This unique book combines a brief, comprehensive history of women in the American newspaper business over the last one hundred years with a sharp assessment of their present status. Kay Mills describes how today's women journalists have reached their present positions and argues that the increased presence of women reporters is having an important impact on the kind of news that appears in daily papers.
See, for example, Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008); and Polly Longsworth, Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair and Love Letters of Austin ...
At Home in Nineteenth-Century America draws upon advice manuals, architectural designs, personal accounts, popular fiction, advertising images, and reform literature to revisit the variety of places Americans called home.
First, US multinationals are fundamentally pursuing what he and coauthor William J. Baumol in Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests called the “divergence of interests” from those of their home country.
Discusses the history of America's Founding Fathers through their words and actions but also through the architectural treasures of the homes they built while they conspired to change the world. 17,000 first printing.
[A simple introduction to house design in the United States discussing why particular types of dwellings were built and the people who built them].
Mary Eberstadt offers hard data proving that absent parents are the common denominator of many recent epidemics, including obesity, STDs, attention deficit disorder, and the use of psychiatric medications on even very young children.
America at Home: A Celebration of Twentieth-century Housewares
... The Vermont Experiment,” Stratton Mountain Foundation, June 22–23, 2002. Scott's dedication to Helen in his Making of a Radical is also revealing in this light. The published dedication reads “To Helen, who did half the work.
In Reagan’s America, Garry Wills reveals the realities behind Reagan’s own descriptions of his idyllic boyhood, as well as the story behind his leadership of the Screen Actors Guild, the role religion played in his thinking, and the ...
The Perfect $100,000 House is the story of that quest, a search that takes her from a two-week crash course in housebuilding in Vermont to a road trip of some 14,000 miles.