WALLACE, LEW

(Lewis Wallace), 1827–1905, American novelist and diplomat, b. Brookville, Ind. He served in both the Mexican and Civil wars. After returning to his law practice in Indiana, he became governor of the Territory of New Mexico (1878–81) and minister to Turkey (1881–85). His famous book, Ben-Hur (1880), has been one of the best-selling novels in American publishing history and was made into several motion pictures. Among his other novels are The Fair God (1873), a story of the conquest of Mexico, and The Prince of India (1893).

See his autobiography (1906).

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books on: Wallace Lew  - 575 results

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Life and Letters of General W.H.L. Wallace
Book by Isabel Wallace, William Hervy Lamme Wallace; Southern Illinois University Press, 2000
Subjects: Generals--United States--Biography, Shiloh, Battle Of, 1862, United States--Army--Biography, United States--Army--Illinois Infantry Regiment, 11th (1861-1865), United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns, Wallace, William Hervy Lamme--1821-1862
...General W. H. L. Wallace and acted upon by General Lew Wallace so promptly was the means of saving great disaster...are Colonel W. H. L. Wallace. Well my name is Wallace. " Lew Wallace, of the Eleventh Indiana? "The same. "We shook...
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Henry A. Wallace and American Foreign Policy
Book by J. Samuel Walker; Greenwood Press, 1976
Subjects: United States--Foreign Relations--1933-1945, United States--Foreign Relations--1945-1953, Wallace, Henry Agard--1888-1965
...Times , September 13, October 25, 1949; Wallace to Lew Frank , October 15, 1949, Wallace speech, November 27, 1949, Wallace Papers. 5. Wallace to Lew Frank , October 15, 1949, Wallace Papers...
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The Rise and Fall of the People's Century: Henry A. Wallace and American Liberalism, 1941-1948
Book by Norman D. Markowitz; Free Press, 1973
Subjects: United States--Politics And Government--1933-1945, United States--Politics And Government--1945-1953, Wallace, Henry Agard--1888-1965
...Baldwin; Interview with Lew Frank, December 25...delegations calling upon Wallace to ask him to run, one...Interview with Straight. Wallace never thought much of...supporters of Truman. Wallace once told Lew Frank that FDR, Jr...
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Henry A. Wallace, Quixotic Crusade 1948
Book by Karl M. Schmidt; Syracuse University Press, 1960
Subjects: Presidents--United States--Election--1948, Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948), Wallace, Henry Agard--1888-1965
...Baldwin, who had served under Wallace in the New Deal days, was the...third- party fire, despite Wallace's continued advocacy at that...dissent "to urge Henry A. Wallace to run as an independent candidate...know-how. As early as 1946, Lew Franks and Ralph Shikes had...
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Henry A. Wallace: Quixotic Crusade 1948
Book by Karl M. Schmidt; Syracuse University Press, 1960
Subjects: Presidents--United States--Election--1948, Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948), Wallace, Henry Agard--1888-1965
...bipartisan foreign policy. Although Wallace was not a member, he became...Baldwin, who had served under Wallace in the New Deal days, was the...dissent "to urge Henry A. Wallace to run as an independent candidate...know-how. As early as 1946, Lew Franks and Ralph Shikes had...
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journal articles on: Wallace Lew  - 70 results

