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Author | : Joel Achenbach |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780684848570 |
Looking down upon the Potomac from his verandah at Mount Vernon, recently retired General George Washington imagined a route through the mountains to the vastness of the West. He was wrong about the river, but not about his country's destiny.
Author | : Joel Achenbach |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2005-06-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780743263009 |
The Grand Idea follows George Washington in the critical period immediately after the War of Independence. The general had great hopes for his young nation, but also grave fears. He worried that the United States was so fragmented politically and culturally that it would fall apart, and that the "West," beyond the Appalachian mountains, would become a breakaway republic. So he came up with an ambitious scheme: He would transform the Potomac River into the nation's premier commercial artery, binding East and West, bolstering domestic trade, and staving off disunion. This was no armchair notion. Washington saddled up and rode west on a 680-mile trek to the raucous frontier of America. Achenbach captures a Washington rarely seen: rugged frontiersman, real estate speculator, shrewd businessman. Even after his death, Washington's grand ambition inspired heroic engineering feats, including an audacious attempt to build a canal across the mountains to the Ohio River. But the country needed more than commercial arteries to hold together, and in the Civil War, the general's beloved river became a battlefield between North and South. Like such classics as Undaunted Courage and Founding Brothers, Achenbach's riveting portrait of a great man and his grand plan captures the imagination of the new country, the passions of an ambitious people, and the seemingly endless beauty of the American landscape.
Author | : Jenna Glatzer |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2015-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1479571652 |
"Discusses George Ferris' invention of the Ferris Wheel and the man behind it, including the idea, the obstacles, and the eventual success"--
Author | : Jenna Glatzer |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2015-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 147957161X |
"Discusses George Ferris' invention of the Ferris Wheel and the man behind it, including the idea, the obstacles, and the eventual success"--
Author | : Robert G. Lee |
Publisher | : WordCrafts Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2021-03-18 |
Genre | : Humor |
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What's the Big Idea? is a smart aleck's commentary on the intersection between faith and science told through the lens of the author's own personal journey of belief. It uses both humor and heart to lay out overwhelming evidence for the existence of an Intelligent Designer. This book is aimed at our current short attention span society that is fluent in both cynicism and sarcasm. People who appreciate The Onion and The Babylon Bee will enjoy the satirical approach the author uses when he dissects both science and religion. Readers of The Case for Christ will be drawn to the well-researched information explaining why Christianity is a faith founded on reason and intellect while Christian parents of teens and millennials will appreciate a book they can share with their children that proves theirs is not a mindless faith. Throughout the book, the reader will be stunned by the awe-inspiring amount of precise fine tuning our world and universe demand as well as be amazed at how much information they've totally forgotten since high school.
Author | : Joseph Beaumont |
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Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1867 |
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Author | : Rachel S. Stahle |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1630874485 |
Even though Jonathan Edwards is arguably America's greatest theologian, the content and value of his work remains a mystery to most. Stahle systematizes and summarizes Edwards's biblically grounded thought in contemporary language and makes Edwards accessible to pastors, students, and church study groups. Edwards's conceptions of the Trinity are explained in detail and shown to be the basis for the rest of his theology, including his ideas about sin, salvation, holiness, the purpose of history, Scripture, revivals of religion, heaven and hell, and the church. Reflection and study questions are provided to enrich comprehension and demonstrate the relevance of Edwards's theology for contemporary life. The wealth of this Puritan's personal piety and intellectual brilliance is no longer beyond the reach of twenty-first century Christians.
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Total Pages | : 790 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : England |
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Author | : Justin Tully |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2010-05-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1445766132 |
Tales Of The Wildman is an action packed adventure novel that follows a fictional myth regarding a Wildman that has long since been rumoured to be living in and around Taunton Forest.The students and teachers from Willowside School are in Taunton for a school trip. This is where they both hear and fear the Wildman for the first time. Everyone else in and around Taunton has some kind of story to tell about the Wildman most come into contact with as children.After some disturbances just over the fence from the Hive Hotel that Willowside School are staying at, the police officers are called in to see what's making everyone in the area suddenly on edge.The only question is whether or not Willowside School will make it back to Highams Park in London without losing any members of its group...
Author | : Frank Marshall Davis |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2024-02-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0252055527 |
Black Moods collects for the first time all of Frank Marshall Davis’s extant published poems as well as his previously unpublished work. From sharp-edged sketches of Southside Chicago’s urban landscape to the prismatic world that lay beneath Hawaii’s placid surface, Davis’s muscular poems blend social, cultural, and political concerns--always shaped by his promise to “try to be as direct as good blues.” John Edgar Tidwell’s introduction examines both Davis’s poetry and his politics, presenting a subtle portrait of a complex writer devoted to exposing discriminatory practices and reaffirming the humanity of the common people.