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Author
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xxxix, 698 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A selection of Tocqueville's writings on America together with letters and sketches from his traveling companion, Gustave de Beaumont.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In [this book], acclaimed historian Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era. Americans have been wary of almost every group of foreigners that has come to the United States. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed German immigrants for their 'strange...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
670 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Regeneration through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim the land and displace the Native Americans. Using the popular literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries - including captivity...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and work of Orson Welles in the context of the era that included the Great Depression, World War II, Jim Crow, and the House Un-American Activities Committee. Explores the relationships between Welles and other key figures of the times, including Franklin D. Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst. Told in parallel with Welles's story are those of Isaac Woodard, an African American soldier who was the victim of a violent racist attack,...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The office of the presidency stands at the center of a contentious, and even violent, debate over what it means to be an American. Defying nearly every prediction, Donald Trump won the 2016 election by appealing to a vaguely-defined, "great" American past, boasting he would reinvigorate an emasculated American nation beleaguered by dangerous foreigners, duplicitous Washington elites, and an entrenched liberal establishment promoting gender equality...
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