Three more volumes in the Presidential Profiles series, providing one-stop shopping for information on the key personalities surrounding each presidential administration since 1933. Entries are arranged A-Z and supported by chronologies, lists of principal government officials, and selected primary documents. Because of their biographical focus, these books complement other resources on U.S. presidents that cover events, policies, and so forth, and they are useful in particular for undergraduate libraries.

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Presidential Profiles - Burton Ira Kaufman - The C arter Years (2006).pdf

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Presidential Profiles - Shirley Anne Warshaw - The Clinton Years (2004).jpg

Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States, served two terms in the White House and became the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to be re-elected to office. Among other accomplishments, a low unemployment and inflation rate and a decrease in crime have led many influential people to declare that during his administration the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well-being than at any other time in its history. Comprehensive and easy to navigate, The Clinton Years gives readers a full perspective of Bill Clinton's presidency, from his successful economic policies to his relations with Monica Lewinsky. This comprehensive A-to-Z reference contains more than 250 biographical entries examining the main politicians and foreign leaders during the administration, and includes a number of primary source documents such as presidential speeches and executive decisions.

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Presidential Profiles - Shirley Anne Warshaw - The Clinton Years (2004).pdf

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Presidential Profiles - Tracy S. Uebelhor - The Tr uman Years (2005).jpg

"Presidential Profiles" is a new series that highlights the administrations of the most recent U.S. Presidents. Organized in an easy-to-use, A-to-Z format, each volume focuses on a particular administration, including an introduction, a section of biographical entries, a chronology that spans the history of the administration, and much more. Extensive appendixes contain important documents such as inaugural addresses, important presidential speeches, tables listing the members of the White House staff, cabinet members, and members of Congress and the Senate. These timely, fact-filled compendiums are written for high school and college students and serve as wonderful resources for anyone interested in American government or these select presidents.

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Presidential Profiles - Tracy S. Uebelhor - The Tr uman Years (2005).pdf

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Harrison S Kerrick - Military and Naval America (1 918).jpg

404 pages attempting to explain the Army and Navy way of life to the American civilian during World War 1. 46 chapters with many outstanding photos. Starting with all the branches of the Army ;the War Department, the General Staff Corps, the Adjutant General's Department, the Inspector General's Department, The Judge Advocate General's Department, The Quartermaster Corps, The Medical Corps, The Infantry, The Cavalry etc....through the U.S. Military Academy. All the different departments of the Navy including the Naval Militia. Excellent section on the United States Marine Corps. Garrison life in the army and navy. Includes a foldout map of military and naval America and another foldout of insignia in use at the time of the great war. Great photos including a U.S. Cavalryman in the saddle with the experimental M1912 gear. The medical section shows a photo of a medic wearing the M-1912 ration bags, and if you look closely you can see the rare canteen extender on his belt! The photos of the early M1910 gear are outstanding with one photo showing the full equipment laid out. This is the only photo I have ever seen of the original hinged M-1910 bacon can showing the lid open and the rare square flap canteen cover. Another full page photo of the pack on the soldier. This one showing the eagle snap mess kit pouch , canteen cover and belt. the artillery section has a photo of men manning the guns with their unique M1910 pistol cartridge belt. The section on the Marine Corps has one of the few photos I have seen of the pre war Marine wearing the pre 1910 gear including the M1903 belt, the 1878 pattern haversack and blanket bag, both marked USMC and, oddly, what looks to be an M1910 canteen and cover!! Another USMC photo showing the "junk on the bunk" individual equipment laid out for inspection. You'll need a magnifying glass to see some of the gear but it looks to be pre 1910 stuff. All the photos and pages are in good shape as well as both foldouts, but the rear cover is starting to separate. Some pen and pencil marks but nothing covering the text or photos. I ship USPS priority mail with delivery confirmation. Overseas bidders be aware that the US postal service has raised their international rates. Just looked at the book again and relised t are two photos of the "China Marines" being reviewed at attention with their pre-war gear!!

