From the Golden Gate to Manhattan's skyline, from Niagara Falls to Mount McKinley, this book depicts the nation's scenic wonders through a visual travelogue of unsurpassed beauty.
The host of the award-winning humorous news program offers tongue-in-cheek insight into American democracy with coverage of such topics as the republican qualities of ancient Rome, the antics of our nation's founders, and the ludicrous ...
American democracy is the world's most beloved form of government, which is why so many other nations are eager for it to be imposed on them. But just what exactly is it?
But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era.
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, a psychology professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and an expert on twentysomethings, ascribes their optimism to their lack of life experience. “The dreary, deadend jobs, the bitter divorces, ...
In addition to Griffith's movie, there were other film treatments of the Klan in these years 1915's A Mormon Maid and 1919's The Heart o' the Hills, with Mary Pickford. Daniel Eagan, Americas Film Legacy. The Authoritative Guide to the ...
Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Private Flying for (Some of) the Rest of Us,” New York Times, August 22, 2013, ...
Barrio America uses vivid oral histories and detailed statistics to show how the great Latino migrations transformed America for the better.
Presents stories of significant events and people in American history, patriotic songs, and American folk tales and poems.
Olson, Lynne, Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1929–1941, New York: Random House ... Procter, Ben, William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years, 1911–1951, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction • Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is ...