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Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer Presidentby Allen C. GuelzoISBN 0802842933 (0-8028-4293-3)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President'Book summary:This major biography of Abraham Lincoln has won the prestigious Lincoln Prize, the annual award given to the best book in the Civil War field. Guelzo's superb work breaks new ground in exploring the role of ideas in Lincoln's life, treating him for the first time as a serious thinker deeply involved in the struggles of nineteenth-century thought. [via]
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Across the Great Divide: The Bandby Barney HoskynsISBN 0786880279 (0-7868-8027-9)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Alexander Hamiltonby Henry Cabot Lodge, Mary-Jo KlineISBN 0791045420 (0-7910-4542-0)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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America's Historic Trailsby John M. ThompsonISBN 079228030X (0-7922-8030-X)
Hardcover, National Geographic Society
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American Farmhouseby H.J. KauffmanISBN 0801502209 (0-8015-0220-9)
Hardcover, Hawthorn Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Farmhouse'Book summary:Generally speaking, a farm consists of a plot of ground along with a house, a barn, and outbuildings. A the turn of the century, farming continued to compete with manufacturing in importance. By 1965, however, the majority of our population had been attracted to the cities and their outlying suburbs, where employment and conveniences were more plentiful and life seemed less rigorous. Today, however, the farm is again luring many people back to live in the country or, when this is impractical, to visit it frequently and experience the compensations that country living has to offer. One of the most interesting discoveries made in this survey of the American farmhouse is the many farmhouses, despite their present ample proportions, were initially small - then expanded out of necessity. It is regrettable that the farmhouse is slowly disappearing from the American scene. It is hopeful that the contents of this survey will encourage the preservation of many others. [via]
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American Girls Handy Bookby Lina Beard, Adelia BeardISBN 0804800081 (0-8048-0008-1)
Hardcover, Tuttle Pub
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Andy Adams' Campfire Talesby Andy AdamsISBN 0803258356 (0-8032-5835-6)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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The Beer Can by the Highway: Essays on What's American About Americaby John A. KouwenhovenISBN 0801836530 (0-8018-3653-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Black Elk Speaksby Black Elk, John G. NeihardtISBN 0803233019 (0-8032-3301-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks'Book summary:The most famous Native American book ever written, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (18631950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish their way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee.[via]Beautifully told through the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a life story. Black Elks profound and arresting religious visions of the unity of humanity and the world around him have transformed his account into a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as a collaborative autobiography, a history of a Native American nation, or an enduring spiritual testament for all humankind, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elks world, a reset text with Lakota words reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades.
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Black Elk Speaksby Vine Deloria, Black Elk, John G. Neihardt, Lori Utecht, Alexis N. Petri, Standing BearISBN 0803283857 (0-8032-8385-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks'Book summary:Black Elk Speaks is the story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during the momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt (1881-1973) in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and chose Neihardt to tell his story. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elks experiences in this powerful and inspirational message for all humankind.[via]When Black Elk received his great vision, white settlers were invading the Lakotas homeland, decimating buffalo herds, and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas way of life. The Lakotas fought fiercely to retain their freedom and way of life, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee. Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time, however. As related by Neihardt, Black Elks searing visions of the unity of humanity and the earth have made this book a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota life, a history of a Native nation, or an enduring spiritual testament, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This new edition features two additional essays by John G. Neihardt that further illuminate his experience with Black Elk; an essay by Alexis Petri, great-granddaughter of John G. Neihardt, that celebrates Neihardts remarkable accomplishments; and a look at the legacy of the special relationship between Neihardt and Black Elk, written by Lori Utecht, editor of Knowledge and Opinion: Essays and Literary Criticism of John G. Neihardt.
