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Amazing Impossible Erie Canalby Cheryl HarnessISBN 0613182308 (0-613-18230-8)
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American Government: Apby WilsonISBN 0618247335 (0-618-24733-5)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
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American Government: Brief Editionby James Q. WilsonISBN 0618427783 (0-618-42778-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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American Government: Brief Versionby James Q. WilsonISBN 061822145X (0-618-22145-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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American Government: Institutions and Policiesby James Q. Wilson, John J. DilulioISBN 0618299823 (0-618-29982-3)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Government: Institutions And Policies'Book summary:This popular brief edition text for the one-semester or one-quarter American Government course maintains the framework of Wilson's complete text, emphasizing the historical development of the American political system, who governs, and to what end. The Eighth Edition features thoroughly updated examples, figures, and tables and coverage through the 2006 mid-term elections. [via]
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The American Presidencyby Davis Dyer, Alan BrinkleyISBN 0618382739 (0-618-38273-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Americansby Gerald A. DanzerISBN 061812893X (0-618-12893-X)
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The Americansby NaISBN 0618108785 (0-618-10878-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Americans'Book summary:High school history text with atlas by Rand McNally. [via]
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Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphillis Experimentby James H. JonesISBN 0614225019 (0-614-22501-9)
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Baking in America: Traditional and Contemporary Favorites from the Past 200 Yearsby Greg PatentISBN 0618048316 (0-618-04831-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Best American Essays of the Centuryby Joyce Carol Oates, Robert AtwanISBN 0618155872 (0-618-15587-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Essays of the Century'Book summary:The title The Best American Essays of the Century seems transparent enough, but don't be deceived. What Joyce Carol Oates has assembled is not so much a diverse collection as a sonorous march through what keeps getting called the American century. Read this not as a collection to dip into but as a history--a history of race in America. Oates says it best herself in her introduction: "It can't be an accident that essays in this volume by men and women of ethnic minority backgrounds are outstanding; to paraphrase Melville, to write a 'mighty' work of prose you must have a 'mighty' theme." The mighty pens at work here belong to, among others, Zora Neale Hurston ("How It Feels to Be Colored Me"), Langston Hughes ("Bop"), and James Baldwin ("Notes of a Native Son"). Oates has opted not for the most unexpected but for the most important and stirring essays of our time.
Other chords sound repeatedly as well: the problem of our relationship with nature (Annie Dillard, John Muir, and Gretel Ehrlich); the difficulty of identity in disrupted times (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joan Didion, and Michael Herr). In her essay "The White Album," Didion famously declares: "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." The stories Oates has collected are not easy. Here is the hard-won truth, from writers unwilling to forgive even themselves. Even Martin Luther King Jr. doesn't let himself off the hook, as he writes in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail": "If I have said anything in this letter that is an overstatement of the truth and is indicative of an unreasonable impatience, I beg you to forgive me. If I have said anything in this letter that is an understatement of the truth and is indicative of my having a patience that makes me patient with anything less than brotherhood, I beg God to forgive me." --Claire Dederer [via]
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Beyond the Western Seaby AviISBN 0613073525 (0-613-07352-5)
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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Storyby Timothy B. TysonISBN 0609610589 (0-609-61058-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story'Book summary:"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger."
Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by one of his playmates in the late spring of 1970, heralded a firestorm that would forever transform the small tobacco market town of Oxford, North Carolina.
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a 23-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel, a rough man with a criminal record and ties to the Ku Klux Klan, and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased Marrow, beat him unmercifully, and killed him in public as he pleaded for his life. In the words of a local prosecutor: "They shot him like you or I would kill a snake."
Like many small Southern towns, Oxford had barely been touched by the civil rights movement. But in the wake of the killing, young African Americans took to the streets, led by 22-year-old Ben Chavis, a future president of the NAACP. As mass protests crowded the town square, a cluster of returning Vietnam veterans organized what one termed "a military operation." While lawyers battled in the courthouse that summer in a drama that one termed "a Perry Mason kind of thing," the Ku Klux Klan raged in the shadows and black veterans torched the town's tobacco warehouses.
