Mary Susannah Robbins

Earth, Air, Fire, and Water

A Memoir of the Sixties and Beyond

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Produktbeschreibung

This memoir chronicles the life of Mary Susannah Robbins_poet, activist, and devoted daughter of famous mathematician Herbert Robbins. Her antiwar activism, beginning with her experiences during the Vietnam War and continuing into the present with the Iraq War, has given her a perspective from which to tell a unique story of American life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780739127919
• ISBN-10: 0739127918
• Artikelnr.: 24886979

Autorenporträt

educational theorist, author, and distinguished professor of education and senior university scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Inhaltsangabe

1 Contents 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 1. Earth and Air and Fire and Water
Chapter 4 2. Herbert Robbins Chapter 5 3. Little Hollow Chapter 6 4. The
Party Chapter 7 5. Loss Chapter 8 6. Klee Chapter 9 7. Wayne Chapter 10 8.
Clio Chapter 11 9. Keith Chapter 12 10. A Question of Style Chapter 13 11.
At Home Abroad Chapter 14 12. Hanoi Chapter 15 13. An Electron Chapter 16
14. Debris Chapter 17 15. Why I Love Mistletoe Chapter 18 16. "Miss
American Pie" Chapter 19 17. A Matter of Taste Chapter 20 18. You'll Never
Be the Same Chapter 21 19. Fish Chapter 22 20. What It Isn't Chapter 23 21.
That Night Chapter 24 22. The Last Happy Man Chapter 25 23. Yard Sale
Chapter 26 24. "Old Men Should Be Explorers" Chapter 27 25. His Neck
Chapter 28 26. Tiananmen Square Chapter 29 27. Thanksgiving Chapter 30 28.
Staughton Lynd and Howard Zinn Chapter 31 29. Peace Chapter 32 30. Home