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Simón Bolívar : history and myth
Princeton, N.J. : Markus Wiener Publishers, 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Dimensions of the Bolívar myth -- Historical foundations: constructions of a nation : Elites without a nation or a myth ; Discourses of the nation, slave revolts, and caste society ; Caudillos and Bolívar revenants: nineteenth-century experiments with the state ; The conservative and the revolutionary Bolívar in the "age of extremes" -- Simón Bolívar: the man and the myth : The glorious Bolívar family ; In search of the ancestors ; The Bolívars' fortune ; The conservative-romantic Bolívar myth ; From the "Marxist" to the "Democratic" Bolívar and back -- Excursus: "Humboldt and Bolívar": on a conversation that may never have taken place : Postscript, April 2012 -- Instead of a conclusion : The "Chavist Bolívar."…”
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George Gershwin : an intimate portrait
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2009Table of Contents: “…-- 11: Kay, Jimmy, and FDR -- 12: Heart of American music -- 13: Kay's divorce -- 14: Todd Duncan -- 15: Casting, rehearsals, and an omen -- 16: Critics have their say -- 17: Limbo -- 18: Hollywood beckons -- 19: Pleasure Island -- 20: Final concert, final affair -- 21: Last songs -- 22: Epilogue -- Author's note -- Notes -- Index.…”
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Dear Abigail : the intimate lives and revolutionary ideas of Abigail Adams and her two remarkable sisters
New York : Ballantine Books, 2014Table of Contents: “…-- "A joy in which our reason plays no part is but a sorrow" -- "The die is cast" -- "The disunited State of America" -- "With much joy and pleasure" -- "The most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived" -- "Too painful to think upon" -- "Second to no man but Washington" -- "Yours are mine and mine are yours" -- "One of Sister Cranchs letters is worth a half dozen of others" -- "Always I hope for the best."…”
First edition.
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Jesus : a revolutionary biography
[San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, 1994Table of Contents: “…beggars -- If it is a girl, cast it out -- Who needs a mustard plant? -- Open commensality -- Radical egalitarianism -- In the beginning is the body -- The political body -- To touch a leper -- To expel a demon -- Back from the dead -- How not to be a patron -- No staff, no sandals, and no knapsack -- The arts of resistance -- Into whatever house you enter -- The skin of my feet for shoes -- The dogs beneath the cross -- A corpse for the wild beasts -- Before the feast of Passover -- James the just -- That charming Pontius Pilate -- Barabbas was not a robber -- Searching the Scriptures once again -- A respected member of the council -- How many years was Easter Sunday? …”
1st ed.
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Emerson : the mind on fire : a biography
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995Table of Contents: “…Go alone : The symposium ; The forging of the anchor ; We are not children of time ; The American scholar ; Casting off ; Human culture ; The peace principle and the Cherokee Trail of Tears ; Henry Thoreau ; Go alone: refuse the great models -- [pt. …”
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Child of the fire : Mary Edmonia Lewis and the problem of art history's Black and Indian subject
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010Format: Book
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Making freedom : the extraordinary life of Venture Smith
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 2009Format: Book
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The man who stopped time : the illuminating story of Eadweard Muybridge : pioneer photographer, father of the motion picture, murderer
Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, 2007Format: Book
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Forgotten firebrand : James Redpath and the making of nineteenth-century America
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008Format: Book
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Senator Mansfield : the extraordinary life of a great statesman and diplomat
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books, 2003Format: Book
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The life of Isamu Noguchi : journey without borders
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2004Format: Book
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Contemporaries of Erasmus : a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1985Format: Book
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Citizen explorer : the life of Zebulon Pike
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Format: Book