[PDF] O America eBook

Author : William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826274420

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In 1848 an English physician, Nathaniel Trennant, accepts an offer to serve as doctor on a ship carrying immigrants to America. When arriving in Baltimore, Trennant stumbles onto its slave market and witnesses the horrors of human bondage. One night in a boardinghouse he discovers under his bed a runaway slave. Disturbed and angered by the selling of human lives, he offers to help the young man escape, a criminal action that will put the fugitive slave and physician into flight from both the law and opportunistic slave hunters. Traveling by foot, horse, stage, canal boat, and steamer, Nathaniel and Nicodemus explore the backcountry and forge a deep friendship as they encounter a host of memorable characters who reveal the nature of the American experiment, one still in its early stages but already under the stress of social injustices and economic inequities.

Author : Luigi Giorgio Barzini
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Journalists
ISBN :

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The ""O"" in the title is heartfelt; Barzini obviously relishes the America he knew just before the 1929 Crash changed it irrevocably. Perhaps he loves his youth a little too; he was only sixteen in the mid-Twenties when he arrived in New York, where his father, a noted journalist from Milan, was establishing an Italian newspaper. Young Barzini studied journalism at Columbia and worked as a cub reporter, getting to know the Long Island suburb in which his family lived and--more intriguingly--discovering American girls at a time when they were in an experimental mood. In 1930, daunted by the lack of job prospects, he returned to Italy, eventually writing the highly successful The Italians, which explained his countrymen to a waiting world. Now he has turned his quizzical eye on Americans, at that time when he thinks they were most themselves: before the Depression and ambiguous wars knocked the self-confident stuffing out of them. He plays the game of national character very well, but it remains only a game, good enough for late talk over a bottle when an absence of profundity goes unnoticed, but quick to evaporate on the printed page. More interesting than his speculations are the specifics of his youthful life in America, which he writes about with sustained charm, creating an immensely likable persona in the process. -- kirkusreviews.com

Author : Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0300195249

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Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire’s loss of the American Revolution. The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire. “A remarkable book about an important but curiously underappreciated subject: the British side of the American Revolution. With meticulous scholarship and an eloquent writing style, O'Shaughnessy gives us a fresh and compelling view of a critical aspect of the struggle that changed the world.”—Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Author : John Patrick Diggins
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1459605918

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In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O'Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the American dream a chimera. Though derided by critics during his lifetime, his works resonated with aud...

Author : H. Fernández L’Hoeste
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137518006

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This collection interrogates sports in Latin America as a key terrain in which nation is defined and populations are interpellated through emotionally charged practices (state policy, media representations, and sports play itself by professionals, national teams and amateurs) of inclusion and exclusion.

Author : Robert C. O'Brien
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1594039046

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Robert C. O'Brien's collection of essays on U.S. national security and foreign policy, with a forward by Hugh Hewitt, is a wake up call to the American people. The world has become steadily more dangerous under President Obama's "lead from behind" foreign policy. The Obama Administration's foreign policy has emboldened our adversaries and disheartened our allies. Indeed, Obama's nuclear deal with Iran is a 1938 moment. At the same time, the U.S. military has been cut and risks returning to the hollow force days of the 1970s. O'Brien lays out the challenges and provides the common sense "peace through strength" solutions that will allow the next president to make America great again.

Author : Kevin Hamilton
Publisher : Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 9781512603279

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"The story of the Cold War era Lookout Mountain Laboratory, or the 1352nd Photographic Group of the United States Air Force, which employed hundreds of Hollywood studio veterans. Engages with issues of the Cold War state and visual culture"--

Author : Megan O'Hara
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736807951

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Discusses the reasons Irish people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars and activities.

Author : Gregory E. O'Malley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1469615347

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Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807