In Fallen Astronauts we learn of men who may not have shared in the ultimate triumph but who were nevertheless an indelible part of these unparalleled exertions. By recognizing the prodigious debt we owe them, and their loved ones, in this fine history, Burgess and Doolan have made an important contribution to the history of space flight.

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Stephen P. Randolph - Powerful and Brutal Weapons, Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive (2007).jpg

As America confronts an unpredictable war in Iraq, Stephen Randolph returns to an earlier conflict that severely tested our civilian and military leaders. In 1972, America sought to withdraw from Vietnam with its credibility intact. As diplomatic negotiations were pursued in Paris, President Richard Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger hoped that gains on the battlefield would strengthen their position at the negotiating table--working against the relentless deadline of a presidential election year.
In retaliation for a major North Vietnamese offensive breaking over the Easter holidays, the President launched the all-out air campaign known as Linebacker--overriding his Secretary of Defense and clashing with the theater commander in whom he had lost all confidence. He intended to destroy the enemy with the full force of America's "powerful and brutal weapons" and thus shape the endgame of the war. Randolph's narrative, based not only on the Nixon White House tapes and newly declassified materials from the National Security Council, the Pentagon, and the White House but also on never before used North Vietnamese sources, re-creates how North Vietnam planned and fought this battle from Hanoi and how the U.S. planned and fought it from Washington.
Randolph's intimate chronicle of Nixon's performance as commander-in-chief gains us unprecedented access to how strategic assessments were made, transmitted through the field of command, and played out in combat and at the negotiating table. It is a compelling story about America's military decision-making in conflicts with nontraditional belligerents that speaks provocatively to our own time.

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This book sings like the sound beneath the song within the song about the song. Telling it like it 't - i - is! Like a literary griot (gree-oh !), Cecil Brown transfers this longenduring African-American song from oral tradition to the printed page. Along the way, lie places the song in the context of the times from which it sprang. The amount of artistry the book documents--touching all Americans but focusing on the African-American contribution, or wellspring-is formidable and awe-inspiring.
--Taj Mahal

This entertaining book is the first to rigorously explore [the song's] origins in the St. Louis gang underworld. Brown paints a rich picture of the incident, traces the song's virus-like spread from blues to ragtime to pop, and figuring that it still moves people because, like most potent ancient black ballads, it is stark reportage with no moralising. Stagger Lee is not condemned, so he is free to live on in every badass to follow.
--Paul McGrath (MOJO )

You don't have to know the ballad about Stagolee, the black anti-hero who shot and killed his old friend Billy over a hat in a bar one Christmas night in 1895 in Deep Morgan, the vice district of St. Louis, to enjoy Cecil Brown's telling of the story behind the song...Brown, who grew up on the myth in the 1950s and 60s on a tobacco farm in North Carolina, reconstructs the very night when Lee Shelton dressed like a pimp in St. Louis flats and a "high-roller, milk-white Stetson"...wandered into the Bill Curtis Saloon in the Bloody Third District. Brown's reconstruction of the bordello culture in St. Louis is reminiscent of fin de siècle Vienna, portraying a kind of hysteria that played out on the stage and in the streets.
--Susan Salter Reynolds (Los Angeles Times Book Review 20030829)

[A] probing and prescient and staggeringly well researched study...The historical revelations here are consistently--and insistently--fascinating; the voices brought in as chorus to help Brown vamp into theoretical detour range from Walter Benjamin and Bob Dylan to James Baldwin and Schooly D.
--Ian Penman (The Wire )

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William C. Harris - Lincoln's Last Months (2004).jpg

Harris, professor of history at North Carolina State University, does a generally workmanlike job of narrating Abraham Lincoln's final months, from the election campaign of 1864 through his assassination in the spring of 1865. But Harris fails to explain (or demonstrate) exactly why this particular slice of time is uniquely suitable for special study outside the broader context of Lincoln's overall presidency. The book also includes some small errors that will annoy the better-versed Lincoln buffs. For example, in Harris's discussion of Lincoln's second inauguration, he sounds needlessly speculative when he writes: "Reportedly in the crowd that day was... the actor John Wilkes Booth, who was biding his time to strike the president." On the same spread of pages, the author reproduces the famous panoramic photograph of Lincoln making his second inaugural speech, surrounded by hundreds of listeners. This image has been mapped and analyzed by a host of scholars of Lincoln and the assassination, which has shown conclusively that the image includes not only the face of Booth (uncomfortably only a few yards behind and above the president) but also the faces of at least four other assassination conspirators (Lewis Paine, George Atzerodt, Edman Spangler and David Herold) standing immediately below Lincoln. Such established details are not commented on by Harris. Small gaffes like this aside, Harris is astute at describing and analyzing Lincoln's shrewd politicking for the 13th Amendment and his subtle consolidation of peace terms designed to end the war while at the same time dealing out a minimum of humiliation for Confederate soldiers.

