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American History Atlasby McQuillen Martensen McNallyISBN 0395697530 (0-395-69753-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793by Jim MurphyISBN 0395776082 (0-395-77608-2)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Usby James CarrollISBN 039585993X (0-395-85993-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Autobiography, and Other Writingsby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0395051304 (0-395-05130-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography, and Other Writings'Book summary:Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry--the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the 18th century, and whose achievements ranged from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richard's Almanac to signing the Declaration of Independence. In his own lifetime, Franklin knew prominence not only in America but also in Britain and France. Here was a cosmopolitan statesman, public servant, inventor, and editor with a distinctly Yankee sensibility; here was a moral philosopher who divided his faith between the natural sciences and the American experiment.
This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse issues as reason and religion, social status, electricity, America's national character and characters, war, and the societal status of women. Also included is a new transcription of his 1726 journal, and several pieces that have only recently been identified as Franklin's work.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. [via]More editions of Autobiography, and Other Writings:
Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphiaby Margaret CousinsISBN 0394903285 (0-394-90328-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Black Like Me: Library Editionby John Howard GriffinISBN 0395251028 (0-395-25102-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Bold Journeyby Charles BohnerISBN 0395549787 (0-395-54978-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditchby Jean Lee Latham, John O'Hara CosgraveISBN 0395137136 (0-395-13713-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Custer's Last Standby ReynoldsISBN 039490320X (0-394-90320-X)
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The Cycles of American Historyby Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0395957931 (0-395-95793-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Cycles of American Historyby Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.ISBN 0395378877 (0-395-37887-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Early Days of Automobilesby E. JanewayISBN 0394903684 (0-394-90368-4)
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Mealby Eric SchlosserISBN 0395977894 (0-395-97789-4)
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Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed [via]
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Fifty-Five Fathersby Selma R. WilliamsISBN 0396090370 (0-396-09037-0)
Softcover, Dodd Mead
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Gettysburgby Stephen W. SearsISBN 0395867614 (0-395-86761-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Gettysburg Addressby Abraham Lincoln, Michael McCurdyISBN 0395883970 (0-395-88397-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Grandfather's Journeyby Allen SayISBN 0395570352 (0-395-57035-2)
Hardcover, Walter Lorraine
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History of the English Speaking Peoplesby Winston S. ChurchillISBN 0396082726 (0-396-08272-6)
Softcover, Dodd Mead
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Hunter's Stew and Hangtown Fryby Lila PerlISBN 039528922X (0-395-28922-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Imperial Presidencyby Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0395515610 (0-395-51561-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Indian Heritage of Americaby Alvin M. JosephyISBN 0395573203 (0-395-57320-3)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Ishi: Last of His Tribeby Theodora Kroeber, Ruth RobbinsISBN 0395276446 (0-395-27644-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Kids at Workby Russell FreedmanISBN 0395797268 (0-395-79726-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988by Jane Mayer, Doyle McManusISBN 0395517575 (0-395-51757-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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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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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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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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The Lewis and Clark Expeditionby Richard L. NeubergerISBN 0394903153 (0-394-90315-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Lincoln: A Photobiographyby Russell FreedmanISBN 0395518482 (0-395-51848-2)
Softcover, Clarion Books
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Look-It-Up Book of Presidentsby Wyatt BlassingameISBN 0394968395 (0-394-96839-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Lost Chicagoby David LoweISBN 0395264685 (0-395-26468-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Womenby Benita EislerISBN 039701225X (0-397-01225-X)
Hardcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Major Problems in American Foreign Relations: Since 1914 Documents and Essaysby Thomas G. Paterson, Dennis MerrillISBN 0395938856 (0-395-93885-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Major Problems in American Foreign Relations: To 1920by Thomas PatersonISBN 0395938848 (0-395-93884-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Major Problems in American History 1920-1945: Documents and Essaysby Colin GordonISBN 0395870747 (0-395-87074-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Major Problems in American History Since 1945: Documents and Essaysby Robert Griffith, Paula C. BakerISBN 0395868505 (0-395-86850-5)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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Meet Abraham Lincolnby Barbara Cary, Stephen MarchesiISBN 0394919661 (0-394-91966-1)
Hardcover, Random House
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Meet George Washingtonby Joan Heilbroner, Stephen MarchesiISBN 0394919653 (0-394-91965-3)
Hardcover, Random House
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Molly Bannakyby Alice McGill, Chris K. SoentpietISBN 039572287X (0-395-72287-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Mr. Presidentby George SullivanISBN 039608737X (0-396-08737-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Name-Dropping: From F.D.R. onby John Kenneth GalbraithISBN 0395822882 (0-395-82288-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Nine Nations of North Americaby Joel GarreauISBN 0395291240 (0-395-29124-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Patton Papers 1885 1940by Martin BlumensonISBN 0395127068 (0-395-12706-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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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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The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticismby Megan MarshallISBN 0395389925 (0-395-38992-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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A People and a Nation: A History of the United Statesby Mary Beth NortonISBN 0395473020 (0-395-47302-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Co
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Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - A People and a Nation: A History of the United States: ISBN 0395290902 (0-395-29090-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - A People and a Nation: A History of the United States: ISBN 0395359538 (0-395-35953-8)
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A People and a Nation: A History of the United States To 1877by Howard P. Chudacoff, Thomas G. Paterson, David M. Katzman, William J. Brophy, Paul D. Escott, Mary Beth Norton, William M. TuttleISBN 0395433096 (0-395-43309-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - A People and a Nation: A History of the United State Since 1865: ISBN 0395788846 (0-395-78884-6)
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A People and a Nation: A History of the United Statesby David M. Katzman, Mary Beth NortonISBN 0395379369 (0-395-37936-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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A People and a Nation: A History of the United States To 1877by Mary NortonISBN 0395290910 (0-395-29091-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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- People and a Nation: A History of the United States/Complete Edition: ISBN 039535952X (0-395-35952-X)
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A People and a Nation: A History of the United States to 1877by Norton Katzman, Escott Chudacoff, Paterson TuttleISBN 0395433088 (0-395-43308-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Pirate Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleansby R. TallantISBN 0394903196 (0-394-90319-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Pony Expressby S. H. AdamsISBN 0394903072 (0-394-90307-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Puzzle Palaceby James BamfordISBN 0395312868 (0-395-31286-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Puzzle Palace'Book summary:In 1947, the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand signed a secret treaty in which they agreed to cooperate in matters of signals intelligence. In effect, the governments agreed to pool their geographic and technological assets in order to listen in on the electronic communications of China, the Soviet Union, and other Cold War bad guys--all in the interest of truth, justice, and the American Way, naturally. The thing is, the system apparently catches everything. Government security services, led by the U.S. National Security Agency, screen a large part (and perhaps all) of the voice and data traffic that flows over the global communications network. Fifty years later, the European Union is investigating possible violations of its citizens' privacy rights by the NSA, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a public advocacy group, has filed suit against the NSA, alleging that the organization has illegally spied on U.S. citizens.