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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Siouxby John G. Neihardt, Deloria, Vine, Jr.ISBN 0803283598 (0-8032-8359-8)
Softcover, University of Nebraska Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux'Book summary:Named one of the ten best spiritual books of the twentieth century by Philip Zaleski of HarperSanFrancisco, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (18631950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas' homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas' way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee.[via]Beautifully told by the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a life story. Black Elk's profound and arresting religious visions of the unity of humanity and the world around him have transformed his account into a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as a collaborative autobiography, a history of a Native American nation, or an enduring spiritual testament for all humankind, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elk's world, a reset text, a listing of Lakota words newly translated and reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades.
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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Siouxby Black Elk, John G. NeihardtISBN 0803261705 (0-8032-6170-5)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux'Book summary:Named one of the ten best spiritual books of the twentieth century by Philip Zaleski of HarperSanFrancisco, Black Elk Speaks is the acclaimed story of Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (18631950) and his people during the momentous, twilight years of the nineteenth century. Black Elk grew up in a time when white settlers were invading the Lakotas' homeland, decimating buffalo herds and threatening to extinguish the Lakotas' way of life. Black Elk and other Lakotas fought back, a dogged resistance that resulted in a remarkable victory at the Little Bighorn and an unspeakable tragedy at Wounded Knee.[via]Beautifully told by the celebrated poet and writer John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks offers much more than a life story. Black Elk's profound and arresting religious visions of the unity of humanity and the world around him have transformed his account into a venerated spiritual classic. Whether appreciated as a collaborative autobiography, a history of a Native American nation, or an enduring spiritual testament for all humankind, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.
This special edition features all three prefaces to Black Elk Speaks that John G. Neihardt wrote at different points in his life, a map of Black Elk's world, a reset text, a listing of Lakota words newly translated and reproduced using the latest orthographic standards, and color paintings by Lakota artist Standing Bear that have not been widely available for decades.
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The Book of Illusions : A Novelby Paul AusterISBN 0805054081 (0-8050-5408-1)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Buckskin and Blanket Days: Memoirs of a Friend of of the Indiansby Thomas Hardy TibblesISBN 0803251998 (0-8032-5199-8)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American Westby Dee BrownISBN 0805066349 (0-8050-6634-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West'Book summary:First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson [via]
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By Motor to the Golden Gateby Jane Lancaster, Emily PostISBN 0786419407 (0-7864-1940-7)
Softcover, McFarland & Co Inc Pub
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The Call of the Wildby Jack London, Fred CarrilloISBN 079109104X (0-7910-9104-X)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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The Ceo of the Sofaby P. J. O'RourkeISBN 080213940X (0-8021-3940-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Colonial Craftsmen and the Beginnings of American Industryby Edwin TunisISBN 0801862280 (0-8018-6228-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Colonial Livingby Edwin TunisISBN 0801862272 (0-8018-6227-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colonial Living'Book summary:Colonial Living is EdwinTunis's a vigorous re-creation of 17th- and 18th-century Americaof the everyday living of those sturdy men and women who carved a way of life out of the wilderness. In lively text and accurate drawings we see the dugouts and wigwams of New England's first settlers and the houses they learned to build against the cruel winters; the snug Dutch and Flemish farmhouses of Nieuw Amsterdam; the homes of the early planters in the South which would one day be kitchens for the houses they dreamed of building when tobacco had made them rich.
Long research and love for his subject gave Tunis an intimate knowledge of the details of daily living in colonial times, from the period of tiny coastal settlements to the flourishing, interdependent colonies which fought a major war for independence. He shares all with his readerthe building of houses, with their trunnels, girts, and hand-hewn beams, the spinning of yarn and its weaving and dyeing, the making of candles and soap, and the intricate business of cooking on the open hearth with lug poles, cranes, bake kettles, and spits. He describes the early crops, and pictures the implements and animals used to produce them; in detailed pictures we see again the tools and products of the craftsmenthe blacksmith, the cooper, the miller, the joiner, and the silversmith.
Edwin Tunis has brought the significant past to life with consummate skill. Rich in enjoyment, rich in information, with more than 200 drawings, his book is a warm, lively, and authentic panorama of a lost way of life.
