American Classics

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John A. Lomax
Adventures of a Ballad Hunter (Focus on American History Series)
Growing up beside the Chisholm Trail, captivated by the songs of passing cowboys and his bosom friend, an African American farmhand, John A. Lomax developed a passion for American folk songs that ultimately made him one of the foremost authorities on this fundamental aspect of Americana. Across many...
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Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass (Bantam Classics)
One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. Leaves Of Grass is his one book.  First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the wonderful gif...
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Amiri Baraka
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music (Volume 13)
For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and politic...
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Charles Chesnutt
The House Behind the Cedars (Modern Library Classics)
Charles Chesnutt’s classic novel, hailed by Werner Sollors as “a pioneering work of racial passing.” Edited and featuring an introduction and notes from Judith Jackson Fossett.   A riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life, The House Behind the C...
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Daniel Horowitz
Vance Packard and American Social Criticism
Vance Packard's bestselling books -- Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960) -- taught the generation that came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence. Like Betty Friedan and Wi...
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William F. Russell
More Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children
Reading aloud is the single most important contribution an adult can make to a child's success in school. More Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children, like its predecessor, Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children, gives parents and other adult readers the help they need to share an experience with ...
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Donald J Fraser
The Emergence of One American Nation: The Revolution, the Founders, and the Constitution
Divisiveness is the hallmark of American politics today. Red state versus blue; liberal versus conservative; secular versus religious; the list goes on. Sometimes it seems we are no longer one nation, but in fact we are. Division and argument have always been a part of the American scene, no more s...
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Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Life and Labor in the Old South (Southern Classics)
A new edition of the groundbreaking social history of the American South Celebrated as a classic work of historical literature, Life and Labor in the Old South (1929) represents the culmination of three decades of research and reflection on the social and economic systems of the antebellum South...
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Wallace Thurman
The Blacker the Berry . . . (Penguin Classics)
The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community   Emma Lou Morgan’s skin is black. So black that it’s a source of shame to her not only among the largely white community of her hometown of Boise, Idaho, but also among her lighter-skinned family and frie...
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Edna Ferber
So Big (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Published to unprecedented literary acclaim in 1924, the Pulitzer-winning novel So Big established Edna Ferber as one of the twentieth century’s major American storytellers. The enthralling and compellingly readable novel recounts a redoubtable woman’s efforts to create an authentic version of...
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Adam H. Becker
Revival and Awakening: American Evangelical Missionaries in Iran and the Origins of Assyrian Nationalism
Most Americans have little understanding of the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East. They assume that the two are rooted fundamentally in regional history, not in the history of contact with the broader world. However, as Adam H. Becker shows in this book, Americans—t...
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars (Penguin Classics)
The first published book by the creator of Tarzan of the Apes that introduced the world to intergalactic Civil War soldier, John Carter   Two years before Edgar Rice Burroughs became a worldwide celebrity with the publication of Tarzan of the Apes and its twenty-two sequels, which together have...
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Renato Poliafito
Dolci!: American Baking with an Italian Accent: A Baking Cookbook
AN LA TIMES BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR • A REAL SIMPLE BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR • A TASTING TABLE BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR Recipes that capture the flavors of la dolce vita, from Bologna to Brooklyn—Italian and Italian American-ish cakes, cookies, pies, pastries, desserts, tarts, savor...
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Studs Terkel
My American Century
Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Studs Terkel's "greatest hits." Terkel's oral histories have been enjoyed by millions of Americans, and have earned him a Pulitzer Prize, induction into The American Academy of Arts and Letters, The National Humanities Medal, and The National Book Foundation Med...
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Gabriel Miller
William Wyler: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Most Celebrated Director (Screen Classics)
During his forty-five-year career, William Wyler (1902–1981) pushed the boundaries of filmmaking with his gripping storylines and innovative depth-of-field cinematography. With a body of work that includes such memorable classics as Jezebel (1938), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Ben-Hur (1959), and F...
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Dana Polan
Pulp Fiction (BFI Film Classics)
Pulp Fiction was one of the films that defined American cinema of the 1990s, and remains one of the stand-out movies of its director Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino's style - violent, fast, funny and full of knowing pop culture references - epitomises 90s post-modernism. Pulp Fiction was a phenomena...
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Royall Tyler
The Algerine Captive: or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill (Modern Library Classics)
A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive is an entertaining romp through eighteenth-century society, a satiric look at a variety of American types, from the...
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Gregg Mitman
Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics)
Winner of the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in the History of Science. From the early exploits of Teddy Roosevelt in Africa to blockbuster films such as March of the Penguins , Gregg Mitman's Reel Nature reveals how changing values, scientific developments...
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Aaron Shepard
The Swan Knight: A Medieval Legend, Retold from Wagner's Lohengrin (Skyhook World Classics)
The lights dim, and a weighty silence falls upon the audience. From all over Europe and America, these fifteen hundred men and women have come to spend many days in this small German town and many hours in this theater. Some are merely curious. Some are there because it's the fashion. But many have ...
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Eddie S. Glaude Jr
African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction
Since the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in 1818, churches have gone beyond their role as spiritual guides in African American communities and have served as civic institutions, spaces for education, and sites for the cultivation of individuality and identities i...
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