Tradutor T. Bailey Saunders
Editora: Project Gutenberg
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His name is carved in granite, his likeness cast in bronze, his legend as large as the role he played as America's first president. But before he was a commander-in-chief, George Washington was a general in a revolution that would decide the future of the people and land he called his own. If victorious, he would gain immortality. If defeated, he would find his neck in a hangman's noose. Washington knew the sting of defeat—at Brandywine, at Germantown—yet this unwavering leadership and his vision for a new and independent nation emboldened an army prepared to fight barefoot if necessary to win that independence. Wrote an officer after the Battle of Princeton: "I saw him brave all the dangers of the field and his important life hanging as it were by a single hair with a thousand deaths flying around him." Among America's pantheon of Founding Fathers, one man to this day stands out. Author Paul Vickery tracks the unlikely rise of Washington, a man whose stature in command of a young army became prelude to a presidency. As Vickery writes, "He learned to become the father of our country by first being the father of our military." Accompanying images are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.Ver livro
MADONNA: BOOK OF QUOTES - ABOUT MADONNA Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Referred to as the "Queen of Pop", she is regarded as one of the most influential figures in popular culture. Madonna is noted for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, songwriting, and visual presentation. She is also known for pushing the boundaries of artistic expression in mainstream music while remaining completely in charge of every aspect of her career. Her works, which incorporate social, political, sexual, and religious themes, have generated both critical acclaim and controversy. Madonna is often cited as an influence by other artists. - QUOTES SAMPLES “I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.” — “When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.” — “I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.” — “One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.” — “I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.” — “I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.” — “I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.”Ver livro
Emmaus: The Nature of the Way is a series of journal entries from 22 Jesuit Priests as they recount personal stories of doubt, death, addiction, love, and peace. An Author's Republic audio production.Ver livro
Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land—lie largely eroded and lost. In this provocative and powerful mosaic of personal journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time, Savoy explores how the country's still unfolding history, and ideas of "race," have marked her and the land. From twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from "Indian Territory" and the U.S.-Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons.Ver livro
Buy now to get the key takeaways from Jeff Benedict's Tiger Woods. Sample Key Takeaways: 1) On Friday, November 27, 2009, Tiger Woods’s life changed forever. His downfall would be one of the harshest ever witnessed. 2) On that night, while he was sleeping, his suspicious wife went through his phone and discovered he had been cheating on her. He woke up to her screaming and fled his house, barely dressed.Ver livro
Former president Ulysses S. Grant fell on hard times in his dying days - his family’s fortunes decimated by Ponzi scheme investments - and the general’s last hope was that these memoirs might provide a small inheritance for his surviving wife and children. More than that, Grant’s memoirs remain among the most unique and insightful histories of 19th-century U.S. military campaigns, drawing on the author’s experiences in the Civil War and Mexican-American War. Fluid performer Peter Johnson captures the honest forthrightness and concise clarity that define Grant’s work in stark contrast to other Victorian military histories. Listeners are treated to Grant’s account of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, and his surprising indictment of American motives in the country’s war against Mexico.Ver livro
