Portrait Book Reviews Samples For Students

Book Review: Realistic Visionary A Portrait of George Washington

Introduction
Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington by Peter Henriques tries to explain the first president of the United States of America as a person and not a symbol as most books have done. It is because it focusses on both his public and private life. The author looks at the reputation of George Washington as he tries to merge them with the facts about him. The book describes the first president as a war hero who is very serious and uptight. It means that the book explains the character of the president and relates it with the way he ...

Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-Hsi

China has a lot of history that many illustrious and prolific historians like Jonathan Spence have tried to explain in their books. Jonathan Spence is the author behind the fiction named the Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-Hsi. This is a very exciting fiction was written in the year of 1974. Jonathan has used the letters and historical records that K’ang Hsi had written in describing the later years of K’ang-Hsi, who is considered the great leader of that time. The book has been divided into chapters. ‘In Motion’ is the first chapter; this chapter depicts ...

India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India by Akash Kapur

The enormous transformations that transpired in the history of India some two decades ago drove the country into a stronger economy while inexorably influencing the traditions and social relations. The book titled “India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern” presented the changes in India through photographs of a rural landlord, an individual working in a call center, and an activist of socialist environment. The author narrates stories of people who embody a range of Indian civilization.

India Becoming

In the book titled India Becoming, Akash Kapur traces the roots of modern India, a demarcation line that can be illustrated back in the 90s. Kapur made a ...

Black artists like Archibald Motley try to depict their struggle with the western white concept of God in their art by depicting racialized biblical subjects by including religious imagery in black genre scenes. The motif of suffering Christ in paintings engages issues of African American cultural identity that ranges from the depiction of crucifix in black genre to conflation of crucified Christ and the lynched black man.
The main intention being to symbolize Christ as a device charged with racial and religious meaning. In Motley’s painting, we become aware of an old woman concentrating on sewing with a white ...

An investigation that later was written as a book, Hugh Trevor-Roper’s, “The Last Days of Hitler”, is an account of the last days of the Third Reich, the ever increasing dissolution of the Nazi’s during the last stages of WWII, the chaos in the administration, the animosities, rivalries and suspicions among the Nazi officials and of course about Hitler's last days and suicide. In effect, Trevor-Roper paints a vivid, riveting and honest portrait of Hitler in his final days and gives a genuine analysis of the Nazi regime. Many of Trevor-Roper’s findings in the book has ...

The Review of ‘The Glory and the Dream’ by William Manchester

Describe the central theme and objective of this reading. Cite examples from the reading.
Recently I’ve read the book on history called ‘The Glory and the Dream’ by William Manchester. ‘One more boring history book,’ you may say. But you shouldn’t draw any firm conclusions at once. Let me prove you that even history books can be interesting and absorbing. Are you ready? So, let’s go.
There are two volumes of this book which the author called a narrative history of America. It comprises the information about the years from 1932 to 1972. And, unlike other ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, took on themes of Hollywood and the film industry, pointing out its glitz, glamour and tragedy in equal measure. In the 1930s, the film industry began a transition from the artistic experimentation of its early days to the greater commercialism of Hollywood; Fitzgerald’s novel explores this transition in very intriguing ways. Telling the story of Monroe Stahr, a character loosely based on MGM’s golden boy Irving Thalberg, Fitzgerald paints Hollywood and the film business as an incredibly complex and inscrutable place, with its own politics ...

Book Review of “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Kozol, J. (1992). Savage inequalities: children in America's schools. New York City: HarperCollins

Book Review

Over the past decades, educational reforms have emphasized academic excellence as indispensable and essential part of the reform. Even though each time the word equity is mentioned, more often than not with regard to balancing equity and excellence, unfortunately, issues pertaining to educational inequalities have not been addressed in the debate. Fortunately, Jonathan Kozol’s book provides an alternative to this trend and brings equity issues on educational agenda for public attention. However, despite its important message, the book is simplistic and lacks adequate research, which ...

Book Review - Gentlemen of Property and Standing

In "Gentlemen of Property and Standing": Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America, Leonard L. Richards explores some of the more fascinating attributes of America's history, particularly its more unsavory elements of crime and violence, during the Jacksonian Era. By examining the outbreak of mob violence in the 1830s, which was performed as a response to rising abolitionist movements, Richards seeks to find out "how, when and why mob violence erupted and ebbed in our past" (Richards 1970, p. viii). Richards' examination of this mob action goes into detail regarding the mobs that participated in these acts, how their leadership was ...

Book Review - Contagious Divides

Nayan Shah's 2001 book Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown provides a unique portrait of the different representations of Chinese immigrants in the twentieth century, particularly in San Francisco, and how they have changed in the intervening years. The book itself takes a dramatically close look at public health issues surrounding Chinese immigration as well, as the portrayal of Chinese immigrants at first was extremely negative. The urban landscape of San Francisco was dramatically changed by the large influx of Chinese emigrating to the US, and the public health concerns that followed were dramatic and stifling to racial ...

A photo1 of the Roman reproduction of the bronze sculpture, Diskobolos, housed in the Glyptothek in Munich helps us imagine how realistic the sculpture might feel upon viewing. The disc thrower’s right foot is flat on the ground indicating a stable connection with the earth so the thrower can push down on his leg for more power and support. His left leg is lifted at a right angle from the knee with the foot maybe two inches above the ground. His left lower leg and foot are turned in a way which is parallel to the right angle formed from the ...