Puritan In Babylon

Author : William Allen White
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789127114
Total Pages : 963 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Puritan in Babylon written by William Allen White and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 963 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which was first published in 1938, began as a biography of Calvin Coolidge, but author William Allen White found early in his task that he was writing the story of the growth and rise of economic America from the seventies until the crash of the Coolidge bull market in the autumn of 1929. In this story of an era in American life, the figure of Calvin Coolidge, a curious reversion to an old type, stands out in contrast to the vivid color of a gorgeous epoch. The history of the Coolidge bull market in detail from 1921, when Coolidge came to Washington as Vice President, until 1929, when he left Washington and public life, had not been written before. As that market boomed, Calvin Coolidge as President, having all the virtues needed for another day, moved through the turmoil of the times earnestly, honestly, courageously trying to understand his country’s economic development and to act upon his understanding of a movement that baffled him and left him futile. Mr. White talked to hundreds of people who knew and were associated with President Coolidge in those days. Cabinet members, friends, White House associates, reporters, business men, big and little; and his story throws a new light upon the inside of the White House, and upon the President through the years.

Author : William Allan White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780781249256
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puritan in Babylon written by William Allan White and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding

Author : Joseph Lynn Dubbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Puritan in Babylon: William Allen White written by Joseph Lynn Dubbert and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Allen White
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781293846032
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Puritan in Babylon the Story of Calvin Coolidge - Primary Source Edition written by William Allen White and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Author : Calvin Coolidge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Puritan in Babylon written by Calvin Coolidge and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Kuklick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691656568
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puritans in Babylon written by Bruce Kuklick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1880s through the 1920s a motley collection of American scholars, soldiers of fortune, institutional bureaucrats, and financiers created the academic fields that give us our knowledge of the ancient Near East. Bruce Kuklick's new book begins with the story of the initial adventure of these determined investigators--a twelve-year dig near the Biblical Babylon, at Nippur, conducted at intervals from 1888 through 1900 and bankrolled by the Babylonian Exploration Fund. To unearth tens of thousands of cunneiform tablets, the leaders of this venture faced harsh living conditions in the desert and an academic war of each against all that was quickly begun at the site itself. As their knowledge increased, they risked their personal religious beliefs in the search for historical truth. Kuklick discusses their tribulations to illuminate two other contemporary developments: first, the maturation of the American university, particularly in contrast to its German counterpart; and second, the influence of religious-secular conflict on the ways in which Western scholarship appropriated or appreciated other cultures. The Nippur expedition spawned unseemly (and entertaining) fights among the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Harvard, and Chicago for leadership in the study of ancient Near East--not to mention disagreements with their own developing museums and an international scandal called the Hilprecht controversy. More significant than these quarrels was the concern for the meaning of history displayed in this period of Near Eastern scholarship. The field was linked to Biblical criticism and Judeo-Christian interests, and many of the orientalists originally possessed strong religious commitments--which some put aside as they struggled for objectivity. As recent critics have shown, "orientalism" was an example of the West's ability to appropriate the "other" for its own purposes. However, Kuklick's study demonstrates that the censure of orientalism hinges on modes of argumentation that scholars of the ancienet Near East helped to legitimate, and at no small cost to themselves. Bruce Kuklick is Killbrew Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are To Every Thing a Season: Shibe Park and Urban Philadelphia, 1909-1976 (Princeton), Churchmen and Philosophers: Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey, and The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge Massachusetts, 1860-1930. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : William Allen White b. 1868
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Author : William Allen White
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
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Download or read book Puritan in Babylon written by William Allen White and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Brown
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
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Download or read book The English Puritans written by John Brown and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Kuklick
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ISBN 13 : 9781400816903
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puritans in Babylon written by Bruce Kuklick and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1880s through the 1920s a motley collection of American scholars, soldiers of fortune, institutional bureaucrats, and financiers created the academic fields that give us our knowledge of the ancient Near East. Bruce Kuklick's new book begins with the story of the initial adventure of these determined investigators--a twelve-year dig near the Biblical Babylon, at Nippur, conducted at intervals from 1888 through 1900 and bankrolled by the Babylonian Exploration Fund. To unearth tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets, the leaders of this venture faced harsh living conditions in the desert and an academic war of each against all that was quickly begun at the site itself. As their knowledge increased, they risked their personal religious beliefs in the search for historical truth. Kuklick discusses their tribulations to illuminate two other contemporary developments: first, the maturation of the American university, particularly in contrast to its German counterpart; and second, the influence of religious-secular conflict on the ways in which Western scholarship appropriated or appreciated other cultures.The Nippur expedition spawned unseemly (and entertaining) fights among the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Harvard, and Chicago for leadership in the study of the ancient Near East--not to mention disagreements with their own developing museums and an international scandal called the Hilprecht controversy. More significant than these quarrels was the concern for the meaning of history displayed in this period of Near Eastern scholarship. The field was linked to Biblical criticism and Judeo-Christian interests, and many of the orientalists originally possessed strongreligious commitments--which some put aside as they struggled for objectivity. As recent critics have shown, "orientalism" was an example of the West's ability to appropriate the "other" for its own purposes. However, Kuklick's study demonstrates that the censure of orientalism hinges on modes of argumentation that scholars of the ancient Near East helped to legitimate, and at no small cost to themselves.