Summary Book Review The Last Gentleman Adventurer by Edward Beauclerk Maurice:
Download or read book The Last Gentleman Adventurer written by Edward Beauclerk Maurice and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating true adventure story chronicles the experiences of Edward Beauclerk Maurice, a young explorer for the Hudson Bay Company who was taught survival techniques, and much more, by the Inuit people. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
Summary Book Review The Last Gentleman by Bruce L.R. Smith:
Download or read book The Last Gentleman written by Bruce L.R. Smith and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes account of American foreign policymaking in the late twentieth century Tom Hughes, assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, made an ominous prediction in 1965. In a seminal but less well-known document of the Vietnam War, Hughes predicted that the Democratic Party and the national consensus underlying the nation’s foreign policy would break apart if the war escalated. Hughes drafted the memo for his friend and fellow Minnesotan for whom he had previously worked as legislative counsel, Senator Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey had just been elected Vice President. The memo called on President Johnson to seek negotiations to end the war, but clearly failed to persuade him. Tom Hughes saw his prediction come true. Hughes served in the State Department through 1970 and then for 20 years as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He worked to reestablish a professional, bipartisan foreign policy for the United States and to make the foreign service more open and democratic. He also built the Carnegie Endowment into the nation’s leading foreign policy think tank, and he remained influential in foreign policy circles. In this impressive biography, Bruce L. R. Smith tells the story of this remarkable life, which also reflects much of the story of America in the last half of the twentieth century. Through the eyes, diary, and notes of a key participant, the book provides a contemporaneous perspective on such major events as the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the CIA’s Operation Mongoose against the Castro regime, the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, and the elections of the 1960s. This book is a firsthand, behind-the-scenes account of the people who dealt with the great issues and made critical life-and-death decisions for America during the cold war.
Summary Book Review The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy:
Download or read book The Last Gentleman written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: A lonely Southerner forges a surprising bond with a New York family in this “brilliant” novel by the author of The Moviegoer (Time). Will Barrett has never felt at peace. After moving from his native South to New York City, Will’s most meaningful human connections come through the lens of a telescope in Central Park, from which he views the comings and goings of the eccentric Vaught family. But Will’s days as a spectator end when he meets the Vaught patriarch and accepts a job in the Mississippi Delta as caretaker for the family’s ailing son, Jamie. Once there, he is confronted not only by his personal demons, but also his growing love for Jamie’s sister, Kitty, and a deepening relationship with the Vaught family that will teach him the true meaning of home.
Summary Book Review The Last Gentleman and The Second Coming by Walker Percy:
Download or read book The Last Gentleman and The Second Coming written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in one volume, two novels from the National Book Award winner that follow the life of a Southern man searching for love and connection. In The Last Gentleman, Will Barrett has never felt at peace. After moving from his native South to New York City, Will’s most meaningful human connections come through the lens of a telescope in Central Park, from which he views the comings and goings of the eccentric Vaught family. But Will’s days as a spectator end when he meets the Vaught patriarch and accepts a job in the Mississippi Delta as caretaker for the family’s ailing son, Jamie. Once there, he is confronted not only by his personal demons, but also his growing love for Jamie’s sister, Kitty, and a deepening relationship with the Vaught family that will teach him the true meaning of home. And in The Second Coming, now in his late forties, Will Barrett lives a life other men only dream of. Wealthy from a successful career on Wall Street and from the inheritance of his deceased wife’s estate, Will is universally admired at the club where he spends his days golfing in the North Carolina sun. But everything begins to unravel when, without warning, Will’s golf shots begin landing in the rough, and he is struck with bouts of losing his balance and falling over. Just when Will appears doomed to share the fate of his father—whose suicide has haunted him his whole life—a mental hospital escapee named Allison might prove to be the only one who can save him. From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Moviegoer, these novels have been acclaimed by Time magazine for “irony, understatement, and compassion” and praised by the New York Times as “wonderfully good reading.”
Summary Book Review The Last Gentleman of the SAS by John Randall:
Download or read book The Last Gentleman of the SAS written by John Randall and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, John Randall was the first Allied officer to enter Bergen-Belsen – the concentration camp that would reveal the horrors of the Holocaust to the world. Randall was one of that league of extraordinary gentlemen handpicked for suicidally dangerous missions behind enemy lines in North Africa, Italy, France and Germany throughout the Second World War. He was a man of his class and of his times. He hated the Germans, liked the French and was unimpressed by the Americans and the Arabs. He was an outrageous flirt, as might be expected of a man who served in Phantom alongside film stars David Niven and Hugh Williams. He played rugby with Paddy Mayne, the larger-than-life colonel of the SAS and winner of four DSOs. He pushed Randolph Churchill, son of the Prime Minister, out of an aeroplane. He wined and dined in nightclubs as part of the generation that lived for each day because they might not see another. This extraordinary true story, partly based on previously unpublished diaries, presents a different slant on that mighty war through the eyes of a restless young man eager for action and adventure.
