High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! James Rufus Agee was an American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family, won the author a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, at Highland Avenue and 15th Street to Hugh James Agee and Laura Whitman Tyler. When Agee was six, his father was killed in an automobile accident. From the age of seven, Agee and his younger sister, Emma, were educated in boarding schools. The most influential of these was located near his mother's summer cottage two miles from Sewanee, Tennessee. Saint Andrews School for Mountain Boys was run by...

ISBN: 978-6-1309-3298-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Katie Lavender has always thought she was pretty unshockable, until a year after her mother`s death she receives a letter from a solicitor telling her that the man she thought was her father, in fact wasn`t. Her real father, a man named Stirling Nightingale, has for years been building a trust fund for her. And now she`s of an age to collect it. But Katie`s not interested in the money. She wants to know about the man instead. So decides to do some snooping. She tracks him down to a beautiful riverside home in Surrey on the night he`s hosting a birthday party for his 90-year-old mother. And as she`s hovering outside, Katie is mistaken for a replacement waitress - an opportunity just too good to miss. And so Katie discovers that the...

ISBN: 978-1-4091-3539-5
Издательство: Orion Books
Дата выхода: июль 2012

In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima — and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island`s highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag. Now the son of one of the flagraisers has written a powerful account of six very different young...

ISBN: 978-0-553-58934-4
Издательство: Bantam
Дата выхода: август 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Family Thing is a 1996 film starring Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones and Irma P. Hall. It was written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson and directed by Richard Pearce. The film is a drama about a White American Southerner (Duvall) named Earl whose mother makes a shocking revelation in a letter, after her death. She reveals that Earl's biological mother was an African American who died while giving birth to him. His mother's dying wish is that he goes to Chicago to meet his half-brother, Ray (Jones). Ray blames Earl for his own mother's death and does not want to speak to him. But his loving Aunt T. (Hall) welcomes Earl and insists the family accept him. Earl initially takes it badly,...

ISBN: 978-6-1328-0292-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David James Fisher is a fictional character played by Michael C. Hall on the HBO television series Six Feet Under. The character is the middle child of three and is a third-generation funeral director. Initially, the character is portrayed as socially conservative (and possibly politically so), dutiful to his family, emotionally repressed and conflicted about his homosexuality. Over the course of the series, he faces struggles and triumphs both personally and professionally. His most significant challenges are related to keeping his funeral home in business, navigating his relationship with Keith Charles, surviving being carjacked, and coping with the death of his father. By the show`s end, he...

ISBN: 978-5-5087-3711-5

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Maria Stewart (Maria Miller) (1803 – December 17, 1879) was an African American public speaker, abolitionist, and feminist. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1803. At the age of five she became an orphan and was sent to live with a minister and his family. Until she was fifteen, Maria was a servant in the home where she resided and was deprived of an education. When Maria turned twenty, her life took a turn for the better. Maria began to attend Sabbath School, where she learned new and exciting things. During her early adulthood, while attending school, Maria worked as a domestic servant for a living. On August 10, 1826, Maria Miller and...

ISBN: 978-6-1324-3169-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Richard Cantillon (1680s – May 1734) was an Irish economist and author of Essai Sur La Nature Du Commerce En General (Essay on the Nature of Trade in General), a book considered by William Stanley Jevons to be the "cradle of political economy". Although little information exists on Cantillon's life, it is known that he became a successful banker and merchant at an early age. His success was largely derived from the political and business connections he was able to acquire through his family and through an early employer, James Brydges. During the late 1710s and early 1720s, Cantillon speculated in, and later...

ISBN: 978-6-1338-1995-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Raymond W. Downs (born Oct. 24, 1944) is an American Author as well as a former Country Music Singer.. Ray was most notably known for his appearances on the syndicated Porter Wagoner television show. Downs also played for a couple of years with Country Music legend Marty Robbins opening shows on the road. At Marty's death Ray recorded a tribute song "Greatest Cowboy Of All" under the name Jason Williams. The tune charted at #26 on the Country Billboard Charts Hot C/W sides. He is the youngest of three children born to James Orville Downs and Anne Marie Zink on October 24, 1944 in Abington, Pennsylvania. He had an older brother, James Orville Downs Jr. and an older sister Carol Ann Heaton. Both...

ISBN: 978-6-1310-3467-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011