1976 TRAINS ET TRAINS DE CHEMIN DE FER PERSONNES DANS LA CULTURE AMÉRICAINE McPherson Williams 1er

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Vendeur: movin_store ✉️ (5.859) 100%, Lieu où se trouve: Riverdale, New Jersey, US, Lieu de livraison: WORLDWIDE et de nombreux autres pays, Numéro de l'objet: 113696476960 1976 TRAINS ET TRAINS DE CHEMIN DE FER PERSONNES DANS LA CULTURE AMÉRICAINE McPherson Williams 1er. Check out my other items ! Be sure to add me to your favorites list !  So you don't miss out on our Great Sales !! (we will be posting many rare collectible books over the next several weeks, so please keep coming back and checking out our other items) We have other similar Train - Railroad - Transportation Books Listed so please check our other listings RAILROAD  TRAINS AND TRAIN PEOPLE IN AMERICAN CULTURE ILLUSTRATED 1976 Stated First Edition Edited by James Alan McPherson and Miller Williams Published by : Random House  New York , NY 185 Pages Condition : This softcover vintage book has no dust cover jacket. It has wear including, rubbing, scuffing, fading, top corner of front cover is torn off, corner bumps, page corner bends, stains/dirtiness, spotting/foxing  and age toning We try to take a lot of pictures so you can see the condition.  Please look at all of the pictures as sometimes it is possible we may have missed something. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A little info from Wikipedia James Alan McPherson (September 16, 1943 – July 27, 2016) was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the first group of artists who received a MacArthur Fellowship. At the time of his death, McPherson was a permanent faculty member and a professor emeritus of fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. McPherson was born in Savannah, Georgia, on September 16, 1943, the second of four children. His father was a master electrician (the first African-American so recognized in Georgia),  and his mother (born Mabel Small) was a maid. While growing up, McPherson's father struggled with alcohol and time in jail. In his essay "Going Up To Atlanta," McPherson describes the many odd jobs he took on during this time to help support his mother, brother, and sisters  But it was his discovery of the "colored branch" of the public library that changed his life. When he started reading books, McPherson learned that words, even without pictures, "gave up their secret meanings, spoke of other worlds, made me know that pain was a part of other people's lives." He attended Morgan State University from 1963 to 1964 before receiving his undergraduate degree in History and English from Morris Brown College in 1965.  In 1968, McPherson received a LL.B. from Harvard Law School, where he partially financed his studies by working as a janitor. But in 1971, he went on to get a M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa and studied briefly with the short-story writer and novelist Richard Yates.  After this period in his life, McPherson decided not to practice law, but afterwards he would utilize this legal training in his various writings. In an essay he published in 1972, he exposed exploitative business practices against black homeowners. Also during this period in his life he gained the attention of Ralph Ellison (1913–1994), an especially important American novelist and essayist from that era, who became both a friend and mentor to the young McPherson. This relationship with Ellison would have a lasting influence on his own life and work, as McPherson acknowledges in his essay "Gravitas," which he published in 1999 as both a tribute to the (then) recently deceased writer, and to observe the posthumous publication of Ellison's novel Juneteenth that same year.  McPherson also began another important friendship, during this same time frame, with Albert Murray, just when Murray's book The Omni-Americans: Black Experience & American Culture first appeared, in 1970. In 1967, while he attended law school at Harvard, McPherson studied fiction writing with Alan Lebowitz and worked on his stories when he found some spare time. It was the publication of his short story "Gold Coast" in The Atlantic Monthly, following an "open reading" competition they had sponsored, that first brought him public recognition. During this period, McPherson established a close working relationship with Edward Weeks, an editor at the The Atlantic Monthly, which led to McPherson becoming a contributing editor at that magazine in 1969.  During the following decade, his fiction appeared in numerous journals and magazines. Over the coming years, many of his stories were anthologized, beginning with "Gold Coast" when it appeared in the perennial story collection The Best American Stories in 1969. In December 1970, for an issue of The Atlantic Monthly, McPherson did a cover interview with Ralph Ellison,  and collaborated with him on the essay “Indivisible Man." He taught English at the University of California, Santa Cruz (assistant professor; 1969–1971), the Harvard University summer school (1972), Morgan State University (assistant professor; 1975–1976) and the University of Virginia (associate professor; 1976–1981) before joining the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1981,[8] with whom he was associated for the remainder of his life. He served as acting director of the Iowa Workshop (2005–2007), following the death of Frank Conroy. McPherson was also a visiting scholar at Yale Law School (1978–1979) and a fellow at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1997–1998). Significantly, McPherson also lectured in Japan (at Meiji University and Chiba University), a country whose society and culture affected him. It was in Japan, he once wrote, where he went to lay down “the burden carried by all black Americans, especially the males. In 1972, McPherson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for his short story collection Elbow Room, becoming the first black writer to win the Pulitzer in the fiction category. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981,  a member of the first group (21 recipients in all) ever selected for one of the MacArthur Fellowship's so-called "geniuses awards." In 1995, McPherson was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  In 2000, John Updike selected McPherson's short story "Gold Coast" for his collection Best American Short Stories of the Century (Houghton Mifflin). In October 2011, McPherson was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Paul Engle Award from the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature Stanley Miller Williams (April 8, 1930 – January 1, 2015) was an American contemporary poet, as well as a translator and editor. He produced over 25 books and won several awards for his poetry. His accomplishments were chronicled in Arkansas Biography. He is perhaps best known for reading a poem at President Clinton's 1997 inauguration. One of his best-known poems is "The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina." Williams was born in Hoxie, Arkansas, to Ernest Burdette and Ann Jeanette Miller Williams. He was educated in Arkansas, first enrolling at Hendrix College in Conway and eventually transferring to Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, where he published his first collection of poems, Et Cetera, while getting his bachelor's degree in biology. He went on to get a masters in zoology at the University of Arkansas in 1952. He taught in several universities in various capacities, first as a professor of biology and then of English literature, and in 1970 returned to the University of Arkansas as a member of the English Department and the creative writing program. In 1980 he helped found the University of Arkansas Press, where he served as director for nearly 20 years. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of literature at the University of Arkansas. A train is a form of rail transport consisting of a series of vehicles that usually runs along a rail track to transport cargo or passengers. Motive power is provided by a separate locomotive or individual motors in self-propelled multiple units. Although historically steam propulsion dominated, the most common modern forms are diesel and electric locomotives, the latter supplied by overhead wires or additional rails. Other energy sources include horses, engine or water-driven rope or wire winch, gravity, pneumatics, batteries, and gas turbines. Train tracks usually consist of two running rails, sometimes supplemented by additional rails such as electric conducting rails and rack rails, with a limited number of monorails and maglev guideways in the mix. The word 'train' comes from the Old French trahiner, from the Latin trahere 'pull, draw'. There are various types of trains that are designed for particular purposes. A train may consist of a combination of one or more locomotives and attached railroad cars, or a self-propelled multiple unit (or occasionally a single or articulated powered coach, called a railcar). The first trains were rope-hauled, gravity powered or pulled by horses. From the early 19th century almost all were powered by steam locomotives. From the 1910s onwards the steam locomotives began to be replaced by less labor-intensive and cleaner (but more complex and expensive) diesel locomotives and electric locomotives, while at about the same time self-propelled multiple unit vehicles of either power system became much more common in passenger service. A passenger train is one which includes passenger-carrying vehicles which can often be very long and fast. One notable and growing long-distance train category is high-speed rail. In order to achieve much faster operation over 500 km/h (310 mph), innovative Maglev technology has been researched for years. In most countries, such as the United Kingdom, the distinction between a tramway and a railway is precise and defined in law. The term light rail is sometimes used for a modern tram system, but it may also mean an intermediate form between a tram and a train, similar to a heavy rail rapid transit system except that it may have level crossings. A freight train (also known as a goods train) uses freight cars (also known as wagons or trucks) to transport goods or materials (cargo). Freight and passengers may be carried in the same train in a mixed consist. Rail cars and machinery used for maintenance and repair of tracks, etc., are termed maintenance of way equipment; these may be assembled into maintenance of way trains. Similarly, dedicated trains may be used to provide support services to stations along a train line, such as garbage or revenue collection.Rail transport is a means of conveyance of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks. It is also commonly referred to as train transport. In contrast to road transport, where vehicles run on a prepared flat surface, rail vehicles (rolling stock) are directionally guided by the tracks on which they run. Tracks usually consist of steel rails, installed on ties (sleepers) and ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels, moves. Other variations are also possible, such as slab track, where the rails are fastened to a concrete foundation resting on a prepared subsurface. Rolling stock in a rail transport system generally encounters lower frictional resistance than road vehicles, so passenger and freight cars (carriages and wagons) can be coupled into longer trains. The operation is carried out by a railway company, providing transport between train stations or freight customer facilities. Power is provided by locomotives which either draw electric power from a railway electrification system or produce their own power, usually by diesel engines. Most tracks are accompanied by a signalling system. Railways are a safe land transport system when compared to other forms of transport.[Nb 1] Railway transport is capable of high levels of passenger and cargo utilization and energy efficiency, but is often less flexible and more capital-intensive than road transport, when lower traffic levels are considered. The oldest, man-hauled railways date back to the 6th century BC, with Periander, one of the Seven Sages of Greece, credited with its invention. Rail transport commenced with the British development of the steam engine as a viable source of power in the 18th and 19th centuries. Steam locomotives were first developed in the United Kingdom in the early 19th century. Built by George Stephenson and his son Robert's company Robert Stephenson and Company, the Locomotion No. 1 is the first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public rail line, the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825. George also built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use steam locomotives, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway which opened in 1830. With steam engines, one could construct mainline railways, which were a key component of the Industrial Revolution. Also, railways reduced the costs of shipping, and allowed for fewer lost goods, compared with water transport, which faced occasional sinking of ships. The change from canals to railways allowed for "national markets" in which prices varied very little from city to city. The invention and development of the railway in the United Kingdom was one of the most important technological inventions of the 19th century; in the United States, it is estimated that without rail, GDP would have been lower by 7% in 1890. In the 1880's, electrified trains were introduced, and also the first tramways and rapid transit systems came into being. Starting during the 1940's, the non-electrified railways in most countries had their steam locomotives replaced by diesel-electric locomotives, with the process being almost complete by 2000. During the 1960's, electrified high-speed railway systems were introduced in Japan and later in some other countries. Other forms of guided ground transport outside the traditional railway definitions, such as monorail or maglev, have been tried but have seen limited use. Following decline after World War II due to competition from cars, rail transport has had a revival in recent decades due to road congestion and rising fuel prices.

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  • Year Printed: 1976
  • Topic: Railroad
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