[PDF] My Father At 100 eBook

Author : Ron Reagan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101475544

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A moving memoir of the beloved fortieth president of the United States, by his son. February 6, 2011, is the one hundredth anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth. To mark the occasion, Ron Reagan has written My Father at 100, an intimate look at the life of his father-one of the most popular presidents in American history-told from the perspective of someone who knew Ronald Reagan better than any adviser, friend, or colleague. As he grew up under his father's watchful gaze, he observed the very qualities that made the future president a powerful leader. Yet for all of their shared experiences of horseback rides and touch football games, there was much that Ron never knew about his father's past, and in My Father at 100, he sets out to understand this beloved, if often enigmatic, figure who turned his early tribulations into a stunning political career. Since his death in 2004, President Reagan has been a galvanizing force that personifies the values of an older America and represents an important era in national history. Ron Reagan traces the sources of these values in his father's early years and offers a heartfelt portrait of a man and his country-and his personal memories of the president he knew as "Dad."

Author : Janna Malamud Smith
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1619022001

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Bernard Malamud was one of the most accomplished American novelists of the postwar years. From the Pulitzer Prize winner The Fixer as well as The Assistant, named one of the best "100 All–Time Novels" by Time Magazine—to mention only two of the more than a dozen published books—he not only established himself in the first rank of American writers but also took the country's literature in new and important directions. In her signature memoir, Smith explores her renowned father's life and literary legacy. Malamud was among the most brilliant novelists of his era, and counted among his friends Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Theodore Roethke, and Shirley Jackson. Yet Malamud was also very private. Only his family has had full access to his personal papers, including letters and journals that offer unique insight into the man and his work. In her candid, evocative, and loving memoir, his daughter brings Malamud to vivid life.

Author : Barack Obama
Publisher : Crown
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307394123

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World). “Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Praise for Dreams from My Father “Beautifully crafted . . . moving and candid . . . This book belongs on the shelf beside works like James McBride’s The Color of Water and Gregory Howard Williams’s Life on the Color Line as a tale of living astride America’s racial categories.”—Scott Turow “Provocative . . . Persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither.”—The New York Times Book Review “Obama’s writing is incisive yet forgiving. This is a book worth savoring.”—Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here “One of the most powerful books of self-discovery I’ve ever read, all the more so for its illuminating insights into the problems not only of race, class, and color, but of culture and ethnicity. It is also beautifully written, skillfully layered, and paced like a good novel.”—Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author of In My Place “Dreams from My Father is an exquisite, sensitive study of this wonderful young author’s journey into adulthood, his search for community and his place in it, his quest for an understanding of his roots, and his discovery of the poetry of human life. Perceptive and wise, this book will tell you something about yourself whether you are black or white.”—Marian Wright Edelman

Author : Alexandra Styron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416591818

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"Reading My Father" is an intimate, moving, and beautifully written portrait of the novelist William Styron by his daughter, Alexandra.

Author : Michael Reagan
Publisher : Humanix Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1630060542

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"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life." —Ronald Reagan Noted political commentator Michael Reagan, the son of Ronald Reagan and first wife Jane Wyman, has traveled across America, giving speeches and meeting the public. Time and time again, people tell him how much they love and miss his father, and what his presidency meant to them. In a world where role models are few and far between, Ronald Reagan’s legacy stands strong. In Lessons My Father Taught Me, Michael Reagan looks back over his years with his father and reflects on what he has learned from the greatest man he has ever known—and one of the greatest men the world has known. When Michael was growing up, his father would drive him out to his ranch. There Ronald Reagan taught Michael how to ride a horse, how to shoot a gun, and much more. As they drove together or did chores together, Michael’s father told him stories and taught him about life, love, family, faith, success, and leadership. Michael didn’t fully appreciate those lessons at the time, but years later he remembered—and he understood. Now, Michael Reagan shares his father’s wisdom and experience in this inspiring book.

Author : Zelig Pliskin
Publisher : Mesorah Publications
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780899063157

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An inspiring, comprehensive overview of basic Torah principles from G-d's perspective, with insights and examples drawn from the author's extensive teaching and counseling experience. This is a book that will enlighten both the beginner and the scholar. It will help make us aware of G-d's presence to intensify spiritual experiences and elevate the mundane.

Author : Sebastian Matthews
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393057386

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A brilliant father, a complicated legacy, and a son's hard-won journey of self-discovery. William Matthews was a much-admired, award-winning poet and teacher who lived hard and died in 1997 at the age of 55. This clear-eyed, often wryly funny memoir pays homage to a charismatic father as the son struggles to step out from his considerable shadow.

Author : Anthony Browne
Publisher : Farrar Straus&Giro
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 2001-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :

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A child describes the many wonderful things about "my dad, " who can jump over the moon, swim like a fish, and be as warm as toast.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416948953

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Rhyming text depicts a father sharing with his child such things as seven words that all mean blue and the name of every kind of cloud.

Author : Elizabeth Bluemle
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763622220

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A young girl suspects that her father is really a dog because he performs such acts as fetching the newspaper and chasing balls. By the illustrator of We've All Got Bellybuttons! 20,000 first printing.