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Spotlighting School and Community History / by Bee Log Honeybee Historians.;
Subjects: Personal narratives.; Photographs.; General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists.; Bald Mountain; Bee Log Bartist Church; Bee Log Bowl Factory; Bee Log Community; Bee Log Schools; Big Bald Mountain; Big Bald Mountains; Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A; Buck family; Buck House; Buck, David and Pearl; Buck, David; Cane River Railroad; Christmas celebration; Greer, David; Greer, David; Greer's Mountain; Gurney Manufacturing company; Hensley, Carrie; Hensley, Fred; Higgins Community Center; Holland Presbyterian Church; King, Jeff; Logging; Lost cove community; Lost Cove community; Lost Cove Community; Lost cove School; Markle Building; Markle, John; Oast (Doctor); Parker, Mirar; Pate, Arney; Robinson, Martha E; Urquhart, Stanley (Doctor); Wilson, John (Calliforney John); Wilson, John(Calliforney John); Works Progress Administration Program;
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Best loved books for young readers /
v.2. The scarlet pimpernel / Baroness Orczy -- The adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain -- The good earth / Pearl S. Buck -- The merry adventures of Robin Hood / Howard Pyle. v.7. Kidnapped, the adventures of David Balfour / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen -- Wind, sand and stars / Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- Green mansions / W.H. Hudson.A multivolume collection containing condensations of such works as Robinson Crusoe, Green Mansions, Cry, the Beloved Country, and The Red Badge of Courage.
Subjects: Abridgments.; Children's literature.; Literature;
© [1966-], Reader's Digest Association,
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The story Bible / by Buck, Pearl S.(Pearl Sydenstricker),1892-1973.(CARDINAL)139486;
The creation of the world -- The garden of Eden -- Cain and Abel: the first murder -- Noah and the flood -- The tower of Babel -- The journey of Abram and Lot -- The capture of Lot -- God's promise to Abram -- The visit of the strangers -- The fate of Sodom -- The sons of Abraham (the story of Hagar and Ishmael) -- The sacrifice of Isaac -- Rebekah at the well -- Esau loses his birthright -- Jacob tricks his father -- Jacob's ladder -- Rachel and Leah -- Jacob and Laban -- The meeting of Jacob and Esau -- The coat of many colors -- Joseph a captive in Egypt -- Joseph's brothers bow -- Joseph's family in Egypt -- Moses in the bulrushes -- The burning bush -- "Let my people go" -- The night of passover -- Into the wilderness -- The ten commandments -- The cloud moves on from Sinai -- Land of milk and honey -- Joshua fights the battle of Jericho -- Gideon's three hundred -- Samson and Delilah -- The story of Ruth -- Samuel the kingmaker -- David the shepherd boy -- David and Goliath -- The enmity of Saul -- The triumph and tragedy of David -- The wisdom of Solomon -- The division of the kingdom -- Elijah and the prophets of Baal -- Elijah and Elisha -- The story of Jonah -- By the rivers of Babylon -- Daniel -- The homecoming of the Jews -- God's promise to Israel -- The angel Gabriel -- The birth of Jesus -- The boyhood of Jesus -- John the Baptist -- Jesus in the wilderness -- The beginning of the mission -- Jesus in Galilee -- The miracles of Jesus -- The sermon on the mount -- Jesus and John the Baptist -- Parables and miracles in Galilee -- The feeding of the multitude -- Disputes in the temple -- The gathering storm -- The raising of Lazarus -- The way to the cross -- Last hours in the temple -- The Last Supper -- The betrayal -- The trial -- The crucifixion -- He is risen! -- Jesus ascends into heaven."The seventy-two major "story sections" of the Old and New Testaments are emphasized in this living version of the Bible. Each story combines the flavor of history with the excitement of modern fiction so famous in Miss Buck's novels which have entertained millions." -- Cover.
