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Adam Augustyn - American Literature from 1600 Thro ugh the 1850s (2010).pdf

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Gerald Horne - Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1 950, Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unio nists (2001).jpg

01 - USA - Gerald Horne - Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950, ...oguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists 2001.jpg

"This book is destined to be a bombshell in the field and perhaps far beyond the field." -Paul Buhle, coauthor of Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This turmoil escalated further when the studios retaliated by locking out CSU in 1946. This labor unrest unleashed a fury of Red-baiting that allowed studio moguls to crush the union and seize control of the production process, with far-reaching consequences. This engrossing book probes the motives and actions of all the players to reveal the full story of the CSU strike and the resulting lockout of 1946. Gerald Horne draws extensively on primary materials and oral histories to document how limited a "threat" the Communist party actually posed in Hollywood, even as studio moguls successfully used the Red scare to undermine union clout, prevent film stars from supporting labor, and prove the moguls' own patriotism. Horne also discloses that, unnoticed amid the turmoil, organized crime entrenched itself in management and labor, gaining considerable control over both the "product" and the profits of Hollywood. This research demonstrates that the CSU strike and lockout were a pivotal moment in Hollywood history, with consequences for everything from production values, to the kinds of stories told in films, to permanent shifts in the centers of power.

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Gerald Horne - Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1 950, Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unio nists (2001).pdf

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Matthew Pinsker - Lincoln's Sanctuary, Abraham Lin coln and the Soldiers' Home (2003).jpg

After the heartbreaking death of his son Willie, Abraham Lincoln and his family fled the gloom that hung over the White House, moving into a small cottage outside Washington, on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home, a residence for disabled military veterans. In Lincoln's Sanctuary, historian Matthew Pinsker offers a fascinating portrait of Lincoln's stay in this cottage and tells the story of the president's remarkable growth as a national leader and a private man. Lincoln lived at the Soldiers' Home for a quarter of his presidency, and for nearly half of the critical year of 1862, but most Americans (including many scholars) have not heard of the place. Indeed, this is the first volume to specifically connect this early ""summer White House"" to key wartime developments, including the Emancipation Proclamation, the firing of McClellan, the evolution of Lincoln's ""Father Abraham"" image, the election of 1864, and the assassination conspiracy. Through a series of striking vignettes, the reader discovers a more accessible Lincoln, demonstrating what one visitor to the Soldiers' Home described as his remarkable ""elasticity of spirits."" At his secluded cottage, the president complained to his closest aides, recited poetry to his friends, reconnected with his wife and family, conducted secret meetings with his political enemies, and narrowly avoided assassination attempts. Perhaps most important, he forged key friendships that helped renew his flagging spirits. The cottage became a refuge from the ures of the White House, a place of tranquility where Lincoln could refresh his mind. Based on research in rarely tapped sources, especially the letters and memoirs of people who lived or worked at the Soldiers' Home, Lincoln's Sanctuary offers the unexpected--a completely fresh view of Abraham Lincoln--through the window of a place that helped shape his presidency.

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Matthew Pinsker - Lincoln's Sanctuary, Abraham Lin coln and the Soldiers' Home (2003).pdf

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Alan Scot Willis - All According to God's Plan, So uthern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970 (2004 ).jpg

Southern Baptists had long considered themselves a missionary people, but when, after World War II, they embarked on a dramatic expansion of missionary efforts, they confronted headlong the problem of racism. Believing that racism hindered their evangelical efforts, the Convention’s full-time missionaries and mission board leaders attacked racism as unchristian, thus finding themselves at odds with the pervasive racist and segregationist ideologies that dominated the South.
This progressive view of race stressed the biblical unity of humanity, encompassing all races and transcending specific ethnic divisions. In All According to Gods Plan, Alan Scot Willis explores these beliefs and the chasm they created within the Convention. He shows how, in the post-World War II era, the most respected members of the Southern Baptists Convention publicly challenged the most dearly held ideologies of the white South.

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Alan Scot Willis - All According to God's Plan, So uthern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970 (2004 ).pdf

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Davis Walter - Death's Dream Kingdom, The American Psyche Since 9-11 (2006).jpg

Why is fear a dominant emotion in contemporary society? Why are politicians using words like 'terror', 'evil' and 'fundamentalism', and what effect is it having on public consciousness?
Answering these questions, Walter A. Davis taps into the cultural psyche to explore the link between ideology and emotional and psychological manipulation. Starting with the three topics that have preoccupied social discourse since 9-11 -- terror, evil and fundamentalism -- he shows that the Bush administration has been hugely successful in controlling and developing a new political climate through the creation of an almost hypnotic mass consciousness.
Davis's findings take us to the heart of the ideological paralysis of the Left, while offering an innovative approach to understanding contemporary history.
Davis fuses a psychoanalytic and philosophical framework to explain the relation between culture and political events, from the sado-masochist hysteria of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ' to the atrocities at Abu Ghraib prison; and from the genocidal use of depleted uranium in Iraq to the apocalyptic language driving the Christian Right's assault on basic human rights.
He exposes the motives and belief-systems of this new American psyche and shows how it sustains the Bush administration's agenda. Illuminating how psychological needs govern political action, Davis reveals why the relationship between politics and public consciousness has massive implications for all of us beyond America's borders.

