Rockland Michael Aaron Translator (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Cloth hardcovers like new, clean, no wear. Interior in very good condition, clean and tight. Dustjacket edgeworn at head of spine and top corners. A nice copy. . 8vo Professional bookseller for twenty years. Orders shipped daily in cardboard bookfolds.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Princeton University Press hardcover in dust jacket, 1970, 1st edition, unread and carefully stored, No remainder marks/foxing/tears or other defects; as New in a Fine (price-clipped) jacket. We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX with delivery confirmation/tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Printing [Stated]. xii, [1], 330 pages. Notes on the Translation. Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. DJ is price clipped and has some wear and soiling. Signed by the Translator on the title page. Michael Aaron Rockland is professor of American Studies Emeritus at Rutgers University. His early career was in the U.S. diplomatic service, during which he was a cultural attaché in both Argentina and Spain . He is the author of sixteen books, five of which have received special recognition and prizes. His first book, Sarmiento's Travels in the United States in 1847 (Princeton), was chosen by The Washington Post's Book World as one of the "Fifty Best Books of the Year." His novel, A Bliss Case was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." A book he co-wrote, Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike (Rutgers) was chosen by the New Jersey State Library as one of the "Ten Best Books Ever Written on New Jersey or by a New Jerseyan." His latest books are a new edition of The George Washington Bridge: Poetry in Steel and the novel Married to Hitler, as well as two memoirs, An American Diplomat in Franco Spain and Navy Crazy . Rockland has won seven major teaching/lecturing awards, including the National Teaching Award in American Studies. He has lectured in some twenty-three countries around the world. A regular contributor to New Jersey Monthly magazine, he has also worked in television and film production, mostly for P.B.S., including scripting and acting in one movie, Three Days on Big City Waters. He is regularly interviewed on N.P.R. Like De Tocqueville, this remarkable man visited the United States in its early years and wrote a detailed account of this new phenomenon. Full of shrewd social commentary and unique vignettes of the America of this period-of Boston, for instance, where Sarmiento met the Horace Manns and later Emerson and Longfellow-Travels should take its place among the important commentaries on the United States written during the last century by foreign visitors. Professor Rockland's introductory essay provides the broader context in which Travels must be seen: its place in Sarmiento's life and career and its importance as testimony to forgotten lines of influence between North and South America. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (born Domingo Faustino Fidel Valentín Sarmiento y Albarracín; 15 February 1811 - 11 September 1888) was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and the second President of Argentina. His writing spanned a wide range of genres and topics, from journalism to autobiography, to political philosophy and history. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837, who had a great influence on 19th-century Argentina. He was particularly concerned with educational issues and was also an important influence on the region's literature. Sarmiento grew up in a poor but politically active family that paved the way for many of his future accomplishments. Between 1843 and 1850, he was frequently in exile, and wrote in both Chile and in Argentina. His greatest literary achievement was Facundo, a critique of Juan Manuel de Rosas, that Sarmiento wrote while working for the newspaper El Progreso during his exile in Chile. The book brought him far more than just literary recognition; he expended his efforts and energy on the war against dictatorships, specifically that of Rosas, and contrasted enlightened Europeâ"a world where, in his eyes, democracy, social services, and intelligent thought were valuedâ"with the barbarism of the gaucho and especially the caudillo, the ruthless strongmen of nineteenth-century Argentina. While president of Argentina from 1868 to 1874, Sarmiento championed intelligent thoughtâ"including education for children and womenâ"and democracy for Latin America. He also took advantage of the opportunity to modernize and develop train systems, a postal system, and a comprehensive education system. He spent many years in ministerial roles on the federal and state lev.