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Schlesinger, Andrew (Editor); Schlesinger, Stephen (Editor0 Letters Of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129578. ISBN #0812993098 / 9780812993097. (filed under: American History ) *
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Schlesinger, Andrew (Editor); Schlesinger, Stephen (Editor0 Letters Of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 2013 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1129578. ISBN #0812993098 / 9780812993097. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This extraordinary collection gathers the never-before-seen correspondence of a true American original the acclaimed historian and lion of the liberal establishment, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. An advisor to presidents, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and tireless champion of progressive government, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., was also an inveterate letter writer. Indeed, the term man of letters could easily have been coined for Schlesinger, a faithful and prolific correspondent whose wide range of associates included powerful public officials, notable literary figures, prominent journalists, Hollywood celebrities, and distinguished fellow scholars. The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. reveals the late historian s unvarnished views on the great issues and personalities of his time, from the dawn of the Cold War to the aftermath of September 11. Here is Schlesinger s correspondence with such icons of American statecraft as Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, and, of course, John and Robert Kennedy including a detailed critique of JFK s manuscript for Profiles in Courage . There are letters to friends and confidants such as Eleanor Roosevelt, John Kenneth Galbraith, Gore Vidal, William Styron, and Jacqueline Kennedy to whom Schlesinger sends his handwritten condolences in the hours after her husband s assassination , and exchanges with such unlikely pen pals as Groucho Marx, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Bianca Jagger. Finally, there are Schlesinger s many thoughtful replies to the inquiries of ordinary citizens, in which he offers his observations on influences, issues of the day, and the craft of writing history. Written with the range and insight that made Schlesinger an indispensable figure, these letters reflect the evolution of his thought and of American liberalism from the 1940s to the first decade of the new millennium. Whether he is arguing against the merits of preemptive war, advocating for a more forceful policy on civil rights, or simply explaining his preference in neckwear For sloppy eaters bow ties are a godsend , Schlesinger reveals himself as a formidable debater and consummate wit who reveled in rhetorical combat. To a detractor who accuses him of being a Communist sympathizer, he writes: If your letter was the product of sincere misunderstanding, the facts I have cited should relieve your mind. If not, I can only commend you to the nearest psychiatrist. Elsewhere, he castigates a future Speaker of the House, John Boehner, for misattributing quotations to Abraham Lincoln. Combining a political strategist s understanding of the present moment with a historian s awareness that the eyes of posterity were always watching him, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., helped shape the course of an era with these letters. This landmark collection frames the remarkable dynamism of the twentieth-century and ensures that Schlesinger s legacy will continue to influence this one. Praise for The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Schlesinger s political intelligence in his correspondence is excellent, the level of discourse and purpose high, the sense of responsibility as keen as the sense of fun. . . . The best letters and there are many come from the typewriter of the public Schlesinger, the fighting liberal, especially when he s jousting with a provocative antagonist. George Packer, The New York Times Book Review Arthur Schlesinger s letters are full of personal, political, and historical insights into the tumultuous events and enormous personalities that dominated the mid-twentieth century. President Bill Clinton
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Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. Coming of the New Deal: The Age of Roosevelt Heritage Press 1959 hardcover. Scratch on gilt head. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149192. (filed under: American History ) *
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Schwain, Kristin Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age Cornell University Press 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105570. ISBN #0801445779 / 9780801445774. (filed under: American History ) *
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Schwain, Kristin Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age Cornell University Press 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1105570. ISBN #0801445779 / 9780801445774. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Religious imagery was ubiquitous in late-nineteenth-century American life: department stores, schoolbooks, postcards, and popular magazines all featured elements of Christian visual culture. Such imagery was not limited to commercial and religious artifacts, however, for it also found its way into contemporary fine art. In Signs of Grace, Kristin Schwain looks anew at the explicitly religious work of four prominent artists in this period--Thomas Eakins, F. Holland Day, Abbott Handerson Thayer, and Henry Ossawa Tanner--and argues that art and religion performed analogous functions within American culture. Fully expressing the concerns and values of turn-of-the-century Americans, this artwork depicted religious figures and encouraged the beholders' communion with them. Describing how these artists drew on their religious beliefs and practices, as well as how beholders looked to art to provide a transcendent experience, Schwain explores how a modern conception of faith as an individual relationship with the divine facilitated this sanctified relationship between art and viewer. This stress on the interior and subjective experience of religion accentuated the artist's efforts to engage beholders personally with works of art; how better to fix the viewer's attention than to hold out the promise of salvation? Schwain shows that while these new visual practices emphasized individual encounters with art objects, they also carried profound social implications. By negotiating changes in religious belief--by aestheticizing faith in a new, particularly American manner--these practices contributed to evolving debates about art, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender.
