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Peter Conn
"In the course of a career that reached across more than six decades, Sully painted over two thousand portraits and was one of America's most prominent painters. This book describes…
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The Divided Mind examines the debate between innovation and tradition in American culture of the early years of the twentieth century. Peter Conn discusses literature, painting, music, architecture and politics…
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Peter Conn (University of Pennsylvania)
In this important new reading of literature in the Depression, cultural historian Peter Conn moves between historical events and literature to document the rich diversity of 1930s literature. Mapping the…
Described by the Washington Post as an ‘elegant absorbing book’, Peter Conn’s critically acclaimed biography retrieves from the footnotes of literary and cultural history one of the most popular novelists…
A record of the entire span of American literature in all its variety from the early 17th century to the late 1980s. It summarizes the distinctive achievement of novelists, poets…
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Benjamin Franklin
In 1771, at the age of 65, Benjamin Franklin sat down to write his autobiography, having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to…
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Pearl Buck made important contributions as a humanitarian and an advocate of racial equality and women’s rights. She did much to change American attitudes toward persons with mental retardation and…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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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…
Peter Porter Wiggins
The descendants of John Porter, of Windsor, Conn., - In the line of his great, great grandson, Col. Joshua Porter, M.D., of Salisbury, Litchfield county, Conn., with some account of…
Henry Porter Andrews,Peter Porter Wiggins
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…
This volume covers advances of the last ten years in understanding intermediary nitrogen metabolism in plants. The eight chapters comprise aspects of nitrate and nitrogen assimilation, symbiotic nitrogen fixation, glutamine…
Frank Preston Stearns, Hermann Linde
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What Cablegate tells us about the reach and ambitions of US Empire
