LIBROS DEL AUTOR: connie cronley

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  • A Life on Fire
    Connie Cronley
    'How can women wear diamonds when babies cry for bread?' Kate Barnard demanded in one of the incendiary stump speeches for which she was well known. In A Life on Fire, Connie Cronley tells the story of Catherine Ann 'Kate' Barnard (1875-1930), a fiery political reformer and the first woman elected to state office in Oklahoma, as commissioner of charities and corrections in 1907...
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  • Mr. Ambassador
    Connie Cronley / Edward J. Perkins / Edward JPerkins
    Apartheid South Africa was on fire around me.”So begins the memoir of Career Foreign Service Officer Edward J. Perkins, the first black United States ambassador to South Africa. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave him the unparalleled assignment: dismantle apartheid without violence.As he fulfilled that assignment, Perkins was scourged by the American press, despised by the A...
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  • Light and Variable
    Connie Cronley
    In Light and Variable, the reader is invited to join celebrated Oklahoma essayist and commentator Connie Cronley on a delightful romp through the calendar year. Honest, unpretentious, and laced with self-deprecating humor, the essays in this book revolve around special holidays or events, some of which you may never have heard of-Festival of Sleep Day, National Failures Day, an...
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    19,22 €