First Person Past: American Autobiographies, Volume 2

Name: First Person Past: American Autobiographies, Volume 2
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ISBN: 9781881089988

ISBN-10: 1881089983

ISBN-13: 9781881089988

Edition: 2nd 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Marian Morton, Russell Duncan

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The novelist William Dean Howells described autobiography as the most democratic of American literary genres. Autobiography has offered a voice to women, African Americans, Native Americans, and others whose writings have often been excluded from the literary canon.The men and women presented here observed, shaped, or participated in many of the most exciting and important events of American history. First Person Past lets them speak for themselves. From the hundreds of American autobiographies, the editors have chosen twelve for each of Volumes I and II of First Person Past because they are interesting history and good literature. Their literary and historical virtues have been preserved…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/23/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.10" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Introduction.



Sufferings of the Rev. T. G. Campbell and His Family, in Georgia: Tunis Gulic Campbell.



Black Elk SpeakscBlack Elk.



Autobiography




Up from Slavery




The Promised Land




Autobiography of Mother




Confessions of a Reformer




The Story of a Pioneer




Bound for Glory




Nisei Daughter




Coming of Age in Mississippi




Born on the Fourth of July:



Bibliography