Author: Richard Orr CurryPublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This volume contains eleven essays on the American concept of individualism.
American Chameleon
Author: Richard Orr CurryPublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This volume contains eleven essays on the American concept of individualism.
The American Chameleon
Author: William WhitePublisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN: 9780806935324
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Discusses the anatomy, life cycle, behavior, and care of the American chameleon.
The American Chameleon
Author: W. WhiteThe American Naturalist
Author: The American Chameleon and Its Care
Author: Made in America
Author: Claude S. FischerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226251454
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
Our nation began with the simple phrase, “We the People.” But who were and are “We”? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radically different America of today? With Made in America, Claude S. Fischer draws on decades of historical, psychological, and social research to answer that question by tracking the evolution of American character and culture over three centuries. He explodes myths—such as that contemporary Americans are more mobile and less religious than their ancestors, or that they are more focused on money and consumption—and reveals instead how greater security and wealth have only reinforced the independence, egalitarianism, and commitment to community that characterized our people from the earliest years. Skillfully drawing on personal stories of representative Americans, Fischer shows that affluence and social progress have allowed more people to participate fully in cultural and political life, thus broadening the category of “American” —yet at the same time what it means to be an American has retained surprising continuity with much earlier notions of American character. Firmly in the vein of such classics as The Lonely Crowd and Habits of the Heart—yet challenging many of their conclusions—Made in America takes readers beyond the simplicity of headlines and the actions of elites to show us the lives, aspirations, and emotions of ordinary Americans, from the settling of the colonies to the settling of the suburbs.
Chameleon Days
Author: Tim BascomPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547346476
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
“Moves beyond a compelling personal story to shed radiant light on history itself . . . an essential chronicle of midcentury American idealism.” —Patricia Hampl, author of The Art of the Wasted Day In 1964, at the age of three, Tim Bascom is thrust into a world of eucalyptus trees and stampeding baboons when his family moves from the Midwest to Ethiopia. The unflinchingly observant narrator of this memoir reveals his missionary parents’ struggles in a sometimes hostile country. Sent reluctantly to boarding school in the capital, young Tim finds that beyond the gates enclosing that peculiar, isolated world, conflict roils Ethiopian society. When secret riot drills at school are followed with an attack by rampaging students near his parents’ mission station, Tim witnesses the disintegration of his family’s African idyll as Haile Selassie’s empire begins to crumble. Like Alexandra Fuller’s Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Chameleon Days chronicles social upheaval through the keen yet naive eyes of a child. Bascom offers readers a fascinating glimpse of missionary life, much as Barbara Kingsolver did in The Poisonwood Bible. “Such precision in voice earned Bascom the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Bakeless Prize, and his smartly naïve observations grow more sophisticated as the country succumbs to political unrest in the 1970s and missionary life becomes uncertain. Nostalgic but not overwrought, Bascom’s memoir is accented with casual family snapshots like ribbons on the gift of a gently captured place in time.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Bascom, son of missionaries, illuminates the Ethiopia of his childhood in this Bakeless Prize–winning memoir . . . A stirring tribute to a turbulent, beautifully evoked era.” —Kirkus Reviews
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
Book Description
A-E
Author: Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging PolicyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1548
Book Description
American Animals
Author: Witmer StonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description