With large sections of the town in flames, Tyson's father, the pastor of Oxford's all-white Methodist church, pressed his congregation to widen their vision of humanity and pushed the town to come to terms with its bloody racial history. In the end, however, the Tyson family was forced to move away.
Years later, historian Tim Tyson returned to Oxford to ask Robert Teel why he and his sons had killed Henry Marrow. "That nigger committed suicide, coming in here wanting to four-letter-word my daughter-in-law," Teel explained.
The black radicals who burned much of Oxford also told Tim their stories. "It was like we had a cash register up there at the pool hall, just ringing up how much money we done cost these white people," one of them explained. "We knew if we cost 'em enough goddamn money they was gonna start changing some things."
In the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird, Blood Done Sign My Name is a classic work of conscience, a defining portrait of a time and place that we will never forget. Tim Tyson's riveting narrative of that fiery summer and one family's struggle to build bridges in a time of destruction brings gritty blues truth, soaring gospel vision, and down-home humor to our complex history, where violence and faith, courage and evil, despair and hope all mingle to illuminate America's enduring chasm of race. [via]More editions of Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story:
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Blue Doorby Ann RinaldiISBN 0613183002 (0-613-18300-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Door'Book summary:The final handcrafted installment by award-winning author Ann Rinaldi. "Whether they've covered the previous books or not, readers will enjoy this rip-roaring tale of adventure and suspense."-Kirkus[via]
Amanda Videau had no idea what adventures she'd find on the journey North. But she never expected this& After witnessing a crime, she goes into hiding, disguising herself as a worker in her great-grandfather's textile mill. For the first time in her life, Amanda must work to survive. And that means experiencing the horrible working conditions of the mill firsthand.
Now, as Amanda fights for her newfound rights, she must also try to heal generations of deep Chelmsford family wounds. And that means facing the man behind the blue door--the man who tore apart the family quilt so many years ago.More editions of Blue Door:
The Boy Who Loved to Draw: Benjamin Westby Barbara Brenner, Olivier DunreaISBN 0618310894 (0-618-31089-4)
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Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Localesby Jake HalpernISBN 0618446621 (0-618-44662-1)
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slavesby Adam HochschildISBN 0618104690 (0-618-10469-0)
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The Call of the Wildby Jack London, Earl J. Wilcox, Elizabeth H. Wilcox, Wilcox EarlISBN 0618300090 (0-618-30009-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Cheyenne Againby Eve Bunting, Irving ToddyISBN 0618194657 (0-618-19465-7)
Softcover, Clarion Books
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The Chronology of American Literature: America's Literary Achievements from the Colonial Era to Modern Timesby Daniel S. BurtISBN 0618168214 (0-618-16821-4)
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The Color of Waterby James McBrideISBN 0613065425 (0-613-06542-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color of Water'Book summary:Order this book ... and please don't be put off by its pallid subtitle, A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, which doesn't begin to do justice to the utterly unique and moving story contained within. The Color of Water tells the remarkable story of Ruth McBride Jordan, the two good men she married, and the 12 good children she raised. Jordan, born Rachel Shilsky, a Polish Jew, immigrated to America soon after birth; as an adult she moved to New York City, leaving her family and faith behind in Virginia. Jordan met and married a black man, making her isolation even more profound. The book is a success story, a testament to one woman's true heart, solid values, and indomitable will. Ruth Jordan battled not only racism but also poverty to raise her children and, despite being sorely tested, never wavered. In telling her story--along with her son's--The Color of Water addresses racial identity with compassion, insight, and realism. It is, in a word, inspiring, and you will finish it with unalloyed admiration for a flawed but remarkable individual. And, perhaps, a little more faith in us all. [via]
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Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Palsby Stephen Ambrose, Jon FriedmanISBN 0613567420 (0-613-56742-0)
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Cowboy Lingoby Ramon F. Adams, Nick Eggenhofer, Elmer KeltonISBN 0618083499 (0-618-08349-9)
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East of Eden: An Easy Guide to Car Maintenance And Repairby John SteinbeckISBN 0613996984 (0-613-99698-4)
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIby John W. DowerISBN 0613288335 (0-613-28833-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II'Book summary:Embracing Defeat tells the story of the transformation of Japan under American occupation after World War II. When Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allied Forces in August 1945, it was exhausted; where America's Pacific combat lasted less than four years, Japan had been fighting for 15. Sixty percent of its urban area lay in ruins. The collapse of the authoritarian state enabled America's six-year occupation to set Japan in entirely new directions.
