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Daniel Boone

An American Life

By: Michael Lofaro

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The embodiment of the American hero, the man of action, the pathfinder, Daniel Boone represents the great adventure of his age—the westward movement of the American people. Daniel Boone: An American Life brings together over thirty years of research in an extraordinary biography of the quintessential pioneer. Based on primary sources, the book depicts Boone through the eyes of those who knew him and within the historical contexts of his eighty-six years. The story of Daniel Boone offers new insights into the turbulent birth and growth of the nation and demonstrates why the frontier forms such a significant part of the American experience.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813128862

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9780813128863

The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone

By: Michael A. Lofaro

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The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone

By: Michael A. Lofaro

Chronological account of the adventuresome life of the American hero, explorer, Indian fighter and leader of the western frontier expansionary movement that regards him within his historical era and distinguishes between reality and popular legend.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813115930

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9780813115931

Daniel Boone

An American Life

By: Michael Lofaro

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An American Life

By: Michael Lofaro

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Western Rivermen, 1763–1861

Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse

By: Michael R. Allen

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Western Rivermen, 1763–1861

Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse

By: Michael R. Allen

Western Rivermen, the first documented sociocultural history of its subject, is a fascinating book. Michael Allen explores the rigorous lives of professional boatmen who plied non-steam vessels—flatboats, keelboats, and rafts—on the Ohio and lower Mississippi rivers from 1763-1861. Allen first considers the mythical “half horse, half alligator” boatmen who were an integral part of the folklore of the time. Americans of the Jacksonian and pre-Civil War period perceived the rivermen as hard-drinking, straight-shooting adventurers on the frontier. Their notions were reinforced by romanticized portrayals of the boatmen in songs, paintings, newspaper humor, and literature. Allen contends that these mythical depictions of the boatmen were a reflection of the yearnings of an industrializing people for what they thought to be a simpler time. Allen demonstrates, however, that the actual lives of the rivermen little resembled their portrayals in popular culture. Drawing on more than eighty firsthand accounts—ranging from a short letter to a four-volume memoir—he provides a rounded view of the boatmen that reveals the lonely, dangerous nature of their profession. He also discusses the social and economic aspects of their lives, such as their cargoes, the river towns they visited, and the impact on their lives of the steamboat and advancing civilization. Allen’s comprehensive, highly informative study sheds new light on a group of men who played an important role in the development of the trans-Appalachian West and the ways in which their lives were transformed into one of the enduring themes of American folk culture.

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284

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LSU Press

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0807119075

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9780807119075

Mystic Chords of Memory

The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

By: Michael Kammen

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Mystic Chords of Memory

The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

By: Michael Kammen

Mystic Chords of Memory "Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic." —Washington Post Book World In this ground-breaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine That Would Go of Itself examines a central paradox of our national identity How did "the land of the future" acquire a past? And to what extent has our collective memory of that past—as embodied in our traditions—have been distorted, or even manufactured? Ranging from John Adams to Ronald Reagan, from the origins of Independence Day celebrations to the controversies surrounding the Vietnam War Memorial, from the Daughters of the American Revolution to immigrant associations, and filled with incisive analyses of such phenonema as Americana and its collectors, "historic" villages and Disneyland, Mystic Chords of Memory is a brilliant, immensely readable, and enormously important book. "Fascinating . . . a subtle and teeming narrative . . . masterly." —Time "This is a big, ambitious book, and Kammen pulls it off admirably. . . . [He] brings a prodigious mind and much scholarly rigor to his task . . . an importnat book—and a revealing look at how Americans look at themselves." —Milwaukee Journal

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879

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Vintage

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0307761401

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9780307761408

An Economy of Abundant Beauty

Fortune Magazine and Depression America

By: Michael Augspurger

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An Economy of Abundant Beauty