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Schwartz, Seymour I. Cadwallader Colden: A Biography 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095040. ISBN #1616148535 / 9781616148539. (filed under: American History ) *
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Schwartz, Seymour I. Cadwallader Colden: A Biography 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1095040. ISBN #1616148535 / 9781616148539. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The first complete biography of Cadwallader Colden 1688-1776 , the longest-serving Lieutenant Governor of New York and a brilliant intellectual, multifaceted colonial Renaissance man, and consummate royalist. This is the first complete biography of Cadwallader Colden 1688-1776 , one of the most accomplished intellectual and political figures in the American colonies before the Revolution. As the longest-serving Lieutenant Governor of New York he was intimately involved in the tumultuous political life of the times. His History of the Five Indian Nations 1727 was the first English history of the Iroquois and a popular book both in the colonies and in Europe. Colden was also a trained physician. Though he never practiced, he significantly improved the public health of the colony. Furthermore, he was an internationally recognized botanist, the author of the first scientific paper published in the colonies, and an accomplished cartographer who published the first map in the colony of New York. A prolific letter writer, Colden corresponded with many of the major intellectuals of his day, including Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Johnson. In addition, he wrote extensively on a wide range of topics, including philosophy, history, the natural sciences, and mathematics. Why has this distinguished individual fallen into obscurity? As an ardent royalist he was the most vilified of the colonial leaders and was even burned in effigy. This well-researched and long-overdue biography tells the fascinating story of this multifaceted colonial Renaissance man.
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Schweikart, Larry 7 Events That Made America America: And Proved That The Founding Fathers Were Right All Along 2010 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084716. ISBN #1595230645 / 9781595230645. (filed under: American History ) *
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Schweikart, Larry 7 Events That Made America America: And Proved That The Founding Fathers Were Right All Along 2010 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1084716. ISBN #1595230645 / 9781595230645. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A conservative historian examines some of the pivotal, yet often ignored, moments that shaped our history All students of American history know the big events that dramatically shaped our country. The Civil War, Pearl Harbor, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and 9 11 are just a few. But there are other, less famous events that had an equally profound impact. Notable conservative historian Larry Schweikart takes an in- depth look at seven of these transformative moments and provides an analysis of how each of them spurred a trend that either confirmed or departed from the vision our Founding Fathers had for America. For instance, he shows how Martin Van Buren's creation of a national political party made it possible for Obama to get elected almost two centuries later and how Dwight Eisenhower's heart attack led to a war on red meat, during which the government took control over Americans' diets. In his easy-to-read yet informative style, Schweikart will not only educate but also surprise readers into reevaluating our history.
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Schweikart, Larry; Allen, Michael A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror Sentinel Trade 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Notes and marking. Some highlighting. Book #or1182555. ISBN #1595230327 / 9781595230324. (filed under: American History ) *
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Schweikart, Larry; Allen, Michael A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror Sentinel Trade 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Acceptable. Notes and marking. Some highlighting. Book #or1182555. ISBN #1595230327 / 9781595230324. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America s patriots and the achievements of "dead white men." As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America s true and proud history.
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Selby, John Road To Yorktown hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1081993. (keywords: POPCO) (filed under: American History ) *
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Sevareid, Eric In One Ear hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1138212. (filed under: American History ) *
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Shifflett, Crandall Victorian America: 1876 To 1913 (Almanacs Of American Life) Facts on File, Inc. 1996 hardcover. . Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1143345. ISBN #0816025312 / 9780816025312. (filed under: American History ) *
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Shogan, Robert Battle Of Blair Mountain: The Story Of America's Largest Labor Uprising Westview Press 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Remainder Mark. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164598. ISBN #0813340969 / 9780813340968. (filed under: American History ) *
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Shogan, Robert Battle Of Blair Mountain: The Story Of America's Largest Labor Uprising Westview Press 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Remainder Mark. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1164598. ISBN #0813340969 / 9780813340968. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Battle of Blair Mountain covers a profoundly significant but long-neglected slice of American history - the largest armed uprising on American soil since the Civil War. In 1921, some 10,000 West Virginia coal miners, outraged over years of brutality and lawless exploitation, picked up their Winchesters and marched against their tormentors, the powerful mine owners who ruled their corrupt state. For ten days the miners fought a pitched battle against an opposing legion of deputies, state police, and makeshift militia. Only the intervention of a federal expeditionary force, spearheaded by a bomber squadron commanded by General Billy Mitchell, ended this undeclared civil war and forced the miners to throw down their arms. The significance of this episode reaches beyond the annals of labor history. Indeed, it is a saga of the conflicting political, economic and cultural forces that shaped the power structure of 20th century America.
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Siegel, Barry Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets Harper 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1175913. ISBN #0060777028 / 9780060777029. (filed under: American History ) *
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Siegel, Barry Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets Harper 2008 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1175913. ISBN #0060777028 / 9780060777029. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary On October 6, 1948, a U.S. Air Force B-29 Superfortress crashed soon after takeoff, killing three civilian engineers and six crew members. In June 1949, the engineers' widows filed suit against the government, determined to find out what exactly had happened to their husbands and why the three civilians had been on board the airplane in the first place. But it was the dawn of the Cold War and the Air Force refused to hand over any documents, claiming they contained classified information. The legal battle ultimately reached the Supreme Court, which in 1953 handed down a landmark decision that would, in later years, enable the government to conceal gross negligence and misconduct, block troublesome litigation, and detain criminal suspects without due-process protections. Claim of Privilege is a mesmerizing true account of a shameful incident and its lasting impact on our nation the gripping story of a courageous fight to right a past wrong and a powerful indictment of governmental abuse in the name of national security.
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Siggelkow, Richard A. Dissent and Disruption: A University Under Siege Prometheus Books 1991 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1022154. ISBN #0879756810 / 9780879756819. (filed under: American History ) *
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Siggelkow, Richard A. Dissent and Disruption: A University Under Siege Prometheus Books 1991 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1022154. ISBN #0879756810 / 9780879756819. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Dissent and Disruption chronicles events at a besieged university during the campus unrest of the Vietnam era. The decade of the sixties is generally presented in film and television as the epitome of youthful idealism, yet it was a period scarred by tragedy: the assasinations of beloved national leaders, battles for civil rights, the war in Vietnam, and violent protests. In Dissent and Disruption, Siggelkow draws upon his experiences at the State University of New York at Buffalo to place student activism - and the 1960s - into perspective. The result of years of research, including over 250 interviews, this book demonstrates the polarization of campus constituencies, pointing out that diverse opinions existed among students, faculty, and administrators alike. By focusing on student protest tactics and strategies as well as faculty and administrative responses, the author exposes many misconceptions about university unrest. He also examines the impact of student protests on local, state, and national politicians and on the public. Threats to academic freedom, the influence of the news media, and the role played by law enforcement personnel are among the important issues highlighted in this dramatic tale.
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Simon, James F. What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States Simon & Schuster 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1173016. ISBN #0684848708 / 9780684848709. (keywords: Politics, Government) (filed under: American History ) *
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Simon, James F. What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States Simon & Schuster 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1173016. ISBN #0684848708 / 9780684848709. (keywords: Politics, Government) (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary What Kind of Nation is a riveting account of the bitter and protracted struggle between two titans of the early republic over the power of the presidency and the independence of the judiciary. The clash between fellow Virginians and second cousins Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall remains the most decisive confrontation between a president and a chief justice in American history. Fought in private as well as in full public view, their struggle defined basic constitutional relationships in the early days of the republic and resonates still in debates over the role of the federal government vis- -vis the states and the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret laws. Jefferson was a strong advocate of states' rights who distrusted the power of the federal government. He believed that the Constitution defined federal authority narrowly and left most governmental powers to the states. He was suspicious of the Federalist-dominated Supreme Court, whose members he viewed as partisan promoters of their political views at the expense of Jefferson's Republicans. When he became president, Jefferson attempted to correct the Court's bias by appointing Republicans to the Court. He also supported an unsuccessful impeachment of Federalist Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. Marshall believed in a strong federal government and was convinced that an independent judiciary offered the best protection for the Constitution and the nation. After he was appointed by Federalist President John Adams to be chief justice in 1801 only a few weeks before Jefferson succeeded Adams , he issued one far-reaching opinion after another. Beginning with the landmark decision Marbury v. Madison in 1803, and through many cases involving states' rights, impeachment, treason, and executive privilege, Marshall established the Court as the final arbiter of the Constitution and the authoritative voice for the constitutional supremacy of the federal government over the states. As Marshall's views prevailed, Jefferson became increasingly bitter, certain that the Court was suffocating the popular will. But Marshall's carefully reasoned rulings endowed the Court with constitutional authority even as they expanded the power of the federal government, paving the way for later Court decisions sanctioning many pivotal laws of the modern era, such as those of the New Deal, the Great Society, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In a fascinating description of the treason trial of Jefferson's former vice president, Aaron Burr, James F. Simon shows how Marshall rebuffed President Jefferson's claim of executive privilege. That decision served as precedent for a modern Supreme Court ruling rejecting President Nixon's claim that he did not have to hand over the Watergate tapes. More than 150 years after Jefferson's and Marshall's deaths, their words and achievements still reverberate in constitutional debate and political battle. What Kind of Nation is a dramatic rendering of a bitter struggle between two shrewd politicians and powerful statesmen that helped create a United States
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Simon, James F. What Kind Of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, And The Epic Struggle To Create a United States Simon & Schuster 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1174816. ISBN #0684848716 / 9780684848716. (filed under: American History ) *
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Simon, James F. What Kind Of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, And The Epic Struggle To Create a United States Simon & Schuster 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1174816. ISBN #0684848716 / 9780684848716. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall defined the basic constitutional relationship between the executive and judicial branches of government. More than one hundred fifty years later, their clashes still reverberate in constitutional debates and political battles. In this dramatic and fully accessible account of these titans of the early republic and their fiercely held ideas, James F. Simon brings to life the early history of the nation and sheds new light on the highly charged battle to balance the powers of the federal government and the rights of the states. A fascinating look at two of the nation's greatest statesmen and shrewdest politicians, What Kind of Nation presents a cogent, unbiased assessment of their lasting impact on American government.
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Sinclair, Upton The Moneychangers Prometheus Books 2001 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1072442. ISBN #1573929018 / 9781573929011. (filed under: American History ) *
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Sinclair, Upton The Moneychangers Prometheus Books 2001 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1072442. ISBN #1573929018 / 9781573929011. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this fictional account of the events and the key players involved in the Wall Street panic of 1907, the famous author of The Jungle depicts the glittering society of New York's fabulously wealthy, for whom money is not the object of existence, just the means of wielding power. In the midst of the alluring lifestyle of the high rollers, with their debutante balls, sumptuous summer homes in Newport, and their retinue of servants, a newcomer from the South arrives. The strikingly beautiful Lucy Dupree seeks entrance into high society through her childhood friend, Allan Montague, who is now a successful lawyer working in the city. Despite Allan's attempts to protect her, the naive Lucy soon finds herself caught in a jealous rivalry between two of the wealthiest and most unscrupulous powerbrokers. Their fight to destroy each other using high-stake financial manipulations precipitates a major Wall Street collapse and puts Lucy into great peril. Sinclair has created an exciting page-turner full of vivid characters showing rapacious capitalists at their very worst. This novel, exposing abuses that no newspaper dared to print, provides fascinating parallels to our own time of wild investor speculation and politics corrupted by money.
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Sklar, Kathryn Kish Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women`s Political Culture, 1830-1900 Yale University Press 1997 paperback. 1995 printing. Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130013. ISBN #0300072856 / 9780300072853. (filed under: American History ) *
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Sklar, Kathryn Kish Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women`s Political Culture, 1830-1900 Yale University Press 1997 paperback. 1995 printing. Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1130013. ISBN #0300072856 / 9780300072853. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This masterful biography by one of America's foremost historians of women tells the story of Florence Kelley, a leading reformer in the Progressive Era. The book also serves as a political history of the United States during a period of transforming change when women worked to end the abuses of unregulated industrial capitalism. Kelley's story shows how changes in women's public culture combined with changes in men's public culture to produce results that neither could have achieved alone. In this volume, the first of two, Kathryn Kish Sklar explores the decades between 1830 and 1900, an era when women's organizations lent unprecedented power to their activism. After analyzing how earlier generations set the stage for women's centrality in the 1890s, she depicts the first forty years of Florence Kelley's life, telling of her childhood as a member of an elite Philadelphia family, her graduation from Cornell University in 1882, her immersion in European socialism, her search for a meaningful place within American political culture, and her rise to extraordinary public power in Chicago as a resident at Jane Addams's Hull House. Kelley's long career demonstrates that women's activism embodied the most deeply rooted characteristics of the American polity, particularly American traditions of voluntarism and limited government, the weakness of class as a vehicle for political mobilization, and the strength of gender. During the crisis-ridden years of massive immigration, industrialization, and urbanization between 1870 and 1900, Florence Kelley and other women offered an effective alternative to the male-dominated status quo.
