Americas category: 34066 books
The Trip
Andy Warhol's Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
From the author of Strapless and Guest of Honor, a “jaunty romp through American pop-art history” (The Washington Post) about a little-known road trip Andy Warhol took in 1963, and how that journey profoundly influenced his life and art.
In 1963, up-and-coming artist Andy Warhol, along...
Katrina and the Frenchman
A Journal from the Street
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
THE BEST POSSIBLE PLACE THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME
On August 27, 2005, a Carnival cruise ship docked at the harbor of New Orleans. Amongst the arrivals were Canadian writer Marcy Italiano and her husband, G, wrapping a wild 10-year anniversary celebration in a city they dearly loved.
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by Brian D'Ambrosio
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
American ingenuity reveals itself in the simplest and most forgotten places. From familiar brand names such as Wheaties (George Cormack) to the most mundane stop at the traffic light (Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr.), the everyday presents abundant opportunity to respect and recall the intellect of the...
The Art of the Woman
The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The Art of the Woman explores the life of German-born Elisabet Ney, a flamboyant sculptor who transfixed the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and left the court of the half-mad Ludwig of Bavaria to put down new roots in Texas. Born in 1833, Ney gained notoriety in Europe by sculpting the busts of such...
Emma Lajeunesse dite L’Albani
Partition pour une enfant du sol
Language: French
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Il était une fois une jeune prodige... Ainsi pourrait commencer cette histoire, à la manière des contes. Car une fée s’est assurément penchée sur le berceau d’Emma Lajeunesse pour que, au XIXe siècle, partant de l’austérité culturelle d’une campagne canadienne-française, elle se...
Edward S. Curtis Above the Medicine Line
Portraits of Aboriginal Life in the Canadian West
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Edward S. Curtis Above the Medicine Line is both an introduction to the Seattle-based photographer and a tribute to a true visionary. While Curtis’s photographs will long be his legacy, his own story is likewise compelling. Curtis built his first camera at 12 and developed that interest into a large...
Kirby’s Way
How Kirby and Caroline Risk Built their Company on Kitchen-Table Values
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
The late J. Kirby Risk II called himself "a small-town businessman from the banks of the Wabash." He was much more. The fastidious, dapper man from Lafayette, Indiana, exuded philanthropy and free enterprise. Like a sheepdog, he tended the flock, rounded up strays, darted to key places to...
Oilfield Revolutionary
The Career of Everette Lee DeGolyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Everette Lee DeGolyer wore many hats—and he wore them with distinction. Though not a geophysicist, he helped make geophysics central to oil exploration. Though not a politician, he played an important role in the national politics of energy. Though trained as a geologist, he became an important...
River of Shadows
Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2004
**Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the Mark Lynton History Prize
Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Men Explain Things to Me explores what it was about California in the late 19th-century that enabled it to become...
by Erik Varon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Winter of 1925 brings nothing but trouble and confusion for Belgian immigrant and American entrepreneur Jakob Schleicher. Seventy-four years old and in ill health, he reflects on his fifty years of living in America. Based on true events, Jakob’s Story and the American Dream weaves myriad moving...
Kyrenia's Legend
The Life and Times of Costas Catsellis
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
This deeply engaging biography, accompanied by a wealth of archival photographic material, recounts the story of Costas Catsellis, a man whose achievements will be forever etched upon the history of Kyrenia, Cyprus. From his humble beginning in this forgotten corner of the vast British Empire, to...
Fight Like a Tiger
Conway Barbour and the Challenges of the Black Middle Class in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Focusing on the life of ambitious former slave Conway Barbour, Victoria L. Harrison argues that the idea of a black middle class traced its origins to the free black population of the mid-nineteenth century and developed alongside the idea of a white middle class. Although slavery and racism meant...
The Good, the Bad, the Butlers:
Story of a Texas Pioneer Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Despite his challenges as a deaf-mute, Burnell Butler was one of those who dreamed of a better life in Texas. Lured by all the twenty-eighth state offered, Butler, his wife, twelve children, and seven slaves gambled big in 1852, migrating from Mississippi in covered wagons to the unknown prairies...
by Lawrence M. Woods
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The Swan name is inseparable from the history of Wyoming and the West, and when Swan made his mark in Wyoming in the 1880s, ranching was king. The largest among Alex Swan’s many corporate creations, The Swan Land and Cattle Company, Ltd., was one of the larger livestock companies to operate in the...