David Nasaw
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined—primary source materials from cities across...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel ... Carnegie, the son of an impoverished linen weaver, moved to Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen. The embodiment of the American dream, he pulled himself up from bobbin boy in a cotton factory to become the richest man in the world. He spent the rest of his life giving away the fortune he had accumulated and crusading for international peace....
Publisher
Travel Channel
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
This is the ultimate video tour of Hearst Castle. Relive the history, excitement and glamour of the past! Visit the buildings, rooms, gardens and places the public never goes. With your host and guide, William Randolph Hearst's granddaughter, Patricia Hearst.