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A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy TooleISBN 0802130208 (0-8021-3020-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Confederacy of Dunces'Book summary:"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs."
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.
Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Lana Lee and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Daniel Boone: Master of the Wildernessby John BakelessISBN 0803260903 (0-8032-6090-3)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Days of Destiny : Crossroads in American History: America's Greatest Historians Examine Thirty-One Uncelebrated Days that Changes the Course of Historyby James M. McPherson, Alan Brinkley, David RubelISBN 0789480107 (0-7894-8010-7)
Hardcover, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Days of Destiny : Crossroads in American History: America's Greatest Historians Examine Thirty-One Uncelebrated Days that Changes the Course of History'Book summary:America's greatest historians examine thirty-one uncelebrated days that changed the course of history There are moments in American history when something old ends and something new begins. These are the days of destiny. We asked some of the most respected (and best-selling) historians of our time to choose specific days on which American history turned. Their responses make up the month's worth of essays included in this volume. Some chose wars and battles, politics and presidents; others found answers in less well-known areas of historical study: the Great Awakening of the 1740s, the Indian Wars of the 1870s, the plight of working women at the turn of the twentieth century, the countercultural efflorescence of the late 1960s. In Days of Destiny: Crossroads in American History, the Society of American Historians brings you thirty-one engaging narratives, each illuminating with crisp prose and unparalleled scholarship an event that profoundly shaped the nation and world in which we live in. From King Philip's 1675 parley with white colonial officials to the 1973 research conference at which the biotechnology revolution was announced, these vignettes will transport you to places and introduce you to people who have made a continuing difference in the history of America. [via]
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Death of a Salesmanby Arthur MillerISBN 0791093026 (0-7910-9302-6)
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Disney's Americana Storybook Collectionby Deborah Boone, Alfred GiulianiISBN 0786834021 (0-7868-3402-1)
Hardcover, Disney Press
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Emerson's Essays-Ralph Waldo Emersonby Harold BloomISBN 0791081184 (0-7910-8118-4)
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Enduring Americaby Douglas H. ChadwickISBN 0792227336 (0-7922-2733-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyonsby John Wesley Powell, Anthony BrandtISBN 0792266366 (0-7922-6636-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Field Guide to American Antique Furniture/a Unique Visual System for Identifying the Style of Virtually Any Piece of American Antique Furnitureby Ray Skibinski, Joseph Butler, Kathleen Eagen JohnsonISBN 0805001247 (0-8050-0124-7)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Fortress of Solitudeby Jonathan LethemISBN 0786259965 (0-7862-5996-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Freedomby William SafireISBN 0792424948 (0-7924-2494-8)
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie FlaggISBN 0804115613 (0-8041-1561-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indianby Charles Alexander EastmanISBN 0803258739 (0-8032-5873-9)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failureby Paul AusterISBN 0805054898 (0-8050-5489-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure'Book summary:It's no wonder that Paul Auster (The Music of Chance, Leviathan, Mr. Vertigo) creates such singular characters. While his youth comprised a series of failures too unbelievable for fiction, it also equipped him with a range of experiences to draw from that most fiction writers only dream of. He worked with Bowery bums at a summer camp, had a childhood friend join the Weather Underground, and was a student at Columbia in 1968 at the height of the student uprisings there (and at which point, he boasts, he knew seven of the FBI's ten most wanted men). He worked on an oil tanker, for a French Mafia-style film producer in Paris, and for a rare-book organization in New York. He translated the North Vietnamese constitution from French into English (don't ask). His work brought him in contact to varying extents with Jean Genet, Mary McCarthy, Jerzy Kosinski, Sartre, Foucault, and John Lennon. The encounters and experiences must have been fascinating, failure aside, but Auster's prose here, sadly, lacks the tightness and luster of his fiction. The remainder--and major portion--of the volume consists of three plays, a baseball card game, and a detective novel, all written during this time. [via]
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A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow : My American Hitchhiking Odysseyby Tim BrookesISBN 0792277295 (0-7922-7729-5)
Softcover, National Geographic Society
