Resultaten voor 'vern'

1. Chester Verne Easum

The Americanization of Carl Schurz

1. Vernon Loggins

Where the Word Ends

The late Vernon Loggins was a well-known critic, biographer, fiction writer, and teacher. He received his doctorate from Columbia University and was a member of the faculty there, in addition to teaching at Chicago, Minnesota, New York University, and, in France, the Universities of Lille and Strasbourg. His numerous books include Chasons du Midi, The Negro Author, I Hear America, and The Hawthornes.

1. Vernon L. , Kellogg

Herbert Hoover: The Man and His Work

Vernon L. Kellogg's Herbert Hoover: The Man and His Work is an admiring yet documentary portrait of Hoover before the presidency, presenting him as engineer, organizer, and humanitarian administrator. Written in a lucid Progressive Era prose, the book emphasizes practical intelligence, moral efficiency, and public service, tracing Hoover's rise from mining engineer to leader of Belgian relief and American food conservation during the First World War. Its literary context is the early twentieth-century civic biography: less a private life than an account of character proven through public action. Kellogg was unusually well placed to write such a study. A distinguished Stanford biologist, educator, and public intellectual, he shared with Hoover both institutional connections and wartime administrative experience. His service in relief and food organizations gave him direct knowledge of the immense logistical and ethical pressures surrounding famine prevention, wartime scarcity, and international aid. These experiences shape the book's tone: informed, earnest, and convinced that competent organization could become a form of moral leadership. This volume is recommended to readers interested in Hoover before his later political controversies, as well as students of humanitarianism, Progressive reform, and wartime administration. It offers a valuable contemporary view of how Hoover's reputation was constructed around discipline, efficiency, and service.

1. Edmund Hope Verney

The Shannon's Brigade In India

1. Edmund Hope Verney

The Shannon's Brigade In India

1. Verne W , Newton

Cambridge Spies

Three British diplomats and spies, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, and Guy Burgess, did everything in their power to see to it that the Soviet Union prevailed in post-WWII clashes with the United States.