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Michael J. Kurtz
America and the Return of Nazi Contraband: The Recovery of Europe`s Cultural Treasures

2009 y.
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Description: The Nazi war on European culture produced the greatest dislocation of art, archives, and libraries in the history of the world. In the ruins of the Reich, Allied occupiers found millions of paintings, books, manuscripts, and pieces of sculpture, from the mediocre to the priceless, hidden in thousands of secret hideaways. This book tells the story of how the American Military Government in Germany, spearheaded by a few dozen dedicated Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFA&,A) officers and enlisted men, coped with restoring Europe`s cultural heritage. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521133408
Book size: —; Page extent: 288.

 

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America and the Tintype

2008 y.
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Description: One of the most intriguing and little studied forms of nineteenth-century photography is the tintype. Introduced in 1856 as a low-cost alternative to the daguerreotype and the albumen print, the tintype was widely marketed from the 1860s through the first decades of the twentieth century as the most popular photographic medium. The picture-making preference of the people, it was almost never used for celebrity portraiture: It was affordable, portable, unique and available almost everywhere. Because of its ubiquity, the tintype provides a startlingly candid record of the political upheavals that rocked the four decades following the American Civil War-and the personal anxieties they induced. As this book`s author, Steven Kasher, argues, the tintype studio became a kind of performance space in which sitters could act out their personal identities. Sitters brought to the tintype studio not just their family and friends but also the tools of their trade, costumes, toys, stuffed animals… [detailed...]

ISBN: 3865216862
Book size: —; Page extent: 242.

 

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America at War: Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins

2008 y.
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ISBN: 1416918329
Book size: —; Page extent: 96.

 

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Robert B. MacKay
America by the Yard: Cirkut Camera: Images from the Early Twentieth Century

2006 y.
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Description: An astonishing collection of early panoramic photographs, many up to 5 feet wide. This book is both a history of an unusual camera and a splendid display of its product. `Yard longs,` as the Cirkut camera`s huge panoramic photographs were called, caused a sensation after the camera`s introduction in the early twentieth century. Cirkut cameras were used to record scenic vistas, epic events, and group photographs of conventioneers, workers, soldiers, and students. Here, with many foldouts that show the prints in their full glory, are such historic moments as the building of the Panama Canal, the sunken battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, the crash of the dirigible Shenandoah , the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, the 1908 Wellesley graduating class, and a very early race at the Indianapolis Speedway. More mundane subjects?a bathing beauty contest, locomotive factory workers?are equally fascinating in this format. Collectively these panoramas… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0393051609
Book size: —; Page extent: 232.

 

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Jim Wark
America desde el aire (America Flying High, Spanish Edition)

2005 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThe sheer variety of American landscapes ? from the majestic peaks and glaciers of Alaska to the bleak beauty of the desert Southwest ? makes it an ideal subject for aerial photography. A four-time winner of the `Best of Show` award from the Professional Aerial Photographers` Association, Jim Wark lovingly celebrates the textures, habitations, and geology of this diverse land, capturing normally inaccessible views, in this lavishly illustrated Spanish-language book with more than 550 photographs. The book`s landscape format brings out the panoramic qualities of these beautiful images. [detailed...]

ISBN: 9707182512
Book size: —; Page extent: 640.

 

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Wolfgang Langewiesche
America from the Air: An Aviator`s Story (American Land Classics)

2004 y.
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Description: `I am no helmeted, begoggled hero of the skies, picture me bookish, bespectacled, unable to hold even a teacup without rattling it. As a pilot, I am merely an amateur, and I know it…. I shouldn`t be talking. But I can`t help talking.For you take the air: the thin, substanceless air that can be made to bear a man, you take America, and you take an airplane, which of all the works of man is the nearest to a living being -- you take those things and mix them up, and they will act as a drug which will knock all proper reticence right out of you. And so, here I go talking…` -- from America from the Air In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made his historic solo flight across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to doso in 1932. And so was born the golden age of flying. Aviators became the era`s new heroes and the airplane its icon. In early 1930s Chicago, a German-born graduate student became fascinated by the airplane and its usefulness as a great geographic and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0801878195
Book size: —; Page extent: 248.