Summary Book Review Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman by :
Download or read book Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review The Last True Gentleman by Grace Burrowes:
Download or read book The Last True Gentleman written by Grace Burrowes and published by Grace Burrowes. This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sycamore Dorning has watched one sibling after another succumb to the blandishments of wedded bliss, while he has grown wealthy and--deuce take it--lonely. He loves the ladies generally, though he waits in vain for the woman who can love him in all his contrary, stubborn, outspoken glory. Jeanette, Marchioness of Tavistock, endured six years of wedded purgatory before earning the independence of widowhood. She's admittedly attracted to Sycamore. He's refreshingly blunt, unconventional, and loyal to those he cares about. When trouble stalks her, she turns to Sycamore for help, because she would trust him with her life. But will she trust him with her heart?
Summary Book Review The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman by Todd M. Endelman:
Download or read book The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman written by Todd M. Endelman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redcliffe Salaman (1874-1955) was an English Jew of many facets: a country gentleman, a physician, a biologist who pioneered the breeding of blight-free strains of potatoes, a Jewish nationalist, and a race scientist. A well-known figure in his own time, The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman restores him to his place in the history of British science and the British Jewish community. Redcliffe Salaman was also a leading figure in the Anglo-Jewish community in the 20th century. At the same time, he was also an incisive critic of the changing character of that community. His groundbreaking book, The History and Social Influence of the Potato, first published in 1949 and in print ever since, is a classic in social history. His wife Nina was a feminist, poet, essayist, and translator of medieval Hebrew poetry. She was the first (and to this day, only) woman to deliver a sermon in an Orthodox synagogue in Britain. The Last-Anglo Jewish Gentleman offers a compelling biography of a unique individual. It also provides insights into the life of English Jews during the late-19th and early-20th centuries and brings to light largely unknown controversies and tensions in Jewish life.
Download or read book The Gentleman's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress Publisher : Release Date :1911 ISBN 10 :OSU:32435063596936 Pages : pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4./5 ( users download)
Summary Book Review Congressional Record by United States. Congress:
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review Last Gentleman Standing by Jane Ashford:
Download or read book Last Gentleman Standing written by Jane Ashford and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jane Ashford's characters are true to their times, yet they radiate the freshness of today."—Historical Novel Reviews A fun, witty Regency romance from bestselling author Jane Ashford. Young heiress Lady Elisabeth Elham has no need for marriage, but warding off London's most charming suitors is easier said than done. Miss Elisabeth Elham is an unlikely heiress. She never knew the curmudgeonly uncle who died suddenly and left her a fortune. She's proud, outspoken and independent—a definite challenge for London's fortune hunting suitors. As various determined gentlemen vie for her attention at balls, routs, picnics and parties, Elisabeth finds herself embroiled with a charming rake, a mysterious nabob, and an elegant neighbor. This would all be great fun, if only she wasn't so fascinated by the one man in London who's not trying to woo her... Originally titled Bluestocking, this story has been unavailable for over 25 years.
Summary Book Review Fictions of Fact and Value by Michael LeMahieu:
Download or read book Fictions of Fact and Value written by Michael LeMahieu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictions of Fact and Value looks at logical positivism's major influence on the development of postwar American fiction, charting a literary and philosophical genealogy that has been absent from criticism on the American novel since 1945.
Summary Book Review Parliamentary Debates by Victoria. Parliament:
Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by Victoria. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Boston (Mass.). City Council Publisher : Release Date :1893 ISBN 10 :UOM:39015077090697 Pages : pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4./5 ( users download)
Summary Book Review Reports of Proceedings ... by Boston (Mass.). City Council:
Download or read book Reports of Proceedings ... written by Boston (Mass.). City Council and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review Transactions by American Institute of Electrical Engineers:
Download or read book Transactions written by American Institute of Electrical Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 7-15, 17, 19-20.
Summary Book Review House of Commons Debates, Official Report by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons:
Download or read book House of Commons Debates, Official Report written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Maine. Department of Agriculture Publisher : Release Date :1895 ISBN 10 :NYPL:33433006843555 Pages : pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4./5 ( users download)
Summary Book Review Agriculture of Maine by Maine. Department of Agriculture:
Download or read book Agriculture of Maine written by Maine. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
