Books written by Jesse Jarnow

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  Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America

  14 15 15 16 16 16 17 17 18 18 18 18 18 19 19 19 19 20 20 20 20 20 21 21 21 21 A few weeks after: Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Chicago: ...

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  Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America

  ... Polka” (no Israeli, Bahamian, or Arkansan melodies in earshot, though); ragtime showcases (Professor Turner's “The Entertainer's Rag”); jazz exotica (Stan Kenton's “Evening in Pakistan”); and a whole index of escapist big bands.

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  Looking at Literature Through Primary Sources

  This fascinating series uses primary source images and nonfiction data to show the cultural, political, and economic conditions of the era in which six classic novels were written and set.

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  Amer Industrial Society in the

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  Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America

  But there are many differences between this specimen—an eighteenyear-old longhair named Marty Weinberg—and anyone else who has thought to sneak a microphone and equipment into this or any other Dead show. Perhaps Chad Stickney might ...

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  Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock

  Going behind the scenes of one of the most remarkable eras in American music history, Big Day Coming traces the patient rise of husband-and-wife team Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, who—over three decades—helped forge a spandex-and ...

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  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Race in America

  Traces the process and influences behind the writing of Mark Twain's novel, Huckleberry Finn, which was published in the late nineteenth century and has been banned frequently since then for his use of racial epithets or simply for being ...

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  Socialism: A Primary Source Analysis

  Discusses various aspescts of socialism, including its history, ideology, key figures, and the future of this political system.

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  Wasn't that a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America

  Using previously unseen journals and letters, unreleased recordings, once-secret government documents, and other archival research, Jesse Jarnow uncovers the immense hopes, incredible pressures, and daily struggles of the four distinct and ...

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  Socialism

  This comprehensive volume intersperses historical context with photographs, artwork, publications and more to help readers comprehend this important and evolving movement.

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  Oil, Steel, and Railroads: America's Big Businesses in the Late 1800s

  Examines the history of business in the United States during the 1800s, discussing the growth of railroads, and the innovations in the oil and steel industries.

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  Johnny Bench

  A biography of Cincinnati Reds' catcher, Johnny Bench, who won ten Gold Glove awards and hit almost 400 home runs in his sixteen-year career in the major leagues.

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  Telegraph and Telephone Networks: Ground Breaking Developments in American Communications

  Examines the history of communication in the United States, particularly the technological advances of the late nineteenth century that improved transmission speed from weeks or months to hours or minutes.