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Abraham Lincoln in His Times

By: David S. Reynolds

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Abraham Lincoln in His Times

By: David S. Reynolds

Now an Apple TV+ documentary, Lincoln's Dilemma. One of the Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of the Year | A Washington Post Notable Book | A Christian Science Monitor and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020 Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Abraham Lincoln Prize and the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award "A marvelous cultural biography that captures Lincoln in all his historical fullness. . . . using popular culture in this way, to fill out the context surrounding Lincoln, is what makes Mr. Reynolds's biography so different and so compelling . . . Where did the sympathy and compassion expressed in [Lincoln's] Second Inaugural—'With malice toward none; with charity for all'—come from? This big, wonderful book provides the richest cultural context to explain that, and everything else, about Lincoln." —Gordon Wood, Wall Street Journal From one of the great historians of nineteenth-century America, a revelatory and enthralling new biography of Lincoln, many years in the making, that brings him to life within his turbulent age David S. Reynolds, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning cultural biography of Walt Whitman and many other iconic works of nineteenth century American history, understands the currents in which Abraham Lincoln swam as well as anyone alive. His magisterial biography Abe is the product of full-body immersion into the riotous tumult of American life in the decades before the Civil War. It was a country growing up and being pulled apart at the same time, with a democratic popular culture that reflected the country's contradictions. Lincoln's lineage was considered auspicious by Emerson, Whitman, and others who prophesied that a new man from the West would emerge to balance North and South. From New England Puritan stock on his father's side and Virginia Cavalier gentry on his mother's, Lincoln was linked by blood to the central conflict of the age. And an enduring theme of his life, Reynolds shows, was his genius for striking a balance between opposing forces. Lacking formal schooling but with an unquenchable thirst for self-improvement, Lincoln had a talent for wrestling and bawdy jokes that made him popular with his peers, even as his appetite for poetry and prodigious gifts for memorization set him apart from them through his childhood, his years as a lawyer, and his entrance into politics. No one can transcend the limitations of their time, and Lincoln was no exception. But what emerges from Reynolds's masterful reckoning is a man who at each stage in his life managed to arrive at a broader view of things than all but his most enlightened peers. As a politician, he moved too slowly for some and too swiftly for many, but he always pushed toward justice while keeping the whole nation in mind. Abe culminates, of course, in the Civil War, the defining test of Lincoln and his beloved country. Reynolds shows us the extraordinary range of cultural knowledge Lincoln drew from as he shaped a vision of true union, transforming, in Martin Luther King Jr.'s words, "the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood." Abraham Lincoln did not come out of nowhere. But if he was shaped by his times, he also managed at his life's fateful hour to shape them to an extent few could have foreseen. Ultimately, this is the great drama that astonishes us still, and that Abe brings to fresh and vivid life. The measure of that life will always be part of our American education.

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Penguin

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0143110764

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9780143110767

"Behind Bayonets"

The Civil War in Northern Ohio

By: David Dirck Van Tassel,John Vacha

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"Behind Bayonets"

The Civil War in Northern Ohio

By: David Dirck Van Tassel,John Vacha

The authors use moving first-person commentaries and accounts to illustrate and explain these issues and situations. Additionally, the text is illustrated with rare photographs from the Western Reserve Historical Society's archives."--BOOK JACKET.

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148

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Kent State University Press

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087338850X

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9780873388504

Perspectives on Mass Communication History

By: Wm. David Sloan

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Perspectives on Mass Communication History

By: Wm. David Sloan

This unique volume is based on the philosophy that the teaching of history should emphasize critical thinking and attempt to involve the student intellectually, rather than simply provide names, dates, and places to memorize. The book approaches history not as a cut-and-dried recitation of a collection of facts but as multifaceted discipline. In examining the various perspectives historians have provided, the author brings a vitality to the study of history that students normally do not gain. The text is comprised of 24 historiographical essays, each of which discusses the major interpretations of a significant topic in mass communication history. Students are challenged to evaluate each approach critically and to develop their own explanations. As a textbook designed specifically for use in graduate level communication history courses, it should serve as a stimulating pedagogical tool.

