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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0486280616 (0-486-28061-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policyby Nathan GlazerISBN 0465020763 (0-465-02076-3)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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America As Seen by Its First Explorers: The Eyes of Discoveryby John BakelessISBN 0486260313 (0-486-26031-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975by George HerringISBN 0471015474 (0-471-01547-4)
Softcover, Wiley
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American Heritage Great Minds of Historyby Roger Mudd, Richard SnowISBN 0471327158 (0-471-32715-8)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Heritage Great Minds of History'Book summary:Even as academics increasingly break down the historical profession into areas of subspecialization, American Heritage continues to satisfy the public demand for "master narratives" of the American experience. The latest tome, Great Minds of History, is a lively collection of question-and-answer sessions conducted by veteran journalist Roger Mudd with five renowned scholars of the American Revolution, the Civil War, the West, the Gilded and Progressive Ages, and the late 20th century.
These conversations (drawn from the transcripts of a TV documentary series) allow each author to expound upon the more significant aspects of his field of expertise. Gordon Wood, for example, airs his controversial thesis that the words of the founding fathers and the egalitarianism of New England artisans made the American republic significantly different from its English progenitor. Other interviews stress the historian's craft in constructing causal relationships between events. When James McPherson is asked if the South came close to winning the Civil War, he offers three fully detailed, plausible scenarios for Confederate independence. Pressed to identify the most important Western historian, Richard White answers, "Buffalo Bill Cody," calling the showman's mixture of fiction and authenticity the first example of postmodern historical thought. David McCollough and Stephen Ambrose also make thoughtful (and occasionally bellicose) contributions to this collection, which should please fans of the History Channel and American Heritage alike. --John M. Anderson [via]
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Anarchism, and Other Essaysby Emma GoldmanISBN 0486224848 (0-486-22484-8)
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Ancient Peoples of the American Southwestby Stephen Plog, Amy Elizabeth GreyISBN 0500021163 (0-500-02116-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Armies of the Night: History As a Novel, the Novel As Historyby Norman MailerISBN 0452272793 (0-452-27279-3)
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The Awakeningby Kate ChopinISBN 0486277860 (0-486-27786-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening'Book summary:First published in 1899, this novel shocked readers with its open sensuality and uninhibited treatment of marital infidelity. The poignant, lyrical story of a New Orleans wife who attempts to find love outside a stifling marriage, critics have praised it as a forerunner of the modern novel. New introductory Note.[via]More editions of The Awakening:
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Babbittby Sinclair LewisISBN 0486431673 (0-486-43167-3)
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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicagoby Mike RoykoISBN 0452261678 (0-452-26167-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Clinton Warsby Sidney BlumenthalISBN 0452285275 (0-452-28527-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clinton Wars'Book summary:The title of journalist turned-embattled-White House aide Sidney Blumenthal's memoir/history of his tumultuous years inside the Clinton presidency is both literal and figurative, if something of an understatement; "apocalypse" would seem more to the point. Erudite and fiercely unapologetic, Blumenthal belatedly provides the overwrought saga's protagonists what they so often publicly lacked in its historical context: passionate advocacy and precious perspective. No mere presidential history, the battles chronicled here transcend politics as usual, bitter partisan campaigns whose roots Blumenthal forcefully argues extend beneath lingering class and generational resentments into the darkest heart of America's Southern racist past. Hillary Clinton's accusations of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" garnered cynical chuckles in its heyday; Blumenthal (whose own teasing White House nickname was "Grassy Knoll") merely cuts its treachery down to size, documenting the usual suspects, dates, and places with amply footnoted vengeance. There's irony to burn, from unexpected early Clinton supporters (former GOP standard bearer Barry Goldwater) and the blatant moral hypocrisy of his Congressional accusers to the Supreme Court's sole dissenting voice in arguments to reinstate the Special Prosecutor statute, Justice Scalia (who presciently warned it could easily become the tool of political witch hunts), and the heretical notion that the Clintons may have been the least cynical players in the entire drama; they certainly seem it's most tragically human. It's hardly surprising that much of the Washington news establishment has attacked Blumenthal's tome with equal ferocity; in Blumenthal's telling, the D.C. press corps that zealously safeguarded democracy during Watergate had by the advent of Clinton devolved into an insular faux aristocracy resentful of perceived carpetbaggers (especially from Arkansas) and suckers for any politically-motivated leak, rumor, or innuendo that might give them a leg up on the competition. The media's inept handling of the story is even more ironic considering much of what Blumenthal does here derives from the simple advice Watergate informer "Deep Throat" gave reporters during that crisis: "Follow the money." --Jerry McCulley [via]
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The Colonial Printerby Lawrence C. WrothISBN 0486282945 (0-486-28294-5)
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Common Sense: Library Editionby Thomas PaineISBN 0486296024 (0-486-29602-4)
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The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacyby Kirkpatrick SaleISBN 0452266696 (0-452-26669-6)
