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Veteran National Public Radio correspondent Anne Garrels, embedded with the U.S. military forces in Baghdad, chronicles her observations before and…
during the 2003 second Gulf War. Includes e-mails that her husband, Vint Lawrence, sent while she was gone and describes hardships endured by her Iraqi driver, Amer.Posterity: letters of great Americans to their children
By Dorie McCullough Lawson. 2004
Presents parental messages of advice, wisdom, humor, and affection from authors, explorers, presidents, inventors, and soldiers. Includes Carl Sandburg, Theodore…
Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, George Patton, Woody Guthrie, Abigail Adams, and Eleanor Roosevelt among others. Grouped by general theme, the selections span four centuries and are introduced with contextual commentary. 2004Veterans recall experiences of battle from World War I to the war in Iraq. Soldiers' letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral…
histories provide personal accounts of D-Day, the Tet offensive, heroic actions, and sinking ships. Includes an interview with Senator John McCain about his captivity in Vietnam. 2005Sinister touches: the secret war against Hitler
By Robert Goldston. 1982
A dramatic account of the daring covert operations carried out by scientists, private citizens, professors, and assassins who risked their…
lives for an allied victory. This compelling and well-documented report penetrates the veils of secrecy that have shrouded some of the most important activities of World War II. For junior and senior high and adult readersThe Cole Porter story
By Cole Porter. 1965
The composer's contribution to popular music is treated with affectionate appreciation in an introduction by Arthur Schwartz. There follows an…
account of his career by Porter himself, and the rest of the book consists of discussion by HublerThe secret that exploded
By Howard Morland. 1981
The author tells the true story of his investigation of the nuclear weapons industry, the inner workings of the H-bomb,…
and the U.S. government's unsuccessful attempt to suppress his discoveries. Morland, a former Air Force pilot, is devoutly anti-nuclear and very forthright about his positionAmerica's first ladies: private lives of the presidential wives
By Diana Healy. 1988
Brief, colorful biographical sketches of forty-one first ladies. Includes anecdotes and bits of information, such as the fact that Anna…
Symmes Harrison, the wife of William H. Harrison, who died a month after taking office, was the only first lady to be the grandmother of a presidentTo heal a nation: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
By Jan Scruggs. 1985
Veteran Scruggs recounts the story of his struggle for a national monument honoring veterans of the war in Vietnam. Also…
included is an alphabetical list of the names appearing on the wall along with the exact location of each nameThe presidencies of Grover Cleveland
By Richard Welch. 1988
Cleveland, the twenty-second and twenty-fourth president, served during the Gilded Age in American history--a time when there was an intense…
conflict between old values and social changes. Welch shows how Cleveland's personality and ideology affected his terms in office in 1885-1889 and 1893-1897Looking the tiger in the eye: confronting the nuclear threat
By Carl Feldbaum. 1988
The authors emphasize the important roles of individual scientists, politicians, and military officials in the nuclear arms race. They trace…
the history of nuclear weapons as a series of deliberate decisions.... They explain the circumstances of these decisions through extensive quotation and paraphrasing of historical documents and memoirs. For high school and older readersIn March 1980, Senator Byrd made some impromptu speeches on the history of the Senate, primarily for the benefit of…
his granddaughters. His colleagues asked him to continue these addresses in light of the approaching bicentennial. From May 1981 to December 1987 Senator Byrd made more than forty more speeches, which are contained in this volumeGlenn Gould: a life and variations
By Otto Friedrich. 1989
Crazy, eccentric, obsessive, and bizarre are just some of the terms that have been used to describe Glenn Gould. Friedrich…
has used direct quotes from many of the people whom Gould knew during his short career, which ended at age fifty in 1982, in order to paint a picture of a man who was almost a recluse as far as his personal life was concerned, but who was also a genius, totally and obsessively devoted to his musicDavis contends U.S. history has been lifelessly taught and so riddled with misconceptions and half-truths that many Americans are ignorant…
of or indifferent to their country's past. A fresh, question-and-answer approach underscores the facts, including those less savory, surrounding major events from the ambigous discovery of America to the Iran-Contra affairA lively, brisk account of the United States' crucial early years, from George Washington's election through his two terms and…
the election of John Adams as the nation's second president. Companion to "We the People: The Story of the United States Constitution Since 1787." For junior and senior high and older readersUnder fire: an American story
By Oliver North. 1991
Oliver North offers his detailed view of the Iran-Contra arms controversy in this secretly written autobiography. Presenting himself as a…
patriotic, religious, family man, North describes his childhood, his stint in Vietnam, and his work on the National Security Council staff at the White House. Stating that he never saw himself above the law, North conveys his perception of betrayal by his administrationForged in battle: the Civil War alliance of Black soldiers and white officers
By Joseph Glatthaar. 1990
An associate professor of history at the University of Houston explores the interactions of black and white military personnel during…
and after the American Civil War. This historic anomaly, which brought together 180,000 African-American troops and 7,000 white officers, established precedents that lasted ninety years until the Korean Conflict when the services were integratedAristocrats of color: the Black elite, 1880-1920
By Willard Gatewood. 1990
Class has always been a powerful force in African-American society. Gates presents a scholarly study of elite black society--whose criteria…
for membership included "family background, good breeding, occupation, respectability, and color." He writes of elite blacks across the nation, focusing on Washington, D.C., the "capital of the colored aristocracy." He also includes a comprehensive study of Senator Blanche K. BruceLiberty in expansion, 1760-1850
By Oscar Handlin. 1986
Second in a series on the concept of liberty in American history. Examines the people and events shaping the nation…
from the Revolution through the Abolitionist movement, against the background of expansion. Shows how the common people sought to protect their rights without sacrificing personal liberty. Sequel to "Liberty and Power: 1600-1760."Chadwick, Yankee composer
By Victor Yellin. 1990
George Whitefield Chadwick, like most classically trained musicians before World War II, received a German education. Upon his return to…
the United States, his music was performed more frequently than that of most Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This biography traces his life and work as an innovative teacher and a composer of music with a distinctly American twistAlberta Hunter: a celebration in blues
By Frank Taylor. 1987
Biography of legendary blues singer Alberta Hunter, who died in 1984 at the age of eighty-nine. Begins with Hunter growing…
up poor and black in Memphis, and moves on to her success with European audiences, as she sang to packed houses in Paris and London. Hunter was hard-working, tough, and intensely private