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow : My American Hitchhiking Odyssey'Book summary:"I first saw America on July 1, 1973. I flew over on a charter flight full of students...all of us drawn toward America like dazzled, half-blind moths, seduced by a vast poster...of a Greyhound bus whose destination board bore a single word that encompassed the infinite adventure of America, its wild past, its endless plains, its mystery: BUFFALO." So he was hooked from the very start. By the end of that fateful summer, young British expatriate Tim Brookes had hitchhiked to California and Vancouver, back across Canada and down to New York. Now, twenty five years later, he's back on the road. But he's got a lot more on his mind these days. Artfully weaving between past and present, Brookes considers exactly why the proverbial road trip, once a crucial part of American youth education, seems to have all but disappeared, superceded by more expensive and less uncertain kinds of travel. Joining a venerable literary tradition that includes Huck Finn, Steinbeck's beloved Charlie, and Kerouac, Brookes's hilarious and strangely moving "A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow" is a brilliant enquiry into America's peculiar relationship with the open road. [via]
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I Am Charlotte Simmonsby Tom WolfeISBN 0786272910 (0-7862-7291-0)
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Product Description: Dupont University--the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition... Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.As Charlotte encounters Dupont's privileged elite--her roommate, Beverly, a Groton-educated Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team, whose position is threatened by a hotshot black freshman from the projects; the Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense of entitlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a bodyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Geller, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university's "independent" newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavor on the sex-crazed, jock-obsessed campus--she gains a new, revelatory sense of her own power, that of her difference and of her very innocence, but little does she realize that she will act as a catalyst in all of their lives. With his signature eye for detail, Tom Wolfe draws on extensive observation of campuses across the country to immortalize college life in the '00s. I Am Charlotte Simmons is the much-anticipated triumph of America's master chronicler.
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Tom Wolfe Timeline 1931: Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. born in Richmond, VA, on March 2. Wolfe later attends Washington and Lee University (BA, English, 1951), and Yale University (Ph.D., American Studies, 1957).
1956: Wolfe begins working as a reporter in Springfield, MA, Washington, D.C., then finally New York City, writing feature articles for major newspapers, as well as New York and Esquire magazines. Not satisfied with the conventions of newspaper reporting at the time, Wolfe experiments with using the techniques of fiction writing in his news articles. Wolfe's newspaper career spans a decade.
1963: After being sent by Esquire to research a story about the custom car world in Southern California, Wolfe returns to New York with ideas, but no article. Upon telling his editor he cannot write it, the editor suggests he send his notes and someone else will. Wolfe stays up all night, types 49 pages, and turns it in the next morning. Later that day, the editor calls to tell Wolfe they are cutting the salutation off the top of the memorandum, printing the rest as-is. Thus, New Journalism was arguably born, whereby writing and storytelling techniques previously utilized only in fiction were radically applied to nonfiction. Straight reporting pieces now were free to include: the author's perceptions and experience, shifting perspectives, the use of jargon and slang, the reconstruction of events and conversations.
1965: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux publish Wolfe's first collection of nonfiction stories displaying his newfound reporting techniques: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. The book cements Wolfe's place as a prominent stylist of the New Journalism movement.
1968: The Pump House Gang and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (No. 91 on National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century) publish on the same day, and together provide an up-close portrait and exploration of the hippie culture of the 1960s (by following the novelist Ken Kesey and his entourage of LSD enthusiasts), and the cultural change occurring at a seminal point in U.S. social history.
1970: Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is published. This collection underscores racial divide in America, including an am using story about the socialites of New York City seeking out black liberation groups as guests, focusing on the conductor Leonard Bernstein's party with the Black Panthers in attendance at his Park Avenue duplex. (No. 35 on National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century .)
1976: Wolfe labels the 1970s "The Me Decade" in his collection of essays, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine. Wolfe illustrates the bookthroughout.