Because the victors had no linguistic or cultural access to the losers' society, they were obliged to govern indirectly. Gen. Douglas MacArthur decided at the outset to maintain the civil bureaucracy and the institution of the emperor: democracy would be imposed from above in what the author terms "Neocolonial Revolution." His description of the manipulation of public opinion, as a wedge was driven between the discredited militarists and Emperor Hirohito, is especially fascinating. Tojo, on trial for his life, was requested to take responsibility for the war and deflect it from the emperor; he did, and was hanged. Dower's analysis of popular Japanese culture of the period--songs, magazines, advertising, even jokes--is brilliant, and reflected in the book's 80 well-chosen photographs. With the same masterful control of voluminous material and clear writing that he gave us in War Without Mercy, the author paints a vivid picture of a society in extremis and reconstructs the extraordinary period during which America molded a traumatized country into a free-market democracy and bulwark against resurgent world communism. --John Stevenson [via]
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Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, Concise Editionby Nancy Woloch, Harvard Sitkoff, Neal Salisbury, Paul S. Boyer, Joseph F. Kett, Clifford E. Clark, Sandra McNair HawleyISBN 0618101985 (0-618-10198-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Essential Adam Smithby R. HeilbronerISBN 0613914090 (0-613-91409-0)
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The Executioner's Songby Norman MailerISBN 0613100875 (0-613-10087-5)
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Fast Track to A 5 Preparing for the AP United States History: Test Preparationby David M. KennedyISBN 0618479392 (0-618-47939-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Fiddle Feverby Sharon Arms DoucetISBN 0618043241 (0-618-04324-1)
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Fireworks, Picnics, and Flagsby James Cross Giblin, Ursula ArndtISBN 061809654X (0-618-09654-X)
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George Washington: Our First Presidentby Garnet JacksonISBN 0613635434 (0-613-63543-4)
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Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobsby Rose Kernochan, John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, Sabin C. StreeterISBN 0609807072 (0-609-80707-2)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs'Book summary:Amazing . . . a gem of a book that uses only the strength of the human voice to tell an American story -- sometimes dark, always fascinating.
-- USA Today
The accounts are wonderfully revealing, with gritty and almost shockingly honest detail. For all their variety, they weave a cohesive, passion-filled story of what people bring to their work. It's an addictive read.
-- Harvard Business Review's Best Business Books of 2000
Keen, disturbing, and deeply felt . . . the stories in Gig deliver a more rousing political wallop than those in Working . . . remarkable and strangely moving.
-- Susan Faludi, The Village Voice
I love this book! It's surprising and entertaining and makes the world seem like a bigger and more interesting place. Gig manages to document everyday life and give pure narrative pleasure at the same time. One feels proud to live in the same country as the people in this book.
-- Ira Glass, host of This American Life
A fascinating compilation of what the American workforce has to say about itself.
-- George Plimpton
Eye-opening . . . more revealing than any theories a sociologist could concoct.
-- The Industry Standard
Entertaining, sobering, validating . . . Ordinary people discuss their jobs with extraordinary candor.
-- US Weekly
In the age of advanced spin, this book accomplishes a very rare thing. It actually lets workers speak for themselves. . . . The result makes for a fascinating read.
-- Andrew Ross, director, American Studies Program at New York University
Emotional and eye-opening, each compelling description offers insight about the job itself and, more important, an intimate view of a single human life.
-- Austin Chronicle
An engaging, humorous, revealing, and refreshingly human look at the bizarre, life-threatening, and delightfully humdrum exploits of everyone from sports heroes to sex workers.
-- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Coercion, Ecstasy Club, and Media Virus [via]More editions of Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs:
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The Great Brainby John D. FitzgeraldISBN 0613299671 (0-613-29967-1)
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Hearts of Fireby Kemp P. BattleISBN 060980183X (0-609-80183-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hearts of Fire'Book summary:Most Americans can reel off a handful of female national folk heroes from the history books, but the list ends far too soon. In this wonderfully rich compilation, Kemp Battle weaves together folk tales, diaries, letters, memoirs, and stories recording moments in the lives of heroines large and small. Tucked alongside Amelia Earhart and Billie Holiday, there's exasperated Aunt Weed who writes a threatening letter to the rats invading her home and young Kate Shelley who runs through a howling storm to save two trains from a washed-out bridge. More than 100 women raise their voices here, illuminating tiny corners of America at many points in time. [via]
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History of the Twentieth Century 1900-1933by Martin GilbertISBN 0613217047 (0-613-21704-7)
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The Human Stainby Philip RothISBN 0618059458 (0-618-05945-8)
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If the South Had Won the Civil Warby MacKinlay KantorISBN 0613518403 (0-613-51840-3)
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In The Days Of The Salem Witchcraft Trials: The Life Behind The Witchcraft Trialby Marilynne K. RoachISBN 0613869737 (0-613-86973-7)
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Into the Wildby Jon KrakauerISBN 0613033574 (0-613-03357-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into the Wild'Book summary:What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.
Described by friends and relatives as smart, literate, compassionate, and funny, did McCandless simply read too much Thoreau and Jack London and lose sight of the dangers of heading into the wilderness alone? Krakauer, whose own adventures have taken him to the perilous heights of Everest, provides some answers by exploring the pull the outdoors, seductive yet often dangerous, has had on his own life. [via]
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Is This Any Way to Run a Democratic Election?: Debating American Electoral Politicsby Stephen J. WayneISBN 0618214232 (0-618-21423-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Keep the Lights Burning, Abbieby Peter RoopISBN 0613535189 (0-613-53518-9)
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Kit's Surpriseby Valerie Tripp, Walter RaneISBN 0613289188 (0-613-28918-8)
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The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fishby Jacqueline Briggs Martin, Beth KrommesISBN 061800341X (0-618-00341-X)
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The Last Flightby Amelia EarhartISBN 0609800329 (0-609-80032-9)
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A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950by Arthur M. SchlesingerISBN 0618219250 (0-618-21925-0)
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Ranging from a fondly remembered childhood in the Midwest to a fascinating, storied academic and political life, this volume is an important addition to Schlesinger's body of work, "every bit as well written as anything Schlesinger has done" (Providence Sunday Journal) and "sure to be used by students of the times for years to come" (Boston Globe). "With style and humor and a master historian's deft blending of personal detail with epic events" (Wall Street Journal), Schlesinger evokes the struggles, the questions, the paradoxes, and the triumphs that shaped our era as only he can do.More editions of A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950:
Light This Candle : The Life and Times of Alan Shepard--America's First Spacemanby Neal ThompsonISBN 0609610015 (0-609-61001-5)
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Little Menby Louisa May AlcottISBN 0613377095 (0-613-37709-5)
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Lost New Yorkby Nathan SilverISBN 0618054758 (0-618-05475-8)
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The Loud Silence of Francine Greenby Karen CushmanISBN 0618504559 (0-618-50455-9)
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But when outspoken, passionate Sophie Bowman transfers into Francines class at All Saints School for Girls, Francine finds herself thinking about things that never concerned her beforefree speech, the atom bomb, the existence of God, the way people treat each other. Eventually, Francine discovers that she not only has something to say, she is absolutely determined to say it.
Once again, Karen Cushman follows a young womans progress toward her true self, this time exploring the nature of friendship and the experience of growing up Catholic in an era that is both fascinating and relevant to todays young people. Authors note.More editions of The Loud Silence of Francine Green:
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Major Problems: History of the American Workersby Eileen BorisISBN 0618042547 (0-618-04254-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Major Problems in American History: Since 1865by Thomas G. Paterson, Jon Gjerde, Elizabeth Cobbs HoffmanISBN 0618061347 (0-618-06134-7)
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Major Problems in American History: To 1877by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Thomas G. Paterson, Jon GjerdeISBN 0618061339 (0-618-06133-9)
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Major Problems in American Urban Historyby Howard P. Chudacoff, Peter C. BaldwinISBN 0618432760 (0-618-43276-0)
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Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War : Documents and Essaysby Robert J. McMahonISBN 061819312X (0-618-19312-X)
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Major Problems in the History of World War II: Documents and Essaysby Mark A. StolerISBN 0618061320 (0-618-06132-0)
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Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Powerby Garry WillsISBN 0618485376 (0-618-48537-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power'Book summary:Garry Wills' "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power, despite its title, is not a profile of the Jefferson Presidency. Rather, the book offers a richly detailed study of the United States' tragic constitutional bargain with slavery, and meanders through the lives of several key figures in antebellum American history along the way.