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Shari Dorantes Hatch - Encyclopedia of African Ame rican Writing (2009).jpg

This unique title profiles several hundred African American fiction and nonfiction writers from Colonial times to the present. The table of contents lists the authors alphabetically and then divides them into 17 categories (novels, short stories, slave narratives, etc.) and nine themes (Folktales, the Harlem Renaissance, Trickster Tales, etc.); authors whose work spans several categories are listed separately under each. The profiles themselves, presented alphabetically and ranging from a paragraph for less well known writers like Ai Ogawa to three pages for writers like Ralph Ellison or Terry McMillan, are both biographical and critical, although the amount of criticism varies. Included in each entry are the writer's birth and death dates, the categories into which he or she fits, and any pseudonyms. Black-and-white illustrations, references, genre lists, a comprehensive index, and chronologies of the writer's life dates and of African American literary firsts complete this impressive title.

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Shari Dorantes Hatch - Encyclopedia of African Ame rican Writing (2009).pdf

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Mark J. Rozell - Religion and the American Preside ncy (2007).jpg

For years, leading scholars have largely ignored the religious factor in their studies of presidents. Yet, as the essays in this book reveal, religion has had an enormous impact on many critical presidencies in U.S. history. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, these essays reveal the deeply religious side to such presidents as Truman, Eisenhower, and Reagan, among others.

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Mark J. Rozell - Religion and the American Preside ncy (2007).pdf

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Trouble is best avoided by anticipating it. This manual offers you lessons learned by others the hard and bitter way. Even if you're an experienced shooter, you might learn something you didn't know before, or be reminded of something you once learned but forgot. Advice is always more useful when it's not received too late.

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U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1. Read This First! (199 7).pdf

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William K. Klingaman - Abraham Lincoln and the Roa d to Emancipation (2001).jpg

The Emancipation Proclamation forever changed the course of American history. In Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, William Klingaman provides a much-needed popular history of the making of the Emancipation Proclamation and its subsequent impact on race relations in America.
In the tradition of Garry Wills's award-winning Lincoln at Gettysburg, Klingaman reconstructs the events that led to Lincoln's momentous decision. He takes us from Lincoln's inauguration through the outbreak of the Civil War and the Confederates' early military victories. Despite the Abolitionists' urging, Lincoln was reluctant to issue an edict freeing the slaves lest it alienate loyal border states. A succession of military reverses led Lincoln to try to obtain congressional approval of gradual, compensated emancipation. But when all his plans failed, Lincoln finally began drafting an emancipation proclamation as a military weapon-what he described as his "last card" against the rebellion. Finally issued on January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation did not end the war-or slavery-overnight, and Klingaman follows the story through two more years of bloody war before final Union victory and Lincoln's tragic assassination. The book concludes with a brief discussion of how the Emancipation Proclamation-its language and the circumstances in which it was issued-have shaped American history.

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William K. Klingaman - Abraham Lincoln and the Roa d to Emancipation (2001).pdf

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William Least Heat-Moon - Columbus in the Americas (2002).jpg

Was Christopher Columbus an inspired explorer and brilliant navigator whose daring voyages proved the naysayers wrong–or was he a misinformed dreamer who succeeded by luck and never understood the true nature of his discovery? Was he a man of his time whose behavior should not be judged by modern standards–or a ruthless conquistador whose brutality and greed shocked even some of his contemporaries and laid the groundwork for genocide?

In Columbus in the Americas, the bestselling author of Blue Highways and River-Horse creates a finely detailed portrait of the most famous and controversial explorer in history. Quoting liberally from what remains of Columbus’s logs and other firsthand accounts, William Least Heat-Moon takes you aboard the three tiny vessels as they set out on the voyage that would change the world forever. He recreates the anxiety of their first Atlantic crossing, explains the errors in Columbus’s belief that he could reach the Far East by sailing west, and gives detailed accounts of his dealings with the Tainos, the first Native Americans Columbus met.

Columbus emerges in these pages as a brilliant, driven, and flawed man whose courage and feats of navigation were limited by his inflexibility and overshadowed by his frequently harsh treatment of Indians and his quest for wealth and glory. In his own words, he reveals both his refusal to believe that he had not reached the Far East and his astonishingly cold-hearted plan for the future of the Tainos, whom he claimed to respect and admire.