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Anne M. Todd - Venus and Serena Williams, Athletes (2009).jpg

Venus and Serena Williams have dominated the tennis scene for years - winning numerous Grand Slam singles titles to become the first- and second-ranked tennis players in the world. Venus is known for her 127-mile-per-hour serve and her graceful agility on the court. Serena is known for her aggressive court style and fashion flair. By focusing on their dreams and steering clear of the drugs and gang violence that permeated their youth, the Williams sisters have shown the world that two inner-city African Americans can not only make a name for themselves in the predominantly white, upper-class sport of tennis, but they can also raise the level of the game. As millions have watched their success on court, Venus and Serena Williams have ensured that tennis will never be the same.

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Famous Flyers - Heather Lehr Wagner - Amelia Earha rt (2003).jpg

In the morning of June 17, 1928, an orange Fokker F7 airplane Otook off from Trepassey in Newfoundland. Its crew had arrived from Boston more than 12 days earlier and had been waiting for the right weather conditions to permit them to set off on the second stage of their trip. The airplane, named the Friendship, had been designed to fly over land, but more recently its wheels had been exchanged for pontoons to enable it to take off and land on water.
Day after day of fog and rain had stranded the crew at Trepassey, and they had spent the time making adjustments to their plane, playing cards, and trying to enjoy sightseeing in the cold and damp weather. The crew had only one map to study, and they carefully examined the passage of storms and weather systems across their charted journey until finally conditions made it seem possible that they could complete their trip—a trip that would take them across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Gerald Grant, Christine E. Murray - Teaching in Am erica, The Slow Revolution (1999).jpg

This unusual book began at the authors' dinner tables, when they noticed that their spouses?one an elementary school teacher, one a university professor?were treated quite differently even though their work was "essentially the same." This realization prompted months of research into the history of schoolteachers and university professors. Grant and Murray refer to the crusade of college professors in the late 19th century as the "first revolution"?in which male professors fought a male administrative regime for higher pay and control over curriculum and tenure. A second revolution, they argue, is occurring now among schoolteachers, but slowly. It "pits mostly female workers, who have often been demeaned as high-paid baby-sitters, against entrenched male leaders." The book chronicles the significant progress of this slow revolution, focusing on three landmark case studies. Readers concerned with the condition of public schools and the status of schoolteachers will find that Grant and Murray not only provide them with solid ammunition for debate but also give them reason to keep up their spirits. (Mar.) FYI: Teaching in America won the publisher's annual prize awarded to an outstanding book about education and society.

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James E. Block - A Nation of Agents, The American Path to a Modern Self and Society (2002).jpg

In this sweeping reinterpretation of American political culture, James Block offers a new perspective on the formation of the modern American self and society. Block roots both self and society in the concept of agency, rather than liberty, and dispenses with the national myth of the "sacred cause of liberty"--with the Declaration of Independence as its "American scripture." Instead, he recovers the early modern conception of agency as the true synthesis emerging from America's Protestant and liberal cultural foundations.
Block traces agency doctrine from its pre-Commonwealth English origins through its development into the American mainstream culture on the eve of the twentieth century. The concept of agency that prevailed in the colonies simultaneously released individuals from traditional constraints to participate actively and self-reliantly in social institutions, while confining them within a new set of commitments. Individual initiative was now firmly bounded by the modern values and ends of personal Protestant religiosity and collective liberal institutional authority. As Block shows, this complex relation of self to society lies at the root of the American character.
A Nation of Agents is a new reading of what the "first new nation" did and did not achieve. It will enable us to move beyond long-standing national myths and grasp both the American achievement and its legacy for modernity.

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Matthew A. Crenson - Building the Invisible Orphan age, A Prehistory of the American Welfare System ( 1998).jpg

This book examines the connection between the decline of the orphanage and the rise of welfare. Matthew Crenson argues that the prehistory of the welfare system was played out not on the stage of national politics or class conflict but in the micropolitics of institutional management. New arrangements for child welfare policy emerged gradually as superintendents, visiting agents, and charity officials responded to the difficulties that they encountered in running orphanages or creating systems that served as alternatives to institutional care. Crenson also follows the decades-long debate about the relative merits of family care or institutional care for dependent children. Leaving poor children at home with their mothers emerged as the most generally acceptable alternative to the orphanage, along with an ambitious new conception of social reform. Instead of sheltering vulnerable children in institutions designed to transform them into virtuous citizens, the reformers of the Progressive Era tried to integrate poor children into the larger society, while protecting them from its perils.