While Thomas Jefferson does play a significant role in Wills' book, the real heroes are the relatively unknown abolitionist Timothy Pickering and, to a lesser degree, John Quincy Adams. Pickering offered a consistent voice of opposition to Jefferson's often secret campaign against Federalist power. Though he could never match Jefferson's charismatic persona, Pickering succeeded in his battle to undo Jefferson's embargo of England--an embargo that Pickering recognized as Jefferson's attempt to undermine the economic prosperity and power of the North. Pickering's ill-fated attempt to secede from the Union, while misguided, would fuel the latter-day abolitionist John Quincy Adams to threaten a similar revolution as the Civil War loomed.
Ultimately, "Negro President" is a book that recovers slavery as a context for understanding early American political life. At times Willis focuses too much on Jefferson, Pickering, or Adams, and the discussion is derailed by his fascination for the moral successes and failures of each personality. Nevertheless, the book addresses a long-neglected subject in American studies and will prove invaluable to readers interested in understanding America's early struggle to balance Northern versus slave-state power. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Nory Ryan's Songby Patricia Reilly GiffISBN 0613579151 (0-613-57915-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nory Ryan's Song'Book summary:Life is hard for poor Irish potato farmers, but 12-year-old Nory Ryan and her family have always scraped by... until one morning, Nory wakes to the foul, rotting smell of diseased potatoes dying in the fields. And just like that, all their hopes for the harvest--for this year and next--are dashed. Hunger sets in quickly. The beaches are stripped of edible seaweed, the shore is emptied of fish, desperate souls even chew on grass for the nourishment. As her community falls apart, Nory scrambles to find food for her family. Meanwhile, the specter of America lurks, where, the word is, no one is ever hungry, and horses carry milk in huge cans down cobblestone streets.
As Patricia Reilly Giff writes in her note to the reader, the Great Hunger of 1845 to 1852 was a tragic time for the Irish. Enough food to feed double the population was sent out across the sea, while an indifferent government ignored the starving masses. More than one million of the eight million people in Ireland died. Nory Ryan's Song, a fictionalized account based on this terrible era in history, describes the heroic struggles of one girl who refuses to give in to hunger, exhaustion, and hopeless circumstances. Young readers may have heard of the Irish Potato Famine, but they won't truly understand it until they meet Nory. Giff is the author of many beloved books for children, including the Newbery Honor Book Lily's Crossing and the Polk Street School series. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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On Board the Titanicby Shelley Tanaka, Ken MarschallISBN 0613110188 (0-613-11018-8)
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The Orchid Thiefby Susan OrleanISBN 0613280091 (0-613-28009-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Orchid Thief'Book summary:Orchidelirium is the name the Victorians gave to the flower madness that is for botanical collectors the equivalent of gold fever. Wealthy orchid fanatics of that era sent explorers (heavily armed, more to protect themselves against other orchid seekers than against hostile natives or wild animals) to unmapped territories in search of new varieties of Cattleya and Paphiopedilum. As knowledge of the family Orchidaceae grew to encompass the currently more than 60,000 species and over 100,000 hybrids, orchidelirium might have been expected to go the way of Dutch tulip mania. Yet, as journalist Susan Orlean found out, there still exists a vein of orchid madness strong enough to inspire larceny among collectors.
The Orchid Thief centers on south Florida and John Laroche, a quixotic, charismatic schemer once convicted of attempting to take endangered orchids from the Fakahatchee swamp, a state preserve. Laroche, a horticultural consultant who once ran an extensive nursery for the Seminole tribe, dreams of making a fortune for the Seminoles and himself by cloning the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii. Laroche sums up the obsession that drives him and so many others:
I really have to watch myself, especially around plants. Even now, just being here, I still get that collector feeling. You know what I mean. I'll see something and then suddenly I get that feeling. It's like I can't just have something--I have to have it and learn about it and grow it and sell it and master it and have a million of it.
