A History of Women in America
From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces the development of women’s roles in America. Against the backdrop of major historical events and movements, the authors examine the issues that changed the roles and lives of women in our society. Includes photographs.
Ten Hours Until Dawn : the True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
FROM THE PUBLISHER “In the midst of the blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls and immediately dispatched a patrol boat. Within an hour, the Coast Guard boat was in as much trouble as the tanker, having […]
Divided by God : America\’s Church-state Problem– and What We Should Do About It
Library Journal Review : Starred Review. Feldman (NYU Law School; What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building) traces the evolution of the role of religion in American political life from the Colonial period to the present, paying particular attention to the development of legal doctrines. The First Amendment stipulates that Congress […]
Good Poems for Hard Times: Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor
FROM THE PUBLISHER: When Garrison Keillor published Good Poems, he touched a chord in readersacross America. The anthology of poems he selected for their ?wit, their simplicity, their passion, and their utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with? inspired thousands to buy what was for many their first […]
The Fate of Africa : From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair : a History of Fifty Years of Independence
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. The value of Meredith’s towering history of modern Africa rests not so much in its incisive analysis, or its original insights; it is the sheer readability of the project, combined with a notable lack of pedantry, that makes it one of the decade’s most important works on Africa. Spanning the […]
1491 : New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. In a riveting and fast-paced history, massing archeological, anthropological, scientific and literary evidence, Mann debunks much of what we thought we knew about pre-Columbian America. Reviewing the latest, not widely reported research in Indian demography, origins and ecology, Mann zestfully demonstrates that long before any European explorers set foot in […]
Garbage Land : On the Secret Trail of Trash
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Royte (The Tapir's Morning Bath) reminds us that what we dispose of is a window on our culture and consumption habits. Determined to follow the path of household trash, sewage, and recyclables, she began by visiting the New York City Department of Sanitation (she lives in Brooklyn) and accompanying sanitation […]
Our Fathers' War : Growing Up in the Shadow of the Greatest Generation
Donated to the library by Frederic Winslow in memory of Albert Copp. Publisher Weekly Review: After more than 30 years at Newsweek, where he served as New York bureau chief among other roles, Mathews (Hazardous Duty) turned to writing books, often centering his fiction and nonfiction around the military. His latest project finds him, at […]
Eat Yourself Healthy
Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004
Hertzberg collects 121 of his published essays on the American political scene, nearly half drawn from his “Comment” pieces for the New Yorker. Styling himself a social democrat of the European variety, as well as a liberal Democrat of the American breed, he comments on a broad range of political events, figures, and processes, including […]