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412

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Routledge

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1136691251

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9781136691256

Alias Bill Arp

Charles Henry Smith and the South's Goodly Heritage

By: David B. Parker

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Alias Bill Arp

Charles Henry Smith and the South's Goodly Heritage

By: David B. Parker

From 1861 to 1903 humorist Charles Henry Smith, writing as Bill Arp, a sly Georgia back-woodsman, was the South's most widely read newspaper columnist. Knowing the immense popularity of Smith's writings historian have suggested that southerners saw him as a voice for their concerns. While the idea that Bill Arp spoke for his region is sound, the intent of the writings has been misconstrued over time, argues David Parker. In Alias Bill Arp, Parker shows that Smith was not a contented observer of the post-Reconstruction New South as is widely inferred from his most widely read work--his syndicated weekly column in the Atlanta Constitution that he began writing in 1878. Considering the full range of Smith's work, Parker says, shows him to be one of the South's harshest critics. After a brief survey of Smith's life, Parker surveys the Bull Arp writings, highlighting their major topics, and explaining what they meant to readers of that era.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820334502

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9780820334509

Routledge Revivals: Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian (1979)

By: David E. E. Sloane

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Routledge Revivals: Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian (1979)

By: David E. E. Sloane

Originally published in 1979, Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian looks at how Mark Twain addressed social issues through humour. The Southwest provided the subject for much of Twain’s writing, but the roots of his style lay principally in north-eastern humour. In the mid-1800s the northern United States underwent social changes that reflected in the writing of the literary humourists like Twain. Sloane argues that he used humour to describe conditions in the emerging middle-class urban experience and express his American vision and that Twain’s views on the human, social, and political conditions, presented through his fictional characters, elevated the use of literary humour in the American novel.

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Routledge

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1351183443

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Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

By: David E. E. Sloane

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Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

By: David E. E. Sloane

The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast brings together works by such writers as Mark Twain, P.T. Barnum, Marietta Holley, and the literary comedians Artemus Ward and Josh Billings. The northern writers chronicled a fast-moving world, dominated by government and business. In this anthology, David Sloane recovers satiric writings of the north-eastern humourists of the nineteenth century, a literary school that was formed in the crucible of the daily newspaper. Written to appeal to a newly urbanized audience experiencing the impact of the Industrial Revolution, these humorous articles, sketches and ballads responded to a rapidly changing nation still clinging to rural preconceptions but at the same time beginning to know a sharper more precarious kind of existence.

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Routledge

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1351181548

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Lincoln: The Fire of Genius

How Abraham Lincoln's Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America

By: David J. Kent

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Lincoln: The Fire of Genius

How Abraham Lincoln's Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America

By: David J. Kent

Abraham Lincoln had a lifelong fascination with science and technology, a fascination that would help institutionalize science, win the Civil War, and propel the nation into the modern age. Readers will learn through Lincoln: The Fire of Genius how science and technology gradually infiltrated Lincoln’s remarkable life and influenced his growing desire to improve the condition of all men. The book traces this progression from a simple farm boy to a president who changed the world. Counter to conventional wisdom, subsistence farming provides a considerable education in agronomic science, forest ecology, hydrology, and even a little civil engineering. Continuing through a lifetime of self-study, curiosity, and hard work, Lincoln became the only President with a patent, advocated for technological advancement as a legislator in Illinois and in Washington, and became the “go-to” western lawyer on technology, and patent cases during his legal career. During the Civil War, Lincoln drew upon his commitment to science and personally encouraged inventors while taking dramatic steps to institutionalize science via the Smithsonian Institution, create the National Academy of Sciences, and initiate the Department of Agriculture. Lincoln’s insistence on high-tech weaponry, balloon surveillance, strategic use of telegraphy, and railroad deployment positioned the North to achieve Union victory.

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345

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Rowman & Littlefield

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149306388X

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9781493063888

A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature

An Annotated Bibliography with Indices

By: David Carson Berry

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A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature

An Annotated Bibliography with Indices

By: David Carson Berry

To the growing list of Pendragon Press publications devoted to the work of Heinrich Schenker, we wish to announce the addition of this much-needed bibliography. The author, a student of Allen Forte, has created a work useful to a wide range of researchers music theorists, musicologists, music librarians and teachers. The Guide is the largest Schenkerian reference work ever published. At nearly 600 pages, it contains 3600 entries (2200 principal, 1400 secondary) representing the work of 1475 authors. Fifteen broad groupings encompass seventy topical headings, many of which are divided and subdivided again, resulting in a total of 271 headings under which entries are collected.