Subjects: Bible stories.; Bible stories, English.;
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Home for Christmas : stories for young and old / by Klein, David,illustrator.(CARDINAL)857100; LeBlanc, Miriam,compiler.(CARDINAL)669349;
Brother robber / Helene Christaller -- Three young kings / George Sumner Albee -- Transfiguration / Madeleine L'Engle -- Willibald's trip to heaven / Reimmichl -- The guest / Nikolai S. Lesskov -- Christmas day in the morning / Pearl S. Buck -- The other wise man / Henry van Dyke -- The miraculous staircase / Arthur Gordon -- No room at the inn / Katherine Paterson -- The chess player / Ger Koopman -- The Christmas lie / Dorothy Thomas -- The riders of St. Nicholas / Jack Schaefer -- Grandfather's stories / Ernst Wiechert -- The vexation of Barney Hatch / B.J. Chase -- The empty cup / Opal Menius -- The well of the star / Elizabeth Goudge -- A certain small shepherd / Rebecca Caudill -- The carpenter's Christmas / Peter K. Rosegger -- What the kings brought / Ruth Sawyer -- The Christmas rose / Selma Lagerlöf.Twenty short stories selected for their literary quality and their spiritual integrity.
Subjects: Literature.; Christmas;
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Adoption : a reference handbook / by Moe, Barbara A.(CARDINAL)756843;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-314) and index.Background and history. Lifelong issues in adoption ; Who adopts children? ; How agencies screen prospective parents: the home study process ; Types of children available for adoption ; Methods (styles) of adoption ; Types of adoption and care ; Possible emotional and health problems ; Laws and policies ; Other information of interest ; Summary -- Issues and controversies. Open versus closed adoption ; Open versus closed records ; Do transcultural and/or transracial adoptions work? ; Should single people be allowed to adopt? ; What about same-sex couples? ; Should the government provide more or less regulation of adoption? ; What about infant abandonment laws? Are they "safe havens," or "baby dumps?" ; What about adoption itself? Is it valuable, or not? ; Summary -- Adoption around the world. Canada ; The United Kingdom ; Russia ; China ; Romania ; South Korea ; Finland ; Sweden ; The Philippines ; India ; Mexico -- Chronology -- Biographical sketches. Viola Wertheim Bernard ; John Bowlby ; Charles Loring Brace ; Pearl S. Buck ; Reverend George Clements ; Dorothy DeBolt and Robert DeBolt ; Michael Dorris ; Marian Wright Edelman ; Vera Fahlberg ; Florence Anna Fisher ; Anna Freud ; Sigmund Freud ; Arnold Gesell ; Clara McBride Hale ; Joan Heifetz Hollinger ; Harry Holt and Bertha Holt ; Patricia Irwin Johnston ; C. Henry Kempe ; H. David Kirk ; Janusz Korczak ; Betty Jean Lifton ; Lois Ruskai Melina ; Jean Paton ; Justine Wise Polier ; Jessie Taft ; Sophie van Senden Theis ; Dave Thomas ; Barbara Tremetiere -- Facts and data. The Children's Bureau ; The Child Welfare Information Gateway ; Data collection history and sources ; Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting Systems (AFCARS) ; Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS) ; What Is the difference between AFCARS and SACWIS? ; AFCARS data ; Federal laws and policy ; Testimony and statements ; Litigation in adoption ; Supporting adoptive families -- Directory of organizations. Federal agencies concerned with adoption ; National resource, educational, support, advocacy, and/or policymaking organizations concerned with adoption ; National legally oriented organizations with adoption connections ; State offices -- Selected print and nonprint resources. Books ; Journals and other periodicals ; Websites ; Videos and DVDs ; CD-ROMs ; Software ; Databases.Discusses issues related to adoption, including parental rights, and transracial/transcultural issues.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Adoption;
