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[2021]
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English
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"What does it take to be a good American? And who gets to decide? Journalist Jess McHugh examines thirteen seemingly innocuous, mega-bestselling reference books, guidebooks, and self-help books that have become blueprints for core American values and shaped our national story"--
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[2017]
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English
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A book on the life and work and creative inspirations of Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only grown in his stature and recognition as a major American artist. Jonathan Cott first interviewed Maurice Sendak in 1976 for Rolling Stone, just at the time when Outside Over There, the concluding volume of a trilogy that began with Where The Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, was gestating. Over the course of their conversation about...
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English
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"When America entered World War II in 1941, [it] faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations. In 1943, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million small, lightweight paperbacks, for troops to carry...
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2020.
Language
English
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"[A] book critic of The Washington Post digs into the books of the Trump era and ... [asserts] that our response to this presidency often reflects the same polarization, contradictions, and resentments that made it possible"--
As a book critic for The Washington Post, Lozada has read some 150 volumes claiming to diagnose why Trump was elected and what his presidency reveals about our nation. Now he uses these books to tell the story of how we understand...
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
Representative and comprehensive view of the range or writers and writer-artists who played vital roles in creating "Childhood's Golden Era." Also includes entries on writers and individuals who have significantly influenced the writing and art of others for children.
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
Essays on American writers for children during the period between 1960 and the mid-1980s. Focus is given to the major themes and trends that were evolving in children's literature at this time: child abuse; separation and divorce; sexual mores; drug abuse; insights into death and the meaning of life; regional, national, and international social issues and concerns; historical fiction illuminating contemporary issues through parallel past experiences...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm. A conduit to the literature of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Blanche also legitimized the hard-boiled detective fiction of writers...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many areregistered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining democracy, generations of library patrons...
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