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"To the Heart of Solid Puritans": Historicizing the Popularity of 'Ben-Hur. '
Journal article by Paul Gutjahr; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 26, 1993
Subjects: Ben-Hur (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Protestants--Attitudes, Wallace, Lew--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...19th century--Ben-Hur, by Lew Wallace. First published in 1880, by...readership. At first glance, Lew Wallace might have seemed an unlikely candidate...tended to perpetuate the myth that Lew Wallace wrote Ben-Hur as a result of...
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Government Discourses on Entrepreneurship: Issues of Legitimization, Subjugation, and Power
Journal article by Lew Perren, Peter L. Jennings; Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, Vol. 29, 2005
Subjects: Entrepreneurship--Case studies, Government information technology services--Services
...Subjugation, and Power. by Lew Perren , Peter L. Jennings...pattern maintenance (Wallace Wolf, 1999). Entrepreneurs...Oxford University Press. Wallace, R.A. Wolf, A...orgldataldatabytopic/GDP. Lew Perren is a reader at...send correspondence to: Lew Perren at L.Perren...
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The American "Lives" of Jesus: The Malleable Figure of Christ as a Man of the People
Journal article by Lisa Moody; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 58, 2009
Subjects: Austin, Mary Hunter, Bible. N.T. (Sacred work)--Criticism and interpretation, Bible. O.T. (Sacred work)--Criticism and interpretation, Christianity
...the 1890s" (Allitt 136), while Lew Wallaces Ben-Hur (1880) offers...appearance of Jesus" (104), Lew Wallace feels no such compunction to adhere...Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1985. Wallace, Lew. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ...
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Effect of Alzheimer's Training on Multicultural Personal Care Aides
Journal article by Robin C. Fenley, Sarah J. Bober, Mebane E. Powell, Jacquelin Berman, Barbara N. Altman; Care Management Journals, Vol. 9, 2008
...increases among Hispanics and Asians (Gallagher-Thompson, Solano, Coon, Arean, 2003; Herrick Brown, 1998; Wallace Lew-Ting, 1992). A surge in the incidence of Alzheimers disease is also anticipated (Evans et al., 1989; New York...
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Home Health Care Utilization: A Review of the Research for Social Work
Journal article by Goldie Kadushin; Health and Social Work, Vol. 29, 2004
Subjects: Disabled persons--Care and treatment, Home care services industry--Analysis, Home care services industry--Research, Home care services--Analysis, Home care services--Research
...disability than non-Latino white clients (Wallace amp; Lew-Ting, 1992; Wallace et al., 1994) and that they have...23 A/N 1992 Rabiner 24 none 1992 Wallace amp; amp;#91;check amp;#93; Lew-Ting 25 none 1992 Winslow amp; OBrien...
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magazine articles on: Wallace Lew  - 14 results

