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Adamic, Louis was born on March 23, 1899 in village of Blato, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. Son of Anton and Ana (Adamic) Adamic.
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The Native's Return: An American Immigrant Visits Yugoslavia and Discovers His Old Country
(Here is the story of an American immigrant who went back ...)
Here is the story of an American immigrant who went back home and looked over one of the most interesting countries in the world with his American eyes and described it as certainly no European nor any American-born could have done. Unlike other books in which new Americans have written of old Europe, which have been just statistical or travel books, Louis Adamic's "The Native's Return" has story, poetry, keen criticism, pathos, humor, and tragedy. It is something that both America and the author's native Slovenia may be proud to have had a hand in. There is a poet in Louis Adamic, and a social philosopher, and a natural-born storyteller. "The Native's Return" is no legend. It is a narrative of homecoming, with death, marriage, joy, and sorrow in pictures of simple life that have a tear-making quality without one grain of sentimentality because the images are so fresh and genuine, and "surprised" - a perfect word to describe this keen young social student's discovery of the richness of the European soul which his hard-boiled America had almost forgotten. And it is, also, a gorgeous travel book - a procession of scenes down the lovely Dalmatian coast, into the professional-hero country of Montenegro, back of the beyond in the incredibly primitive regions lately conquered from the Turks, where Moslems are more Mohammedan than in Turkey, and on up into the "nouveau riche" boom town of Belgrade. And it has (all through this travel book) a keen and running commentary on race and custom and faith and personality, by an American who knew the real America of the masses as perhaps only a thoroughly Americanized immigrant can, as he now studies his own far-away people with that scrutiny which Marco Polo must have bent upon the Venetians when he came home after his years in China. For certainly no one can read "The Native's Return" without having Jugo-Slavia, its problems, its people, as well as its scenery, come to life through author Adamic's eyes.
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My America, 1928-1938
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Hardcover book.
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Allan Sekula: Facing the Music: Documenting Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Redevelopment of Downtown Los Angeles
(Allan Sekula (19512013), photographer, artist, filmmaker...)
Allan Sekula (19512013), photographer, artist, filmmaker, scholar, teacher and activist, devoted much of his life to the theory and practice of social documentary. This posthumous volume presents a collaborative exploration he initiated to examine downtown Los Angeles as its redevelopment peaked with the construction of Frank Gehry's cultural icon. Designed as an exploration of the impact of Gehry's building, the book challenges civic complacency by engaging a vital counter-tradition of social documentary investigation. Including a previously unpublished essay by Sekula on the challenges of representing the city, an interview with him about the 2005 exhibition Facing the Music which he curated for the gallery at REDCAT, and an overview of the building's history and the continuing urban transformations it has catalyzed, this publication is a unique record of social and artistic engagement in a metropolis often thought to inhibit such efforts.
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Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence In America
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"Dynamite harkens back to an era of American capitalism a little less glossy, a little bloodier, and with striking parallels to today."--Feminist Review Labor disputes have produced more violence over a longer period of time in the United States than in any other industrialized country in the world. From the 1890s to the 1930s, hardly a year passed without a seriousâ??and often deadlyâ??clash between workers and management. Written in the 1930s, and with a new introduction by Mike Davis, Dynamite recounts a fascinating and largely forgotten history of class and labor struggle in Americas industrial beginnings. It is the story of brutal exploitation, massacres, and judicial murders of the workers. It is also the story of their response: when peaceful strikes yielded no results, workers fought back by any means necessary. Louis Adamic has written the classic story of labor conflict in America, detailing many episodes of labor violence, including the Molly Maguires, the Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, Colorado Labor Wars, the Los Angeles Times bombing, as well as the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. Louis Adamic emigrated from Slovenia when he was fifteen years old and quickly joined the American labor force. The author of eleven books, he is now recognized as a great figure in early twentieth-century American literature. He was found shot to death in a burning farmhouse in 1954. Introduction by Jon Bekken, co-author of The Industrial Workers of the World: Its First Hundred Years, 19052005 and co-editor of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review.
