what was the topic of the book the other america?
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The Other America: Poverty in the United States The book, entitled “The Other America: Poverty in the United States”, shocked the rather small audience that actually read the book with the premise that nearly one-fourth of the United States population was living at or below the poverty line.
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper & Brothers on November 12, 1880. Considered the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century, it became a best-selling American novel, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) in sales.he Christian world would not tolerate a novel with Jesus Christ its hero, and I knew it ... He should not be present as an actor in any scene of my creation. The giving a cup of water to Ben-Hur at the well near Nazareth is the only violation of this rule ...
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- Preview — The Quiet American by Graham Greene. The Quiet American. I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused, Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous Quiet American of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career.
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- 1964 edition published by Harper & Row. A Nation of Immigrants (ISBN 978-0-06-144754-9) is a book on American immigration by President John F. Kennedy.
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Highly Recommended Teaching Movies American History â High School Level A Raisin in the Sun — The first Broadway play to explore the lives of a black family, this classic play also shows some of the effects of racism and discrimination. The Right Stuff — In the 1950s there was no rival to American technology, or so most Americans thought. But then, the Russians put up Sputnilk and the U.S. was suddenly way behind in the space race. This is the story of America's first astronauts, the men in the cockpit in the effort by the U.S. to catch the Russians.
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The Other Side of Dark And wow, what a story. The Other Side of Dark is written in alternative POV's - Law Walker, son of well-known African-American history professor - bent on the destruction of Pinebank - and his white, architectural historian mother - bent on the preservation of Pinebank.
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Rage In a keynote address King delivered to the Vermont Library Conference, he explored the complex sociological and cultural issues surrounding this novel and its apparent link to school shootings, which he placed within the broader context of America's fixation on violence. The Carneal incident was enough for me.
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Banned Books That Shaped America Below is a list of books from that exhibit that have been banned/challenged. The first ban of Mark Twain’s American classic in Concord, MA in 1885 called it “trash and suitable only for the slums.” Objections to the book have evolved, but only marginally.
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- Henry Clay: The Essential American and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.
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The new book 'The Other Slavery' will make you rethink American history But it’s not necessary to be into history to understand its power: Our world is still the world Reséndez so eloquently anatomizes. Treuer is the author of Prudence, a novel, and Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life.. :: The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America.
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- May 12 2015 10:19 AM Noah Emmerich on His Journey to The Truman Show and The Americans The co-star of FX’s The Americans talks about his career, his craft, and his initial hesitation about pursuing a “badge-and-gun” role on television. Brian Koppelman.
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Communism Prophet David O. McKay (1873 - 1970): “Well, the era through which we are passing is no exception. On the flyleaf of the book, The Naked Communist, by W. Cleon Skousen, we find this quotation, (and I admonish everybody to read that excellent book of Chief Skousen's) : ‘the conflict between communism and freedom is the problem of our time. It overshadows all other problems.
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- Written by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan, Narrated by Claire Hamilton, Timothy Miller. Download the app and start listening to The ONE Thing today - Free with a 30 day Trial! Keep your audiobook forever, even if you cancel. Don't love a book? Swap it for free, anytime.
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Rifle bedding: How to bed a match rifle I ordered the following products from Brownells: 1  Marine-Tex epoxy (904-301-102) 2  Modeling clay (046-100-002) 3  Acra-Release, release agent (081-028-000) 4  Multi-Vise (080-000-019) 5  1/4″ Carbide end mill (317-111-250)
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American Gods American Gods is an Award-winning novel by Neil Gaiman. The story is a blend of Americana, fantasy, and various strands of ancient and modern mythology, all centering on a mysterious and taciturn protagonist, Shadow.
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- Professor of history at Ohio State University, Mitchell Lerner is the author of The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy. Professor Lerner received his B.A. from Brandeis University and Ph.D. from University of Texas-Austin.
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"""What Is an American"" Speech Analysis" “What is an American?” This speech, given by Harold Ickes in May of 1941, banded its audience together in a fight for World War II. The speech can be classified as many different things; some might say that it is persuasive, others motivational.
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- The Wrong Stuff-by Truman Smith The adventures and mis-adventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator. A romantic WWII high adventure historical biography of Ponca City's Truman Smith when he was a 20-year-old combat pilot in Europe. Published by University of Oklahoma Press $15.95.
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- The book is about the effect of the Vietnam War on America. It's a book written in poetry form and follows citizen Murphy's last days of freedom, taking him through boot camp, and to Vietnam. Unlike his namesake, the World War II hero, Citizen Murphy is an average, unexceptional man.
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American literature The New England colonies were the center of early American literature. The revolutionary period contained political writings by Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine. In the post-war period, Thomas Jefferson 's United States Declaration of Independence solidified his status as a key American writer.athaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) is notable for his masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter, a novel about adultery. Hawthorne influenced Herman Melville (1819–1891) who is notable for the books Moby-Dick and Billy Budd. America's two greatest 19th-century poets were Walt Whitman (1819–1892) and Emily Dickinson (1830–1886).
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The Things They Carried War literature, specifically Vietnam War-related Literature, O'Brien's novel does the opposite. The Things They Carried, with its stylistic ambiguity, is also a tool for understanding the Vietnam War.
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Albert Barnes American literature, the body of written works produced in the English language in the United States. Like other national literatures, American literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it.
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- Field Test Edition Summer 2008 61 L ESSON P LANS Ice age and America’s Early Peoples Nonfiction Reading Lesson Plan Unit of Study—Early Encounters: Native Americans and Explorers The Teaching Points: • New York was rich in resources in its early history. • Native Americans were the first people to inhabit New York.
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- Introduction. Revised in 2009, this edition of African American Family Histories and Related Works in the Library of Congress incorporates all the past efforts of Sandra Lawson and Paul Connor, supplemented by the edition of 84 family histories and genealogical handbooks.
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- The Conning of ‘This American Life’ Leads to an Embarrassing Retraction Philip Bump March 16, 2012. William J. Mann is the author of Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn, which was named a New York Times Notable Book.
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Klaus P. Fischer Hitler and America is an extraordinary book, chock-full of evidence and significant details about the complexity (and in some ways, the duality) of Hitler's consideration of the United States.—John Lukacs, author of The Hitler of History.