LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david contosta

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  • Happenstance
    David Contosta
    With the world inhibited by progressive thinkers dabbling in revolutionary ideas, amidst ‎political upheavals at one hand and technological advancements on the other, it is mindsets ‎that prove to be the stumbling blocks at every step, all the way.‎New ideas that have the gravitas to usher change and progress are thwarted; women ‎are still second-class citizens, at the mercy of...
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    16,14 €

  • Henry Adams and the American Experiment
    David R Contosta
    'Henry Adams and the American Experiment,' with a new introduction by author David R. Contosta, was initially composed at a time when the United States had seemingly lost its moorings. There was the needless and apparently endless war in Vietnam, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy just five years after the killing of Robert’s brother John F. Kennedy, an...
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    17,74 €

  • An American Childhood
    David Contosta / Philip M. Hazelton
    In their memoir, An American Childhood, David Contosta and Philip Hazelton, cousins who grew up in the same hometown, recount both the joys and pains of growing up in the mid-twentieth century. Experiencing the comforts of middle-class family life, they recall bonfires and marching bands, hikes through woods ablaze with autumn foliage, and an amusement park by the lake. They al...
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    25,47 €

  • Lancaster, Ohio, 1800-2000
    DAVID R. CONTOSTA / DAVID RCONTOSTA
    In Lancaster, Ohio, 1800-2000, David R. Contosta tells the story of one American town as it has evolved over a two-hundred year period. Contosta has found that Lancaster was never the sort of idyllic community that writers once imagined for small towns; nor was it the social and cultural wasteland that social critics portrayed during most of the twentieth century. In explainin...
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    51,08 €

  • SUBURB IN THE CITY
    DAVID R. CONTOSTA / DAVID RCONTOSTA
    In Suburb in the City, David Contosta tells the story of how Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, once a small milling and farming town, evolved to become both a suburban enclave for wealthy Philadelphians and a part of the city itself.In 1854, the railroad connected Philadelphia and Chestnut Hill and the village was annexed by the city. Attuned to the romantic currents of the age, the...
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    45,50 €