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriorsby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0452009340 (0-452-00934-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Creation Of The Media: Political Origins Of Modern Communicationsby Paul StarrISBN 0465081940 (0-465-08194-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Creation Of The Media: Political Origins Of Modern Communications'Book summary:America's leading role in today's information revolution may seem simply to reflect its position as the world's dominant economy and most powerful state. But by the early nineteenth century, when the United States was neither a world power nor a primary center of scientific discovery, it was already a leader in communications-in postal service and newspaper publishing, then in development of the telegraph and telephone networks, later in the whole repertoire of mass communications.In this wide-ranging social history of American media, from the first printing press to the early days of radio, Paul Starr shows that the creation of modern communications was as much the result of political choices as of technological invention. His original historical analysis reveals how the decisions that led to a state-run post office and private monopolies on the telegraph and telephone systems affected a developing society. He illuminates contemporary controversies over freedom of information by exploring such crucial formative issues as freedom of the press, intellectual property, privacy, public access to information, and the shaping of specific technologies and institutions. America's critical choices in these areas, Starr argues, affect the long-run path of development in a society and have had wide social, economic, and even military ramifications. The Creation of the Media not only tells the history of the media in a new way; it puts America and its global influence into a new perspective.[via]More editions of The Creation Of The Media: Political Origins Of Modern Communications:
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Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Thingsby Barry GlassnerISBN 0465014909 (0-465-01490-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things'Book summary:Americans are afraid of many things that shouldn't frighten them, writes Barry Glassner in this book devoted to exploding conventional wisdom. Thanks to opportunistic politicians, single-minded advocacy groups, and unscrupulous TV "newsmagazines," people must unlearn their many misperceptions about the world around them. The youth homicide rate, for instance, has dropped by as much as 30 percent in recent years, says Glassner--and up to three times as many people are struck dead by lightening than die by violence in schools. "False and overdrawn fears only cause hardship," he writes. In fact, one study shows that daughters of women with breast cancer are actually less likely to conduct self-examinations--probably because the campaign to increase awareness of the ailment also inadvertently heightens fears.
Although some sections are stronger than others, The Culture of Fear's examination of many nonproblems--such as "road rage," "Internet addiction," and airline safety--is very good. Glassner also has a sharp eye for what causes unnecessary goose bumps: "The use of poignant anecdotes in place of scientific evidence, the christening of isolated incidents as trends, depictions of entire categories of people as innately dangerous," and unknown scholars who masquerade as "experts." Although Glassner rejects the notion that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, he certainly shows we have much less to fear than we think. And isn't that sort of scary? --John J. Miller [via]
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Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood LIfe of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Baronsby Edward J. RenehanISBN 0465068863 (0-465-06886-3)
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The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Tradeby Robert W. HarmsISBN 0465028721 (0-465-02872-1)
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Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Centerby Eric DartonISBN 0465017274 (0-465-01727-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Center'Book summary:When the World Trade Towers in New York City were erected at the Hudsons edge, they led the way to a real estate boom that was truly astonishing. Divided We Stand reveals the coming together and eruption of four volatile elements: super-tall buildings, financial speculation, globalization, and terrorism. The Trade Center serves as a potent symbol of the disastrous consequences of undemocratic planning and development.This book is a history of that skyscraping ambition and the impact it had on New York and international life. It is a portrait of a building complex that lives at the convergence point of social and economic realities central not only to New York City but to all industrial cities and suburbs. A meticulously researched historical account based on primary documents, Divided We Stand is a contemporary indictment of the prevailing urban order in the spirit of Jane Jacobss mid-century classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities.[via]More editions of Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Center:
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An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United Statesby Charles Austin BeardISBN 048643365X (0-486-43365-X)
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Eleanor: The Years Aloneby Gene SmithISBN 0452007712 (0-452-00771-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Emerson's Essaysby Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 0460010123 (0-460-01012-3)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generationby Tom EngelhardtISBN 0465019846 (0-465-01984-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Ethnic America: A Historyby Thomas SowellISBN 0465020755 (0-465-02075-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Everything You Need to Know about Asian-American Historyby Lan Cao, Himilce NovasISBN 0452273153 (0-452-27315-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Exploration of North America: Coloring Bookby Peter CopelandISBN 0486271234 (0-486-27123-4)
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Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in Americaby Jackson LearsISBN 0465090753 (0-465-09075-3)
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FDR, an Intimate Historyby Nathan MillerISBN 0452006767 (0-452-00676-7)
Softcover, New American Library
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The Frontier in American Historyby Frederick Jackson TurnerISBN 0486291677 (0-486-29167-7)
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The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Kneeby James MooneyISBN 0486267598 (0-486-26759-8)