Being a super-secret spy agency and all, it's tough to get a handle on what's really going on at the NSA. However, James Bamford has done great work in documenting the agency's origins and Cold War exploits in The Puzzle Palace. Beginning with the earliest days of cryptography (code-making and code-breaking are large parts of the NSA's mission), Bamford explains how the agency's predecessors helped win World War II by breaking the German Enigma machine and defeating the Japanese Purple cipher. He also documents signals intelligence technology, ranging from the usual collection of spy satellites to a great big antenna in the West Virginia woods that listened to radio signals as they bounced back from the surface of the moon.
Bamford backs his serious historical and technical material (this is a carefully researched work of nonfiction) with warnings about how easily the NSA's technology could work against the democracies of the world. Bamford quotes U.S. Senator Frank Church: "If this government ever became a tyranny ... the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government ... is within the reach of the government to know." This is scary stuff. --David Wall [via]
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A Reverence for Woodby E. SloaneISBN 0396083358 (0-396-08335-8)
Hardcover, Dodd, Mead
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River-Horse: A Voyage Across Americaby William Least Heat MoonISBN 0395636264 (0-395-63626-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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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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Sara BishopISBN 0395618754 (0-395-61875-4)
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Sarah Bishopby Scott O'DellISBN 0395291852 (0-395-29185-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sarah Bishop'Book summary:Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother, who take opposite sides in the War of Independence, Sarah Bishop flees from the British who seek to arrest her and struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.[via]More editions of Sarah Bishop:
Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wildernessby Paul SchulleryISBN 0395924936 (0-395-92493-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness'Book summary:In 1997 Yellowstone celebrated its 125th anniversary as a national park, the keystone in the federal system of reserved and protected places. The celebration was somewhat marred by debates over wolf reintroduction, road improvement, resort building, and "bioprospecting," the search for economically useful plant materials. Paul Schullery, a longtime resident and student of the park, tells us that such debates are not new. In his deeply personal yet sweeping history of Yellowstone, he shows that the place known from the start as "Wonderland" has always been the subject of pro- and anti-development forces, has always been seen through sometimes bitterly contrasting points of view. With balance and grace, Schullery weaves his narrative through countless such arguments, noting that "Today's parks, for all the press of humanity lined up to get in, still seem short of friends, or at least lacking in just the right combination of friends to ensure adequate budgets and reasonable protection." His fine book may help widen Yellowstone's circle of champions. [via]
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The Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil Warby Edwin C. FishelISBN 0395901367 (0-395-90136-7)
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Strange Justice : The Selling of Clarence Thomasby Jane MayerISBN 0395633184 (0-395-63318-4)
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The Supreme Court and How It Worksby Anthony LewisISBN 0394918614 (0-394-91861-4)
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0397001517 (0-397-00151-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Kill a Mockingbird'Book summary:"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out."
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Ulysses S. Grant : Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865by Brooks D. SimpsonISBN 0395659949 (0-395-65994-9)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0395081297 (0-395-08129-7)
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War As I Knew Itby George S. Patton, Paul D. HarkinsISBN 0395735297 (0-395-73529-7)
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Winter at Valley Forgeby V.W. MasonISBN 0394903331 (0-394-90333-1)
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The Witch of Blackbird Pondby Elizabeth George SpeareISBN 0395071143 (0-395-07114-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond'Book summary:Forced to leave her sunny Caribbean home for the bleak Connecticut Colony, Kit Tyler is filled with trepidation. As they sail up the river to Kit's new home, the teasing and moodiness of a young sailor named Nat doesn't help. Still, her unsinkable spirit soon bobs back up. What this spirited teenager doesn't count on, however, is how her aunt and uncle's stern Puritan community will view her. In the colonies of 1687, a girl who swims, wears silk and satin gowns, and talks back to her elders is not only headstrong, she is in grave danger of being regarded as a witch. When Kit befriends an old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, it is more than the ascetics can take: soon Kit is defending her life. Who can she count on as she confronts these angry and suspicious townspeople?
A thoroughly exciting and rewarding Newbery Medal winner and ALA Notable Children's Book, Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond brings this frightening period of witch hysteria to life. Readers will wonder at the power of the mob mentality, and the need for communities in desperate times--even current times--to find a scapegoat. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Witchcraft of Salem Villageby Shirley Jackson, Lili RethiISBN 0394903692 (0-394-90369-2)
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The Year of Decision: 1846by Bernard DevotoISBN 0395500796 (0-395-50079-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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