 

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Eckhard Fiedler, Reimer Jansen, Mil Norman-Risch
America in Close-up

1990 y.
Publisher: Longman
Description: `America in Close-Up` is a study of contemporary America which looks at a variety of aspects of life in the United States. Each unit of the book has three parts, Part A offers a clear and detailed account of some aspect of American society and in Part B the subject is explored further through interviews, articles and photographs taken from contemporary newspapers and journals such as `Time` and `Newsweek`, which give an insight into the way Americans see themselves and show the contrasting views held by people in the different strata of society. The factual information in Part A provides the historical and cultural context for students to understand the issues discussed in the texts in Part B which range from immigration and race relations to the death penalty. Part C contains exercises and activities designed to enhance understanding of the texts in Part B and to help students to decide what they think about the issues involved. The book is intended to be used by advanced students of… [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-582-74929-0
Book size: —; Page extent: 284.

 

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America in the Seventies (Cultureamerica)

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionTucked between the activist Sixties and the conservative Eighties lies a largely misunderstood and still under-appreciated decade. Now nine leading scholars of postwar America offer a revealing look at the Seventies and their rightful place in the epic narrative of American history. This is the first major work to relate the economic decline and cultural despair of the Seventies to the creative efforts that would reshape American society. Dogged by economic and political crises at home and foreign policy failures abroad, Americans responded to a growing sense of uncertainty in a variety of ways. Some explored the new freedoms promised by the social change movements of the late Sixties. Some challenged the technological verities that ruled corporate America. Others sought to create autonomous zones in the ruins of decaying cities or on the bleak landscape of anomic suburbia. And, against a backdrop of massive economic dislocation and bicentennial celebrations, many… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0700613277
Book size: —; Page extent: 272.

 

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Andres Pedreno
America latina en la encrucijada de la insercion internacional/ Latin America at The Crossroads of The International Insertion: Valoracion de America Latina … Evaluation in the New World Situation

2008 y.
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ISBN: 8479089571
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Harry M. Benshoff
America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies

2003 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionAmerica on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the Movies is a lively introduction to issues of diversity as represented within the American cinema. The first synthetic and historical text of its kind, America on Filmprovides a comprehensive overview of the industrial, socio-cultural, and aesthetic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality. The volume chronicles the cinematic history of various cultural groups, examines forces and institutions of bias, and stimulates discussion about the relationship between film and American national culture. Accessible and user-friendly, America on Film features 101 illustrations, a glossary of key terms, questions for discussion, and lists for further reading and further viewing. The book is organized within a broad historical framework, with specific theoretical concepts ? including film genre, auteurism, cultural studies, Orientalism, the `male gaze,`… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0631225838
Book size: —; Page extent: 352.

 

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Steven Alan Buckman
America on Her Knees

2009 y.
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ISBN: 160813282X
Book size: —; Page extent: 180.

 

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Rosemary Radford Ruether
America, Amerikkka: Elect Nation And Imperial Violence (Religion and Violence)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 1845531574
Book size: —; Page extent: 291.

 

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Salom Rizk
America, More Than a Country

— y.
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Description: Salom Rizk, author of this autobiography, was born in 1909 in a tiny poverty-stricken town in Syria. Two brothers and an uncle in Iowa paid his passage to the United States, but he arrived penniless, homeless and with no knowledge of the language. The story of his incredible experience in self-education and his rise to one of the most sought-after and inspirational speakers on American lecture platforms is contained in `America, more than a Country.` Out of love for America and his long time friendship with Salom Rizk, Rev. Harold Schmidt has revised Rizk`s autobiography, capturing the essence of the original text and added thoughts about his personal experience. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1564922979
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Pablo Neruda, Oswaldo Guayasamin
America, My Brother, My Blood / America, Mi Hermano, Mi Sangre: A Latin American Song of Suffering and Resistance (Ocean Sur)