1979: The Right Stuff is published. Depicting the status, structure, exploits, and ethics of daredevil pilots at the forefront of rocket and aircraft technology, as well as the beginnings of the space program and the pioneering NASA astronauts who were the first Americans to land on the moon, the book receives the National Book Award in 1980. An Academy Award-winning film is made from the book in 1983.
1987: With publication of his first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities--serialized in Rolling Stone magazine--Wolfe pens one of the bestselling and definitive novels of the 1980s, continuing his social criticism and ability to capture the lives and preoccupations of Americans, one generation at a time. Wolfe receives a record $5 million for movie rights to the novel and, despite the success of the book, the film fails at the box office.
1998: A Man in Full, Wolfe's second novel, is published to mixed criticism, yet garners favor as a 1998 National Book Award Finalist. Here, Wolfe aims his sights on the Atlanta, GA, elite, trophy wives, and real estate developers, continuing to comment on racial issues and the chasm in socioeconomic status in America.
2000: Hooking Up, a collection of essays, reviews, profiles, and the novella, Ambush at Fort Bragg, is published.
2004: On November 9, Wolfe's third novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons, set at the fictional Dupont University, is published. [via]
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The Journals of Lewis and Clarkby William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, Anthony BrandtISBN 0792269217 (0-7922-6921-7)
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Journals of Lewis and Clark SPEC HCby Thomas SchmidtISBN 079226620X (0-7922-6620-X)
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The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: The Journal of Patrick Gass, May 14, 1804-September 23, 1806by Patrick Gass, American Philosophical Society, University of Nebraska--Lincoln Center for Great Plains Studies, William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, Gary E. Moulton, Thomas W. DunlayISBN 080322916X (0-8032-2916-X)
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Gass was promoted to sergeant on the expedition to fill the place of the deceased Charles Floyd. His journal was subsequently published and proved quite popular: it went through six editions in six years. A skilled carpenter, Gass was almost certainly responsible for supervising the building of Forts Mandan and Clatsop; his records of those forts are particularly detailed and useful. Gass was to live until 1870, the last survivor of the expedition and the one who lived to see transcontinental communication fulfill the promise of the expedition.
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The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: The Journals of John Ordway, May 14, 1804-September 23, 1806, and Charles Floyd, May 14-August 18, 1804by American Philosophical Society, University of Nebraska--Lincoln Center for Great Plains Studies, William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, Gary E. Moulton, Thomas W. DunlayISBN 0803229143 (0-8032-2914-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: The Journals of John Ordway, May 14, 1804-September 23, 1806, and Charles Floyd, May 14-August 18, 1804'Book summary:Widely heralded as a lasting achievement, the University of Nebraska Press editions of the journals of Lewis and Clark now present volume 9 of the projected thirteen containing the complete record of the expedition.In order that the fullest record possible be kept of the journey, Captains Lewis and Clark required their sergeants to keep journals to guard against loss of the captains own accounts. The sergeants accounts extend and corroborate the journals of Lewis and Clark and contribute to the full record of the expedition.The bulk of this volume contains the fullest of the enlisted mens records, the journal of John Ordway. As senior sergeant, Ordway was in command when the captains were absent from the main body of the expedition. He was also the sole member of the party never to miss a day in his journal; for several portions of the crossing, his is the only extant account. Ordways journal has never before been published with the other records of the venture.Charles Floyds journal is tragically short, ending with his death near present-day Sioux City, Iowa, on 20 August 1804. Floyd was the only member of the party to die en route, and his journaladding several details absent from the captains recordsindicates that the record of the journey is poorer for his loss.[via]More editions of The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: The Journals of John Ordway, May 14, 1804-September 23, 1806, and Charles Floyd, May 14-August 18, 1804:
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The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: The Journals of Joseph Whitehouse, May 14, 1804-April 2, 1806by American Philosophical Society, University of Nebraska--Lincoln Center for Great Plains Studies, William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, Gary E. Moulton, Thomas W. DunlayISBN 0803229186 (0-8032-2918-6)
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The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expeditionby Meriwether LewisISBN 0803229488 (0-8032-2948-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition'Book summary:Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led this expedition of 18046. Along the way they filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the trans-Mississippi West.[via]This complete set of the celebrated Nebraska edition incorporates the journals along with a wide range of new scholarship dealing with all aspects of the expedition, including geography, Indian languages, plants, and animals, in order to recreate the expedition within its historical context.