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Top 101 reformers, revolutionaries, activists, and change agents / by Faulkner, Nicholas,editor.(CARDINAL)410208;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Jane Addams -- Ai Weiwei -- Muhammad Ali -- Kofi Annan -- Susan B. Anthony -- Ella Baker -- Benazir Bhutto -- Simon Bolivar -- Louis D. Brandeis -- David Ross Brower -- John Brown -- Pearl S. Buck -- Rachel Carson -- Jimmy Carter -- Cesar Estrada Chavez -- Michael Collins -- Dalai Lama -- Charles Darwin -- Eugene V. Debs -- John Dewey -- Frederick Douglass -- W. E. B. Du Bois -- Medgar Wiley Evers -- Henry Ford -- Francis I -- Betty Friedan -- John Kenneth Galbraith -- Galileo -- Indira Gandhi -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Leymah Gbowee -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Mikhail Gorbachev -- Albert Gore, Jr. -- Che Guevara -- Johannes Gutenberg -- Abbie Hoffman -- Jesse Jackson -- Thomas Jefferson -- Joan of Arc -- Saint John Paul II -- Tawakkul Karman -- Florence Kelley -- John F. Kennedy -- John Maynard Keynes -- Billie Jean King -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- John Lennon -- John L. Lewis -- Abraham Lincoln -- Liu Xiaobo -- Martin Luther -- Malcolm X -- Nelson Mandela -- Thurgood Marshall -- Harvey Milk -- Michael Moore -- Lucretia Mott -- John Muir -- A. J. Muste -- Ralph Nader -- Barack Obama -- George Orwell -- Rosa L. Parks -- Frances Perkins -- Wendell Phillips -- Homer Plessy -- A. Philip Randolph -- Paul Robeson -- Jackie Robinson -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Bayard Rustin -- Oscar Arias Sanchez -- Margaret Sanger -- Kailash Satyarthi -- Dred Scott -- Pete Seeger -- Upton Sinclair -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Lincoln Steffens -- Gloria Steinem -- I. F. Stone -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Blessed Mother Teresa -- Margaret Thatcher -- Norman Thomas -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Desmond Tutu -- William Tyndale -- Voltaire -- Lech Walesa -- William Wallace -- Earl Warren -- George Washington -- Cornel West -- Elie Wiesel -- Malala Yousafzai -- Muhammad Yunus.This book provides readers with brief biographies of some of the most important, prolific, and influential change agents of all time.
Subjects: Biographies.; Social reformers; Political activists; Revolutionaries; Social change; Political activists; Social change; Social reformers; Revolutionaries;
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Great American authors since 1650 [videorecording] by Gordon, Scott L.(CARDINAL)277845; Kaczmarek, Jane.; Reeder, Mark.(CARDINAL)277843; Ambrose Video Publishing.(CARDINAL)200627; Centre Communications, Inc.;
v. 1. Program 1: 1650-1845. Anne Bradstreet. Cotton Mather. Phillis Wheatley. Washington Irving. James Fenimore Cooper. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edgar Allen Poe -- Program 2: 1846-1855. Henry David Thoreau. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Herman Melville. Emily Dickinson. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Frederick Douglass. Walt Whitman. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.v. 2. Program 3: 1856-1906. Louisa May Alcott. Henry James. Mark Twain. Upton Sinclair. Stephen Crane. O. Henry. Willa Cather. Theodore Dreiser. Jack London. Sherwood Anderson -- Program 4: 1907-1925. William Carlos Williams. Carl Sandburg. Edith Wharton. e.e. cummings. Ezra Pound. T.S. Eliot. Henry Miller. Robert Frost. F. Scott Fitzgerald.v. 3. Program 5: 1926-1939. Thomas Wolfe. William Faulkner. Sinclair Lewis. Pearl Buck. Eugene O'Neill. John Steinbeck -- Program 6: 1940-1949. Ernest Hemingway. James Thurber. Robert Heinlein. Ray Bradbury. Isaac Asimov. Tennessee Williams. Arthur Miller.v. 4. Program 7: 1950-1957. Gwendolyn Brooks. J.D. Salinger. Sylvia Plath. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Jack Kerouac. Dr. Seuss -- Program 8: 1958-Present. Lorraine Hansberry. Joseph Heller. Truman Capote. Kurt Vonnegut. John Updike. Amy Tan. Toni Morrison. Alice Walker. August Wilson. Cormac McCarthy.Presenter, Jane Kaczmarek.Presents the lives and literary output of more than 60 of America's most read authors in concise, stand-alone segments presented in chronological order.System requirements to access teacher's guide: PC; Windows; Adobe Acrobat Reader; DVD-ROM drive.
