Thomas meacham (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st. 1st printing; 800 clean, unmarked pages/index; illustrated end papers; dj w/unclilpped price. B/w (illustratore).

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. (xv) 266 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the spine; previous owner's name inside. Cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes. Discusses the work of: Edgar Rice B urroughs; Philip K. Dick; Thomas M. Disch; Robert A. Heinlein; Frank Herbert; William Hope Hodgson; C. S. Lewis; H. P. Lovecraft; A. Merritt; Walter M. Miller; Jack Vance; Jules Verne; Stanley G. Wein baum; H. G. Wells; Jack Williamson; S. Fowler Wright; John Wyndham; Roger Zelazny; Michael Moorcock; Larry Niven; H. Beam Piper; Frederik Pohl; C. M. Kornbluth; Joanna Russ; Mary Shelley; Cordwainer S mith; E. E. "Doc" Smith; Olaf Stapledon; Theodore Sturgeon; A. E. Van Vogt; Fritz Leiber; Henry Kuttner; C. L. Moore; Ursula K. Le Guin; Harlan Ellison; M. John Harrison; Gordon R. Dickson; Arthur C. Clarke; Hal Clement; Samuel R. Delany; Poul Anderson; Isaac Asimov; J. G. Ballard; Alfred Bester; James Blish; Ray Bradbury; John Brunner; and many many others. Stanislaw Fernandes; (illustratore). Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. New condition black boards with gold spine lettering contained in a new condition price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Jon Meacham; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes; A Note on the Text; Principal Characters; Prologue: With the Feeling of a Father, The White House, Washington, Winter, 1832-33; Epilogue: He Still Lives; Author's Note and Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index; and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates plus illustrated front and rear endpapers. " In helping us understand Jackson, Meacham helps us understand America." - Walter Isaacson, author. "Every so often a terrific biography comes along that shines a new light on a familiar figure in American history. A master storyteller, Meacham interweaves the lives of Jackson and the members of his inner circle to create a highly original book." - Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. "An admiring, vividly composed portrait . Even those who, like myself, prefer John Quincy Adams's statesmanship to that of Old Hickory will find themselves engaged by Jon Meacham's skillful narrative." - Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. "Splendid. Meacham offers a fresh portrait of one of the most controversial and consequential men ever to occupy the White House." - Sean Wilentz, author. "Andrew Jackson, his close group of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson's election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad. To tell the saga of Jackson's presidency, acclaimed author Jon Meacham goes inside the Jackson White House. Drawing on newly discovered family letters and papers, he details the human drama -- the family, the women, and the inner circle of advisers -- that shaped Jackson's private world through years of storm and victory. One of our most significant yet dimly recalled presidents, Jackson was a battle-hardened warrior, the founder of the Democratic Party, and the architect of the presidency as we know it. His story is one of violence, sex, courage, and tragedy. With his powerful persona, his palpable bravery, and his mystical connection to the people, Jackson moved the White House from the periphery of government to the center of national action, articulating a vision of change that challenged entrenched interests to heed the popular will -- or face his formidable wrath. The greatest of the presidents who have followed Jackson in the White House -- from Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to FDR to Truman -- have found inspiration in his example, and virtue in his vision. Jackson was the most contradictory of men. The architect of the removal of Indians from their native lands, he was warmly sentimental and risked everything to give more power to ordinary citizens. He was, in short, a lot like his country: alternately kind and vicious, brilliant and blind, and a man who fought a lifelong war to keep the republic safe -- no matter what it took. In American Lion, Jon Meacham has delivered the definitive human portrait of a pivotal president who forever changed the American presidency -- and America itself." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. McKeveny, Tom (jacket design); Sully, Thomas (jacket illustration); Wong, Victoria (book design) (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. This is a genuinely and substantially transformative study that significantly fleshes out what can be known, understood and imagined about the subtle textures of cultural life in fifteenth-century England. (Mishtooni Bose, University of Oxford, in: The.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This is a truly paradigm-shifting study that reads a key text in Latin Humanist studies as the culmination, rather than an early example, of a tradition in university drama. It persuasively argues against the common assumption that there was no 'drama' in the medieval universities until the syllabus was influenced by humanist ideas, and posits a new way of reading the performative dimensions of fourteenth and fifteenth-century university education in, for example, Ciceronian tuition on epistolary delivery. David Bevington calls it 'an impressively learned discussion' and commends the sophistication of its use of performativity theory.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University | The Works of Thomas Chaundler | Thomas Meacham | Buch | X | Englisch | 2020 | de Gruyter | EAN 9781580443555 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, 10785 Berlin, productsafety[at]degruyterbrill[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.…