Lera Knox was born Lera Margaret Ussery on June 7, 1896, in Columbia, Tennessee. She grew up in the Victorian South, learned to teach, and became a farm wife and a mother during the Great Depression. She early established her skill with words, earning a life-long press-pass that took her “backstage” to events great and small. She was a popular columnist for the Nashville (TN) Banner and the Columbia (TN) Daily Herald & Democrat from 1933 through 1965, and her work could be found in many other fashionable publications of the period.

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Lera Knox - Goodness Gracious, Miss Agnes, Patchwo rk of Country Living (2009).pdf

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Lynn M. Pearce - Encyclopedia of American Industri es (2 Volume Set) (2004).jpg

The Encyclopedia of American Industries (EAI) is a major business reference tool that provides detailed, comprehensive information on a wide range of industries in every realm of American business. Volume one provides separate coverage of 459 manufacturing industries. Volume two presents 545 essays covering the vast array of service and other non-manufacturing industries in the United States. Combined, these two volumes provide individual essays on every industry recognized by the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. Both volumes of EAI are arranged numerically by SIC code for easy use. Additionally, each entry in the fourth edition includes the corresponding North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code(s).

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Robert W. Tucker, David C. Hendrickson - Empire of Liberty, The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (1992 ).jpg

Empire of Liberty takes a new look at the public life, thought, and ambiguous legacy of one of America's most revered statesmen, offering new insight into the meaning of Jefferson in the American experience. This work examines Jefferson's legacy for American foreign policy in the light of several critical themes which continue to be highly significant today: the struggle between isolationists and interventionists, the historic ambivalence over the nation's role as a crusader for liberty, and the relationship between democracy and peace. Written by two distinguished scholars, this book provides invaluable insight into the classic ideas of American diplomacy.

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Robert W. Tucker, David C. Hendrickson - Empire of Liberty, The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson (1992 ).pdf

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Sarah Palin - Going Rogue, An American Life (2009).jpg

One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is.

In this eagerly anticipated memoir, Palin paints an intimate portrait of growing up in the wilds of Alaska; meeting her lifelong love; her decision to enter politics; the importance of faith and family; and the unique joys and trials of life as a high-profile working mother. She also opens up for the first time about the 2008 presidential race, providing a rare, mom's-eye view of high-stakes national politics–from patriots dedicated to “Country First” to slick politicos bent on winning at any cost.

Going Rogue traces one ordinary citizen's extraordinary journey, and imparts Palin's vision of a way forward for America and her unfailing hope in the greatest nation on earth.

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Keith D. McFarland, David L. Roll - Louis Johnson And the Arming of America, The Roosevelt And Truma n Years (2005).jpg

USA Books - Keith D. McFarland, David L. Roll - Louis Johnson And ...rming of America, The Roosevelt And Truman Years 2005.jpg

As FDR's assistant secretary of war, and Truman's secretary of defense, Johnson confronted and carried out extremely unpopular initiatives that each president believed vital to the nation's security and economic welfare. This chronicles the rise and fall of this major national figure.

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Keith D. McFarland, David L. Roll - Louis Johnson And the Arming of America, The Roosevelt And Truma n Years (2005).pdf

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Harold Henderson - Catalyst for Controversy, Paul Carus of Open Court (2009).jpg

"I am not a common atheist; I am an atheist who loves God."—Paul Carus, "The God of Science," 1904

In the summer of 1880, while teaching at the military academy of the Royal Corps of Cadets of Saxony in Dresden, Paul Carus published a brief pamphlet denying the literal truth of scripture and describing the Bible as a great literary work comparable to theOdyssey.

This unremarkable document was Carus’s first step in a wide-ranging intellectual voyage in which he traversed philosophy, science, religion, mathematics, history, music, literature, and social and political issues. The Royal Corps, Carus later reported, found his published views "not in harmony with the Christian spirit, in accordance with which the training and education of the Corps of Cadets should be conducted." And so the corps offered the young teacher the choice of asking "most humbly for forgiveness for daring to have an opinion of my own and to express it, perhaps even promise to publish nothing more on religious matters, or to give up my post. I chose the latter. . . . There was thus no other choice for me but to emigrate and, trusting in my own powers, to establish for myself a new home." His resignation was effective on Easter Sunday, 1881.

Carus toured the Rhine, lived briefly in Belgium, and taught in a military college in England to learn English well enough to "thrive in the United States." By late 1884 or early 1885 he was on his way to the New World. Thriving in the United States proved more difficult than it had in England, but before 1885 ended he had published his first philosophical work in English,Monism and Meliorism.The book was not widely read, but it did reach Edward C. Hegeler, a La Salle, Illinois, zinc processor who became his father-in-law as well as his ideological and financial backer.

Established in La Salle, Carus began the work that would place him among the prominent American philosophers of his day and make the Open Court Publishing Company a leading publisher of philosophical, scientific, and religious books. He editedThe Open CourtandThe Monist,offering the finest view of Oriental thought and religion then available in the West, and sought unsuccessfully to bring about a second World Parliament of Religions. He befriended physicist-philosopher Ernst Mach. For eleven years he employed D. T. Suzuki, who later became a great Zen Buddhist teacher. He published more articles by Charles S. Peirce, now viewed as one of the great world philosophers, inThe Monistthan appeared in any other publication.

Biographer Harold Henderson concludes his study of this remarkable man: "Whenever anyone is so fired with an idea that he or she can’t wait to write it down, there the spirit of Paul Carus remains, as he would have wished, active in the world."

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Harold Henderson - Catalyst for Controversy, Paul Carus of Open Court (2009).pdf

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Edward T. Linenthal - The Unfinished Bombing, Okla homa City in American Memory (2003).jpg

On April 19, 1995 the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City shook the nation, destroying our complacent sense of safety and sending a community into a tailspin of shock, grief, and bewilderment. Almost as difficult as the bombing itself has been the aftermath, its legacy for Oklahoma City and for the nation, and the struggle to recover from this unprecedented attack. In The Unfinished Bombing, Edward T. Linenthal explores the many ways Oklahomans and other Americans have tried to grapple with this catastrophe. Working with exclusive access to materials gathered by the Oklahoma City National Memorial Archive and drawing from over 150 personal interviews with family members of those murdered, survivors, rescuers, and many others. Linenthal looks at how the bombing threatened cherished ideas about American innocence, sparked national debate on how to respond to terrorism at home and abroad, and engendered a new "bereaved community" in Oklahoma City itself. Linenthal examines how different stories about the bombing were told through positive narratives of civic renewal and of religious redemption and more negative narratives of toxicity and trauma. He writes about the extraordinary bonds of affection that were created in the wake of the bombing, acts of kindness, empathy, and compassion that existed alongside the toxic legacy of the event. The Unfinished Bombing offers a compelling look at both the individual and the larger cultural consequences of one of the most searing events in recent American history.

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Edward T. Linenthal - The Unfinished Bombing, Okla homa City in American Memory (2003).pdf

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Katherine Kinney - Friendly Fire, American Images of the Vietnam War (2000).jpg

Hundreds of memoirs, novels, plays, and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of media, political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated, Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a single story: that of Americans killing Americans in Vietnam. Friendly Fire, in this instance, refers not merely to a tragic error of war, it also refers to America's war with itself during the Vietnam years. Starting from this point, this book considers the concept of "friendly fire" from multiple vantage points, and portrays the Vietnam age as a crucible where America's cohesive image of itself is shattered--pitting soldiers against superiors, doves against hawks, feminism against patriarchy, racial fear against racial tolerance. Through the use of extensive evidence from the film and popular fiction of Vietnam (e.g. Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, Didion's Democracy, O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, Rabe's Sticks and Bones and Streamers), Kinney draws a powerful picture of a nation politically, culturally, and socially divided, and a war that has been memorialized as a contested site of art, media, politics, and ideology.