Subjects: Biographical television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; American literature; Authors, American;
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The book of great books : a guide to 100 world classics / by Campbell, W. John,1951-(CARDINAL)737927;
Subjects: Plot summaries.; Literature; Literature; Characters and characteristics in literature.; Books and reading.;
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More stories for the heart : over 100 stories to warm your heart / by Gray, Alice,1939-(CARDINAL)749693; Gray, Alice,1939-(CARDINAL)749693;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-299).Compassion -- Comforting / Charles Swindoll -- I Want That One / Charles Stanley -- He Needed a Son -- Little Flower / James McCutcheon -- Significance / R. C. Sproul -- Information Please / Paul Villiard -- Beethoven's Gift / Philip Yancey -- At the Winter Feeder / John Leax -- Lonesome -- Make Me Like Joe! / Tony Campolo -- Lady, are You Rich? / Marion Doolan -- To My Neighbor / Mother Teresa -- A Guy Named Bill / Rebecca Manley Pippert, Alice Gray -- Autumn Dance / Robin Jones Gunn -- To My Nurses -- A Second Chance / Billy Graham -- Eternal Harmony / John MacArthur, Casandra Lindell -- Are You God? / Charles Swindoll -- Words Must Wait / Ruth Bell Graham -- Encouragement -- The Secret / Paul Harvey -- Mr. Roth -- I Don't Believe a Word Of It / Howard Hendricks -- A Perfect Pot of Tea / Roberta Messner -- Encouraging Words / Susan Maycinik -- Three Letters From Teddy / Elizabeth Silance Ballard -- The Comfort of a Cold, Wet Nose / Barbara Baumgardner -- Giving and Receiving / Billie Davis -- Teacher Dan / Marilyn McAuley -- The Mender / Ruth Bell Graham -- Long Range Vision / Howard Hendricks -- The Red Coat / Melody Carlson -- The Young Widow / Alice Gray -- Michael's Story Begins at Age Six / Charlotte Elmore -- Another Chance / H. Stephen Glenn, Jane Nelsen -- Come in Together / Stu Weber -- First Things / Tony Campolo -- Virtue -- Forgiveness -- These Things I Wish for You / Paul Harvey -- Why I'm a Sports Mom / Judy Bodmer -- To Whom Shall I Leave My Kingdom? / Donald E. Wildmon -- The Magnadoodle Message / Liz Curtis Higgs -- Beauty Contest / Carla Muir -- Bouquet / David Seamands -- Olympic Gold / Catherine Swift -- A Candy Bar / Doris Sanford -- What to Listen for / Tim Hansel -- Good Turn / Nola Bertelson -- Behind the Quick Sketch / Joni Eareckson Tada -- Androclus and the Lion / Autus Gellius, Casandra Lindell -- Gossip / Billy Graham -- The Toe-Tapper / Joan Sparks -- Taking Sides / Zig Ziglar -- The Dress / Margaret Jensen -- Distant Relatives / Carla Muir -- It's More Than a Job / Charles Swindoll -- A Tender Warrior / Stu Weber -- Love -- Oneness -- The Pencil Box / Doris Sanford -- She's My Precious / Robertson McQuilkin -- The Final Bid / Robert Strand -- The Good Stuff / Robert Fulghum -- Shooooppping! / Gary Smalley -- Heirloom / Ann Weems, Alice Gray -- It Happened on the Brooklyn Subway / Paul Deutschman -- Love is a Grandparent / Erma Bombeck -- Love From the Heart / Chad Miller -- Extraordinary People / Jo Ann Larsen -- 50 Promises for Marriage / Steve Stephens -- The Treasure / Alice Gray -- That Little China Chip / Bettie B. Youngs -- The Dance / Thelda Bevens -- Don't Forget What Really Matters / Paul Harvey -- The Last "I Love You" / Debbi Smoot -- Family -- A Moment in Time / Matthew Norquist -- When Grown Kids Come to Visit / Erma Bombeck -- Running Away / Christopher de Vinck -- Why My Wife Bought Handcuffs / Philip Gulley -- Too Busy / Ron Mehl -- When the Moon Doesn't Shine / Ruth Senter -- Father's Day: a Tribute / Max Lucado -- Releasing the Arrow / Stu Weber -- Laughter in the Walls / Bob Benson -- Dad's Helper / Ron Mehl -- Legacy of an Adopted Child the Gift / George Parler -- Papa's Sermon -- Alone Time for Mom / Crystal Kirgiss -- Words for Your Family / Gary Smalley, John Trent -- Gift of Love / James Dobson -- A Mother's Way / Temple Bailey -- Tender Intuition / Robin Jones Gunn -- Slippery Risks / Heather Harpham Kopp -- Family Vacations and Other Threats to Marriage / Philip Gulley -- When God Created Fathers / Erma Bombeck -- Life -- No Box / Kenneth Caraway -- Lookin' Good / Patsy Clairmont -- A Street Vendor Named Contentment / Max Lucado -- Death and the Dawn / Pearl S. Buck -- Growing Roots / Philip Gulley -- Perspective / Marilyn McAuley -- Saving the Broken Pieces / Robert Schuller -- Train to Barcelona / Jori Senter Stuart -- Sandcastles / Max Lucado -- The