Setelah dilakukan penelitian terhadap pengarang Tulis Sutan Sati, baik mengenai riwayat hidupnya maupun mengenai karya-karyanya ada beberapa simpulan yang dapat dikemukakan dalam bab ini. Dilihat dari kehidupan keluarganya tidak banyak yang dapat diceritakan karena keluarganya yang terdekat hanya tinggal seorang putrinya, yaitu Dra Erawati toelis.
Tuturan perempuan yang sebagai istri, juga pribadi mandiri dengan hasrat dan cita-cita memerdekakan bangsa dan mengorbankan cinta tanah air. Berjiwa patriotik, berupaya melawan tidak saja kungkungan penjajahan, namun juga belenggu adat dan keterbatasan akses pendidikan. Bersama beberapa kawan, itu diwujudkan dengan menerbitkan pahesan (1938-1941), majalah perempuan muda terdidik yang menggelora…
Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washington Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver enrolled in classes and proved to be a star student. He became the first black student at Iowa State Agricultural College and later its first black professor. He went on to the Tuskegee Institute where he specialized in botany (the study of plants) …
Buku ini menawarkan menu baru bagi perbincangan tentang tokoh-tokoh bangsa dari wilayah yang tidak selalu populer tapi menentukan tegak-tidaknya martabat suatu bangsa, yakni tradisi tulis dan kebudayaannya.
Philip Agee worked for the CIA for twelve years, in three different countries. He began by accepting the 'Company's' view and aims, but as time went by he came to see it as a bureucracy designed not to help those in whose countries it works, but simply as an arm of American interests. He has spent the last three years writing careful diary of his experiences
Edmund Wilson's The Twenties and The Thirties were printed from typescripts he prepared and partially edited before his death. The Forties does not have the benefit of his editing; it is a wholly posthumous book and lacks the retrospective passages Wilson would have written had he able to put it together.
"I am commencing an undertaking, hitherto without precedent, and which will never find an imitator."