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Her Works Praise Herby Beryl Lieff Benderly, Diner & BenderlyISBN 0465017126 (0-465-01712-6)
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Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Presentby Hasia R. Diner, Beryl Lieff BenderlyISBN 0465017118 (0-465-01711-8)
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New Yorkby Jacob A. RiisISBN 0486220125 (0-486-22012-5)
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Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Robert Blaisdell, John GreenISBN 0486403491 (0-486-40349-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Leftby Maurice IssermanISBN 0465031978 (0-465-03197-8)
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Indian Sign Languageby William TomkinsISBN 048622029X (0-486-22029-X)
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Indian Tribes of North America Coloring Bookby Peter F. CopelandISBN 0486263037 (0-486-26303-7)
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The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Groupby Dan BriodyISBN 0471660620 (0-471-66062-0)
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0486419231 (0-486-41923-1)
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Presentby Jacqueline JonesISBN 0465037569 (0-465-03756-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Land As God Made It: Jamestown And the Birth of Americaby James HornISBN 0465030955 (0-465-03095-5)
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Leaving Deep Water : Asian American Women at the Crossroads of Two Culturesby Claire S. ChowISBN 0452280494 (0-452-28049-4)
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Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians: Written During Eight Years' Travelby George CatlinISBN 0486221180 (0-486-22118-0)
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Living My Lifeby Emma GoldmanISBN 0486225437 (0-486-22543-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living My Life'Book summary:Forget all those New Left memoirs: for readers who want to know what it is to be a revolutionary in America, this is the book to read. At the turn of the 20th century, Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was probably the most hated woman in her adopted country. (She emigrated from Russia at age 17.) It was bad enough that she was an anarchist, accused of complicity in the 1901 assassination of President McKinley. But her vehement espousal of women's rights--including birth control--really enraged upright citizens. Goldman's marvelously militant autobiography gives ample evidence of her gift for bearing a grudge and inability to mince words--she decries fellow leftists at least as often as the bourgeoisie, especially after she is deported to the Soviet Union in 1919 and discovers that the Bolshevik Revolution is not what she hoped for. But Goldman's blazing honesty and unflinching commitment to unpopular causes make her a larger-than-life heroine. She does display the occasional human weakness, including a lengthy romance with a man whose infidelities torment this advocate of free love, but they're less interesting than her heroic challenge to America to live up to its ideals. Whether or not she was literally a bomb thrower remains a matter of debate. For posterity, her words are incendiary enough. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Margaret Sanger: An Autobiographyby Margaret SangerISBN 0486204707 (0-486-20470-7)
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0460011790 (0-460-01179-0)
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Museum Of Early American Toolsby Eric SloaneISBN 0486425606 (0-486-42560-6)
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Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions"by Herbert Aptheker, Bettina ApthekerISBN 0486452727 (0-486-45272-7)
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New York in the 19th Century: 317 Engravings from Harper's Weekly and Other Contemporary SourcesISBN 0486235165 (0-486-23516-5)
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Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriotby Harlow G. UngerISBN 0471379433 (0-471-37943-3)
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Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated and Transformed American Culture Since World War IIby Richard H. PellsISBN 0465001637 (0-465-00163-7)
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The Oregon Trailby Francis ParkmanISBN 0486424804 (0-486-42480-4)
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The Oxford History of the American People: Prehistory to 1789by Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0452011302 (0-452-01130-2)
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The Oxford History of the American People Vol. 3: 1869 Through the Death of John F. Kennedyby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0452011329 (0-452-01132-9)
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Peter Kalm's Travels in North America: The English Version of 1770by Peter Kalm, Adolph B. BensonISBN 0486254232 (0-486-25423-2)
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Pictorial History of American Presidents,by John DurantISBN 0498020118 (0-498-02011-8)
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Ragtimeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0452279070 (0-452-27907-0)
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0486264653 (0-486-26465-3)
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Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive Historyby John Lewis GaddisISBN 0471289116 (0-471-28911-6)
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State Birds and Flowers Coloring Bookby Annika BernhardISBN 0486264564 (0-486-26456-4)
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Stonewallby Martin DubermanISBN 0452272068 (0-452-27206-8)
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The Supreme Court And the Constitutionby Charles Austin Beard, Alan F WestinISBN 0486447790 (0-486-44779-0)