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Maurice Isserman - Across America, The Lewis and C lark Expedition (2009).jpg

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery as a scientific expedition to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. The goal was to learn more about the Northwest's natural resources, inhabitants, and possibilities for settlement. The Lewis and Clark expedition was the second recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico by white Americans. Their journey was significant in that the first accurate maps of the area were produced, there was a better understanding of the Northwest's natural resources, and they established friendly relations with American Indians. Although they were unable to locate the fabled, elusive Northwest Passage, Lewis and Clark's achievements sparked American interest in the West and strengthened the nation's claim to the area. The coverage includes: Thomas Jefferson's support of the expedition as U.S. president; Meriwether Lewis' and William Clark's preparations for their journey, including gathering advice and purchasing supplies; the party's interactions with American Indians, both friendly and hostile; the animals they encountered; the role played by Sacagawea, a Lemhi Shoshone; and, the expedition's difficult journey across the Bitterroot Mountains.

Coverage includes:
• Thomas Jefferson's support of the expedition as U.S. president
• Meriwether Lewis's and William Clark's preparations for their journey, including gathering advice and purchasing supplies
• The party's interactions with American Indians, both friendly and hostile
• The animals they encountered
• The role played by Sacagawea, a Lemhi Shoshone
• The expedition's difficult journey across the Bitterroot Mountains.

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Brian Duignan - The Executive Branch of the Federa l Government, Purpose, Process, and People (2009).jpg

Introduction 11
Chapter 1: The Role of the Executive 21
The Political Executive 22
Presidential Systems of Government 25
The Presidency of the United States 27
Duties of the Office 27
Primary Document: The Constitution
of the United States: Article II 28
Historical Development
of the Presidency 29
Primary Document: The Constitution of the
United States: Twenty-third Amendment 40
In Focus: The Watergate Scandal 42
Selecting a President 45
Primary Document: The Constitution of
the United States: Twelfth Amendment 48
The Vice Presidency of the United States 60
The First Lady of the United States 64
The White House 78
Executive Departments and Agencies 85
The Cabinet 86
Executive Agencies and Offices 94
Chapter 2: Presidents of the United States:
George Washington to
William McKinley 103
George Washington 103
Childhood and Youth 103
Prerevolutionary Military
and Political Career 104
Revolutionary Leadership 109
Presidency 113
John Adams 116
Early Life 116
Continental Congress 117
Foreign Service 118
Political Philosophy 119
Vice Presidency and Presidency 120
Retirement 122

Thomas Jefferson 123
Early Years 123
Declaring Independence 124
American in Paris 125
Party Politics 126
Presidency 128
Retirement 131
James Madison 132
Early Life and Political Activities 133
The Father of the Constitution 134
Madison’s Presidency 136
Later Life 137
James Monroe 138
Early Life and Career 138
Minister to France 139
The Louisiana Purchase 140
Presidency 141
John Quincy Adams 142
Early Life and Career 142
Break with the Federalists 144
Secretary of State 145
Presidency and Feud with Jackson 145
Second Career in Congress 146
Andrew Jackson 147
Early Life 147
Tennessee Politics 148
Military Feats 149
Presidential Prospects 150
Jacksonian Democracy 151
The First Term 151
Reelection in 1832 153
Martin Van Buren 154
William Henry Harrison 156
John Tyler 159
James K. Polk 161
Early Life and Career 162
Presidency 164
Zachary Taylor 164
Millard Fillmore 167
Franklin Pierce 169
James Buchanan

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This work consists of short excerpts of criticism of 20th-century American authors by important critics writing in newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, and books. The excerpts (ranging in length from one or two paragraphs to two columns) are allowed to stand on their own without separate plot synopses, summaries, or background information on the authors. The original words of the critics (often great writers themselves with their own entries) are arranged chronologically to paint a picture of the critical reception of an author over time. Although this work can be viewed as an abbreviated or minimalist version of Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, it is easier to use because all authors are arranged in simple alphabetical order in three volumes. Because it shuns summaries, commentary, and other student-centered features of the Gale products, however, it will be less helpful to high school students and undergraduates than those works. This new fifth edition consolidates earlier editions (1960, 1976, 1985, 1997) and adds 70 new entries, bringing the total number of authors covered to 489. For public and academic libraries.AMarc Meola, Temple Univ. Lib., Philadelphia

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