Vowell, Sarah:Assassination Vacation
- signiertes Exemplar 2008, ISBN: 9780743260039
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Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2008. BN6 - A first edition (numberline starts at "1") hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Ann Liberman to previous owner on… Mehr…
Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2008. BN6 - A first edition (numberline starts at "1") hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Ann Liberman to previous owner on the top right corner of the front free endpaper in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some some bumped corners, patch stain on the bottom of the front endpapers, previous owner's inscription written on the middle of the front free endpaper, light discoloration and shelf wear. Photographs by Alise O'Brien, Foreword by Governor Jeb Bush. 10.5"x8.75", 230 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. From the Greek Revival architecture found in Mississippi to the Queen Anne style of North Carolina, governors' mansions in the American South convey a passion for antiquity, as well as a regional elegance. Ann Liberman, author of Governors' Mansions of the Midwest, spent much of her life in Texas and admires the remarkable architecture of the antebellum South - a respect that she now brings to her newest book. Governors' Mansions of the South is devoted to the eleven states of the old Confederacy, plus Kentucky and West Virginia, and offers a brick-and-mortar reflection of the region's rich history. It includes the country's oldest governor's mansion in continuous use, in Virginia, plus two built as recently as the 1960s, in Louisiana and Georgia. These mansions reflect an architectural cohesiveness found throughout the South, as Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival styles imbue antebellum houses with a classical aura, while others built in the first quarter of the twentieth century reflect the monumental eclectic styles of the Beaux Arts era. Liberman provides readers with a room-by-room guided tour of each of the buildings as she comments on their architecture, symbolism, and lore. She places the mansions in historical context, describing how their locations were chosen, how they were designed and decorated, and how they have been preserved, lost, or transformed over the years. While focusing primarily on the buildings themselves, she also highlights those governors and their wives who played significant roles in the mansions' maintenance or renovation. Alise O'Brien's accompanying color photographs capture the lavish interiors and furnishings as well as the dignified exteriors and landscapes. "Living in the Governor's Mansion is a remarkable honor," writes former governor of Florida Jeb Bush in his foreword, "but it is also a constant, humbling reminder that the people who occupy the mansions are, indeed, the public's servants." For site visitors or architecture buffs, Governors' Mansions of the South is an enlightening introduction to these historic executive homes, reminding us that, however opulent, they provide a personal connection between the public and its government - and connect past generations to the present.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall., University of Missouri Press, 2008, 3, Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2008. BP6 - A first edition (numberline starts at "1") hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Photographs by Alise O'Brien, Foreword by Governor Jeb Bush. 10.5"x8.75", 230 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. From the Greek Revival architecture found in Mississippi to the Queen Anne style of North Carolina, governors' mansions in the American South convey a passion for antiquity, as well as a regional elegance. Ann Liberman, author of Governors' Mansions of the Midwest, spent much of her life in Texas and admires the remarkable architecture of the antebellum South - a respect that she now brings to her newest book. Governors' Mansions of the South is devoted to the eleven states of the old Confederacy, plus Kentucky and West Virginia, and offers a brick-and-mortar reflection of the region's rich history. It includes the country's oldest governor's mansion in continuous use, in Virginia, plus two built as recently as the 1960s, in Louisiana and Georgia. These mansions reflect an architectural cohesiveness found throughout the South, as Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival styles imbue antebellum houses with a classical aura, while others built in the first quarter of the twentieth century reflect the monumental eclectic styles of the Beaux Arts era. Liberman provides readers with a room-by-room guided tour of each of the buildings as she comments on their architecture, symbolism, and lore. She places the mansions in historical context, describing how their locations were chosen, how they were designed and decorated, and how they have been preserved, lost, or transformed over the years. While focusing primarily on the buildings themselves, she also highlights those governors and their wives who played significant roles in the mansions' maintenance or renovation. Alise O'Brien's accompanying color photographs capture the lavish interiors and furnishings as well as the dignified exteriors and landscapes. "Living in the Governor's Mansion is a remarkable honor," writes former governor of Florida Jeb Bush in his foreword, "but it is also a constant, humbling reminder that the people who occupy the mansions are, indeed, the public's servants." For site visitors or architecture buffs, Governors' Mansions of the South is an enlightening introduction to these historic executive homes, reminding us that, however opulent, they provide a personal connection between the public and its government - and connect past generations to the present.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall., University of Missouri Press, 2008, 3, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Third Printing, Stated. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. David Levinthal (Jacket photograph). Bennett Mill. [12], 258, [2] pages. Illustrations. Preface, Four Chapters, and Acknowledgments. Her book Assassination Vacation (2005) describes a road trip to tourist sites devoted to the murders of presidents Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield and William McKinley. In this book, Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. She takes us on a trip like no other--a journey to the pit stops of American political murder, and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advance. From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically important blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism. We learn about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went into the making of the Lincoln Memorial. Though the themes of loss and violence are explored, and we see how the Republican Party became the Republican Party, there are lighter diversions along the way into the lives of the three presidents and their assassins, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, and a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult. While most of the book is devoted to the assassinated presidents, Vowell intersperses anecdotes of her self-proclaimed "pilgrimage" of presidential assassinations, including a production of the musical Assassins. Sarah Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress. She has written seven nonfiction books on American history and culture. She was a contributing editor for the radio program This American Life on Public Radio International from 1996 to 2008, where she produced numerous commentaries and documentaries and toured the country in many of the program's live shows. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: What do you get when a woman who's obsessed with death and U.S. history goes on vacation? This is a wacky, weirdly enthralling exploration of the first three presidential assassinations. Vowell takes readers on a pilgrimage of sorts to the sites and monuments that pay homage to Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley, visiting everything from grave sites and simple plaques to places like the National Museum of Health and Medicine, where fragments of Lincoln's skull are on display. An expert tour guide, Vowell brings into sharp focus not only the figures involved in the assassinations, but the social and political circumstances that led to each-and she does so in the witty, sometimes irreverent manner. Thus, readers learn not only about how Garfield found himself caught between the Stalwarts and the Half-Breeds, bitterly divided factions of the Republican party, but how his assassin, Charles Guiteau was a supporter of the Stalwarts and an occasional member of the Oneida Community. Vowell also draws frequent connections between past events and the present, noting similarities between McKinley's preemptive war against Cuba and the Philippines and the war in Iraq. This is history at its most morbid and most fascinating and one can thoroughly enjoy this unusual tour., Simon & Schuster, 2005, 3<
