In these selections from his Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin reflects upon his rise in the world and the self-taught lessons that brought his success.
“Franklin seems to have a unique appeal,” writes the historian Gordon S. Wood. “He seems the most accessible, the most democratic, and the most folksy of the Founders. . . . Indeed, perhaps no person in American history has taken on…
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Author : Ruth Peltason
Genre : Art
Summary : Jackie Kennedy compared him to Cellini, the Duchess of Windsor said he was today's Fabergé, and The New Yorker described him as "the new meteor around town." David Webb was the go-to jeweler in the 1960s and 1970s, and David Webb: The Quintessential American Jeweler is the official survey of this important designer. His devoted clientele have included Lee Radziwill, Diane von Furstenberg, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbra Streisand, and Gwen Stefani. This elegantly designed volume--filled with original photography of the jewelry, Webb's own sketches and drawings, and more than sixty images from leading fashion magazines--will become the definitive reference book for collectors, dealers, and curators, and those who swoon at all that glitters.
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Author : Q. M. Watson
Genre :
Summary : Everything he thought he knew isn't what it seems. Mark is on the verge of losing his sanity and doing something so violently horrific and irreversible. Mark Wilson hasn't been himself since the terrible car accident that occurred a year ago. He has a severe case of amnesia. He doesn't remember his past and it's causing him great suffering as he fights conflicting emotions. Mark is suspicious of his wife, Nicole. He finds it difficult to trust her when she's having an affair right under his nose. His wife has turned him into a malicious and bitter man. It doesn't help that he has vivid fantasies about killing Nicole, murdering her in such gruesome and barbaric ways. But strangely he can't leave her. Nicole is his vital link to the man he once was.Mark loves his sister, Jackson. He divulges his most private secrets to her and he trusts her more than anyone. He is relieved when she moves in with him and his treacherous wife. Jackson moves in with hopes to keep Mark from falling down the rabbit hole of destruction. But something is wrong. Things aren't adding up. Mark gets the oddest feeling that his wife and sister are both keeping important information from him. They are lying to him. Things are not as they appear. Mark soon learns that he can't trust the main people he should always be able to rely on--his family.When Jackson moves in, it causes his picture perfect family image to crack and shatter. The people in his life have created the quintessential loving family but it's all smoke and mirrors. Mark is starting to see past the illusion. He can't shake the sense of impending danger and the feeling of doom constantly nipping at the back of his ankles. He has to accept the fact that nothing is what it seems.
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Author : Helen S. Fletcher
Genre : Cooking
Summary : Helen S. Fletcher has been making pastry dreams come true for over 45 years! As a renowned pastry chef, Helen owned a commercial bakery that provided high-end pastries, cakes and delicacies to fine restaurants and venues for more than thirty years. She has previously authored The New Pastry Cook and European Tarts, sharing her vast knowledge and recipes. Helen has always loved teaching people of all ages and abilities. She has taught her specialized craft at the collegiate level, as a regular on various cooking shows, as a consultant to Cuisinart, as a writer for Bon Appetit Magazine, and as a role model to other pastry chefs. Helen always keeps the baker in mind with clear, detailed and down-to-earth instructions. Pictures of each of the cookies enhance the book and give readers a visual goal for their efforts. Where words alone do not clearly convey the instructions, additional photos are included as a guide. Craving Cookies is a labor of love and her personal journey through the creation of American cookies. Helen invites you into her kitchen as she shares new and classic recipes and techniques gathered from her years baking experience.
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Author : Kenneth M. Price
Genre : Literary Criticism
Summary : Walt Whitman "is America," according to Ezra Pound. More than a century after his death, Whitman's name regularly appears in political speeches, architectural inscriptions, television programs, and films, and it adorns schools, summer camps, truck stops, corporate centers, and shopping malls. In an analysis of Whitman as a quintessential American icon, Kenneth Price shows how his ubiquity and his extraordinarily malleable identity have contributed to the ongoing process of shaping the character of the United States. Price examines Whitman's own writings as well as those of writers who were influenced by him, paying particular attention to Whitman's legacies for an ethnically and sexually diverse America. He focuses on fictional works by Edith Wharton, D. H. Lawrence, John Dos Passos, Ishmael Reed, and Gloria Naylor, among others. In Price's study, Leaves of Grass emerges as a living document accruing meanings that evolve with time and with new readers, with Whitman and his words regularly pulled into debates over immigration, politics, sexuality, and national identity. As Price demonstrates, Whitman is a recurring starting point, a provocation, and an irresistible, rewritable text for those who reinvent the icon in their efforts to remake America itself.
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Author : Gordon S. Wood
Genre : Celebrities
Summary : Offers a portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who was at once the quintessential American and a cosmopolitan lover of Europe, and a one-time loyalist turned revolutionary.
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Author : ILHAN. OMAR
Genre :
Summary : Ilhan Omar's career is a collection of historic firsts: she is the first refugee, the first Somali-American and one of the first two Muslim women to serve in the United States Congress. Against a xenophobic and divisive administration, she has risen to global fame as a powerful voice in the Democratic Party's new progressive chorus of congresswomen of colour.'This Is What America Looks Like' is a tale of the aspirations, disappointments, successes and surprises in the life of an immigrant and Muslim in the US today. This is Omar's story told on her own terms: from a childhood in Mogadishu and four long years at a Kenyan refugee camp, to her arrival in America--penniless and speaking only Somali--and her triumphant election to the US House of Representatives.In the face of merciless slander and constant attacks from opponents in both parties, Omar continues to speak up for her beliefs. Courageous, hopeful and defiant, her memoir is marked by her irrepressible spirit, even in the darkest of times.
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Author : Frank J. Lechner
Genre : Social Science
Summary : This book examines what makes the United States an exceptional society, what impact it has had abroad, and why these issues have mattered to Americans. With historical and comparative evidence, Frank J. Lechner describes the distinctive path of American institutions and tracks changes in the country’s national identity in order to assess claims about America’s ‘exceptional’ qualities. The book analyzes several focal points of exceptionalist thinking about America, including the importance of US Constitution and the American sense of mission, and explores several aspects of America’s distinctive global impact; for example, in economics and film. In addition to discussing the distinctive global impact of the US, this first volume delves into religion, law, and sports.