2006 y.
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Description: `Guayasamin is one of the last crusaders of imaginismo. He is a creator of humanity in its broadest sense, of the living and historical imagination. His universe is sustaining although it threatens us like a cosmic disaster. Think before approaching his painting because it will not be easy to withdraw.`-Pablo Neruda `To paint is to pray. To paint is to scream.`-Oswaldo Guayasamin Two great masters combine to make an impassioned plea for the dignity and sovereignty of Latin America. Here Pablo Neruda`s incisive political words accompany the transcendent art of indigenous Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamin. As firm friends and huge admirers of each other`s work, these two brilliant Latin American artists create a compelling portrait of a continent. [detailed...]

ISBN: 192088873X
Book size: —; Page extent: 120.

 

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Monica Gunning
America, My New Home: Poems

2004 y.
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ISBN: 1590780574
Book size: —; Page extent: 32.

 

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Tanya Lloyd Kyi
America: A Visual Journey

2005 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionThe sheer vastness of the American landscape is its defining characteristic. The photographs in this book reveal America as it has never been seen before, with each page offering a fascinating vista. Roam the busy streets of New York.Climb the rugged Appalachian Mountains. Soar above Hawaii`s crystal waters. America: A Visual Journey reveals the country`s familiar and unknown treasures through the lenses of renowned photographers such as Tom Till, Terry Donnelly and Paul Rezendes. Each photograph depicts the diversity of America`s majestic landscapes, vibrant skylines, and celebrated landmarks. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1552857263
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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Elizabeth Armstrong
America`s 100 Best Places to Retire, Fourth Edtion: The Only Guide You Need to Today`s Top Retirement Towns (America`s 100 Best Places to Retire)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0978607708
Book size: —; Page extent: 349.

 

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Lee Smith
America`s Agenda: Rebuilding Economic Strength

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ISBN: 1563240947
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Helen F. Ladd, John Yinger
America`s Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy

— y.
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Description: In the past two decades powerful economic, social, and fiscal forces have buffeted America`s major cities. The urbanization of poverty, the shift in employment from manufacturing to services, middle-class flight to the suburbs and Sunbelt, the tax revolt, and cuts in federal aid have made it difficult for many cities to pay for such basic services as police and fire protection, sanitation, and roads. In `America`s Ailing Cities` Helen F. Ladd and John Yinger identify and measure the impact of these broad national trends. Drawing on data from 86 major cities, they offer a rigorous and innovative analysis of urban fiscal conditions. Specifically, they determine the impact of a wide range of factors that lie outside municipal control, including a city`s basic economic structure and state-determined fiscal institutions, on a city`s underlying fiscal health-- the difference between potential revenue and the expenditure needed to finance public services of acceptable quality. Concluding… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0801842441
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Theresa J. Slowik
America`s Art: Masterpieces from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

2006 y.
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Description: After being closed for several years, on July 4, 2006, The Smithsonian American Art Museum will celebrate the grand reopening of its newly restored building, home to the world`s premier collection of American art. Those who cannot attend can console themelves with this magnificent volume, which puts the museum`s galleries at their fingertips. Edward Hopper, Georgia O`Keeffe, and Nam June Paik are just a few of the artists represented in a book that spans all of American history and features gorgeous reprductions of works in a dazzling variety of styles and mediums, including paintings, sculpture, photography, and folk art. With text that illuminates the nation`s history through examples of its art-including many rarely displayed pieces from the collectio-this is one art book that belongs on every American coffee table. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0810955326
Book size: —; Page extent: 324.