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The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: August 25, 1804-April 6, 1805by Gary E. MoultonISBN 0803228759 (0-8032-2875-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: August 25, 1804-April 6, 1805'Book summary:When the Atlas of the Lewis and Clark Expedition appeared in 1983 critics hailed it as a publishing landmark in western history. The second volume, which began the actual journals, fully lived up to the promise of the first. This eagerly awaited third volume continues the journals of explorers whose epic trail-blazing still excites the imagination.[via]Instructed by President Jefferson to keep meticulous records bearing on the geography, ethnology, and natural history of the trans-Mississippi West, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and four of their men filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations during their expedition of 1804-6. The result was and is a national treasure: a complete look at the Great Plains, the Rockies, and the Pacific Northwest, reported by men who were intelligent and well prepared, at a time when almost nothing was known about those regions so newly acquired in the Louisiana Purchase.
Volume 3 consists of the journals during the expeditions route from the Vermillion River to Fort Mandan, North Dakota, and their winter encampment there. It describes their encounters with Sioux, Arikara, Mandan, and Hidatsa Indians, including considerable ethnographic material on these tribes. Some miscellaneous documents containing information gathered during the first year of the expedition, originally published in a separate volume, are here brought together in an appropriate chronological sequence.
Superseding the last edition, published early in this century, the current edition contains new materials discovered since then. It greatly expands and updates the annotation to take account of the most recent scholarship on the many subjects touched on by the journals.
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The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: November 2, 1805-March 22, 1806by Gary E. MoultonISBN 0803228937 (0-8032-2893-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: November 2, 1805-March 22, 1806'Book summary:The first five volumes of the new edition of the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition have been widely heralded as a lasting achievement in the study of western exploration. The sixth volume begins on November 2, 1805, in the second year of Meriwether Lewis and William Clarks epic journey. It covers the last leg of the partys route from the Cascades of the Columbia River to the Pacific Coast and their stay at Fort Clatsop, near the rivers mouth, until the spring of 1806. Travel and exploration, described in the early part, were hampered by miserable weather, and the enforced idleness in winter quarters permitted detailed record keeping. The journals portray the partys interaction with the Indians of the lower Columbia River and the coast, particularly the Chinooks, Clatsops, Wahkiakums, Cathlamets, and Tillamooks. No other volume in this edition has such a wealth of ethnographic and natural history materials, most of it apparently written by Lewis and copied by Clark, and accompanied by sketches of plants, animals, and Indians and their canoes, implements, and clothing.[via]Incorporating a wide range of new scholarship dealing with all aspects of the expedition, from Indian languages to plants and animals to geographical and historical contexts, this new edition expands and updates the annotation of the last edition, published early in the twentieth century.