The profound impact of the voyages of Columbus affects us still today, bringing opportunity and freedom to millions of people and disaster and doom to millions more. Columbus in the Americas describes the events of each Columbian voyage in vivid detail and assesses his legacy. It tells both a remarkable story of adventure and triumph and a cautionary tale of the dark side of discovery.

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William Least Heat-Moon - Columbus in the Americas (2002).pdf

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Black Americans of Achievement - Martin Luther Kin g, Jr, Civil Rights Leader (2004).jpg

Nearly 20 years ago Chelsea House Publishers began to publish the first volumes in the series called BLACK AMERICANS OF ACHIEVEMENT. This series eventually numbered over a hundred books and profiled outstanding African Americans from many walks of life. Today, if you ask school teachers and school
librarians what comes to mind when you mention Chelsea House, many will say—“Black Americans of Achievement.”

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Clarence Lusane - Colin Powell and Condoleezza Ric e, Foreign Policy, Race, and the New American Cent ury (2006).jpg

USA Books - Clarence Lusane - Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, F...reign Policy, Race, and the New American Century 2006.jpg

Lusane has created a groundbreaking analysis of the intersection of racial politics and American foreign policy. This insightful work critically examines the roles played by former Secretary of State Colin Powell and current Secretary of State (and former National Security Advisor) Condoleezza Rice in the construction of U.S. foreign policy, exploring the ways in which their racial identity challenges conventional notions about the role of race in international relations. Neither Powell nor Rice consciously allowed their racial identity to substantially influence or characterize their participation in the defense and projection of U.S. hegemony, Lusane argues, but both used their racial identity and experiences strategically in key circumstances to defend Bush administration policies. This is but one sense in which their race, despite their reluctance to be seen as racial figures, is significant in relation to U.S. foreign policy. Locating Powell and Rice within the genealogy of the current national security strategy, and within broader shifts under George W. Bush, this work argues that their racial location in the context of the construction of U.S. foreign policy is symbolic, and that it serves to distract from the substantive part they play in the ongoing reconfiguration of U.S. global power. Criticism of Powell's and Rice's policies, for example, is often blunted by race. Black liberals may be reluctant to condemn them, while white liberals may be afraid criticism could be interpreted as racial bias, especially since conservatives of both races argue that such criticism is probably racist. Lusane tackles these difficult issues along with others, asking whether there is a black consensus on foreign policy and, if so, what its dimensions, driving forces, and prospects for stability are. How can a progressive alternative to the current U.S. foreign policy be realized? Are Powell and Rice merely functionaries, or did they substantially determine the direction of U.S. foreign policy? What will their legacies be?

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Clarence Lusane - Colin Powell and Condoleezza Ric e, Foreign Policy, Race, and the New American Cent ury (2006).pdf

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Denis Boyles - Vile France, Fear, Duplicity, Cowar dice and Cheese (2005).jpg

In this bitingly funny and insightful polemic, Boyles, using his knowledge of history and his shrewd eye for current events, examines the internal crises -- a falling birth rate, an expanding Muslim minority, economic stagnation, a lessening of international prestige -- that have changed the personality of what was once 'La Belle France', transforming it into a nation afflicted with status anxiety. He explains how a country that endlessly repeats its credentials as America's oldest ally became one of our most resolute enemies, wielding the biggest weapon in its arsenal -- the European Union -- against the interests of an America that it fears and envies. While making clear his affection for the "France" of the French people, he targets the "France" of the ruling elite -- from de Gaulle to Chirac -- who have always run the country as a private club, often to the angry dismay of its citizens.