Even Orlean--so leery of orchid fever that she immediately gives away any plant that's pressed upon her by the growers in Laroche's circle--develops a desire to see a ghost orchid blooming and makes several ultimately unsuccessful treks into the Fakahatchee. Filled with Palm Beach socialites, Native Americans, English peers, smugglers, and naturalists as improbably colorful as the tropical blossoms that inspire them, this is a lyrical, funny, addictively entertaining read. --Barrie Trinkle [via]More editions of The Orchid Thief:
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A People and a Nation: A History of the United States Since 1865by Howard P. Chudacoff, Thomas G. Paterson, David M. Katzman, David W. Blight, Paul D. Escott, Mary Beth Norton, William M. TuttleISBN 0618005528 (0-618-00552-8)
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A People and a Nation : A History of the United States: Volume One: To 1877by Mary Beth Norton, David M. Katzman, David W. Blight, Howard P. ChudacoffISBN 0618391762 (0-618-39176-2)
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A People and a Nation: A History of the United States To 1877by Mary NortonISBN 061800551X (0-618-00551-X)
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Plain Truthby Jodi PicoultISBN 0613368622 (0-613-36862-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plain Truth'Book summary:The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide - and, for the first time in her high profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. Delving deep into the world of those who live 'plain', Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. As she unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within - to confront her own fears and desires when a man from her past comes back into her life. [via]
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The Plot Against Americaby Philip RothISBN 0618509283 (0-618-50928-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plot Against America'Book summary:"What if" scenarios are often suspect. They are sometimes thinly veiled tales of the gospel according to the author, taking on the claustrophobic air of a personal fantasia that can't be shared. Such is not the case with Philip Roth's tour de force, The Plot Against America. It is a credible, fully-realized picture of what could happen anywhere, at any time, if the right people and circumstances come together.
The Plot Against America explores a wholly imagined thesis and sees it through to the end: Charles A. Lindbergh defeats FDR for the Presidency in 1940. Lindbergh, the "Lone Eagle," captured the country's imagination by his solo Atlantic crossing in 1927 in the monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, then had the country's sympathy upon the kidnapping and murder of his young son. He was a true American hero: brave, modest, handsome, a patriot. According to some reliable sources, he was also a rabid isolationist, Nazi sympathizer, and a crypto-fascist. It is these latter attributes of Lindbergh that inform the novel.
The story is framed in Roth's own family history: the family flat in Weequahic, the neighbors, his parents, Bess and Herman, his brother, Sandy and seven-year-old Philip. Jewishness is always the scrim through which Roth examines American contemporary culture. His detractors say that he sees persecution everywhere, that he is vigilant in "Keeping faith with the certainty of Jewish travail"; his less severe critics might cavil about his portrayal of Jewish mothers and his sexual obsession, but generally give him good marks, and his fans read every word he writes and heap honors upon him. This novel will engage and satisfy every camp.
"Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear. Of course, no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews." This is the opening paragraph of the book, which sets the stage and tone for all that follows. Fear is palpable throughout; fear of things both real and imagined. A central event of the novel is the relocation effort made through the Office of American Absorption, a government program whereby Jews would be placed, family by family, across the nation, thereby breaking up their neighborhoods--ghettos--and removing them from each other and from any kind of ethnic solidarity. The impact this edict has on Philip and all around him is horrific and life-changing. Throughout the novel, Roth interweaves historical names such as Walter Winchell, who tries to run against Lindbergh. The twist at the end is more than surprising--it is positively ingenious.
