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Age of Rooseveltby A.M. SchlesingerISBN 0395083885 (0-395-08388-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shawby Theodore Rosengarten, Nate ShawISBN 0394722450 (0-394-72245-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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All God's Dangers; The Life of Nate Shaw: The Life of Nate Shawby Theodore Rosengarten, Nate ShawISBN 0394490843 (0-394-49084-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Amazing Americaby Jane SternISBN 0394734106 (0-394-73410-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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America: A Narrative History Single-volumeby George Brown TindallISBN 039397443X (0-393-97443-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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America in Legend: Folklore from the Colonial Period to the Presentby Richard Mercer DorsonISBN 0394709268 (0-394-70926-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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America in Legend:Folklore from the Colonial Period to the Present: Folklore from the Colonial Period to the Presentby Richard Mercer DorsonISBN 0394461401 (0-394-46140-1)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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American Pastoralby Philip RothISBN 0395860210 (0-395-86021-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Pastoral'Book summary:Philip Roth's 22nd book takes a life-long view of the American experience in this thoughtful investigation of the century's most divisive and explosive of decades, the '60s. Returning again to the voice of his literary alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, Roth is at the top of his form. His prose is carefully controlled yet always fresh and intellectually subtle as he reconstructs the halcyon days, circa World War II, of Seymour "the Swede" Levov, a high school sports hero and all-around Great Guy who wants nothing more than to live in tranquillity. But as the Swede grows older and America crazier, history sweeps his family inexorably into its grip: His own daughter, Merry, commits an unpardonable act of "protest" against the Vietnam war that ultimately severs the Swede from any hope of happiness, family, or spiritual coherence. [via]
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Americanaby Don DelilloISBN 0395120942 (0-395-12094-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Americans: The Democratic Experienceby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394710118 (0-394-71011-8)
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Americans: The National Experienceby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394703588 (0-394-70358-8)
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Boorstin is a delight to read, a genuine polymath whose wide-ranging interests and love of learning show up on every page. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Americans Vol. 3: The Democratic Experienceby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394487249 (0-394-48724-9)
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Among Friendsby Mary Frances Kennedy FisherISBN 0394468996 (0-394-46899-6)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 0394535979 (0-394-53597-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beloved'Book summary:Toni Morrison gently reads her own Pulitzer Prize-winning work in the unabridged version of this riveting tale of ex-slave Sethe and the beloved ghost that haunts her. While Morrison makes occasional odd pauses in her reading, what is lost in smoothness is more than made up for in quiet intensity as the author reads words obviously deeply felt. Her intimate knowledge of the characters and their motivations lends this reading an authority that helps the listener sort out the breaks in time and dialogue in this complex story of a woman coming to terms with her enslaved past and the loss of her husband and baby daughter. (Running time: 12 hours, eight cassettes) --Kimberly Heinrichs [via]
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The Best and the Brightestby David HalberstamISBN 0394461630 (0-394-46163-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best and the Brightest'Book summary:David Halberstams masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.