Crazy Quilt / Melody Carlson -- One Man's Junk...Another Man's Treasure / Ron Mehl -- Commence Prayer / Charles Swindoll -- Secret Cracks and Crevices / Melody Carlson -- Back on Course / Sandy Snavely -- Redwood Canyon / Casandra Lindell -- Life Begins at 80 -- Bus Stop / Patsy Clairmont -- Faith -- Seeing God -- Cinderella / Max Lucado -- A New Perspective / Billy Graham -- Treasures in Heaven / Bob Welch -- Hide and Seek / Brother David Steindl-Rast, Brennan Manning -- The Lamplighter / Marilyn McAuley -- Soft Cries / Ruth Bell Graham -- Spiritual Hero / James Dobson -- Drifting / Tony Evans -- Only Glimpses / Alice Gray -- The Castle of God's Love / Larry Libby -- A Vision of Forgiveness / Gigi Tchividjian -- A Meeting of the Minds / Kevin Keller -- Frightened Sparrows / Paul Harvey, Philip Yancey -- Running for Daddy! / Kay Arthur -- Real Treasure / Robin Jones Gunn -- Calm in the Storm / Ron Mehl -- A Parable of God's Perspective / Robin Jones, Casandra Lindell -- Worship and Worry / Ruth Bell Graham -- Are all the Children in? -- Making Adjustments / Ron Mehl -- The Artist -- Ragman / Walter J. Wangerin -- The Bells are Ringing / James Dobson -- Heaven.Inspirational Christian stories "by Billy Graham, Max Lucado, James Dobson, Chuck Swindoll, Ruth Graham, Erma Bombeck, Paul Harvey, and more."
Subjects: Anecdotes.; Christian life; Christian life; Encouragement; Love;
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One man's America : the pleasures and provocations of our singular nation / by Will, George F.(CARDINAL)160702;
I. PEOPLE. The fun of William F. Buckley -- Buckley: a life athwart history -- David Brinkley: proud anachronism -- Barry Goldwater: "Cheerful Malcontent" -- John F. Kennedy's thoughts on death -- Eugene McCarthy: The tamarack tree of American politics -- What George McGovern made -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan: the senate's sisyphus -- John Kenneth Galbraith's liberalism as condescension -- Milton Friedman: ebullient master of the dismal science -- Alan Greenspan: high-achieving minimalist -- The not-at-all dull George Washington -- George Washington's long journey home -- John Marshall: the most important American never to have been president -- James Madison: well, yes, of course -- Longfellow: a forgotten founder -- Ronald Reagan: the steel behind the smile -- Reagan and the vicissitudes of historical judgments -- John Paul II: "A flame rescued from dry wood" -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali: an enlightenment fundamentalist -- Hugh Hefner: tuning fork of American fantasies -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti: the emeritus beat as tourist attraction -- Buck Owen's Bakersfield Sound -- Andrew Nesbitt: 79-lb. master of Tourette Syndrome -- Simeon Wright's grace --II. PATHS TO THE PRESENT. The most important American war you know next-to-nothing about -- The amazing banality of flight -- The price of misreading the prairie sky -- A range of mountains on the move -- The emblematic novel of the 1930s (Gone with the Wind) -- All quiet at the overpass -- FDR's transformation of liberalism -- Retailers give thanks for Thanksgiving (and FDR) -- FDR's Christmas guest from hell -- "My place is with my shipmates" -- An anthem of American optimism in 1943 -- When war WAS the answer -- Catching up to Captain Philip -- The most fateful heart attack in American history -- How Ike's highways helped heal Civil War wounds -- The short, unhappy life of the Edsel -- The 50s in our rearview mirror -- 2002: superstitions are bad luck -- 2003: lingerie and duct tape -- 2004: The Passion of the Christ and the passions of the faculty clubs -- 2005: "In lieu of flowers, please send acerbic letters to Republicans" -- 2006: "Go ahead, we will get into one of the other boats" -- 2007: Ready, fire, aim --III. GOVERNING. The two Americans: hard and soft -- Angela Job's resilience -- Against "national greatness conservatism" -- Summa contra Reagan nostalgia -- The left's plea for materialistic politics -- Constitutional monomania -- Judicial activism, wise and not -- The hard truth about "soft rights" -- Oologah's, and America's, slide -- A fraudulent "fairness" -- Policing speech in Oakland -- Liberalism's itch in Minneapolis -- Chicago: from the White City to the Green City -- Our moralizing tax code -- "Electronic morphine" on the Ohio River -- Prohibition II: interestingly selective -- Being green at Ben & Jerry's -- The tyranny of the small picture -- Draining the reservoir of