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Laughing in the Jungle
(The autobiography of an immigrant in America.)
The autobiography of an immigrant in America.
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The Eagle and the Roots
(The Eagle and the Roots by Louis Adamic, Author of The Na...)
The Eagle and the Roots by Louis Adamic, Author of The Native's Return and From many Lands, Adamic's Last Book: A Brilliant account of Tito and Yugoslavia, Doubleday & Company, 1952, First Edition Stated. It is black cloth over boards with silver lettering on the spine. The dust jacket has been placed in an archival, clear, Mylar jacket for further protection and preservation. Here is a first hand report on Yugoslavia, combined with a detailed biographical account of Marshall Tito, leader of the country that now holds a crucial position in the continuing and growing world crisis. A Very INTERESTING Read! A-2
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Dinner at the White House (Classic Reprint)
(The Invitation SHOULD like a chance to talk to you read M...)
The Invitation SHOULD like a chance to talk to you read Mrs. Roosevelt stelegram dated January 9, 1942, and wonder if you would care to dine with me Tuesday the thirteenth at the White House and go to Philadelphia Orchestra concert at Constitution Hall, Toscanini conducting. Of course if Mrs. Adamic cares to come too I shall be delighted. If I care to come too! remarked Stella. The next day, a wire from Mrs. James M. Helm, permanent White House social secretary: Mrs. Roosevelt delighted you and Mrs. Adamic can come to dinner on Tuesday, January thirteenth. Black tie. Seven-thirty. I was fairly sure I knew what Mrs. Roosevelt wanted to talk about. In October 1941 I had published a book called Two-W ay Passage which interested her. A bout a week after Pearl Harbor, while traveling in California as assistant director of the Office of Civilian Defense, she had mentioned in My Day that she was reading it in snatches. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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From Many Lands
(NY 1940 1st Harper. Sm.4to., 350pp. Signed by Adamic. VG,...)
NY 1940 1st Harper. Sm.4to., 350pp. Signed by Adamic. VG, corners lightly bumped, no DJ.
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Louis Adamic
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Louis Adamic, Slovene writer Awarded Guggenheim fellowship, 1932-1933; awarded a grant-in-aid, Rockefeller Foundation, 1937, Carnegie Foundation, 1939, 40, 41; received $1000 John Anisfield award for book, From Many Lands, 1940. Awarded Order of National Unity by Marshal Tito, of Yugoslavia, 1944. Served in the United States Army during World War I.; Member American Legion.; Member.
Education
Student Gymnasium, Lyublyana, Yugoslavia, 1910-1913. Honorary Doctor of Literature, Temple University, 1941.
Career
Came to the United States, 1913, naturalized, 1918.
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The Native's Return: An American Immigrant Visits Yugoslavia and Discovers His Old Country
(Here is the story of an American immigrant who went back ...)
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The Eagle and the Roots
(The Eagle and the Roots by Louis Adamic, Author of The Na...)
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Allan Sekula: Facing the Music: Documenting Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Redevelopment of Downtown Los Angeles
(Allan Sekula (19512013), photographer, artist, filmmaker...)
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Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence In America
( "Dynamite harkens back to an era of American capitalism...)
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Dinner at the White House (Classic Reprint)
(The Invitation SHOULD like a chance to talk to you read M...)
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Laughing in the Jungle
(The autobiography of an immigrant in America.)
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From Many Lands
(NY 1940 1st Harper. Sm.4to., 350pp. Signed by Adamic. VG,...)
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My America, 1928-1938
(Hardcover book.)
- The house in Antigua;: A restoration,
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The Native's Return: An American Immigrant Visits Yugoslavia and Discovers His Old Country
Membership
Served in the United States Army during World War I. Member American Legion.
Connections
Married Stella Sanders, June 15, 1931.
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Slovene -
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