Alexander, Shana:Anyone's Daughter
- gebunden oder broschiert 2012, ISBN: 9780670129492
Boston: Woman's Charity Club, 1897. Book. Good+. Original Wraps. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 48 p. Frontis.., Woman's Charity Club, 1897, 2.5, H… Mehr…
Boston: Woman's Charity Club, 1897. Book. Good+. Original Wraps. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 48 p. Frontis.., Woman's Charity Club, 1897, 2.5, Havertown,, Pennsylvania: Casemate Publishers, 2012. First Printing . Hard Back. Fine/Fine. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4. 371 Pages Indexed. Brand new book with protective vinyl Demco Polyfit since purchase date. No commander during the Civil War is more closely identified with the cavalier mystique as Major General J.E.B. (Jeb) Stuart. And none played a more prominent role during the brief period when the hopes of the nascent Confederacy were at their apex, when it appeared as though the Army of Northern Virginia could not be restrained from establishing Southern nationhood. Jeb Stuart was not only successful in leading Robert E. Lee s cavalry in dozens of campaigns and raids, but for riding magnificent horses, dressing outlandishly, and participating in balls and parties that epitomized the moonlight and magnolia image of the Old South. Longstreet reported that at the height of the Battle of Second Manasses, Stuart rode off singing, If you want to have good time, jine the cavalry. Porter Alexander remembered him singing, in the midst of the miraculous victory at Chancellorsville, Old Joe Hooker, won t you come out of the Wilderness? Stuart was blessed with an unusually positive personality always upbeat, charming, boisterous, and humorous, remembered as the only man who could make Stonewall Jackson laugh, reciting poetry when not engaged in battle, and yet never using alcohol or other stimulants. Year of Glory focuses on the twelve months in which Stuart s reputation was made, following his career on an almost day-to-day basis from June 1862, when Lee took command of the army, to June 1863, when Stuart turned north to regain a glory slightly tarnished at Brandy Station, but found Gettysburg instead. It is told through the eyes of the men who rode with him, as well as Jeb s letters, reports, and anecdotes handed down over 150 years. It was a year like no other, filled with exhilaration at the imminent creation of a new country. This was a period when it could hardly be imagined that the cause, and Stuart himself, could dissolve into grief, Jeb ultimately separated from the people he cherished most., Casemate Publishers, 2012, 5, New York: The Viking Press, 1979. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining). DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining); In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The Times and Trials of Patty Hearst. BOOK NUMBER: 0579. JACKET DESIGN BY: Mel Brofman. CONTENTS: Opening Reflection; January 26-February 2 Week One; February 2-8 Week Two; February9-15 Week Three; February 16-22 Week Four; February 23-29 Week Five; March 1-7 Week Six; March 8-14 Week Seven; March 15-21 Week Eight; Closing Reflections; Index. SYNOPSIS: For Shana Alexander, Patty Hearst's abduction was, as she says, "the journalistic event of a lifetime." Ms. Alexander sensed from the beginning that despite heavy newspaper and book coverage, the Hearst case was misconceived and misunderstood, and she grasped its relationship to what was occurring elsewhere in America as no one else did. In Anyone's Daughter she has written about it (including every day of the trial) with a depth, a precision, and an imaginative comprehension that bring the fantastic tale into focus for the first time. The Patty Hearst case was the quintessential news story of the early 1970s. Played out during the desperate twilight of the Nixon administration, as the country was also enduring the last pangs of the Vietnam War, it is a story about truth-telling and misdirection, about shame and pride, about Americans divided among themselves. It is also a story about mothers and daughters, about generational conflict. It is a drama of the sexual and political currents running between the nation's new homegrown terrorists and the middle class that spawned them, between men and women, between blacks and whites. It is a linguistic puzzle in which all the figures--the Hearsts, the Symbionese Liberation Army, law-enforcement officers, defense attorneys, black prisoners, psychiatrists, and reporters--meet in a Tower of Babel of mutual incomprehension. It is a drama of deep feeling, yet, strangely, it lacks a hero--and a heroine, too. Lastly, it is a media event: the abduction, trial, imprisonment, and eventual freeing of William Randolph Hearst's granddaughter took place in public and were shaped by daily exposure in the press. Ms. Alexander's triumph is to reveal these profoundly American aspects of the case in a dramatic and powerful account of Patty Hearst's trial. Far more than a brilliant courtroom drama, Anyone's Daughter is a vivid, sometimes hilarious, often heartrending book about America today. Shana Alexander has been an outstanding American journalist for many years. A career that began at the distinguished New York newspaper PM led to ten years as a reporter and columnist at Life and Newsweek magazines and to her position, since 1975, as a regular commentator on the CBS-TV news program Sixty Minutes. She is the author of several books, including a state-by-state guide to women's legal rights (now being prepared in revised form with the cooperation of the NOW Legal Defense Fund). Ms. Alexander is currently at work on a biography of her father, the composer Milton Ager.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall., The Viking Press, 1979, 2.5<