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Denis Boyles - Vile France, Fear, Duplicity, Cowar dice and Cheese (2005).pdf

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Joan Morrison, Robert K. Morrison - From Camelot t o Kent State, The Sixties Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived it (2001).jpg

USA Books - Joan Morrison, Robert K. Morrison - From Camelot to Ke...es Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived it 2001.jpg

No decade in American history continues to fascinate us like the Sixties. No decade combines such hopeful idealism with such violence and disillusionment, or witnesses such profound political, cultural, and personal upheavals. And no decade benefits more from being seen through the eyes of those who experienced firsthand the shocks and revelations that still reverberate today.
Newly revised and updated, with an expanded introduction, From Camelot to Kent State tells the story of ten of the most dramatic years in the life of America-and of fifty-nine men and women who lived through those years. In their own words, civil rights activists, soldiers who fought in Vietnam, anti-war protesters, student radicals, feminists, Peace Corps workers, and many others take us inside the major events and movements of the period. Far from a dispassionate history of the Sixties, these stories bristle with the tension and immediacy of lived experience. How did it feel to wake up into step out of a helicopter into a Vietnamese jungle; to ride south on a freedom bus, to march on the Pentagon; to take over a college administration building; to hear Jimi Hendrix play the national anthem at Woodstock; to attend the first consciousness-raising meetings for women at the Bread and Roses cafe? This captivating oral history will let you know.
Included are first-hand accounts from both the famous-including Eldridge Cleaver, Abbie Hoffman, Philip Berrigan, and John Lewis-and the ordinary men and women who were swept up in major historical events, From Camelot to Kent State offers a uniquely valuable view of a decade that forever changed the history and consciousness of America.

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John Kador - Charles Schwab, How One Company Beat Wall Street and Reinvented the Brokerage Industry (2002).jpg

Schwab's revolutionary approach to success in the face of adversity Since its founding in 1973, Schwab has led the full-brokerage market by stressing customer service. Today, Schwab has established itself as a company with a unique identity: old-fashioned integrity meets technology-empowered financial services. Charles Schwab tells the compelling story of this organization's uncanny ability to reinvent itself around an unchanging set of core values. This book is organized into five sections, each representing a critical juncture for the company when it was forced to reinvent itself or be consumed. Along the way, Kador highlights Schwab's immutable laws, direct from the Chairman and CEO: 1) Create a cause, not a business; 2) the corporate vision is only as good as the values of its culture; 3) welcome upheaval. In the whirlwind economic environment we currently face, Charles Schwab provides readers with valuable lessons on how businesses can survive and thrive in any situation.

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John Kador - Charles Schwab, How One Company Beat Wall Street and Reinvented the Brokerage Industry (2002).pdf

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Michael Gaudio - Engraving the Savage, The New Wor ld and Techniques of Civilization (2008).jpg

In this innovative analysis, Michael Gaudio explains how popular engravings of Native American Indians defined the nature of Western civilization by producing an image of its “savage other.” Going beyond the notion of the “savage” as an intellectual and ideological construct, Gaudio examines how the tools, materials, and techniques of copperplate engraving shaped Western responses to indigenous peoples. Engraving the Savage demonstrates that the early visual critics of the engravings attempted-without complete success-to open a comfortable space between their own “civil” image-making practices and the “savage” practices of Native Americans-such as tattooing, bodily ornamentation, picture-writing, and idol worship. The real significance of these ethnographic engravings, he contends, lies in the traces they leave of a struggle to create meaning from the image of the American Indian.

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Michael Gaudio - Engraving the Savage, The New Wor ld and Techniques of Civilization (2008).pdf

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Tobin Siebers - Cold War Criticism and the Politic s of Skepticism (1993).jpg

In Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the skepticism, suspicion, and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in debates about the divided self, linguistic indeterminacy, the metaphysics of presence, multiculturalism, canon formation, power, cultural literacy, and the politics of literature. The major critical movements of the postwar age, Siebers argues, belong to three dominant phases of the Cold War era. The age of charismatic leadership characterized by Churchill, FDR, Stalin, and Hitler lies behind the preoccupation with "intention," "affect," and "impersonality" found in the New Criticism. The age of propaganda motivates the fascination with the guiles of language, undecidability, and deconstruction. The age of superpowers provides the dominant metaphor in the new historicism's analysis of the technology of power. All three ages of criticism reflect the skepticism of the Cold War mentality, and this skepticism, Siebers posits, has impaired the ability of literary theorists to talk about the politics of criticism in an effective way. A trenchant analysis of postwar theory, Siebers's work presents a new view of the politics of criticism and a surprising vision of what theory must do if it is to enter the post Cold War era successfully.

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