 

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Theodore B. Kinni
America`s Best : IndustryWeek`s Guide to World-Class Manufacturing Plants

— y.
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Description: In 1990, IndustryWeek magazine established a prestigious new competition, the America`s Best Plants Award, designed to recognize and honor the top manufacturing operations in the nation. To date, sixty-two companies—from such well-known names as Hewlett-Packard, Sony Electronics, Steelcase, and Xerox to smaller companies such as Zytec, John Crane Belfab, and Lord Corporation—have earned the illustrious designation of being one of America`s Best Plants. Now these award-winning plants areprofiled in America`s Best, a unique reference that takes an in-depth look at leading-edge manufacturing practices. Detailing the individual components of world-class manufacturing, while providing personal experience from the field, America`s Best offers practical guidelines that will help managers make strategic decisions regarding their own organizations. The book begins with the nine essential components of world-class manufacturing, their individual make-up, and how they… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0471160024
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Al Ose
America`s Best Kept Secret Fairtax: Give Yourself a 25% Raise

— y.
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Description: America`s Best Kept Secret: FairTax This book is the only one on this subject and tells of the history and growth of the FairTax. The FairTax Bill was known as U. S. House Bill H. R. 2525 in the 106th and 107th Congresses. It was entered on the firstday of the 108th Congress as U. S. House Bill H. R. 25. In July when the number 2525 comes up we will change H. R. 25 to H. R. 2525. The Americans for Fair Taxation Bill involves three specific actions: 1) Passage of legislation that repeals the income tax, the payroll tax in its entirety, the estate tax, the gift tax, the capital gains tax, the self-employment tax, and the corporate tax. 2) Passage of legislation that installs a single-rate, national sales tax on all new goods and services at the point of final purchase for consumption, and that provides a universal rebate in an amount equal to the sales tax on essential goods and services. 3) Adoption of a constitutional amendment to repeal the 16th Amendment. If… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1403391890
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Roy Peter Clark, Christopher Scanlan
America`s Best Newspaper Writing: A Collection of ASNE Prizewinners

2005 y.
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ISBN: 0312443676
Book size: —; Page extent: 368.

 

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Darius L. Salter
America`s Bishop: The Life of Francis Asbury

2003 y.
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ISBN: 1928915396
Book size: —; Page extent: 435.

 

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America`s Changing Coasts: Private Rights And Public Trust (Advances in Ecological Economics)

2005 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionFollowing a comprehensive overview by the editors, this volume?s expert contributors provide detailed discussion of important legal, ecological and social issues associated with coastal resource management, as well as the most significant challenges confronting land use planners and resource managers in coastal communities. Using an interdisciplinary approach to perplexing questions surrounding the issue of development versus protection, the volume presents a broad approach to coastal issues involving private rights and public trust. Part I: The Law and Coastal Environments provides background information on the more recent federal and state lawsuits, statutes and regulations that impact coastal environments. In Part II: Ecological Consequences for Coastal Development, scientists discuss threats posed by elevated nitrogen levels and heavy metal contamination in coastal waters, followed by descriptions of the impact of development on habitats essential to… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1845420802
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Ross Bernstein
America`s Coach: Life Lessons &, Wisdom for Gold Medal Success: A Biographical Journey of the Late Hockey Icon Herb Brooks

2006 y.
Publisher: Bernstein Books
Description: The inspirational story of legendary coach Herb Brooks comes to life in the pages of `America`s Coach,` a heart-warming motivational biography that celebrates the legacy of a true American hero. As the architect of the fabled 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey `Miracle on Ice,` Brooks showed the world that through hard work, commitment and dedication, dreams really can come true. It doesn`t matter if you know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line, Brooks` unorthodox ideologies and philosophies on team-building, leadership and motivation can be applied to the real world just as easily as they can to the business world. Follow along as Brooks` amazing life is chronicled from the frozen ponds of St. Paul`s east side, to the bright lights of New York City, and everywhere in between. Woven throughout this colorful tapestry are anecdotes, quotes, funny stories, and nuggets of wisdom from Brooks himself, which provide a unique insight into the secrets of his success. Best-selling… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0963487191
Book size: —; Page extent: 176.

