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"With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this edition of the classic national bestseller chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools--with its emphasis on great men in high places-- to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from...
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English
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"This book reinterprets American experience in the formative first half of our history. Emphatically rejecting the notion that America was merely a "second chance" for Europe, that the Revolution was a recapitulation and a preview of European revolutions, Dr. Boorstin finds in the new and unforseen conditions of early American life the roots of a distinctive civilization. The grand vision of democracy, for example, emerges, not as the inspired product...
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Harper
Pub. Date
[1960]
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English
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Includes more than 25 illustrations WALTER LORD NEVER STARTS FROM SCRATCH. For months before a word of this book was written, he could be found roaming the country, ferreting out the fascinating people who helped shape these years. One week it might be Elijah Baum, who piloted Wilbur Wright to his first lodgings at Kitty Hawk…the next, and old fireman who fought the flames at San Francisco…the next, some militant suffragette. Even in his raids...
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Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
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Tackling the issues at the forefront of the American mind--healthcare, education, capitalism, and more America the Beautiful is indispensable reading. From four-time bestselling author, internationally renowned neurosurgeon, and humanitarian Dr. Ben Carson, here is a sobering and inspiring manifesto of America's greatness, her failings, and the values and changes it will take to carry our country into a brilliant and prosperous future.
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Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can't agree on what makes America special. We can't even agree that America is special. We're coming to the point that we can't even agree what the word America itself means. "Disintegrationists" say we're stronger together, but their assault on America's history, philosophy, and culture will only tear us apart. Who are the disintegrationists? From Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United...
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Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"In Between two worlds, historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to re-create the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But...
13) Hidden history
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Harper & Row
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English
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"A Cornelia & Michael Bessie book."
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University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c1993
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English
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Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe's first contact with the New World through the establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed little from those of early modern Europe, he shows that virtually all contemporary observers emphasized the distinctiveness of the new worlds being created in America. Rarely considering the high costs...
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Compelled by recent events to consider all the remarkable qualities that make our country worth preservin, the author has fashioned thirty short essay-love letters in spirit-that, like all his writing, are sharp, original, funny, graceful, and wise.
18) America 51: a probe into the realities that are hiding inside "the greatest country in the world"
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Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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The outspoken hard-rock vocalist from Slipknot and Stone Sour explores what his itinerant youth and worldwide travels with his multi-platinum bands have taught him about what it means to be a true-blue American in an increasingly unstable world.
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"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature" have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of presidents including, besides...
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