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The Affluent Societyby John Kenneth GalbraithISBN 0395243750 (0-395-24375-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Affluent Society'Book summary:Conventional wisdom has it that John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society spawned the neoliberalism we see in Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and other world leaders. The economist's prose, lofty but still easily manageable, laid down the gauntlet for the post-cold war class struggle that was still far in the future in 1958. Galbraith saw the widening gap between the richest and the poorest as an emergent threat to economic stability, and proposed significant investment in parks, transportation, education, and other public amenities--what we now call infrastructure--to ameliorate these differences and postpone depression and revolution indefinitely. Widely criticized by conservatives and libertarians wary of public expenditures or increased government influence, Galbraith still influences liberal and neoliberal thinking. He has acknowledged that his work, like that of most social scientists, contains flaws (like his dire prediction of an out-of-control unemployment and inflation spiral that petered out in the 1980's), but much of it remains fresh and true even today. Four years before Silent Spring, he wrote about the consumerist blight that threatened our wild lands equally as much as our cities; his hoped-for increase in environmental awareness has grown significantly in recent years. Whether you support the political implementations of his views, experiencing his writing is important to put those views in context. More than this, though, it is an honest pleasure to read such original ideas so well expressed. --Rob Lightner [via]
American Government People Institutions and Policiesby Johnson, John H. Aldrich, Gary MillerISBN 0395667143 (0-395-66714-3)
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Back in the Worldby Tobias WolffISBN 0395354161 (0-395-35416-1)
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The Beauty of the Beastly: New Views on the Nature of Lifeby Natalie AngierISBN 0395718163 (0-395-71816-3)
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The Best American Short Stories 1990by Richard Ford, Shannon RavenelISBN 039551617X (0-395-51617-X)
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The Best American Short Stories 1995by Jane Smiley, Katrina KenisonISBN 0395711797 (0-395-71179-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories 1995'Book summary:Every autumn, readers of short stories eagerly look forward to the chance to discover their favorite writers and new talents in The Best American Short Stories. Last year's collection marched on to bestseller lists across the country and met with acclaim from critics who declared it "a brilliant work of art." Marking the eightieth anniversary of the series, the 1995 volume portrays the stunning range of American life in all its various colors, styles, regions, and concerns. This year's guest editor, Jane Smiley, selected stories without knowing their authors' identities. Drawn to tales with "a sharp taste," she gathered a piquant sampling of new voices as well as rich works by such masters as Don DeLillo, Ellen Gilchrist, Thom Jones, Joy Williams, Stephen Dobyns, Kate Braverman, and Jamaica Kincaid. Smiley was attracted to "an element of the exotic" in the tapestry of ordinary lives, and the stories in this collection reveal the powerful dramas constantly unfolding beneath the surface [via]
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The Best American Short Stories 1996by John Edgar Wideman, Katrina KenisonISBN 0395752906 (0-395-75290-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories 1996'Book summary:When a great annual collection comes out, it's hard to know the reason why. Was there a bumper crop of high-quality stories, or was this year's guest editor especially gifted at winnowing out the good ones? Either way, the 2000 edition of The Best American Short Stories is a standout in a series that can be uneven. Its editor, E.L. Doctorow, seems to have a fondness for the "what if?" story, the kind of tale that posits an imagination-prodding question and then attempts to answer it. Nathan Englander's "The Gilgul of Park Avenue" asks: What if a WASPy financial analyst, riding in a cab one day, discovers to his surprise that he is irrevocably Jewish? In "The Ordinary Son," Ron Carlson asks: What if you are the only average person in a family of certifiable geniuses? And Allan Gurganus's "He's at the Office" asks: What if the quintessential postwar American working man were forced to retire? This last story is narrated by the man's grown son, who at the story's opening takes his dad for a walk. Though it's the present day, the father is still dressed in his full 1950s businessman regalia, including camel-hair overcoat and felt hat. The two walk by a teenager. "The boy smiled. 'Way bad look on you, guy.'"
My father, seeking interpretation, stared at me. I simply shook my head no. I could not explain Dad to himself in terms of tidal fashion trends. All I said was "I think he likes you."
The exchange typifies the writing showcased in this anthology: in these stories, again and again, we find a breakdown of human communication that is sprightly, humorous, and devastatingly complete. A few more of the terrific stories featured herein: Amy Bloom's "The Story," a goofy metafiction about a villainous divorcee; Geoffrey Becker's "Black Elvis," which tells of, well, a black Elvis; and Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Third and Final Continent," a story of an Indian man who moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Like the collection itself, Lahiri's story amasses a lovely, funny mood as it goes along. --Claire Dederer [via]More editions of The Best American Short Stories 1996:
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Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plathby Anne StevensonISBN 0395538467 (0-395-53846-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath'Book summary:"A vivid and, to me, moving portrait of a young woman who, carrying the full mixed cultural load of Americans born in 1932, as well as personal distresses and limitations peculiar to herself, (became) in ten driven years . . . the most ruthlessly original poet of her generation."--John Updike. [via]
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Black Like Me: Library Editionby John Howard GriffinISBN 0395251028 (0-395-25102-8)
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Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Cornerby Geneva Smitherman, Geneva Smitherman-DonaldsonISBN 0395699924 (0-395-69992-4)
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Blue Highways: A Journey into Americaby William Least Heat MoonISBN 0395585686 (0-395-58568-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Highways: A Journey into America'Book summary:First published in 1982, William Least Heat-Moon's account of his journey along the back roads of the United States (marked with the color blue on old highway maps) has become something of a classic. When he loses his job and his wife on the same cold February day, he is struck by inspiration: "A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity."