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Donald L. Canney - The Old Steam Navy, Volume One, Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats, 1815-1885 (1990).jpg

If there is an heir to Chapelle's "History of the American Sailing Navy," it is this book. The format is somewhat similar, but with the inclusion of photos in addition to plans. This book picks up where Chapelle left off, with the early steam ships of the US Navy. These are the ships of fame of the Civil War, on which little good information is avaliable. The steam frigates are covered in detail, as well as the sea going sloops and gunboats. The section on the USS Michigan does not do her justice, nor is there a lot information on the engines of the period, but this book is an important missing link in US warship design history from the USS Constellation to the steel hulled ships of the Great White Fleet. Well worth the purchase price to a person interested in period naval archecture, as is VOL II, The Ironclads, and his book on Revenue Cutters.

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Donald L. Canney - The Old Steam Navy, Volume One, Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats, 1815-1885 (1990).pdf

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Donald L. Canney - The Old Steam Navy, Volume Two, The Ironclads, 1842-1885 (1993).jpg

Before the advent of the new all steel navy in the 1880s, steam war vessels built by the U.S. Navy fell into two categories: the conventional, nonar-mored vessels and ironclad warships. For the most part, the conventional vessels might be considered steam-powered developments of the sailing warship and were the subject of the first volume of this work. On the other hand, the ironclad ships were in many instances complete departures from historical and traditional shipbuilding practice and incorporated the technological advances of the times. These vessels, spawned by the Civil War, present astounding diversity, ranging from mere casemated river scows to sophisticated tur-reted semioceangoing craft. They also represented vessels used in two diverse theaters of the war: those constructed for coastal operations, the majority of which were of the Monitor type; and the vessels of the Western River Flotilla, which were in the main casemated boats unsuited for sea service.

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Donald L. Canney - The Old Steam Navy, Volume Two, The Ironclads, 1842-1885 (1993).pdf

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David Grimsted - American Mobbing, 1828-1861, Towa rd Civil War (1998).jpg

American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War is a comprehensive history of mob violence related to sectional issues in antebellum America. David Grimsted argues that, though the issue of slavery provoked riots in both the North and the South, the riots produced two different reactions from authorities. In the South, riots against suspected abolitionists and slave insurrectionists were widely tolerated as a means of quelling anti-slavery sentiment. In the North, both pro-slavery riots attacking abolitionists and anti-slavery riots in support of fugitive slaves provoked reluctant but often effective riot suppression. Hundreds died in riots in both regions, but in the North, most deaths were caused by authorities, while in the South more than 90 percent of deaths were caused by the mobs themselves. These two divergent systems of violence led to two distinct public responses. In the South, widespread rioting quelled public and private questioning of slavery; in the North, the milder, more controlled riots generally encouraged sympathy for the anti-slavery movement. Grimsted demonstrates that in these two distinct reactions to mob violence, we can see major origins of the social split that infiltrated politics and political rioting and that ultimately led to the Civil War.

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David Grimsted - American Mobbing, 1828-1861, Towa rd Civil War (1998).pdf

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Sheila Kennedy - God and Country, America in Red a nd Blue (2007).jpeg

Americans increasingly think in terms of red and blue. God and Country examines the religious roots of these cultural divisions in American political life. But instead of pitting a people of faith against a secular humanist elite, God and Country helps Americans understand the religious differences that divide, appreciate the public agreements that allow us to live with religious differences, evaluate how existing democratic processes alleviate divisions, and identify ways Americans can agree to disagree.

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Sheila Kennedy - God and Country, America in Red a nd Blue (2007).pdf

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Donald D. Johnson - The United States in the Pacif ic, Private Interests and Public Policies, 1784-18 99 (1995).jpeg

USA Books - Donald D. Johnson - The United States in the Pacific, ...rivate Interests and Public Policies, 1784-1899 1995.jpeg

This book traces the development of American private interests in the Pacific before the 1840s--trading, whaling, sealing, missionary work, etc.--and the gradual evolution of U.S. governmental interests in the region beginning with the 1840s. While governmental policies in the Pacific at first complemented the private interests in the region, public policy had by the late decades of the 19th century begun to develop in directions that had little relation to specific or genuine private interests in the Pacific. The result was that by 1899 a serious gap had been created between the policies and actions of the United States government and private American interests in the Pacific--a gap that would create problems for American policy in the 20th century.

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Donald D. Johnson - The United States in the Pacif ic, Private Interests and Public Policies, 1784-18 99 (1995).pdf

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Ed Gruver - The Ice Bowl, The Cold Truth About Foo tball's Most Unforgettable Game (2005).jpg

In 13-degree sub-zero weather, on New Year’s Eve, 1967, a classic NFL championship game was played between the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers. Sportswriter Ed Gruver weaves the fascinating details of this legendary game into a quick-paced, suspense-filled narrative that plunges readers into one of the fiercest football rivalries of all time.
The Ice Bowl details the history of two famous coaches—Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry—and the coaching philosophies that made them and their teams legends. Gruver successfully evokes many individual players’ stories of endurance, drive, and strategy. Ample background, personal interviews, action photos, and an undeniable passion for the game all contribute to this compelling account of the long-time rivalry that culminated on the "frozen tundra" of the Ice Bowl.
Includes diagrams, game and season statistics, and complete Ice Bowl play-by-play.

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Timothy Dowling - Personal Perspectives, World War II (2005).jpg

Personal Perspectives: World War II brings to life the experiences of specific segments of soldiers and civilians as they were affected by the conflict, capturing special characteristics of each group and the unique ways they experienced the war. Twelve essays written by top international scholars portray what it was really like to experience the war for groups ranging from marines, naval aviators, and liberators of concentration camps to prisoners of war, refugees, and women in factories. Of interest to both students and nonexperts, the book tells the stories of Japanese Americans forced into internment camps and African Americans who experienced intense discrimination, the call to activism, and opportunity in the armed forces. It offers the perspectives of Navajo "code talkers," diplomats like U.S. ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Biddle, who fled his post to avoid death, and scientists who worked on the Manhattan project, thereby introducing the most destructive form of warfare known to humanity.

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Barry Schwartz - Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroi c Era, History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Centur y America (2009).jpg

USA Books - Barry Schwartz - Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Er...ory and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America 2009.jpg

By the 1920s, Abraham Lincoln had transcended the lingering controversies of the Civil War to become a secular saint, honored in North and South alike for his steadfast leadership in crisis. Throughout the Great Depression and World War II, Lincoln was invoked countless times as a reminder of America’s strength and wisdom, a commanding ideal against which weary citizens could see their own hardships in perspective.But as Barry Schwartz reveals in Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era, those years represent the apogee of Lincoln’s prestige. The decades following World War II brought radical changes to American culture, changes that led to the diminishing of all heroes—Lincoln not least among them. As Schwartz explains, growing sympathy for the plight of racial minorities, disenchantment with the American state, the lessening of patriotism in the wake of the Vietnam War, and an intensifying celebration of diversity, all contributed to a culture in which neither Lincoln nor any single person could be a heroic symbol for all Americans. Paradoxically, however, the very culture that made Lincoln an object of indifference, questioning, criticism, and even ridicule was a culture of unprecedented beneficence and inclusion, where racial, ethnic, and religious groups treated one another more fairly and justly than ever before. Thus, as the prestige of the Great Emancipator shrank, his legacy of equality continued to flourish.Drawing on a stunning range of sources—including films, cartoons, advertisements, surveys, shrine visitations, public commemorations, and more—Schwartz documents the decline of Lincoln’s public standing, asking throughout whether there is any path back from this post-heroic era. Can a new generation of Americans embrace again their epic past, including great leaders whom they know to be flawed? As the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial approaches, readers will discover here a stirring reminder that Lincoln, as a man, still has much to say to us—about our past, our present, and our possible futures.

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