Americas category: 34066 books
Mark Twain in Washington, D.C.
The Adventures of a Capital Correspondent
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
A rollicking account of how Mark Twain mocked and mined DC’s self-important, incompetent, and corrupt political scene to further his literary career.
When young Samuel Clemens first visited the nation’s capital in 1854, both were rough around the edges and of dubious potential. Returning as...
by Richard H. King
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906–75) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in America she wrote her best-known and most influential works, such as The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and On Revolution. Yet, despite the fact...
Mania
The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
By the time Lucien Carr stabbed David Kammerer to death on the banks of the Hudson River in August 1944, it was clear that the hard-partying teenage companion to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs might need to reevaluate his life. A two-year stint in a reformatory...
by Paul Brody
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Glamour, alcohol, reckless and carefree behavior--all themes of a great F. Scott Fitzgerald novel? Yes. But, in the case of Fitzgerald, fiction imitates life.
Fitzgerald's marriage to Zelda was volatile from the start--it was plagued by alcohol abuse, debt, and mental illness. "The...
To Have and Have Another Revised Edition
A Hemingway Cocktail Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Ernest Hemingway is nearly as famous for his drinking as he is for his writing. Throughout his collected works, Papa's sensuous explorations of the delights of imbibing engaged both his characters and his readers.
In To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion, Philip Greene, cocktail...
City Poet
The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The definitive biography of Frank O’Hara, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, the magnetic literary figure at the center of New York’s cultural life during the 1950s and 1960s.
City Poet captures the excitement and promise of mid-twentieth-century New York in the...
by Генри Дэвид Торо, Shelkoper.com
Language: Russian
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: Russian
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Книга, которую вы открыли, поможет изучить последовательность и логическое развитие взглядов и воззрений американского философа и писателя-романтика Генри Дэвида...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
FEATURES:
• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations • A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book • Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the...
by Charles F. Howlett, Audrey Cohan
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
One of America’s preeminent educational philosophers and public intellectuals, John Dewey is perhaps best known for his interest in the study of pragmatic philosophy and his application of progressive ideas to the field of education. Carrying his ideas and actions beyond the academy, he tied his...
by Luis Benítez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
El Premio Nobel que no fue¿Quién fue en verdad Jorge Luis Borges? ¿El referente cultural casi obligatorio en la Argentina durante la dictadura militar de 1976, el que aparecía fotografiado en las revistas de actualidad? ¿El admitido por los agentes de divulgación masiva de simplezas como una...
Young Men and Fire
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their...
Our Hero
Superman on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Since his first appearance in Action Comics Number One, published in late spring of 1938, Superman has represented the essence of American heroism. “Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound,” the Man of Steel has thrilled...
Lives Like Loaded Guns
Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century. Lyndall Gordon,...
Jubilee Hitchhiker
The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
“Brautigan’s life unfolds as a tragicomedy, and the book vividly evokes the heady 1960s and 1970s, especially in the Bay Area.” —The San Francisco Chronicle
Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of...