Driving cross-country in a van named Ghost Dancing, Heat-Moon (the name the Sioux give to the moon of midsummer nights) meets up with all manner of folk, from a man in Grayville, Illinois, "whose cap told me what fertilizer he used" to Scott Chisholm, "a Canadian citizen ... [who] had lived in this country longer than in Canada and liked the United States but wouldn't admit it for fear of having to pay off bets he made years earlier when he first 'came over' that the U.S. is a place no Canadian could ever love." Accompanied by his photographs, Heat-Moon's literary portraits of ordinary Americans should not be merely read, but savored. [via]
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The Book of Yaakby Rick BassISBN 0395770149 (0-395-77014-9)
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Calico Captiveby Elizabeth G. SpeareISBN 0395071127 (0-395-07112-7)
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The Complete Poemsby Anne SextonISBN 0395329353 (0-395-32935-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poems'Book summary:She drew her poems from a great depth in herself, and they continue to stir us...Her voice remains a distinctive one in American poetry of the past half century. -- J.D. McClatchy [via]
The Course of Empireby Bernard Augustine De VotoISBN 0395510147 (0-395-51014-7)
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End Zoneby Don DelilloISBN 0395136458 (0-395-13645-8)
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Even Cowgirls Get the Bluesby Tom RobbinsISBN 0395245109 (0-395-24510-9)
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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Storyby Amanda VaillISBN 0395652413 (0-395-65241-3)
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Gentleman Rebel: The Memoirs of H. Stuart Hughesby H. Stuart HughesISBN 039556316X (0-395-56316-X)
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Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Storiesby Philip RothISBN 0395518504 (0-395-51850-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories'Book summary:Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters.
Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer break and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. The novella is accompanied by five short stories that range in tone from the iconoclastic to the astonishingly tender and that illuminate the subterranean conflicts between parents and children and friends and neighbors in the American Jewish diaspora. [via]More editions of Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories:
Hamilton Starkby Russell BanksISBN 0395264715 (0-395-26471-5)
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunterby Carson McCullersISBN 0395079780 (0-395-07978-0)
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The House of the Prophetby Louis AuchinclossISBN 0395305209 (0-395-30520-9)
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I Come as a Thiefby Louis AuchinclossISBN 0395139392 (0-395-13939-2)
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In the Loyal Mountainsby Rick BassISBN 039571687X (0-395-71687-X)
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Ishi: Last of His Tribeby Theodora Kroeber, Ruth RobbinsISBN 0395276446 (0-395-27644-6)
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Jewish Timesby Howard SimonsISBN 0395446805 (0-395-44680-5)
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Johnny Tremainby Esther Forbes, Lynd WardISBN 0395067669 (0-395-06766-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Johnny Tremain'Book summary:This story of a tragically injured young silversmith who ends up hip-deep in the American Revolution is inspiring, exciting, and sad. Winner of the prestigious Newbery Award in 1944, Esther Forbes's story has lasted these 50-plus years by including adventure, loss, courage, and history in a wonderfully written, very dramatic package. It's probably not great for little guys but mature 11-year-olds or older will find it a great adventure. [via]
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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:
Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfictionby Jim HarrisonISBN 0395613299 (0-395-61329-9)
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The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Caseby Richard L. RashkeISBN 0395302331 (0-395-30233-1)
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Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988by Jane Mayer, Doyle McManusISBN 0395517575 (0-395-51757-5)
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Laughing Boyby Oliver LA FargeISBN 0395083834 (0-395-08383-4)
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Familiesby James Agee, Webster's II DictionariesISBN 039529696X (0-395-29696-X)
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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: Three Tenant Familiesby Walker Evans, James AgeeISBN 0395489016 (0-395-48901-6)
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Letters of a Woman Homesteaderby Elinore Pruitt StewartISBN 0395321379 (0-395-32137-9)
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The Long Gray Lineby Rick AtkinsonISBN 0395480086 (0-395-48008-6)
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Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13by Jim Lovell, Kluger JeffreyISBN 0395670292 (0-395-67029-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13'Book summary:In April 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent Navy Captain Jim Lovell and two other astronauts on America's fifth mission to the moon. Only fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13, disaster struck: a mysterious explosion rocked the ship, and soon its oxygen and power began draining away. Commander Lovell and his crew watched in alarm as the cockpit grew darker, the air grew thinner, and the instruments winked out one by one. The full story of the moon shot that almost ended in catastrophe has never been told, but now Lovell and coauthor Jeffrey Kluger bring it to vivd life. What begins as a smooth flight is transformed into a hair-raising voyage from the moment Lovell calls out, "Houston, we've got a problem." Minutes after the explosion, the astronauts are forced to abandon the main ship for the lunar module, a tiny craft designed to keep two men alive for just two days. But there are three men aboard, and they are four days from home. As the hours tick away, the narrative shifts from the crippled spacecraft to Mission Control, from engineers searching desperately for solutions to Lovell's wife and children praying for his safe return. The entire nation watches as one crisis after another is met and overcome. By the time the ship splashes down in the Pacific, we understand why the heroic effort to rescue Lovell and his crew is considered by many to be NASA's finest hour. This riveting book puts the reader right in the spacecraft during one of the worst disasters in the history of space exploration. Written with all the color and drama of the best fiction, Lost Moon is the true story of a thrilling adventure and an astonishing triumph over nearly impossible odds. It was a major Oscar(R)-nominated motion picture directed by Ron Howard and starred Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon. [via]