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Pendragon Press

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1576470954

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9781576470954

Lincoln

By: David Herbert Donald

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Lincoln

By: David Herbert Donald

Draws extensively on Lincoln's personal papers and legal writings to present a biography of the president.

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724

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Simon and Schuster

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068482535X

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9780684825359

Impeached

The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy

By: David O. Stewart

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Impeached

The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy

By: David O. Stewart

Historian and Constitution expert David O. Stewart recaps the landmark impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. “The fullest recounting we have of the high politics of that immediate post-Civil War period...Stewart’s graceful style and storytelling ability make for a good read.” —The Washington Post In 1868 Congress impeached President Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, the man who had succeeded the murdered Lincoln, bringing the nation to the brink of a second civil war. Enraged to see the freed slaves abandoned to brutal violence at the hands of their former owners, distraught that former rebels threatened to regain control of Southern state governments, and disgusted by Johnson's brawling political style, congressional Republicans seized on a legal technicality as the basis for impeachment -- whether Johnson had the legal right to fire his own secretary of war, Edwin Stanton. The fiery but mortally ill Congressman Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania led the impeachment drive, abetted behind the scenes by the military hero and president-in-waiting, General Ulysses S. Grant. The Senate trial featured the most brilliant lawyers of the day, along with some of the least scrupulous, while leading political fixers maneuvered in dark corners to save Johnson's presidency with political deals, promises of patronage jobs, and even cash bribes. Johnson escaped conviction by a single vote. David Stewart, the author of the highly acclaimed The Summer of 1787, the bestselling account of the writing of the Constitution, challenges the traditional version of this pivotal moment in American history. Rather than seeing Johnson as Abraham Lincoln's political heir, Stewart explains how the Tennessean squandered Lincoln's political legacy of equality and fairness and helped force the freed slaves into a brutal form of agricultural peonage across the South. When the clash between Congress and president threatened to tear the nation apart, the impeachment process substituted legal combat for violent confrontation. Both sides struggled to inject meaning into the baffling requirement that a president be removed only for "high crimes and misdemeanors," while employing devious courtroom gambits, backstairs spies, and soaring rhetoric. When the dust finally settled, the impeachment process had allowed passions to cool sufficiently for the nation to survive the bitter crisis.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439163324

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9781439163320

Nasby in Exile. Or, Six Months of Travel in England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium, with many Things not of Travel

By: David Ross Locke

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Nasby in Exile. Or, Six Months of Travel in England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium, with many Things not of Travel

By: David Ross Locke

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385399947

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Dangerous Years

Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward

By: David W. Orr

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Dangerous Years

Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward

By: David W. Orr

Considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-winning, internationally recognized leader in the field of sustainability and environmental education, pulls no punches: even with the Paris Agreement of 2015, Earth systems will not reach a new equilibrium for centuries. Earth is becoming a different planet, more threadbare and less biologically diverse, with more acidic oceans and a hotter, more capricious climate. Furthermore, technology will not solve complex problems of sustainability.

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321

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Yale University Press

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0300222815

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9780300222814

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Abe

Abe

"Behind Bayonets"

"Behind Bayonets"

Perspectives on Mass Communication History

Perspectives on Mass Communication History

Alias Bill Arp

Alias Bill Arp

Routledge Revivals: Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian (1979)

Routledge Revivals: Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian (1979)

Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

Lincoln: The Fire of Genius

Lincoln: The Fire of Genius

A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature

A Topical Guide to Schenkerian Literature

Lincoln

Lincoln

Impeached

Impeached

Nasby in Exile. Or, Six Months of Travel in England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium, with many Things not of Travel

Nasby in Exile. Or, Six Months of Travel in England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium, with many Things not of Travel

Dangerous Years

Dangerous Years

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