Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 037

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 037

Published: 20-03-2015

Rating: 3.33

Language: Unknown

eBook status: Ignored   AudioBook status: Ignored

Sources

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GoodReads 49756697 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49756697
Amazon B0DM1XFSS8 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM1XFSS8

Description

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, blow-pipe weapons, Oriental china; impressions of America by Enrico Caruso, Oscar Wilde, and Charles W. Eliot; Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass; film directors Ernst Lubitsch and King Vidor; architect Louis Sullivan; Roe vs. Wade, women's rights; microphobia, the Boy Scouts, Kentucky's blue-grass region, and wintry weather. (Summary by Sue Anderson)