Ron Powers
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 360 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia. From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the anti-psychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xi, 722 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Mark Twain, Ron Powers consummates years of research with a tour de force on the life of our culture's founding father. He offers Sam Clemens as he lived, breathed, and wrote. With the assistance of the Mark Twain Project at Berkeley, he has drawn on thousands of letters and notebook entries, many only recently discovered. Sam Clemens left his frontier boyhood in Missouri for a life on the Mississippi during the golden age of steamboats. He skirted...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America
In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the...
In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the...
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertianment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen [ed.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
[Full screen ed.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
