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William Henry Vanderbilt (May 8, 1821 – December 8, 1885) was an American businessman [1] Known as "Billy", he was the eldest son of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, an heir to his fortune and a prominent member of the Vanderbilt family.
William Douglas Spears (August 31, 1906 – December 31, 1992), known as "Bounding Bill Spears", was an American football player and stand-out quarterback for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams from 1925 to 1927.
Dana D. Nelson is a professor of English [1] at Vanderbilt University and a prominent progressive advocate for citizenship [2] and democracy. She is notable for her criticism—in her books such as Bad for Democracy—of excessive presidential power and for exposing a tendency by Americans towards presidentialism, which she defines as the people's neglect of basic citizenship duties while ...
Colour Me English; The Consciousness Industry; Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism; The Crack-Up; Crises of the Republic; Critical and Historical Essays (Macaulay) Critical and Miscellaneous Essays; Critical Essays (Orwell) Crossing Borders: Personal Essays; Crumbling Idols; Cultural Amnesia (book) The Curtain (essay) The Cute Manifesto
They and their essay collection, I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition, contributed to the Southern Renaissance, the reinvigoration of Southern literature in the 1920s and 1930s. [1] They were based at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
The Library of Trinity College Dublin, established in 1592. An academic library is a library that is attached to a higher education institution, which supports the curriculum and the research of the university faculty and students. [1]
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Amy Osborne Vanderbilt (July 22, 1908 – December 27, 1974) was an American authority on etiquette. In 1952 she published the best-selling book Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette. [1] The book, later retitled Amy Vanderbilt's Etiquette, has been updated and is still in circulation. Its longtime popularity has led to it being ...