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The Hour

A Cocktail Manifesto

By: Bernard DeVoto

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In an age when all that was old seems to be new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance. This book reminds me of one of the joys of being an adult---cocktail hour!"---Graydon Carter "If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds `the water of life' and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable, and wise."---Lewis Lapham "The Hour is not simply a piece of humorous cultural partiotism.... It is a manual of witchcraft, a book of spells and observances."---Wallace stegner One part celebration, one part history, two parts manifesto, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour is a comic and unequivocal treatise on how and why we drink---properly. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner turns his shrewd wit on the spirits and attitudes that cause his stomach to turn and his eyes to roll (Warning: this book is Not for rum drinkers). DeVoto instructs his readers on how to drink like gentlemen and sheds new light on the simple joys of the cocktail hour. Drinking, Like Existence, is an endless muddle, one of the slipperiest boulders in life's daunting stream---we cling to it for support but end up even wetter than when we started. It destroys individuals and rescues large gatherings. It can tear apart loved ones but bring strangers closer together. It starts fights and ends wars. One drinks a right and proper amount; everyone else drinks either too much or not enough. One's own drinking preferences exhibit refinement and sophistication; everyone else's are suspect, as are everyone else's snobberies, recipes, rules, brands, and styles. Alcohol starts endless debates, and endless debates are best settled over a drink. Such a state of affairs cries out for clarity, and Bernard DeVoto's splendid book The Hour provides it straight up.---From The Introduction By Daniel Handler

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Tin House Books

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0982504802

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9780982504802

The Year Of Decision: 1846

By: Bernard DeVoto

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The Year Of Decision: 1846

By: Bernard DeVoto

This book tells many fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the Western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from Canada to the annexation of Texas, California, and the Southwest lands from Mexico. It is the penultimate book of a trilogy which includes Across the Wide Missouri, for which DeVoto won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes in 1948, and The Course of Empire, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1953. DeVoto’s narrative covers the expanding Western frontier, the Mormons, the Donner party, Fremont’s exploration, the Army of the West, and takes readers into Native American tribal life.

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883

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787200353

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9781787200357

The Course of Empire

By: Bernard De Voto,Bernard Augustine De Voto

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The Course of Empire

By: Bernard De Voto,Bernard Augustine De Voto

Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto's monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.

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694

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395924987

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9780395924983

DeVoto's West

History, Conservation, and the Public Good

By: Bernard De Voto

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DeVoto's West

History, Conservation, and the Public Good

By: Bernard De Voto

DeVoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good addresses many issues, including the plundering of resources by absentee eastern corporations, Westerners' conflicted relationship to exploitation, and the degradation of the national parks.DeVoto's West collects the best of Bernard DeVoto's conservation pieces for the first time. It will introduce a new generation to prose that has retained its relevance and remains a remarkably current and timely argument for protecting public lands.

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312

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Ohio University Press

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0804010722

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9780804010726

DeVoto's West

History, Conservation, and the Public Good

By: Bernard De Voto

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DeVoto's West

History, Conservation, and the Public Good

By: Bernard De Voto

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Ohio University Press

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0804010722

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The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto

By: Bernard DeVoto

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The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto

By: Bernard DeVoto

“Dorothy Parker's stern eye mixed with the sass of Mark Twain, and a jigger of Christopher Hitchens thrown in for good, boozy measure.” —The Atlantic One part celebration, one part history, two parts manifesto, Bernard DeVoto’s The Hour is a comic and unequivocal treatise on how and why we drink—properly. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author turns his shrewd wit on the spirits and attitudes of his time (warning: this book is NOT for rum drinkers), and instructs readers on how to drink with class while shedding new light on the simple joys of the cocktail hour. An immediate classic, and perfect gift for the modern drinker, Wallace Stegner called it “a manual of witchcraft, a book of spells and observances” and Lewis Lapham hailed it as “generous, indomitable and wise.” With a wonderful introduction from Daniel Handler, this fully illustrated reprint of the 1950s definitive drinking guide provides a humorous and nostalgic read guaranteed to lift your spirits.

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Tin House Books

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1935639331

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9781935639336

Mark Twain's America

By: Bernard Augustine De Voto

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Mark Twain's America

By: Bernard Augustine De Voto

Beginning in 1835, the birth year of Samuel Clemens, and extending through the Gilded Age, Mark Twain’s America depicts the vigorous social and historical forces that produced the creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Bernard DeVoto catches a people moving west: Twain’s own family drifting down the Ohio, emigrants of every stripe, the famous and the obscure. Answering genteel critics such as Van Wyck Brooks, who blamed the American frontier for stifling Twain’s genius, DeVoto shows that, in fact, Twain’s early days in Nevada and California made a writer of him. Mark Twain’s America, first published in 1932, enriched by western humor and supernatural slave lore, is an enduring work of American literary and cultural criticism.

