Louis P Masur
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knew that the great eclipse of 1831 was coming - and most Americans feared it. Newspapers and almanacs claimed it would be an unparalleled celestial event, and on February 12 citizen and slave alike, from New England to the South, anxiously gazed heavenward. In this new book, Louis P. Masur shows why Americans saw the eclipse as a portent of their future. The year 1831 was, for the United States, a crucial time when the nation was no longer...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"A postseason series of games to establish supremacy in the major leagues was not inevitable in the baseball world. But in 1903 the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates (in the well-established National League) challenged the Boston Americans (in the upstart American League) to a play off, which he was sure his team would win. They didn't - and that wasn't the only surprise during what became the first World Series. In Autumn Glory, Louis P. Masur tells...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In Lincoln's Last Speech, renowned historian and author Louis P. Masur offers insight into this critical address and its vision of a reconstructed United States. Coming two days after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox and a week after the fall of Richmond, Lincoln's speech was expected to be a victory oration. Instead, he looked to the future, discussing how best to restore the seceded states to the national government, and even endorsing limited...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Compilation of diaries, letters and essays of Henry Brooks Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Lydia Maria Child, John Esten Cooke, John William De Forest, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charlotte Forten, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Herman Melville, William Gilmore Simms, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Springsteen prefers to let his music do the talking; his songs and his guitar provide the most direct line to his fans' hearts. When he does decide to sit down and talk, the conversations tend to be momentous. Here are more than thirty different interviews spanning from 1973 to 2013, showcasing his development as an artist, a thinker, and a public figure.
