George Washington Carver: Southern Biography Series
Autor Christina Vellaen Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 2022
Christina Vella offers a thorough biography of George Washington Carver, including in-depth details of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, supporters, and those he loved. Despite the exceptional trajectory of his career, Carver was not immune to the racism of the Jim Crow era or the privations and hardships of the Great Depression and two world wars. Yet throughout this tumultuous period, his scientific achievements aligned him with equally extraordinary friends, including Teddy Roosevelt, Mohandas Gandhi, Henry A. Wallace, and Henry Ford. In pursuit of the man behind the historical figure, Vella discovers an unassuming intellectual with a quirky sense of humor, striking eccentricities, and an unwavering religious faith. She explores Carver's anguished dealings with Booker T. Washington across their nineteen years working together at the Tuskegee Institute--a turbulent partnership often fraught with jealousy. Uneasy in personal relationships, Carver lost one woman he loved to suicide and, years later, directed his devotion toward a white man. A prodigious and generous scholar whose life was shaped by struggle and heartbreak as well as success and fame, George Washington Carver remains a key figure in the history of southern agriculture, botanical advancement, and the struggle for civil rights. Vella's extensively researched biography offers a complex and compelling portrait of one of the most brilliant men of the last century.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780807177198
ISBN-10: 0807177199
Pagini: 454
Dimensiuni: 153 x 229 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Twin Flame Productions LLC
Seria Southern Biography Series
ISBN-10: 0807177199
Pagini: 454
Dimensiuni: 153 x 229 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Twin Flame Productions LLC
Seria Southern Biography Series
Notă biografică
Christina Vella was the author of Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba, coauthor of The Hitler Kiss: A Memoir of the Czech Resistance, and a visiting professor at Tulane University.