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Novelist explores the relationships among five writers of the transcendentalist movement who clustered around the home of wealthy Ralph Waldo…
Emerson in Concord, Massachusetts, during 1840-1868. Highlights their intertwined families and the love affairs that contributed to the creation of their literary masterpieces. 2006Angler: the Cheney vice presidency
By Barton Gellman. 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman details the inner workings of Vice President Dick Cheney's office through interviews with…
Cheney's colleagues and critics. Discusses the war in Iraq, the interrogation of prisoners, domestic espionage, and Cheney's beliefs supporting a strong commander in chief. Bestseller. 2008West from Appomattox: the reconstruction of America after the Civil War
By Heather Cox Richardson. 2007
History professor focuses on the formation of a middle class in post-Civil War America and asserts that its members defined…
the nation's identity at home and abroad for the next century and beyond. Highlights the era's sectional animosities, racial tensions, booming industrialization, suffragist activism, and westward expansion. 2007Final salute: a story of unfinished lives
By Jim Sheeler. 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Sheeler recounts the two years he spent shadowing marine major Steve Beck, an officer whose job is…
to notify the families of fallen soldiers. Sheeler portrays the lives of the deceased, Beck's efforts to comfort the grieving relatives, and the toll on surviving kin. 2008Untold glory: African Americans in pursuit of freedom, opportunity, and achievement
By Alan B Govenar. 2007
Interviews with twenty-seven African Americans who have excelled in the arts, politics, and business. First-person accounts describe overcoming discrimination and…
other obstacles to achieve personal goals. Includes businesswoman Josephine Cooke, who suffers from sickle-cell anemia, and mathematician Mary DeConge-Watson, a former nun. 2007Gerald R. Ford (The american Presidents Ser.)
By Douglas Brinkley. 2007
Personal and political snapshot of Gerald Ford (1913-2006), who succeeded Richard Nixon as commander in chief in 1974 after the…
Watergate scandal forced Nixon to resign. Chronicles Ford's ascent in Michigan's Republican Party and national politics that led to his three-year presidential term. Discusses his achievements and Midwestern character. 2007Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass: an American slave
By Frederick Douglass. 2005
African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) chronicles his life from his birth in Maryland as a slave to his 1838…
escape to the North. Describes the physical, mental, and spiritual brutalities of enslavement and his resolution to live free or die. Some violence. For senior high and older readers. 1845The war within: a secret White House history, 2006-2008 (Bush at war ; #4)
By Bob Woodward. 2008
Woodward examines President George W. Bush's management of the war in Iraq. Discusses political, social, and moral issues involved, including,…
Woodward reports, the United States spying on Iraqi allies and estrangement between the White House and the U.S. military. Sequel to State of Denial (RC 63560, BR 16804). Bestseller. 2008The wordy shipmates
By Sarah Vowell. 2008
A history of the Puritan founders of New England. Contrasts Loyalist Massachusetts Bay Colony founder John Winthrop with earlier Plymouth…
settlers led by the Reverend John Cotton. Discusses the philosophies of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, colonists' conflicts with Native Americans, and the Puritans' influence on American values. Bestseller. 2008Unsolved political mysteries (Mysteries and conspiracies)
By David Southwell. 2008
Describes conspiracy theories involving famous people, such as Malcolm X, Hillary Clinton, and Saddam Hussein, and events, such as the…
Watergate scandal and the attack on Pearl Harbor. For senior high and older readers. 2004Lincoln legends: myths, hoaxes, and confabulations associated with our greatest president
By Edward Steers. 2007
The author dispels fourteen common myths about U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. Includes rumors about his birthplace and illegitimacy, religious conversion,…
love affair with Ann Rutledge, homosexual tendencies, and the assassination conspiracy theory. 2007L'empire invisible: essai sur la métamorphose de l'Amérique (Phares)
By Mathieu Bélisle. 2020
Depuis le milieu des années 1990, l'Amérique semble condamnée à aller de crise en crise et d'un effondrement à l'autre,…
chaque réponse trouvée ne faisant qu'engendrer de nouveaux déséquilibres, à la faveur d'une spectaculaire fuite en avant. Et pourtant, ceux qui misent sur la fin prochaine de l'empire américain se trompent. Ce n'est pas à une chute que nous assistons, ni même à un déclin, mais à une métamorphose. L'empire américain change de nature sous nos yeux, comme un corps secoué de convulsions grotesques qui le font passer d'un état à un autre. C'est une autre dimension de son "être" qui voit le jour ou renaît sous une forme inédite. Grâce au pouvoir des innombrables réseaux qu'il déploie sur le monde comme autant de filets (ou de webs), qui l'enserrent et le retiennent, le nourrissent et le traversent, l'empire est en train d'œuvrer à sa propre invisibilisation. Il a créé les moyens inédits de s'établir au cœur de notre existence, au plus près de notre pensée et de notre imagination, jusqu'à ne plus devoir être vu. Si bien que le monde est aujourd'hui en train d'"absorber" l'Amérique, de la métaboliser, comme on le dit d'un corps qui assimile un autre corps et en retient les qualitésThe preacher and the presidents: Billy Graham in the White House
By Nancy Gibbs. 2007
The authors interviewed Billy Graham before examining the relationship between the evangelist and the eleven American presidents--from Harry Truman to…
George W. Bush--he befriended over six decades. Emphasizes Graham's lack of an agenda. Examines the rise of faith-based political activism in both parties. 2007Little heathens: hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression
By Mildred Armstrong Kalish. 2007
Retired English professor's memoir of her childhood in 1930s rural Iowa, a time Kalish describes as "quite a romp." Recalls…
years of deprivation and hard work mitigated by simple rewards. Discusses daily life and the influence of religion and literature, and describes family members whose lessons shaped her upbringing. 2007Author posits that the character of the United States has been shaped by the structure and limits established by its…
borders. Discusses how boundary and property lines created by eighteenth-century surveyor Andrew Ellicott presaged the establishment of law, order, and solidarity in the evolving democracy. 2007Twilight at Monticello: the final years of Thomas Jefferson
By Alan Pell Crawford. 2008
Uses primary sources to chronicle the postpresidential years (1809-1826) of Thomas Jefferson. Describes problems he had with a dysfunctional extended…
family, agricultural mismanagement, soaring debt, and deteriorating health. Highlights Jefferson's establishment of the secular University of Virginia and his correspondence with John Adams. 2008This republic of suffering: death and the American Civil War
By Drew Gilpin Faust. 2008
President of Harvard University interprets the significance of the U.S. Civil War's death toll. States that two percent of the…
country's population was killed and many died without proper burials. Analyzes the way those losses transformed American society, culture, and politics through the experience of shared suffering. Violence. Bestseller. 2008Ladies of liberty: the women who shaped our nation
By Cokie Roberts. 2008
News analyst Roberts portrays influential American women who lived between the 1797 inauguration of John Adams and that of his…
son John Quincy in 1825. Highlights accomplishments of first ladies, reformers, educators, writers, and explorers, including Abigail Adams and Sacagawea. Companion to Founding Mothers (RC 58361, BR 15555). Bestseller. 2008My dearest friend: letters of Abigail and John Adams
By John Adams. 2007
The editors selected 289 entries from the voluminous correspondence between the man who became the second president and Abigail--his wife,…
advisor, and friend. The couple, who endured many separations until John's presidency ended in 1801, began writing in 1762 and discussed the war, John's political career, and their family. 2007