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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Helen Keller, Joseph E. Davies, Cordell Hull, George Dewey, Frank Billings Kellogg. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Helen Adams Keller (27 juin 1880 à Tuscumbia, Alabama - 1 juin 1968) était une écrivaine, activiste et conférencière américaine. Bien qu'elle fût sourde et aveugle, elle parvint à obtenir un diplôme universitaire. Sa détermination a suscité l'admiration, principalement aux États-Unis. En février 1882, à 19 mois, elle contracte une fièvre qui la rend sourde et aveugle à la fois. Brusquement coupée du monde, ses parents la croient muette. Plus tard, en 1887, ses parents font appel à Ann Mansfield Sullivan, jeune femme dont ils avaient entendu parler. Trop jeune à leur goût, Ann doit s'imposer. Elle s'engage à rester un temps déterminé, et à partir sans rien demander si rien n'évolue d'ici là. Les parents d'Helen cédant toujours à ses caprices, Ann n'avait aucune influence sur elle. Elle réussit à s'isoler avec Helen dans une grange. Durant plusieurs jours, elle consacre son temps à lui esquisser des signes dans la paume de la main juste avant de lui montrer un objet. Cet isolement permet à Ann de laisser Helen faire ses crises quand elle n'a pas ce qu'elle veut, pensant qu'elle finirait par utiliser des signes pour demander un objet précis. À la fin du temps accordé par les parents, Helen n'a fait aucun progrès en ce qui concerne la communication. Aussitôt rentrée chez ses parents, elle fait une crise qu'Ann ne supporte pas : elle lui vide un seau d'eau sur la tête. C'est alors qu'Helen comprend et se met à faire le signe de l'eau. Ann Sullivan a réussi son pari. Par la suite, elle lui apprend à lire, à parler et à écrire. Helen Keller étudie à la faculté de Radcliff College et dev...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sabur? Kurusuwas a Japanese career diplomat. He is remembered now as an envoy who tried to negotiate peace and understanding with the United States while Japan was secretly preparing the attack on Pearl Harbor. The attempt to preserve peace didn't work out. As Imperial Japan's ambassador to Germany from 1939 to November 1941, he signed the Tripartite Pact along with the foreign ministers of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on September 27, 1940. ... Read more

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Chapters: Howard Dean, Chris Dodd, Henry M. Jackson, Terry Mcauliffe, Tim Kaine, Ed Rendell, Cordell Hull, Paul G. Kirk, Robert Schwarz Strauss, James Farley, Larry O'brien, Robert Milligan Mclane, August Belmont, Homer Stille Cummings, Abram Stevens Hewitt, Calvin S. Brice, Ron Brown, Roy Romer, John J. Raskob, Fred R. Harris, Charles Taylor Manatt, David Wilhelm, J. Howard Mcgrath, Donald Fowler, Vance C. Mccormick, William Henry Barnum, John Moran Bailey, Robert E. Hannegan, Thomas Taggart, William M. Boyle, Edward J. Flynn, John C. White, Kenneth M. Curtis, Stephen A. Mitchell, William F. Harrity, James Kimbrough Jones, Norman Edward Mack, Steve Grossman, Joe Andrew, Benjamin F. Hallett, Frank Comerford Walker, George White, David Allen Smalley, Frank E. Mckinney, Jean Westwood, Augustus Schell, William Mccombs, Debra Delee, Paul Butler, Clem L. Shaver. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 267. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Before entering politics, Dean earned his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1978. Dean was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1982 and was elected lieutenant governor in 1986. Both were part-time positions that enabled him to continue practicing medicine. In 1991, Dean became governor of Vermont when Richard A. Snelling died in office. Dean was subsequently elected to five two-year terms, serving from 1991 to 2003, making him the second longest-serving governor in Vermont history, after Thom...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5049103 ... Read more

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Chapters: Herbert Hoover, Al Smith, William Z. Foster, Norman Thomas, Cordell Hull, James Eli Watson, Frederick Steiwer, Frank T. Johns, Hanford Macnider, Newton D. Baker, Frank Orren Lowden, Frank B. Willis, James A. Reed, William F. Varney. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 123. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (19291933). Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted government intervention under the rubric "economic modernization". In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected office experience. To date, Hoover is the last cabinet secretary to be directly elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents (along with William Howard Taft) to have been elected President without electoral experience or high military rank. The nation was prosperous and optimistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat Al Smith. Hoover, a trained engineer, deeply believed in the Efficiency Movement, which held that government and the economy were riddled with inefficiency and waste, and could be improved by experts who could identify the problems and solve them. When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, none of which produced economic recovery during his term. The consensus among historians is that Hoover's defeat in the 1932 election was caused primarily by failure to end the downward economic spiral. As a result of these factors,...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13682 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 669 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a comprehensive overview of the Great Depression, this wide-ranging, multidisciplinary encyclopedia features entries on Depression-era politics, government, business, economics, literature, the arts, society, and culture. ... Read more

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Chapters: Byrdstown, Tennessee, Dale Hollow Reservoir, Cordell Hull Birthplace State Park, Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Pickett State Park, Wolf River, Moodyville, Tennessee, Olympus, Tennessee, Love Lady, Tennessee, Midway, Pickett County, Tennessee. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Byrdstown, Tennessee -Byrdstown is located at (36.572585, -85.137088). The town is situated on the Highland Rim a few miles east of Dale Hollow Lake. Byrdstown is traversed by Tennessee State Route 325, which travels east-to-west across the northern part of the state. Recently, the town has grown westward to TN-325's junction with Tennessee State Route 111. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.5 square miles (4.0 km²), all of it land. The Byrdstown area is drained by the Wolf River. As of the census of 2000, there were 903 people, 395 households, and 233 families residing in the town. The population density was 587.5 people per square mile (226.4/km²). There were 460 housing units at an average density of 299.3/sq mi (115.3/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 98.12% White, 0.22% African American, 0.44% Native American, and 1.22% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.55% of the population. There were 395 households out of which 24.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.7% were married couples living together, 14.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.0% were non-families. 37.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 18.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.11 and the average family size was 2.80. In the town the population was spread out with 19.8% under the age of 18, 9....More: http://booksllc.net/?id=135323 ... Read more

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in connection with his trip to South America to attend the Inter-American Conference for the maintenance of peace held at Buenos Aires, Dec 1-23 1936. Publication 1019 Conference Series No. 31 ... Read more