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T.R: The Last Romanticby H. W. BrandsISBN 0465069592 (0-465-06959-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'T.R: The Last Romantic'Book summary:In his time, there was no more popular national figure than Theodore Roosevelt. It was not just the energy he brought to every political office he held or his unshakable moral convictions that made him so popular, or even his status as a bonafide war herothe man who led the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. Most important, Theodore Roosevelt was loved by the people because this scion of a privileged New York family loved America and Americans.And yet, according to Bill Brands, if we look at the private Roosevelt without blinders, we see a man whose great public strengths hid enormous personal deficiencies. His highly exaggerated, and often uncompromising ways drove many of his business and personal friends crazy. His historical writings, which Brands quotes from extensively, are nothing if not a portrait of a boys endless macho fantasies. He was often so full of himself that his speeches and writings were the frequent subject of fierce satire in their time.Even more revealing, according to Brands, was Roosevelt as son, brother, husband, and father. According to Brands, to understand both the public and private Roosevelt one must understand the impact of his fathers death while he was still a child, denying him the opportunity to come to terms with his own manhood. When his first wife Alice died of complications from childbirth, leaving behind a baby daughter Alice, his response was to run away to shoot Buffalo in the west, leaving the newborn infant to the care of his unmarried sister Bamie. When his second wife Edith was seriously, perhaps fatally ill, he left her to fight in the Spanish-American war. His only concern when his brother Elliot, who had been his only friend as a child, became an alcoholic was to hide the news from the public. Determined that his four sons would not dishonor his belief that men, to achieve their manhood, must test themselves in war, he arranged for each to serve, often in the frontlines, during WWI. His youngest son Quentin would die in that cause.Beautifully written, powerfully moved by its subject, TR is nonetheless a biography more appropriate to todays critical times.[via] 
Twelve Years a Slaveby Solomon NorthupISBN 0486411435 (0-486-41143-5)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0486440281 (0-486-44028-1)
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Uncle Tom's Cabin and Frederick Douglassby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Christopher BigsbyISBN 0460871390 (0-460-87139-0)
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trapby Stephanie CoontzISBN 0465090974 (0-465-09097-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap'Book summary:Did you ever wonder about the historical accuracy of those "traditional family values" touted in the heated arguments that insist our cultural ills can be remedied by their return? Of course, myth is rooted in fact, and certain phenomena of the 1950s generated the Ozzie and Harriet icon. The decade proved profamily--the birthrate rose dramatically; social problems that nag--gangs, drugs, violence--weren't even on the horizon. Affluence had become almost a right; the middle class was growing. "In fact," writes Coontz, "the 'traditional' family of the 1950s was a qualitatively new phenomenon. At the end of the 1940s, all the trends characterizing the rest of the twentieth century suddenly reversed themselves." This clear-eyed, bracing, and exhaustively researched study of American families and the nostalgia trap proves--beyond the shadow of a doubt--that Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary.
Gender, too, is always on Coontz's mind. In the third chapter ("My Mother Was a Saint"), she offers an analysis of the contradictions and chasms inherent in the "traditional" division of labor. She reveals, next, how rarely the family exhibited economic and emotional self-reliance, suggesting that the shift from community to nuclear family was not healthy. Coontz combines a clear prose style with bold assertions, backed up by an astonishing fleet of researched, myth-skewing facts. The 88 pages of endnotes dramatize both her commitment to and deep knowledge of the subject. Brilliant, beautifully organized, iconoclastic, and (relentlessly) informative The Way We Never Were breathes fresh air into a too often suffocatingly "hot" and agenda-sullied subject. In the penultimate chapter, for example, a crisp reframing of the myth of black-family collapse leads to a reinterpretation of the "family crisis" in general, putting it in the larger context of social, economic, and political ills.
The book began in response to the urgent questions about the family crisis posed her by nonacademic audiences. Attempting neither to defend "tradition" in the era of family collapse, nor to liberate society from its constraints, Coontz instead cuts through the kind of sentimental, ahistorical thinking that has created unrealistic expectations of the ideal family. "I show how these myths distort the diverse experiences of other groups in America," Coontz writes, "and argue that they don't even describe most white, middle-class families accurately." The bold truth of history after all is that "there is no one family form that has ever protected people from poverty or social disruption, and no traditional arrangement that provides a workable model for how we might organize family relations in the modern world."
Some of America's most precious myths are not only precarious, but down right perverted, and we would be fools to ignore Stephanie Coontz's clarion call. --Hollis Giammatteo [via]
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Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women As a Factor in Social Evolutionby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0486299740 (0-486-29974-0)
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The Women's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspectiveby Elizabeth Cady StantonISBN 048642491X (0-486-42491-X)
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Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legendby Casey TefertillerISBN 0471283622 (0-471-28362-2)
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"The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and most meticulously researched." --Jack Burrows, author John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was
"The most thoughtful, well-researched, and comprehensive account that has been written about the development and career of an Old-West lawman." --The Tombstone Tumbleweed
"A great adventure story, and solid history." --Kirkus Reviews
"A major contribution to the history of the American West. It provides the first complete and accurate look at Wyatt Earp's colorful career, and places into context the important role that he and his brothers played in crime and politics in the Arizona territory. This important book rises above the realm of Western biography and shows the development of the Earp story in history and myth, and its effect on American culture." --John Boessenecker, author Gold Dust and Gunsmoke
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