothing else, a cautionary tale. At its simplest, a Scottish fugitive named John Law convinced the rulers of France to let him use France as a laboratory for his economic theories, and one of his schemes was selling shares for a new colony in America, eventually centered around what was to become New Orleans. The sales pitches weren’t tethered to reality, especially as the scheme got more and more out of hand. Costain does a good job of following the twists and turns and tyrannical moves that were put in play to try to prop things up.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

Author Bio for Costain, Thomas B.:

Gone with the Wind

haveebook — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:38:45 +0000

Gone with the Wind

eBook Details

Title:

Gone with the Wind

Author:

Mitchell, Margaret

Published:

1936

Publisher:

The Macmillan Company

Tags:

fiction, historical, U.S.A., film/TV adaptation, Family

Description:

Gone with the Wind takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War (1861–1865) and the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) that followed the war. The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states, Georgia among them, have declared their secession from the United States (the “Union”) and formed the Confederate States of America (the “Confederacy”). A dispute over states’ rights has arisen involving enslaved African people who were the source of manual labor on cotton plantations throughout the South.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

987

Mitchell, Margaret:

Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) was an American journalist and writer. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, she was creatively inspired as a young child. She wrote short stories, written down by her mother and stored for future use. After two abortive marriage situations in the early 1920s, she started a job as a journalist working for the “Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine”. Writing under the name, “Peggy Mitchell”, she wrote over 100 articles for the magazine. She married in 1925 to Robert Marsh. In 1926 while recovering from a broken ankle, she began to write “Gone With The Wind”. Finally publishing in 1936 the novel was wildly successful, selling over a million copies in the first six months. Critically acclaimed it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. Gone With the Wind was Mitchell’s only novel. She died tragically in 1949 as the result of being hit by a speeding taxi driver. Encyclopedia