Using portraits of Americas flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our countrys recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic. [via]More editions of The Best and the Brightest:
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Burrby Gore VidalISBN 0394480244 (0-394-48024-4)
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Centennialby James A. MichenerISBN 039447970X (0-394-47970-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Centennial'Book summary:Pages clean and unmarked. Missing dust jacket. Shelf wear from time on shelf like you would see on a major chain. Prev. owner s name on first page. Immediate shipping. [via]
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Chesapeakeby James A. MichenerISBN 0394500792 (0-394-50079-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chesapeake'Book summary:One of James A. Michener's grandest most loved, #1 best-selling works: the huge, enthralling novel, set amid the natural and historic riches of the Chesapeake, which dramatically brings to life -- through almost four centuries -- our land, our history, our people. [via]
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Complete Poetry and Selected Proseby Walt WhitmanISBN 0395051320 (0-395-05132-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy TooleISBN 0394178009 (0-394-17800-9)
Softcover, Grove Press
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The Constitution of the United States of Americaby Sam FinkISBN 0394752732 (0-394-75273-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Constitution of the United States: To Honor the Two-Hundredth Anniversary, Septmeber 17 1987by Sam Fink, James A. MichenerISBN 0394543041 (0-394-54304-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Constitutional Law And Politics: Civil Rights and Civil Libertiesby David M. O'BrienISBN 0393960358 (0-393-96035-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Constitutional Law and Politics: Struggles for Power and Governmental Accountabilityby David M. O'BrienISBN 0393966100 (0-393-96610-0)
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The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933by Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.ISBN 0395489032 (0-395-48903-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Democracy in Americaby Thomas Bender, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 039432675X (0-394-32675-X)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Classic analysis of america's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of alexis de tocqueville (1805-1859), a french aristocrat who visited the united states in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeede in penning this penetrating study of america's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, i confess that in america i saw more than america; i sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress [via]
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Duluthby Gore VidalISBN 0394527380 (0-394-52738-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Even Cowgirls Get the Bluesby Tom RobbinsISBN 0395245109 (0-395-24510-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Fannie Farmer Cookbookby Marion Cunningham, Jeri Laber, Fannie Merritt FarmerISBN 0394406508 (0-394-40650-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook'Book summary:Marion Cunningham's brilliant revision of this classic home cooking reference addresses "good everyday cooking." Cunningham states that "every meal should be a small celebration," and she eases the preparation of those celebrations with clear, straightforward instructions and hints on how to make the most of every meal through beautiful presentation and balanced nutrition. The chapter on microwaved foods is clear and presents recipes that are simple and taste great. Cunningham's work especially shines in the chapters on baking, as might be expected from her work on The Fannie Farmer Baking Book and The Breakfast Book. Your piecrusts will always be crisp and flaky under her tutelage. [via]
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For the Record: A Documentary History of America From Contact Through Reconstructionby David E. Shi, Holly A. MayerISBN 0393973433 (0-393-97343-3)
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For the Record: A Documentary History of America From Reconstruction Through Contemporary Timesby David E. Shi, Holly A. MayerISBN 0393973956 (0-393-97395-6)
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Fannie FlaggISBN 039456152X (0-394-56152-X)
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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americansby Alfred A. Moss, John Hope FranklinISBN 0394370139 (0-394-37013-9)
Softcover, Knopf
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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americansby John Hope FranklinISBN 0394322568 (0-394-32256-8)
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Geek Loveby Katherine DunnISBN 0394569024 (0-394-56902-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Geek Love'Book summary:A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. It's a solipsistic funhouse world that makes "normal" people seem bland and pitiful. Arturo the Aqua-Boy, who has flippers and an enormous need to be loved. A museum of sacred monsters that didn't make it. An endearing "little beetle" of a heroine. Sort of like Tod Browning's Freaks crossed with David Lynch and John Irving and perhaps George Eliot -- the latter for the power of the emotions evoked. [via]
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The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible!by Otto L. BettmannISBN 0394709411 (0-394-70941-1)
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War IIby Studs TerkelISBN 0394531035 (0-394-53103-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good War: An Oral History of World War II'Book summary:Studs Terkel, the noted Chicago-based journalist, gathers the reminiscences of 121 participants in World War II (called "the good war" because, in the words of one soldier, "to see fascism defeated, nothing better could have happened to a human being"). These participants, men and women, famous and ordinary, tell stories that add immeasurably to our understanding of that cataclysmic time. One Soviet soldier recounts that, surrounded by the Germans, his comrades tapped the powder from their last cartridges and inserted notes to their families inside the casings; Russian children, he goes on, still turn these up every now and again and deliver the notes to the soldiers' families. Terkel touches on many themes along the way, including institutionalized racism in the United States military, the birth of the military-industrial complex, and the origins of the Cold War. [via]
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The Great Divide : Second Thoughts on the American Dreamby Studs TerkelISBN 0394570537 (0-394-57053-7)
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Hawaiiby James A. MichenerISBN 0394427971 (0-394-42797-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself: An Authoritative Textby Olaudah Equiano, Werner SollorsISBN 0393974944 (0-393-97494-4)
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It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. "Contexts" provides essential public writings on the autobiography, general and historical background, related travel and scientific literature, other eighteenth-century works by authors of African ancestry, and works debating the slave trade. "Criticism" includes six contemporary reviews and nine modern essays on the narrative by Paul Edwards, Charles T. Davis, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Angelo Costanzo, Catherine Obianju Acholonu, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Geraldine Murphy, Adam Potkay, and Robert J. Allison. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included. Illustrations, maps [via]More editions of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself: An Authoritative Text:
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The Invisible Manby Ralph EllisonISBN 0394525493 (0-394-52549-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:We rely, in this world, on the visual aspects of humanity as a means of learning who we are. This, Ralph Ellison argues convincingly, is a dangerous habit. A classic from the moment it first appeared in 1952, Invisible Man chronicles the travels of its narrator, a young, nameless black man, as he moves through the hellish levels of American intolerance and cultural blindness. Searching for a context in which to know himself, he exists in a very peculiar state. "I am an invisible man," he says in his prologue. "When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination--indeed, everything and anything except me." But this is hard-won self-knowledge, earned over the course of many years.
As the book gets started, the narrator is expelled from his Southern Negro college for inadvertently showing a white trustee the reality of black life in the south, including an incestuous farmer and a rural whorehouse. The college director chastises him: "Why, the dumbest black bastard in the cotton patch knows that the only way to please a white man is to tell him a lie! What kind of an education are you getting around here?" Mystified, the narrator moves north to New York City, where the truth, at least as he perceives it, is dealt another blow when he learns that his former headmaster's recommendation letters are, in fact, letters of condemnation.
What ensues is a search for what truth actually is, which proves to be supremely elusive. The narrator becomes a spokesman for a mixed-race band of social activists called "The Brotherhood" and believes he is fighting for equality. Once again, he realizes he's been duped into believing what he thought was the truth, when in fact it is only another variation. Of the Brothers, he eventually discerns: "They were blind, bat blind, moving only by the echoed sounds of their voices. And because they were blind they would destroy themselves.... Here I thought they accepted me because they felt that color made no difference, when in reality it made no difference because they didn't see either color or men."
Invisible Man is certainly a book about race in America, and sadly enough, few of the problems it chronicles have disappeared even now. But Ellison's first novel transcends such a narrow definition. It's also a book about the human race stumbling down the path to identity, challenged and successful to varying degrees. None of us can ever be sure of the truth beyond ourselves, and possibly not even there. The world is a tricky place, and no one knows this better than the invisible man, who leaves us with these chilling, provocative words: "And it is this which frightens me: Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Ishi: Last of His Tribeby Theodora Kroeber, Ruth RobbinsISBN 0395276446 (0-395-27644-6)
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Jazz, Its Evolution and Essenceby Andre HodeirISBN 0394175255 (0-394-17525-5)
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The Journals of Lewis and Clarkby Meriwether LewisISBN 039508380X (0-395-08380-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of Lewis and Clark'Book summary:[Traditional paperback edition of this title is 680 pages.]
The journals of Lewis and Clark have been called a national treasure. The Corps of Discovery helped to open the Louisiana Purchase to hundreds of thousands of pioneering settlers.
We're proud to bring this recreation of those handwritten texts to a new generation of readers, learners, and historians.
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery as a scientific and military expedition to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. The expedition's goal was stated by Jefferson in a letter dated June 20, 1803, to Lewis: "to explore the Missouri River and such principal stream of it as by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado or any other river that may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent for the purpose of commerce".[6] In addition, the expedition was to learn more about the Northwest's natural resources, inhabitants and possibilities for settlement;[7] as well as evaluating the potential interference of British and French Canadian hunters and trappers who were already well established in the area.
Jefferson selected U.S. Army Captain Meriwether Lewishis aide and personal friendto lead the Corps of Discovery. Lewis selected William Clark as his partner. Because of bureaucratic delays in the U.S. Army, Clark officially only held the rank of Second Lieutenant at the time, but Lewis concealed this from the men and shared the leadership of the expedition, always referring to Clark as "Captain".
They began their historic journey on May 14, 1804. They soon met up with Lewis in Saint Charles, Missouri, and the corps followed the Missouri River westward. Soon they passed La Charrette, the last caucasian settlement on the Missouri River. The expedition followed the Missouri through what is now Kansas City, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska. On August 20, 1804, the Corps of Discovery suffered its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd died, apparently from acute appendicitis. He was buried at Floyd's Bluff, in what is now Sioux City, Iowa. During the final week of August, Lewis and Clark had reached the edge of the Great Plains, a place abounding with elk, deer, bison, and beavers.
The expedition continued to follow the Missouri to its headwaters and over the Continental Divide at Lemhi Pass via horses. In canoes, they descended the mountains by the Clearwater River, the Snake River, and the Columbia River, past Celilo Falls and past what is now Portland, Oregon. At this point,[clarification needed] Lewis spotted Mount Hood, a mountain known to be very close to the ocean. On a big pine, Clark carved
Clark had written in his journal, "Ocean in view! O! The Joy!". One journal entry is captioned "Cape Disappointment at the Entrance of the Columbia River into the Great South Sea or Pacific Ocean". By that time the expedition faced its second bitter winter during the trip, so the group decided to vote on whether to camp on the north or south side of the Columbia River. The party agreed to camp on the south side of the river (modern Astoria, Oregon), building Fort Clatsop as their winter quarters. While wintering at the fort, the men prepared for the trip home by boiling salt from the ocean, hunting elk and other wildlife, and interacting with the native tribes.
The explorers began their journey home on March 23, 1806. Lewis and Clark used four dugout canoes they bought from the Native Americans, plus one that they stole in "retaliation" for a previous theft.
Lewis and Clark separated until they reached the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers on August 11. Clark's team had floated down the rivers in bull boats. Once reunited, the Corps was able to return home quickly via the Missouri River. They reached St. Louis on September 23, 1806. [via]More editions of The Journals of Lewis and Clark:
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The Journals of Lewis and Clarkby William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, Bernard Augustine De VotoISBN 0395859964 (0-395-85996-4)
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In 1803, the great expanse of the Louisiana Purchase was an empty canvas. Keenly aware that the course of the nation's destiny lay westwardand that a Voyage of Discovery would be necessary to determine the nature of the frontierPresident Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis to lead an expedition from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back. From 1804 to 1806, accompanied by co-captain William Clark, the Shoshone guide Sacajawea, and thirty-two men, Lewis mapped rivers, traced the principal waterways to the sea, and established the American claim to the territories of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Together the captains kept this journal: a richly detailed record of the flora and fauna they sighted, the native tribes they encountered, and the awe-inspiring landscape they traversed, from their base camp near present-day St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River, that has become an incomparable contribution to the literature of exploration and the writing of natural history. [via]
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Kids at Workby Russell FreedmanISBN 0395797268 (0-395-79726-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Kon-Tikiby Thor HeyerdahlISBN 039486364X (0-394-86364-X)
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Leaves of Grass and Selected Proseby Walt Whitman, Lawrence BuellISBN 039432661X (0-394-32661-X)
Softcover, Modern Library
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Familiesby James Agee, Webster's II DictionariesISBN 039529696X (0-395-29696-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families'Book summary:Just what kind of book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men? It contains many things: poems; confessional reveries; disquisitions on the proper way to listen to Beethoven; snippets of dialogue, both real and imagined; a lengthy response to a survey from the Partisan Review; exhaustive catalogs of furniture, clothing, objects, and smells. And then there are Walker Evans's famously stark portraits of depression-era sharecroppers--photographs that both stand apart from and reinforce James Agee's words.
Assigned to do a story for Fortune magazine about sharecroppers in the Deep South, Agee and Evans spent four weeks living with a poor white tenant family, winning the Burroughs's trust and immersing themselves in a sharecropper's daily existence. Given a first draft of the resulting article, the editors at Fortune quite understandably threw up their hands--as did several other editors who subsequently worked with a later book-length manuscript. The writing was contrary. It refused to accommodate itself to the reader, and at times it positively bristled with hostility. (What other book could take Marx as the epigraph and then announce: "These words are quoted here to mislead those who will be misled by them"?) Response to the book was puzzled or unfriendly, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sputtered out of print only a few short years after its publication. It took the 1960s, and a vogue for social justice, to bring Agee's masterwork the audience it deserved.
Yet the book is far more interesting--aesthetically and morally--than the sort of guilty-liberal tract for which it is often mistaken. On an existential level, Agee's text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. On a personal level, it is the painful, beautifully written portrait of one man's obsession. In its collaboration with Evans's photographs, the book is also a groundbreaking experiment in form. In the end, however, it is more than merely the sum of its parts. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is, quite simply, a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery. --Mary Park [via]
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: 3 Tenant Familiesby Walker Evans, James AgeeISBN 0395957710 (0-395-95771-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: 3 Tenant Families'Book summary:Just what kind of book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men? It contains many things: poems; confessional reveries; disquisitions on the proper way to listen to Beethoven; snippets of dialogue, both real and imagined; a lengthy response to a survey from the Partisan Review; exhaustive catalogs of furniture, clothing, objects, and smells. And then there are Walker Evans's famously stark portraits of depression-era sharecroppers--photographs that both stand apart from and reinforce James Agee's words.
Assigned to do a story for Fortune magazine about sharecroppers in the Deep South, Agee and Evans spent four weeks living with a poor white tenant family, winning the Burroughs's trust and immersing themselves in a sharecropper's daily existence. Given a first draft of the resulting article, the editors at Fortune quite understandably threw up their hands--as did several other editors who subsequently worked with a later book-length manuscript. The writing was contrary. It refused to accommodate itself to the reader, and at times it positively bristled with hostility. (What other book could take Marx as the epigraph and then announce: "These words are quoted here to mislead those who will be misled by them"?) Response to the book was puzzled or unfriendly, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sputtered out of print only a few short years after its publication. It took the 1960s, and a vogue for social justice, to bring Agee's masterwork the audience it deserved.
Yet the book is far more interesting--aesthetically and morally--than the sort of guilty-liberal tract for which it is often mistaken. On an existential level, Agee's text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. On a personal level, it is the painful, beautifully written portrait of one man's obsession. In its collaboration with Evans's photographs, the book is also a groundbreaking experiment in form. In the end, however, it is more than merely the sum of its parts. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is, quite simply, a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery. --Mary Park [via]
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Letters of a Woman Homesteaderby Elinore Pruitt StewartISBN 0395911516 (0-395-91151-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Levi'sby Ed CrayISBN 0395264774 (0-395-26477-4)
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Longtime Californ': A Documentary Study of an American Chinatownby Victor G. Nee, Brett De Bary NeeISBN 039446138X (0-394-46138-X)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Myra Breckinridge ; Myronby Gore Vidal, Edgar BoxISBN 0394553764 (0-394-55376-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Paul Revere and the World He Lived inby Esther ForbesISBN 0395083702 (0-395-08370-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paul Revere and the World He Lived in'Book summary:Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1942. An exhaustively researched account of Revere's varied life as an artisan, shrewd Patriot leader, and revolutionary organizer. [via]
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Personal Historyby Katharine GrahamISBN 0394585852 (0-394-58585-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Personal History'Book summary:In lieu of an unrevealing Famous-People-I-Have-Known autobiography, the owner of the Washington Post has chosen to be remarkably candid about the insecurities prompted by remote parents and a difficult marriage to the charismatic, manic-depressive Phil Graham, who ran the newspaper her father acquired. Katharine's account of her years as subservient daughter and wife is so painful that by the time she finally asserts herself at the Post following Phil's suicide in 1963 (more than halfway through the book), readers will want to cheer. After that, Watergate is practically an anticlimax. [via]
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The Reader's Companion to American Historyby Eric Foner, John A. GarratyISBN 0395513723 (0-395-51372-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reader's Companion to American History'Book summary:Like an encyclopedia, The Reader's Companion to American History contains alphabetical entries for almost every important person, place, or event in America's past. Unlike an encyclopedia, however, this lively interpretive volume is meant to be read and enjoyed, not merely used as a reference. It contains three different kinds of articles: short, unsigned listings similar to those found in most encyclopedias; signed biographical pieces by historical authorities; and longer essays on broad topics such as abolitionism or 20th-century art. Each article cross-references related topics, and an extensive index opens up webs of interrelationships, making it possible to delve deeply into areas of special interest. Accessible, comprehensive, and surprisingly affordable, The Reader's Companion to American History merits an important place in any home library. [via]
