Eighty Years In The Making

Author : William Strauss
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767900464
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Turning written by William Strauss and published by Crown. This book was released on 1997-12-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.

Author : William Physick Zuber
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292750226
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Eighty Years in Texas written by William Physick Zuber and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1975-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost a century and a half went into the making of My Eighty Years in Texas. It began as a diary, kept by fifteen-year-old William Physick Zuber after he joined Sam Houston’s Texas army in 1836, hoping he could emulate the heroism of American Revolutionary patriots. Although his hopes were never realized, Zuber recorded the privations, victories, and defeats of armies on the move during the Texas Revolution, the Indian campaigns, and, as he styled it, the Confederate War. In 1910, at the age of ninety, Zuber began the enormous task of transcribing his diaries and his memories for publication. After his death in 1913, the handwritten manuscript, Eighty Years in Texas: Reminiscences of a Texas Veteran from 1830 to 1910, was placed in the Texas State Archives, where it was used as a reference source by students and scholars of Texas history. Over a half century after Zuber’s death, Janis Boyle Mayfield finally brought his publication plans to fruition. Zuber details his early zest for learning and his laborious methods of self-education. He tells of the trials of organizing and teaching schools in the sparsely populated plains. He recalls the day-by-day happenings of a private soldier in the Texas army of 1836, the Texas Militia, and the Confederate army—including the mishaps of army life and the encounters with enemies from San Jacinto to Cape Girardeau. After the Civil War, his interest turns to the politics of Reconstruction, the veterans’ pension, and the founding of the Texas Veterans Association. This is the story of and by an outspoken Texian, complete with his attitudes, principles, and moralizings, and the nineteenth-century style and flavor of his writing. Included as an appendix is “An Escape from the Alamo,” the account of Moses Rose for which Zuber, who was a prolific writer, was best known. A historiography of the Rose story, a bibliography of Zuber’s published and unpublished writings, annotation, and an introduction are provided by Llerena Friend.

Author : Frederick Theodore Witzig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eighty Years in the Making written by Frederick Theodore Witzig and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eliza Southgate Bowne
Publisher : New York, C. Scribner's sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.WD/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago written by Eliza Southgate Bowne and published by New York, C. Scribner's sons. This book was released on 1887 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982136243
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eighty Years and More written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton—published for the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage—including an updated introduction and afterword from noted scholars of women’s history Ellen Carol DuBois and Ann D. Gordon. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815–1897, is one of the great American autobiographies. There is really no other American woman’s autobiography in the nineteenth century that comes near it in relevance, excellence, and historical significance. In 1848, thirty-three-year-old Stanton and four others organized the first major women’s rights meeting in American history. Together with Susan B. Anthony, her partner in the cause, she led the campaign for women’s legal rights, most prominently woman suffrage, for the rest of the century. In those years, Stanton was the movement’s spokeswoman, theorist, and its visionary. In addition to her suffrage activism, she was a pioneering advocate of women’s reproductive freedom, and a ceaseless critic of religious misogyny. As the mother of seven, she also had pronounced opinions on women’s domestic responsibilities, especially on raising children. In Eighty Years and More, Stanton reminisces about dramatic moments in the history of woman suffrage, about her personal challenges and triumphs, and about the women and men she met in her travels around the United States and abroad. Stanton’s writing retains its vigor, intelligence, and wit. Much of what she had to say about women, their lives, their frustrations, their aspirations and their possibilities, remains relevant and moving today.

Author : Fanny Crosby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.AK/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fanny Crosby's Life-story written by Fanny Crosby and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Gordon Hake
Publisher : London : R. Bentley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Eighty Years written by Thomas Gordon Hake and published by London : R. Bentley. This book was released on 1892 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anton van der Lem
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789140889
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolt in the Netherlands written by Anton van der Lem and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1568, the Seventeen Provinces in the Netherlands rebelled against the absolutist rule of the king of Spain. A confederation of duchies, counties, and lordships, the Provinces demanded the right of self-determination, the freedom of conscience and religion, and the right to be represented in government. Their long struggle for liberty and the subsequent rise of the Dutch Republic was a decisive episode in world history and an important step on the path to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. And yet, it is a period in history we rarely discuss. In his compelling retelling of the conflict, Anton van der Lem explores the main issues at stake on both sides of the struggle and why it took eighty years to achieve peace. He recounts in vivid detail the roles of the key protagonists, the decisive battles, and the war’s major turning points, from the Spanish governor’s Council of Blood to the Twelve Years Truce, while all the time unraveling the shifting political, religious, and military alliances that would entangle the foreign powers of France, Italy, and England. Featuring striking, rarely seen illustrations, this is a timely and balanced account of one of the most historically important conflicts of the early modern period.

Author : Jen Rubin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732300002
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Are Staying written by Jen Rubin and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Are Staying chronicles the rise, struggles, and fall of a family-owned store on the Upper West Side from 1934 through the 1977 New York City blackout and the gentrification that followed. Radio Clinic's story is an immigrant story, a grandfather-father-daughter story, and a neighborhood story. Bonus: A chapter by chapter music playlist.

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Turning Eighty ; Journey to an Antique Land ; Foreword to The Angel is My Watermark written by Henry Miller and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: