Provides a visual tour of American history, exploring forgotten and overlooked people, places, events, and achievements that have contributed to America's rich legacy
An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.
It can be built one brick at a time from the ground up on America's Sacred Ground. ... This is just one framework among many possible choices that could make a claim on “general and/or universal” grounds that, in fact, is as morally ...
"Significant monuments, memorials and artifacts found in our Nation's capital are Creator-endowed as seen through a walk through tour of Washington DC"--Provided by publisher.
In Rediscovering America, John Agresto urges a return to the founding principles of our republic in order to revive the great American experiment.
Bensel, Yankee Leviathan, 1–2 114. Bensel, Yankee Leviathan. 115. George Boutwell, quoted in W. Elliot Brownlee, Funding the Modern American State, 1941–1995: The Rise and Fall of the Era of Easy Finance (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson ...
Beyond the anecdotal—what Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate coverage did for the Washington Post —there was evidence that the influence model worked. Although not the most determinative factor of circulation, superior newspaper quality ...
For a start there’s the gloriously out-of-shape Stephen Katz, a buddy from Iowa along for the walk. But A Walk in the Woods is more than just a laugh-out-loud hike.
... were the surest us Carolyn Merchant , The death of nature ( San Francisco : Harper and Row , 1980 ) , 164-253 . 16 John Locke , The educational writings , ed . James Axtell ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1968 ) , 325 .
pay tribute to his methods.14 For Penn, even in contact with the Indians, and not merely as an idea, treated them humanely, ... William Penn's Own Account of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians, which is still referenced to this day.
Asserts the need for Americans to reclaim their traditional values of freedom, democracy and fairness and offers alternatives to accepting political and economic absolutes