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Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Fiveby Harold BloomISBN 0791059251 (0-7910-5925-1)
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The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions: A Philosophical Adventure With the World's Greatest Thinkersby Nicholas FearnISBN 0802143474 (0-8021-4347-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions: A Philosophical Adventure With the World's Greatest Thinkers'Book summary:The work of the classic philosophers is well known. But what do contemporary thinkers say about what it is to be a human being? In his serious, challenging, and remarkably accessible new book, Nicholas Fearn turns to contemporary philosophers to ask the age old questions: Who am I? What do I know? What should I do? In his search for higher meaning, Fearn consults with thinkers from around the world (including John Searle, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, Richard Rorty, Daniel Dennett, Noam Chomsky, Derek Parfit, Nick Bostrom, among many others) to create an impressive survey of recent thought. Variously, they believe that free will, identity, and consciousness are not what they seem; that the difference between virtue and wickedness can be a matter of sheer luck; and that, one day, we will all be vegetarians. Fearn discovers that the topics havent changed, though our world has. Or has it? Moving deftly from pop culture to the writings of Plato, Philosophy is a brilliant and entertaining guide to the current state of the philosophical thought.[via]More editions of The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions: A Philosophical Adventure With the World's Greatest Thinkers:
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Letters of a Woman Homesteaderby Elinore Pruitt StewartISBN 0803251939 (0-8032-5193-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters of a Woman Homesteader'Book summary:Elinore Pruitt, a widow and mother who washed clothes for a living in Denver, planned to work as a housekeeper for some rancher while learning all she would need to know about homesteading a place for herself. In 1909 she went to work for Clyde Stewart, whose ranch was near Burnt Fork, Wyoming, and within six weeks she married him. "Ranch work seemed to require that we be married first and do our sparking afterward," she wrote Juliet Coney, her former employer. She maintained her independence by filing on a quarter section adjacent to her husband's land and proving it up herself. Her delightful letters, written from the time of her arrival until 1913, authentically depict an Old West that, as Jessamyn West notes in her foreword, has been "progressively obscured by those who portray it most often."[via]The critically acclaimed 1980 film Heartland was based on Elinore Pruitt Stewart's letters and journals.
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Lolitaby Harold BloomISBN 0791009610 (0-7910-0961-0)
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Lonesome Travelerby Jack KerouacISBN 0802130747 (0-8021-3074-7)
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Longtime Californ': A Documentary Study of an American Chinatownby Victor G. Nee, Brett De Bary NeeISBN 0804713367 (0-8047-1336-7)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Lord of the Barnyardby Tristan EgolfISBN 0802136729 (0-8021-3672-9)
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Louisa May and Mr. Thoreau's Fluteby Julie Dunlap, Marybeth Lorbiecki, Mary AzarianISBN 0803724705 (0-8037-2470-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Main Streetby Sinclair Lewis, Matthew Joseph BruccoliISBN 0786703253 (0-7867-0325-3)
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Main Street to Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architectureby Chester H. LiebsISBN 0801850959 (0-8018-5095-9)
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The Mammoth Cheeseby Sheri HolmanISBN 0802141358 (0-8021-4135-8)
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Marie and Bruce: A Playby Wallace ShawnISBN 0802130186 (0-8021-3018-6)
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Mason and Dixonby Thomas PynchonISBN 0805058370 (0-8050-5837-0)
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The Motel in Americaby John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle, Jefferson S. RogersISBN 0801869188 (0-8018-6918-8)
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Of Chiles, Cacti, and Fighting Cocks: Notes On The American Westby Frederick TurnerISBN 0805030662 (0-8050-3066-2)
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Osceolaby Alan B. Govenar, Osceola Mays, Shane EvansISBN 0786804076 (0-7868-0407-6)
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Out Westby Dayton DuncanISBN 080326626X (0-8032-6626-X)
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Photographs Then and Nowby National Geographic Society (U.S.)ISBN 079227203X (0-7922-7203-X)
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The Poetry of Robert Frostby Robert Frost, Edward Connery LathemISBN 0805005021 (0-8050-0502-1)
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Performers Susan Anspach, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Elliott Gould, among others, heighten the conversational cadences of a writer who seldom strayed from his beloved iambs. Included are "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," "The Death of the Hired Man," "The Fear," and much more, all complete and unabridged. (Running time: 1 hour, 1 cassette) --Martha Silano [via]
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0786880937 (0-7868-8093-7)
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Shaneby James C. Work, Jack Warner SchaeferISBN 0803291426 (0-8032-9142-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shane'Book summary:Shane was made into an award-winning film thatlike the novelbecame a standard by which later westerns were judged. Readers who have already felt the novel's power or are approaching it for the first time, will find this edition indispensable for coming to terms with its fascinating simplicity, its richness, and its puzzles.[via]This edition reprints the original text of the novel (in 1954 it was edited to remove words that might offend). In addition, the best critical essays about Schaefer and about Shane are included to provide historical and comparative background. An interview with Jack Schaefer and an afterword written by him complete this volume.
