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The Double Life of Katharine Clark
"Gregorio tells [Katharine] Clark's story in engaging, well-researched and vivid detail...an eloquent tribute." —Wall Street Journal If you loved Kate Moore's The Radium Girls, Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance, or Rebecca Donner's All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, you'll be enthralled with this untold true story of how Katharine Clark, a trailblazing journalist, exposed the truth about Communism to the world. In 1955, Katharine Clark, the first American woman wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain, saw something none of her male colleagues did. What followed became one of the most unusual adventure stories of the Cold War. While on assignment in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Clark befr...
Summary of Katharine Gregorio's The Double Life of Katharine Clark
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In January 1955, Katharine Clark was pregnant with her first child. She had been married before, but her husband had been expelled from college for being married. She had almost been felled by it all, but she had overcome obstacles to become a reporter. #2 The trial was open to the public and the press. Anyone with a ticket was welcome as long as they held a journalist license. The timing was curious, as President Tito was out of the country. Everyone knew that Vice President Edvard Kardelj gave the order barring foreign correspondents from attending the trial. #3 Katharine was the only American in the...
An Irish Book of Shadows
As Wiccans and Pagans rediscover their Celtic heritage, there has been a great emergence of writings on the Irish Craft. Here are the rituals and Craft of the Tuatha De Danann Celtic Coven, the Children of Danu, and the varied aspects of the Celtic Way. Clark also explains the folklore that has grown up around the older myths and the ancient Pagan calendar.
Paris and the Cliché of History
Paris and the Cliché of History traces the changing historical meanings of photographs of this city during a century marked by urban renovation, war, occupation, liberation, and visual documentation. Challenging the idea that photographs merely document the past, it calls for new methods of reading photos as material objects with histories of their own and sheds insight on the capital's reduction to an image in the twentieth century.
Shaping the Geography of Empire
Focusing on the depiction of the natural world in Herodotus' Histories, this volume explores the fluid and complex network of spatial relationships that emerges from his narrative, examining its significance for the analysis of focalization in the work and for understanding the role of geography in the shaping of successive empires.
The Woman Who Broke the Iron Curtain
If you loved Kate Moore's The Radium Girls or Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance, you'll be enthralled with this untold story of how Katharine Clark, a trailblazing journalist, exposed the truth about Communism to the world. Meticulously researched and written by Clark's great-niece, Katharine Gregorio, The Double Life of Katharine Clark is historical narrative nonfiction at its finest. It is a fascinating Cold War adventure story about a remarkable woman who pioneered a career in a man's profession, vividly illuminating a largely untold chapter of the twentieth century. In 1955, Katharine Clark became the first female American wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain, providing essential...
Katherine
John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, Chaucer's sister-in-law, fall in love in the 14th century.
Freedom's Teacher
Septima Poinsette Clark's gift to the civil rights movement was education. In the mid-1950s, this former public school teacher developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the po
Where I End
Clark suffered a tragic playground accident in May 2009 when a child playing on the jungle gym fell and landed on the author's head, snapping her neck. The doctors diagnosed her quadriplegic and said she would never walk again. This terrifying prognosis could have been the end of the story. But instead, God chose to work a profound miracle.
George Rogers Clark
Part of the Young Patriots series, which includes Amelia Earhart, Young Air Pioneer (1882859049), Juliette Low, Girl Scout Founder (188285909X), and William Henry Harrison, Young Tippecanoe (1882859073) ''Hook kids on history with the Young Patriots series!' - Learning Magazine This biography details the childhood adventures of George Rogers Clark, the older brother of William Clark of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition. George was a courageous explorer and Revolutionary War hero whose bravery and leadership helped win the Battle of Vincennes, saving what would become Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin from British occupation. Georges boyhood curiosity and zest for exploration are described, including his adventures while camping, riding horses, and playing with his childhood friend Thomas Jefferson. Young explorers follow George into the woods, where he rescues a baby raccoon, outwits a hapless thief, saves a money bag, and hunts his first deer. Special features include a summary of Clark's adult accomplishments, fun facts detailing little-known tidbits of information about Clark, and a timeline.
