Sidney Dyer's Books

Victory Is Yours!

By: Ccp Sidney Taylor

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This work is a powerful tool designed to help teenagers and their parents find direction and solutions in one of the most pivotal and impressionable times of their life. This is done by the author's decision to share knowledge gained from his many years of direct experience in dealing with the nation's at-risk juvenile population. Portions of the profits (10%) will be donated to Heifer International to feed those in need in America and around the world.

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0578013967

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9780578013961

A Self-Made Man

The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849

By: Sidney Blumenthal

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A Self-Made Man

The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849

By: Sidney Blumenthal

The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincoln—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliation—“engaging and informative and…thought-provoking” (The Christian Science Monitor). From his youth as a voracious newspaper reader, Abraham Lincoln became a free thinker, reading Tom Paine, as well as Shakespeare and the Bible. In the “fascinating” (Booklist, starred review) A Self-Made Man, Sidney Blumenthal reveals how Lincoln’s antislavery thinking began in his childhood in backwoods Kentucky and Indiana. Intensely ambitious, he held political aspirations from his earliest years. Yet he was a socially awkward suitor who had a nervous breakdown over his inability to deal with the opposite sex. His marriage to the upper class Mary Todd was crucial to his social aspirations and his political career. “The Lincoln of Blumenthal’s pen is…a brave progressive facing racist assaults on his religion, ethnicity, and very legitimacy that echo the anti-Obama birther movement….Blumenthal takes the wily pol of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln and Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals and goes deeper, finding a Vulcan logic and House of Cards ruthlessness” (The Washingtonian). Based on prodigious research of Lincoln’s record, and of the period and its main players, Blumenthal’s robust biography reflects both Lincoln’s time and the struggle that consumes our own political debate. This first volume traces Lincoln from his birth in 1809 through his education in the political arts, rise to the Congress, and fall into the wilderness from which he emerged as the man we recognize as Abraham Lincoln. “Splendid…no one can come away from reading A Self-Made Man…without eagerly anticipating the ensuing volumes.” (Washington Monthly).

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576

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Simon and Schuster

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1476777276

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9781476777276

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia)

By: Philip Sidney

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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia)

By: Philip Sidney

Two young princes, Pyrocles and Musidorus, disguise themselves as an Amazon and a shepherd to gain access to the Arcadian Princesses, who have been taken into semi-imprisonment by their father to avoid the dangers foretold by an oracle. The text was a vehicle for Sidney's ideas on versification.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019283956X

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9780192839565

Jewish Combatants in the Wars of Early America

American Jewish Combatants in the Wars of Early America : All Were Military Casualties--killed, Wounded, Taken Prisoner, Or Seriously Ill in Line of Duty, During the Early Days of the American Republic, 1776-1865

By: Sidney R. Weinberg

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Jewish Combatants in the Wars of Early America

By: Sidney R. Weinberg

Jewish Combatants in the Wars of Early America In this book each Chapter describes and discusses a different Jewish man who volunteered for duty in the American Armed Forces of the Revolutionary War and later in the forces of the United States of America. The book is in chronological order starting with men who fought in the Revolutionary War and ending with those who fought in the Civil War. However, the Jewish presence in North America was present earlier, in the Colonial Period. Whether it is coincidence or not, the year 1492 was the year that Columbus sailed from Spain to discover the American continent and was also the year the Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain started the infamous Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition decried that all heretics: Jews, Moslems, and Protestant Christians were to be burnt at the stake. Although many Jews left Spain to avoid conversion, many accepted Christianity and were labeled by the Spaniards, Marrenos, or New Christians. There is much speculation that some of the crew of Columbus were Jews or Marranos. At any rate the New World attracted many Jews and Marranos in an effort to escape the Inquisition. So many of them settled in the Islands of the Caribbean Sea and the surrounding Continental countries that they called themselves The Nation. When the Dutch obtained their freedom from Spain, religious tolerance was proclaimed. Many Jews migrated there and prospered. What they looked like can be seen in the paintings by Rembrant. One family, the Salvadors, were among the founders of the Dutch West India Company and later forced the Governor of New Amsterdam, now New York, Peter Styuvsant, to admit three Jewish families from the Caribbean to settle in New Amsterdam. The first chapter of this book is devoted to a descendent of the Salvadors, named Francis, who was scalped in line of duty during the Revolutionary War. Despite much discrimination, one of the men discussed, Captain Uriah Phillips Levy, influenced American history in two ways. Primarily, he was a leader in the successful effort to stop flogging of sailors in the United States Navy. The other was that Captain Levy bought Monticello, the home of President Thomas Jefferson, after the President had died and Monticello had fallen in ruins. The mother of Captain Levy is buried in Monticello. As already mentioned, the earliest Jewish migration to what is now the United States was from the Caribbean area. These Sephardic Jews settled in the Southern areas, the Colonies of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia. Centuries later, when the Civil War began in the United States these Jewish families were Confederates. Their lives and their relationship to the post-Civil War Reconstruction period is discussed. As the records of all of these individuals and their families are not available, this book is not an encyclopedia of all the Jewish men who fought for their country in it's early Wars. I'm sure many important men were omitted. Perhaps as data becomes available others will be described. At the present, it is hoped that this volume will bring attention to the sacrifices that Jewish men made to the beginnings of the United States of America.

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0738846031

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9780738846033

The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney

By: Philip Sidney

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The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney

By: Philip Sidney

A fascinating glimpse of Elizabethan life and politics is provided by the first full edition of Sir Philip Sidney's correspondence. This young phenomenon-author, statesman, courtier, poet, and soldier-exchanged letters with some of the age's most influential figures. Includes general and textual introductions, biographical sketches, and notes." -- Blackwells.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199558221

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9780199558223

A Defence of Poesie and Poems

in large print

By: Philip Sidney

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A Defence of Poesie and Poems

in large print

By: Philip Sidney

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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3387015739

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9783387015737

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