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Author | : Joe Starita |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250085357 |
"An important and riveting story of a 19th-century feminist and change agent. Starita successfully balances the many facts with vivid narrative passages that put the reader inside the very thoughts and emotions of La Flesche." —Chicago Tribune On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received her medical degree—becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. She earned her degree thirty-one years before women could vote and thirty-five years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Native woman became the doctor to her tribe. Overnight, she acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 1,350 square miles of rolling countryside with few roads. Her patients often were desperately poor and desperately sick—tuberculosis, small pox, measles, influenza—families scattered miles apart, whose last hope was a young woman who spoke their language and knew their customs. This is the story of an Indian woman who effectively became the chief of an entrenched patriarchal tribe, the story of a woman who crashed through thick walls of ethnic, racial and gender prejudice, then spent the rest of her life using a unique bicultural identity to improve the lot of her people—physically, emotionally, politically, and spiritually. Joe Starita's A Warrior of the People is the moving biography of Susan La Flesche Picotte’s inspirational life and dedication to public health, and it will finally shine a light on her numerous accomplishments.
Author | : Michael R. Lemov |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2011-05-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1611470250 |
It is hard to believe that there was a time, not long ago, when there was no right to obtain government information, no protection against hazards in children's toys and other consumer products, no federal safety standards for motor vehicles, and no insurance to protect an investors' money and securities in brokerage accounts. These and other consumer rights were created only after fierce political battles in the decade between 1966 and 1976. People's Warrior is the untold story of that era and one of its towering leaders, Congressman John Moss. Based on previously undisclosed materials and interviews with key players of the time People's Warrior tells the story of a stormy decade in America, one in which key laws, such as the Freedom of Information Act and the Consumer Product Safety Act were enacted by Congress, despite overwhelming political opposition. It is also the improbable story of one man's life and determination. Moss fought for twelve years, against three presidents and at times his own party, for a freedom of information law that has stood the test of time and been copied around the world. Although at first stymied by special interests, he won sweeping consumer protection reforms. He went on to challenge Wall Street in an intense battle to enact major new investor protection laws. What happened to Moss and his progressive agenda in later decades, and what the future may bring for that agenda, make up the final part of this compelling story of a man and an era.
Author | : Joe Starita |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2016-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250085349 |
"An important and riveting story of a 19th-century feminist and change agent. Starita successfully balances the many facts with vivid narrative passages that put the reader inside the very thoughts and emotions of La Flesche." —Chicago Tribune On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received her medical degree—becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. She earned her degree thirty-one years before women could vote and thirty-five years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Native woman became the doctor to her tribe. Overnight, she acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 1,350 square miles of rolling countryside with few roads. Her patients often were desperately poor and desperately sick—tuberculosis, small pox, measles, influenza—families scattered miles apart, whose last hope was a young woman who spoke their language and knew their customs. This is the story of an Indian woman who effectively became the chief of an entrenched patriarchal tribe, the story of a woman who crashed through thick walls of ethnic, racial and gender prejudice, then spent the rest of her life using a unique bicultural identity to improve the lot of her people—physically, emotionally, politically, and spiritually. Joe Starita's A Warrior of the People is the moving biography of Susan La Flesche Picotte’s inspirational life and dedication to public health, and it will finally shine a light on her numerous accomplishments.
Author | : Steve Chandler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Distraction (Psychology) |
ISBN | : 9781600250378 |
Chandler's Time Warrior gives us a revolutionary, non-linear approach for dealing with time, as bold as it is fresh and new.
Author | : Todd Steven Burroughs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2017-11 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781937306601 |
Warrior Princess tells the story of Ida B. Wells, a young Black woman who decided to fight and protect Black people her entire life, and did so admirably. She was defiant, courageous, and committed to her life's work. She spoke, wrote, and organized. But more importantly, she learned to believe in herself and her mission.
Author | : Margaret MacMillan |
Publisher | : House of Anansi |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2015-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1487000073 |
Part of the CBC Massey Lectures Series In History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some little-known, who stand out for her. Some have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. Others are memorable for being risk-takers, adventurers, or observers. She looks at the concept of leadership through Bismarck and the unification of Germany; William Lyon MacKenzie King and the preservation of the Canadian Federation; Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the bringing of a unified United States into the Second World War. She also notes how leaders can make huge and often destructive mistakes, as in the cases of Hitler, Stalin, and Thatcher. Richard Nixon and Samuel de Champlain are examples of daring risk-takers who stubbornly went their own ways, often in defiance of their own societies. Then there are the dreamers, explorers, and adventurers, individuals like Fanny Parkes and Elizabeth Simcoe who manage to defy or ignore the constraints of their own societies. Finally, there are the observers, such as Babur, the first Mughal emperor of India, and Victor Klemperer, a Holocaust survivor, who kept the notes and diaries that bring the past to life. History’s People is about the important and complex relationship between biography and history, individuals and their times.
Author | : Leigh Ann Roberts |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595202942 |
He loved her from the first moment he saw her, and he knew that it would be his destiny to take care of her always. She was intrigued by him at first sight and wondered what place he would have in her life. Neither of them could know, however, what their lives would hold as the Arapaho warrior and the beautiful fair-skinned pioneer discovered each other amid the cruel realities of the westward expansion. Their nations were at war, their people were mortal enemies, and yet, they fell in love. He became her strength. She became his hope. Together they found a life of love despite their enemies, a place of peace despite the world around them, a united faith in God despite the differences of their heritage, and a hope for the future despite the ignorances of their day. He found in her the love of a woman. She found in him the love of a Warrior's Heart.
Author | : William E. Barnes |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2008-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1425123015 |
Bill Connors USMC must extract a secret agent from North Korea without the North Koreans knowledge. He organizes a secret Marine Intelligence unit. Marine 'Gung Ho' is used throughout.
Author | : Lawrence John Janis |
Publisher | : Balboa Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2021-01-29 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1982262605 |
A Lakota Warrior’s Heart is a poetry book about culture, life and love as seen from a Lakota poet’s perspective. His heartfelt and honest poetry is about the struggles and resilience of the Lakota people and about the way he perceived the beautiful Lakota way of life. He wrote his poems to give light to his truth and his life experiences. Hopefully by sharing his poetry it could help others find their own truth and light.
Author | : Robert Vera |
Publisher | : Thomas Nelson |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1400206790 |
An exhilarating story of a young Navy SEAL whose relentless faith transformed his life and inspired everyone who knew his courageous story. In A Warrior’s Faith, Ryan Job’s close friend, Robert Vera, recounts how the highly decorated Navy SEAL’s unstoppable sense of humor, positive attitude, and fierce determination helped him survive after being shot in the face by an enemy sniper on a roof in Ramadi, Iraq. Though blinded, the irrepressible Job recovered from his wounds and began facing a new set of obstacles with his characteristic humor and resolve. He married the girl of his dreams, hunted elk, climbed Mt. Rainier, graduated college with honors, influenced countless people around him, and was looking forward to being a father—before his life was tragically cut short by a hospital medical error. Vera’s raw, often funny, and heartfelt account of his friend’s life offers readers a way to find hope in the middle of life’s raging storms.