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Davis Walter - Death's Dream Kingdom, The American Psyche Since 9-11 (2006).pdf

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Elizabeth s Spalding - The First Cold Warrior, Har ry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Libera l Internationalism (2006).jpg

01 - USA - Elizabeth s Spalding - The First Cold Warrior, Harry T...ent, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism 2006.jpg

From the moment he took the oath of office in April 1945, Harry Truman was required to make difficult decisions in an increasingly dangerous world. The results--notably the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization--were the building blocks of containment, a strategic approach usually associated with George F. Kennan.
In this fresh account, based on primary sources, Elizabeth s Spalding argues that it was Truman himself, shaped by history, experience, and religious faith, who outlined and directed America's practice of containment. In so doing, he established a new liberal internationalism that became the dominant bipartisan consensus on U.S. foreign policy in the post-World War II era.

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Elizabeth s Spalding - The First Cold Warrior, Har ry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Libera l Internationalism (2006).pdf

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Kenneth S. Greenberg - Nat Turner, A Slave Rebelli on in History and MemorySlave (2003).jpg

Nat Turner's name rings through American history with a force all its own. Leader of the most important slave rebellion on these shores, murderer of unarmed men and women, of freedom, religious fanatic--this contradictory figure represents all the terrible complexities of American slavery. And yet, writes Kenneth Greenberg, we do not know what he looked like, where he is buried, or even whether Nat Turner was his real name. In Nat Turner, Greenberg gathers twelve distinguished scholars to offer provocative new insight into the man, his rebellion, and his time. The historians here explore Turner's slave community, discussing the support for his uprising as well as the religious and literary context of his movement. They examine the place of women in his insurrection, and its far-reaching consequences (including an extraordinary 1832 Virginia debate about ridding the state of slavery). Here are discussions of Turner's lurid visions--the instructions he received from God to kill all of his white opors. Louis Masur places him against the backdrop of the nation's sectional crisis, and Douglas Egerton puts his revolt in the context of rebellions across the Americas. We trace Turner's passage through American memory, and Greenberg includes a fascinating interview with William Styron on his landmark book, The Confessions of Nat Turner. Nat Turner has always been controversial, an emblem of the searing wound of slavery in American life. This book, coinciding with a documentary co-written by Greenberg, directed by Charles Burnett, and produced by Frank Christopher, offers a clear-eyed look at one of the best known and least understood figures in our history.

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Kenneth S. Greenberg - Nat Turner, A Slave Rebelli on in History and MemorySlave (2003).pdf

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Maria F. Wade, Don E. Wade - The Native Americans of the Texas s Plateau, 1582-1799 (2002).jpg

The region that now encompasses Central Texas and northern Coahuila, Mexico, was once inhabited by numerous Native hunter-gather groups whose identities and lifeways we are only now learning through archaeological discoveries and painstaking research into Spanish and French colonial records. From these key sources, Maria F. Wade has compiled this first comprehensive ethnohistory of the Native groups that inhabited the Texas s Plateau and surrounding areas during most of the Spanish colonial era. Much of the book deals with events that took place late in the seventeenth century, when Native groups and Europeans began to have their first sustained contact in the region. Wade identifies twenty-one Native groups, including the Jumano, who inhabited the s Plateau at that time. She offers evidence that the groups had sophisticated social and cultural mechanisms, including extensive information networks, ladino cultural brokers, broad-based coalitions, and individuals with dual-ethnic status. She also tracks the eastern movement of Spanish colonizers into the s Plateau region, explores the relationships among Native groups and between those groups and European colonizers, and develops a timeline that places isolated events and singular individuals within broad historical processes.

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Maria F. Wade, Don E. Wade - The Native Americans of the Texas s Plateau, 1582-1799 (2002).pdf

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Robert H. Ferrell - Presidential Leadership, From Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman (2005).jpg

Ever since the presidency of Richard M Nixon, scholars have been in a quandary over how much they really know about our country's presidents. Nixon, as is now understood, was unstable in personality. The signs appeared well before the discovery of the infamous Watergate tapes, an appalling example of what the presidency could come to. Many Americans have difficulty penetrating the public persona of their leaders. But to know the private side of such figures - the cores of their being - is important, because this side often governs what they do publicly. In "Presidential Leadership", Robert H Ferrell examines four sometimes maligned, sometimes misunderstood presidents: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry S Truman. Along with these portraits, Ferrell incorporates comments on Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as well as key figures in each president's administration. Also included in this volume is historian John A Garraty's interview with Ferrell on American foreign policy from 1919 to 1945. As is his style, Ferrell draws from many sources previously untapped. In the case of Wilson, Ferrell relies on the diary of Colonel M House, who served under Wilson during his presidency. Ferrell uses White House physician Joel T Boone's diary to pre an insider's look at Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. In dealing with these presidents, Ferrell debunks long-held myths and approaches the presidencies with fresh insights into what drove them to make the decisions they made. Throughout the book, Ferrell emphasizes the personal styles of each president. He not only shows how they made their own determinations but also evaluates those whom they appointed to important positions. Scholars of American history will welcome this insightful look at the men who saw the United States through the first half of the twentieth century.

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Robert H. Ferrell - Presidential Leadership, From Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman (2005).pdf

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Thomas P. M. Barnett - The Pentagon's New Map. War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century (2004).jpg

A groundbreaking reexamination of U.S. and global security, certain to be one of the most talked about books of the year. For anyone seeking to understand the Iraqs, Afghanistans, and Liberias of the present and future, the intimate new links between foreign policy and national security, and the operational realities of the world as it exists today, The Pentagon's New Map is a template, a Rosetta stone.

Since the end of the Cold War, America's national security establishment has been searching for a new operating theory to explain how this seemingly "chaotic" world actually works. Gone is the clash of blocs, but replaced by what?

Thomas Barnett has the answers. A senior military analyst with the U.S. Naval War College, he has given a constant stream of briefings over the past few years, and particularly since 9/11, to the highest of high-level civilian and military policymakers—and now he gives it to you. The Pentagon's New Map is a cutting-edge approach to globalization that combines security, economic, political, and cultural factors to do no less than predict and explain the nature of war and peace in the twenty-first century.

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Kerstin Schmidt - The Theater of Transformation, P ostmodernism in American Drama (2005).jpg

The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American drama offers a fresh and innovative reading of the contemporary experimental American theater scene and navigates through the contested and contentious relationship between postmodernism and contemporary drama. This book addresses gender and class as well as racial issues in the context of a theoretical discussion of dramatic texts, textuality, and performance. Transformation is contemporary drama's answer to the questions of postmodernism and a major technique in the development of a postmodern language for the stage. In order to demonstrate the multi-faceted nature of the postmodern theater of transformation, this study draws on a wide range of plays: from early experimental plays of the 1960s by Jean-Claude van Itallie through feminist plays by Megan Terry and Rochelle Owens to more recent drama by the African-American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama is written for anyone interested in contemporary American drama and theater as well as in postmodernism and contemporary literary theory. It appeals even more broadly to a readership intrigued by the ubiquitous aspects of popular culture, by feminism and ethnicity, and by issues pertaining to the so-called 'society of spectacle' and the study of contemporary media.

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Kerstin Schmidt - The Theater of Transformation, P ostmodernism in American Drama (2005).pdf

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Bernard Vincent - The Transatlantic Republican, Th omas Paine and the Age of Revolutions (2004).jpg

This collection of essays by Bernard Vincent covers most aspects of Thomas Paine’s life, thought, and works. It highlights Paine’s contribution to the American and French Revolutions, as well as the active role he played in the intellectual debates of the Age of Enlightenment, in particular through his heated arguments with Edmund Burke or the Abbé Raynal. More than two centuries later, those debates—on the ‘universal’ nature of human rights or the ‘exceptionalism’ of the American experience—seem today to be more relevant than ever. Not only have Common Sense, Rights of Man and The Age of Reason become classics of Anglo-American literature, but, from the moment they appeared, they ushered in a new type of writer, a new way of writing—and a new class of readers. How Paine stormed the "Bastille of Words," and in so doing served both the "republic" of letters and the cause of democracy, is the real subject of this book.

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Bernard Vincent - The Transatlantic Republican, Th omas Paine and the Age of Revolutions (2004).pdf

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John L. Casti - Mood Matters, From Rising Skirt Le ngths to the Collapse of World Powers (2010).jpg

"Mood Matters" makes the radical assertion that all social events ranging from fashions in music and art to the rise and fall of civilizations are biased by the attitudes a society holds toward the future. When the "social mood" is positive and people look forward to the future, events of an entirely different character tend to occur than when society is pessimistic. The book presents many examples from every walk of life in support of this argument.