 

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Bernadette T. Vadurro
America`s Conscience: Facing Threats to Democracy, the Middle Class and Our World

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0979358000
Book size: —; Page extent: 400.

 

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John U. Bacon
America`s Corner Store : Walgreen`s Prescription for Success

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionPraise for America?s Corner Store `Who would have thought the story of a drugstore chain could encompass so much vital and fascinating American history? With superb storytelling skills, John Bacon gives us a vivid and insightful chronicle of matters both large and small, from the birth of the milkshake to the rise of America?s consumer culture. America?s Corner Store is a genuine treat.` ?James Tobin the National Book Critics? Circle?Award winner, and author of To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight `Run the business with your head. Lead the family with your heart. Walgreens? history is filled with good values, strong principles, and immense courage. A family business classic.` ?Howard `Howdy` S. Holmes President and CEO, `Jiffy`® Mixes `John Bacon has crafted a thorough, insightful, readable, and fascinating account of the development of… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0471426172
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Babs Ryan
America`s Corporate Brain Drain

2008 y.
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Description: Press `1` to listen to five more phone menus. If this is an emergency, please hold forever for the next available operator…. If you hate phone menus, you re not alone. When big companies saw data proving that up to 70 percent of callers press `0` to reach a live operator, they did exactly what you d expect. Instead of getting live operators to answer the phones, they disabled the zero out function. From gouging gas prices to `free` checking accounts that charge for checkbooks and offer pointless point programs (50 percent of points are never redeemed), big businesses in America are disconnected.America`s Corporate Brain Drain reveals that the swell of me-too products and lousy service is because the best people no longer work in Goliath companies. We re moving forward with Toyota and connecting with Nokia because the brightest sparks in the U.S. have left big corporations or are planning exit strategies. The 27 million small-business owners didn t get the boot -- 89 percent of… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0981494706
Book size: —; Page extent: 304.

 

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Daniel Eagan
America`s Film Legacy: A Guide to the Library of Congress National Film Registry

2009 y.
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Description: A truly unique reference book that tells the stories behind the 450 most important American films, as chosen by the Library of Congress America`s Film Legacy is a guide to the most significant films ever made in the United States. Chosen by filmmakers and the public under the auspices of the Library of Congress, the 450 titles in the National Film Registry run the gamut from big-budget Hollywood blockbusters to landmark independent, documentary, animation, and avant-garde masterpieces and experimental shorts, and each year 25 more films are added to the list. Unlike opinionated `Top 100` and arbitrary `Best of` lists, these are the real thing: groundbreaking films that make up the backbone of American cinema. Some are well-known, such as Citizen Kane, The Jazz Singer, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Birth of a Nation, and Boyz n the Hood. Others are more obscure, such as Blacksmith Scene (1893), The Blue Bird (1918), The Docks of New York (1928), Star Theatre (1902), and A… [detailed...]

ISBN: 082641849X
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Richard Brookhiser
America`s First Dynasty : The Adamses, 1735-1918

2003 y.
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Description: Amazon.comIn the spirit of his earlier books, Alexander Hamilton: American and Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington , Richard Brookhiser produces an elegant, concise volume drawing on previous scholarship but offering a fresh perspective on four prickly generations of Adamses. Until David McCullough`s John Adams became a surprise bestseller, the United States` second president and his descendants seldom had good press. Acknowledging John`s essential role in the American Revolution and his son John Quincy`s principled fight against slavery, contemporaries and historians nonetheless judged both men poor presidents, characterized by haughty pride and stiff-necked dislike of compromise. Charles Francis Adams, John Quincy`s son, lost an almost certain chance to run for president as a Republican in 1872 by disdainfully announcing `that he would reject any nomination that had to be negotiated for,` the most famous book by Charles`s son, The… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0684868644
Book size: —; Page extent: 256.

 

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