reverence -- United 93: "we've go to do it ourselves" -- Nothing changes everything --IV. SENSIBILITIES AND SENSITIVITIES. Narcissism as news -- The speciesism of featherless bipeds -- What we owe to what we eat -- The Holocaust: handcrafted -- The "daring" of the avant-garde yet again -- Anti-Semitism across the political spectrum -- When Harry remet Hanne -- Cars as mobile sculpture -- Hog heaven: happy one hundredth, Harley -- Restoration at 346 Madison -- Starbucks, Nail salons, and the aesthetic imperative -- Manners vs. social autism -- A punctuation vigilante -- America's literature of regret -- Chief Illiniwek and the indignation industry -- Christmas at our throats -- V. LEARNING. National amnesia and planting cut flowers -- A sensory blitzkrieg of surfaces -- "Philosophy teaching by examples" -- Fascinating contingencies -- Ed Schools vs. Education -- This just in from the professors: conservatism is a mental illness -- The law of group polarization in academia -- Antioch College's epitaph -- A scholar's malfeasance gunned down -- Juggling scarves in the therapeutic nation -- Nature, nurture, and Larry Summer's sin -- AP Harry applies to college -- Teaching minnows the pleasure of precision --VI. GAMES. Raising Michael Oher -- The man from Moro Bottom -- "Rammer Jammer Yellowhammer!" -- Randy Shannon's realism -- The NFL: an intensification of reality -- Speaking SportsCenterese -- The movie, and the truth, about Texas Western -- VII. THE GAME. "Remember 1908!" -- Jackie Robinson: the possible and the inevitable -- Ted Williams: "I can't stand it, I'm so good" -- Roberto Clemente: "We think he can hit" -- Greg Maddux: "Watch this: the first-base coach may be going to the hospital" -- Take me out to the Metric -- Elias knows EVERYTHING -- The game's gifted eccentrics -- Don't beat a dead horse in the mouth -- The Golden Age -- Pet Rose, always hustling -- The precious, precarious equipoise -- Barry Bonds: enhanced and devalued -- The methodical Mr. Aaron -- Realism among the RiverDogs -- Striving for motel years -- Seeking anonymous perfection -- "Where's baseball?" --VIII. WONDERING. Incest at "a genetically discreet remove" -- An intellectual hijacking -- From Dayton, TN to Rhode Island's Committee on Fish and Game -- Earth: not altogether intelligently designed -- Intelligent design and unintelligent movies -- The Pope, the neurosurgeon, and the ghost in the machine -- How biology buttresses morality, which conforms to . . . biology -- The Space Program's search for . . . us -- Nuclear waste: that's us -- The loudest sound in human experience -- L = BB + pw + BC/BF -- Wonder what we are for? wondering -- IX. MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH. Golly, what did Jon DO? -- The long dying of Louise Will.America's most widely read and most influential commentator casts his gimlet eye on our singular nation. Moving far beyond the strict confines of politics, George F. Will offers a fascinating look at the people, stories, and events--often unheralded--that make the American drama so endlessly entertaining and instructive. With Will's signature erudition and wry wit always on display, One Man's America chronicles a spectacular, eclectic procession of figures who have shaped our cultural landscape--from Playboy founder Hugh Hefner to National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr., from Victorian poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, from cotton picker--turned--country singer Buck Owens to actor-turned-president Ronald Reagan. Will crisscrosses the country to illuminate what it is that makes America distinctive. He visits the USS Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor and ponders its enduring links to the present. He travels to Milwaukee to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of an iconic brand, Harley-Davidson. In Los Angeles he finds the inspiring future of education, while in New York he confronts the dispiriting didacticism of the avant-garde. He ventures to the Civil War battlefields of Virginia to explore what we risk when we efface our own history. And on the outskirts of Chicago he investigates one of the darkest chapters in American history, only to discover a shining example of resilience and grace--the best the country has to offer.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Biographies.; Will, George F.; National characteristics, American.; Popular culture; Political culture; Journalists;
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