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Justice and Injustice: Ancient Wisdom and the Modern Knowledge Economy
Magazine article by Gar Alperovitz, Lew Daly; Tikkun, Vol. 24, March 2009
Subjects: Business growth, Economic models, Economists, Gross Domestic Product--GDP, Human capital, Income inequality, Prosperity, Studies, Traditions
...Wisdom and the Modern Knowledge Economy by Gar Alperovitz , Lew Daly TODAY THE TOP 1 PERCENT GARNERS MORE income than the bottom...to the patent office first. Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace conceived the idea of natural selection simultaneously. Newton...
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Preserving the 'athens of Indiana' through Digitization
Magazine article by Bill Helling; Computers in Libraries, Vol. 23, June 2003
Subjects: Digital libraries, Historic preservation, Library collections, Public Library District-Crawfordsville IN
...College, founded in 1832, and it was the residence of several now-forgotten but once well-published writers such as Lew Wallace, of Ben Hur fame, and Maurice Thompson, who penned Alice of Old Vincennes. Henry S. Lane, a leading figure in...
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Little Library Stories: It's Where We're Going!
Magazine article by Nancy Melin Nelson; Information Today, Vol. 11, February 1994
Subjects: Colleges & universities, Data bases, Information management, Libraries, Online, Reference services, United States
...the addition of an 18th century book on gardening and two CD-ROMS--the Oxford English Dictionary and Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace. WHAT, NO CATALOGERS? REENGINEERING THROUGH OUTSOURCING! Also in the Midwest, Wright State University (Dayton...
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Should All Schools Start before Labor Day?
Magazine article by Jaime Barksdale, April Casmir Grisham; American Teacher, Vol. 95, September 2010
Subjects: Behavior, Elementary schools, School boards, Teachers
...in a manner that best serves their particular communitys needs. April Casmir Grisham is a reading interventionist at Lew Wallace Elementary School in Hammond, Ind., and a member of the Hammond Teachers Federation.
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Of Swords and Sandals
Magazine article by Thomas Doherty; National Forum, Vol. 81, Spring 2001
Subjects: History, Motion picture criticism, Motion picture industry, Roman civilization, Scott, Ridley
...1960) - gained their luster more from contemporaneous than from classical shadings. Though Ben-Hur was written by Lew Wallace in 1880, and filmed once before in 1926, the tale of a Jew condemned to slave labor by an imperial master race took...
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Scots-Irish Heroes of the Wild West; Indian Fighters Enjoy a Celebrated Place in the Folklore of the American Frontier. BILLY KENNEDY Looks Back on the Daring Exploits of Three Such Heroes - "KIT" CARSON, ROBERT CAMPBELL and "BIG FOOT" WALLACE
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), January 22, 2001
...relatives of "Big Foot" were David Wallace, a governor of Washington territory, and General Lew Wallace, a governor of New Mexico and a leading American author. Lew Wallace fought in the Civil War and he...
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SOAP AND GLORY; BAFTA AWARDS: Joy for Corrie and EastEnders as Luvvies Finally Get Tuned In
Newspaper article by Richard Wallace; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), April 30, 1997
Subjects: Best
...Luvvies Finally Get Tuned In. by Richard Wallace Coronation Street and EastEnders made it...Parkinson, presenting the prestigious Lew Grade Award to Corrie, said: "It has...epic romance. AND THE WINNERS WERE... Lew Grade Award Coronation Street Best foreign...
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OSCARNATION ST.; Mirror JOINS THE STARS FOR BAFTA'S AWARDS NIGHT
Newspaper article by Richard Wallace, Thomas Quinn; The Mirror (London, England), April 30, 1997
...Mirror JOINS THE STARS FOR BAFTAS AWARDS NIGHT. by Richard Wallace , Thomas Quinn Coronation Street was crowned king of the soaps...Bill Roache, Beverley Callard and Tracy Shaw were handed the Lew Grade Award at Britains answer to the Oscars for the 36-year...
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Writers' Military Experience Colors Later Work; Numbers Few, but Influence Is Strong
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 16, 2002
Subjects: Twain, Mark
...Bierce, John William De Forest, Sidney Lanier and Lew Wallace are among the few who come to mind. Considering that...dreams, he sends supplies To those he loved so well. Lew Wallace Lew Wallace also had an appreciation of the classics. He...
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Briefly
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), February 26, 2007
Subjects: Physical fitness
...Rundt/Tony VanGestel, 139. 4, Chuck Wallace/Lew Samek/draw, 140. GROSS - Britton 76, Brown 78, Wallace 83. NET - Robison 63, Rundt 68, McBee...Club LOW NET - Bob Kendall 71, Chuck Wallace 75, Gene Kimmel 77, Chris Christensen...
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encyclopedia articles on: Wallace Lew  - 4 results

 
 
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Wallace, Lew
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WALLACE, LEW (Lewis Wallace), 1827 1905, American novelist and diplomat, b. Brookville, Ind. He served in both the Mexican and Civil wars. After returning to his law practice in Indiana, he became governor of the Territory of New Mexico...
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Early, Jubal Anderson
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Hunter westward and then marched down the Shenandoah valley, crossed the Potomac, and moved on Washington. He defeated Lew Wallace in the battle of Monocacy (July 9, 1864) and was before the capital on July 11. The arrival of troops from Grants...
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Crawfordsville
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...steel are major industries. Plastic and nails, wire, and other metal products are also made. Wabash College and the Lew Wallace Study are in the city. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with...
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Monocacy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of Frederick, the Civil War battle of Monocacy was fought on July 9, 1864. Although the Union forces under Gen. Lew Wallace were defeated, they delayed the Confederate forces under Gen. J. A. Early long enough to give Grant time to dispatch...


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