Roth has written a magnificent novel, arguably his best work in a long time. It is tempting to equate his scenario with current events, but resist, resist. Of course it is a cautionary tale, but, beyond that, it is a contribution to American letters by a man working at the top of his powers. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bushby Allan MetcalfISBN 0618443746 (0-618-44374-6)
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Promised Landby Mary AntinISBN 0613501357 (0-613-50135-7)
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The Reader's Companion to Military Historyby Geoffrey Parker, Robert CowleyISBN 0618127429 (0-618-12742-9)
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Red, White and Blueby John Herman, Robin RorabackISBN 061308635X (0-613-08635-X)
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Remember: The Journey to School Integrationby Toni MorrisonISBN 061839740X (0-618-39740-X)
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Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianityby Bruce BawerISBN 0609802224 (0-609-80222-4)
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Terrorism And 9/11: A Readerby Fredrik LogevallISBN 0618255354 (0-618-25535-4)
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Texas Crossroads of North Americaby Ronnie C. Tyler, Paula Mitchell Marks, Jesus F. De LA TejaISBN 0618073612 (0-618-07361-2)
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Thinking Through The Pastby HollitzISBN 061841679X (0-618-41679-X)
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Thinking Through the Past: A Critical Thinking Approach to U.S. Historyby HollitzISBN 0618416781 (0-618-41678-1)
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Thinking Through the Past: A Critical Thinking Approach to U.S. History Since 1865by John HollitzISBN 0618046690 (0-618-04669-0)
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Times Were a Changinby Irwin Unge, Debi Unger, Irwin UngerISBN 0609803379 (0-609-80337-9)
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Two for the Road: Our Love Affair With American Foodby Michael Stern, Jane SternISBN 0618329633 (0-618-32963-3)
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Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wearby Paul FussellISBN 0618381880 (0-618-38188-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear'Book summary:From Boy Scouts to soldiers, nurses to UPS workers, chefs to nuns, Paul Fussell describes, in sharp and telling anecdotes, the history and meanings of various uniforms. He reveals their secret language and unfolds their cultural significance. Focusing on the American scene, he holds up a mirror to the folks who head off to work each morning in regulated clothing and charts the fault lines of the desire for conformity and individuality. In examining the way uniforms unite and divide us, he ranges over the globe, describing, among other things, the Russian love of shoulder boards, the German obsession with black, and the Italian enthusiasm for feathered military hats. According to Fussell, we are what we wear, and sometimes our get-ups say surprising things.[via]
Uniforms is vintage Fussell a blend of vinegar and grace, of keen cultural insight and hilarious wit, equal parts spoof and illuminating social analysis.More editions of Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear:
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The Usborne Book of Explorers: From Columbus to Armstrongby Felicity EverettISBN 061336726X (0-613-36726-X)
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Usborne History Of The Twentieth Centuryby Christina HopkinsonISBN 0613743083 (0-613-74308-3)
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Waldenby Henry David Thoreau, Scot MillerISBN 0618457178 (0-618-45717-8)
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Henry David Thoreau was just a few days short of his twenty-eighth birthday when he built a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond and began one of the most famous experiments in living in American history. Originally he was not, apparently, intending to write a book about his life at the pond, but nine years later, in August of 1854, Houghton Mifflin's predecessor, Ticknor and Fields, published Walden; or, a Life in the Woods. At the time the book was largely ignored, and it took five years to sell out the first printing of two thousand copies. It was not until 1862, the year of Thoreau's death, that the book was brought back into print, and it has never been out of print since. Published in hundreds of editions and translated into virtually every modern language, it has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written. [via]
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The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil Warby Thomas B. BuellISBN 0609801732 (0-609-80173-2)
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The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963by Christopher Paul CurtisISBN 0613034945 (0-613-03494-5)
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Christopher Paul Curtis's alternately hilarious and deeply moving novel, winner of the Newbery Honor and the Coretta Scott King Honor, blends the fictional account of an African American family with the factual events of the violent summer of 1963. Fourth grader Kenny is an innocent and sincere narrator; his ingenuousness lends authenticity to the story and invites readers of all ages into his world, even as it changes before his eyes. Curtis is also the acclaimed author of Bud, Not Buddy, winner of the Newbery Medal. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 0613846001 (0-613-84600-1)
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Josefina Aprende Una Leccion/Josefina Learns a Lessonby Valerie Tripp, Jean-Paul Tibbles, Vinetas Susan McAlileyISBN 061305279X (0-613-05279-X)
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Una Sorpresa Para Josefinaby Valerie Tripp, Susan McAliley, Jean-Paul Tibbles, Jose MorenoISBN 0613059085 (0-613-05908-5)
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