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John L. Casti - Mood Matters, From Rising Skirt Le ngths to the Collapse of World Powers (2010).pdf

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Barbara K. Gaines - Idiomatic American English, A Step-by-Step Workbook for Learning Everyday Americ an Expressions (1986).jpg

01 - USA - Barbara K. Gaines - Idiomatic American English, A Step...rkbook for Learning Everyday American Expressions 1986.jpg

[The following excerpt from the Introductiion gives a clear idea of the book's contents.] Idiomatic expressions give English its color and vitality. They are indispensable to the daily speech of the people and to the language of newspapers and books, television and movies. Whenever you hear a phrase whose meaning cannot be understood even if you know the definitions of the separate words involved, you have probably encountered an idiom. Mastering idioms requires a great deal of listening, studying, practice, and usage. You cannot ignore this part of the language: idiomatic expressions and more formal grammar should be given equal time. The lessons in this book are designed to teach you the kind of informal, everyday speech--including many slang words as well as idioms--that is commonly understood by all native Americans, no matter what their level of education.

There are various levels of idiomatic difficulty, and each group of lessons listed in the Table of Contents begins with the easiest lessons and ends with the more advanced ones. However, you may use them in any order you desire; each lesson is self-contained.

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Barbara K. Gaines - Idiomatic American English, A Step-by-Step Workbook for Learning Everyday Americ an Expressions (1986).pdf

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Joseph A. Amato - The Great Jerusalem Artichoke Ci rcus, The Buying and Selling of the Rural American Dream (1993).jpg

01 - USA - Joseph A. Amato - The Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus...he Buying and Selling of the Rural American Dream 1993.jpg

What can we say, obviously this is a book that any full-blodded American can relate to. I consider this book the finest example of pure literary skill at its finest. I especially enjoyed the chapter describing the fair as "rambunctiously Christian" with "people praising the lord at all corners". Chapter 9 says it all about the book in the 3 little words of "I love God", well, I love this book. The only reason I gave this book a 9 is because the forward by Paul Cruchow was not the best example of grammar that I would expect, even from my 3rd grade class, such phrases as "Yuck yuck, you'll love this book." and "Why if I knew how to write as good as Mr Amato I'd be a pure literary star, chuck full of star stuff, yup I wanna be like Amato, or as I like to call him, TAmato." I mean what kind of a run on no sense sentance is this? Well, I guess the rest of this book makes up for Paul's illiteracy. I would encourage the reading of this book to any person of any age. "The Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus" is also makes a great gift. I thank Mr. Joseph A. Amato for this wonderful literary treat.

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Joseph A. Amato - The Great Jerusalem Artichoke Ci rcus, The Buying and Selling of the Rural American Dream (1993).pdf

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Fred Williams - Fight Back Against Unfair Debt Col lection Practices, Know Your Rights and Protect Yo urself from Threats, Lies, and Intimidation (2010).jpg

01 - USA - Fred Williams - Fight Back Against Unfair Debt Collecti...ect Yourself from Threats, Lies, and Intimidation 2010.jpg

How Debt Collectors Really Work--and How to Fight Back!
An Insider’s Report from Fred Williams, Award-Winning Investigative Reporter
Discover the dirty tricks collectors use
Negotiate settlements that can save you a fortune
Learn how to stop the harassment now!

In this book, investigative reporter Fred Williams takes you inside America’s vicious debt collection industry, reveals how the game is really played, and shows you exactly how to defend yourself.

Debt collectors rely on ignorance and fear. When you know your rights, and you know their tricks, you can fight back--and win. This book reveals how to get the law on your side, make the calls stop, and slash your debt by thousands!

This year, America’s enormous debt collection industry will make an estimated 1,000,000,000 collection calls. They will threaten. Lie. Mislead. Intimidate. Over the past five years, their callers have racked up more than 300,000 complaints to the FTC: more than any other industry it regulates.

Author Fred Williams has won awards for his reporting on debt collection in America--and he went inside the industry spending three months working for one of the largest firms in the business. Now, he reveals everything he learned “in the belly of the beast”--and shows you exactly how to fight back and protect your rights.

You’ll learn what to do first if a collector calls...what collectors can and can’t do...which debts you are and aren’t responsible for...how collectors choose their targets...how to stop harassing or abusive calls...how to negotiate a debt settlement that can save you a fortune. Williams even reveals how to take the offensive--with a lawsuit that can halt collection and perhaps even earn you a settlement!
Inside the debt collection game
Lessons in deception, straight from the boiler room
The right answers when the collectors call
What to say--and what you should never say
Get the law on your side
How to stop collection calls, check out a collector, and use collection law
Negotiate a debt settlement that saves you thousands
Bargain down your debt, the smart way

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