American Sketches

Author : Walter Isaacson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439183457
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Sketches written by Walter Isaacson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the roots of creativity? What makes for great leadership? How do influential people end up rippling the surface of history? In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intelligence, in most cases, but that is not the secret of their success. They had qualities that were even more rare, such as imagination and true curiosity. Isaacson reflects on how he became a writer, the lessons he learned from various people he met, and the challenges he sees for journalism in the digital age. He also offers loving tributes to his hometown of New Orleans, which both before and after Hurricane Katrina offered many of the ingredients for a creative culture, and to the Louisiana novelist Walker Percy, who was an early mentor. In an anecdotal and personal way, Isaacson describes the joys of the "so-called writing life" and the way that tales about the lives of fascinating people can enlighten our own lives.

Author : Eber M. Pettit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad written by Eber M. Pettit and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a multitude of wonderful stories that weave together a picture of life in the South in the 1800s and the fear and courage of those that participated in helping thousands of people escape slavery. The work also includes chapters on the politics of the time, and the oft-times contradictory laws that were passed.

Author : Thomas Cogswell Upham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Sketches written by Thomas Cogswell Upham and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9780808163084
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eric Sloane's Sketches of America Past written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketches of america past: Diary of an early American boy; Museum of early American tools; Reverence for wood.

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440626499
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book of Sketches written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his shirt pockets. The poems recount his travels—New York, North Carolina, Lowell (Massachusetts, Kerouac’s birthplace), San Francisco, Denver, Kansas, Mexico—observations, and meditations on art and life. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story—or travelogue—appears, complete in itself. Published for the first time, Book of Sketches offers a luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse of one of the most original voices of the twentieth century at a key time in his literary and spiritual development.

Author : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sketches of American Character written by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. Warre
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781017485714
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory written by H. Warre and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Michigan State Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biographical Sketches of American Artists written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
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Download or read book Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: