Great Bastards of History

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True and Riveting Accounts of the Most Famous Illegitimate Children Who Went on to Achieve Greatness

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True and Riveting Accounts of the Most Famous Illegitimate Children Who Went on to Achieve Greatness

For much of history and across most of the world, being born out of wedlock—a love child, a bastard—was a serious impediment to success. Illegitimate offspring were subject to neglect, abandonment, disinheritance, and social exclusion, and often found the usual routes to education, wealth, and status blocked. Surmounting these obstacles required tremendous fortitude and persistence.

Great Bastards of History brings together the captivating and stirring stories of fifteen remarkable and influential people who overcame the disadvantages of illegitimate birth to rise to positions of power. As well as providing insights into the personalities of many world-changing figures, it highlights the extraordinary courage, drive, and resolve that ordinary individuals can summon when faced with extreme adversity. Among its subjects are powerful political players including Alexander Hamilton, the abandoned son who became a founding father of the United States, and cultural figureheads such as Leonardo da Vinci, who, despite being denied entrance to trade guilds and universities, was proclaimed one of the greatest men of his day in courts throughout Europe. Equally affecting are some of the less well-known but no less fascinating figures, such as James Smithson, the disinherited son of an English duke, whose bequest to a country he never visited founded the largest museum in the world, the Smithsonian Institution.

Deftly blending biography and history, political intrigue, melodrama, and psychological analysis, this is a collection that will uplift, entertain, and inform, while yielding fresh perspectives on some of the most significant events from our past.

William the Conqueror : a lucky bastard (1028-1087) --
Leonardo da Vinci : bastard of the Renaissance (1452-1519) --
Francisco Pizarro : a brutal bastard (1475-1541) --
Elizabeth I : from bastard daughter to virgin queen (1533-1603) --
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth : the bastard who would be king (1649-1685) --
Alexander Hamilton : an illegitimate son becomes a founding father of a new nation (1757-1804) --
James Smithson : the mysterious bastard becomes benefactor of America's most prestigious museum (1765-1829) --
Bernardo O'Higgins : how the viceroy's illegitimate son became a national hero (1778-1842) --
Alexandre Dumas fils : an illegitimate son inherits his father's talents--and vices (1824-1895) --
Henry Stanley : the illegitimate Welshman who found Livingstone (1841-1904) --
Jack London : rebellious mother, rebellious son (1876-1916) --
Lawrence of Arabia : legendary, but not legitimate (1888-1935) --
Billie Holiday : how a parentless and poverty-stricken child became a jazz legend (1915-1959) --
Eva Peron : a struggling actress remakes herself into a cultural icon (1919-1952) --
Fidel Castro : an illegitimate child sparks a revolution--and reinvents a nation (1926- )

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مغایرت عنوان کتاب با توضیحات و تصویر جلد
عدم رعایت حقوق نشر طبق قوانین جمهوری اسلامی ایران
محتوای مستهجن
توهین به قومیتها و محتوای نژادپرستی
توهین به اقیلیتهای مذهبی
اهانت به مقامات سیاسی و مذهبی
اشاعه ی کودک آزاری
سایر موارد

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فرمت کتاب

ebook

زبان

english

تاریخ انتشار

2010

نویسنده

Juré Fiorillo

ناشر

Fair Winds Press

شابک

9781592334018

20,000 تومان

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Great Bastards of History

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فرمت کتاب

ebook

زبان

english

تاریخ انتشار

2010

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