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Mamaby Terry McMillanISBN 0395399742 (0-395-39974-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mama'Book summary:In Mildred Peacock's world, men come and go as quickly as her paychecks, but her five children are something else: her hope, her dream, her future. Mildred is a survivor who will do anything to keep her family togethera tough, funny heroine facing life with dignity. [via]
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The Member of the Weddingby Carson McCullersISBN 0395079810 (0-395-07981-0)
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Middle West Countryby William CarterISBN 0395207320 (0-395-20732-0)
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More Like Us: Making America Great Againby James M. FallowsISBN 0395528100 (0-395-52810-0)
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My Antoniaby Willa Cather, Kathleen NorrisISBN 039575514X (0-395-75514-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
Nothing but Blue Skiesby Thomas McGuaneISBN 0395545404 (0-395-54540-4)
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O Pioneers!by Willa CatherISBN 0395083656 (0-395-08365-6)
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Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtainby Peter GroseISBN 0395516064 (0-395-51606-4)
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Ordeal by Hungerby George R. StewartISBN 0395611598 (0-395-61159-8)
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A People and a Nation: A History of the United Statesby Mary Beth NortonISBN 0395473020 (0-395-47302-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A People and a Nation: A History of the United States'Book summary:"A People and a Nation is a spirited narrative that challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Its thoughtful inclusion of the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture preserves the text' s basic approach to American history as a story of all the American people.The end-of-chapter "Legacies for a People and a Nation" feature focuses on a specific event, movement, or fact covered in the chapter that shows a striking relevance to present-day events and controversies. The feature demonstrates how important the past is to the present and provides a forum for contemporary analysis.The "How Do Historians Know" feature demonstrates the process by which various pieces of historical evidence are used to reach conclusions about the past.
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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)
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A People and a Nationby 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)
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A People and a Nation: A History of the United Statesby David M. Katzman, Mary Beth NortonISBN 0395379377 (0-395-37937-7)
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People and a Nation: A History of the United States/Complete Editionby Mary B. Norton, David M. Katzman, Paul D. EscottISBN 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)
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Platte Riverby Rick BassISBN 0395680808 (0-395-68080-8)
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Pride of Place: Building the American Dreamby Robert A. M. SternISBN 0395366968 (0-395-36696-8)
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Prozac Nationby Elizabeth WurtzelISBN 039568093X (0-395-68093-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prozac Nation'Book summary:Elizabeth Wertzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of a generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. A memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation still manages to be a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era. [via]
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The Reader's Companion to American Historyby Eric Foner, John A. GarratyISBN 0395513723 (0-395-51372-3)
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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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Roget's Thesaurus, Vest-Pocket Editionby American Heritage Dictionary EditorsISBN 0395442966 (0-395-44296-6)
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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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Shattered Peaceby Daniel YerginISBN 0395246709 (0-395-24670-9)
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Sing Down the Moonby Scott O'DellISBN 0395109191 (0-395-10919-1)
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The Sky, the Stars, the Wildernessby Rick BassISBN 0395717582 (0-395-71758-2)
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Strange Justice : The Selling of Clarence Thomasby Jane MayerISBN 0395633184 (0-395-63318-4)
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The Things They Carriedby Tim O'BrienISBN 039551598X (0-395-51598-X)
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A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Trailerparkby Russell BanksISBN 0395315476 (0-395-31547-6)
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Typical Americanby Gish JenISBN 0395546893 (0-395-54689-3)
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U. S. A.by John DOS PassosISBN 0395076277 (0-395-07627-7)
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The Vilde Affair: Beginnings of the French Resistanceby Martin BlumensonISBN 0395253500 (0-395-25350-0)
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Where the Sea Used to Beby Rick BassISBN 0395770157 (0-395-77015-7)
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The Winthrop Covenantby Louis AuchinclossISBN 0395240816 (0-395-24081-6)
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The Woman Lit by Firefliesby Jim HarrisonISBN 0395488842 (0-395-48884-2)
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A Wrinkle in Timeby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0395771544 (0-395-77154-4)
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The Year of Decision: 1846by Bernard DevotoISBN 0395500796 (0-395-50079-6)
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