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380

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803266073

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9780803266070

The Western Paradox

A Conservation Reader

By: Bernard DeVoto

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The Western Paradox

A Conservation Reader

By: Bernard DeVoto

“This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto’s crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper.”—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, “a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom of thought.” A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, DeVoto is best remembered for his trilogy, The Year of Decision: 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, and The Course of Empire. He also wrote a column for Harper’s Magazine, in which he fulminated about his many concerns, particularly the exploitation and destruction of the American West. This volume brings together ten of DeVoto’s acerbic and still timely essays on Western conservation issues, along with his unfinished conservationist manifesto, Western Paradox, which has never before been published. The book also includes a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who was a student of DeVoto’s at Harvard University, and a substantial introduction by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Limerick, both of which shed light on DeVoto’s work and legacy.

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Yale University Press

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0300133863

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9780300133868

Across the Wide Missouri

By: Bernard De Voto,Bernard Augustine De Voto

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Across the Wide Missouri

By: Bernard De Voto,Bernard Augustine De Voto

The story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395924979

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9780395924976

The Western Paradox

A Conservation Reader

By: Bernard DeVoto

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A Conservation Reader

By: Bernard DeVoto

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The Course of Empire

By: Bernard De Voto,Bernard Augustine De Voto

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The Course of Empire

By: Bernard De Voto,Bernard Augustine De Voto

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Across the Wide Missouri

By: Bernard De Voto,Bernard Augustine De Voto

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Across the Wide Missouri

By: Bernard De Voto,Bernard Augustine De Voto

The story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s.

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The Year of Decision 1846

By: Bernard Augustine De Voto,Bernard DeVoto

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The Year of Decision 1846

By: Bernard Augustine De Voto,Bernard DeVoto

Traces the events of 1846 and 1847 in the development of the West including the opening of the overland trails and the war with Mexico.

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Macmillan

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0312267940

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9780312267940

Prairie Directory of North America

The United States, Canada, and Mexico

By: Charlotte Adelman,Bernard Schwartz

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Prairie Directory of North America

The United States, Canada, and Mexico

By: Charlotte Adelman,Bernard Schwartz

The first single, comprehensive source for locating North American public prairies, grasslands, and savannas, Prairie Directory of North America is a guide unlike any other. First published in 2001, the book uniquely catalogs the continent's most well-known prairie sites by country and state for easy reference. With the addition of over three hundred newly located, preserved, or restored sites, the second edition is the prairie enthusiast's ideal guide to locating countless North American sites-from the well-documented to the remote. Readers can use the guide to plan both convenient visits to close-to-home prairies and journeys to sites well across the continent. Also included is an expanded state-by-state index, ideal for locating specific prairies in any given state. The victim of destructive plowing and construction at the hands of European settlers, North American grassland ecosystems that once spanned the entire continent have suffered degradation and fragmentation. With the Prairie Directory as a guide, however, ecologists, environmental scientists, and tourists can experience the essence of this ancient ecosystem and, in some locations, even its vastness. The book lists tiny, hidden half-acre prairies spared by the plow as well as popular sites covering millions of acres. It documents prairies hidden deep in forests or in plain sight in American Indian reservations. The only one of its kind, this book will allow readers to experience the prairie as a colorful, fragrant, wildlife-rich North American landscape.

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685

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Oxford University Press

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019991351X

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9780199913510

Historical Culture in Iron Age Italy

Archaeology, History, and the Use of the Past, 900-300 BCE

By: Seth Bernard

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Historical Culture in Iron Age Italy

Archaeology, History, and the Use of the Past, 900-300 BCE

By: Seth Bernard

This book describes the historical culture of Italy from the Early Iron Age to the Roman conquest, covering a period from roughly 900 - 300 BCE. By historical culture, I refer throughout to a broader concept of social engagement with the past than is sometimes meant by the word "history." But this move permits us, following Sahlins' suggestion, to consider all kinds of new things. There exists a substantial corpus of material, much of it archaeological, some of it newly discovered, which speaks to us about how local communities in early Italy thought and talked about their history and how they articulated their past and present. This material has yet to have much impact on the typical ways in which we reconstruct the process of "becoming historical" in Italy. Instead, the story tends to be told almost exclusively from the Roman perspective and in a teleology"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197647464

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Book's by Bernard DeVoto

The Hour

The Hour

The Year Of Decision: 1846

The Year Of Decision: 1846

The Course of Empire

The Course of Empire

DeVoto's West

DeVoto's West

DeVoto's West

DeVoto's West

The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto

The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto

Mark Twain's America

Mark Twain's America

The Western Paradox

The Western Paradox

Across the Wide Missouri

Across the Wide Missouri

The Western Paradox

The Western Paradox

The Course of Empire

The Course of Empire

Across the Wide Missouri

Across the Wide Missouri

The Year of Decision 1846

The Year of Decision 1846

Prairie Directory of North America

Prairie Directory of North America

Historical Culture in Iron Age Italy

Historical Culture in Iron Age Italy

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