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A captivating biography of two famous women whose sons, Winston
Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt, would change the course of the
20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray. Born into
upper class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano and Jennie
Jerome refused to settle into predictable, sheltered lives as
little-known wives to prominent men. Instead, both women
concentrated their energies on enabling their sons to reach the
epicentre of political power on two continents. In the mid-19th
century, the British Empire was at its height, France’s Second
Empire flourished and the industrial vigour of the USA was
catapulting the republic towards the Gilded Age. Sara and Jennie,
raised with privilege but subject to the constraints of women’s
roles at the time, learned how to take control of their destinies,
Sara in the prosperous Hudson Valley and Jennie in the glittering
world of Imperial London. Yet their personalities and
choices were dramatically different. A vivacious extrovert, Jennie
married Lord Randolph Churchill, rising politician and scion of a
noble British family. Her deft social and political manoeuvrings
helped not only her mercurial husband but, once she was widowed,
her ambitious son, Winston. By contrast, deeply conventional Sara
Delano married a man as old as her father. But once widowed, she
made Franklin, her only child, the focus of her existence. Thanks
in large part to her financial support and to her guidance,
Franklin acquired the skills he needed to become a successful
politician. Set against one hundred years of history, Passionate
Mothers, Powerful Sons is a study in loyalty and resilience. Gray
argues that Jennie and Sara are too often presented as lesser
figures rather than two remarkable individuals who were key in
shaping the characters of the sons who adored them, and preparing
them for leadership on the world stage. A masterful
biographer and acclaimed historian, Charlotte Gray breathes new
life into Sara and Jennie. Impeccably researched and filled with
intriguing social insights, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons
offers a fascinating and fulsome portrait of how leaders are not
just born but made.Â
Three girls find mystery on tiny Peach Island and have the
adventure of their lives...
While your best friend thinks she can save the world from crappy
sex, you are about to enter your senior year of high school never
having met someone you would be interested in kissing. That all
changes when a new boy comes to town. Jack is WAY too experienced
for you, but his smile makes you believe him when he claims to have
fallen for you. Then, in order to win a college scholarship, he
tells the most outrageous lie a teenage boy could imagine. Is he
just another a--hole?
Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a
grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America.
Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a
mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of more than thirty
thousand. The stampede to the Klondike was the last great gold rush
in history. Scurvy, dysentery, frostbite, and starvation stalked
all who dared to be in Dawson. And yet the possibilities attracted
people from all walks of life. "Gold Diggers" is the remarkable
story of the Klondike Gold Rush told through the lives of six very
different people: the miner William Haskell; the saintly priest
Father Judge; the savvy twenty-four-year-old businesswoman Belinda
Mulrooney; the imperious British journalist Flora Shaw;
spit-and-polish Sam Steele of the Mounties; and, most famous, the
writer Jack London, who left without gold but with the stories that
would make him a legend. Brilliantly interweaving their
experiences, Charlotte Gray presents a fascinating panorama of a
subarctic town, drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles,
and stories and handsomely illustrated with more than sixty
original photographs and maps.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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