Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages :
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Diary of Charles Francis Adams: September 1829-February 1831
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Diary: Jan. 1833-Oct. 1834
Author: Charles Francis AdamsDiary: January 1833-October 1834
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Diary: January 1833-October 1834
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Diary of Charles Francis Adams
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674204027
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Diary of Charles Francis Adams
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Diary of Charles Francis Adams: November 1834-June 1836. Index [to v. 5-6
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Diary of Charles Francis Adams: January 1820-June 1825
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Christmas in America
Author: Penne L. RestadPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195355091
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The manger or Macy's? Americans might well wonder which is the real shrine of Christmas, as they take part each year in a mix of churchgoing, shopping, and family togetherness. But the history of Christmas cannot be summed up so easily as the commercialization of a sacred day. As Penne Restad reveals in this marvelous new book, it has always been an ambiguous meld of sacred thoughts and worldly actions-- as well as a fascinating reflection of our changing society. In Christmas in America, Restad brilliantly captures the rise and transformation of our most universal national holiday. In colonial times, it was celebrated either as an utterly solemn or a wildly social event--if it was celebrated at all. Virginians hunted, danced, and feasted. City dwellers flooded the streets in raucous demonstrations. Puritan New Englanders denounced the whole affair. Restad shows that as times changed, Christmas changed--and grew in popularity. In the early 1800s, New York served as an epicenter of the newly emerging holiday, drawing on its roots as a Dutch colony (St. Nicholas was particularly popular in the Netherlands, even after the Reformation), and aided by such men as Washington Irving. In 1822, another New Yorker named Clement Clarke Moore penned a poem now known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," virtually inventing the modern Santa Claus. Well-to-do townspeople displayed a German novelty, the decorated fir tree, in their parlors; an enterprising printer discovered the money to be made from Christmas cards; and a hodgepodge of year-end celebrations began to coalesce around December 25 and the figure of Santa. The homecoming significance of the holiday increased with the Civil War, and by the end of the nineteenth century a full- fledged national holiday had materialized, forged out of borrowed and invented custom alike, and driven by a passion for gift-giving. In the twentieth century, Christmas seeped into every niche of our conscious and unconscious lives to become a festival of epic proportions. Indeed, Restad carries the story through to our own time, unwrapping the messages hidden inside countless movies, books, and television shows, revealing the inescapable presence--and ambiguous meaning--of Christmas in contemporary culture. Filled with colorful detail and shining insight, Christmas in America reveals not only much about the emergence of the holiday, but also what our celebrations tell us about ourselves. From drunken revelry along colonial curbstones to family rituals around the tree, from Thomas Nast drawing the semiofficial portrait of St. Nick to the making of the film Home Alone, Restad's sparkling account offers much to amuse and ponder.
Shakespeare in a Divided America
Author: James ShapiroPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 052552231X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
One of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year • A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • A New York Times Notable Book A timely exploration of what Shakespeare’s plays reveal about our divided land. “In this sprightly and enthralling book . . . Shapiro amply demonstrates [that] for Americans the politics of Shakespeare are not confined to the public realm, but have enormous relevance in the sphere of private life.” —The Guardian (London) The plays of William Shakespeare are rare common ground in the United States. For well over two centuries, Americans of all stripes—presidents and activists, soldiers and writers, conservatives and liberals alike—have turned to Shakespeare’s works to explore the nation’s fault lines. In a narrative arching from Revolutionary times to the present day, leading scholar James Shapiro traces the unparalleled role of Shakespeare’s four-hundred-year-old tragedies and comedies in illuminating the many concerns on which American identity has turned. From Abraham Lincoln’s and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth’s, competing Shakespeare obsessions to the 2017 controversy over the staging of Julius Caesar in Central Park, in which a Trump-like leader is assassinated, Shakespeare in a Divided America reveals how no writer has been more embraced, more weaponized, or has shed more light on the hot-button issues in our history.