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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Stella Suberman recalls her youth in 1920s Concordia, Tennessee, where her father, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, ran a dry goods store, which became locally known as "the Jew store" in the predominantly Christian small town.
Author
Publisher
Crown Trade Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. One could argue that there are three distinct Crocketts: the real David as he was before he became famous; the celebrity politician whose backwoods image Crockett himself created, then lost control of; and the mythic Davy we know today. Thompson follows Crockett's footsteps from the Tennessee river valley where he was born, to Washington, where he served three terms in Congress,...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Carolyn Jourdan left her beloved Tennessee hometown for a career in Washington, D.C. For twenty years she worked with the country's most powerful people. A successful attorney, she was smart and ambitious, and she believed her work made a difference. So when her father asked her to come home and be the receptionist at his tiny rural doctor's office while her mother recovered from a heart attack, Carolyn reluctantly agreed, thinking she could handle...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[©1987]
Language
English
Description
Even as a pup, Davy Crockett "always delighted to be in the very thickest of danger." In his own inimitable style, he describes his earliest days in Tennessee, his two marriages, his career as an Indian fighter, his bear hunts, and his electioneering. His reputation as a b'ar hunter (he killed 105 in one season) sent him to Congress, and he was voted in and out as the price of cotton (and his relations with the Jacksonians) rose and fell. In 1834,...
12) David Crockett
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
℗2011.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the legendary frontiersman, soldier, and martyr examines his life--from hunting bears in the unspoiled countryside to helping defend the Alamo--and aims to dispel long-held myths.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
While the Woman's Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was wielding influence unprecedented for a woman in Washington, D.C. Yet, while history remembers the women of the convention, it has all but forgotten Sarah Polk. Now, in her riveting biography, Amy S. Greenberg brings Sarah's story into vivid focus. We see Sarah as the daughter of a frontiersman who raised her to discuss politics and business...
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