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Curtis Blanton, Mountain Humorist
No full textAuthor Curtis Blanton has a wonderful sense of humor. Herewith, listen to this interview from 2009 about how he came to publish the stories he heard the old timers tell when he was a kid
Benjamin Curtis: Top of the List
Get PDFAmong the many brave and brilliant dissents from the Supreme Court, few are more historically significant than that of Benjamin Curtis in Dred Scott v. Sandford. Earl Maltz insists that the traditional view of Curtis as a dispassionate Justice is incorrect; Curtis is better seen as the Last Angry Man. This paper considers the famous dissent, the man who wrote it, and the technical analysis Maltz claims as sine qua non to a proper understanding of the opinion
First Ladies. A Conversation with Curtis Sittenfeld.
No full textPresidents of the United States are the most powerful figures in America and, arguably, the world. The First Lady receives far less attention but exerts influence within the White House and stars in Washington’s shrouded political theatre.
Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld joins us for an evening conversation about the public visibility and private dramas of the First Lady – from Laura Bush to Michelle Obama and Melania Trump. She will also read from her novel American Wife – a fictional account of Laura Bush
Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of five novels: Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland, and Eligible. Her first story collection, You Think It, I’ll Say It, was published in 2018 and picked for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club. Her books have been selected by The New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and People for their “Ten Best Books of the Year” lists, optioned for television and film, and translated into thirty languages. Ms. Sittenfeld has interviewed Michelle Obama for Time; appeared as a guest on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” CBS’s “Early Show,” and PBS’s Newshour. She is a graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.Center for the Study of Politics and GovernanceSittenfeld, Curtis; Jacobs, Lawrence R.. (2019). First Ladies. A Conversation with Curtis Sittenfeld.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208679
A letter to the Hon. Benjamin R. Curtis: late judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, in review of his recently published pamphlet on the Emancipation Proclamation of the President
Get PDFThis pamphlet contains a letter to the Hon. Benjamin R. Curtis, late judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, in review of his recently published pamphlet on the Emancipation Proclamation of the President.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-pamphlets/1059/thumbnail.jp
Counting on r-Fibonacci Numbers
Get PDFWe prove the r-Fibonacci identities of Howard and Cooper using a combinatorial tiling approach
Destination Korea
No full textDestination Korea is an eyewitness account of the daily life of servicemen in the Korean War. It consists of letters written by a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army to his wife while he was stationed in Okinawa and Korea during the Korean War. Through a collaborative effort between the author of the letters, Dana Abbot Curtis, and his granddaughter, Jennifer R. Willand Dillard, they give an accurate account of the life of an infantryman and combat engineer ordered to fight in Korea.https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/alumni_books/1127/thumbnail.jp
Veteran Journalist, Author Curtis Wilkie Returns to Ole Miss as Visiting Professor
No full textUNIVERSITY, Miss. -- University of Mississippi students will hear first-hand about the world, presidential politics and book-writing when veteran reporter Curtis Wilkie returns to his alma mater as a visiting professor this spring
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