David Laskin
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xi, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the 20th century through the story of an extraordinary Jewish family, recounting how the author's 19th-century ancestors were separated by period upheavals in western Russia and went on to become the founders of the Maidenform Bra Company, pioneers in the contentious birth of Israel, and victims of the Holocaust.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
xiii, 383 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In tracing the roots of his own family, Laskin captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century. He honors the traditions, the lives, and the choices of his ancestors: revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, scholars and farmers, tycoons and truck drivers. In doing so he creates a deeply personal, dramatic, and emotional account of people caught in a cataclysmic time in world history.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©1994
Physical Desc
460 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this splendid group portrait, David Laskin tells the stories of four friendships that helped to define the course of American literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Written with uncommon grace and insight, A Common Life is a fascinating narrative of the entanglements of art and life, and an illuminating study of the nature of...