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The Spirits of '76.by Eric SloaneISBN 0802704190 (0-8027-0419-0)
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The Tie That Bindsby Kent HarufISBN 0805018697 (0-8050-1869-7)
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Tropic of Cancerby Henry MillerISBN 0802131786 (0-8021-3178-6)
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Tropic of Cancer/Tropic of Capricornby Henry MillerISBN 0802138438 (0-8021-3843-8)
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Walt Disneyby Bob ThomasISBN 0786861290 (0-7868-6129-0)
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Walt Disney : An American Originalby Bob ThomasISBN 0786860278 (0-7868-6027-8)
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Watermenby Randall S. PefferISBN 080182737X (0-8018-2737-X)
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The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963by Christopher Paul CurtisISBN 0786264063 (0-7862-6406-3)
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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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Wheel Estate: The Rise and Decline of Mobile Homesby Allan D. WallisISBN 0801856418 (0-8018-5641-8)
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Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing As an Artby Willa CatherISBN 0803263325 (0-8032-6332-5)
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Mauro Evangelista, Kimberly MorrisISBN 0789444445 (0-7894-4444-5)
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The Wizard of Oz : Celebrating the Hundredth Anniversaryby L. Frank Baum, Michael HagueISBN 0805064303 (0-8050-6430-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz : Celebrating the Hundredth Anniversary'Book summary:For many of us, the adventures of Dorothy in Oz will forever be associated not with Judy Garland singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" but with W. W. Denslow's exceedingly odd line drawings for the original editions of Baum's Oz series. The Viennese artist Lisbeth Zwerger, however, goes a long way toward providing a new and refreshed set of images for the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the humbug wizard. These illustrations are often cockeyed, with occasional realistic details thrown in, like a crow with a corncob in its beak in the first portrait of the Scarecrow. The characters have a poignance and oddity that escaped the makers of the Oz movie. [via]
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WLT: A Radio Romanceby Garrison KeillorISBN 0792713052 (0-7927-1305-2)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0804900698 (0-8049-0069-8)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Wounded Kneeby Dee Brown, Amy EhrlichISBN 0805027009 (0-8050-2700-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wounded Knee'Book summary:First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace. Still controversial but with many of its premises now accepted, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee has sold 5 million copies around the world. Thirty years after it first broke onto the national conscience, it has lost none of its importance or emotional impact. --John Stevenson [via]
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Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Futureby Brian Horrigan, Corn, Joseph & Horrigan, Brian, Katherine ChambersISBN 0801853990 (0-8018-5399-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future'Book summary:Enormous skyscrapers will house residents and workers who happily go "for weeks" without setting foot on the ground. Streamlined, "hurricane-proof" houses will pivot on their foundations like weather vanes. The family car will turn into an airplane so easily that "a woman can do it in five minutes." Our wars will be fought by robots. And our living room furniturewaterproof, of coursewill clean up with a squirt from the garden hose.
In Yesterday's Tomorrows Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrigan explore the future as Americans earlier in the last century expected it to happen. Filled with vivid color images and lively text, the book is eloquent testimony to the confidenceand, at times, the naive faithAmericans have had in science and technology. The future that emerges here, the authors conclude, is one in which technology changes, but society and politics usually do not.
The authors draw on a wide variety of sourcespopular-science magazines, science fiction, world fair exhibits, films, advertisements, and plans for things only dreamed of. From Jules Verne to the Jetsons, from a 500-passenger flying wing to an anti-aircraft flying buzz-saw, the vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the past demonstrates the play of the American imagination on the canvas of the future.
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