Fortune Magazine and Depression America

By: Michael Augspurger

We have made a breakthrough from an economy of scarcity to an economy of abundance," Henry Luce noted more than twenty years after founding Fortune magazine. "Can we make the breakthrough from an economy of abundance to an economy of abundant beauty?" Michael Augspurger's attractively illustrated book examines Fortune's surprising role in American struggles over artistic and cultural authority during the Depression and the Second World War. The elegantly designed magazine, launched in the first months of the Depression, was not narrowly concerned with moneymaking and finance. Indeed the magazine displayed a remarkable interest in art, national culture, and the "literature of business." Fortune's investment in art was not simply an attempt to increase the social status of business. It was, Augspurger argues, an expression of the editors' sincere desire to develop a moral capitalism. Optimistically believing that the United States had entered a new economic era, the liberal business minds behind Fortune demanded that material progress be translated into widespread leisure and artistic growth. A thriving national culture, the magazine believed, was as crucial a sign of economic success as material abundance and technological progress. But even as the "enlightened" business ideology of Fortune grew into the economic common sense of the 1950s, the author maintains, the magazine's cultural ideals struggled with and eventually succumbed to the professional criticism of the postwar era.

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310

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Cornell University Press

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0801442044

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9780801442049

David Crockett

The Lion of the West

By: Michael Wallis

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David Crockett

The Lion of the West

By: Michael Wallis

A biography of the legendary frontiersman, soldier, and martyr examines his life--from hunting bears in the unspoiled countryside to helping defend the Alamo--and aims to dispel long-held myths.

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417

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393067580

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9780393067583

David Crockett: The Lion of the West

By: Michael Wallis

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David Crockett: The Lion of the West

By: Michael Wallis

Vivid, Comprehensible . . . cuts through decades of mythmaking." —Texas Monthly Popular culture transformed his memory into “Davy Crockett,” and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. In this surprising New York Times bestseller, historian Michael Wallis has cast a fresh look at the flesh-and-blood man behind one of the most celebrated figures in American history. More than a riveting story, Wallis’s David Crockett is a revelatory, authoritative biography that separates fact from fiction and provides us with an extraordinary evocation of not only a true American hero but also the rough-and-tumble times in which he lived.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393081443

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9780393081442

Davy Crockett's Riproarious Shemales and Sentimental Sisters

Women’s Tall Tales from the Crockett Almanacs, 1835–1856

By: Michael Lofaro

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Davy Crockett's Riproarious Shemales and Sentimental Sisters

Women’s Tall Tales from the Crockett Almanacs, 1835–1856

By: Michael Lofaro

The legendary feats of Davy Crockett, who could tree a ghost, ride his thirty-seven-foot-long alligator up Niagara Falls, and drink up the Mississippi River, are common knowledge to devotees of this nineteenth-century comic superhero. But what may come as a surprise to many is that the legendary frontiersman also served as the fictional narrator of a collection of outrageous tall tales about women in the same Crocket Almanacs in which he “recorded” his own adventures. Conceived as a marketing device by nineteenth-century publishers hoping to gain a share of the lucrative almanac market, such stories made these slim volumes the best-selling and longest-running series of comic almanacs published in the United States before the Civil War. Booking back at them now, the Crocket Almanacs offer a true “fun house mirror” view of the culture of antebellum America.

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353

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Stackpole Books

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0811753697

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9780811753692

The Politics of Manhood

Profeminist Men Respond to the Mythopoetic Men's Movement (and the Mythopoetic Leaders Answer)

By: Michael Kimmel

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The Politics of Manhood

Profeminist Men Respond to the Mythopoetic Men's Movement (and the Mythopoetic Leaders Answer)

By: Michael Kimmel

A much-needed, often startling debate on the personal and political dimensions of masculinity.

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402

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Temple University Press

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1439901465

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9781439901465

Money to Burn

By: Michael Mewshaw

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Money to Burn

By: Michael Mewshaw

In 1985, tobacco heiress Margaret Benson and two of her children were victims of a car bombing. One year later, her surviving son was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders. Here is the story of what may have been a travesty of justice resulting in the conviction of an innocent man.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743222369

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9780743222365

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