Traces the life and accomplishments of the Mexican painter Diego Rivera, discussing the controversy that surrounded him because of his support of the Communist Party.

Diego Rivera (Great Hispanic Heritage)

Rivera, Diego

Foard, Sheila Wood

Biographies & Memoirs

Chelsea House Pub

Diego Rivera (The Great Hispanic Heritage)

Teen & Young Adult

Biographies

During the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900, Harvey Houses were a familiar sight to train travelers in the American West. Harvey Girls served gourmet meals to passengers of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway (there were one hundred Harvey Houses and about a hundred thousand Harvey Girls over the years!). In a time when career choices for women were limited, becoming a Harvey Girl off ered rare independence for young ladies. In 1919 one such aspirant is fourteen-year-old Clara Fern Massie, who runs away from home in the Ozarks after standing up to her harsh father. Heading west and taking a job as a waitress—a Harvey Girl—the underage Clara struggles to learn the demanding “Harvey Way” and shed her farm-girl image. Readers of all ages will cheer Clara on in her adventures and trials, from Missouri to the Grand Canyon, as she grows to become a confident, independent woman.

Harvey Girl

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Texas Tech University Press

Diego Rivera witnessed a changing world after the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The Mexican muralist painter became the head of a new school of Mexican art, painting murals to explain Mexican history on behalf of his benefactors, the new socialist government of Mexico. He believed this new world needed a new art that spoke to the common people and worked with the government to turn public walls into enormous murals celebrating the nation's people, history, and culture. Learn more about this controversial figure whose desire to associate with the wealthy class that funded much of his work conflicted with his political ideals in Diego Rivera, Second Edition.

Pietras, Jamie

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