U.S. women's history for everyone! Explore the history you never learned in school. Experience the everyday struggles; delights; and courage of America's women from the Revolutionary War to the present in a format that all readers can enjoy. Dabble in history at a glance; or immerse yourself in comprehensive study. Read it for pleasure; or use it in the classroom. Historian Sally Roesch Wagner says; This is the book I've been waiting for. Full of rich and well-researched detail; it is a breathtaking swoop of everything from popular culture to suffrage; distilling complex material down to easy to understand information; and full of engagingly good anecdotes. The feel and taste and smell of the time come alive and the attention to accuracy is exemplary. Most importantly; it is not the typical narrow-focused history of white women of means; but the multifaceted story of the diversity of histories that speaks to all women of the United States. A joy to read!
#130302 in Books Faber Press 2005-09-20Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.25 x 5.00 x .30l; .65 #File Name: 0976876302224 pages
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Stunning AccountBy Wild Bill's GalThis stunning memoir of David Faber is not to be missed by students of the Holocaust. Having just read "Death Dealer" by Nazi commandant Rudolph Hoess; I got a fuller picture of the institution of the death camp. Faber's recounting of dates; places; and persons matches Hoess's in startling detail. His determination to resist victimhood steels his resolve to survive; and his story is also laced with vignettes of those who offered kindness in the midst of the hellish nightmare. Faber is such a model for today's youth! I agree that this would make excellent supplemental reading for high school history students. I work in secondary ed. and recommend "Because of Romek".0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. They are so horrible that I keep reading about that experience for those ...By G. M. GoreThis book was very interesting. It is filled with episodes of living through the Holocaust. I have read many books on this subject. They are so horrible that I keep reading about that experience for those who survived and they never get any better. I admire their ability to put these horrors in print so hopefully this will never happen again.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A near impossible story of survivalBy Joel D. WeberI have read many books on WWII; and this one fills-in still more gaps and details missing for anyone who has not personally "been there" (like me).This book reads indeed like a personal memoire; and seems with each passing page to add another layer of history and; of repeated events. One can almost begin to feel the numbing and dulling effects of observing up close; daily murder; suffering disease. The days and months seem at once to pass overnight and also to evidence the immense weight born daily; by those who felt every minute; every breath of it. As readers we come close to feeling the routines repeated as a new Camp is entered; as "rows of five" are made and sensless beatings and murder played-out for all to see. It was for me; this very thing that made this account so personal; and allowed me for a short time; to see how I might begin to live and survive in such a daily environment. The details in this account are different and not so vivid as others; but actually recreate for the reader that heavy sense of despair and daily futility.Read this and weep - think deeply upon the evil in humanity and the millions that were lost. Think long; and begin living deliberately.
