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America Day by Day is a 1948 book by Simone de Beauvoir chronicling her trip by road across the United States of America over four months in 1947. [1] [2] It was published in French in 1948 with an English translation in 1953. A new translation in English by Carol Cosman with a foreword by Douglas Brinkley was published in 1999 by the ...
Horatio Nelson Jackson (March 25, 1872 – January 14, 1955) was an American physician, Army medical officer, and automobile pioneer.In 1903, he and his hired mechanic and driving partner Sewall K. Crocker became the first people to drive an automobile across the United States, a road trip from San Francisco to New York City, with additional miles travelled to his home in Vermont.
Project 2025 is the road map for a second Trump administration. There might be lots of attractive sights along the drive, but the destination is an ugly and embittered America that is largely ...
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip is a 2003 documentary film directed by Ken Burns and written by Dayton Duncan.Its subject is the first cross-country automobile journey in the United States, which occurred during the summer of 1903.
The book was aimed at undergraduate students, other readers appreciated its qualities. For example, historian George Fort Milton admired Hicks's "capacity for extraordinary compression without at the same time either getting the style too bare-bones for pleasurable reading; or the facts too black-and-white for the necessary implications of ...
Garland's book dedication is a story in itself: "To my father and mother, whose half-century pilgrimage on the main travelled road of life has brought them only toil and deprivation, this book of stories is dedicated by a son to whom every day brings a deepening sense of his parents' silent heroism". [2]
James Vann (c. 1762–64 – February 19, 1809) was a Cherokee leader, one of the triumvirate with Major Ridge and Charles R. Hicks, who led the Upper Towns of East Tennessee and North Georgia as part of the ᎤᏪᏘ ᏣᎳᎩ ᎠᏰᎵ (Uwet Tsalag Ayetl or Old Cherokee Nation).
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK Both the public and corporate workshops are half-day events, but over the years many people have been doing the workshop on their own, usually taking about three hours to get through the 10 questions. Watching them succeed so well on their own helped me realize this really can be a simple do-it-yourself process.