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River-Horse: A Voyage Across Americaby William Least Heat MoonISBN 0395636264 (0-395-63626-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'River-Horse: A Voyage Across America'Book summary:Since hitting the American roads in Blue Highways nearly 20 years ago, William Least Heat-Moon has been following another calling--to traverse America by its rivers. "I wanted to see those secret parts hidden from road travelers," he writes. And from the waterways of his 5,000-mile voyage, Least Heat-Moon shares a sharp and stirring vision of America. Filling a small bottle with brine from the Atlantic Ocean, Least Heat-Moon and his wise companion, whom he calls "Pilotis," start up the Hudson River in a 22-foot C-Dory that Least Heat-Moon has named Nikawa--from the Osage words ni for river and kawa for horse. The voyage--from New York harbor to the Pacific Ocean--packs surprises, wisdom, regrets, mishaps, candor, and conversations that readers who savored Blue Highways and PrairyErth will delight in.
The impetus for River Horse is one of intrigue--less urgent than the departure in Blue Highways--and the narrative possesses a captivating pull as it courses westward through the strongest currents and pauses in the back eddies of contemporary American life. Least Heat-Moon is in his element. Written in short thematic chapters, River Horse plies canals, greets the Missouri's many moods, and challenges chaotic waves. Indeed, the turbulent and placid waters of America flow throughout this well-told story. When Nikawa finally reaches the Pacific Ocean, Least Heat-Moon has discovered a new America in the country he knows so well. He ponders the command that rivers hold on him and celebrates the national treasures that they are. Exceeding 500 pages, River Horse may be a long journey, but when traveling by rivers, America is a larger country. A triumphant book all the way to the salty Pacific. --Byron Ricks [via]
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Roadfoodby Jane SternISBN 0394735080 (0-394-73508-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roadfood'Book summary:The authors of the incomparable Encyclopedia of Bad Taste present an updated edition of the classic guide to America's best diners, small-town cafes, BBQ joints, and other eateries serving great, inexpensive regional foods. [via]
Roadfood and Goodfood: Jane and Michael Stern's Coast-To-Coast Restaurant Guidesby Michael Stern, Jane SternISBN 0394743962 (0-394-74396-2)
Softcover, Knopf
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Robert Frankby Pantheon Photo Library Staff, Robert FrankISBN 0394740858 (0-394-74085-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Rosenberg File: A Search for the Truthby Joyce Milton, Ronald RadoshISBN 0394725948 (0-394-72594-8)
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0395051428 (0-395-05142-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...scholar-like renown still lived in Oxford, was considered by his more fervent admirers as little less than a heavenly-ordained apostle, destined, should he live and labor for the ordinary term of life, to do as great deeds for the now feeble New England Church, as the early Fathers had achieved for the infancy of the Christian faith. About this period, however, the health of Mr. Dimmesdale had evidently' begun to fail. By those best acquainted with his habits, the paleness of the young minister's cheek was accounted for by his too earnest devotion to study, his scrupulous fulfilment of parochial duty, and, more than all, by the fasts and vigils of which he made a frequent practice, in order to keep the grossness of this earthly state from clogging and obscuring his spiritual lamp. Some declared, that, if Mr. Dimmesdale were really going to die, it was cause enough, that the world was not worthy to be any onger trodden by his feet. He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief, that, if Providence should see fit to remove him, it would be because of his own unworthiness to perform its humblest mission here on earth. With all this difference of opinion as to the cause of his decline, there could be no question of the fact. His form grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it; he was often observed, on any slight alarm or other sudden accident, to put his hand over his heart, with first a flush and then a paleness, indicative of pain. Such was the young clergyman's condition, and so imminent the prospect that his dawning light would be extinguished, all untimely, when Koger Chillingworth made his advent to the town. His first entry on the scene, few people... [via]
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Scarlet Letter and Other Tales of the Puritansby Hawthorne LevinISBN 0395051533 (0-395-05153-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Scarlet Letter And Other Writings: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticismby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leland S. PersonISBN 0393979539 (0-393-97953-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter And Other Writings: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism'Book summary:This Norton Critical Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most widely read novel appears during the bicentennial anniversary year of his birth.The text of The Scarlet Letter is based on the 1850 third edition, the first set in stereotype plates and the basis of subsequent printings in Hawthorne's lifetime. An invaluable selection of contextual material includes five Hawthorne stories that are closely related to The Scarlet Letter, along with relevant letters and notebook entries. A substantial excerpt from Hawthorne's campaign biography of Franklin Pierce offers a revealing glimpse at Hawthorne's political thought, especially regarding slavery and abolition. "Criticism" provides a comprehensive overview of early and modern commentary on The Scarlet Letter and the stories in this edition, including nineteenth-century reviews of the novel and critical essays by Robert S. Levine, Nina Baym, Larry J. Reynolds, and Jean Fagan Yellin. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. [via]
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Shaneby Jack Warner SchaeferISBN 0395070902 (0-395-07090-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shane'Book summary:A stranger rode out of the heart of the great glowing West, into the small Wyoming valley in the summer of 1889.[via]
It was Shane, who appeared on the horizon and became a friend and guardian to the Starrett family at a time when homesteaders and cattle rangers battled for territory and survival. Jack Schaefers classic novel illuminates the spirit of the West through the eyes of a young boy and a hero who changes the lives of everyone around him. Renowned artist Wendell Minor provides stunning images and a moving introduction to this new edition of Shane, the ultimate tale of the Western landscape. 
Square Mealsby Michael Stern, Jane & Michael SternISBN 0394741625 (0-394-74162-5)
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Square Meals : Taste Thrills of Only Yesterday-From Mom's Best Pot Roast and Tuna Noodle Casserole to the Perfect Tea Time Chocolate Breadby Jane Stern, Michael Stern, M. F. K. FisherISBN 0394531124 (0-394-53112-4)
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A Summons to Memphisby Peter TaylorISBN 0394410629 (0-394-41062-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Tarzan of the Apesby Edgar Rice Burroughs, Harold Woods, Geraldine Woods, Tim GaydosISBN 0394850890 (0-394-85089-0)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan of the Apes'Book summary:First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest. Tarzan of the Apes is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring, and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle). Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less than a nightmare.
The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"! And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled; and smiles are the foundation of beauty." [via]
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Texasby James A. MichenerISBN 0394541545 (0-394-54154-5)
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Tropic of Cancerby Henry Miller, Anais NinISBN 0394604350 (0-394-60435-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tropic of Cancer'Book summary:No punches are pulled in Henry Miller's most famous work. Still pretty rough going for even our jaded sensibilities, but Tropic of Cancer is an unforgettable novel of self-confession. Maybe the most honest book ever written, this autobiographical fiction about Miller's life as an expatriate American in Paris was deemed obscene and banned from publication in this country for years. When you read this, you see immediately how much modern writers owe Miller. [via]
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Walden and Other Writingsby Henry David Thoreau, William L. HowarthISBN 0394326660 (0-394-32666-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Other Writings'Book summary:With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! , for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature.
The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, Civil Disobedience and Life Without Principle. A lifetime of brilliant observation of nature--and of himself--is recorded in selections from A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers, Cape Cod, The Maine Woods and The Journal. [via] 
When Harlem Was in Vogueby David L. LewisISBN 0394710657 (0-394-71065-7)
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When Harlem Was in Vogueby David Levering LewisISBN 0394495721 (0-394-49572-1)
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 0394806891 (0-394-80689-1)
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The Year of Decision: 1846by Bernard DevotoISBN 0395500796 (0-395-50079-6)
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis de Tocqueville, Phillips BradleyISBN 0394421868 (0-394-42186-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Volume 2 of the classic commentary on the influence of democracy on the intellect, feelings, and actions of Americans. With an introduction by Phillips Bradley.
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