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Sloan, Eric Eric Sloan's Sketches Of America Past Amaranth Press 1986 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1163447. ISBN #0808163086 / 9780808163084. (filed under: American History ) *
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Smelser, Marshall Democratic Republic: 1801-1815 1992 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Underlining / Highlighing throughout. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1111763. ISBN #0881336688 / 9780881336689. (filed under: American History ) *
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Smelser, Marshall Democratic Republic: 1801-1815 1992 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Underlining / Highlighing throughout. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1111763. ISBN #0881336688 / 9780881336689. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Now available from Waveland Press, the author has skillfully organized the abundant learning of those who have authored so many specialized studies of the history of the United States from 1801 to 1815 in an interesting and accessible fashion. A combination of several monographs and documents and a sampling of earlier sources--press, polemics, reports, correspondence and memoirs--tell a coherent and illuminating story. The Thomas Jefferson portrayed in this text is no flaming radical, but instead a Whiggish moderate. Without overlooking his flaws, a sympathetic portrait is presented of the man who was more a friend to liberty than democracy and whose passion for peace provoked the contempt of Europe. James Madison is viewed as an adroit politician whose "constitutional republicanism" unfortunately hobbled his operations as a war president. In addition to these men, a whole cast of colorful individualists appears in these pages, from the deceitful Burr to the eccentric Randolph. The history of this period is examined in the disunity of the nation at the time of the War of 1812, the steps by which the nation was led into a European war and how, as a third-rate power fighting a naval colossus, the United States managed to avoid other than local disasters and emerge from the conflict with its independence vindicated and confirmed.
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Smith, Gene Shattered Dream; Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression hardcover. . Some underlining / highlighing but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1124466. (filed under: American History ) *
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Smith, Logan Pearsall (Editor) Philadelphia Quaker: Hannah Whitall Smith hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1002488. (filed under: American History ) *
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Smith, Robert Michael From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States Ohio University Press 2003 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1182076. ISBN #0821414666 / 9780821414668. (filed under: American History ) *
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Sneiderman, Barney Warriors Seven: Seven American Commanders, Seven Wars, And The Irony Of Battle 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1036031. ISBN #1932714286 / 9781932714289. (filed under: American History ) *
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Sneiderman, Barney Warriors Seven: Seven American Commanders, Seven Wars, And The Irony Of Battle 2006 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1036031. ISBN #1932714286 / 9781932714289. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Warriors Seven offers a fascinating collection of American commander profiles written in a lively and graphic style. The unique aspect of Dr. Sneiderman s approach is that each essay sketches the ironic twists of fate that befell these men at or near the peak of their careers. The subjects of this study include: Benedict Arnold, Andrew Jackson, Winfield Scott, Robert E. Lee, George Dewey, Billy Mitchell, and George Patton. These courageous leaders are successively featured in each of America s seven wars from 1775 to 1945: the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II. Each entry highlights or focuses upon a single battle: Saratoga 1777 , New Orleans 1815 , Mexico City 1847 , Malvern Hill 1862 , ManWorld War 2ila Bay 1898 , St. Mihiel 1918 , and Messina 1943 . Each entry highlights the life and military career of each commander up to the moment of the featured battle, with a thread of continuity coursing through each chapter. For example, the essay on Andrew Jackson opens with a battle fought during the Revolutionary War that Jackson witnessed as a 13-year-old courier for the Continental Army. Twenty-seven original battlefield maps facilitate the reader s understanding of the momentous events described in these pages. Warriors Seven will be welcomed by anyone who appreciates gripping narrative military history leavened with a slice of historical irony. Barney Sneiderman served as a professor in the Faculty Law, University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canada, from 1969 until illness prompted his retirement in 2006. He is the principal author of the acclaimed Canadian Medical Law: An Introduction for Physicians, Nurses, and other Health Care Professionals 3rd Edition, 2003, Carswell . The Connecticut native and former journalist is known for his lively and user-friendly writing style. Warriors Seven is a reflection of his longtime interest in American and European political and military history. He lives in Manitoba with his wife and children. PRAISE Dr. Sneiderman has written a brilliant and fascinating book. . . . that shows how genius, resolve, dedication, opportunity, and hard work create great military leaders, but also how demons sometimes lurk in the hearts of famous men and dull their glory. Noted historian Bevin Alexander
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