Albert Marrin
Autor(a) de Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
About the Author
Albert Marrin, professor emeritus of history at Yeshiva University in New York City
Image credit: Albert Marrin (right) at the 2008 National Humanities Medal award ceremony. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
Obras por Albert Marrin
Thomas Paine: Crusader for Liberty: How One Man's Ideas Helped Form a New Nation (2014) 54 exemplares
War Clouds in the West: Indians and Cavalrymen 1860-1890 (War Clouds in West Indians CL Nrf) (1984) 14 exemplares
Cowboys, Indians, and Gunfighters 2 exemplares
Thomas Paine: Crusader for Liberty 1 exemplar
The Speaking Sir Francis Drake and His Time 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1936-07-24
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
Riverdale, New York, USA - Educação
- Yeshiva University
Columbia University
City College of New York - Ocupações
- historian
professor - Organizações
- Yeshiva University (Chairman of History Department)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- National Humanities Medal (2008)
Washington Children's Book Guild and Washington Post Non-Fiction Award (Lifetime contribution) - Agente
- Wendy Schmalz
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- From Prof. Marrin's website: Years ago, I taught social studies for nine years in a junior high school in the East Bronx in New York City. On some days, when the class was restless, I would declare "story time," and tell adventure stories from history, such as Custer’s "last stand" and Sir Henry Morgan the buccaneer.
After graduate school, I became a college teacher. Professors are supposed to "publish or perish," write books and articles to gain promotion and tenure. I had no intention of perishing. I wrote four scholarly books, all well received in the profession. That was nice, and I was pleased. But I was not thrilled. I wanted to reach a larger audience, not as a scholar but as a storyteller. Actually, I wanted connect what I knew as a teacher with how I felt as a storyteller. So I began to write history for younger readers. I tried to write in the most interesting way I could, all the while remaining true to the facts. It worked. So far I have written more than forty books for young readers. Though now retired from teaching, I spend much of my time reading, listening to music – and especially writing more books.
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Prémios
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 (Informational Books for Older Readers – 2018)
A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown's War Against Slavery (Informational Books for Older Readers – 2014)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 53
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 4,385
- Popularidade
- #5,721
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 105
- ISBN
- 157
- Línguas
- 2
- Marcado como favorito
- 2
I think my expectations were too high going into this. I expected something on par with [b:They Called Themselves the KKK] (which was truly brilliant) and instead got what I'd call a better-than-average non-fiction book for young people.
So if you're studying how industry, unions, and workers' rights evolved in the United States, this would be a great book to pick up. If you just want to read really great non-fiction, I'd look elsewhere.… (mais)