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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Mr. Nice: An Autobiography

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt (Optimized for Kindle)

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Theodore Roosevelt’s writing has the same verve, panache, and energy as the life he lived. Perhaps no president in U.S. history—not even Jefferson—had so many opinions and intellectual interests, believed in so many causes, or worked so hard to translate his beliefs into action. A hard-headed idealist, an unabashed interventionist, a crusader on behalf of environmental preservation and against big business ”trusts,” he was also a writer of uncommon grace and passion with a gift for the memorable phrase. His autobiography, one of the two or three finest ever written by a U.S. president, abounds in exciting episodes of personal transformation and insights into the bitter politics of the day. Roosevelt was a sickly youth who steeled himself for a life of vigor, growing up surrounded by wealth in nineteenth-century Manhattan but vacationing in the West, where he rode with cowboys and learned to revere and study the natural world. His book describes his early failures in his political career and his ascent from the New York City police board to assistant secretary of the Navy where he advocated war with Spain, to his brief stint and public renown as a Rough Rider; and on to the governorship of New York, vice presidency under McKinley, and finally the presidency itself. Elting Morison’s new introduction analyzes what Roosevelt has included—and not included—about his many political conflicts, his role in the acquisition of the Panama Canal, and the deaths of his wife and his mother.As everywhere in his writing, the personality of T.R.—alert, voluble, forceful, compassionate—shines forth from this book, which remains a singular study of a dynamic and, in many respects, exemplary man who was also a key figure in the Age of Reform.




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Sunday, October 3, 2010

A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman

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Ida Pruitt's biography of Ning Lao Tai-tai (literally "old lady Ning"), is a farmer from north-east China, was born in 1867, a fascinating tale of personal history is anecdotal Ning, as it related to the author During his two years of friendship. Ning's life story: childhood, marriage, work, children will be placed in a chronological history, divided into sections on specific turning points, and yet a consistent theme of poverty, oppression andPoverty, women, strong of mind and weak men carried out not only during Ning stories, but also the stories they told of their ancestors and neighbors.

Pruitt writes with the voice of Ning, as if to translate, but what they actually do is, given the Ning stories of his life in the first half of the 20th Century. Ning was born into a cultured middle class family who had fallen into disgrace. His father wants a better situation for their wedding, but the older man haschooses to take the family for their opium falling into poverty. To survive and feed their children Ning must first be a beggar, has become a servant then, the different families: military, Muslim, bureaucrat, and finally to Christian missionaries. Speaking against concubinage and prostitution, the plight of employers, the need to support and keep the family together, and Ning's voice is not completely clear.

Using a first-person account of the stories are Impresssions PruittAccuracy, yet there have been seven years between the conversations with Ning and writing the book. The apparent dislike of the Japanese in the prologue and last chapter, along with the pub. Date of the book show a hidden agenda by the author. But while the prospect of this woman's experience is limited, Ning's story reflects the difficulties of life for Chinese women before the age of communism.




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