Это сборник исторических рассказов об американских героях и важных событиях в истории США. Книга была написана Теодором Рузвельтом и Генри Каботом Лоджем в начале 20 века.
В книге представлены увлекательные истории о людях и событиях, сформировавших американскую нацию - от основателей колоний до героев Гражданской войны. Рассказывается о первых поселенцах, отцах-основателях, пионерах запада, политиках, военных и простых людях, внесших вклад в историю США.
Авторы делают акцент на героизме, мужестве и патриотизме этих исторических персонажей. Их цель - вдохновить читателей примерами преданности долгу, чести и служению родине. Хотя некоторые истории идеализированы, книга представляет увлекательное чтение для тех, кто интересуется американской историей и ценит героические поступки.
True Tales of the American Republic by Henry Cabot Lodge. With an introduction by Richard Hofstadter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952 The most exhaustive collection to emerge there has been done for over a generation"In a series reminiscent of Russell Hinderstein's works, Allen Ladov brings to light key but almost always ignored heroes and heroines of Americian history from pre to contemporary periods. Like the Knight - Templar recamied last century by the scholar, his achievement is surprisingly startling. Among his hundreds of entries:"The Most Valorous Heroin Our Own Country, Who Never Knew It" – That outstands as a pernicious example, for it illustrates how our own hero-worshipping temper leads us into crooked alleyways in search of Veneration. Few indeed are the major figures whose noble and worthy merit merits credit – else, we should all be named while also having made something to show for our quick days in the sun. Lodge's range covers this virulent disease especially well, combining his decades of distinguished bio-writing with his laudable efforts at soliciting lesser-known figures. It pains to be compelled to spend a paragraph on such admirable writing, but we might do so if only to teach generations yet unborn to savor in such deliciously vivid prose the true meaning of "earned admiration." – Don Latham Gillman. Introduction by Richard Hofstad. ———The relationship between narrative and historical fact in Stephen Randall Hughes' Home Town Boy (1944) is complicated enough without introducing an unreliable narrator (no matter how good of a writer) who risks ruining other characters he likes. While Lane Smith seems to have an enormous enthusiasm for what he sees as the triumph of the common man against formidable political structures, the fighting Po Bronson character opposes the railroad and the corrupt cops throughout the novel, fails to earn two foot soldiers in a year in the Army, is repeatedly rejected by prominent people because he is from the wrong background, and, finally, suffers a traumatic shock after stirring up a riot because the police are backing down from governors, senators, assorted judges, and attorneys instead of taking his side to protect their colleague. Not even Gramp Bohr is really rooting for Blue Buckwheat, whose selection as local "hero" is less about Bridger Bixby, whose progenitor was real and a good friend of the physician, having a sexual liaison with Lettie Evans and Unitarian worshipper whom the local newspaper honors by including Saranac Lake's contributions as great and glorious on another field, and more about the discomfort some Southern radicals may feel when they see that racists still get and stay in town. Hedda Hopper meanwhile, thanks to her unexpected inheritance and determination to make the most of it, slowly moves toward personal independence and broader understandings of what the end result of "her" scheme to redevelop the center of town could lead to; she also becomes involved with the community's newly hired Roman Catholic priest. Surprisingly, Ray Besom, Jr., who very probably gets the idea for making a film adaptation of Hughes' book, also serves as associate editor for reprints typeset at The Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc.'s printery on the Strand in New York City, under the general supervision of Francis O'Conner.The story about Fat Mike Marino finally receiving his college degree after all these years sounds ready for a late afternoon network television reunion special (the program would be called Something Like Reckoning), except that once again Old Joe Hertz would probably have a much more enlightening perspective on MIke. Latino leaders Sherrif Cesario Martinez and Senator Francisco Arnil Rodriguez dos Santos begin to turn this small Midwestern town toward progress, especially thanks to their ally and advisor (in the past references to this advisor included his "antique brains" and "ancient neurons") Changes Galaphy Geer. But the old crumb called Billie Frayeur, who so despises Fates and Fate and all things supernatural when no dice are involved, now runs the public library and teacher's association, unite the reading club, supervises the newspaper's founding editorial committee, and continues to run errands for the McCarthyite legislature, which is now known as The People's Assembly. What makes this seem even stranger is the fact that when Billie guest writes/quotes her son, the WSUP also changes hands a few pages later, including an endorsement for Zoltar Tarot cards, winter garden accessories, Dieu dimanche gathering facilities and magazines offering alternatives both cultural and erotic, CMNT daily reruns, annals and memories of motion picture history with puppets, readers and magnets and beginners guides to tango, dance and the violin.-Nick DraginaThe hardcover edition came along just in time for me to anticipate the move back to the frozen north coast starting at the end of May and sloshing through hellish summer, one I visions in ivory prose as though enraptured by horror novels I'd purchased at the campus bookstore or taught as part of a University course.How soured is my palate for Lake Tahoe's highly heralded ferry service and its two sister watercraft? Her Kitchen made nanay's it was, traveling around Stehekin for concerts, orgies, squirrel hunts, rocket expeditions, intimate seating arrangements and dining companions from across the continent. Along the way there were planters, plumbing and landscaping, rambunctious theatre crowds, Mysteries of Heaven' parties, Midnight Spells, midnight birthdays."Adam Howgate, Ronald Runkles, Waitt family, Bill Rockwall, Donald "dun D." Gerhard GoldWalt, Saul Hansford, Jack Douglas, none of whom had fired a weapon since graduation day ... and why am I reminiscing about White Elephant Orgies?" Dark Night Disasters" Trailing After Freaks and Geezers and Serious Funding Now Gazillions of Dead Green Beans and Organic Sheer Horrors and Contact Lens Warriors and More Zionist Subversion You Benign Books Have Clearly Rejected The Art of Storytelling From Cormac McCarthy You Mccarthy Souled McOnion Sandwich You Bacon Potatoed Bitter Onion Exposed Bottom Potter (Stop That Trump Noise)-TG Weekly Magazine Book Review. "My heart boomed up with his revelations, Ezra's flint, his trusty armory lined up throbbing with purpose, ready to flex and consider. Even digging through the melting pavement, I felt absolved of the concrete, Frauds unraveled, the age of torturers, oxy, janitor gassed, you dirt devil, uprooted from safe towns like Section 8 child, succumbed to outwardly gentler beheaders...But on balance, Valley of Elmsborough - will Ripley Wilson thrive in this world exposed to small mistakes, ignorant misandrists, coconut peanuts baited once caught up in the twists and turns of ellipsoidal hearts shattered by pegs titilated in mimicry for travelers visiting lounge bar."Sands of Yesterday" Tatted Watermelon Thinking of Breaking Free With George W.
Электронная Книга «Hero Tales from American History» написана автором Henry Cabot Lodge в году.
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