Tag: Woman

January 30, 2024

Train to Nowhere One Woman’s World War II, Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator

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Free Download Anita Leslie, "Train to Nowhere: One Woman’s World War II, Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1448216680, 1448216834 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 7.2 mb
A World War II memoir following the adventures of a female ambulance driver as she serves across four fronts witnesses the best and worst of humanity, and navigates the barriers imposed by sexism in the British Army.

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January 30, 2024

Ida M. Tarbell The Woman Who Challenged Big Business–and Won!

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Free Download Emily Arnold McCully, "Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business-and Won!"
English | 2014 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 0547290926 | EPUB | 79,0 mb
Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell was one of the first investigative journalists and probably the most influential in her time.Her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust, a complicated business empire run by John D. Rockefeller, revealed to readers the underhanded, even illegal practices that had led to Rockefeller’s success. Rejecting the term "muckraker" to describe her profession, she went on to achieve remarkable prominence for a woman of her generation as a writer and shaper of public opinion. This biography offers an engrossing portrait of atrailblazer in a man’s world who left her mark on theAmerican consciousness. Notes, bibliography, index.

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