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Revolutionary Characters
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Author : Gordon S. Wood
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books
Release Date : 2006
Revolutionary Characters written by Gordon S. Wood and has been published by Penguin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 10 essays from previously published articles, the author presents miniature portraits of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, and others known as the founding fathers.
Revolutionary Characters
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Author : Gordon S. Wood
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-05-18
Revolutionary Characters written by Gordon S. Wood and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-18 with History categories.
In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, "What made these men great?" and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of each—Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Paine—is presented individually as well as collectively, but the thread that binds these portraits together is the idea of character as a lived reality. They were members of the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made men who understood that the arc of lives, as of nations, is one of moral progress.
Revolutionary Characters
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Author : Gordon S. Wood
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006
Revolutionary Characters written by Gordon S. Wood and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
A historical analysis of America's founding leaders identifies the character qualities that enabled them to make their pivotal contributions to the country's formation, discussing what their examples can teach modern readers and how their shared vision of a national meritocracy was shaped by period beliefs about character and leadership. 75,000 first printing.
Revolutionary Characters
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Author : Gordon S. Wood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Revolutionary Characters written by Gordon S. Wood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author offers a series of studies of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers. Each life is considered in the round, but the thread that binds the work together is the idea of character as a lived reality for these men. For these were men, Wood shows, that took the matter of character very seriously. They were the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made, men who considered the arc of lives, as of nations, as being one of moral progress. They saw themselves as comprising the world's first meritocracy, as opposed to the decadent Old World aristocracy of inherited wealth and station. Historian Wood's accomplishment here is to bring these men and their times down to earth and within our reach, showing us just who they were and what drove them, and that the virtues they defined for themselves are the virtues we aspire to still.--From publisher description.
Planning Chinese Characters
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Author : Shouhui Zhao
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2007-10-30
Planning Chinese Characters written by Shouhui Zhao and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book presents the most comprehensive synthesis and analysis of major developments in reforming programs in modernizing the Chinese writing system. It traces the language policy and planning related developments for Chinese characters, with particular emphasis on post-1950 period in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the more recent challenges that technology, and particularly the World Wide Web, have posed for the language.
Revolutionary Characters Of New Haven The Subject Of Addresses And Papers Delivered Before The General David Humphreys Branch No 1 Connecticut Society Sons Of The American Revolution Also List Of Men So Far As They Are Known From The Territory
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Author : Sons of the American Revolution Gene
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
Revolutionary Characters Of New Haven The Subject Of Addresses And Papers Delivered Before The General David Humphreys Branch No 1 Connecticut Society Sons Of The American Revolution Also List Of Men So Far As They Are Known From The Territory written by Sons of the American Revolution Gene and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.
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Kingdom Of Characters Pulitzer Prize Finalist
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Author : Jing Tsu
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2023-01-17
Kingdom Of Characters Pulitzer Prize Finalist written by Jing Tsu and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-17 with History categories.
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.
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Author : Sons of the American Revolution
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-09-03
Revolutionary Characters Of New Haven The Subject Of Addresses And Papers Delivered Before The General David Humphreys Branch No 1 Connecticut Society Sons Of The American Revolution Also List Of Men So Far As They Are Known From The Territory Embra written by Sons of the American Revolution and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-03 with categories.
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Revolutionary
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Author : Alex Myers
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-01-14
Revolutionary written by Alex Myers and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with Fiction categories.
“A remarkable novel” (The New York Times) about America’s first female soldier, Deborah Sampson Gannett, who ran away from home in 1782, successfully disguised herself as a man, and fought valiantly in the Revolutionary War. At a time when rigid societal norms seemed absolute, Deborah Sampson risked everything in search of something better. Revolutionary, Alex Myers’s richly imagined and carefully researched debut novel, tells the story of a fierce-tempered young woman turned celebrated solider and the remarkable courage, hope, fear, and heartbreak that shaped her odyssey during the birth of a nation. After years of indentured servitude in a sleepy Massachusetts town, Deborah chafes under the oppression of colonial society and cannot always hide her discontent. When a sudden crisis forces her hand, she decides to escape the only way she can, rejecting her place in the community in favor of the perilous unknown. Cutting her hair, binding her chest, and donning men’s clothes stolen from a neighbor, Deborah sheds her name and her home, beginning her identity-shaking transformation into the imaginary “Robert Shurtliff”—a desperate and dangerous masquerade that grows more serious when “Robert” joins the Continental Army. What follows is a journey through America’s War of Independence like no other—an unlikely march through cold winters across bloody battlefields, the nightmare of combat and the cruelty of betrayal, the elation of true love and the tragedy of heartbreak. As The Boston Globe raves, “Revolutionary succeeds on a number of levels, as a great historical-military adventure story, as an exploration of gender identity, and as a page-turning description of the fascinating life of the revolutionary Deborah Sampson.”
Revolutionary Characters Of New Haven
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1911
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