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2001
| A gentleman discusses holiday traditions with his cat. |
2002
| Andrew Carnegie, a destitute immigrant who became the richest man of his time, helped create the American mind by personifying the rags-to-riches story that was the American ideal in the early twentieth century. In this fourth volume of the CREATORS OF THE AMERICAN MIND series, James T. Baker writes a compelling biography that explores how and why Andrew Carnegie continues to exert such a profound influence over the American mind. Like the other volumes in this series, this text includes selecti....[more] |
1999
| The second volume in the CREATORS OF THE AMERICAN MIND series, this collection of primary sources demonstrates the power which individuals of talent, will, and opportunity can exert over the American public. Brief enough to serve as a supplementary reader for courses in American History and Women's History, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: FIRST LADY offers students a collection of documents (with informative introductions) that are grouped logically, making it easy for them to research and write on Eleanor R....[more] |
1987
| Ayn Rand was a name that appeared regularly on paperback books I noted but had no time to read as a college student. I would occasionally pick one up, attracted by the odd spelling of the first name, the provocative title, the lurid design; but I learned little more from my quick scans than the fact that she advocated radical economic self-interest and was the creator of a hero who destroyed the building he had designed when someone tampered with its facade. |
2005
| RELIGION IN AMERICA, a primary sourcebook, includes the major documents that illustrate the development of religion in and its impact on United States history.Encouraging students to explore the varieties, developments, similarities, and differences of religion in the United States, RELIGION IN AMERICA sheds light on certain religious contradictions in the American personality. This reader considers the contradictions resulting from two great historical events that shook the Western world just a....[more] |
2005
| RELIGION IN AMERICA, a primary sourcebook, includes the major documents that illustrate the development of religion in and its impact on United States history.Encouraging students to explore the varieties, developments, similarities, and differences of religion in the United States, RELIGION IN AMERICA sheds light on certain religious contradictions in the American personality. This reader considers the contradictions resulting from two great historical events that shook the Western world just a....[more] |
2000
| The third volume in the CREATORS OF THE AMERICAN MIND series, this text offers an approach to Lincoln and his place in American history that is as accurate as it is novel. Unlike texts that only serve to reinforce the mythology that has been built around this powerful individual, Baker's text presents him as a flesh-and-blood human being by providing primary documents authored by Lincoln himself. Complemented by works presented by Lincoln scholars who have studied him from a variety of historica....[more] |
1997
| The second volume in the CREATORS OF THE AMERICAN MIND series, NAT TURNER: CRY FREEDOM IN AMERICA provides both primary and secondary selections that give students specific knowledge of this important individual in American history. |
2005
| Coming of age story about a 6 man high school football team in a small Texas town |
2005
| A coming of age story about two boys searching for their missing father |
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